A57975:544
Lex, Rex
Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the aid and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet entitled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royal prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelate. : with a scriptural confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelat. : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.
London: printed for John Field, 1644London: printed for Iohn Field, 1644
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4. That which the spirit of God condemneth as a point of Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, that is no lawful Prerogative Royal:1 but the spirit of God condemneth this as Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, That he slew whom he would, he kept alive whom he would, he set up whom he would, he put down, this is too God-like, Deut. 32.39. So Polanus, Rollocus, on the place, say, he did these things, Vers. 19. Ex abusu legitimae potestatis; for Nebuchadnezzars will in matters of death and life, was his Law, and he did what pleased ⟨p. 198⟩himself above all Law beside, and contrary to it: and our flatterers of Kings draw the Kings Prerogative out of Ulpian's words, who saith, •hat is a Law which seemeth good to the Prince; but Ulpian was far from making the Princes will a rule of good and ill, for he saith the contrary, That the Law ruleth the just Prince.
4. That which the spirit of God condemneth as a point of Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, that is no lawfull Prerogative Royall:1 but the spirit of God condemneth this as Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, That he slew whom he would, he kept alive whom he would, he set up whom he would, he put down, this is too God-like, Deut. 32.39. So Polanus, Rollocus, on the place, say, he did these things, Vers. 19. Ex abusu legitimae potestatis; for Nebuchadnezzars will in matters of death and life, was his Law, and he did what pleased ⟨p. 198⟩himself above all Law beside, and contrary to it: and our flatterers of Kings draw the Kings Prerogative out of Vlpians words, who saith, •hat is a Law which seemeth good to the Prince; but Vlpian was far from making the Princes will a rule of good and ill, for he saith the contrary, That the Law ruleth the just Prince.