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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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Obj. 7. Here the Prelate borrowing from Grotius, Barclay, Arnisaus;1 (or its possible he be not so far travelled) for Doct. Ferne hath the same. Sovereignty weakened in Aristocracy cannot do ⟨p. 203⟩its work, and is in the next place to Anarchy and confusion. When Zedekiah was over Lorded by his Nobles, he could neither save himself, nor the people, nor the Prophet the servant of God Jeremiah; nor could David punish Joab, when he was over-awed by that power he himself had put in his hand. To weaken the head, is to distemper the whole body, if any good Prince or his Royal Antecessors be cheated of their sacred right by fraud or force, he may at his fittest opportunity, resume it. What a sin is it to rob God, or the King of their due?
Obj. 7. Here the Prelate borrowing from Grotius, Barclay, Arnisaus;1 (or its possible he be not so farre travelled) for Doct. Ferne hath the same. Soveraignty weakned in Aristocracy cannot doe ⟨p. 203⟩its worke, and is in the next place to Anarchy and confusion. When Zedekiah was over Lorded by his Nobles, he could neither save himselfe, nor the people, nor the Prophet the servant of God Ieremiah; nor could David punish Ioab, when he was over-awed by that power he himselfe had put in his hand. To weaken the head, is to distemper the whole body, if any good Prince or his Royall Antecessors be cheated of their sacred right by fraud or force, he may at his fittest opportunity, resume it. What a sinne is it to rob God, or the King of their due?
- 1Sac. sanc. Mai. c. 14. p. 144.
Ans. Aristocracy is no less an ordinance of God, then Royalty, for