A57975:566
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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Answ. The Prelate may remember a Country Proverb. He and his Prelates, called the Church, (the scum of men, not the Church) are like the Tinkers dogs, they like good company, they must be ranked with the King. And 2. Here a false Prophet, It shall never ⟨p. 205⟩be well with the Land, while Arbitrary power, and Popery be erected, saith he, in good sense.
Answ. The Prelate may remember a Countrey Proverb. He and his Prelates, called the Church, (the scum of men, not the Church) are like the Tinkers dogs, they like good company, they must be ranked with the King. And 2. Here a false Prophet, It shall never ⟨p. 205⟩be well with the Land, while Arbitrary power, and Popery be erected, saith he, in good sense.
P. ••elate. The King hath his right from God, and cannot make it away to the people. Render to Caesar, the things that are Caesars.1 Kings persons, their Charge, their Right, their Authority, their Prerogative are by Scriptures, Fathers, Jurists, Sacred, inseparable Ordinances inherent in their Crowns, they cannot be made away; and when they are given to inferior Judges, it is not ad minuendam majestatem, sed solicitudinem, to lessen Sovereign Majesty, but to ease them.
P. ••elate. The King hath his right from God, and cannot make it away to the people. Render to Caesar, the things that are Caesars.1 Kings persons, their Charge, their Right, their Authority, their Prerogative are by Scriptures, Fathers, Iurists, Sacred, inseparable Ordinances inherent in their Crowns, they cannot be made away; and when they are given to inferiour Judges, it is not ad minuendam majestatem, sed solicitudinem, to lessen Soveraign Majesty, but to ease them.