A57975:59
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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32. They hold (I believe with warrant of Gods word) if the King refuse to reform Religion, the inferior Judges and Assembly of Godly Pastors, and other Church Officers may reform; if the King will not kiss the Sun, and do his duty in purging the House of the Lord,1 may not Elijah and the people do their duty, and cast out Baals Priests? Reformation of Religion is a personal act that ⟨image 7⟩belongeth to all, even to any one private person according to his place.
32. They hold (I beleeve with warrant of Gods word) if the King refuse to reform Religion, the inferior Iudges and Assembly of Godly Pastors, and other Church Officers may reform; if the King will not kisse the Sun, and do his duty in purging the House of the Lord,1 may not Eliah and the people do their duty, and cast out Baals Priests? Reformation of Religion is a personall act that ⟨image 7⟩belongeth to all, even to any one private person according to his place.
- 1Pag. 33, 34, 35.
33. They may swear a Covenant without the King, if he refuse; and Build the Lords House, 2 Chron. 15.9. themselves: and relieve and defend one another, when they are oppressed. For my acts and duties of defending my self and the oppressed, do not tie my conscience conditionally, so the King consent, but absolutely, as all duties of the Law of nature do,