A57975:611
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ans. 1. The Parliament is coordinate ordinarily with the King, in the power of making Laws:1 but the coordination on the Kings part, is by derivation; on the Parliaments part, originaliter & fontaliter, as in the fountain. 2. In ordinary there is coordination: but if the King turn Tyrant, the Estates are to use their fountain-power. And that of the Law, Par in parem, &c. is no better from his Pen, that stealeth all he hath, then from Barclaius, Grotius, Arnisaeus, Blackwood, &c. It is cold and sour. We hold the Parliament that made the King at Hebron, to be above their own creature the King. Barclaius saith more accurately, l. 5, cont. Monarch. p. 129. It is absurd, that the People should both be subject to the King, and command the King also.
Ans. 1. The Parliament is coordinate ordinarily with the King, in the power of making Lawes:1 but the coordination on the Kings part, is by derivation; on the Parliaments part, originaliter & fontaliter, as in the fountaine. 2. In ordinarie there is coordination: but if the King turne Tyrant, the Estates are to use their fountaine-power. And that of the Law, Par in parem, &c. is no better from his Pen, that stealeth all he hath, then from Barclaius, Grotius, Arnisaeus, Blackwood, &c. It is cold and sowre. We hold the Parliament that made the King at Hebron, to be above their own creature the King. Barclaius saith more acurately, l. 5, cont. Monarch. p. 129. It is absurd, that the People should both be subject to the King, and command the King also.
- 1Subordination of the King to the Parliament, and coordination, both consistent.Subordination of the King to the Parliament, and coordinatiō, both consistent.
Ans. It is not absurd, that a Father natural, as a private man, should be subject to his Son; even that Jesse, and his elder brother, the Lord of all the rest, be subject to David their King. Royalists say, Our late Queen, being supreme Magistrate, might by Law have put to death her own husband, for adultery or murder.