A57975:617
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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Some object, The three Estates as men, and looking to their own ends, not to Law, and the public good, are not fundamentals, and are to be judged by the King.
Some object, The three Estates as men, and looking to their owne ends, not to Law, and the publick good, are not fundamentalls, and are to be judged by the King.
Ans. By the people, and the conscience of the people they are to be judged.
Obj. But the people also do judge as corrupt men, and not as the people, and a Politic Body, providing for their own safety.
Obj. But the people also doe judge as corrupt men, and not as the people, and a Politique Body, providing for their owne safety.
Ans. I grant all, when God will bring a vengeance on Jerusalem, Prince and people both are hardened to their own destruction. Now God hath made all the three, in every Government where there is Democracy, there is some chosen ones resembling an Aristocracy, and some one for order presiding in Democratical courts, resembling a King. In Aristocracy as in Holland, there is somewhat of Democracy, the people have their Commissioners, and one Duke or General, as the Prince of Orange is some umbrage of