A57975:622
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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If the Office of a Tyrant (to speak so) be contrary to a Kings Offices, it is not from God, and so neither is the power from God. 9. Yea Laws (which are no less from God, then the Kings are) when they begin to be hurtful, Cessant materialiter, they leave off to be Laws; because they oblige Non secundum vim verborum, sed in vim sensus, not according to the force of words, but according to sense, l. Non figura literarum F. de actione & obligatione, l. ita stipulatus. But who (saith the Royalists) shall be judge betwixt the King and the people, when the people allege that the King is a Tyrant.
If the Office of a Tyrant (to speake so) be contrary to a Kings Offices, it is not from God, and so neither is the power from God. 9. Yea Lawes (which are no lesse from God, then the Kings are) when they begin to be hurtfull, Cessant materialiter, they leave off to be Lawes; because they oblige Non secundum vim verborum, sed in vim sensus, not according to the force of words, but according to sense, l. Non figura literarum F. de actione & obligatione, l. ita stipulatus. But who (saith the Royalists) shall be judge betwixt the King and the people, when the people alledge that the King is a Tyrant.
Ans. There is a Court of necessity,1 no less then a Court of Justice; and 2. The fundamental Laws must then speak, and it is with the people in this extremity, as if they had no Ruler.
Ans. There is a Court of necessity,1 no lesse then a Court of Justice; and 2. The fundamentall Lawes must then speake, and it is with the people in this extremity, as if they had no Ruler.
- 1A Court of necessity, and a Court of Justice.A Court of necessity, and a Court of Iustice.