A57975:623
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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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.
Obj. 1. But if the Law be doubtsome, as all humane, all Civill, all municipal Laws may endure great dispute, the peremptory person exponing, the Law must be the supreme Judge. This cannot be the people, ergo, it must be the King.
Obj. 1. But if the Law be doubtsome, as all humane, all Civill, all municipall Lawes may endure great dispute, the peremptory person exponing, the Law must be the supreame Iudge. This cannot be the people, ergo, it must be the King.
Ans. 1. As the Scriptures in all fundamentals are clear,1 and expone themselves, and Actu primo condemn Heresies, so all Laws of men in their fundamentals, which are the Law of Nature, and of Nations are clear. And 2. Tyranny is more visible and intelligible then Heresy, and its soon discerned. If a King bring in upon his native subjects twenty thousand Turks armed, and the King