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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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The Prelate borroweth an answer to this,1 (for he hath none of his own) from D. Ferne. The safety of the Subjects is the prime end of the constitution of Government: but it is not the sole and adequate end of government in Monarchy; for that is the safety of both King and People. And it beseemeth the King to proportion his laws for their good; and it becometh the People to proportion all their obedience, actions and endeavours, for the safety, honour, and happiness of the King. It's impossible the people can have safety, when Sovereignty is weakened.
The Prelate borroweth an answer to this,1 (for he hath none of his own) from D. Ferne. The safetie of the Subjects is the prime end of the constitution of Government: but it is not the sole and adequate end of government in Monarchie; for that is the safetie of both King and People. And it beseemeth the King to proportion his lawes for their good; and it becommeth the People to proportion all their obedience, actions and endeavours, for the safetie, honour, and happinesse of the King. It's impossible the people can have safetie, when Soveraigntie is weakened.
- 1Sac. sane. Ma• ▪ c. 16.159. Dr. Ferne, Conscience […] satisfied, Sec. p. 28.Sac. sane. Ma• ▪ c. 16.159. Dr. Ferne, Conscience 〈…〉 satisfied, Sec. p. 28.
Ans. The Prelate would have the other half of the end, why a King is set over a People, to be the safety and happiness of the King, as well as the safety of the People.1