A57975:642
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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1P. Prelate. To reason from the one part and end of Monarchical government, The safety of the Subjects; to the destruction and weakening of the other part of the end of the power of Sovereignty, and the Royal prerogative: is a caption à divisis. If the King be not happy, and invested with the full power of a Head, the Body cannot be well. By Anti-Monarchists; The people at the beginning were necessitated to commit themselves, lives and fortunes to the government of a King, because of themselves they had not wisdom and power enough to do it: and therefore they enabled him with honour and power, without which he could not do this, being assured that he could not choose but most earnestly and carefully endeavour this end, to wit, his own, and the peoples happiness. Ergo, the safety of the people issueth from the safety of the King, as the life of the natural body from the soul. Weak Government is near to Anarchy. Puritans will not say, Quovis modo esse, etiam poenale, is better then non esse: The Scripture saith the contrary; It were better for some never to have been borne, then to be. Tyranny is better then no Government.
1P. Prelate. To reason from the one part and end of Monarchicall government, The safetie of the Subjects; to the destruction and weakning of the other part of the end of the power of Soveraigntie, and the Royall prerogative: is a caption à divisis. If the King be not happy, and invested with the full power of a Head, the Body cannot be well. By Anti-Monarchists; The people at the beginning were necessitated to commit themselves, lives and fortunes to the government of a King, because of themselves they had not wisedome and power enough to doe it: and therefore they enabled him with honour and power, without which he could not doe this, being assured that he could not choose but most earnestly and carefully endeavour this end, to wit, his own, and the peoples happines. Ergo, the safetie of the people issueth from the safetie of the King, as the life of the naturall body from the soule. Weake Government is neare to Anarchie. Puritans will not say, Quovis modo esse, etiam poenale, is better then non esse: The Scripture saith the contrary; It were better for some never to have been borne, then to be. Tyranny is better then no Government.
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