A57975:646
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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4. We endeavour nothing more then the safety and happiness ⟨p. 221⟩of the King, as King: but his happiness is not to suffer him to destroy his Subjects, subvert Religion, arm Papists, who have slaughtered above two hundred thousand innocent Protestants, only for the profession of that true Religion which the King hath sworn to maintain. Not to rise in arms to help the King against these, were to gratify him as a Man, but to be accessory to his souls destruction, as a King.
4. We endeavour nothing more then the safetie and happinesse ⟨p. 221⟩of the King, as King: but his happinesse is not to suffer him to destroy his Subjects, subvert Religion, arme Papists, who have slaughtered above two hundred thousand innocent Protestants, only for the profession of that true Religion which the King hath sworne to maintaine. Not to rise in armes to helpe the King against these, were to gratifie him as a Man, but to be accessarie to his soules destruction, as a King.
5. That the Royal Prerogative is the end of a Monarchy ordained by God; neither Scripture, Law, nor Reason can admit.
5. That the Royall Prerogative is the end of a Monarchie ordained by God; neither Scripture, Law, nor Reason can admit.
6. The people are to intend the safety of other Judges, as well as the Kings. If Parliaments be destroyed, whose it is to make Laws and Kings; the People can neither be safe, free to serve Christ, nor happy.