A57975:650
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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8. It was not want of wisdom, (for in many, and in the people, there must be more wisdom then in one man:) but rather corruption of nature, and reciprocation of injuries, that created Kings, and other Judges.
8. It was not want of wisedome, (for in many, and in the people, there must be more wisdome then in one man:) but rather corruption of nature, and reciprocation of injuries, that created Kings, and other Iudges.
9. The King shall better compass his end, to wit, the safety of the people, with limited power, (placent mediocria) and with other Judges added to help him, Num. 11.14, 16. Deut. 1.12, 13, 14, 15. then to put in one mans hand absolute power: for a sinful mans head cannot bear so much new wine, such as exorbitant power is.
9. The King shall better compasse his end, to wit, the safetie of the people, with limited power, (placent mediocria) and with other Iudges added to helpe him, Num. 11.14, 16. Deut. 1.12, 13, 14, 15. then to put in one mans hand absolute power: for a sinfull mans head cannot beare so much new wine, such as exorbitant power is.
10. He is a base flatterer, who saith, The King cannot choose but earnestly and carefully endeavour his own, and the peoples happiness: that is, the King is an Angel, and cannot sin, and decline from the duties of a King. Of the many Kings of Judah and Israel, how many chose this? All the good Kings that have been, may be written in a gold ring.