A57975:653
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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11. The peoples safety dependeth indeed on the King, as a King and a happy Governor; but the people shall never be fattened to eat the wind of an imaginary Prerogative Royal.
11. The peoples safetie dependeth indeed on the King, as a King and a happy Governour; but the people shall never be fattened to eat the winde of an imaginarie Prerogative Royall.
12. Weak Government, that is, a King with a limited power, who hath more power about his head, nor within his head; is a ⟨p. 222⟩strong King, and far from Anarchy.
12. Weake Government, that is, a King with a limited power, who hath more power about his head, nor within his head; is a ⟨p. 222⟩strong King, and farre from Anarchy.
113. I know not what he meaneth, but Arminius, his Masters way and words are here, for Arminians say, That being in the damned eternally tormented is no benefit, it were better they never had being, then to be eternally tormented; and this they say to the defiance of the Doctrine of eternal Reprobation, in which we teach, That though by accident, and because of the Damned their abuse of being and life, it were to them better not to be; as is said of Judas, yet simpliciter comparing being with non-being, and considering the eternity of miserable being in relation to the absolute liberty of the Former of all things, who maketh use of the sinful being of Clay-vessels for the illustration of the glory of his Justice and power,