A57975:668
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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10. The safety of the King as King, is not only safety, but a blessing to Church and State, and therefore this P. Prelate and his fellows deserve to be hanged before the Sun, who have led him on a war to destroy him, and his Protestant subjects. But the safety and flourishing of a King in the exercises of an Arbitrary, unlimited power against Law, and Religion, and to the destruction of his subjects, is not the safety of the people, nor the safety of the Kings soul, which these men, if they be the Priests of the Lord, should care for.
10. The safety of the King as King, is not only safety, but a blessing to Church and State, and therefore this P. Prelate and his fellowes deserve to be hanged before the Sun, who have led him on a warre to destroy him, and his Protestant subjects. But the safety and flourishing of a King in the exercises of an Arbitrary, unlimited power against Law, and Religion, and to the destruction of his subjects, is not the safety of the people, nor the safety of the Kings soule, which these men, if they be the Priests of the Lord, should care for.
The Prelate cometh to refute the learned and worthy Observator.1 The safety of the people is the supreme Law, ergo the King is bound in duty to promote all and every one of his subjects to all happiness. The Observator hath no such inference, the King is bound to promote some of his subjects even as King, to a Gallows, especially Irish Rebels, and many bloody Malignants. But the Prelate will needs have God rigorous (hallowed be his name) if it be so, for it is unpossible to the tenderest-hearted father to do so: actual promotion of all is unpossible, that the King intend it of all his subjects, ⟨p. 225⟩as good subjects, by a Throne established on righteousness and judgement, is that which the worthy Observator meaneth; other things here are answered.
The Prelate commeth to refute the learned and worthy Observator.