A57975:675
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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1The Prelate vexeth the Reader with Repetitions, and saith, The King must proportion his Government, to the safety of the people on the one hand, and to his own safety and power on the other hand.
1The Prelate vexeth the Reader with Repetitions, and saith, The King must proportion his Government, to the safety of the people on the one hand, and to his owne safety and power on the other hand.
- 1Page 172.
Ans. What the King doth as King, he doth it for the happiness of his people, the King is a relative, yea even his own happiness that he seeketh, he is to refer to the good of Gods people. He saith farther,1 The safety of the people includeth the safety of the King, because the word populus is so taken, which he proveth by a raw sickly rabble of words, stolen out of Passerat's Dictioner. His father the School-master may whip him for frivolous Etymologies.
Ans. What the King doth as King, he doth it for the happinesse of his people, the King is a relative, yea even his owne happinesse that he seeketh, he is to referre to the good of Gods people. He saith farther,1 The safety of the people includeth the safety of the King, because the word populus is so taken, which he proveth by a raw sickly rabble of words, stollen out of Passerats Dictioner. His father the Schoole-master may whip him for frivolous Etymologies.
- 1Symmons hath the same very thing in his Loyal Subjec. unbelief. p. 39. Page 175.