A57975:68
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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141. This Assembly is to judge, what Doctrine is treasonable; what then? Surely the secret Counsel and King, in a constitute Church is not Synodically to determine what is true or false Doctrine, more then the Roman Emperor could make the Church Canon, Act. 15.
141. This Assembly is to judge, what Doctrine is treasonable; what then? Surely the secret Counsell and King, in a constitute Church is not Synodically to determine what is true or false Doctrine, more then the Roman Emperor could make the Church Canon, Act. 15.
- 1His lies of the general Assemblies of Scotland.His lies of the generall Assemblies of Scotland.
42. M. Gibson, M. Black, preached against King James his maintaining the Tyranny of Bishops, his sympathizing with Papists and other crying sins, and were absolved in a general Assembly, shall this make Presbyteries inconsistent with Monarchy? Nay, but it proveth only, that they are inconsistent with the wickedness of some Monarchies; and that Prelates have been like the four hundred false prophets that flattered King Ahab; and these men that preached against the sins of the King, and Court, by Prelates in both Kingdoms, have been imprisoned, Banished, their Noses ripped, their cheeks burnt, their ears cut.
42. M. Gibson, M. Black, preached against King James his maintaining the Tyranny of Bishops, his sympathizing with Papists and other crying sins, and were absolved in a generall Assembly, shal this make Presbyteries inconsistent with Monarchie? Nay, but it proveth only, that they are inconsistent with the wickednesse of some Monarchies; and that Prelates have been like the four hundred false prophets that flattered King Achab; and these men that preached against the sins of the King, and Court, by Prelates in both Kingdomes, have been imprisoned, Banished, their Noses ript, their cheeks burnt, their eares cut.