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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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3. It is poor hungry skill in this New Statist, (for so he nameth all Scotland) to say, that any Laws are made for private interests, and the good of some individuals. 1Laws are not Laws, if they be not made for the safety of the people.
3. It is poore hungry skill in this New Statist, (for so he nameth all Scotland) to say, that any Lawes are made for private interests, and the good of some individuals. 1Lawes are not Lawes, if they be not made for the safetie of the people.
- 1The Kings supposed Prerogative, nothing, in comparison of the lives and blood of so many thousands as are killed in England and Ireland.
4. It is false, that the King in a public danger is to care for himself as a man, with the ruin and loss of any: Yea, in a public calamity, a good King, as David, is to desire he may die, that the Public may be saved, 2 Samuel, 24.17. Exodus 32.32. It is commended of all, that the Emperor Otho, yea and Richard the 2. of England, as M. Speed saith, Hist. of England, p. 757. resigned their Kingdoms to eschew the effusion of blood. The Prelate adviseth the King to pass over all laws of Nature, and slay thousands of innocents, and destroy Church and State of three Kingdoms, for a straw, and supposed Prerogative Royal. Now certainly, Prerogative, and Absoluteness to do good and ill, must be inferior to a Law, the end whereof is the safety of the People. For David willeth the pestilence may take him away, and so his Prerogative, that the People may be saved,