A57975:690
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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Ans. No shadow for either, in the word of God. Caiaphas prophesied, and knew not what he said. But that the Jews intended the salvation of the Elect, in kil•ing Christ: or that Saul intended a public good in sparing Agag, shall be the Prelates Divinity, not mine.
Ans. No shadow for either, in the word of God. Caiaphas prophecied, and knew not what he said. But that the Iewes intended the salvation of the Elect, in kil•ing Christ: or that Saul intended a publick good in sparing Agag, shall be the Prelates Divinitie, not mine.
2. What, howbeit many should abuse this Law of the peoples safety, to wrong good Kings, it ceaseth not therefore to be a Law, and licenseth not ill Kings, to place a Tyrannical Prerogative above a just Dictate of nature.
2. What, howbeit many should abuse this Law of the peoples safety, to wrong good Kings, it ceaseth not therefore to be a Law, and licenseth not ill Kings, to place a Tyrannicall Prerogative above a just Dictate of nature.
1In the last Chapter, the Prelate hath no reasons, only he would have Kings holy, and this he proveth from Apocrypha Books, because he is ebb in holy Scripture; but it is Romish holiness, as is clear.
1In the last Chapter, the Prelate hath no reasons, onely he would have Kings holy, and this he proveth from Apocrypha Books, because he is ebbe in holy Scripture; but it is Romish holinesse, as is cleer.