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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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Lex, Rex. › Question 26: QUEST. XXVI. Whether the King be above the Law or no?
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3. He may be resisted as a man.
4. Assert. The fourth case is, if the King be under the obliging politic coaction of civil Laws, for that he in foro Dei, be under the morality of civil Laws, so as he cannot contravene any Law in that notion, but he must sin against God, is granted on all hands, Deut. 17.20. Josh. 1.8. 1 Sam. 12.15. That the King bind himself to the same Law that he doth bind others, is decent, and obligeth the King as he is a man;
4. Assert. The fourth case is, if the King be under the obliging politique coaction of civil Laws, for that he in foro Dei, be under the morality of civil Laws, so as he cannot contraveen any Law in that notion, but he must sin against God, is granted on all hands, Deut. 17.20. Iosh. 1.8. 1 Sam. 12.15. That the King binde himself to the same Law that he doth binde others, is decent, and obligeth the King as he is a man;
1. Because, Matth. 7.12. It is said to be the Law and the Prophets, All things, whatsoever ye would men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.