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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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2. If the Princes place do not put him above the Laws of Church-Discipline, (Matth. 18. for Christ excepteth none,1 and how can men except?) and if the rod of Christs lips smite the earth, and slay the wicked, Isaiah 11.4. and the Prophets Elijah, Nathan, Jeremiah, Isaiah, &c. John Baptist, Jesus Christ ▪ and his Apostles have used this rod of censure and rebuke, as servants under God, against Kings, this is a sort of spiritual coaction of Laws put in execution by men, and by due proportion corporal coaction being the same ordinance of God, though of another nature, must have the like power over all, whom the Law of God hath not excepted, but Gods Law excepteth none at all.
2. If the Princes place doe not put him above the Lawes of Church-Discipline, (Matth. 18. for Christ excepteth none,1 and how can men except?) and if the rod of Christs lips smite the earth, and slay the wicked, Esay 11.4. and the Prophets Elias, Nathan, Ieremiah, Esaiah, &c. Iohn Baptist, Iesus Christ ▪ and his Apostles have used this rod of censure and rebuke, as servants under God, against Kings, this is a sort of spirituall coaction of Lawes put in execution by men, and by due proportion corporall coaction being the same ordinance of God, though of another nature, must have the like power over all, whom the Law of God hath not excepted, but Gods Law excepteth none at all.
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3. It is presumed that God hath not provided better for the safety of the part, then of the whole,