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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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1To these, and the like, hear what the excommunicated Prelate hath to say; 1. They say (he meaneth the Jesuits) Every society of men is a perfect Republic, and so must have within it self a power to preserve it self from ruin, and by that to punish a Tyrant. He answereth, A society without a Head, is a disorderly rout, not a Politic body; and so cannot have this power.
1To these, and the like, heare what the excommunicated Prelate hath to say; 1. They say (he meaneth the Jesuites) Every societie of men is a perfect Republick, and so must have within it selfe a power to preserve it selfe from ruine, and by that to punish a Tyrant. He answereth, A societie without a Head, is a disorderly rout, not a Politique body; and so cannot have this power.
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Ans. 1. The Pope giveth to every Society, Politic power to make away a Tyrant, or heretical King, and to un-king him, by his brethren the Jesuits way. And observe, how Papists (of which number I could easily prove the P. Prelate to be, by the Popish doctrine that he delivered, while the iniquity of time, and dominion of Prelates in Scotland, advanced him, against all worth of true learning and holiness, to be a Preacher in Edinburgh) and Jesuits agree, as the builders of Babylon. It is the purpose of God to destroy Babylon.
Ans. 1. The Pope giveth to every Societie, Politick power to make away a Tyrant, or hereticall King, and to un-king him, by his brethren the Jesuites way. And observe, how Papists (of which number I could easily prove the P. Prelate to be, by the Popish doctrine that he delivered, while the iniquitie of time, and dominion of Prelates in Scotland, advanced him, against all worth of true learning and holinesse, to be a Preacher in Edinborough) and Iesuites agree, as the builders of Babylon. It is the purpose of God to destroy Babylon.