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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. This answer shall infer, that the Aristocratical Governors of any free State, and that the Duke of Venice, and the Senate there, is above all Law, and cannot be resisted, because without their Heads they are a disorderly Rout.
2. This answer shall inferre, that the Aristocraticall Governors of any free State, and that the Duke of Venice, and the Senate there, is above all Law, and cannot be resisted, because without their Heads they are a disorderly Rout.
3. A Political society, as by Natures instinct, they may appoint a Head, or Heads to themselves: so also if their Head, or Heads become ravenous Wolves, the God of Nature hath not left a perfect Society remediless; but they may both resist, and punish the Head or Heads, to whom they gave all the power that they have, for their good, not for their destruction.
3. A Politicall societie, as by Natures instinct, they may appoint a Head, or Heads to themselves: so also if their Head, or Heads become ravenous Wolves, the God of Nature hath not left a perfect Societie remedilesse; but they may both resist, and punish the Head or Heads, to whom they gave all the power that they have, for their good, not for their destruction.
4. They are as orderly a body Politic, to unmake a Tyrannous Commander, as they were to make a just Governor. The Prelate saith, It is alike to conceive a Politic body without a Governor, as to conceive the natural body without a Head. He meaneth, None of them can be conceivable. I am not of his mind. When Saul was dead, Israel was a perfect Politic body: and the Prelate, if he be not very obtuse in his head, (as this hungry piece stolen from others, showeth him to be) may conceive a visible Political society performing a Political action,