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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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P. Prelate. Jesuits and Puritans differ infinitely; We are hopeful God shall cast down this Babel. The Jesuits, for ought I know, seat the superintendent power in the Community: Some Sectaries follow them, and warrant any individual person to make away a King in case of defects, and the work is to be rewarded as when one killeth a ravenous Wolfe. Some will have it in a collective body, but how? not met together by warrant, or writ of Sovereign Authority, but when fancy of reforming Church and State calleth them. Some will have the power in the Nobles and Peers; some in the three Estates assembled by the Kings Writ; some in the inferior Judges. I know not where this power to curb Sovereignty is, but in Almighty God.
P. Prelate. Jesuites and Puritans differ infinitely; We are hopefull God shall cast down this Babel. The Iesuites, for ought I know, seat the superintendent power in the Communitie: Some Sectaries follow them, and warrant any individuall person to make away a King in case of defects, and the worke is to be rewarded as when one killeth a ravenous Wolfe. Some will have it in a collective body, but how? not met together by warrant, or writ of Soveraigne Authoritie, but when fancie of reforming Church and State calleth them. Some will have the power in the Nobles and Peeres; some in the three Estates assembled by the Kings Writ; some in the inferior Iudges. I know not where this power to curbe Soveraigntie is, but in Almighty God.
Ans. 1. Jesuits and Puritans differ infinitely: true. Jesuits deny the Pope to be Antichrist, hold all Arminian doctrine, Christs local descension to hell: all which the Prelate did preach. We deny all this.
Ans. 1. Iesuites and Puritans differ infinitely: true. Jesuites deny the Pope to be Antichrist, hold all Arminian doctrine, Christs locall descension to hell: all which the Prelate did preach. We deny all this.