A57975:735
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. The Jesuits, for ought he knoweth, 1place all superintendent power in the Community. The Prelate knoweth not all his brethren the Jesuits ways: but it is ignorance, not want of good will. For Bellarmine, Beucanus, Suarez, Gre•gor, de Valentia, and others his ⟨p. 240⟩dear fellows say, That all superintendent power of policy, in ordine ad spiritualia is in the man, whose foot Maxwell would kiss for a Cardinals Hat.
3. The Jesuites, for ought he knoweth, 1place all superintendent power in the Communitie. The Prelate knoweth not all his brethren the Iesuites wayes: but it is ignorance, not want of good will. For Bellarmine, Beucanus, Suarez, Gre•gor, de Valentia, and others his ⟨p. 240⟩deare fellowes say, That all superintendent power of policy, in ordine ad spiritualia is in the man, whose foot Maxwell would kisse for a Cardinals Hat.
- 1In what considerations the people is the subject of all politic power.In what considerations the people is the subject of all politike power.
4. If these be all the differences, it is not much, the Community is the remote and l•st subject, the representative body the nearest subject, the Nobles a partial subject; the Judges as Judges sent by the King, are so in the game, that when an Arbitrary Prince at his pleasure setteth them up, and at command that they judge for men, and not for the Lord, and accordingly obey, they are by this power to be punished, and others put in their place.