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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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5. A true cause of convening Parliaments the prelate maketh a Fancy at this time▪ it is as if the thieves and robbers should say a Justice Court were a fancy; but if the Prelate might compeare before the Parliament of Scotland (to which he is an out-law, like his father, 2 Thess: 2.4.) such a fancy I conceive should hang him, and that deservedly.
5. A true cause of convening Parliaments the prelate maketh a Fancie at this time▪ it is as if the theeves and robbers should say a Iustice Court were a fancie; but if the Prelate might compeare before the Parliament of Scotland (to which he is an out-law, like his father, 2 Thess: 2.4.) such a fancie I conceive should hang him, and that deservedly.
P. Prelate. The subject of this superintending power must be secured from error, 1in judgement and practise, and the community and States then should be infallible.
P. Prelate. The subject of this superintending power must be secured from errour, 1in judgement and practise, and the community and States then should be infallible.
- 1Sac. Mai. p. 147, 148.
Ans▪ The consequence is nought, no more then the King the absolute independent is infallible. 2. It is sure the people are in less hazard of Tyranny and self destruction, then the King is to subvert Laws, and make himself absolute, and for that cause there must be a superintendent power above the King; and God Almighty also must be above all.