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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. Why might not the people of Israel, 1Peers or Sanhedrin have convened before them, judged, and punished David, for his Adultery and Murder? Romanists and new Statists acknowledge no case lawful, but Heresy, Apostasy, or Tyranny; and tyranny they say must be universal, 2. Manifest as the Sun. 3. And with obstinacy, and invincible by prayers; as is recorded of Nero, whose wish was rather a transported passion, then a fixed resolution, this cannot fall in the attempts of any but a Mad-man. Now this cannot be proved of our King; but though we grant in the foresaid case, that the community may resume their power, and rectify what is amiss, which we cannot grant, but this will follow by their doctrine in every case of male administration.
P. Prelate. Why might not the people of Israell, 1Peers or Sanedrim have convened before them, judged, and punished David, for his Adultery and Murther? Romanists and new Statists acknowledge no case lawfull, but Heresie, Apostacy, or Tyranny; and tyranny they say must be universall, 2. Manifest as the Sunne. 3. And with obstinacy, and invincible by prayers; as is recorded of Nero, whose wish was rather a transported passion, then a fixed resolution, this cannot fall in the attempts of any but a Mad-man. Now this cannot be proved of our King; but though we grant in the foresaid case, that the community may resume their power, and rectifie what is amisse, which we canno grant, but this will follow by their doctrine in every case of male administration.