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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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Ans. The Prelate draweth me to speak of the case of the Kings unjust Murder, confessed Ps. 51. to which I answer,1 He taketh it for confessed, that it had been treason in the Sanhedrin and States of Israel to have taken on them to judge and punish David for his Adultery and his Murder; but he giveth no reason for this, nor any word of God; and truly though I will not presume to go before others in this, Gods Law, Gen. 9.6. compared with Num. 35.30.31. seemeth to say against them.
Ans. The Prelate draweth me to speake of the case of the Kings unjust Murther, confessed Ps. 51. to which I answer,1 He taketh it for confessed, that it had been treason in the Sanedrin and States of Israel to have taken on them to judge and punish David for his Adultery and his Murther; but he giveth no reason for this, nor any word of God; and truely though I will not presume to goe before others in this, Gods Law, Gen. 9.6. compared with Num. 35.30.31. seemeth to say against them.
- 1If David in his Murdering Uriah and his Adultery sinned against none but God.If David in his Murthering Vriah and his Adultery sinned against none but God.
Nor can I think that Gods Law, or his Deputy the Judges are to accept the persons of the great, because they are great,