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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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Prelate. It is infidelity, to think that God cannot help us; and impatience, that we will not wait on God. When a King oppresseth us, it is against Gods wisdom, that he hath not provided another mean for our safety, than intrusion on Gods right. 2. It is against Gods power▪ 3. his Holiness, 4. Christian Religion, that we necessitate God to so weak a mean, to make use of sin: and we cast the aspersion of Treason on Religion, and debtor Kings to profess Reformed Catholic Religion. 5. We are not to jostle God out of his right.
Prelate. It is infidelitie, to thinke that God cannot helpe us; and impatience, that we will not wait on God. When a King oppresseth us, it is against Gods wisdome, that he hath not provided another meane for our safetie, than intrusion on Gods right. 2. It is against Gods power▪ 3. his Holinesse, 4. Christian Religion, that we necessitate God to so weake a meane, to make use of sinne: and we cast the aspersion of Treason on Religion, and deterre Kings to professe Reformed Catholike Religion. 5. We are not to justle God out of his right.
Ans. I see nothing but what D. Ferne, Grotius, Barclay, Blackwood have said before, with some colour of proving the consequence. The P. Prelate giveth us other mens arguments, but without bones. All were good, if the States coercing and curbing a power which God never gave to the King, were a sin, and an act of impatience, and unbelief: And, if it were proper to God only, by his immediate hand, to coerce Tyranny.
Ans. I see nothing but what D. Ferne, Grotius, Barclay, Blackwood have said before, with some colour of proving the consequence. The P. Prelate giveth us other mens arguments, but without bones. All were good, if the States coercing and curbing a power which God never gave to the King, were a sinne, and an act of impatience, and unbelief: And, if it were proper to God only, by his immediate hand, to coerce Tyrannie.