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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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Of Gods remedy against Arbitrary power, hereafter, in the Question of Resistance: but the confused engine of the Prelate bringeth it in here, where there is no place for i•.
Of Gods remedie against Arbitrary power, hereafter, in the Question of Resistance: but the confused ingine of the Prelate bringeth it in here, where there is no place for i•.
His 7. Argument is: Before God would authorize Rebellion, and give a bad president thereof for ever, he would rather work extraordinary and wonderful miracles, and therefore would not authorize the people to deliver themselves from under Pharaoh, but made Moses a Prince, to bring them out of Egypt with a stretched-out arm•: nor did the Lord deliver his people by the wisdom of Moses, or strength of the people, or any act that way of theirs, but by his own immediate hand and power.
His 7. Argument is: Before God would authorize Rebellion, and give a bad president thereof for ever, he would rather worke extraordinary and wond•rfull miracles, and therefore would not authorize the people to deliver themselves from under Pharaoh, but made Moses a Prince, to bring them out of Egypt with a str•tched-out arm•: nor did the Lord deliver his people by the wisdome of Moses, or strength of the people, or any act that way of theirs, but by his own immediate hand and power.
Ans. I reduce the Prelates confused words to a few: for I speak not of his Popish term of Saint Steven, and others the like: because all that he hath said in a book of 149 pages, might have been said in three sheets of paper. But, I pray you, what is this Argument to the Question in hand, wch is, Whether the King be so above all Laws, as People and Peers, in the case of Arbitrary power, may resume their power, and punish a Tyrant? The P. Prelate draweth in the Question of Resistance by the hair. Israels not rising in arms against K. Pharaoh, proveth nothing against the power of a Free Kingdom against a Tyrant.