A57975:76
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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The Table of the Contents of the Book.
QUEST. I. Whether Government be by a divine Law? Affirmed, Pag. 1. How Government is from God, Ibid. Civill Power in the Root, immediately from God, Pag. 2,
QUEST. I. WHether Government be by a divine Law? Affirmed, Pag. 1. How Government is from God, Ibid. Civill Power in the Root, immediately from God, Pag. 2,
QUEST. II. Whether or no Government be warranted by the Law of nature? Affirmed, Ibid. Civil society natural in radice, in the root, voluntary, in modo, in the manner, Ibid. Power of Government, and Power of Government, by such and such Magistrates, different, Pag. 2, 3. Civil subjection not formally from natures Law, Pag. 3. Our consent to Laws penal, not antecedently natural, Ibid. Government by such Rulers, a secondary Law of nature, Ibid. Family Government and politic, different, Ibid. Government by Rulers, a secondary Law of nature; Family Government, and Civil, different, Pag. 4. Civil Government by consequent, natural, Pag. 5.
QUEST. II. Whether or no Goverment be warranted by the Law of nature? Affirmed, Ibid. Civil societie naturall in radice, in the root, voluntary, in modo, in the manner, Ibid. Power of Government, and Power of Government, by such and such Magistrates, different, Pag. 2, 3. Civil subjection not formally from natures Law, Pag. 3. Our consent to Laws penal, not antecedently naturall, Ibid. Government by such Rulers, a secondary Law of nature, Ibid. Family Government and politike, different, Ibid. Government by Rulers, a secondary Law of nature; Family Government, and Civil, different, Pag. 4. Civil Government by consequent, naturall, Pag. 5.