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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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3. Pharaoh had not sworn to defend Israel, nor became he their King upon condition he should maintain and profess the Religion of the God of Israel: Therefore Israel could not, as free Estates, challenge him in their supreme Court of Parliament, of breach of oath: and upon no terms could they un-king Pharaoh; He held not his Crown of them.
3. Pharaoh had not sworne to defend Israel, nor became he their King upon condition he should maintaine and professe the Religion of the God of Israel: Therefore Israel could not, as free Estates, challenge him in their supreme Court of Parliament, of breach of oath: and upon no termes could they un-king Pharaoh; He held not his Crown of them.
4. Pharaoh was never circumcised, nor within the Covenant of the God of Israel, in profession.
4. Pharaoh was never circumcised, nor within the Covenant of the God of Isr•el, in profession.
5. Israel had their lands by the mere gift of the King. I hope the King of Britain standeth to Scotland and England in a four-fold contrary relation.
5. Israel had their lands by the meere gift of the King. I hope the King of Britaine standeth to Scotland and England in a foure-fold contrary relation.