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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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P. Prelate. You read of no Covenant in Scripture made without the King, Exod. 34. Moses King of Jesurum: neither Tables nor Parliament framed it. Joshua another, Josh. 24. and Asa, 2 Chron. 15. and 2 Chron. 34. and Ezra 10. The Covenant of Jehojada in the non-age of Joash, was the High Priests Act, as the Kings Governor. There is a covenant with Hell, made without the King, an• a false Covenant, Hos. 10.3, 4.
P. Prelate. You read of no Covenant in Scripture made without the King, Exod. 34. Moses King of Iesurum: neither Tables nor Parliament framed it. Joshua another, Iosh. 24. and Asa, 2 Chron. 15. and 2 Chron. 34. and Ezra 10. The Covenant of Iehojada in the non-age of Ioash, was the High Priests Act, as the Kings Governour. There is a covenant with Hell, made without the King, an• a false Covenant, Hos. 10.3, 4.
Answ. We argue this negatively; This is neither commanded, nor practised, nor warranted by promise. Ergo, It is not lawful. But this is not practised in Scripture: Ergo, It is not lawful. It followeth it. Show me in Scripture the killing of a Goring Ox who killed a man; the not making battlements on an house; the putting to death of a man lying with a Beast; the killing of seducing Prophets, who tempted the people to go a whoring, and serve another God, then Jehovah: I mean, a god made by the hand of the Baker, such a one as the excommunicated Prelate is known to be, who hath Preached this Idolatry in three Kingdoms, yet