A57975:789
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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4. The advancing of any man to the Throne and Royal dignity, putteth not the man above the number of rational men: But no rational man can create, by any act of power, never so transcendent or boundless, a sense to a Law, contrary to the Law. Nay, give me leave to doubt if Omnipotency can make a just Law to have an unjust and bloody sense, aut contra: because it involveth a contradiction; the true meaning of a Law, being the essential form of the Law. Hence judge what brutish, swinish flatterers they are, who say, That it is the true meaning of the Law, which the King, the only supreme and independent expositor of the Law, saith is the true sense of the Law. There was once an Animal, a Fool of the first magnitude, who said, He could demonstrate by invincible reasons, that the Kings dung was more nourishing food, then bread of the floor of the finest wheat. For my part, I could wish it were the Demonstrators only food for seven days; and that should be the best demonstration he could make for his proof.
4. The advancing of any man to the Throne and Royall dignitie, putteth not the man above the number of rationall men: But no rationall man can create, by any act of power, never so transcendent or boundlesse, a sense to a Law, contrary to the Law. Nay, give me leave to doubt if Omnipotencie can make a just Law to have an unjust and bloody sense, aut contra: because it involveth a contradiction; the true meaning of a Law, being the essentiall forme of the Law. Hence judge what bruitish, swinish flatterers they are, who say, That it is the true meaning of the Law, which the King, the only supreme and independent expositor of the Law, saith is the true sense of the Law. There was once an Animal, a Foole of the first magnitude, who said, He could demonstrate by invincible reasons, that the Kings dung was more nourishing food, then bread of the floore of the finest wheat. For my part, I could wish it were the Demonstrators only food for seven dayes; and that should be the best demonstration he could make for his proofe.
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