A57975:791
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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16. The King either is to expone the Law by the Law it self; or, by his Absolute power loosed from all Law, he expoundeth it; or according to the advise of his Great Senate. If the first be said, he is nothing more then other Judges. If the second be said, he must be omnipotent, and more. If the third be said, he is not absolute, if the Senate be only Advisers, and he yet the only Judicial expositor. The King often professeth his ignorance of the Laws; and he must then both be absolute above the Law, and ignorant of the Law, and 2. the sole and final Judicial exponer of the Law: And by this, all Parliaments, and their power of making Laws, and of judging, i• cried down.
16. The King either is to expone the Law by the Law it selfe; or, by his Absolute power loosed from all Law, he exponeth it; or according to the advise of his Great Senate. If the first be said, he is nothing more then other Iudges. If the second be said, he must be omnipotent, and more. If the third be said, he is not absolute, if the Senate be only Advisers, and he yet the only Iudiciall expositor. The King often professeth his ignorance of the Lawes; and he must then both be absolute above the Law, and ignorant of the Law, and 2. the sole and finall Iudiciall exponer of the Law: And by this, all Parliaments, and their power of making Lawes, and of judging, i• cryed down.
- 1Arg▪ 6.
They object, Prov. 16.10. A Divine sentence is in the lips of the King, His mouth transgresseth not in judgement, ergo, he only can expone the Law.