A57975:792
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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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.
Ans. 1. Lavater saith, (and I see no reason on the contrary) by a King, he meaneth all Magistrates. 2. Aben Ezra, and Isidorus read the words imperatively. The Tigurine version: They are Oracles which proceed from his lips: let not therefore his mouth transgress in judgement. Vatabulus: When he is in his prophecies, he lieth not. Jansenius: Non facile errabit in judicando. Mich. Jermine: If he pray. Calvin: If he read in the book of the Law, as God commandeth him, Deut. 17. But why stand we on the place? He speaketh of ⟨p. 257⟩good Kings, saith Cornel, à Lapide. Otherwise, Jeroboam, Ahab, Manasseh, erred in judgement. And except, (as Mercerus expoundeth it) We understand him to speak of Kings according to their office, not their facts and practice, we make them Popes, and men who cannot give out grievous and unjust sentences on the Throne: against both the Word, and experience.
Ans. 1. Lavater saith, (and I see no reason on the contrary) by a King, he meaneth all Magistrates. 2. Aben Ezra, and Isidorus read the words imperatively. The Tigurine version: They are Oracles which proceed from his lips: let not therefore his mouth transgresse in judgement. Vatabulus: When he is in his prophecies, he lyeth not. Iansenius: Non facile errabit in judicando. Mich. Iermine: If he pray. Calvine: If he read in the booke of the Law, as God commandeth him, Deut. 17. But why stand we on the place? He speaketh of ⟨p. 257⟩good Kings, saith Cornel, à Lapide. Otherwise, Ieroboam, Achab, Manasseh, erred in judgement. And except, (as Mercerus exponeth it) We understand him to speake of Kings according to their office, not their facts and practice, we make them Popes, and men who cannot give out grievous and unjust sentences on the Throne: against both the Word, and experience.