A57975:81
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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QUEST. V. Whether or no, the P. P. proveth, that Sovereignty is immediately from God, not from the people? p. 16. Kings made by the people, though the Office, in abstracto, were immediately from God, P. 16. The people have a real action, more then approbation in making a King, P. 19, Kinging of a person ascribed to the people, P. 20. Kings in a special manner, are from God, but it followeth not: Ergo, not from the people, P. 21. The place, Prov. 8.15. proveth not, but Kings are made by the people. P. 22, 23. Nebuchadnezzar and other heathen Kings, had no just Title before God, to the Kingdom of Judah, and divers other subdued Kingdoms, P. 26, 27.
QUEST. V. Whether or no, the P. P. proveth, that Soveraignty is immediately from God, not from the people? p. 16. Kings made by the people, though the Office, in abstracto, were immediately from God, P. 16. The people have a reall action, more then approbation in making a King, P. 19, Kinging of a person ascribed to the people, P. 20. Kings in a speciall manner, are from God, but it followeth not: Ergo, not from the people, P. 21. The place, Prov. 8.15. proveth not, but Kings are made by the people. P. 22, 23. Nebuchadnezzar and other heathen Kings, had no just Title before God, to the Kingdom of Judah, and divers other subdued Kingdoms, P. 26, 27.
QUEST. VI. Whether or no, the King be so allanerly from both in regard of Sovereignty and Designation of his person, as he is no ways from the people, but only by mere approbation? Negatur, pag. 28, 29. The Forms of Government, not from God by an act of naked Providence, but by his approving will, Ibid. ⟨image 10⟩