A57975:837
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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Symmons. The distinction holdeth good of inferior Magistrates, That they may be considered as Magistrates, 1and as Men: because their authority is only sacred, and addeth veneration to their persons; and is separable from the person; The Man may live, when his Authority is extinguished: but it holdeth not in Kings. King Sauls person is venerable as his authority, and his authority cometh by inheritance, and dyeth, and liveth inseparably with his person: and Authority and Person add honour each one to another.
Symmons. The distinction holdeth good of inferior Magistrates, That they may be considered as Magistrates, 1and as Men: because their authoritie is only sacred, and addeth veneration to their persons; and is separable from the person; The Man may live, when his Authoritie is extinguished: but it holdeth not in Kings. King Sauls person is venerable as his authoritie, and his authoritie commeth by inheritance, and dyeth, and liveth inseparably with his person: and Authoritie and Person adde honour each one to another.
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Ans. 1. If this be true, Manasseh, a King, did not shed innocent blood, and use sorcery▪ he did not these great wickednesses as a man, ⟨p. 277⟩but as a King. Solomon played the Apostate as a King, not as a man: if so, the man must make the King more infallible then the Pope; for the Pope, as a man, can err; as a Pope he cannot err, say Papists. But Prophets, in their persons, were anointed of God, as Saul and David were: then must we say, Nathan and Samuel erred not as men, because their persons were sacred and anointed: and they erred not as Prophets, sure; Ergo, they erred not all. A King, as a King, is an holy Ordinance of God, and so cannot do injustice, Ergo, they must do acts of Justice, as men. 2. The inferior Judge is a Power from God. 2. To resist him, is to resist an ordinance of God. 3. He is not a terror to good works, but to evil. 4. He is the minister of God for good. 5. He is Gods Sword-bearer; his official power to rule, may by as good right come by birth, as the Crown: and the Kings person is sacred only for his office, and is anointed only for his office. For then the Chaldeans dishonoured not inferior Judges,