A57975:84
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. VIII. Whether or no, the P. Prelate proveth, by force of reason, That the people cannot be capable of any power of Government? Negatur, pag. 49, 50. In any community there is an active and passive power to Government, P. 50. Popular Government is not that wherein all the whole people are Governors, P. 53, 54. People by nature are equally indifferent to all the three Governments, and are under not any one by nature, P. 53. The P. Prelate, denieth the Pope his father to be the Antichrist, Ibid. The bad success of Kings chosen by people, proveth nothing against us, ⟨image 11⟩[…] ⟨image 11⟩[…] ⟨image 12⟩because Kings chosen by God, had bad success through their own wickedness, P. 54, 55. The P. Prelate condemneth King Charles his ratifying, Parl. 2. An. 1641. The whole proceedings of Scotland in this present Reformation, P. 56. That there be any supreme Judges, is an eminent act of divine providence, which hindereth not, but that the King is made by the people, P. 57. The people not patients in making a King, as is water in the Sacrament of Baptism, in the Act of production of grace, P. 58.
QUEST. VIII. Whether or no, the P. Prelate proveth, by force of reason, That the people cannot be capable of any power of Goverment? Negatur, pag. 49, 50. In any communitie there is an active and passive power to Government, P. 50. Popular Government is not that wherein all the whole people are Governours, P. 53, 54. People by nature are equally indifferent to all the three Governments, and are under not any one by nature, P. 53. The P. Prelate, denyeth the Pope his father to be the Antichrist, Ibid. The bad successe of Kings chosen by people, proveth nothing against us, ⟨image 11⟩〈…〉 ⟨image 11⟩