A57975:86
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. X. Whether or not Royal birth be equivalent to Divine Unction? Negatur. pag. 68. Impugned by eight Arguments. Ibid. Royalty not transmitted from father to son. ibid. A family may be chosen to a Crown as a single person is chosen, but the tie is conditional in both. pag. 68.69. The Throne by special promise made to David and his seed, by God, ⟨image 12⟩Psal. 89. no ground to make birth, In foro Dei, a just title to the crown. pag. 69 70. A Title by conquest to a Throne must be unlawful, if birth be Gods lawful title. pag. 70. Royalists who held conquest to be a just title to the Crown, teach manifest treason against King Charles, and his Royal Heirs. ibid. Only, Bona fortunae, not honour or Royalty properly transmittable from father to son. pag. 71. Violent conquest cannot regulate the consciences of people, to submit to a conqueror as their lawful King. pag. 72. Naked birth is inferior to that very divine unction, that made no man a King without the peoples election. pag. 73. If a Kingdom were by birth the King might sell it. pag. 74. The Crown is the Patrimony of the Kingdom, not of him who is King, or of his father pag. 72, 73, 76. Birth a typical designment to the Crown in Israel. pag. 74. The choice of a family to the Crown resolveth upon the free election of the people, as on the fountain-cause. pag. 76. Election of a family to the Crown lawful. pag. 77.
QUEST. X. Whether or not Royall birth be equivalent to Divine Unction? Negatur. pag. 68. Impugned by eight Arguments. Ibid. Royalty not transmitted from father to sonne. ibid. A family may be chosen to a Crown as a single person is chosen, but the tye is conditionall in both. pag. 68.69. The Throne by speciall promise made to David and his seed, by God, ⟨image 12⟩Psal. 89. no ground to make birth, In foro Dei, a just title to the crowne. pag. 69 70. A Title by conquest to a Throne must be unlawfull, if birth be Gods lawfull title. pag. 70. Royalists who held conqust to be a just title to the Crown, teach manifest treason against King Charles, and his Royall Heires. ibid. Only, Bona fortunae, not honour or Royalty properly transmittable from father to sonne. pag. 71. Violent conquest cannot regulate the consciences of people, to submit to a conquerour as their lawfull King. pag. 72. Naked birth is inferiour to that very divine unction, that made no man a King without the peoples election. pag. 73. If a Kingdome were by birth the King might sell it. pag. 74. The Crown is the Patrimony of the Kingdome, not of him who is King, or of his father pag. 72, 73, 76. Birth a typicall designement to the Crowne in Israel. pag. 74. The choise of a family to the Crowne resolveth upon the free election of the people, as on the fountaine-cause. pag. 76. Election of a family to the Crown lawfull. pag. 77.