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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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The special ground of Royalists from Rom. 13. against the lawfulness of defensive Wars,1 is to make Paul, Rom. 13. speak only of Kings. Hugo Grotius de jure belli & pac. l. 1. c. 4. num. 6. Barclay cont. Monarch. l. 3. c. 9. saith, Though Ambrose expound the place Rom. 13. de solis Regibus, of Kings only, (this is false of Kings only, he doth not, but of Kings principally) Yea it followeth not that all Magistrates, by this place, are freed from all laws, because (saith he) there is no Judge above a King on earth, and therefore he cannot be punished; but there is a Judge above all inferior Judges, and therefore they must be subject to Laws. So D. Ferne followeth him, sect. 2. pag. 10. and our poor Prelate must be an accident to them, Sacr. San. Maj. cap. 2. pag. 29. for his learning cannot subsist per se.
THe speciall ground of Royalists from Rom. 13. against the lawfulnesse of defensive Wars,1 is to make Paul, Rom. 13. speake onely of Kings. Hugo Grotius de jure belli & pac. l. 1. c. 4. num. 6. Barclay cont. Monarch. l. 3. c. 9. saith, Though Ambrose expound the place