A57975:919
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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2. Assert. There is no reason to restrain the higher powers to Monarchs only, or yet principally,1 as if they only were essentially powers ordained of God, 1. Because he calleth them [Greek or Hebrew], higher powers. Now this will include all higher powers, as Piscator observeth on the place. And certainly Rome had never two or three Kings to which every soul should be subject, if Paul had intended that they should have given obedience to one Nero, as the only essential Judge he would have designed him by the noun in the singular number. 2. All the reasons that the Apostle bringeth to prove that subjection is due, agreeth to inferior Judges, as well as to Emperors, for they are powers ordained of God, and they bear the sword, and we must obey them for conscience sake, and they are Gods deputies, and their judgement is not the judgement of men, but of the Lord, 2 Chron. 19.6, 7. Deut. 1.16. Numb. 11.16, 17. Tribute and wages be no less due to them, as ministers and servants, for their work, then to the King, &c. 3. The Apostle could not omit obedience to the good Civill Laws enacted by the Senate, nor could he omit to command subjection to Rulers, if the Romans should change the Government, and abolish Monarchy, and erect their ancient form of Government before they had Kings. 5. This is Canonical Scripture, and a clear exposition of the first Commandment, and so must reach the consciences of all Christian Republics, where there is no Monarchy. 5. Parallel places of Scripture prove this. Paul, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. will have prayers made to God, for Kings, and for all that are in authority, and the intrinsical ⟨p. 352⟩•nd of all is, a godly, honest, and peaceable life. And 1 Pet. 2.13. Submit to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake.