A57975:92
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 XVI. Whether or no a despotical or masterly dominion agree to the King, because he is King. Negatur. pag. 116 The King hath no masterly dominion over the Subjects, as if they were his servants. Proved by 4. Arguments. pag. 116. The King not over men as reasonable creatures to domineer. pag. 117. The King cannot give away his Kingdom or his people, as if they were his proper goods. ibid. A violent surrender of liberty tieth not. pag. 119 A surrender of ignorance is in so far, unvoluntary, as it oblige not. ibid. The goods of the subjects not the Kings, proved by 8. Argu. pag. 120. ⟨image 14⟩All the goods of the subjects are the Kings in a four-fold sense· pag. 121·
QUEST XVI. Whether or no a despoticall or masterly dominion agree to the King, because he is King. Negatur. pag. 116 The King hath no masterly dominion over the Subjects, as if they were his servants. Proved by 4. Arguments. pag. 116. The King not over men as reasonable creatures to domineere. pag. 117. The King cannot give away his Kingdome or his people, as if they were his proper goods. ibid. A violent surrender of liberty tyeth not. pag. 119 A surrender of ignorance is in so farre, unvoluntary, as it oblige not. ibid. The goods of the subjects not the Kings, proved by 8. Argu. pag. 120. ⟨image 14⟩All the goods of the subjects are the Kings in a four-fold sence· pag. 121·
QUEST. XVII. Whether or no, the Prince have properly the fiduciary or ministerial power of a Tutor, Husband, Patron, Minister, Head, Master of a Family, not of a lord or dominator. Affirmed, p. 124. The King a Tutor rather then a Father, as these are distinguished, ibid. A free Community not properly, and in all respects, a minor and pupil, p. 125. The Kings power not properly marital and husbandly. ibid. The King a Patron, and Servant. pag. 126. The Royal power only from God, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum solitudine causae primae, but not Immediatione applicationis dignitatis ad personam. pag. 126. The King the Servant of the people both objectively, and subjectively. pag. 127. The Lord and the people by one and the same act according to the Physical relation maketh the King. ibid. The King head of the people Metaphorically only, not essentially, not univocally by 6. Argu. pag. 128. His power fiduciary only. pag. 129.