A57975:921
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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Answ. It is most false that King David is so immediately a King from God, as that he is not also by the mediation of the people, who made him King at Hebron. 2. The inferior Magistrates are also immediate vicars and ministers of God as the King, for their throne and judgement is not the Kings, but the Lords, Deut. 1.16. 2 Chron. 19.6. 3. Though they were mediately from man, it followeth not that they are not so properly from God, for Wisdom Prov. 8. saith as properly, ver. 16. By me Princes rule, and Nobles, even all the Judges of the earth, as ver. 15. By me Kings reign; and promotion is as properly from God, and not from the East, and the West, Psal. 75.6, 7. Though God promote Joseph by the thankful munificence of Pharaoh, and Mordecai by Ahasuerus, Daniel by Darius, as if he gave them power and honour immediately from Heaven.
Answ. It is most false that King David is so immediatly a King from God, as that he is not also by the mediation of the peopl•, who made him King at Hebron. 2. The inferiour Magistrat•s are also immediate vicars and ministers of God as the King, for their throne and judgement is not the Kings, but the Lords, Deut. 1.16. 2 Chron. 19.6. 3. Though they were mediatly from man, it followeth not that they are not so properly from God, for Wisdome Prov. 8. saith as properly, ver. 16. By me Princes rule, and Nobles, even all the Iudges of the earth, as ver. 15. By me Kings reigne; and promotion is as properly from God, and not from the East, and the West, Psal. 75.6, 7. Though God promote Ioseph by the thankfull munificence of Pharaoh, and Mordecai by Ahasuerus, Daniel by Darius, as if he gave them power and honour immediately from Heaven.