A57975:923
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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Ergo. It is not his strong hold. In this point then he must be a Papist, and so he refuses to own Protestant strong holds, for justification by faith alone.
Ergo. It is not his strong hold. In this point then hee must be a Papist, and so he refuses to owne Protestant strong holds, for justification by faith alone.
D. Ferne sect. 2. pag. 10. As many as have souls must be subject to the higher powers spoken of here; but all inferior Judges have souls. Answ. If the word (souls) be thus pressed, none shall be understood by higher powers, but the King only. 2. Certainly, he that commandeth as he commandeth, must be excepted, except, because the King ha•h a soul, you must subject the King to himself, and to his own commandments Royal; and so to penal Laws.
D. Ferne s•ct. 2. pag. 10. As many as have soules must be subject to the higher powers spoken of here; but all inferiour Iudges have soules. Answ. If the word (soules) be thus pressed, none shall be understood by higher powers, but the King onely. 2. Certainly, he that commandeth as he commandeth, must be excepted, except, because the King ha•h a soule, you must subject the King to himself, and to his owne commandements Royall; and so to penall Lawes.
3. Inferior Judges, as Judges by this text, must either be subject to themselves as Judges, and by the same reason, the King must be subject to himself, as he is a Judge: Or Judges as men, or as erring men are to be subject; which I would grant, but they are not subject as Judges, no more then one as he commandeth, can also obey as he commandeth. These are contradictory; I am not put off that opinion since I was at Schools, Species subjicibilis qua subjicibilis non est praedicabilis.