A57975:95
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. XIX. Whether or no the King be in Dignity and Power above the people? Neg. Impugned by 10. Argu. p. 139. In what consideration the King is above the people, and the people above the King. pag. 139, 140. A mean as a mean inferior to the end, how its true. ibid. The King inferior to the people. ibid. The Church because the Church is of more excellency then the King, because King. pag. 140, 141. The people being those to whom the King is given, worthier then the gift. pag. 141. And the people immortal, the King mortal. pag. 142. The King a mean only, not both the efficient or Author of the Kingdom and a mean. Two necessary distinctions of a mean. pag. 143, If sin had never been there should have been no King. pag. 142. The King is to give his life for his people. ibid. The consistent cause more excellent then the effect. pag. 143, 144, 145. The people then the King. pag. 144, 145. Unpossible people can limit Royal Power, but they must give Royal Power also. ibid. The people have an action in making a King, proved by four Arguments. ibid. Though it were granted that God immediately made Kings, yet it is no consequent God only, and not the people, can unmake him. pag. 146. The people appointing a King over themselves, retain the Fountain-power of making a King. pag. 147, 148, 149. The mean inferior to the end, and the King as King is a mean. pag. 149, 150, 153. The King as a mean, and also as a man inferior to the people, pag. 150. To swear non-selfe-preservation, and to swear self-murder, all one. pag. 151. The people cannot make away their power. 1. Their whole power, nor 2. irrevocably to the King. pag. 152. ⟨image 15⟩The people may resume the power they give to the Commissioners of Parliament, when it is abused, p. 152, The Tables in Scotland lawful, when the ordinary judicatories are corrupt, p. 153. Quod efficit tale id ipsum magis tale, discussed, the fountain-power in the people, the derived only in the King, p. 153, 154, 155. The King is a fiduciary, a life-renter, not a lord or heritor, p. 155, 156. How sovereignty is in the people, p. 156, 157. Power of life and death, how in a Community, ibid. A Community void of Rulers, is yet, and may be a politic body, p. 157. Judges gods Analogically, p. 158.