A57975:980
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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Obj. 2. Iren. l. 5. adv. haer. c. 20. proveth that God giveth Kingdoms, and that the devil lied ▪ Luk. 4. and we make the people to make Kings, and so to be the children of the Devil.
Obj. 2. Iren. l. 5. adv. haer. c. 20. proveth that God giveth Kingdomes, and that the devill lied ▪ Luk. 4. and we make the people to make Kings, and so to be the children of the Devill.
Answ. If we denied God to dispose of Kingdoms, this man might allege the Church of God in England and Scotland, to be the sons of Satan. But Gods Word, Deut. 17.18. and many other places make the people to make Kings, and yet not devils. But to say that Prelates should crown Kings, and with their foul fingers anoint him; and that as the Popes substitutes, is to make him that is the son of perdition, a Donor of Kingdoms, also to make a man with his bloody sword to ascend to a throne, is to deny God to be the disposer of Kingdoms, and Prelates teach both these.
Answ. If we denyed God to dispose of Kingdomes, this man might alledge the Church of God in England and Scotland, to be the sons of Satan. But Gods Word, Deut. 17.18. and many other places make the people to make Kings, and yet not devils. But to say that Prelates should crowne Kings, and with their foule fingers anoint him; and that as the Popes substitutes, is to make him that is the sonne of perdition, a Donor of Kingdoms, also to make a man with his bloodie sword to ascend to a throne, is to deny God to be the disposer of Kingdoms, and Prelats teach both these.