A57975:99
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. XXIII. Whether the King hath a Prerogative Royal above Laws? Negatur, p. 192. Prerogative taken two ways, ibid. Prerogative above Laws, a Garland proper to infinite Majesty, ibid. A threefold dispensation, 1. Of power, 2. Of justice, 3. Of Grace, p. 194. Acts of mere grace, may be acts of blood, p. 195. An oath to the King of Babylon, tied not the people of Judah to all that absolute power could command, ibid. The absolute Prince, is as absolute in acts of cruelty, as in acts of grace, p. 196. Servants are not, 1 Pet. 2.18, 19. interdicted of self-defence, p. 199, 200. The Parliament materially only, not formally, hath the King for their Lord, p. 202. Reason not a sufficient restraint to keep a Prince from Acts of tyranny, ibid. Princes have sufficient power to do good, though they have not absolute to do evil. p. 203. A power to shed innocent blood, can be no part of any Royal power given of God, p. 204. The King, because he is a public person, wanteth many privileges that subjects have, p. 205, 206.
QUEST. XXIII. Whether the King hath a Prerogative Royall above Laws? Negatur, p. 192. Prerogative taken two wayes, ibid. Prerogative above Laws, a Garland proper to infinite Majestie, ibid. A threefold dispensation, 1. Of power, 2. Of justice, 3. Of Grace, p. 194. Acts of meer grace, may be acts of blood, p. 195. An oath to the King of Babylon, tyed not the people of Judah to all that absolute power could command, ibid. The absolute Prince, is as absolute in acts of crueltie, as in acts of grace, p. 196. Servants are not, 1 Pet. 2.18, 19. interdited of self-defence, p. 199, 200. The Parliament materially onely, not formally, hath the King for their Lord, p. 202. Reason not a sufficient restraint to keep a Prince from Acts of tyranny, ibid. Princes have sufficient power to do good, though they have not absolute to do evil. p. 203. A power to shed innocent blood, can be no part of any Royall power given of God, p. 204. The King, because he is a publike person, wanteth many priviledges that subjects have, p. 205, 206.