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. Arnisaeus, Ant. de Domi. P. Bishop of Spalato, and of other late Anti-Magistratical Royalists; as, The Author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the Doctors of Aberdeen, &c.In XLIV. QUESTIONS.Published by Authority.1 SAM. 12.25.But if you shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your King.London: Printed for John Field, and are to be sold at his house upon Addle-hill, near Baynards-Castle. Octob. 7. 1644.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. Arnisaeus, Ant. de Domi. P. Bishop of Spalato, and of other late Anti-Magistratical Royalists; as, The Author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the Doctors of Aberdeen, &c.In XLIV. QUESTIONS.Published by Authority.1 SAM. 12.25.But if you shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your King.London: Printed for Iohn Field, and are to be sold at his house upon Addle-hill, neer Baynards-Castle. Octob. 7. 1644.Title page of Lex, Rex, London, 1644Lex, RexSamuel Rutherford, 1644

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QUEST. XVII. Whether or no, the Prince have properly the fiduciary or ministerial power of a Tutor, Husband, Patron, Minister, Head, Master of a Family, not of a lord or dominator. Affirmed, p. 124. The King a Tutor rather then a Father, as these are distinguished, ibid. A free Community not properly, and in all respects, a minor and pupil, p. 125. The Kings power not properly marital and husbandly. ibid. The King a Patron, and Servant. pag. 126. The Royal power only from God, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum solitudine causae primae, but not Immediatione applicationis dignitatis ad personam. pag. 126. The King the Servant of the people both objectively, and subjectively. pag. 127. The Lord and the people by one and the same act according to the Physical relation maketh the King. ibid. The King head of the people Metaphorically only, not essentially, not univocally by 6. Argu. pag. 128. His power fiduciary only. pag. 129.

QVEST. XVII. Whether or no, the Prince have properly the fiduciary or ministeriall power of a Tutor, Husband, Patron, Minister, Head, Master of a Family, not of a lord or dominator. Affirmed, p. 124. The King a Tutor rather then a Father, as these are distinguished, ibid. A free Communitie not properly, and in all respects, a minor and pupill, p. 125. The Kings power not properly maritall and husbandly. ibid. The King a Patron, and Servant. pag. 126. The Royall power only from God, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum solitudine causae primae, but not Immediatione applicationis dignitatis ad personam. pag. 126. The King the Servant of the people both objectively, and subjectively. pag. 127. The Lord and the people by one and the same act according to the Physicall relation maketh the King. ibid. The King head of the people Metaphorically only, not essentially, not univocally by 6. Argu. pag. 128. His power fiduciary only. pag. 129.

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