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.
Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.
    QUEST XVI. Whether or no a despoticall or masterly dominion agree to the King, because he is King. Negatur. pag. 116
  • The King hath no masterly dominion over the Subjects, as if they were his servants. Proved by 4. Arguments. pag. 116.
  • The King not over men as reasonable creatures to domineere. pag. 117.
  • The King cannot give away his Kingdome or his people, as if they were his proper goods. ibid.
  • A violent surrender of liberty tyeth not. pag. 119
  • A surrender of ignorance is in so farre, unvoluntary, as it oblige not. ibid.
  • The goods of the subjects not the Kings, proved by 8. Argu. pag. 120.
  • Page  [unnumbered]All the goods of the subjects are the Kings in a four-fold sence· pag. 121·