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Lex, Rex, or the Law and the Prince is unavailable, but you can change that!

Published in response to Bishop John Maxwell’s “Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas,” Lex, Rex is a comprehensive defense of the Scottish Presbyterian ideal in politics that defends the rule of law and the lawfulness of defensive wars. Advocating for limited government, it supports a “Two Kingdoms” theory of church-state relations and utilizes Scripture and Natural Law arguments. Highly controversial,...

the Prelate condemneth them of remissness in discipline. 20. Satan, a liar from the beginning, saith, The presbytery was a seminary and nursery of fiends, contentions, and bloods, because they excommunicated murderers against king James’ will; which is all one to say, prophecying is a nurse of bloods, because the prophets cryed out against king Achab, and the murderers of innocent Naboth: the men of God must be either on the one side or the other, or then preach against reciprocation of injuries.
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