Lex Rex: The Law and the King

When Lex, Rex was written, the Reformation in England and Scotland was in crisis. The English Civil War had just begun due to the attempts by Charles I to impose popish rituals on the church and to assert his divine right as king to overrule parliament. Against these grandiose claims the Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford wrote a book that changed the course of western civilization. In his very learned work, Rutherford shows from Scripture, classical authors, and scholastic theologians that ...