Reverend Samuel Rutherford wrote Lex, Rex to defend and advance the Presbytarian ideals in government and political life, and oppose the notion of a monarch\'s Divine Right to rule.
The steadily waning power of the king, increasing rates of literacy and education, and enfranchisement of classes that fo.
The notion of Divine Right - whether a monarch ruled with the authority of God - was under increasing question.
Writing in the 1640s, Rutherford lived in a time of political tumult and upheaval.
Reverend Samuel Rutherford wrote Lex, Rex to defend and advance the Presbytarian ideals in government and political life, and oppose the notion of a monarch\'s Divine Right to rule