A57975:106
Lex, Rex
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. 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.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.
London: printed for John Field, 1644London: printed for Iohn Field, 1644
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QUEST. XXX. Whether or no passive obedience be a mean to which we are subjected in conscience by virtue of a Divine Commandment? Neg. What a mean resistance is? that flying is resistance? p. 313. The place 1 Pet. 2.18. discussed, ibid. Patient bearing of injuries, and resistance of injuries compatible in one and the same subject, ibid. Christs non-resistance hath many things rare and extraordinary, and so is no leading rule to us, p. 315. Suffering is either commanded to us comparatively only, that we rather choose to suffer then deny the truth: or the manner only is commanded, that we suffer with patience, p. 317, 318. & sequent. The Physical act of taking away the life, or of offending, when commanded by the Law of self defence, is no murder, p. 321. ⟨image 18⟩We have a greater dominion over our goods and members, (except in case of mutilation, which is a little death) then over our life, p. 321. To kill is not of the nature of self defence, but accidental thereunto, ibid. Defensive war cannot be without offending, p. 323. The nature of defensive and offensive Warr•. p. 324, 325. Flying is resistance, p. 325, 326.
QVEST. XXX. Whether or no passive obedience be a meane to which we are subjected in conscience by vertue of a Divine Commandement? Neg. What a meane resistance is? that flying is resistance? p. 313. The place 1 Pet. 2.18. discussed, ibid. Patient bearing of injuries, and resistance of injuries compatible in one and the same subject, ibid. Christs non-resistance hath many things rare and extraordinary, and so is no leading rule to us, p. 315. Suffering is either commanded to us comparatively only, that we rather choose to suffer then deny the truth: or the manner only is commanded, that we suffer with patience, p. 317, 318. & sequent. The Physicall act of taking avvay the life, or of offending, vvhen commanded by the Lavv of self defence, is no murther, p. 321.