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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. XXXIV. Whether Royalists prove by cogent reasons, the unlawfulness of defensive wars. p. 355. Objections of Royalists answered, p. 355, 356, 357. seq. The place Exod. 22.28. Thou shalt not revile the Gods, &c. answered, p. 357. And Eccles. 10.20. p. 358. The place Eccles. 8.3, 4. Where the word of a King is, &c. answered. p. 357, 358. ⟨image 19⟩The place Job 34.18. answered, p. 359. And, Act. 23.3. God shall smite thee thou whited wall, &c. p. 359, 360, 361. The Emperors in Pauls time not absolute by their Law, p. 361. That objection that we have no practise for defensive resistance, and that the Prophets never complain of the omission of the duty of resistance of Princes answered, p. 163, 164, 165. The Prophets cry against the sin of non-resistance, when they cry against the Judges, because they execute not judgements for the oppressed. p. 365, 366. seq. Judahs subjection to Nebuchadnezzar a conquering Tyrant, no warrant for us to subject our selves to tyrannous acts. p. 363, 364, 365. Christs subjection to Caesar nothing against defensive wars, p. 365, 366.
QUEST. XXXIV. Whether Royalists prove by cogent reasons, the unlawfulnesse of defensive warrs. p. 355. Objections of Royalists answered, p. 355, 356, 357. seq. The place Exod. 22.28. Thou shalt not revile the Gods, &c. answered, p. 357. And Eccles. 10.20. p. 358. The place