A57975:16
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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There is another cause of the sickness of our time; God plagued Heresy, to beget Atheism and security, as Atheism and security had begotten Heresy, even as clouds through reciprocation of causes engender rain, rain begat vapours, vapours clouds, and clouds rain, so do sins overspread our sad times in a circular generation.
There is another cause of the sicknesse of our time; God plagued Heresie, to beget Atheisme and security, as Atheisme and security had begotten Heresie, even as clouds through reciprocation of causes engender rain, rain begate vapours, vapours clouds, and clouds rain, so do sins overspread our sad times in a circular generation.
And now judgement presseth the kingdoms, and of all the heaviest judgements the sword, and of swords the civill sword, threateneth vastation, yet not, I hope, like the Roman civill sword, of which it was said, Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos.
And now judgement presseth the kingdoms, and of all the heaviest judgements the sword, and of swords the civill sword, threatneth vastation, yet not, I hope, like the Roman civill sword, of which it was said, Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos.
I hope this war shall be Christs Triumph, Babylons ruin.
I hope this war shalbe Christs Triumph, Babylons ruine.