A57975:404
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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1Object. But it is evident, that God teaching the people how to behave themselves under the unjust oppressions of their King, he sets ⟨p. 135⟩down no remedy but tears, crying to God, prayer, and patience; therefore resistance is not lawful.
1Object. But it is evident, that God teaching the people how to behave themselves under the unjust oppressions of their King, he sets ⟨p. 135⟩down no remedy but tears, crying to God, prayer, and patience; therefore resistance is not lawfull.
- 1D. Ferne. 3. p. Sect. 2. pag. 10.
Answ. 1Though this be not the place due to the doctrine of Resistance, yet to vindicate the place; I s•y, there is not one word of any lawful remedy in the Text, only it is said, [Greek or Hebrew], Et cl•matis in illa die a faciebus regis vestri: It is not necessarily to be exponed of praying to God, Job 35.9. by reason of the multitude of the oppression, They make the oppressed to cry, [Greek or Hebrew] clamare faciunt, Isai. 15.4. And Heshbon shall cry. [Greek or Hebrew] The armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out. There is no other word here, then doth express the idolatrous prayers of Moab, Isai. 17.12