A57975:60
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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33. They may swear a Covenant without the King, if he refuse; and Build the Lords House, 2 Chron. 15.9. themselves: and relieve and defend one another, when they are oppressed. For my acts and duties of defending my self and the oppressed, do not tie my conscience conditionally, so the King consent, but absolutely, as all duties of the Law of nature do, Jer. 22.3. Prov. 24.11. Esa. 58.6. Esa. 1.17.
33. They may swear a Covenant without the King, if he refuse; and Build the Lords House, 2 Chron. 15.9. themselves: and relieve and defend one another, when they are oppressed. For my acts and duties of defending my self and the oppressed, do not tye my conscience conditionally, so the King consent, but absolutely, as all duties of the Law of nature doe, Jer. 22.3. Prov. 24.11. Esa. 58.6. Esa. 1.17.
34. The P. P. condemneth our Reformation, because it was done against the will of our Popish Queen. This showeth what estimation he hath of Popery, and how he abhorreth Protestant Religion.
34. The P. P. condemneth our Reformation, because it was done against the will of our Popish Queen. This sheweth what estimation he hath of Popery, and how he abhorreth Protestant Religion.