A57975:625
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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Ans. 1. As the Scriptures in all fundamentals are clear,1 and expone themselves, and Actu primo condemn Heresies, so all Laws of men in their fundamentals, which are the Law of Nature, and of Nations are clear. And 2. Tyranny is more visible and intelligible then Heresy, and its soon discerned. If a King bring in upon his native subjects twenty thousand Turks armed, and the King ⟨p. 114⟩lead them. It is evident, they come not to make a friendly visit to salute the Kingdom, and depart in peace: the people have a natural throne of policy in their conscience to give warning, and materially sentence against the King, as a Tyrant, and so by nature are to defend themselves: Where Tyranny is more obscure, and the thread small, that it escape the eye of men, the King keepeth possession; but I deny that Tyranny can be obscure long.
Ans. 1. As the Scriptures in all fundamentalls are cleare,1 and expone themselves, and Actu primo condemne Heresies, so all Lawes of men in their fundamentals, which are the Law of Nature, and of Nations are cleare. And 2. Tyranny is more visible and intelligible then Heresie, and its soone decerned. If a King bring in upon his native subjects twenty thousand Turks armed, and the King ⟨p. 114⟩lead them. It is evident, they come not to make a friendly visite to salute the Kingdom, and depart in peace: the people have a naturall throne of policie in their conscience to give warning, and materially sentence against the King, as a Tyrant, and so by nature are to defend themselves: Where Tyranny is more obscure, and the thred small, that it escape the eye of men, the King keepeth possession; but I deny that Tyranny can be obscure long.
- 1Humane Laws not so obscure as Tyranny is legible.