A57975:793
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. XXVIII. Whether or no, Wars raised by the Subjects and Estates, for their own just defence against the Kings bloody Emissaries, be lawful?
QUEST. XXVIII. Whether or no, Wars raised by the Subjects and Estates, for their own just defence against the Kings bloody Emissaries, be lawfull?
A Ruisaeus perverteth the question; he saith, The question is, Whether or no, the Subjects may according to their power, 1judge the King, and dethrone him; that is, Whether or no, is it lawful for the Subjects in any case, to take arms against their lawful Prince, if he degenerate, and shall wickedly use his lawful power?
A Ruisaeus perverteth the question; he saith, The question is, Whether or no, the Subjects may according to their power, 1judge the King, and dethrone him; that is, Whether or no, is it lawfull for the Subjects in any case, to take arms against their lawfull Prince, if he degenerate, and shall wickedly use his lawfull power?
- 1Arnisaus de authori. Princ. c. 1. n. 2. The state of the question concerning resistance.
The state of the question is much perverted, for these be different questions, Whether the Kingdom may dethrone a wicked and Tyrannous Prince? And whether may the Kingdom take up arms against the man who is the King, in their own innocent defence: For the former is an Act offensive, and of punishing, the latter is an Act of Defence.