A57975:807
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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13. I would think it not fit, easily to resist the Kings unjust Exactors of custom or tribute; 1. Because Christ payed tribute to Tiberius Caesar, an unjust usurper, though he was free from that, by Gods Law, least he should offend. 2. Because we have a greater dominion over Goods, then over our Lives and Bodies; and it is better to yield in a matter of Goods, then to come to Arms; for of sinless evils, we may choose the least.
13. I would think it not fit, easily to resist the Kings unjust Exactors of custome or tribute; 1. Because Christ payed tribute to Tiberius Caesar, an unjust usurper, though he was free from that, by Gods Law, least he should offend. 2. Because we have a greater dominion over Goods, then over our Lives and Bodies; and it is better to yield in a matter of Goods, then to come to Arms; for of sinlesse evils, we may choose the least.
- 1The Exactors of unjust tribute, not easily to be resisted.
4. A Tyrant without a Title may be resisted by any private man. Quia licet vim vi repellere; Because we may repel violence by violence, yea, he may be killed. Ut l. & vim. F. de justit. & jure, ubi plene per omnes. Vasquez, l. 1. c. 8. n. 33. Barcla. contra. Monarcho▪ l. 4▪ c. 10. pag. 268.
4. A Tyrant without a Title may be resisted by any private man. Quia licet vim vi repellere; Because we may repell violence by violence, yea, he may be killed. Vt l. & vim. F. de iustit. & jure, ubi plene per omnes. Vasquez, l. 1. c. 8. n. 33. Barcla. contra. Monarcho▪ l. 4▪ c. 10. pag. 268.