A57975:809
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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For the lawfulness of resistance in the matter of the Kings unjust invasion of life and Religion, we offer these Arguments.1
For the lawfulnesse of resistance in the matter of the Kings unjust invasion of life and Religion, we offer these Arguments.1
- 1Arguments for the lawfulness of resisting unjust violence.Arguments for the lawfulnesse of resisting unjust violence.
1. That power which is obliged to command and rule justly and religiously, for the good of the subjects, and is only set over the people on these conditions, and not absolutely,1 cannot tie the people to subjection without resistance, when the power is abused to the destruction of Laws, Religion, and the subjects. But all power of the Law is thus obliged, Rom. 13.4. Deut. 17. vers. 18, 19, 20. 2 Chron. 19.6. Ps. 132.11, 12. Ps. 89.30, 31. 2 Sam. 7.12. Jer. 17.24, 25. and hath, and may be abused by Kings, to the destruction of Laws, Religion, and Subjects.