A57975:811
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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The Proposition is clear, for the powers that tie us to subjection, only are of God. 2. Because to resist them, is to resist the ordinance of God. 3. Because they are not a terror to good works, but to evil. 4. Because they are Gods Ministers for our good, but abused powers are not of God, but of men, or not ordinances of God: they are a terror to good works, not to evil; they are not Gods Ministers for our good.
The Proposition is cleare, for the powers that tye us to subjection, only are of God. 2. Because to resist them, is to resist the ordinance of God. 3. Because they are not a terrour to good workes, but to evill. 4. Because they are Gods Ministers for our good, but abused powers are not of God, but of men, or not ordinances of God: they are a terrour to good workes, not to evill; they are not Gods Ministers for our good.
2. That power which is contrary to Law,1 and is evil and Tyrannical, can tie none to subjection, but is a mere Tyrannical power and unlawful; and if it tie not to subjection, it may lawfully be resisted. But the power of the King abused to the destruction of Laws, Religion, and subjects, is a power contrary to Law, evil and Tyrannical, and tieth no man to subjection; wickedness by no imaginable reason can oblige any man. Obligation to suffer of wicked men, falleth under no Commandment of God, except in our Saviour. A Passion, as such, is not formally commanded, I mean a Physical Passion, such as to be killed. God hath not said to me in any Moral Law, Be thou killed, tortured, beheaded; but only, be thou patient, if God deliver thee to wicked mens hands, to suffer these things.
2. That power which is contrary to Law,1 and is evill and Tyrannicall, can tye none to subjection, but is a meere Tyrannicall power and unlawfull; and if it tye not to subjection, it may lawfully be resisted. But the power of the King abused to the destruction of Lawes, Religion, and subjects, is a power contrary to Law, evill and Tyrannicall, and tyeth no man to subjection; wickednesse by no imaginable reason can oblige any man. Obligation to suffer of wicked men, falleth under no Commandement of God, except in our Saviour. A Passion, as such, is not formally commanded, I meane a Physicall Passion, such as to be killed. God hath not said to me in any Morall Law, Be thou killed, tortured, beheaded; but only, be thou patient, if God deliver thee to wicked mens hands, to suffer these things.