A57975:815
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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If it be said in these sinful acts of Tyranny, he is not Gods formal Vicegerent, but only in good and lawful acts of Government, yet he is not to be resisted in these acts, not because the acts are just and good, but because of the dignity of his Royal Person. Yet this must prov• that these who resist the King in these acts of Tyranny, must resist no ordinance of God, but only that we resist him, who is the Lords Deputy, though not as the Lords Deputy; what absurd is there in that more then to disobey him, refusing active obedience to him who is the Lords Deputy, but not as the Lords Deputy, but as a man commanding, beside his Masters Warrant?
If it be said in these sinfull acts of Tyranny, he is not Gods formall Vicegerent, but only in good and lawfull acts of Government, yet he is not to be resisted in these acts, not because the acts are just and good, but because of the dignity of his Royall Person. Yet this must prov• that these who resist the King in these acts of Tyranny, must resist no ordinance of God, but only that we resist him, who is the Lords Deputy, though not as the Lords Deputy; what absurd is there in that more then to disobey him, refusing active obedience to him who is the Lords Deputy, but not as the Lords Deputy, but as a man commanding, beside his Masters Warrant?
5. That which is inconsistent with the care and providence of God in giving a King to his Church, is not to be taught.1 Now Gods end in giving a King to his Church, is the feeding, safety, preservation, the peaceable and quiet life of his Church, 1 Tim. 2.2. Esa. 49.23. Psal. 79.71. But God should cross his own end in the same act of giving a King, if he should provide a King, who, by office, were to suppress Robbers, Murderers, and all oppressors and wasters in his holy Mount: and yet should give an irresistible power to one crowned Lyon, a King, who may kill a thousand thousand Protestants for their Religion, in an ordinary Providence, and they are by an ordinary law of God to give their throats to his Emissaries and bloody executioners. If any say, The King will not be so cruel: I believe it; because, actu secundo, it is not possibly in his power to be so cruel.