A57975:834
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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Ans. The Law clearly distinguisheth we are to obey Parents in the Lord, and if Nero command Idolatry, this is an excessive power; are we obliged to obey, because the Law distinguisheth not? 2. The text saith, we are to obey every power, 1. from God, 2. That is Gods ordinance, 3. by which the man is a Minister of God for good; but an unjust and excessive power is none of these three. 3. The text in words distinguisheth not obedience active in things wicked, and lawful: yet we are to distinguish.
Ans. The Law clearely distinguisheth we are to obey Parents in the Lord, and if Nero command Idolatry, this is an excessive power; are we obliged to obey, because the Law distinguisheth not? 2. The text saith, we are to obey every power, 1. from God, 2. That is Gods ordinance, 3. by which the man is a Minister of God for good; but an unjust and excessive power is none of these three. 3. The text in words distinguisheth not obedience active in things wicked, and lawfull: yet we are to distinguish.
Mr. Symmons. Is authority subjected solely in the Kings Law, and no whit in his Person, though put upon him both by God and Man? 1Or, is Authority only the subject; and the Person exercising the Authority, ⟨p. 276⟩a bare accident to that, being in it only more separably, as pride and folly are in a man: Then if one in Authority command, out of his own Will, and not by Law: if I neither actively, nor passively obey, J do not so much as resist abused Authority: and then must the Prince by his disorderly Will have quite lost his authority, and become like another man; and yet his Authority has not fled from him.
Mr. Symmons. Is authoritie subjected solely in the Kings Law, and no whit in his Person, though put upon him both by God and Man? 1Or, is Authoritie only the subject; and the Person exercising the Authoritie,