A57975:848
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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Much is built, to commend patient suffering of ill, and con•emne all resistance of Superiors, by Royalists, on the place 1 Pet. 2.18. Where we are commanded, being servants, to suffer buffets, not only for ill doing, of good masters, but also undeservedly, and when we do• well, we a•e to suffer of these masters that are evil; and so much more are we patiently, without Resistance, to suffer of Kings. B•t it is clear, the place is nothing against Resistance, as in these Assertions I clear.
MUch is built, to commend patient suff•ring of ill, and con•emne all r•sistance of Superiors, by Royalists, on the place 1 Pet. 2.18. Where we are commanded, being servants, to suffer buffets, not onely for ill doing, of good masters, but also undeservedly, and when we do• well, we a•e to suffer of these masters that are evi•l; and so much more are we patiently, without Resistance, to suffer of Kings. B•t it is cleare, the place is nothing against Resistance, as in these Assertions I cleare.
Assertion 1. Patient suffering of wicked men, and violent resisting are not incompatible, but they may well stand together: So this consequence is the basis of the argument, and it is just nothing. To wit, Servants are to suffer unjustly wounds and •u•••ting of their wicked Masters, and they ae to bear i patiently; Ergo, Servants are in conscience obliged to non-resistance. Now Scripture maketh this clear; The Church of God is to bear with all patience,