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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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And so saith Amasa by the spirit of the Lord. 1 Chro. 12.18. Peace, peace be unto thee, and peace to thy helpers, for God helpeth thee. Now David in that, and all his helpers were resisters of King Saul. 3. The scope of the place 1 Pet. 2. is not to forbid all violent resisting, as is clear,1 he speaketh nothing of violent resisting either one way or other, but only he forbiddeth revengeful resisting of repaying one wrong with another, from the example of Christ, who when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered he threatened not. Therefore the argument is a falacy, ab •o quod docitur [Greek or Hebrew], ad illud quod dicitur [Greek or Hebrew]. Though therefore the master should attempt to kill an innocent servant, and invade him with a weapon of […]. 1. Suddenly. 2. Without all reason or cause. 3. Unavoidably, Doctor Ferne in that case doth free a Subject from guiltiness,2 if he violently resist his Prince: Ergo the servant who should violently resist his Master in the aforesaid case, should, and might patiently suffer, and violently resist, notwithstanding any thing that Royalists can conclude on the contrary. 4. No Prince hath a Masterly or herile dominion over his subjects, but only a free, ingenious, paternal and tutorly over-sight for the good of the people, Rom. 13.4. The Master, especially in the Apostle Peters time, had a dominion over servants, as over their proper goods.
And so saith Amasa by the spirit of the Lord. 1 Chro. 12.18. Peace, peace be unto thee, and peace to thy helpers, for God helpeth thee. Now David in that, and all his help•rs were resisters of King Saul. 3. The scope of the place 1 Pet. 2. is not to forbid all violent resisting, as is clear,1