A57975:855
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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Love, [Greek or Hebrew], suffereth all things, Heb. 12.17. if you suffer correction, 1 Tim. 5.5. She continueth patiently in prayers, Heb. 12.2. Christ endured the Cross (patiently) & Rom. 15.5. Rom. 8.25. Luk. 8.15. & 21.29. the derivates hence signify patience, so do all our Interpreters, Beza, Calvin, Marlorat, and Popish expositors, as Lorinus, Estius, Carthusian, Lyra, Hugo Cardinali• expound it of patient suffering, and the text is clear, it is suffering like Christ, without rendering evil for evil, and reviling for reviling. 3. Suffering simply according to substance of the passion (I cannot say action) is common to good and ill, and to the wicked, yea to the damned in hell, who suffer against their will, and that cannot be joined according to its substance as an act of formal obedience and subjection to higher powers, Kings, Fathers, Masters, by force of the fifth commandment, and of the place Rom. 13.1, 2. Which according to its substance,1 wicked men suffer, and the damned in hell also against their will. 4. Passive obedience to wicked Emperors can but be enjoined, Rom. 13. but only in the manner, and upon supposition, that we must be subject to them, and must suffer against our wills, all the ill of punishment, that they can inflict, we must suffer patiently; and because it is Gods permissive will that they punish us unjustly; for it is not Gods ruling and approving will (called voluntas signi) that they should against the law of God and man kill us, and persecute us, and therefore neither