A57975:865
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Nor can we think that resistance to a King in holding his hands can be natural, if he be stronger, it is not a natural mean of self-preservation: Nature hath appointed innocent and offending violence, against unjust violence, as a means of self-preservation. Goliaths sword is no natural means to hold Sauls hands, for a sword hath no fingers; and if Saul, 1. suddenly, 2. without colour of Law or reason, 3. inevitably should make personal invasion on David to kill him; Dr. Ferne saith he may resist, but resisting is essentially ⟨p. 325⟩a reaction of violence; show us Scripture or reason for violent holding a Kings hands in an unjust personal invasion, without any other reaction of offence: Walter Torrils killed King W. Rufus, as he was shooting at a Deere; the Earle of Suffolk killed Henry the 8. at Tilting; there is no treasonable intention here, and so no homicide: Defensive wars are offensive, ex eventu & effectu, not ex causa, or ex intentione.
1Nor can we think that resistance to a King in holding his hands can be naturall, if he be stronger, it is not a naturall meane of selfe-preservation: Nature hath appoynted innocent and offending violence, against unjust violence, as a meanes of selfe-preservation. Goliahs sword is no naturall meanes to hold Sauls hands, for a sword hath no fingers; and if Saul, 1. suddainly, 2. without colour of Law or reason, 3. inevitably should make personall invasion on David to kill him; Dr. Ferne saith he may resist, but resisting is essentially ⟨p. 325⟩a reaction of violence; shew us Scripture or reason for violent holding a Kings hands in an unjust personall invasion, without any other reaction of offence: Walter Torrils killed King W. Rufus, as he was shooting at a Deere; the Earle of Suffolk killed Henrie the 8. at Tilting; there is no treasonable intention here, and so no homicide: Defensive wars are offensive, ex eventu & effectu, not ex causa, or ex intentione.
- 1There […] holding of an a[…]es hands, […] warding of strokes, but by offensive wars conjoined by accident with defensive wars.