A57975:887
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 King sent first an Army to Scotland, and blocked us up by sea, before we took Arms. 2. Papists were armed in England, they have professed themselves in their Religion of Trent to •e so much the holier,1 that they root out Protestants. 3. The King declared we had broken loyalty to him, since the last Parliament. 4. He declared both Kingdoms Rebels. 5. Attempted in his Emissaries to destroy the Parliament. 6. And to bring in a foreign enemy. And the Law saith, An imminent danger, which is a sufficient warrant to take up Arms, is not strokes, but either the terror of Armour, or threatening. Glossator. in d. l. 1. C. Unde vi. ait non esse verbera expectanda, sed vel terrorem armorum sufficere, vel minas, & hoc esse imminens periculum. L. Sed & si quemcunque in princ. ff. ad leg. Aquil. l. 3. quod qui armati ff. de vi & vi armata is qui aggressorem. C. ad legem C. ad legem Corneli.
Ans. The King sent first an Armie to Scotland, and blocked us up by sea, before we took Armes. 2. Papists were armed in England, they have professed themselves in their Religion of Trent to •e so much the holyer,1 that they root out Protestants. 3. The King declared we had broken loyalty to him, since the last Parliament. 4. He d•clared both Kingdoms Rebels. 5. Attempted in his Emissaries to destroy the Parliament. 6. And to bring in a forraigne enemie. And the Law saith, An imminent danger, which is a sufficient warrant to take up Armes, is not strokes, but either the terrour of Armour, or threatning. Glossator. in d. l. 1. C. Vnde vi. ait non esse verbera expectanda, sed vel terrorem armorum sufficere, vel minas, & hoc esse imminens periculum. L. Sed & si quemcunque in princ. ff. ad leg. Aquil. l. 3. quod qui armati ff. de vi & vi armata is qui aggressorem. C. ad legem C. ad legem Corneli.
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