A57975:904
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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D. Ferne, as Arnisaeus did before him, saith,1 The example of David was extraordinary, because he was anointed and designed by God as successor to Saul, and so he must use an extraordinary way of guarding himself. Arnisaeus citeth Alberic. Gentilis, that David was now exempted from amongst the number of Subjects.
D. Ferne, as Arnisaeus did before him, saith,1 The example of David was extraordinary, because he was anointed and designed by God as successor to Saul, and so he must use an extraordinary way of guarding himselfe. Arnisaeus citeth Alberic. Gentilis, that David was now exempted from amongst the number of Subjects.
- 1D. Ferne his resolving of conscience. Sect. •. Arnisaeus de authorit. princ. c. 2. n. 15. Davids example not extraordinary.D. Ferne his resolving of consc•ence. Sect. •. Arnisaeus de authorit. princ. c. 2. n. 15. Davids example not extraord•nary.
Answ. There were not two Kings in Israel now, both David and Saul. 2. David acknowledgeth his subjection in naming Saul the Lords Anointed, & his Master, Lord & King; and therefore David was yet a subject. 3. If David would have proved his title to the Crown by extraordinary ways, he who killed Goliath extraordinarily, might have killed Saul by a miracle; but David goeth a most ordinary way to work, for self-defence, and his coming to the Kingdom was through persecution, want, eating show-bread in case of necessity, defending himself with Goliaths sword. 4. How was any thing extraordinary, and above a Law, seeing David might have killed his enemy Saul, and according to Gods Law he spared him? and he argueth from a moral duty, he is the Lords anointed, therefore I will not kill him? was this extraordinary above a law? then according to Gods law he might