A57975:930
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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Obj. 1. Arnisaeus de authorit princ•p. c. 2. num. 2. If we are to obey our parents, not if they be good, 1but simply whether they be good or ill (so Just. saith of the King, Quamvis legum contemptor, quamvis impius, tamen pater §. si vero in ff. vos. 12.) then must we submit to wicked Kings.
Obj. 1. Arnisaeus de authorit princ•p. c. 2. num. 2. If we are to obey our parents, not if they be good, 1but simply whether they be good or ill (so Iust. saith of the King, Quamvis legum contemptor, quamvis impius, tamen pater §. si vero in ff. vos. 12.) then must we submit to wicked Kings.
- 1Reasons against the lawfulness of resistance made to unjust violence, answered.Reasons against the lawfulnesse of resistance made to unjust violence, answered.
Ans. Valeat totum, we are to submit to wicked Kings, & wicked parents, because Kings, and parents: but when it cometh to actual submission, we are to submit to neither but in the Lord; the question is not touching subjection to a Prince, let him be Nero, but if in acts of Tyranny we may not deny subjection: there be great odds betwixt wicked rulers, and rulers commanding or punishing unjustly.
Ans. Valeat totum, we are to submit to wicked Kings, & wicked parents, because Kings, and parents: but when it cometh to actuall submission, we are to submit to neither but in the Lord; the question is not touching subjection to a Prince, let him be Nero, but if in acts of Tyranny we may not deny subjection: there be great odds betwixt wicked rulers, and rulers commanding or punishing unjustly.