A57975:935
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. He is as essentially a King, as a hereditary, yea as an absolute Prince, and no less the Lords anointed then another prince, if then one, also another may be resisted.
Ans. He is as essentially a King, as a hereditary, yea as an absolute Prince, and no lesse the Lords annoynted then another prince, if then one, also another may be resisted.
Obj. 4. The oath of God bindeth the subjects. Ergo, they must obey, not resist.
Ans. Obedience and resistance are very consistent. 2. No doubt the people gave their oath to Athaliah, but to her as the only heir of the crown, they not knowing, that Joash the lawful heir was living, so may conditional oaths (all of this kind are conditional) in which there is interpretative and virtual ignorance, be broken, as the people swear loyalty to such a man conceived to be a father, he after that turneth Tyrant, may they not resist his Tyranny? they may. Also no doubt Israel gave their oath of loyalty to Jabin, (for when Nebuchadnezzar subdued Judah he took an oath of loyalty of their King.) Yet many of Zebulun, Naphtali, and Issachar, Barack leading them, conspired against Jabin.
Ans. Obedience and resistance are very consistent. 2. No doubt the people gave their oath to Athaliah, but to her as the onely heir of the crown, they not knowing, that Ioash the lawfull heir was liveing, so may conditionall oaths (all of this kinde are conditionall) in which there is interpretative and virtuall ignorance, be broken, as the peopl• swear loyalty to such a man conceived to be a father, he after that turneth Tyrant, may they not resist his Tyranny? they may. Also no doubt Israel gave their oath of loyalty to Iabin, (for when Nebuchadnezer subdued Iudah he took an oath of loyalty of their King.) Yet many of Zabulon, Nepthali, and Isachar, Barack leading them, conspired against Iabin.