A57975:943
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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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.
Ans. 1. The word Elohim signifieth all judges, and [Greek or Hebrew], nasi signifieth one lifted up above the people, saith Rivetus in loc. whether a monarch, or many rulers. All cursing of any is unlawful, even of a private man, Rom. 12.14. Ergo we may not resist a private man by this: the other text readeth, contemn not the King. [Greek or Hebrew] in scientiâ tuâ. Aria. Mon. or in thy conscience or thought: and it may prove resisting any rich man to be unlawful. Nothing in word or deed tending to the dishonour of the King may be done, now to resist him in self-defence, being a commandment of God in the law of nature cannot fight with another commandment to honour the King, no more then the fifth commandment can fight with the sixth, for all resistance is against the judge, as a man exceeding the limits of his office, in that, wherein he is resisted, not as a judge.
Ans. 1. The word Elohim signifieth all judges, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, nasi signifieth one lifted up above the people, saith Rivetus in loc. whether a monarch, or many rulers. All cursing of any is unlawfull, even of a private man, Rom. 12.14. Ergo we may not resist a private man by this: the other text readeth, contemne not the King. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in scientiâ tuâ. Aria. Mon. or in thy conscience or thought: and it may prove resisting any rich man to be unlawfull. Nothing in word or deed tending to the dishonour of the King may be done, now to resist him in self-defence, being a commandment of God in the law of nature cannot fight with another commandment to honour the King, no more then the fift commandement can fight with the six•h, for all resistance is against the judge, as a man exce•ding the limits of his office, in that, wherein he is resisted, not as a judge.
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