A57975:955
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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Answ. I deny the consequence. Those who resist the Kings ⟨p. 362⟩personal will, and will not suffer him to ruin his Crown and posterity in following Papists, against his Oath at the Coronation, do honour him and his Throne and Race as a King, though for the time they displease him. 2. Uzziah was not dishonoured in that he was resisted. 3. Nor do we honour the King, when we flee from him and his Law. Yet that resistance is lawful, according to the way of Royalists; and in truth also.
Answ. I deny the consequence. Those who resist the Kings ⟨p. 362⟩personall will, and will not suffer him to ruine his Crowne and posterity in following Papists, against his Oath at the Coronation, do honour him and his Throne and Race as a King, though for the time they displease him. 2. Vzz•ah was not dishonoured in that he was resisted. 3. Nor doe we honour the King, when we flee from him and his Law. Yet that resistance is lawfull, according to the way of Royalists; and in truth also.
Object. 12. Supreme power is not to be resisted by subordinate powers, because they are inferior to the supreme.
Object. 12. Supreme power is not to be resisted by subordinate powers, because they are inferiour to the supreme.
Answ. The bloody Irish Rebels then being inferior to the Parliament, cannot resist the Parliament. 2. Inferior Judges as Judges are immediately subordinate to God as the King, and must be guilty of blood before God, if they use not the sword against bloody Cavaliers, and Irish cut-throats, except you say, inferior Judges are not obliged to execute judgement, but at the Kings commandment.