A57975:958
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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Object. As the Irish Rebels are armed with the Kings power, they are superior to the Parliament.
Object. As the Irish Rebels are armed with the Kings power, they are superiour to the Parliament.
Answ. So an Army of Turks and Spaniards, armed with the Kings power, and coming against the two Kingdoms, at the Kings commandment, though they be but Lictors in a lawless cause, are superior to the highest Courts of Parliament in the two Kingdoms. But the King and the Law gave power to the Parliament, first to resist Rebels; now he giveth power to Rebels to resist the Parliament: here must be contradictory wills, and contradictory powers in the King; Which of them is the Kings will, and his power? the former is legal and Parliamentary; Then, because Law is not contrary to Law, the latter cannot be legal also, nor can it be from God; and to resist it then is not to resist God.
Answ. So an Armie of Turks and Spaniards, armed with the Kings power, and comming against the two Kingdomes, at the Kings commandement, though they be but Lictors in a lawlesse cause, are superiour to the highest Courts of Parliament in the two Kingdomes. But the King and the Law gave power to the Parliament, first to resist Rebels; now he giveth power to Rebels to resist the Parliament: here must be contradictory wils, and contradictory powers in the King; Which of them is the Kings will, and his power? the former is legall and Parliamentary; Then, because Law is not contrary to Law, the latter cannot be legall also, nor can it be from God; and to resist it then is not to resist God.
Object. 13. If resistance be restrained to legal commandments, What shall we say to these arguments, that Paul forbiddeth resistance under these tyrannous governors, and that from the end of their government, which is for good, and which their subjects did in some sort enjoy under them?