A57975:969
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. It is a gr•at non-cons•quence; this duty is not practised by any examples in Gods word. Ergo. It is no duty. Practice in Scripture is a narrow rule of faith:1 Show a practice when a husband stoned his wife, because she enticed him to follow strange Gods. Yet it is commanded, Deut. 13.6. when a man lying with a beast is put to death: Yet it is a Law, Exod. 22.19. infinite more Laws are, the practise of which we find not in Scripture. 2. Jehu and the Elders of Israel rooted out Ahab's posterity for their Idolatry; and if Jehu out of sincerity, and for the zeal of God, had done what God commanded, he should have been rewarded: for say that it was extraordinary to Jehu, that he should kill Ahab, yet there was an express Law for it, that he that stirreth up others to Idolatry should die the death, Deut. 13.6. and there is no exception of King, or Father in the Law, and to except father or mother in Gods matters, is expressly against the zeal of God, Deut. 33.9. And many grave Divines think the people to be commended in making Jehu King, and in killing King Nabad, and smiting all the house of Jeroboam for his Idolatry; they did that which was a part of their ordinary duty, according to Gods express Law, Deut. 13.6, 7, 8, 9. though the facts of these men be extraordinary. 3. Ahab and Jezebel •ais•d not an Army of Idolaters, Malignants, such as are Papists, Prelates, and Cavaliers, against the three Estates, to destroy Parliaments, Laws and Religion, and the people conspired with Ahab in the persecution and Idolatry, to forsake the Covenant throw down the Altars of God, and slay his Prophets, so as in the estimation ⟨p. 365⟩of Elijah,