A57975:971
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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2. Elijah did not only flee, but denounced wrath against the King, and Cavaliers, who joined with them in Idolatry, and when God gave opportunity, he showed himself, and stirred the people up to kill Baals Jesuits and seducing idolaters, when the Idolatrous King refu•ed to do it, and Elijah with his own hand took them not, but all Israel being gathered together, 1 King. 18.19. The Princes and Judges did apprehend them, ver. 40. which is a warrant, when the King refuseth to draw the sword of justice against armed Papists, that other judges are to do it. 2. For Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah from the Lord, expressly forbade to fight against him, show us the like for no defending our selves against bloody Papists and Irish cut-throats: for that example may as well prove (if it be a binding law to us) that our King should not raise his Subjects, to fight against a Spanish Armada, and a foreign Pri•ce; for before ever Nebuchadnezzar subdued the Kingdom of Judah Jer. 27.1. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, ver. 12, 13, 14. chap. 36. chap. 37. the King of Judah is from the Lord commanded, not to draw a sword against the King of Babylon; I hope this will not tie us, and our King, not to fight against foreign Princes, or against the great Turk, if they shall injustly invade us and our King, and this example ⟨p. 366⟩is against the Kings resisting of a foreign Prince unjustly invading him, as much, as against us, for Nebuchadnezzar was a Tyrannous invader, and the King of Judah the Lords Anointed. 3. The people also conspired with Manasseh, as with Ahab, Jer. 15.4. 4 Of Emperors persecuting Christians we shall hear anon. 5. Deut. 13. None are excepted, by a synecdoche, the dearest are expressed, son, daughter, brother, the friend that is as thine own soul. Ergo, fathers also. And husbands are to love their lives. Ephes. 5.25. Yet to execute judgement on them, without pity,