A57975:984
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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But they deserve rather an answer which Grotius, Barclay, Arnisaeus, and Spalato allege, as
But they deserve rather an answer which Grotius, Barclay, Arnisaeus, and Spalato alledge, as
Obj. 1. Cyprian Epist. 1. Non est fas Christianis, armis, ac vi tueri s• adversus impetum persecutorum, Christians cannot by violence defend themselves against persecutors.
Answ. If these words be pressed literally, it were not lawful to defend our self against murderers; but Cyprian is expressly condemning in that place, the seditious tumults of people against the lawful Magistrate.
Answ. If these words be pressed literally, it were not lawfull to defend our selfe against murtherers; but Cyprian is expresly condemning in that place, the seditious tumults of people against the lawfull Magistrate.
Obj. 2. The Ancients say he was justly punished who did rend and tear the Edict of Diocletian and Maximinus, Euseb. l. 7. Hist. Eccles. c. 5