Lex, rex: the law and the prince, a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people, containing the reasons and causes of the defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland, and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their brethren of England. In which a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet, intituled, Sacro-sancta regum majestas, penned by J. Maxwell. By S. Rutherford. [Followed by] De jure regni apud Scotos; a dialogue, tr. by R. Macfarlan (repr. from the ed. of 1799). |
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Page iii
... authority - even when that authority so called has , in point of fact , set at nought all law - is in no instance to be vindicated , will be held by those only who are the devotees of arbitrary power and passive obedience . The ...
... authority - even when that authority so called has , in point of fact , set at nought all law - is in no instance to be vindicated , will be held by those only who are the devotees of arbitrary power and passive obedience . The ...
Page xvi
... authority to the furtherance of that end . The Presbyterians who would not conform to the discipline of church ... authority to show that he was not inducted by Episcopal ordination . Being firmly attached to the Presbyterian form of ...
... authority to the furtherance of that end . The Presbyterians who would not conform to the discipline of church ... authority to show that he was not inducted by Episcopal ordination . Being firmly attached to the Presbyterian form of ...
Page xviii
... " 4to . , Oxford , 1644. This work endeavours to prove , that the royal prerogative of kingly authority is derived alone from God ; and it demands an absolute and passive obedience of the subject to xviii SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF.
... " 4to . , Oxford , 1644. This work endeavours to prove , that the royal prerogative of kingly authority is derived alone from God ; and it demands an absolute and passive obedience of the subject to xviii SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF.
Page xxiv
... authority only for sin , never for the power and office . These on the contrary side were men of another stamp , who minded earth- ly things , whose God was the world . 2. All the forged inconsistency betwixt presbyteries and mo ...
... authority only for sin , never for the power and office . These on the contrary side were men of another stamp , who minded earth- ly things , whose God was the world . 2. All the forged inconsistency betwixt presbyteries and mo ...
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... authority . " But I take the word , " every creature of man , " to be put emphatically , to commend the worth of obedience to magistrates , though but men , when we do it for the Lord's sake ; there- fore Betrandus Cardinalis Ednensis ...
... authority . " But I take the word , " every creature of man , " to be put emphatically , to commend the worth of obedience to magistrates , though but men , when we do it for the Lord's sake ; there- fore Betrandus Cardinalis Ednensis ...
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Page 188 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Page 74 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 3 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the GOD "of Israel, Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
Page 55 - Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way...
Page 181 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 163 - ... so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
Page 54 - So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD : and they anointed David king over Israel.
Page 37 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Page 54 - And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
Page 138 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked ? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat ? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.