Lex Rex: Whether or Not the Lawfulness of Defensive Wars has its Warrant in God's Word

Lex Rex [Law Is King, or The Law & The Prince] (1644)Samuel Rutherford

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Whether or Not the Lawfulness of Defensive Wars has its Warrant in God's Word, from the Example of David, Elisha, the Eighty Priests Who Resisted Uzziah, Etc.NOTES
   1. Vatab. — Deturbarunt eum ex illo loco, compulsusque ut egrederetur, in not. Festinanter egredi eum coegeruat, hoc est, extruserunt eum.
   2. Chald. Par. — Manifestum est quod Jonathan peccavit per ignorantiam.
   3. P. Mart. says with a doubt. Si ista seditiose fecerunt — nullo modo excusam possunt. Yea, he says they might suffragiis, with their suffrages free him.
   4. P. Mar. Com. in 2 Reg. c. 8, says Libnah revolted, Quia subditos nitebatur cogere ad idololatriam, quod ipsi libnenses pati noluernnt et merito: principibus enim parendum est, verum usque ad aras.
   5. Vatab. in not. — Impulit Judaeos ad idololatriam, alioqui jam pronos ad cultum idololorum.