Lex, Rex, Question XXX -NRA

abstract: The place, 1 Pet. ii.18, discussed.—Patient bearing of injuries and resistance of injuries compatible in one and the same subject.—Christ's non-resistance hath many things rare and extraordinary, and is no leading rule to us.—Suffering is either commanded to us comparatively only, that we rather choose to suffer than deny the truth; or the manner only is commanded, that we suffer with patience.—The physical act of taking away the life, or of offending when commanded by the law of self-defence, is no murder.—We have a greater dominion over goods and members, (except in case of mutilation, which is a little death,) than over our life.—To kill is not of the nature of self-defence, but accidental thereunto.—Defensive war cannot be without offending.—The nature of defensive and offensive wars.—Flying is resistance.

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Lex, Rex, Question XXX

by Rev. Samuel Rutherford

Whether or no passive obedience be a mean to which we are subjected in conscience, by virtue of a divine commandment; and what a mean resistance is. That flying is resistance.