And then let our author, or any body else, join a knock on the head, or a cut on the face, with as much reverence and respect as he thinks fit.

He that can reconcile blows and reverence, may, for aught I know, desire for his pains, a civil, respectful cudgeling where-ever he can meet with it.
Secondly, As to his second, An inferior cannot punish a superior; that is true, generally speaking, whilst he is his superior.

But to resist force with force, being the state of war that levels the parties, cancels all former relation of reverence, respect, and superiority: and then the odds that remains, is, that he, who opposes the unjust agressor, has this superiority over him, that he has a right, when he prevails, to punish the offender, both for the breach of the peace, and all the evils that followed upon it.

Barclay therefore, in another place, more coherently to himself, denies it to be lawful to resist a king in any case.

But he there assigns two cases, whereby a king may un-king himself.