Whatever right Hampden had to defend his life against the King in battle, Cromwell and Ireton had in yet more imminent danger against the King's plotting.

Milton's reasoning on this point is unanswerable: and what a wretched hand does Baxter make of it! Ib.p.

375.
But if the laws of the land appoint the nobles, as next the King, to assist him in doing right, and withhold him from doing wrong, then be they licensed by man's law, and so not prohibited by God's, to interpose themselves for the safety of equity and innocency, and by all lawful and needful means to procure the Prince to be reformed, but in no case deprived, where the sceptre is inherited! So far Bishop Bilson.
Excellent! O, by all means preserve for him the benefit of his rightful heir-loom, the regal sceptre; only lay it about his shoulders, till he promises to handle it, as he ought! But what if he breaks his promise and your head?
or what if he will not promise?
How much honester would it be to say, that extreme cases are 'ipso nomine' not generalizable, -- therefore not the subjects of a law, which is the conclusion 'per genus singuli in genere inclusi'.

Every extreme case must be judged by and for itself under all the peculiar circumstances.

Now as these are not foreknowable, the case itself cannot be predeterminable.