A short treatise of politike power, and of the true obedience which subjects owe to kings and other civill governours. Chap. I. Whereof politike power groweth, wherefore it was ordained, and the right use and duty of the same. Chap. II. Whether kings, princes, and other governours have an a\ute power and authority over their subjects. Chap. III. Whether kings, princes, and other politike governours be subject to Gods laws, and the positive laws of their countries. Chap. IV. In what things, and how farre subjects are bound to obey their princes and governours. Chap. V. Whether all the subjects goods be the emperours or kings own, and that they may lawfully take them as their own. Chap. VI. Whether it be lawfull to depose an evill governour, and kill a tyrant. Chap. VII. What confidence is to be given to princes and potentates. Composed by me D. I.P. B. R. W.
Ponet, John,1516?-1556.
[Paris? : s.n.],
Printed in the year 1556. and now reprinted 1639.
D. I.P. B. R. W. = Dominus John Ponet, Bishop of Rochester and Winchester.
Place of publication conjectured by STC.
This edition omits the exhortation.
Signatures: A-H⁴ I².
STC (2nd ed.)
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Government, Resistance to
Sovereignty
France Paris.