An exercitation concerning vsvrped powers wherein the difference betwixt civil authority and vsurpation is stated
Subtitle: That the obedience due to lawfull magistrates, is not owing, or payable, to usurped powers, is maintained. The obligation of oaths, and other sanctions to the former, notwithstanding the antipolitie of the latter is asserted. And the arguments urged on the contrary part in divers late printed discourses are answered. Being modestly, and inoffensively managed. By one studious of truth and peace both in church and state ...
Published: 1649
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Notes: Pages 2, 7, 28 misnumbered 7, 2, 18.

This ed. received by Thomason 18 Dec. 1649.

Two other editions dated 1650 may be identified by title arrangement and imprint; in one the 8th line of title ends "magistrates, is" and the 4th word of imprint is "yeer"; in the other the 8th line of title ends "magistrates," and the 4th word of imprint is "year".

Sometimes wrongly ascribed to Richard Hollinworth or Charles Herle; see the D.N.B.

Occasioned chiefly by Parliament's imposing the commonwealth oath of allegiance (the Engagement) on English subjects.