A shorte treatise of politike pouuer and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D. I.P. B. R. VV.
- Title
- A shorte treatise of politike pouuer and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D. I.P. B. R. VV.
- Author
- Ponet, John, 1516?-1556.
- Publication
- [Strasbourg :: Printed by the heirs of W. Köpfel],
- 1556.
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- Subject terms
- Government, Resistance to -- Early works to 1800.
- Sovereignty -- Early works to 1800.
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"A shorte treatise of politike pouuer and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D. I.P. B. R. VV." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09916.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- TO THE GENTIL READER.
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VVHEROF POLITIKE povver grovveth, vverfore it vvas
or∣dayned, and the right use and duetie of the same: &c. - VVHETHER KINGES princes, and other gouernours haue an obsolute power and authoritie ouer their subiectes.
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VVHETHER KINGES, princes, and other politike
Gouer∣nours be subiecte to Goddes lawes, and the positiue lawes of theyr countreyes. -
IN WHAT THINGES, AND how farre subiectes are bounden
to obeie their princes and gouernours. -
WHETHER ALL THE SVB∣iectes goodes be the Kaysers and
kin∣ges owne, and that they maie laufully take them as their owne? -
VVETHER IT BE laufull to depose an euil
gouer∣nour, and kill a ty∣ranne. -
VVHAT CONFIDEN∣ce is to be geuen to princes and
potentates. -
AN EXHORTACION or rather a warnyng to the Lordes
and Commones of Eng∣lande.