Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Editor's introduction

pp ix-xxviii

A note on the text

pp xxix-xxxi

Bibliographical guide

pp xxxii-xxxiv

Biographical notes

pp xxxv-xlviii

Principal dates

pp xlix-lii

Politica Sacra et Civilis

pp 1-2

Epistle to the reader

pp 3-5

Dedicatory poem

pp 6-7

The arguments of the several chapters

pp 8-14

1 - Of government in general, and the original thereof

pp 15-21

2 - Of government in general, and of a community civil

pp 21-30

3 - Of an ecclesiastical community

pp 30-40

4 - Of a commonwealth in general, and power civil

pp 41-57

5 - Of the manner how civil power is acquired

pp 57-76

6 - Of power ecclesiastical

pp 76-85

7 - Of the manner of acquiring ecclesiastical power

pp 85-88

8 - Of the disposition of power civil, and the several forms of government

pp 88-125

9 - Of the disposition of ecclesiastical power: and first, whether it be due unto the bishop of Rome

pp 126-130

10 - Whether the civil state have any good title to the Power of the Keys

pp 131-136

11 - Whether episcopacy be the primary subject of the Power of the Keys

pp 137-151

12 - Whether presbytery or presbyters be the primary subject of the Power of the Keys

pp 152-163

13 - That the government of the church is not purely democratical, but like that of a free state, wherein the power is in the whole, not in any part, which is the author's judgement

pp 163-188

14 - Of the extent of a particular church

pp 189-218

15 - Of subjection in general, and the subjects of a civil state

pp 218-251

16 - Of subjects in an ecclesiastical polity

pp 252-275

Index

pp 276-283

Title in the series

pp 284-284