Political aphorisms: . or, The true maxims of government displayed. Wherein is likewise proved, that paternal authority is no absolute authority, and that Adam had no such authority. That there neither is or can be any absolute government de jure, and that all such pretended government is void. That the children of Israel did often resist their evil princes without any appointment or foretelling thereof by God in scripture. That the primitive Christians did often resist their tyrannical emperors, and that Bishop Athanasius did approve of resistance. That the Protestants in all ages did resist their evil and destructive princes. Together with a historical account of the depriving of kings for their evil government, in Israel, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, and in England before and since the conquest. By way of challenge to Dr. William Sherlock, and ten other new dissenters, and recommended as proper to be read by all Protestant Jacobites.
Daniel Defoe (c.1660 - 1731)
Category
Books
Date
1690
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3054261
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],31,[1]p. . 4to.. With MS list of volume contents (seventeenth-century), with 2 titles added later but not present. Folio numbers added in ink through whole volume.. Provenance: Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 33. Binding: Calf (seventeenth-century) Double border rules, and off-centre vertical decorative roll. Spine gilt; spine-label: Tracts 8, loose inside. Front board detached; in conservation card wrapper.
Makers and roles
Daniel Defoe (c.1660 - 1731) Robert Ferguson (d.1717) T. Harrison (1683-1711) John Locke (1632 – 1704)