Preface

Editor's introduction

A note on the text

Bibliographical guide

Principal dates

Epistle to the reader

Dedicatory poem

The arguments of the several chapters

1. Of government in general, and the original thereof

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

3. Of an ecclesiastical community

4. Of a commonwealth in general, and power civil

5. Of the manner how civil power is acquired

6. Of power ecclesiastical

7. Of the manner of acquiring ecclesiastical power

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Of the extent of a particular church

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

16. Of subjects in an ecclesiastical polity

Biographical notes

Index.