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BILSON, THOMAS. The True Difference betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion. [24], 820, [9] pages. Partly printed in black letter. 4to, contemporary calf blind-tooled to panel design, spine heavily worn, missing portions from top and bottom, covers rubbed; light marginal dampstaining through most of volume, scattered marginal ink blots and early marginalia, title soiled with stains and old inscriptions, 19th-century newspaper cutting on verso, front free endpaper lacking. Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1585
first edition of a treatise on civil and sacred authority in the form of a dialogue between a Catholic and an Anglican. "Bilson rejected both the pope's deposing power and the election of church ministers while supporting the political resistance of protestants on the continent" (ODNB). STC 3071.
