Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

The divine politicks

Authors

• Lawson, George, d. 1678

Other related names

• Humphrey, William, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 206
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486432
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486432

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1699?

Place

England

Summary

Theological treatise on divine governance, first published in 1659 under the title Theo-politica, or, A body of divinity containing the rules of the special government of God, according to which, he orders the immortal and intellectual creatures, angels, and men, to their final and eternal estate : being a method of those saving truths, which are contained in the Canon of the Holy Scripture, and abridged in those words of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which were the ground and foundation of those apostolical creeds and forms of confessions, related by the ancients, and, in particular, by Irenaeus, and Tertullian. Text divided into 2 books: the first book, on the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, consists of 16 chapters (f. 1-79); the second book, titled "The 2 booke concerning ye gover[n]m[en]t of God redeemer" consists of 24 chapters (f. 81-336), and includes chapters on each of the ten commandments.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: The divine politicks informe us of the kingdome of God and of his power, and how it is acquired, how exercised both in ye constitutio[n] and ye administration[n] of his governm[en]t ... (f. 3r).
   

Extent

341 leaves : 186 x 152 (155 x 100) mm. bound to 202 x 153 mm

Foliation

Paper, 341; [iii], [1-336], [ii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Signatures numbered 1-84 in a contemporary hand, upper outer corner. First signature misbound, text begins on f. 3.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf. Cover worn and cracked, flaking from spine, a number of signatures are detached at the beginning.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, with some portions of text crossed out and corrected.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by William Humphri [Humphrey?] (signature, f. i recto).
   
• Anonymous gift, 1914.
   

Subjects topical

• Kingdom of God--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

  This description is ©2015 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

  All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/