The true difference betweene Christian subiection and unchristian rebellion : wherein the princes lawful power to command for truth, and indepriueable right to beare the sword, are defended against the Popes censures and the Iesuits sophismes, vttered in their apologie and defence of English Catholikes ; with a demonstration that the things reformed in the Church of England by the lawes of this realme are truly Catholike..
A 1586 London polemical treatise by the churchman Thomas Bilson, printed by John Jackson and Edmund Bollifant, addressed to English readers on the question of Catholic allegiance to the crown and the Church of England. The pictures are small woodcut decorations: a large initial T with serpent-like scrolls, a band of interlaced arabesque strapwork, and a decorated initial I of foliate scrolls, all in a sober Elizabethan printer's style a designer could adapt for borders, drop caps, and period-styled headers.








