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ContentsTHE INTRODUCTIONPART I. OF MANCHAPTER I. OF SENSECHAPTER II. OF IMAGINATIONMemoryDreamsApparitions Or VisionsUnderstandingCHAPTER III. OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAYNE OF IMAGINATIONSTrayne Of Thoughts UnguidedTrayne Of Thoughts RegulatedRemembrancePrudenceSignesConjecture Of The Time PastCHAPTER IV. OF SPEECHOriginall Of SpeechThe Use Of SpeechAbuses Of SpeechNames Proper & Common UniversallSubject To NamesUse Of Names PositiveNegative Names With Their UsesWords InsignificantUnderstandingInconstant NamesCHAPTER V. OF REASON, AND SCIENCE.Reason What It IsReason DefinedRight Reason WhereThe Use Of ReasonOf Error And AbsurdityCauses Of AbsurditieSciencePrudence & Sapience, With Their DifferenceSignes Of ScienceCHAPTER VI. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS COMMONLY CALLED THE PASSIONS, AND THE SPEECHES BY WHICH THEY ARE EXPRESSED.Motion Vitall And AnimalEndeavour; Appetite; Desire; Hunger; Thirst; AversionContemptGood EvillPulchrum Turpe; Delightfull Profitable; Unpleasant UnprofitableDelight DispleasurePleasure OffencePleasures Of Sense; Pleasures Of The Mind; Joy Paine GriefeThe WillFormes Of Speech, In PassionGood And Evill ApparentFelicityPraise MagnificationCHAPTER VII. OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSEJudgement, or Sentence Final; DoubtScience Opinion ConscienceBeliefe FaithCHAPTER VIII. OF THE VERTUES COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUAL, AND THEIR CONTRARY DEFECTSIntellectuall Vertue DefinedWit, Naturall, Or AcquiredGood Wit, Or Fancy; Good Judgement; DiscretionPrudenceCraftAcquired WitGiddinesse MadnesseRageMelancholyInsignificant SpeechCHAPTER IX. OF THE SEVERALL SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGECHAPTER X. OF POWER, WORTH, DIGNITY, HONOUR AND WORTHINESSPowerWorthDignityTo Honour and DishonourTitles of HonourWorthinesse FitnesseCHAPTER XI. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERSWhat Is Here Meant By MannersA Restlesse Desire Of Power, In All MenLove Of Contention From CompetitionCivil Obedience From Love Of EaseFrom Feare Of Death Or WoundsAnd From Love Of ArtsLove Of Vertue, From Love Of PraiseHate, From Difficulty Of Requiting Great BenefitsAnd From Conscience Of Deserving To Be HatedPromptnesse To Hurt, From FearAnd From Distrust Of Their Own WitVain Undertaking From Vain-gloryAmbition, From Opinion Of SufficiencyIrresolution, From Too Great Valuing Of Small MattersAnd From The Ignorance Of Naturall CausesAnd From Want Of UnderstandingCredulity From Ignorance Of NatureCuriosity To Know, From Care Of Future TimeNaturall Religion, From The SameCHAPTER XII. OF RELIGIONReligion, In Man OnelyFirst, From His Desire Of Knowing CausesFrom The Consideration Of The Beginning Of ThingsFrom His Observation Of The Sequell Of ThingsWhich Makes Them Fear The Power Of Invisible ThingsAnd Suppose Them IncorporeallBut Know Not The Way How They Effect AnythingBut Honour Them As They Honour MenAnd Attribute To Them All Extraordinary EventsFoure Things, Naturall Seeds Of ReligionMade Different By CultureThe Absurd Opinion Of GentilismeThe Causes Of Change In ReligionInjoyning Beleefe Of ImpossibilitiesDoing Contrary To The Religion They EstablishWant Of The Testimony Of MiraclesCHAPTER XIII. OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND, AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERYFrom Equality Proceeds DiffidenceFrom Diffidence WarreOut Of Civil States,The Incommodities Of Such A WarIn Such A Warre, Nothing Is UnjustThe Passions That Incline Men To PeaceCHAPTER XIV. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACTSRight Of Nature WhatLiberty WhatA Law Of Nature WhatNaturally Every Man Has Right To EverythingThe Fundamental Law Of NatureThe Second Law Of NatureWhat it is to lay down a RightRenouncing (or) Transferring Right What; Obligation Duty InjusticeNot All Rights Are AlienableContract WhatCovenant WhatFree-giftSignes Of Contract ExpresseSignes Of Contract By InferenceFree Gift Passeth By Words Of The Present Or PastMerit WhatCovenants Of Mutuall Trust, When InvalidRight To The End, Containeth Right To The MeansNo Covenant With BeastsNor With God Without Speciall RevelationNo Covenant, But Of Possible And FutureCovenants How Made VoydCovenants Extorted By Feare Are ValideThe Former Covenant To One, Makes Voyd The Later To AnotherA Mans Covenant Not To Defend Himselfe, Is VoydNo Man Obliged To Accuse HimselfeThe End Of An Oath; The Forme Of As OathNo Oath, But By GodAn Oath Addes Nothing To The ObligationCHAPTER XV. OF OTHER LAWES OF NATUREThe Third Law Of Nature, JusticeJustice And Injustice WhatJustice Not Contrary To ReasonCovenants Not Discharged By The Vice Of The Person To Whom MadeJustice Of Men, And Justice Of Actions WhatJustice Of Manners, And Justice Of ActionsNothing Done To A Man, By His Own Consent Can Be InjuryJustice Commutative, And DistributiveThe Fourth Law Of Nature, GratitudeThe Fifth, Mutuall accommodation, or CompleasanceThe Sixth, Facility To PardonThe Seventh, That In Revenges, Men Respect Onely The Future GoodThe Eighth, Against ContumelyThe Ninth, Against PrideThe Tenth Against ArroganceThe Eleventh EquityThe Twelfth, Equall Use Of Things CommonThe Thirteenth, Of LotThe Fourteenth, Of Primogeniture, And First SeisingThe Fifteenth, Of MediatorsThe Sixteenth, Of Submission To ArbitrementThe Seventeenth, No Man Is His Own JudgeThe Eighteenth, No Man To Be Judge, That Has In Him Cause Of PartialityThe Nineteenth, Of WitnesseA Rule, By Which The Laws Of Nature May Easily Be ExaminedThe Lawes Of Nature Oblige In Conscience Alwayes,The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal;And Yet EasieThe Science Of These Lawes, Is The True Morall PhilosophyCHAPTER XVI. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATEDPerson Naturall, And ArtificiallThe Word Person, WhenceActor, Author; AuthorityCovenants By Authority, Bind The AuthorBut Not The ActorThe Authority Is To Be ShewneThings Personated, InanimateIrrationalFalse GodsThe True GodA Multitude Of Men, How One PersonEvery One Is AuthorAn Actor May Be Many Men Made One By Plurality Of VoycesRepresentatives, When The Number Is Even, UnprofitableNegative VoycePART II. OF COMMON-WEALTHCHAPTER XVII. OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A COMMON-WEALTHThe End Of Common-wealth, Particular SecurityWhich Is Not To Be Had From The Law Of Nature:Nor From The Conjunction Of A Few Men Or FamilyesNor From A Great Multitude, Unlesse Directed By One JudgementAnd That ContinuallyWhy Certain Creatures Without Reason, Or Speech,Do Neverthelesse Live In Society, Without Any Coercive PowerThe Generation Of A Common-wealthThe Definition Of A Common-wealthSoveraigne, And Subject, WhatCHAPTER XVIII. OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTIONThe Act Of Instituting A Common-wealth, WhatThe Consequences To Such Institution, Are1. The Subjects Cannot Change The Forme Of Government2. Soveraigne Power Cannot Be Forfeited3. No Man Can Without Injustice Protest Against The Institution Of The Soveraigne Declared By The Major Part.4. The Soveraigns Actions Cannot Be Justly Accused By The Subject5. What Soever The Soveraigne Doth, Is Unpunishable By The Subject6. The Soveraigne Is Judge Of What Is Necessary For The Peace And Defence Of His SubjectsAnd Judge Of What Doctrines Are Fit To Be Taught Them7. The Right of making Rules, whereby the Subject may every man know what is so his owne, as no other Subject can without injustice take it from him8. To Him Also Belongeth The Right Of All Judicature And Decision Of Controversies:9. And Of Making War, And Peace, As He Shall Think Best:10. And Of Choosing All Counsellours, And Ministers, Both Of Peace, And Warre:11. And Of Rewarding, And Punishing, And That (Where No Former Law hath Determined The Measure Of It) Arbitrary:12. And Of Honour And OrderThese Rights Are IndivisibleAnd Can By No Grant Passe Away Without Direct Renouncing Of The Soveraign PowerThe Power And Honour Of Subjects Vanisheth In The Presence Of The Power SoveraignSoveraigne Power Not Hurtfull As The Want Of It, And The Hurt Proceeds For The Greatest Part From Not Submitting Readily, To A LesseCHAPTER XIX. OF THE SEVERALL KINDS OF COMMON-WEALTH BY INSTITUTION, AND OF SUCCESSION TO THE SOVERAIGNE POWERThe Different Formes Of Common-wealths But ThreeTyranny And Oligarchy, But Different Names Of Monarchy, And AristocracySubordinate Representatives DangerousComparison Of Monarchy, With Soveraign AssemblyesOf The Right Of SuccessionSuccession Passeth By Expresse Words;Or, By Not Controlling A Custome;Or, By Presumption Of Naturall AffectionTo Dispose Of The Succession, Though To A King Of Another Nation, Not UnlawfullCHAPTER XX. OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALLWherein Different From A Common-wealth By InstitutionThe Rights Of Soveraignty The Same In BothDominion Paternall How Attained Not By Generation, But By ContractOr Education;Or Precedent Subjection Of One Of The Parents To The OtherThe Right Of Succession Followeth The Rules Of The Rights Of PossessionDespoticall Dominion, How AttainedNot By The Victory, But By The Consent Of The VanquishedDifference Between A Family And A KingdomThe Right Of Monarchy From ScriptureSoveraign Power Ought In All Common-wealths To Be AbsoluteCHAPTER XXI. OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTSLiberty WhatWhat It Is To Be FreeFeare And Liberty ConsistentLiberty And Necessity ConsistentArtificiall Bonds, Or CovenantsLiberty Of Subjects Consisteth In Liberty From CovenantsLiberty Of The Subject Consistent With Unlimited Power Of The SoveraignThe Liberty Which Writers Praise, Is The Liberty Of Soveraigns; Not Of Private MenLiberty Of The Subject How To Be MeasuredSubjects Have Liberty To Defend Their Own Bodies, Even Against Them That Lawfully Invade ThemAre Not Bound To Hurt Themselves;Nor To Warfare, Unless They Voluntarily Undertake ItThe Greatest Liberty Of Subjects, Dependeth On The Silence Of The LawIn What Cases Subjects Absolved Of Their Obedience To Their SoveraignIn Case Of CaptivityIn Case The Soveraign Cast Off The Government From Himself And HeyrsIn Case Of BanishmentIn Case The Soveraign Render Himself Subject To AnotherCHAPTER XXII. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATEThe Divers Sorts Of Systemes Of PeopleIn All Bodies Politique The Power Of The Representative Is LimitedBy Letters PatentsAnd The LawesWhen The Representative Is One Man, His Unwarranted Acts His Own OnelyWhen It Is An Assembly, It Is The Act Of Them That Assented OnelyWhen It Is An Assembly, They Onely Are Liable That Have AssentedIf The Debt Be To One Of The Assembly, The Body Onely Is ObligedProtestation Against The Decrees Of Bodies PolitiqueBodies Politique For Government Of A Province, Colony, Or TownBodies Politique For Ordering Of TradeA Bodie Politique For Counsel To Be Give To The SoveraignA Regular Private Body, Lawfull, As A FamilyPrivate Bodies Regular, But UnlawfullSystemes Irregular, Such As Are Private LeaguesSecret CabalsFeuds Of Private FamiliesFactions For GovernmentCHAPTER XXIII. OF THE PUBLIQUE MINISTERS OF SOVERAIGN POWERPublique Minister WhoMinisters For The Generall AdministrationFor Speciall Administration, As For OeconomyFor Instruction Of The PeopleFor JudicatureFor ExecutionCounsellers Without Other Employment Then To Advise Are Not Publique MinistersCHAPTER XXIV. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTHAnd The Right Of Distribution Of ThemAll Private Estates Of Land Proceed Originally From The Arbitrary Distribution Of The SoveraignPropriety Of A Subject Excludes Not The Dominion Of The Soveraign, But Onely Of Another SubjectThe Publique Is Not To Be DietedThe Places And Matter Of Traffique Depend, As Their Distribution, On Th SoveraignThe Laws Of Transferring Property Belong Also To The SoveraignMony The Bloud Of A Common-wealthThe Conduits And Way Of Mony To The Publique UseThe Children Of A Common-wealth ColoniesCHAPTER XXV. OF COUNSELLCounsell WhatDifferences Between Command And CounsellExhortation And Dehortation WhatDifferences Of Fit And Unfit CounselloursCHAPTER XXVI. OF CIVILL LAWESCivill Law whatThe Soveraign Is LegislatorAnd Not Subject To Civill LawUse, A Law Not By Vertue Of Time, But Of The Soveraigns ConsentThe Law Of Nature, And The Civill Law Contain Each OtherProvinciall Lawes Are Not Made By Custome, But By The Soveraign PowerSome Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of LawesLaw Made, If Not Also Made Known, Is No LawUnwritten Lawes Are All Of Them Lawes Of NatureNothing Is Law Where The Legislator Cannot Be KnownDifference Between Verifying And AuthorisingThe Law Verifyed By The Subordinate JudgeBy The Publique RegistersBy Letters Patent, And Publique SealeThe Interpretation Of The Law Dependeth On The Soveraign PowerAll Lawes Need InterpretationThe Authenticall Interpretation Of Law Is Not That Of WritersThe Interpreter Of The Law Is The Judge Giving Sentence Vivâ Voce In Every Particular CaseThe Sentence Of A Judge, Does Not Bind Him, Or Another Judge To Give Like Sentence In Like Cases Ever AfterThe Difference Between The Letter And Sentence Of The LawThe Abilities Required In A JudgeDivisions Of LawAnother Division Of LawDivine Positive Law How Made Known To Be LawAnother Division Of LawesA Fundamentall Law WhatDifference Between Law And RightAnd Between A Law And A CharterCHAPTER XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONSA Crime WhatWhere No Civill Law Is, There Is No CrimeIgnorance Of The Law Of Nature Excuseth No ManIgnorance Of The Civill Law Excuseth SometimesIgnorance Of The Soveraign Excuseth NotIgnorance Of The Penalty Excuseth NotPunishments Declared Before The Fact, Excuse From Greater Punishments After ItNothing Can Be Made A Crime By A Law Made After The FactFalse Principles Of Right And Wrong Causes Of CrimeFalse Teachers Mis-interpreting The Law Of Nature Secondly, by falseAnd False Inferences From True Principles, By TeachersBy Their Passions;Presumption Of RichesAnd FriendsWisedomeHatred, Lust, Ambition, Covetousnesse, Causes Of CrimeFear Sometimes Cause Of Crime, As When The Danger Is Neither Present, Nor CorporeallCrimes Not EquallTotall ExcusesExcuses Against The AuthorPresumption Of Power, AggravatethEvill Teachers, ExtenuateExamples Of Impunity, ExtenuatePraemeditation, AggravatethTacite Approbation Of The Soveraign, ExtenuatesComparison Of Crimes From Their EffectsLaesae MajestasBribery And False TestimonyDepeculationCounterfeiting AuthorityCrimes Against Private Men ComparedPublique Crimes WhatCHAPTER XXVIII. OF PUNISHMENTS, AND REWARDSThe Definition Of PunishmentRight To Punish Whence DerivedPrivate Injuries, And Revenges No PunishmentsNor Denyall Of PrefermentNor Pain Inflicted Without Publique HearingNor Pain Inflicted By Usurped PowerNor Pain Inflicted Without Respect To The Future GoodNaturall Evill Consequences, No PunishmentsHurt Inflicted, If Lesse Than The Benefit Of Transgressing, Is Not PunishmentWhere The Punishment Is Annexed To The Law, A Greater Hurt Is Not Punishment, But HostilityHurt Inflicted For A Fact Done Before The Law, No PunishmentThe Representative Of The Common-wealth UnpunishableHurt To Revolted Subjects Is Done By Right Of War, Not By Way Of PunishmentPunishments CorporallCapitallIgnominyImprisonmentExileThe Punishment Of Innocent Subjects Is Contrary To The Law Of NatureBut The Harme Done To Innocents In War, Not SoReward, Is Either Salary, Or GraceBenefits Bestowed For Fear, Are Not RewardsSalaries Certain And CasuallCHAPTER XXIX. OF THOSE THINGS THAT WEAKEN, OR TEND TO THE DISSOLUTION OF A COMMON-WEALTHWant Of Absolute PowerPrivate Judgement Of Good and EvillErroneous ConsciencePretence Of InspirationSubjecting The Soveraign Power To Civill LawesAttributing Of Absolute Propriety To The SubjectsDividing Of The Soveraign PowerImitation Of Neighbour NationsImitation Of The Greeks, And RomansMixt GovernmentWant Of MonyMonopolies And Abuses Of PublicansPopular MenExcessive Greatnesse Of A Town, Multitude Of CorporationsLiberty Of Disputing Against Soveraign PowerDissolution Of The Common-wealthCHAPTER XXX. OF THE OFFICE OF THE SOVERAIGN REPRESENTATIVEThe Procuration Of The Good Of The PeopleBy Instruction & LawesAgainst The Duty Of A Soveraign To Relinquish Any Essentiall Right of Soveraignty Or Not To See The People Taught The Grounds Of ThemObjection Of Those That Say There Are No Principles Of Reason For Absolute SoveraigntyObjection From The Incapacity Of The VulgarSubjects Are To Be Taught, Not To Affect Change Of GovernmentNor Adhere (Against The Soveraign) To Popular MenAnd To Have Dayes Set Apart To Learn Their DutyAnd To Honour Their ParentsAnd To Avoyd Doing Of Injury:And To Do All This Sincerely From The HeartThe Use Of UniversitiesEquall TaxesPublique CharityPrevention Of IdlenesseGood Lawes WhatSuch As Are NecessarySuch As Are PerspicuousPunishmentsRewardsCounselloursCommandersCHAPTER XXXI. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD BY NATUREThe Scope Of The Following ChaptersWho Are Subjects In The Kingdome Of GodA Threefold Word Of God, Reason, Revelation, ProphecySinne Not The Cause Of All AfflictionDivine LawesHonour And Worship WhatSeverall Signes Of HonourWorship Naturall And ArbitraryWorship Commanded And FreeWorship Publique And PrivateThe End Of WorshipAttributes Of Divine HonourActions That Are Signes Of Divine HonourPublique Worship Consisteth In UniformityAll Attributes Depend On The Lawes CivillNot All ActionsNaturall PunishmentsThe Conclusion Of The Second PartPART III. OF A CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTHCHAPTER XXXII. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN POLITIQUESWhat It Is To Captivate The UnderstandingHow God Speaketh To MenBy What Marks Prophets Are KnownThe Marks Of A Prophet In The Old Law, Miracles, And Doctrine Conformable To The LawMiracles Ceasing, Prophets Cease, The Scripture Supplies Their PlaceCHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE NUMBER, ANTIQUITY, SCOPE, AUTHORITY, AND INTERPRETERS OF THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTUREOf The Books Of Holy ScriptureTheir AntiquityThe Pentateuch Not Written By MosesThe Book of Joshua Written After His TimeThe Booke Of Judges And Ruth Written Long After The CaptivityThe Like Of The Bookes Of SamuelThe Books Of The Kings, And The ChroniclesEzra And NehemiahEstherJobThe PsalterThe ProverbsEcclesiastes And The CanticlesThe ProphetsThe New TestamentTheir ScopeThe Question Of The Authority Of The Scriptures Stated.Their Authority And InterpretationCHAPTER XXXIV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF SPIRIT, ANGEL, AND INSPIRATION IN THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTUREBody And Spirit How Taken In The ScriptureSpirit Of God Taken In The Scripture Sometimes For A Wind, Or BreathSecondly, For Extraordinary Gifts Of The UnderstandingThirdly, For Extraordinary AffectionsFourthly, For The Gift Of Prediction By Dreams And VisionsFiftly, For LifeSixtly, For A Subordination To AuthoritySeventhly, For Aeriall BodiesAngel WhatInspiration WhatCHAPTER XXXV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF KINGDOME OF GOD, OF HOLY, SACRED, AND SACRAMENTKingdom Of God Taken By Divines Metaphorically But In The Scriptures ProperlyThe Originall Of The Kingdome Of GodThat The Kingdome Of God Is Properly His Civill Soveraignty Over A Peculiar People By PactSacred WhatDegrees of SanctitySacramentCHAPTER XXXVI. OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF PROPHETSWord WhatThe Words Spoken By God And Concerning God, Both Are Called Gods Word In ScriptureSecondly, For The Effect Of His WordThirdly, For The Words Of Reason And EquityDivers Acceptions Of The Word ProphetPraediction Of Future Contingents, Not Alwaies ProphecyThe Manner How God Hath Spoken To The ProphetsTo The Extraordinary Prophets Of The Old Testament He Spake By Dreams, Or VisionsGod Sometimes Also Spake By LotsEvery Man Ought To Examine The Probability Of A Pretended Prophets CallingAll Prophecy But Of The Soveraign Prophet Is To Be Examined By Every SubjectCHAPTER XXXVII. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USEA Miracle Is A Work That Causeth AdmirationAnd Must Therefore Be Rare, Whereof There Is No Naturall Cause KnownThat Which Seemeth A Miracle To One Man, May Seem Otherwise To AnotherThe End Of MiraclesThe Definition Of A MiracleThat Men Are Apt To Be Deceived By False MiraclesCautions Against The Imposture Of MiraclesCHAPTER XXXVIII. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF ETERNALL LIFE, HELL, SALVATION, THE WORLD TO COME, AND REDEMPTIONPlace Of Adams Eternity If He Had Not Sinned, The Terrestrial ParadiseTexts Concerning The Place Of Life Eternall For BeleeversAscension Into HeavenThe Place After Judgment, Of Those Who Were Never In The Kingdome Of God, Or Having Been In, Are Cast OutThe Congregation Of GiantsLake Of FireUtter DarknesseGehenna, And TophetOf The Literall Sense Of The Scripture Concerning HellSatan, Devill, Not Proper Names, But AppellativesTorments Of HellThe Joyes Of Life Eternall, And Salvation The Same Thing, Salvation From Sin, And From Misery, All OneThe Place Of Eternall SalvationRedemptionCHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCHChurch The Lords HouseEcclesia Properly WhatIn What Sense The Church Is One Person Church DefinedA Christian Common-wealth, And A Church All OneCHAPTER XL OF THE RIGHTS OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD, IN ABRAHAM, MOSES, HIGH PRIESTS, AND THE KINGS OF JUDAHThe Soveraign Rights Of AbrahamAbraham Had The Sole Power Of Ordering The Religion Of His Own PeopleNo Pretence Of Private Spirit Against The Religion Of AbrahamAbraham Sole Judge, And Interpreter Of What God SpakeThe Authority Of Moses Whereon GroundedMoses Was (Under God) Soveraign Of The Jews, All His Own Time, Though Aaron Had The PriesthoodAll Spirits Were Subordinate To The Spirit Of MosesAfter Moses The Soveraignty Was In The High PriestOf The Soveraign Power Between The Time Of Joshua And Of SaulOf The Rights Of The Kings Of IsraelThe Practice Of Supremacy In Religion, Was Not In The Time Of The Kings, According To The Right ThereofAfter The Captivity The Jews Had No Setled Common-wealthCHAPTER XLI. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOURThree Parts Of The Office Of ChristHis Office As A RedeemerChrists Kingdome Not Of This WorldThe End Of Christs Comming Was To Renew The Covenant Of The Kingdome Of God, And To Perswade The Elect To Imbrace It, Which Was The Second Part Of His OfficeThe Preaching Of Christ Not Contrary To The Then Law Of The Jews, Nor Of CaesarThe Third Part Of His Office Was To Be King (Under His Father) Of The ElectChrists Authority In The Kingdome Of God Subordinate To His FatherOne And The Same God Is The Person Represented By Moses, And By ChristCHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALLOf The Holy Spirit That Fel On The ApostlesOf The TrinityThe Power Ecclesiasticall Is But The Power To TeachAn Argument Thereof, The Power Of Christ HimselfFrom The Name Of RegenerationFrom The Comparison Of It, With Fishing, Leaven, SeedFrom The Nature Of Faith:From The Authority Christ Hath Left To Civill PrincesWhat Christians May Do To Avoid PersecutionOf MartyrsArgument From The Points Of Their CommissionTo PreachAnd TeachTo Baptize;And To Forgive, And Retain SinnesOf ExcommunicationThe Use Of Excommunication Without Civill Power.Of No Effect Upon An ApostateBut Upon The Faithfull OnlyFor What Fault Lyeth ExcommunicationOf Persons Liable To ExcommunicationOf The Interpreter Of The Scriptures Before Civill Soveraigns Became ChristiansOf The Power To Make Scripture LawOf The Ten CommandementsOf The Judicial, And Leviticall LawThe Second LawThe Old Testament, When Made CanonicallOf The Power Of Councells To Make The Scripture LawOf The Right Of Constituting Ecclesiasticall Officers In The Time Of The ApostlesMatthias Made Apostle By The Congregation.Paul And Barnabas Made Apostles By The Church Of AntiochWhat Offices In The Church Are MagisteriallOrdination Of TeachersMinisters Of The Church WhatAnd How Chosen WhatOf Ecclesiasticall Revenue, Under The Law Of MosesIn Our Saviours Time, And AfterThe Civill Soveraign Being A Christian Hath The Right Of Appointing PastorsThe Pastorall Authority Of Soveraigns Only Is De Jure Divino, That Of Other Pastors Is Jure CiviliChristian Kings Have Power To Execute All Manner Of Pastoral FunctionThe Civill Soveraigne If A Christian, Is Head Of The Church In His Own DominionsCardinal Bellarmines Books De Summo Pontifice ConsideredThe First BookThe Second BookThe Third BookThe Fourth BookTexts For The Infallibility Of The Popes Judgement In Points Of FaithTexts For The Same In Point Of MannersOf The Popes Temporall PowerCHAPTER XLIII. OF WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR A MANS RECEPTION INTO THE KINGDOME OF HEAVENThe Difficulty Of Obeying God And Man Both At OnceIs None To Them That Distinguish Between What Is, And What Is Not Necessary To SalvationAll That Is Necessary To Salvation Is Contained In Faith And ObedienceWhat Obedience Is Necessary;And To What LawsIn The Faith Of A Christian, Who Is The Person BeleevedThe Causes Of Christian FaithFaith Comes By HearingProved From The Scope Of The EvangelistsFrom The Sermons Of The Apostles:From The Easinesse Of The Doctrine:From Formall And Cleer TextsFrom That It Is The Foundation Of All Other ArticlesIn What Sense Other Articles May Be Called NecessaryThat Faith, And Obedience Are Both Of Them Necessary To SalvationWhat Each Of Them Contributes ThereuntoObedience To God And To The Civill Soveraign Not InconsistentOr InfidelPART IV. OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESSECHAPTER XLIV. OF SPIRITUALL DARKNESSE FROM MISINTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTUREThe Kingdome Of Darknesse WhatThe Church Not Yet Fully Freed Of DarknesseFour Causes Of Spirituall DarknesseErrors From Misinterpreting The Scriptures, Concerning The Kingdome Of GodAs That The Kingdome Of God Is The Present ChurchAnd That The Pope Is His Vicar GenerallAnd That The Pastors Are The ClergyError From Mistaking Consecration For ConjurationIncantation In The Ceremonies Of BaptismeIn Marriage, In Visitation Of The Sick, And In Consecration Of PlacesErrors From Mistaking Eternall Life, And Everlasting DeathAs The Doctrine Of Purgatory, And Exorcismes, And Invocation Of SaintsThe Texts Alledged For The Doctrines Aforementioned Have Been Answered BeforeAnswer To The Text On Which Beza InferethExplication Of The Place In Mark 9.1Abuse Of Some Other Texts In Defence Of The Power Of The PopeThe Manner Of Consecrations In The Scripture, Was Without ExorcismsThe Immortality Of Mans Soule, Not Proved By Scripture To Be Of Nature, But Of GraceEternall Torments WhatAnswer Of The Texts Alledged For PurgatoryPlaces Of The New Testament For Purgatory AnsweredBaptisme For The Dead, How UnderstoodCHAPTER XLV. OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE GENTILESThe Originall Of DaemonologyWhat Were The Daemons Of The AncientsHow That Doctrine Was SpreadWhy Our Saviour Controlled It NotThe Scriptures Doe Not Teach That Spirits Are IncorporeallThe Power Of Casting Out Devills, Not The Same It Was In The Primitive ChurchAnother Relique Of Gentilisme, Worshipping Images, Left In The Church, Not Brought Into ItAnswer To Certain Seeming Texts For ImagesWhat Is WorshipDistinction Between Divine And Civill WorshipAn Image What PhantasmesFictions; Materiall ImagesIdolatry WhatScandalous Worship Of ImagesAnswer To The Argument From The Cherubins, And Brazen SerpentPainting Of Fancies No Idolatry: Abusing Them To Religious Worship IsHow Idolatry Was Left In The ChurchCanonizing Of SaintsThe Name Of PontifexProcession Of ImagesWax Candles, And Torches LightedCHAPTER XLVI. OF DARKNESSE FROM VAIN PHILOSOPHY, AND FABULOUS TRADITIONSWhat Philosophy IsPrudence No Part Of PhilosophyNo False Doctrine Is Part Of PhilosophyNor Learning Taken Upon Credit Of AuthorsOf The Beginnings And Progresse Of PhilosophyOf The Schools Of Philosophy Amongst The AtheniansOf The Schools Of The JewsThe Schoole Of Graecians UnprofitableThe Schools Of The Jews UnprofitableUniversity What It IsErrors Brought Into Religion From Aristotles MetaphysiquesErrors Concerning Abstract EssencesNunc-stansOne Body In Many Places, And Many Bodies In One Place At OnceAbsurdities In Naturall Philosophy, As Gravity The Cause Of HeavinesseQuantity Put Into Body Already MadePowring In Of SoulesUbiquity Of ApparitionWill, The Cause Of WillingIgnorance An Occult CauseOne Makes The Things Incongruent, Another The IncongruityPrivate Appetite The Rule Of Publique Good:And That Lawfull Marriage Is UnchastityAnd That All Government But Popular, Is TyrannyThat Not Men, But Law GovernsLaws Over The ConsciencePrivate Interpretation Of LawLanguage Of Schoole-DivinesErrors From TraditionSuppression Of ReasonCHAPTER XLVII. OF THE BENEFIT THAT PROCEEDETH FROM SUCH DARKNESSE, AND TO WHOM IT ACCREWETHHe That Receiveth Benefit By A Fact, Is Presumed To Be The AuthorThat The Church Militant Is The Kingdome Of God, Was First Taught By The Church Of RomeAnd Maintained Also By The PresbyteryInfallibilitySubjection Of BishopsExemptions Of The ClergyThe Names Of Sacerdotes, And SacrificesThe Sacramentation Of MarriageThe Single Life Of PriestsAuricular ConfessionCanonization Of Saints, And Declaring Of MartyrsTransubstantiation, Penance, AbsolutionPurgatory, Indulgences, Externall WorksDaemonology And ExorcismSchool-DivinityThe Authors Of Spirituall Darknesse, Who They BeComparison Of The Papacy With The Kingdome Of FayriesA REVIEW, AND CONCLUSION

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