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Complete text of 61125880:

But there is another saying not of late understood, by which they might learn truly to read one another, if they would take the pains; and that is, Nosce Teipsum, Read Thy Self: which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance, either the barbarous state of men  in power, towards their inferiors; or to encourage men  of low degree, to a sawcie behaviour towards their betters; But to teach us, that for the similitude of the thoughts, and Passions of one man , to the thoughts, and Passions of another, whosoever looketh into himselfe, and considereth what he doth, when he does Think, Opine, Reason, Hope, Feare, &c, and upon what grounds; he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts, and Passions of all other men , upon the like occasions

Complete text of 61125928:

There be also other Imaginations that rise in men , (though waking) from the great impression made in sense; As from gazing upon the Sun, the impression leaves an image of the Sun before our eyes a long time after; and from being long and vehemently attent upon Geometricall Figures, a man  shall in the dark, (though awake) have the Images of Lines, and Angles before his eyes: which kind of Fancy hath no particular name; as being a thing that doth not commonly fall into mens discourse

Complete text of 61125948:

But evill men  under pretext that God can do any thing, are so bold as to say any thing when it serves their turn, though they think it untrue; It is the part of a wise man , to believe them no further, than right reason makes that which they say, appear credible

Complete text of 61125966:

Such are Commonly the thoughts of men , that are not onely without company, but also without care of any thing; though even then their Thoughts are as busie as at other times, but without harmony; as the sound which a Lute out of tune would yeeld to any man ; or in tune, to one that could not play

Complete text of 61125998:

Those other Faculties, of which I shall speak by and by, and which seem proper to man  onely, are acquired, and encreased by study and industry; and of most men  learned by instruction, and discipline; and proceed all from the invention of Words, and Speech

Complete text of 61125999:

For besides Sense, and Thoughts, and the Trayne of thoughts, the mind of man  has no other motion; though by the help of Speech, and Method, the same Facultyes may be improved to such a height, as to distinguish men  from all other living Creatures

Complete text of 61126087:

Inconstant Names The names of such things as affect us, that is, which please, and displease us, because all men  be not alike affected with the same thing, nor the same man  at all times, are in the common discourses of men , of Inconstant signification

Complete text of 61126109:

Of Error And Absurdity When a man  reckons without the use of words, which may be done in particular things, (as when upon the sight of any one thing, wee conjecture what was likely to have preceded, or is likely to follow upon it;) if that which he thought likely to follow, followes not; or that which he thought likely to have preceded it, hath not preceded it, this is called ERROR; to which even the most prudent men  are subject

Complete text of 61126178:

For these words of Good, evill, and Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: There being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and evill, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves; but from the Person of the man  (where there is no Common-wealth;) or, (in a Common-wealth,) From the Person that representeth it; or from an Arbitrator or Judge, whom men  disagreeing shall by consent set up, and make his sentence the Rule thereof

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Felicity Continual Successe in obtaining those things which a man  from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering, is that men  call FELICITY; I mean the Felicity of this life

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By Naturall, I mean not, that which a man  hath from his Birth: for that is nothing else but Sense; wherein men  differ so little one from another, and from brute Beasts, as it is not to be reckoned amongst Vertues

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But without Steddinesse, and Direction to some End, a great Fancy is one kind of Madnesse; such as they have, that entring into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose, by every thing that comes in their thought, into so many, and so long digressions, and parentheses, that they utterly lose themselves: Which kind of folly, I know no particular name for: but the cause of it is, sometimes want of experience; whereby that seemeth to a man  new and rare, which doth not so to others: sometimes Pusillanimity; by which that seems great to him, which other men think a trifle: and whatsoever is new, or great, and therefore thought fit to be told, withdrawes a man  by degrees from the intended way of his discourse

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Giddinesse Madnesse And therefore, a man  who has no great Passion for any of these things; but is as men  terme it indifferent; though he may be so farre a good man, as to be free from giving offence; yet he cannot possibly have either a great Fancy, or much Judgement

Complete text of 61126372:

For as in the middest of the sea, though a man  perceive no sound of that part of the water next him; yet he is well assured, that part contributes as much, to the Roaring of the Sea, as any other part, of the same quantity: so also, thought wee perceive no great unquietnesse, in one, or two men ; yet we may be well assured, that their singular Passions, are parts of the Seditious roaring of a troubled Nation

Complete text of 61126498:

For let a man  (as most men  do,) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others

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Dignity The publique worth of a man , which is the Value set on him by the Common-wealth, is that which men  commonly call DIGNITY

Complete text of 61126583:

But Baron, seems to have been a Title of the Gaules, and signifies a Great man ; such as were the Kings, or Princes men , whom they employed in war about their persons; and seems to be derived from Vir, to Ber, and Bar, that signified the same in the Language of the Gaules, that Vir in Latine; and thence to Bero, and Baro: so that such men were called Berones, and after Barones; and (in Spanish) Varones

Complete text of 61126605:

Civil Obedience From Love Of Ease Desire of Ease, and sensuall Delight, disposeth men  to obey a common Power: because by such Desires, a man  doth abandon the protection might be hoped for from his own Industry, and labour

Complete text of 61126628:

Frugality,(though in poor men  a Vertue,) maketh a man  unapt to atchieve such actions, as require the strength of many men  at once: For it weakeneth their Endeavour, which is to be nourished and kept in vigor by Reward

Complete text of 61126637:

Adhaerence To Custome, From Ignorance Of The Nature Of Right And Wrong Ignorance of the causes, and originall constitution of Right, Equity, Law, and Justice, disposeth a man  to make Custome and Example the rule of his actions; in such manner, as to think that Unjust which it hath been the custome to punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or (as the Lawyers which onely use the false measure of Justice barbarously call it) a Precedent; like little children, that have no other rule of good and evill manners, but the correction they receive from their Parents, and Masters; save that children are constant to their rule, whereas men  are not so; because grown strong, and stubborn, they appeale from custome to reason, and from reason to custome, as it serves their turn; receding from custome when their interest requires it, and setting themselves against reason, as oft as reason is against them: Which is the cause, that the doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by the Pen and the Sword: whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men  care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust

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And Credulity, because men  love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man  bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them

Complete text of 61126644:

Naturall Religion, From The Same Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man  from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause; and again, the cause of that cause; till of necessity he must come to this thought at last, that there is some cause, whereof there is no former cause, but is eternall; which is it men  call God

Complete text of 61126646:

For as a man  that is born blind, hearing men  talk of warming themselves by the fire, and being brought to warm himself by the same, may easily conceive, and assure himselfe, there is somewhat there, which men  call Fire, and is the cause of the heat he feeles; but cannot imagine what it is like; nor have an Idea of it in his mind, such as they have that see it: so also, by the visible things of this world, and their admirable order, a man  may conceive there is a cause of them, which men  call God; and yet not have an Idea, or Image of him in his mind

Complete text of 61126653:

First, From His Desire Of Knowing Causes And first, it is peculiar to the nature of man , to be inquisitive into the Causes of the Events they see, some more, some lesse; but all men  so much, as to be curious in the search of the causes of their own good and evill fortune

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From His Observation Of The Sequell Of Things Thirdly, whereas there is no other Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; man  observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence; And when he cannot assure himselfe of the true causes of things, (for the causes of good and evill fortune for the most part are invisible,) he supposes causes of them, either such as his own fancy suggesteth; or trusteth to the Authority of other men , such as he thinks to be his friends, and wiser than himselfe

Complete text of 61126663:

And Suppose Them Incorporeall And for the matter, or substance of the Invisible Agents, so fancyed; they could not by naturall cogitation, fall upon any other conceipt, but that it was the same with that of the Soule of man ; and that the Soule of man , was of the same substance, with that which appeareth in a Dream, to one that sleepeth; or in a Looking-glasse, to one that is awake; which, men  not knowing that such apparitions are nothing else but creatures of the Fancy, think to be reall, and externall Substances; and therefore call them Ghosts; as the Latines called them Imagines, and Umbrae; and thought them Spirits, that is, thin aereall bodies; and those Invisible Agents, which they feared, to bee like them; save that they appear, and vanish when they please

Complete text of 61126664:

But the opinion that such Spirits were Incorporeall, or Immateriall, could never enter into the mind of any man  by nature; because, though men  may put together words of contradictory signification, as Spirit, and Incorporeall; yet they can never have the imagination of any thing answering to them: And therefore, men  that by their own meditation, arrive to the acknowledgement of one Infinite, Omnipotent, and Eternall God, choose rather to confesse he is Incomprehensible, and above their understanding; than to define his Nature By Spirit Incorporeall, and then Confesse their definition to be unintelligible: or if they give him such a title, it is not Dogmatically, with intention to make the Divine Nature understood; but Piously, to honour him with attributes, of significations, as remote as they can from the grossenesse of Bodies Visible

Complete text of 61126670:

Foure Things, Naturall Seeds Of Religion And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men  fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostiques, consisteth the Naturall seed of Religion; which by reason of the different Fancies, Judgements, and Passions of severall men , hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another

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Besides, that they filled almost all places, with spirits called Daemons; the plains, with Pan, and Panises, or Satyres; the Woods, with Fawnes, and Nymphs; the Sea, with Tritons, and other Nymphs; every River, and Fountayn, with a Ghost of his name, and with Nymphs; every house, with it Lares, or Familiars; every man , with his Genius; Hell, with Ghosts, and spirituall Officers, as Charon, Cerberus, and the Furies; and in the night time, all places with Larvae, Lemures, Ghosts of men  deceased, and a whole kingdome of Fayries, and Bugbears

Complete text of 61126702:

For seeing all formed Religion, is founded at first, upon the faith which a multitude hath in some one person, whom they believe not only to be a wise man , and to labour to procure their happiness, but also to be a holy man , to whom God himselfe vouchsafeth to declare his will supernaturally; It followeth necessarily, when they that have the Goverment of Religion, shall come to have either the wisedome of those men, their sincerity, or their love suspected; or that they shall be unable to shew any probable token of divine Revelation; that the Religion which they desire to uphold, must be suspected likewise; and (without the feare of the Civill Sword) contradicted and rejected

Complete text of 61126723:

OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND, AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERY Nature hath made men  so equall, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man  sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man , and man , is not so considerable, as that one man  can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he

Complete text of 61126735:

From Diffidence Warre And from this diffidence of one another, there is no way for any man  to secure himselfe, so reasonable, as Anticipation; that is, by force, or wiles, to master the persons of all men  he can, so long, till he see no other power great enough to endanger him: And this is no more than his own conservation requireth, and is generally allowed

Complete text of 61126744:

Out Of Civil States, There Is Alwayes Warre Of Every One Against Every One Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men  live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man , against every man 

Complete text of 61126748:

The Incommodites Of Such A War Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man  is Enemy to every man ; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men  live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall

Complete text of 61126750:

It may seem strange to some man , that has not well weighed these things; that Nature should thus dissociate, and render men  apt to invade, and destroy one another: and he may therefore, not trusting to this Inference, made from the Passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by Experience

Complete text of 61126778:

And therefore, as long as this naturall Right of every man  to every thing endureth, there can be no security to any man , (how strong or wise soever he be,) of living out the time, which Nature ordinarily alloweth men  to live

Complete text of 61126782:

" The Second Law Of Nature From this Fundamentall Law of Nature, by which men  are commanded to endeavour Peace, is derived this second Law; "That a man  be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himselfe he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men , as he would allow other men  against himselfe

Complete text of 61126783:

" For as long as every man  holdeth this Right, of doing any thing he liketh; so long are all men  in the condition of Warre

Complete text of 61126784:

But if other men  will not lay down their Right, as well as he; then there is no Reason for any one, to devest himselfe of his: For that were to expose himselfe to Prey, (which no man  is bound to) rather than to dispose himselfe to Peace

Complete text of 61126803:

The same may be sayd of Wounds, and Chayns, and Imprisonment; both because there is no benefit consequent to such patience; as there is to the patience of suffering another to be wounded, or imprisoned: as also because a man  cannot tell, when he seeth men  proceed against him by violence, whether they intend his death or not

Complete text of 61126895:

He does not therein deny, that there be Covenants; and that they are sometimes broken, sometimes kept; and that such breach of them may be called Injustice, and the observance of them Justice: but he questioneth, whether Injustice, taking away the feare of God, (for the same Foole hath said in his heart there is no God,) may not sometimes stand with that Reason, which dictateth to every man  his own good; and particularly then, when it conduceth to such a benefit, as shall put a man in a condition, to neglect not onely the dispraise, and revilings, but also the power of other men 

Complete text of 61126898:

And the Heathen that believed, that Saturn was deposed by his son Jupiter, believed neverthelesse the same Jupiter to be the avenger of Injustice: Somewhat like to a piece of Law in Cokes Commentaries on Litleton; where he sayes, If the right Heire of the Crown be attainted of Treason; yet the Crown shall descend to him, and Eo Instante the Atteynder be voyd; From which instances a man  will be very prone to inferre; that when the Heire apparent of a Kingdome, shall kill him that is in possession, though his father; you may call it Injustice, or by what other name you will; yet it can never be against Reason, seeing all the voluntary actions of men tend to the benefit of themselves; and those actions are most Reasonable, that conduce most to their ends

Complete text of 61126904:

He therefore that breaketh his Covenant, and consequently declareth that he thinks he may with reason do so, cannot be received into any Society, that unite themselves for Peace and defence, but by the errour of them that receive him; nor when he is received, be retayned in it, without seeing the danger of their errour; which errours a man  cannot reasonably reckon upon as the means of his security; and therefore if he be left, or cast out of Society, he perisheth; and if he live in Society, it is by the errours of other men , which he could not foresee, nor reckon upon; and consequently against the reason of his preservation; and so, as all men  that contribute not to his destruction, forbear him onely out of ignorance of what is good for themselves

Complete text of 61126938:

" For no man  giveth, but with intention of Good to himselfe; because Gift is Voluntary; and of all Voluntary Acts, the Object is to every man  his own Good; of which if men  see they shall be frustrated, there will be no beginning of benevolence, or trust; nor consequently of mutuall help; nor of reconciliation of one man  to another; and therefore they are to remain still in the condition of War; which is contrary to the first and Fundamentall Law of Nature, which commandeth men  to Seek Peace

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The Eighth, Against Contumely And because all signes of hatred, or contempt, provoke to fight; insomuch as most men  choose rather to hazard their life, than not to be revenged; we may in the eighth place, for a Law of Nature set down this Precept, "That no man  by deed, word, countenance, or gesture, declare Hatred, or Contempt of another

Complete text of 61126953:

The Ninth, Against Pride The question who is the better man , has no place in the condition of meer Nature; where, (as has been shewn before,) all men  are equall

Complete text of 61126961:

" As it is necessary for all men  that seek peace, to lay down certaine Rights of Nature; that is to say, not to have libertie to do all they list: so is it necessarie for mans life, to retaine some; as right to governe their owne bodies; enjoy aire, water, motion, waies to go from place to place; and all things else without which a man  cannot live, or not live well

Complete text of 61127002:

And therefore so long as man  is in the condition of meer Nature, (which is a condition of War,) as private Appetite is the measure of Good, and Evill: and consequently all men  agree on this, that Peace is Good, and therefore also the way, or means of Peace, which (as I have shewed before) are Justice, Gratitude, Modesty, Equity, Mercy, & the rest of the Laws of Nature, are good; that is to say, Morall Vertues; and their contrarie Vices, Evill

Complete text of 61127040:

A Multitude Of men , How One Person A Multitude of men , are made One Person, when they are by one man , or one Person, Represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that Multitude in particular

Complete text of 61127060:

Therefore notwithstanding the Lawes of Nature, (which every one hath then kept, when he has the will to keep them, when he can do it safely,) if there be no Power erected, or not great enough for our security; every man  will and may lawfully rely on his own strength and art, for caution against all other men 

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But man , whose Joy consisteth in comparing himselfe with other men , can relish nothing but what is eminent

Complete text of 61127074:

Thirdly, that these creatures, having not (as man ) the use of reason, do not see, nor think they see any fault, in the administration of their common businesse: whereas amongst men , there are very many, that thinke themselves wiser, and abler to govern the Publique, better than the rest; and these strive to reforme and innovate, one this way, another that way; and thereby bring it into Distraction and Civill warre

Complete text of 61127078:

The Generation Of A Common-wealth The only way to erect such a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of Forraigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort, as that by their owne industrie, and by the fruites of the Earth, they may nourish themselves and live contentedly; is, to conferre all their power and strength upon one Man, or upon one Assembly of men , that may reduce all their Wills, by plurality of voices, unto one Will: which is as much as to say, to appoint one man , or Assembly of men , to beare their Person; and every one to owne, and acknowledge himselfe to be Author of whatsoever he that so beareth their Person, shall Act, or cause to be Acted, in those things which concerne the Common Peace and Safetie; and therein to submit their Wills, every one to his Will, and their Judgements, to his Judgment

Complete text of 61127079:

This is more than Consent, or Concord; it is a reall Unitie of them all, in one and the same Person, made by Covenant of every man  with every man , in such manner, as if every man  should say to every man , "I Authorise and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this man , or to this Assembly of men , on this condition, that thou give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actions in like manner

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The other, is when men  agree amongst themselves, to submit to some man , or Assembly of men , voluntarily, on confidence to be protected by him against all others

Complete text of 61127091:

OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION The Act Of Instituting A Common-wealth, What A Common-wealth is said to be Instituted, when a Multitude of men  do Agree, and Covenant, Every One With Every One, that to whatsoever man , or Assembly Of men , shall be given by the major part, the Right to Present the Person of them all, (that is to say, to be their Representative;) every one, as well he that Voted For It, as he that Voted Against It, shall Authorise all the Actions and Judgements, of that man , or Assembly of men , in the same manner, as if they were his own, to the end, to live peaceably amongst themselves, and be protected against other men 

Complete text of 61127096:

And therefore, they that are subjects to a Monarch, cannot without his leave cast off Monarchy, and return to the confusion of a disunited Multitude; nor transferre their Person from him that beareth it, to another man , or other Assembly of men : for they are bound, every man  to every man , to Own, and be reputed Author of all, that he that already is their Soveraigne, shall do, and judge fit to be done: so that any one man  dissenting, all the rest should break their Covenant made to that man , which is injustice: and they have also every man  given the Soveraignty to him that beareth their Person; and therefore if they depose him, they take from him that which is his own, and so again it is injustice

Complete text of 61127106:

The opinion that any Monarch receiveth his Power by Covenant, that is to say on Condition, proceedeth from want of understanding this easie truth, that Covenants being but words, and breath, have no force to oblige, contain, constrain, or protect any man , but what it has from the publique Sword; that is, from the untyed hands of that man , or Assembly of men  that hath the Soveraignty, and whose actions are avouched by them all, and performed by the strength of them all, in him united

Complete text of 61127107:

But when an Assembly of men  is made Soveraigne; then no man  imagineth any such Covenant to have past in the Institution; for no man  is so dull as to say, for example, the People of Rome, made a Covenant with the Romans, to hold the Soveraignty on such or such conditions; which not performed, the Romans might lawfully depose the Roman People

Complete text of 61127131:

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 Him Seventhly, is annexed to the Soveraigntie, the whole power of prescribing the Rules, whereby every man  may know, what Goods he may enjoy and what Actions he may doe, without being molested by any of his fellow Subjects: And this is it men  Call Propriety

Complete text of 61127150:

These Rights Are Indivisible These are the Rights, which make the Essence of Soveraignty; and which are the markes, whereby a man  may discern in what man , or Assembly of men , the Soveraign Power is placed, and resideth

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And commonly they that live under a Monarch, think it the fault of Monarchy; and they that live under the government of Democracy, or other Soveraign Assembly, attribute all the inconvenience to that forme of Common-wealth; whereas the Power in all formes, if they be perfect enough to protect them, is the same; not considering that the estate of man  can never be without some incommodity or other; and that the greatest, that in any forme of Government can possibly happen to the people in generall, is scarce sensible, in respect of the miseries, and horrible calamities, that accompany a Civill Warre; or that dissolute condition of masterlesse men , without subjection to Lawes, and a coercive Power to tye their hands from rapine, and revenge: nor considering that the greatest pressure of Soveraign Governours, proceedeth not from any delight, or profit they can expect in the dammage, or weakening of their subjects, in whose vigor, consisteth their own selves, that unwillingly contributing to their own defence, make it necessary for their Governours to draw from them what they can in time of Peace, that they may have means on any emergent occasion, or sudden need, to resist, or take advantage on their Enemies

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And because the Soveraignty is either in one man , or in an Assembly of more than one; and into that Assembly either Every man  hath right to enter, or not every one, but Certain men  distinguished from the rest; it is manifest, there can be but Three kinds of Common-wealth

Complete text of 61127177:

Subordinate Representatives Dangerous It is manifest, that men  who are in absolute liberty, may, if they please, give Authority to One man , to represent them every one; as well as give such Authority to any Assembly of men  whatsoever; and consequently may subject themselves, if they think good, to a Monarch, as absolutely, as to any other Representative

Complete text of 61127179:

For that were to erect two Soveraigns; and every man to have his person represented by two Actors, that by opposing one another, must needs divide that Power, which (if men  will live in Peace) is indivisible, and thereby reduce the Multitude into the condition of Warre, contrary to the end for which all Soveraignty is instituted

Complete text of 61127201:

Sixtly, that it is an inconvenience in Monarchie, that the Soveraigntie may descend upon an Infant, or one that cannot discerne between Good and Evill: and consisteth in this, that the use of his Power, must be in the hand of another man , or of some Assembly of men , which are to governe by his right, and in his name; as Curators, and Protectors of his Person, and Authority

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But to say there is inconvenience, in putting the use of the Soveraign Power, into the hand of a man , or an Assembly of men ; is to say that all Government is more Inconvenient, than Confusion, and Civill Warre

Complete text of 61127225:

Of The Right Of Succession Of all these Formes of Government, the matter being mortall, so that not onely Monarchs, but also whole Assemblies dy, it is necessary for the conservation of the peace of men , that as there was order taken for an Artificiall man , so there be order also taken, for an Artificiall Eternity of life; without which, men  that are governed by an Assembly, should return into the condition of Warre in every age; and they that are governed by One man , as soon as their Governour dyeth

Complete text of 61127259:

OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALL A Common-wealth by Acquisition, is that, where the Soveraign Power is acquired by Force; And it is acquired by force, when men  singly, or many together by plurality of voyces, for fear of death, or bonds, do authorise all the actions of that man , or Assembly, that hath their lives and liberty in his Power

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Soveraign Power Ought In All Common-wealths To Be Absolute So it appeareth plainly, to my understanding, both from Reason, and Scripture, that the Soveraign Power, whether placed in One man , as in Monarchy, or in one Assembly of men , as in Popular, and Aristocraticall Common-wealths, is as great, as possibly men  can be imagined to make it

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And though of so unlimited a Power, men  may fancy many evill consequences, yet the consequences of the want of it, which is perpetuall warre of every man  against his neighbour, are much worse

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Artificiall Bonds, Or Covenants But as men , for the atteyning of peace, and conservation of themselves thereby, have made an Artificiall man , which we call a Common-wealth; so also have they made Artificiall Chains, called Civill Lawes, which they themselves, by mutuall covenants, have fastned at one end, to the lips of that man , or Assembly, to whom they have given the Soveraigne Power; and at the other end to their own Ears

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And yet as absurd as it is, this is it they demand; not knowing that the Lawes are of no power to protect them, without a Sword in the hands of a man , or men , to cause those laws to be put in execution

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The Liberty Which Writers Praise, Is The Liberty Of Soveraigns; Not Of Private men  The Libertie, whereof there is so frequent, and honourable mention, in the Histories, and Philosophy of the Antient Greeks, and Romans, and in the writings, and discourse of those that from them have received all their learning in the Politiques, is not the Libertie of Particular men; but the Libertie of the Common-wealth: which is the same with that, which every man  then should have, if there were no Civil Laws, nor Common-wealth at all

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For as amongst masterlesse men , there is perpetuall war, of every man  against his neighbour; no inheritance, to transmit to the Son, nor to expect from the Father; no propriety of Goods, or Lands; no security; but a full and absolute Libertie in every Particular man : So in States, and Common-wealths not dependent on one another, every Common-wealth, (not every man ) has an absolute Libertie, to doe what it shall judge (that is to say, what that man , or Assemblie that representeth it, shall judge) most conducing to their benefit

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For in the act of our Submission, consisteth both our Obligation, and our Liberty; which must therefore be inferred by arguments taken from thence; there being no Obligation on any man , which ariseth not from some Act of his own; for all men  equally, are by Nature Free

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But in case a great many men together, have already resisted the Soveraign Power Unjustly, or committed some Capitall crime, for which every one of them expecteth death, whether have they not the Liberty then to joyn together, and assist, and defend one another? Certainly they have: For they but defend their lives, which the guilty man  may as well do, as the Innocent

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Regular are those, where one man , or Assembly of men , is constituted Representative of the whole number

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Protestation Against The Decrees Of Bodies Politique Sometimes Lawful; But Against Soveraign Power Never It is manifest by this, that in Bodies Politique subordinate, and subject to a Soveraign Power, it is sometimes not onely lawfull, but expedient, for a particular man  to make open protestation against the decrees of the Representative Assembly, and cause their dissent to be Registred, or to take witnesse of it; because otherwise they may be obliged to pay debts contracted, and be responsible for crimes committed by other men : But in a Soveraign Assembly, that liberty is taken away, both because he that protesteth there, denies their Soveraignty; and also because whatsoever is commanded by the Soveraign Power, is as to the Subject (though not so alwayes in the sight of God) justified by the Command; for of such command every Subject is the Author

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In like manner, when there were Colonies sent from England, to Plant Virginia, and Sommer-Ilands; though the government of them here, were committed to Assemblies in London, yet did those Assemblies never commit the Government under them to any Assembly there; but did to each Plantation send one Governour; For though every man , where he can be present by Nature, desires to participate of government; yet where they cannot be present, they are by Nature also enclined, to commit the Government of their common Interest rather to a Monarchicall, then a Popular form of Government: which is also evident in those men  that have great private estates; who when they are unwilling to take the paines of administring the businesse that belongs to them, choose rather to trust one Servant, than a Assembly either of their friends or servants

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For a League being a connexion of men by Covenants, if there be no power given to any one man  or Assembly, (as in the condition of meer Nature) to compell them to performance, is so long onely valid, as there ariseth no just cause of distrust: and therefore Leagues between Common-wealths, over whom there is no humane Power established, to keep them all in awe, are not onely lawfull, but also profitable for the time they last

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When an unusuall number of men , assemble against a man  whom they accuse; the Assembly is an Unlawfull tumult; because they may deliver their accusation to the Magistrate by a few, or by one man 

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And in both these controversies, there may arise a controversie between the party Judged, and the Judge; which because they be both Subjects to the Soveraign, ought in Equity to be Judged by men  agreed on by consent of both; for no man  can be Judge in his own cause

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The Laws Of Transferring Property Belong Also To The Soveraign Further, seeing it is not enough to the Sustentation of a Common-wealth, that every man  have a propriety in a portion of Land, or in some few commodities, or a naturall property in some usefull art, and there is no art in the world, but is necessary either for the being, or well being almost of every particular man ; it is necessary, that men  distribute that which they can spare, and transferre their propriety therein, mutually one to another, by exchange, and mutuall contract

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Mony The Bloud Of A Common-wealth By Concoction, I understand the reducing of all commodities, which are not presently consumed, but reserved for Nourishment in time to come, to some thing of equal value, and withall so portably, as not to hinder the motion of men  from place to place; to the end a man  may have in what place soever, such Nourishment as the place affordeth

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For every man  seeth, that some Lawes are addressed to all the Subjects in generall; some to particular Provinces; some to particular Vocations; and some to particular men ; and are therefore Lawes, to every of those to whom the Command is directed; and to none else

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The Legislator in all Common-wealths, is only the Soveraign, be he one man , as in a Monarchy, or one Assembly of men , as in a Democracy, or Aristocracy

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Seeing then all Lawes, written, and unwritten, have their Authority, and force, from the Will of the Common-wealth; that is to say, from the Will of the Representative; which in a Monarchy is the Monarch, and in other Common-wealths the Soveraign Assembly; a man  may wonder from whence proceed such opinions, as are found in the Books of Lawyers of eminence in severall Common-wealths, directly, or by consequence making the Legislative Power depend on private men , or subordinate Judges

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And where a Parlament is Soveraign, if it should assemble never so many, or so wise men , from the Countries subject to them, for whatsoever cause; yet there is no man  will believe, that such an Assembly hath thereby acquired to themselves a Legislative Power

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) For it is possible long study may encrease, and confirm erroneous Sentences: and where men  build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine; and of those that study, and observe with equall time, and diligence, the reasons and resolutions are, and must remain discordant: and therefore it is not that Juris Prudentia, or wisedome of subordinate Judges; but the Reason of this our Artificiall man  the Common-wealth, and his Command, that maketh Law: And the Common-wealth being in their Representative but one Person, there cannot easily arise any contradiction in the Lawes; and when there doth, the same Reason is able, by interpretation, or alteration, to take it away

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" Secondly, if it be a Law that obliges only some condition of men , or one particular man  and be not written, nor published by word, then also it is a Law of Nature; and known by the same arguments, and signs, that distinguish those in such a condition, from other Subjects

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And though the ignorance, and security of men  be such, for the most part, as that when the memory of the first Constitution of their Common-wealth is worn out, they doe not consider, by whose power they use to be defended against their enemies, and to have their industry protected, and to be righted when injury is done them; yet because no man that considers, can make question of it, no excuse can be derived from the ignorance of where the Soveraignty is placed

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Therefore of who is Soveraign, no man , but by his own fault, (whatsoever evill men  suggest,) can make any doubt

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A written Law may forbid innocent men  to fly, and they may be punished for flying: But that flying for feare of injury, should be taken for presumption of guilt, after a man  is already absolved of the crime Judicially, is contrary to the nature of a Presumption, which hath no place after Judgement given

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But this Authority of man  to declare what be these Positive Lawes of God, how can it be known? God may command a man  by a supernaturall way, to deliver Lawes to other men 

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Upon what ground, but on this submission of their own, "Speak thou to us, and we will heare thee; but let not God speak to us, lest we dye?" By which two places it sufficiently appeareth, that in a Common-wealth, a subject that has no certain and assured Revelation particularly to himself concerning the Will of God, is to obey for such, the Command of the Common-wealth: for if men  were at liberty, to take for Gods Commandements, their own dreams, and fancies, or the dreams and fancies of private men ; scarce two men  would agree upon what is Gods Commandement; and yet in respect of them, every man  would despise the Commandements of the Common-wealth

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If a man  come from the Indies hither, and perswade men  here to receive a new Religion, or teach them any thing that tendeth to disobedience of the Lawes of this Country, though he be never so well perswaded of the truth of what he teacheth, he commits a Crime, and may be justly punished for the same, not onely because his doctrine is false, but also because he does that which he would not approve in another, namely, that comming from hence, he should endeavour to alter the Religion there

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First, by Presumption of false Principles; as when men  from having observed how in all places, and in all ages, unjust Actions have been authorised, by the force, and victories of those who have committed them; and that potent men , breaking through the Cob-web Lawes of their Country, the weaker sort, and those that have failed in their Enterprises, have been esteemed the onely Criminals; have thereupon taken for Principles, and grounds of their Reasoning, "That Justice is but a vain word: That whatsoever a man  can get by his own Industry, and hazard, is his own: That the Practice of all Nations cannot be unjust: That examples of former times are good Arguments of doing the like again;" and many more of that kind: Which being granted, no Act in it selfe can be a Crime, but must be made so (not by the Law, but) by the successe of them that commit it; and the same Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth; so that what Marius makes a Crime, Sylla shall make meritorious, and Caesar (the same Lawes standing) turn again into a Crime, to the perpetuall disturbance of the Peace of the Common-wealth

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And False Inferences From True Principles, By Teachers Thirdly, by Erroneous Inferences from True Principles; which happens commonly to men  that are hasty, and praecipitate in concluding, and resolving what to do; such as are they, that have both a great opinion of their own understanding, and believe that things of this nature require not time and study, but onely common experience, and a good naturall wit; whereof no man  thinks himselfe unprovided: whereas the knowledge, of Right and Wrong, which is no lesse difficult, there is no man will pretend to, without great and long study

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This is a Crime; For the hurt is not Corporeall, but Phantasticall, and (though in this corner of the world, made sensible by a custome not many years since begun, amongst young and vain men ,) so light, as a gallant man , and one that is assured of his own courage, cannot take notice of

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Also a man  may stand in fear of Spirits, either through his own superstition, or through too much credit given to other men , that tell him of strange Dreams and visions; and thereby be made believe they will hurt him, for doing, or omitting divers things, which neverthelesse, to do, or omit, is contrary to the Lawes; And that which is so done, or omitted, is not to be Excused by this fear; but is a Crime

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For (as I have shewn before in the second Chapter) Dreams be naturally but the fancies remaining in sleep, after the impressions our Senses had formerly received waking; and when men  are by any accident unassured they have slept, seem to be reall Visions; and therefore he that presumes to break the Law upon his own, or anothers Dream, or pretended Vision, or upon other Fancy of the power of Invisible Spirits, than is permitted by the Common-wealth, leaveth the Law of Nature, which is a certain offence, and followeth the imagery of his own, or another private mans brain, which he can never know whether it signifieth any thing, or nothing, nor whether he that tells his Dream, say true, or lye; which if every private man  should have leave to do, (as they must by the Law of Nature, if any one have it) there could no Law be made to hold, and so all Common-wealth would be dissolved

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Likewise in a Professor of the Law, to maintain any point, on do any act, that tendeth to the weakning of the Soveraign Power, as a greater Crime, than in another man : Also in a man  that hath such reputation for wisedome, as that his counsells are followed, or his actions imitated by many, his fact against the Law, is a greater Crime, than the same fact in another: For such men  not onely commit Crime, but teach it for Law to all other men 

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Naturall Evill Consequences, No Punishments Sixthly, whereas to certain actions, there be annexed by Nature, divers hurtfull consequences; as when a man  in assaulting another, is himselfe slain, or wounded; or when he falleth into sicknesse by the doing of some unlawfull act; such hurt, though in respect of God, who is the author of Nature, it may be said to be inflicted, and therefore a Punishment divine; yet it is not contaned in the name of Punishment in respect of men , because it is not inflicted by the Authority of man 

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From the reading, I say, of such books, men  have undertaken to kill their Kings, because the Greek and Latine writers, in their books, and discourses of Policy, make it lawfull, and laudable, for any man  so to do; provided before he do it, he call him Tyrant

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For as in this Disease, there is an unnaturall spirit, or wind in the head that obstructeth the roots of the Nerves, and moving them violently, taketh away the motion which naturally they should have from the power of the Soule in the Brain, and thereby causeth violent, and irregular motions (which men  call Convulsions) in the parts; insomuch as he that is seized therewith, falleth down sometimes into the water, and sometimes into the fire, as a man  deprived of his senses; so also in the Body Politique, when the Spirituall power, moveth the Members of a Common-wealth, by the terrour of punishments, and hope of rewards (which are the Nerves of it,) otherwise than by the Civill Power (which is the Soule of the Common-wealth) they ought to be moved; and by strange, and hard words suffocates the people, and either Overwhelm the Common-wealth with Oppression, or cast it into the Fire of a Civill warre

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Popular men  Also, the Popularity of a potent Subject, (unlesse the Common-wealth have very good caution of his fidelity,) is a dangerous Disease; because the people (which should receive their motion from the Authority of the Soveraign,) by the flattery, and by the reputation of an ambitious man , are drawn away from their obedience to the Lawes, to follow a man , of whose vertues, and designes they have no knowledge

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Shall whole Nations be brought to Acquiesce in the great Mysteries of Christian Religion, which are above Reason; and millions of men  be made believe, that the same Body may be in innumerable places, at one and the same time, which is against Reason; and shall not men  be able, by their teaching, and preaching, protected by the Law, to make that received, which is so consonant to Reason, that any unprejudicated man , needs no more to learn it, than to hear it? I conclude therefore, that in the instruction of the people in the Essentiall Rights (which are the Naturall, and Fundamentall Lawes) of Soveraignty, there is no difficulty, (whilest a Soveraign has his Power entire,) but what proceeds from his own fault, or the fault of those whom he trusteth in the administration of the Common-wealth; and consequently, it is his Duty, to cause them so to be instructed; and not onely his Duty, but his Benefit also, and Security, against the danger that may arrive to himselfe in his naturall Person, from Rebellion

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Nor To Dispute The Soveraign Power Thirdly, in consequence to this, they ought to be informed, how great fault it is, to speak evill of the Soveraign Representative, (whether One man , or an Assembly of men ;) or to argue and dispute his Power, or any way to use his Name irreverently, whereby he may be brought into Contempt with his People, and their Obedience (in which the safety of the Common-wealth consisteth) slackened

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For to relinquish such right, was not necessary to the Institution of Soveraign Power; nor would there be any reason, why any man  should desire to have children, or take the care to nourish, and instruct them, if they were afterwards to have no other benefit from them, than from other men 

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And To Avoyd Doing Of Injury: Again, every Soveraign Ought to cause Justice to be taught, which (consisting in taking from no man  what is his) is as much as to say, to cause men  to be taught not to deprive their Neighbour, by violence, or fraud, of any thing which by the Soveraign Authority is theirs

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Of things held in propriety, those that are dearest to a man  are his own life, & limbs; and in the next degree, (in most men ,) those that concern conjugall affection; and after them riches and means of living

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For what reason is there, that he which laboureth much, and sparing the fruits of his labour, consumeth little, should be more charged, then he that living idlely, getteth little, and spendeth all he gets; seeing the one hath no more protection from the Common-wealth, then the other? But when the Impositions, are layd upon those things which men  consume, every man  payeth Equally for what he useth: Nor is the Common-wealth defrauded, by the luxurious waste of private men 

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And the same Law, that dictateth to men  that have no Civil Government, what they ought to do, and what to avoyd in regard of one another, dictateth the same to Common-wealths, that is, to the Consciences of Soveraign Princes, and Soveraign Assemblies; there being no Court of Naturall Justice, but in the Conscience onely; where not man , but God raigneth; whose Lawes, (such of them as oblige all Mankind,) in respect of God, as he is the Author of Nature, are Naturall; and in respect of the same God, as he is King of Kings, are Lawes

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A Threefold Word Of God, Reason, Revelation, Prophecy To rule by Words, requires that such Words be manifestly made known; for else they are no Lawes: For to the nature of Lawes belongeth a sufficient, and clear Promulgation, such as may take away the excuse of Ignorance; which in the Lawes of men  is but of one onely kind, and that is, Proclamation, or Promulgation by the voyce of man 

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But because this Right could not be obtained by force, it concerned the safety of every one, laying by that Right, to set up men  (with Soveraign Authority) by common consent, to rule and defend them: whereas if there had been any man  of Power Irresistible; there had been no reason, why he should not by that Power have ruled, and defended both himselfe, and them, according to his own discretion

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And of that opinion, the externall signes appearing in the Words, and Actions of men , are called Worship; which is one part of that which the Latines understand by the word Cultus: For Cultus signifieth properly, and constantly, that labour which a man  bestowes on any thing, with a purpose to make benefit by it

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How God Speaketh To men  When God speaketh to man , it must be either immediately; or by mediation of another man , to whom he had formerly spoken by himself immediately

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For if every man  should be obliged, to take for Gods Law, what particular men , on pretence of private Inspiration, or Revelation, should obtrude upon him, (in such a number of men , that out of pride, and ignorance, take their own Dreams, and extravagant Fancies, and Madnesse, for testimonies of Gods Spirit; or out of ambition, pretend to such Divine testimonies, falsely, and contrary to their own consciences,) it were impossible that any Divine Law should be acknowledged

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" For an apparition made to a man  in his sleep, is that which all men  call a Dreame, whether such Dreame be naturall, or supernaturall: and that which there Jacob calleth an Angel, was God himselfe; for the same Angel saith (verse 13

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1) that by Michael is meant Christ, not as an Angel, but as a Prince: and that Gabriel (as the like apparitions made to other holy men  in their sleep) was nothing but a supernaturall phantasme, by which it seemed to Daniel, in his dream, that two Saints being in talke, one of them said to the other, "Gabriel, let us make this man  understand his Vision:" For God needeth not, to distinguish his Celestiall servants by names, which are usefull onely to the short memories of Mortalls

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) saith, that "Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man , but the holy men  of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit," by the Holy Spirit, is meant the voice of God in a Dream, or Vision supernaturall, which is not Inspiration; Nor when our Saviour breathing on his Disciples, said, "Receive the Holy Spirit," was that Breath the Spirit, but a sign of the spirituall graces he gave unto them

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From the very Creation, God not only reigned over all men  Naturally by his might; but also had Peculiar Subjects, whom he commanded by a Voice, as one man  speaketh to another

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They might as well term him the Nown of God: for as by Nown, so also by Verbe, men  understand nothing but a part of speech, a voice, a sound, that neither affirms, nor denies, nor commands, nor promiseth, nor is any substance corporeall, or spirituall; and therefore it cannot be said to bee either God, or man ; whereas our Saviour is both

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Divers Acceptions Of The Word Prophet The name of PROPHET, signifieth in Scripture sometimes Prolocutor; that is, he that speaketh from God to man , or from man  to God: And sometimes Praedictor, or a foreteller of things to come; And sometimes one that speaketh incoherently, as men  that are distracted

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And consequently men  had need to be very circumspect, and wary, in obeying the voice of man , that pretending himself to be a Prophet, requires us to obey God in that way, which he in Gods name telleth us to be the way to happinesse

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For he that pretends to teach men  the way of so great felicity, pretends to govern them; that is to say, to rule, and reign over them; which is a thing, that all men  naturally desire, and is therefore worthy to be suspected of Ambition and Imposture; and consequently, ought to be examined, and tryed by every man , before hee yeeld them obedience; unlesse he have yeelded it them already, in the institution of a Common-wealth; as when the Prophet is the Civill Soveraign, or by the Civil Soveraign Authorized

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Every man  therefore ought to consider who is the Soveraign Prophet; that is to say, who it is, that is Gods Viceregent on earth; and hath next under God, the Authority of Governing Christian men; and to observe for a Rule, that Doctrine, which in the name of God, hee commanded to bee taught; and thereby to examine and try out the truth of those Doctrines, which pretended Prophets with miracles, or without, shall at any time advance: and if they find it contrary to that Rule, to doe as they did, that came to Moses, and complained that there were some that Prophecyed in the Campe, whose Authority so to doe they doubted of; and leave to the Soveraign, as they did to Moses to uphold, or to forbid them, as hee should see cause; and if hee disavow them, then no more to obey their voice; or if he approve them, then to obey them, as men  to whom God hath given a part of the Spirit of their Soveraigne

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That Which Seemeth A Miracle To One man , May Seem Otherwise To Another Furthermore, seeing Admiration and Wonder, is consequent to the knowledge and experience, wherewith men  are endued, some more, some lesse; it followeth, that the same thing, may be a Miracle to one, and not to another

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And thence it is, that ignorant, and superstitious men  make great Wonders of those works, which other men , knowing to proceed from Nature, (which is not the immediate, but the ordinary work of God,) admire not at all: As when Ecclipses of the Sun and Moon have been taken for supernaturall works, by the common people; when neverthelesse, there were others, could from their naturall causes, have foretold the very hour they should arrive: Or, as when a man , by confederacy, and secret intelligence, getting knowledge of the private actions of an ignorant, unwary man , thereby tells him, what he has done in former time; it seems to him a Miraculous thing; but amongst wise, and cautelous men , such Miracles as those, cannot easily be done

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For how admirable soever any work be, the Admiration consisteth not in that it could be done, because men naturally beleeve the Almighty can doe all things, but because he does it at the Prayer, or Word of a man 

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A man  that hath practised to speak by drawing in of his breath, (which kind of men  in antient time were called Ventriloqui,) and so make the weaknesse of his voice seem to proceed, not from the weak impulsion of the organs of Speech, but from distance of place, is able to make very many men  beleeve it is a voice from Heaven, whatsoever he please to tell them

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As for example, after the death of Eleazar and Joshua, the next generation which had not seen the wonders of God, but were left to their own weak reason, not knowing themselves obliged by the Covenant of a Sacerdotall Kingdome, regarded no more the Commandement of the Priest, nor any law of Moses, but did every man  that which was right in his own eyes; and obeyed in Civill affairs, such men, as from time to time they thought able to deliver them from the neighbour Nations that oppressed them; and consulted not with God (as they ought to doe,) but with such men , or women, as they guessed to bee Prophets by their Praedictions of things to come; and thought they had an Idol in their Chappel, yet if they had a Levite for their Chaplain, they made account they worshipped the God of Israel

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Not that the death of one man, though without sinne, can satisfie for the offences of all men , in the rigour of Justice, but in the Mercy of God, that ordained such Sacrifices for sin, as he was pleased in his mercy to accept

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But a man  may here ask, seeing there is no marriage in the Kingdome of Heaven, whether men  shall then eat, and drink; what eating therefore is meant in this place? This is expounded by our Saviour (John 6

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There is another conjecture drawn from the Ceremonies of the Gentiles, in a certain case that rarely happens; and that is, when a man  that was thought dead, chanced to recover, other men  made scruple to converse with him, as they would doe to converse with a Ghost, unlesse hee were received again into the number of men , by Washing, as Children new born were washed from the uncleannesse of their nativity, which was a kind of new birth

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As Represented by the Apostles, the Holy Spirit by which they spake, is God; As Represented by his Son (that was God and man ), the Son is that God; As represented by Moses, and the High Priests, the Father, that is to say, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that God: From whence we may gather the reason why those names Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the signification of the Godhead, are never used in the Old Testament: For they are Persons, that is, they have their names from Representing; which could not be, till divers men  had Represented Gods Person in ruling, or in directing under him

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For what have I to do to judg them that are without? Do not ye judg them that are within?" The Sentence therefore by which a man  was put out of the Church, was pronounced by the Apostle, or Pastor; but the Judgment concerning the merit of the cause, was in the Church; that is to say, (as the times were before the conversion of Kings, and men  that had Soveraign Authority in the Common-wealth,) the Assembly of the Christians dwelling in the same City; as in Corinth, in the Assembly of the Christians of Corinth

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 men  were converted to no other thing then to the Beleef of that which the Apostles preached: And the Apostles preached nothing, but that Jesus was the Christ, that is to say, the King that was to save them, and reign over them eternally in the world to come; and consequently that hee was not dead, but risen again from the dead, and gone up into Heaven, and should come again one day to judg the world, (which also should rise again to be judged,) and reward every man  according to his works

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) to the Soveraign Power Civill, whether it be in one man , or in one Assembly of men 

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Christian Kings Have Power To Execute All Manner Of Pastoral Function But if every Christian Soveraign be the Supreme Pastor of his own Subjects, it seemeth that he hath also the Authority, not only to Preach (which perhaps no man  will deny;) but also to Baptize, and to Administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; and to Consecrate both Temples, and Pastors to Gods service; which most men  deny; partly because they use not to do it; and partly because the Administration of Sacraments, and Consecration of Persons, and Places to holy uses, requireth the Imposition of such mens hands, as by the like Imposition successively from the time of the Apostles have been ordained to the like Ministery

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The Civill Soveraigne If A Christian, Is Head Of The Church In His Own Dominions From this consolidation of the Right Politique, and Ecclesiastique in Christian Soveraigns, it is evident, they have all manner of Power over their Subjects, that can be given to man , for the government of mens externall actions, both in Policy, and Religion; and may make such Laws, as themselves shall judge fittest, for the government of their own Subjects, both as they are the Common-wealth, and as they are the Church: for both State, and Church are the same men 

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In Monarchy there is but One man  Supreme; and all other men  that have any kind of Power in the State, have it by his Commission, during his pleasure; and execute it in his name: And in Aristocracy, and Democracy, but One Supreme Assembly, with the same Power that in Monarchy belongeth to the Monarch, which is not a Mixt, but an Absolute Soveraignty

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"You know what commandements we gave you:" where the Greek word is paraggelias edokamen, equivalent to paredokamen, what wee delivered to you, as in the place next before alledged, which does not prove the Traditions of the Apostles, to be any more than Counsells; though as is said in the 8th verse, "he that despiseth them, despiseth not man , but God": For our Saviour himself came not to Judge, that is, to be King in this world; but to Sacrifice himself for Sinners, and leave Doctors in his Church, to lead, not to drive men  to Christ, who never accepteth forced actions, (which is all the Law produceth,) but the inward conversion of the heart; which is not the work of Laws, but of Counsell, and Doctrine

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For Jurisdiction is the Power of hearing and determining Causes between man  and man ; and can belong to none, but him that hath the Power to prescribe the Rules of Right and Wrong; that is, to make Laws; and with the Sword of Justice to compell men  to obey his Decisions, pronounced either by himself, or by the Judges he ordaineth thereunto; which none can lawfully do, but the Civill Soveraign

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For it is evident, and has already been sufficiently in this Treatise demonstrated, that the Right of all Soveraigns, is derived originally from the consent of every one of those that are to bee governed; whether they that choose him, doe it for their common defence against an Enemy, as when they agree amongst themselves to appoint a man , or an Assembly of men  to protect them; or whether they doe it, to save their lives, by submission to a conquering Enemy

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The Causes Of Christian Faith The causes why men  beleeve any Christian Doctrine, are various; For Faith is the gift of God; and he worketh it in each severall man , by such wayes, as it seemeth good unto himself

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In What Sense Other Articles May Be Called Necessary But a man  may here aske, whether it bee not as necessary to Salvation, to beleeve, that God is Omnipotent; Creator of the world; that Jesus Christ is risen; and that all men  else shall rise again from the dead at the last day; as to beleeve, that Jesus Is The Christ

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" The Church Not Yet Fully Freed Of Darknesse As men  that are utterly deprived from their Nativity, of the light of the bodily Eye, have no Idea at all, of any such light; and no man  conceives in his imagination any greater light, than he hath at some time, or other perceived by his outward Senses: so also is it of the light of the Gospel, and of the light of the Understanding, that no man  can conceive there is any greater degree of it, than that which he hath already attained unto

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As That The Kingdome Of God Is The Present Church Consequent to this Errour, that the present Church is Christs Kingdome, there ought to be some one man , or Assembly, by whose mouth our Saviour (now in heaven) speaketh, giveth law, and which representeth his person to all Christians, or divers men , or divers Assemblies that doe the same to divers parts of Christendome

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And yet in this daily act of the Priest, they doe the very same, by turning the holy words into the manner of a Charme, which produceth nothing now to the Sense; but they face us down, that it hath turned the Bread into a man ; nay more, into a God; and require men  to worship it, as if it were our Saviour himself present God and man , and thereby to commit most grosse Idolatry

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For men  being generally possessed before the time of our Saviour, by contagion of the Daemonology of the Greeks, of an opinion, that the Souls of men  were substances distinct from their Bodies, and therefore that when the Body was dead, the Soule of every man , whether godly, or wicked, must subsist somewhere by vertue of its own nature, without acknowledging therein any supernaturall gift of Gods; the Doctors of the Church doubted a long time, what was the place, which they were to abide in, till they should be re-united to their Bodies in the Resurrection; supposing for a while, they lay under the Altars: but afterward the Church of Rome found it more profitable, to build for them this place of Purgatory; which by some other Churches in this later age, has been demolished

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) "That which befalleth the Sons of men , befalleth Beasts, even one thing befalleth them; as the one dyeth, so doth the other; yea, they have all one breath (one spirit;) so that a man  hath no praeeminence above a Beast, for all is vanity

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Also, it seemeth hard, to say, that God who is the Father of Mercies, that doth in Heaven and Earth all that hee will; that hath the hearts of all men  in his disposing; that worketh in men  both to doe, and to will; and without whose free gift a man  hath neither inclination to good, nor repentance of evill, should punish mens transgressions without any end of time, and with all the extremity of torture, that men  can imagine, and more

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 men  may as well aske, why Christ that could have given to all men  Faith, Piety, and all manner of morall Vertues, gave it to some onely, and not to all: and why he left the search of naturall Causes, and Sciences, to the naturall Reason and Industry of men , and did not reveal it to all, or any man  supernaturally; and many other such questions: Of which neverthelesse there may be alledged probable and pious reasons

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The Gentiles worshipped for Gods, Jupiter, and others; that living, were men perhaps that had done great and glorious Acts; and for the Children of God, divers men  and women, supposing them gotten between an Immortall Deity, and a mortall man 

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But if one being no Pastor, nor of eminent reputation for knowledge in Christian Doctrine, doe the same, and another follow him; this is no Scandall given; for he had no cause to follow such example: but is a pretence of Scandall which hee taketh of himselfe for an excuse before men : For an unlearned man , that is in the power of an idolatrous King, or State, if commanded on pain of death to worship before an Idoll, hee detesteth the Idoll in his heart, hee doth well; though if he had the fortitude to suffer death, rather than worship it, he should doe better

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Seeing therefore there is no authority, neither in the Law of Moses, nor in the Gospel, for the religious Worship of Images, or other Representations of God, which men  set up to themselves; or for the Worship of the Image of any Creature in Heaven, or Earth, or under the Earth: And whereas Christian Kings, who are living Representants of God, are not to be worshipped by their Subjects, by any act, that signifieth a greater esteem of his power, than the nature of mortall man  is capable of; It cannot be imagined, that the Religious Worship now in use, was brought into the Church, by misunderstanding of the Scripture

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But to what purpose (may some man  say) is such subtilty in a work of this nature, where I pretend to nothing but what is necessary to the doctrine of Government and Obedience? It is to this purpose, that men  may no longer suffer themselves to be abused, by them, that by this doctrine of Separated Essences, built on the Vain Philosophy of Aristotle, would fright them from Obeying the Laws of their Countrey, with empty names; as men  fright Birds from the Corn with an empty doublet, a hat, and a crooked stick

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One Body In Many Places, And Many Bodies In One Place At Once And whereas men  divide a Body in their thought, by numbring parts of it, and in numbring those parts, number also the parts of the Place it filled; it cannot be, but in making many parts, wee make also many places of those parts; whereby there cannot bee conceived in the mind of any man , more, or fewer parts, than there are places for: yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place; as if it were an acknowledgment of the Divine Power, to say, that which is, is not; or that which has been, has not been

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And such is the Philosophy of all men  that resolve of their Conclusions, before they know their Premises; pretending to comprehend, that which is Incomprehensible; and of Attributes of Honour to make Attributes of Nature; as this distinction was made to maintain the Doctrine of Free-Will, that is, of a Will of man , not subject to the Will of God

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And yet is this Doctrine still practised; and men judge the Goodnesse, or Wickednesse of their own, and of other mens actions, and of the actions of the Common-wealth it selfe, by their own Passions; and no man  calleth Good or Evill, but that which is so in his own eyes, without any regard at all to the Publique Laws; except onely Monks, and Friers, that are bound by Vow to that simple obedience to their Superiour, to which every Subject ought to think himself bound by the Law of Nature to the Civill Soveraign

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If the Law were made because the use of Wives is Incontinence, and contrary to Chastity, then all marriage is vice; If because it is a thing too impure, and unclean for a man  consecrated to God; much more should other naturall, necessary, and daily works which all men  doe, render men  unworthy to bee Priests, because they are more unclean

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And that which offendeth the People, is no other thing, but that they are governed, not as every one of them would himselfe, but as the Publique Representant, be it one man , or an Assembly of men  thinks fit; that is, by an Arbitrary government: for which they give evill names to their Superiors; never knowing (till perhaps a little after a Civill warre) that without such Arbitrary government, such Warre must be perpetuall; and that it is men , and Arms, not Words, and Promises, that make the Force and Power of the Laws

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What man, that has his naturall Senses, though he can neither write nor read, does not find himself governed by them he fears, and beleeves can kill or hurt him when he obeyeth not? or that beleeves the Law can hurt him; that is, Words, and Paper, without the Hands, and Swords of men ? And this is of the number of pernicious Errors: for they induce men , as oft as they like not their Governours, to adhaere to those that call them Tyrants, and to think it lawfull to raise warre against them: And yet they are many times cherished from the Pulpit, by the Clergy

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And are not the Scriptures, in all places where they are Law, made Law by the Authority of the Common-wealth, and consequently, a part of the Civill Law? Of the same kind it is also, when any but the Soveraign restraineth in any man  that power which the Common-wealth hath not restrained: as they do, that impropriate the Preaching of the Gospell to one certain Order of men , where the Laws have left it free

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I say they might have hindred the same in the beginning: But when the people were once possessed by those spirituall men, there was no humane remedy to be applyed, that any man  could invent: And for the remedies that God should provide, who never faileth in his good time to destroy all the Machinations of men  against the Truth, wee are to attend his good pleasure, that suffereth many times the prosperity of his enemies, together with their ambition, to grow to such a height, as the violence thereof openeth the eyes, which the warinesse of their predecessours had before sealed up, and makes men  by too much grasping let goe all, as Peters net was broken, by the struggling of too great a multitude of Fishes; whereas the Impatience of those, that strive to resist such encroachment, before their Subjects eyes were opened, did but encrease the power they resisted

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After this, the Presbyterians lately in England obtained the putting down of Episcopacy: And so was the second knot dissolved: And almost at the same time, the Power was taken also from the Presbyterians: And so we are reduced to the Independency of the Primitive Christians to follow Paul, or Cephas, or Apollos, every man  as he liketh best: Which, if it be without contention, and without measuring the Doctrine of Christ, by our affection to the Person of his Minister, (the fault which the Apostle reprehended in the Corinthians,) is perhaps the best: First, because there ought to be no Power over the Consciences of men , but of the Word it selfe, working Faith in every one, not alwayes according to the purpose of them that Plant and Water, but of God himself, that giveth the Increase: and secondly, because it is unreasonable in them, who teach there is such danger in every little Errour, to require of a man  endued with Reason of his own, to follow the Reason of any other man , or of the most voices of many other men ; Which is little better, then to venture his Salvation at crosse and pile

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And because I find by divers English Books lately printed, that the Civill warres have not yet sufficiently taught men , in what point of time it is, that a Subject becomes obliged to the Conquerour; nor what is Conquest; nor how it comes about, that it obliges men  to obey his Laws: Therefore for farther satisfaction of men  therein, I say, the point of time, wherein a man  becomes subject of a Conquerour, is that point, wherein having liberty to submit to him, he consenteth, either by expresse words, or by other sufficient sign, to be his Subject

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By this also a man  may understand, when it is, that men  may be said to be Conquered; and in what the nature of Conquest, and the Right of a Conquerour consisteth: For this Submission is it implyeth them all

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For such Truth, as opposeth no man  profit, nor pleasure, is to all men  welcome