A Theologico-Political Treatise Part IV
CHAPTER XVI - OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF A STATE; OF
THE NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS; AND OF THE RIGHTS OF THE
SOVEREIGN POWER.
CHAPTER XVII - IT IS SHOWN THAT NO ONE CAN, OR
NEED, TRANSFER ALL HIS RIGHTS TO THE SOVEREIGN POWER. OF THE HEBREW
REPUBLIC, AS IT WAS DURING THE LIFETIME OF MOSES, AND AFTER HIS DEATH,
TILL THE FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY; AND OF ITS EXCELLENCE. LASTLY,
OF THE CAUSES WHY THE THEOCRATIC REPUBLIC FELL, AND WHY IT COULD
HARDLY HAVE CONTINUED WITHOUT DISSENSION.
CHAPTER XVIII - FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE
HEBREWS, AND THEIR HISTORY, CERTAIN POLITICAL DOCTRINES ARE DEDUCED.
CHAPTER XIX - IT IS SHOWN THAT THE RIGHT OVER
MATTERS SPIRITUAL LIES WHOLLY WITH THE SOVEREIGN, AND THAT THE
OUTWARD FORMS OF RELIGION SHOULD BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH PUBLIC PEACE,
IF WE WOULD OBEY GOD ARIGHT.
CHAPTER XX - THAT IN A FREE STATE EVERY MAN MAY
THINK WHAT HE LIKES, AND SAY WHAT HE THINKS.
AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL
TREATISE
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