Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
33. OF THE NUMBER, ANTIQUITY, SCOPE, AUTHORITY, AND INTERPRETERS OF THE
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1. Chapter 1
2. 6. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS, COMMONLY CALLED THE
3. 8. OF THE VERTUES, COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUALL, AND THEIR CONTRARY
4. 13. OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY
5. 16. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED
6. 19. OF SEVERALL KINDS OF COMMON-WEALTH BY INSTITUTION; AND OF SUCCESION
7. 29. OF THOSE THINGS THAT WEAKEN, OR TEND TO THE DISSOLUTION OF A
8. 31. OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD BY NATURE
9. 33. OF THE NUMBER, ANTIQUITY, SCOPE, AUTHORITY, AND INTERPRETERS OF THE
10. 34. OF THE SIGNIFICATION, OF SPIRIT, ANGELL, AND INSPIRATION IN THE
11. 35. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD, OF HOLY,
12. 38. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF ETERNALL LIFE, HEL, SALVATION,
13. 40. OF THE RIGHTS OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD, IN ABRAHAM, MOSES, THE HIGH
14. 43. OF WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR MANS RECEPTION INTO THE KINGDOME OF HEAVEN
15. 47. OF THE BENEFIT PROCEEDING FROM SUCH DARKNESSE; AND TO WHOM IT
16. 48. A REVIEW AND CONCLUSION
17. PART I.
18. CHAPTER I. OF SENSE
19. CHAPTER II. OF IMAGINATION
20. CHAPTER III. OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAYNE OF IMAGINATIONS
21. CHAPTER IV. OF SPEECH
22. CHAPTER V. OF REASON, AND SCIENCE.
23. CHAPTER VI. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS
24. CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE
25. CHAPTER VIII. OF THE VERTUES COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUAL; AND THEIR
26. 10. 20.) some said, "He hath a Divell, and is mad;" whereas others
27. CHAPTER IX. OF THE SEVERALL SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE
28. 1. Consequences from the Accidents common to all Bodies Naturall;
29. 2. PHYSIQUES, or Consequences from Qualities
30. 1. Of Consequences from the Institution of COMMON-WEALTHS, to
31. 2. Of Consequences from the same, to the Duty and Right of
32. CHAPTER X. OF POWER, WORTH, DIGNITY, HONOUR AND WORTHINESS
33. CHAPTER XI. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS
34. CHAPTER XII. OF RELIGION
35. CHAPTER XIII. OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND,
36. CHAPTER XIV. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACTS
37. CHAPTER XV. OF OTHER LAWES OF NATURE
38. introduction of Warre; which is against the Law of Nature; and is
39. CHAPTER XVI. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED
40. PART II.
41. CHAPTER XVII. OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A
42. CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION
43. 1. The Subjects Cannot Change The Forme Of Government
44. 2. Soveraigne Power Cannot Be Forfeited
45. 3. No Man Can Without Injustice Protest Against The Institution Of The
46. 4. The Soveraigns Actions Cannot Be Justly Accused By The Subject
47. 5. What Soever The Soveraigne Doth, Is Unpunishable By The Subject
48. 6. The Soveraigne Is Judge Of What Is Necessary For The Peace And
49. 7. The Right of making Rules, whereby the Subject may every man know
50. 8. To Him Also Belongeth The Right Of All Judicature And Decision Of
51. 9. And Of Making War, And Peace, As He Shall Think Best:
52. 10. And Of Choosing All Counsellours, And Ministers, Both Of Peace, And
53. 11. And Of Rewarding, And Punishing, And That (Where No
54. 12. And Of Honour And Order
55. CHAPTER XIX. OF THE SEVERALL KINDS OF COMMON-WEALTH BY INSTITUTION,
56. CHAPTER XX. OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALL
57. 21. 2,3) "Go into the Village over against you, and you shall find a
58. CHAPTER XXI. OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS
59. CHAPTER XXII. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE
60. CHAPTER XXIII. OF THE PUBLIQUE MINISTERS OF SOVERAIGN POWER
61. CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH
62. CHAPTER XXV. OF COUNSELL
63. CHAPTER XXVI. OF CIVILL LAWES
64. 1. The Legislator in all Common-wealths, is only the Soveraign, be he
65. 2. The Soveraign of a Common-wealth, be it an Assembly, or one Man, is
66. 3. When long Use obtaineth the authority of a Law, it is not the
67. 4. The Law of Nature, and the Civill Law, contain each other, and are
68. 5. If the Soveraign of one Common-wealth, subdue a people that have
69. 6. Seeing then all Lawes, written, and unwritten, have their Authority,
70. 7. That Law can never be against Reason, our Lawyers are agreed; and
71. 8. From this, that the Law is a Command, and a Command consisteth in
72. 1. The Edicts, Constitutions, and Epistles Of The Prince, that is, of
73. 2. The Decrees Of The Whole People Of Rome (comprehending the Senate,)
74. 3. The Decrees Of The Common People (excluding the Senate,) when they
75. 4. Senatus Consulta, the Orders Of The Senate; because when the people
76. 5. The Edicts Of Praetors, and (in some Cases) of the Aediles: such as
77. 6. Responsa Prudentum; which were the Sentences, and Opinions of those
78. 7. Also, Unwritten Customes, (which in their own nature are an imitation
79. CHAPTER XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS
80. CHAPTER XXVIII. OF PUNISHMENTS, AND REWARDS
81. CHAPTER XXIX. OF THOSE THINGS THAT WEAKEN, OR TEND TO THE DISSOLUTION OF
82. CHAPTER XXX. OF THE OFFICE OF THE SOVERAIGN REPRESENTATIVE
83. CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD BY NATURE
84. PART III.
85. CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN POLITIQUES
86. CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE NUMBER, ANTIQUITY, SCOPE, AUTHORITY, AND
87. 27. which was also commanded to be written on stones, in their entry
88. 22. 8 & 23. 1,2,3)
89. 14. 15. 63.
90. 126. whereby it is manifest that the Psalter was compiled, and put into
91. CHAPTER XXXIV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF SPIRIT, ANGEL, AND INSPIRATION IN
92. 8. 1. Where when the earth was covered with Waters, as in the beginning,
93. CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF KINGDOME OF GOD, OF
94. CHAPTER XXXVI. OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF PROPHETS
95. 18. 1.) by an apparition of three Angels; and to Abimelech (Gen. 20. 3.)
96. 26. 24.) to Isaac in the night; (that is, in his sleep, or by dream):
97. 12. 6,7,8.) "If there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make my
98. 4. 2, &c) speaking expressely of the means to examine Spirits, whether
99. CHAPTER XXXVII. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USE
100. 13. 58.) that he wrought not many Miracles in his own countrey, because
101. 18. of Deuteronomy; That wee take not any for Prophets, that teach any
102. CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF ETERNALL LIFE,
103. CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCH
104. CHAPTER XL OF THE RIGHTS OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD, IN ABRAHAM, MOSES,
105. CHAPTER XLI. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR
106. CHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALL
107. 24. where he saith, "As in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be
108. 5. 39.) "Search the Scriptures; for in them yee thinke to have eternall
109. 2. of the same Chapter) "Serving of Tables," is a service done to the
110. CHAPTER XLIII. OF WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR A MANS RECEPTION INTO THE
111. 11. 30.) that "Christs yoke is Easy, and his burthen Light:" Nor that
112. 4. 2. "Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the
113. PART IV.
114. CHAPTER XLIV. OF SPIRITUALL DARKNESSE FROM MISINTERPRETATION OF
115. 4. ver.3.) "Better is he that hath not yet been, than both they;" that
116. 1. 12.); and againe, (2 Sam. 3. 35.) for the death of Abner. This
117. CHAPTER XLV. OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE
118. CHAPTER XLVI. OF DARKNESSE FROM VAIN PHILOSOPHY, AND FABULOUS TRADITIONS
119. CHAPTER XLVII. OF THE BENEFIT THAT PROCEEDETH FROM SUCH DARKNESSE, AND
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