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#2 Page 10 pdf Extra Addition John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration
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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
Translated by William Popple [1689]
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter Concerning Toleratin PDF.pdf
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| DAY 19 |
DAY 19, March 21, 2025, Page 9b of 40, Pages based on pdf
***A Letter Concerning Toleration,*** Author John Locke.
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter Concerning Toleratin PDF.pdf
Extra Addition to John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government. The second half of the book is A Letter Concerning Toleration. The first book on government is founded on this letter. Real, true Christianity is biblical. It is not today's Christianity.
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| I will only mind those that contend so earnestly for the decrees of their own society, and that cry out continually, They cry, The Church, The Church! |
It is not made up of arbitrary rules, laws, and doctrines—false teachings of mere men because evil men are counterfeiting money.
The Bible does not give the church the right to persecute others.
I.E., fire, sword, and compulsory punishments if they join their faith and live by their doctrines.......The end of a religious society (as has already been said) is the public worship of God and, by means thereof, the acquisition of eternal life...... The church cannot get people to give what they have to them. .........Nothing ought nor can be transacted in this society relating to the possession of civil and worldly goods.... ..... That punishment is for the magistrate..... For force belongs wholly to the civil magistrate, and the possession of all outward goods is subject to his jurisdiction.........
Men join civil or political government for the protection of their possessions and property.
Arms or weapons of the church are......The arms by which the members of this society are to be kept within their duty are exhortations, admonitions, and advices. If by these means the offenders will not be reclaimed and the erroneous convinced, there remains nothing further to be done but that such stubborn and obstinate persons, who give no ground to hope for their reformation, should be cast out and separated from society.
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| DAY 20 PAGE 10b OF 40 |
Sunday, March 23, 2025, Good morning, PG Here. "A Letter Concerning Toleration," by John Locke, 1689. This is the explanation of our first Amendment rights to freedom of religion. Free to worship where and how you choose. Not freedom of any religion. The religion (a set of beliefs, idealogy) must be in the bounds of a Christian society under God within the Kingdom of God on earth. According to the Declaration of Independence, all men must acknowledge Almighty God as our creator and men's rights that come from God through Jesus Christ. Everything in the world comes from ***God,*** our creator. Government is a work of the Holy Spirit of God. It is a ministry, being a servant of the people, a calling. You must be called by God in the ministry of the work of operations, administration, facilitation, settling disputes between people, executing justice, making laws and punishments that are from God that are fair and just, equally applied to all men, etc. Punishment must convict men of their sins and crimes. Put convicted by the Holy Spirit criminals away from others so they do not harm anyone else. This isolation from society will have them think about the wrong they did and how it harmed others. Knowing they are not coming out of punishment until they know what they did was wrong, show real, true remorse. Prove to have become a man of his word, then swear to never harm someone else. Repenting, turning men away from a life of crime to God, is what criminal punishment is for. ..Laws, rules, and administrations: The word ministry is in administrations that are based on men's free rights according to nature. If they were free on a mountain, no one else would be around them. According to the laws their Creator has put in place to feed and clothe them and to go forth to populate the earth, providing for their offspring as men and wives for life. ..The people in the government are a part of the church. The office of administration and operations comes out of men's hearts that worship God freely in the congregation,{an assembly of citizens, the ecclesia, the separated ones, the church,} at home with their families, every day work, and calling. It comes out of their love of God, worship of God, and faithfully following his commandments to preach the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Propagation of; The earlier fathers called ***the furtherance of the Kingdom of God*** on this earth. Jesus being our King, and we are in his kingdom. Revelation 21: The New Jersusalem. The seat of God on earth. It is within us. John Locke has been distinguishing between the government and its rights to punish men and actually take their property from them if they receive it illegally. Also as a punishment for harm to others. The church does not have compulsory power like the government or magistrate. The worst punishment is excommunicating a person. No one will talk to the person any more, nor can he worship God with them. John Locke; "For all force (as has often been said) belongs only to the magistrate, nor ought any private persons at any time to use force, unless it be in self-defence against unjust violence." Luke 17:21 1599 Geneva Bible Jesus is speaking: 21 Neither shall men say, Lo here, or lo there: for behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Matthew 6:10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 12:28 But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Colossians 1:13 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, 1 Corinthians 4:20 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition 20 For the kingdom of God consists of and is based on not talk but power (moral power and excellence of soul).
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| Day 21 |
March 24, 2025, Page 11a out of 40 according to pdf Day 21
PG here. denizen:
1.an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place.
"denizens of field and forest"
2.a foreigner allowed certain rights in the adopted country.
Monday Night: March 24, 2025, page 11a of 40 pages on the pdf.
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf
Excommunication is stopping a person from worshipping and taking the Lord's Supper, communion with the particular group of people. Outside this society, this person cannot be harmed in life, liberty, property, or even in service. Those matters of punishment are the purpose of political or civil government, which the magistrate is to attend to. Knowing this person has done you no harm. He is in error in his salvation; he will suffer every day; he will be miserable in this life and in the afterlife for eternity.
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| Day 22 |
March 25, 2025, 11b of 40 pages, according to pdf
Day 22,
March 25, 2025, 11b of 40 pages, according to pdf
Day 22,
...the mutual toleration of private persons differing
from one another in religion.... No one has jurisdiction over another person of a different religion. .................no, not even when the civil magistrate (as it sometimes happens) comes to be of this or the other communion. For the civil government can give no new right to the church, nor the church to the civil government.
What I say concerning the mutual toleration of private persons differing from one another in religion, I understand also of particular churches which stand, as it were, in the same relation to each other as private persons among themselves: nor has any one of them any manner of jurisdiction over any other; no, not even when the civil magistrate (as it sometimes happens) comes to be of this or the other communion. For the civil government can give no new right to the church, nor the church to the civil government. So that, whether the magistrate join himself to any church, or separate from it, the church remains always as it was before—a
free and voluntary society. It neither requires the power of the sword by the magistrate’s coming to it, nor does it lose the right of instruction and excommunication by his going from it. This is the fundamental and immutable right of a spontaneous society—that it has power to remove any of its members who transgress the rules of its institution; but it cannot, by the accession of any new members, acquire any right of jurisdiction over those that are not joined with it. And therefore peace, equity, and friendship are always mutually to be observed by particular churches, in the same manner as by private persons, without any pretence of
superiority or jurisdiction over one another.
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| DAY 23 |
PG here: Excerpt from page 5b, of 40 according to the PDF. Day 8, Monday, March 10th, 2025
It is a reminder of what we are learning, our true freedoms, and what we are fighting for. A society free from wickedness, filthiness, dirty-minded people, and slothfulness. We turn from and fight to be a good, honest society. More importantly, wholesome for the common good, happiness, fairness, justice, and equality of all men. Which comes from Almighty God to those who have turned from a life of crime, sin, licentiousness, dirty-mindedness, and lying. Men who have turned to God to be cleansed from all dirtiness of mind, soul, and body, all corruption, and defilement of the flesh.
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These good, clean, pure people join and unite in society to love one another, for it is our Christian moral right, duty, and responsibility to worship God freely and protect ***The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.***
#1 Extra Addition John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration
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Today's reading will take today and tomorrow to write about. It is about supposing, as an example, happenings in two churches in the 1600s. In Constantinople and who has the rights and responsibilities in the church.
Today's reading is 12b of 40......excerpt: the one of Arminians, the other of Calvinists—residing in the city of Constantinople. Will anyone say that either of these churches has right to deprive the members of the other of their estates and liberty (as we see practised elsewhere) because of their differing from it in some some doctrines and ceremonies, .................. fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf
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| DAY 24 |
The church should not persecute other churches in Christ's kingdom on this earth. And civil government can not give that power that it does not have to a church the person in charge favors. PG here, Thursday, March 27, 2025, Day Page 12b of 40 according to pdf. Add to yesterday's post on two churches as an example.
....12b: So that the controversy between these churches about the truth of their doctrines and the purity of their worship is on both sides equal; nor is there any judge, either at Constantinople or elsewhere upon earth, by whose sentence it can be
determined. The decision on that question belongs only to the Supreme Judge of all men, to whom also alone belongs the punishment of the erroneous. In the meantime, let those men consider how heinously they sin, who, adding injustice, if not to their error, yet certainly to their pride, do rashly and arrogantly take upon them to misuse the servants of another master, who are not at all accountable to them.............
{commentary: The civil government and heathens have no authority over a church, nor does one church have any authority over another. }
paragraph 2...................An infidel, who has himself no authority to punish Christians for the articles of their faith, cannot confer such an authority upon any society of Christians, nor give unto them a right which he has not himself. This would be the case at Constantinople; and the reason of the thing is the same in any Christian kingdom. The civil power is the same in every place. Nor can that power, in the hands of a Christian prince, confer
any greater authority upon the Church than in the hands of a heathen;which is to say, just none at all.
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| DAY 25 |
PG HERE, Extra Addition John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration
March 28, 2025 Page 13a of 40
Pages based on pdf DAY 25 http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter Concerning Toleratin PDF.pdf
Nevertheless, it is worthy to be observed and lamented that the most violent of these defenders of the truth, the opposers of errors, the exclaimers against schism do hardly ever let loose this their zeal for God, with which they are so warmed and inflamed, unless where they have the civil magistrate on their side. But so soon as ever court favour has giventhem the better end of the staff, and they begin to feel themselves the stronger, then presently peace and charity are to be laid aside. Otherwise they are religiously to be observed. Where they have not the power to carry on persecution and to become masters, there they desire to live upon fair terms and preach up toleration. When they are not strengthened with the civil power, then they can bear most patiently and unmovedly the contagion of idolatry, superstition, and heresy in their neighbourhood; of which on other occasions the interest of religion makes them to be extremely apprehensive. They do not forwardly attack those errors which are in fashion at court or are countenanced by the government. Here they can be content to spare their arguments; which yet (with their leave) is the only right method of propagating truth, which has no such way of prevailing as when strong arguments and good reason are joined with the softness of civility and good usage.
Nobody, therefore, in fine, neither single persons nor churches, nay, nor even commonwealths, have any just title to invade the civil rights and worldly goods of each other upon pretence of religion. Those that are of another opinion would do well to consider with themselves how pernicious a seed of discord and war, how powerful a provocation to endless hatreds, rapines, and slaughters they thereby furnish unto mankind. No peace and security, no, not so much as common friendship, can ever be established or preserved amongst men so long as this opinion prevails, that dominion is founded in grace and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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| Day 27 |
The Great 2025 Silver Squeeze Day. PG here. Monday, March 31, 14b, according to the pdf. fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter Concerning Toleratin PDF.pdf Extra addition to John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government and Letter Concerning Toleration." PG here. I started copying and pasting 1 page of John Locke a day. We are on day 47. In addition, in "A Letter Concerning Toleration," we are on page 27. A time, the 1600s, when the church ran the government and would take everything a person had, even burning them at the stake, unless they worshipped in the Catholic Church or the Church of England. ***FREEDOM OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION*** A religion is what you believe, a philosophy, an ideology.
All men must unanimously agree to being a part of the making of the laws and rules plus punishment. For the protection to worship God freely. Must be fair, just, holy, wholesome, and highly moral. For the goodwill of everyone. Religion can not be enforced using force of arms. Weapons, position, and government. {15a Finishes the thought.) 15a: .....reasons with the instruments of force, which belong to another jurisdiction and do ill become a Churchman’s hands. Let them not call in the magistrate’s authority to the aid of their eloquence or learning, lest perhaps, whilst they pretend only love for the truth, this their intemperate zeal, breathing nothing but fire and sword, betray their ambition and show that what they desire is temporal dominion.} .
.....14b.........This caution and temper they ought certainly to use towards those. who mind only their own business and are solicitous for nothing but that (whatever men think of them), they may worship God in that manner which they are persuaded is acceptable to Him and in which they have the strongest hopes of eternal salvation. In private domestic affairs, in the management of estates, in the conservation of bodily health, every man may consider what suits his own convenience and follow what course he likes best.
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| DAY 27 |
The Great 2025 Silver Squeeze Day. PG here. Monday, March 31, 14b, according to the pdf. fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter Concerning Toleratin PDF.pdf Extra addition to John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government and Letter Concerning Toleration." PG here. I started copying and pasting 1 page of John Locke a day. We are on day 47. In addition, in "A Letter Concerning Toleration," we are on page 27. A time, the 1600s, when the church ran the government and would take everything a person had, even burning them at the stake, unless they worshipped in the Catholic Church or the Church of England.
***FREEDOM OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION*** A religion is what you believe, a philosophy, an ideology. All men must unanimously agree to being a part of the making of the laws and rules plus punishment. For the protection to worship God freely. Must be fair, just, holy, wholesome, and highly moral. For the goodwill of everyone. Religion can not be enforced using force of arms. Weapons, position, and government. {15a Finishes the thought. 15a: .....reasons with the instruments of force, which belong to another jurisdiction and do ill become a Churchman’s hands. Let them not call in the magistrate’s authority to the aid of their eloquence or learning, lest perhaps, whilst they pretend only love for the truth, this their intemperate zeal, breathing nothing but fire and sword, betray their ambition and show that what they desire is temporal dominion.}
14b.........This caution and temper they ought certainly to use towards those. who mind only their own business and are solicitous for nothing but that (whatever men think of them), they may worship God in that manner which they are persuaded is acceptable to Him and in which they have the strongest hopes of eternal salvation. In private domestic affairs, in the management of estates, in the conservation of bodily health, every man may consider what suits his own convenience and follow what course he likes best.
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| Day 28 |
PG here Extra addition to john Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration. Page numbers according to the PDF. Today is page 15a of 40 pages according to the PDF. Pretty self-explanatory. John is writing about how, through Jesus Christ, men should have religious toleration for their fellow Christians. People who called themselves Christian would get all fired up and start riots. They would create a group of vigilantes and burn people at the stake. John Locke is writing that it is up to the government or magistrate to make laws and punish men. It isn't the church's responsibility. The church cannot say they are burning someone at the stake or drowning them to try to save their souls. When it comes to a person's salvation as well as his estate and his personal health, it is up to the person. It is neither the affair of the church nor the magistrate to get someone to take good care of their property or their health. Only God can take good care of a person's eternal soul.
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| DAY 29 |
15b Nay, God Himself will not save men against their wills. Let us suppose, however, that some prince were desirous to force his subjects to accumulate riches, or to preserve the health and strength of their bodies. Shall it be provided by law that they must consult none but Roman physicians, and shall everyone be bound to live according to their prescriptions? What, shall no potion, no broth, be taken, but what is prepared either in the Vatican, suppose, or in a Geneva shop? Or, to make these subjects rich, shall they all be obliged by law to become merchants or musicians?
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| BUSKINS ARE LACED UP BOOTS |
Or, shall everyone turn victualler, or smith, because there are some that maintain their families plentifully and grow rich in those professions? But, it may be said, there are a thousand ways to wealth, but one only way to heaven. It is well said, indeed, especially by those that plead for compelling men into this or the other way.
For if there were several ways that led thither, there would not be so much as a pretence left for compulsion. But now, if I be marching on with my utmost vigour in that way which, according to the sacred geography, leads straight to Jerusalem, why am I beaten and ill-used by others because, perhaps, I wear not buskins; because my hair is not of the right cut; because, perhaps, I have not been dipped in the right fashion; because I eat flesh upon the road, or some other food which agrees with my stomach;
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| DAY 30 |
1.) PG here, an extra addition to John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government. The second half of the book is A Letter Concerning Toleration. The first book on government is founded on this letter. Real, true Christianity is biblical. It is not today's Christianity. This is Day 30 reading Page 16a according to the pdf: The whole world had come to know the gospel of Jesus Christ and had converted to Christianity. The Catholic Church said everyone must be Catholic, then the Church of England said everyone must be Anglican. In other parts, everyone had to be Orthodox. All the same religion but different ways to believe, practice, carry on, and worship. No one agreed. John Locke is asking, How do you know who is right? Which is the right way? It is very repetitive to things already read in other pages.
........because I avoid certain by-ways, which seem unto me to lead into briars or precipices; because, amongst the several paths that are in the same road, I choose that to walk in which seems to be the straightest and cleanest; because I avoid to keep company with some travellers that are less grave and others that are more sour than they ought to be; or, in fine, because I follow a guide that either is, or is not, clothed in white, or crowned with a mitre? Certainly, if we consider right, we shall find that, for the most part, they are such frivolous things as these that (without any prejudice to religion or the salvation of souls, if not accompanied with superstition or hypocrisy) might either be observed or omitted.
I say they are such-like things as these which breed implacable enmities amongst Christian brethren, who are all agreed in the substantial and truly fundamental part of religion. But let us grant unto these zealots, who condemn all things that are not of their mode, that from these circumstances are different ends. What shall we conclude from thence? There is only one of these, which is the true way to eternal happiness; but in this great variety of ways that men follow, it is still doubted which is the right one. Now, neither the care of the commonwealth, nor the right enacting of laws, does discover this way that leads to heaven more certainly to the magistrate than every private man’s search and study discovers it unto himself. I have a weak body, sunk under a languishing disease, for which (I suppose) there is one only remedy, but that unknown. Does it therefore belong unto the magistrate to prescribe me a remedy because there is but one and because it is unknown? Because there is but one way for me to escape death, will it therefore be safe for me to do whatsoever the magistrate ordains?
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