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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
Translated by William Popple [1689]
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PG HERE, Monday, April 21, 2025, Extra Addition: "A Letter Concerning Toleration." Day 43, 25 a and b according to PDF.
A whole page to read. A story of Israel on government with religion. Usually I just put up half of a page according to the PDF. Religion mixed with government using the example of idolatry. This was concerning insubordination, or treason, and could be punished by death. God being the king. While a stranger was not held to that high of a standard. This standard is for those who are born Israeli or who ARE FOREIGNERS WHO JOIN THEIR RELIGION. They are proselytes to the Jewish religion. fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf
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| DAY 43 |
Secondly, foreigners and such as were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel were not compelled by force to observe the rites of the Mosaical law; but, on the contrary, in the very same place where it is ordered that an Israelite that was an idolater should be put to death,7 there it is provided that strangers should not be vexed nor oppressed. I confess that the seven nations that possessed the land which was promised to the Israelites were utterly to be cut off; but this was not singly because they were idolaters. For if that had been the reason, why were the Moabites and other nations to be spared? No: the reason is this. God being in a peculiar manner the King of the Jews, He could not suffer the adoration of any other deity (which was properly an act of high treason against Himself) in the land of Canaan, which was His kingdom. For such a manifest revolt could no ways consist with His dominion, which was perfectly political in that country. All idolatry was, therefore, to be rooted out of the bounds of His kingdom because it was an acknowledgment of another god, that is say, another king, against the laws of Empire. The inhabitants were also to be driven out, that the entire possession of the land might be given to the Israelites. And for the like reason the Emims and the Horims were driven out of their countries by the children of Esau and Lot; and their lands, upon the same grounds, given by God to the invaders.8 But, though all idolatry was thus rooted out of the land of Canaan, yet every idolater was not brought to execution. The whole family of Rahab, the whole nation of the Gibeonites, articled with Joshua, and were allowed by treaty; and there were many captives amongst the Jews who were idolaters. David and Solomon subdued many countries without the confines of the Land of Promise and carried their conquests as far as Euphrates. Amongst so many captives taken, so many nations reduced under their obedience, we find not one man forced into the Jewish religion and the worship of the true God and punished for idolatry, though all of them were certainly guilty of it. If any one, indeed, becoming a proselyte, desired to be made a denizen of their commonwealth, he was obliged to submit to their laws; that is, to embrace their religion. But this he did willingly, on his own accord, not by constraint. He did not unwillingly submit, to show his obedience, but he sought and solicited for it as a privilege. And, as soon as he was admitted, he became subject to the laws of the commonwealth, by which all idolatrywas forbidden within the borders of the land of Canaan. But that law (as I have said) did not reach to any of those regions, however subjected unto the Jews, that were situated without those bounds.
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| DAY 44 |
PG here, April 22, 2025, Day 44, Page 26a of 40 according to the PDF. This is really easy and straightforward, easy to understand. Please read the picture. 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. It is not made up of arbitrary rules, laws, and doctrines—false teachings of mere men because evil men are counterfeiting money. Evil people are inventing things no one using gold and silver coins would ever afford or spend their money on. The average wage is a silver dime, and the average pay is 3 silver dollars a month. A gold piece is $10 and is earned in about 9 months. No one needs a lot of money. Judas was given 30 pieces of silver; the Potters Field was about 9 months pay or a $10 gold piece. Men who love and worship God trust God for land, animals, wives, children, herds, and their own crops; they grow themselves, well water, and horses for transportation. Homes they build with their own two hands.
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| DAY 45 |
PG here, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, page 26b of 40 according to the PDF. Extra Addition John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration. SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND LEGISLATIVE POWER. "SHE" BELOW IS THE "TRUTH".... ....Further, the magistrate ought not to forbid the preaching or professing of any speculative opinions in any Church because they have no manner of relation to the civil rights of the subjects. If a Roman Catholic believe that to be really the body of Christ which another man calls bread, he does no injury thereby to his neighbour. If a Jew do not believe the New Testament to be the Word of God, he does not thereby alter anything in men’s civil rights. If a heathen doubt of both Testaments, he is not therefore to be punished as a pernicious citizen. The power of the magistrate and the estates of the people may be equally secure whether any man believe these things or no. I readily grant that these opinions are false and absurd. But the business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth and of every particular man’s goods and person. And so it ought to be. For the truth certainly would do well enough if she were once left to shift for herself. She seldom has received and, I fear, never will receive much assistance from the power of great men, to whom she is but rarely known and more rarely welcome. She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force to procure her entrance into the minds of men. Errors, indeed, prevail by the assistance of foreign and borrowed succours. But if Truth makes not her way into the understanding by her own light, she will be but the weaker for any borrowed force violence can add to her. Thus much for speculative opinions. Let us now proceed to practical ones. A good life, in which consist not the least part of religion and true piety, concerns also the civil government; and in it lies the safety both of men’s souls and of the commonwealth. Moral actions belong, therefore, to the jurisdiction both of the outward and inward court; both of the civil and domestic governor;
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A good life, in which consist not the least part of religion and true piety, concerns also the civil government; and in it lies the safety both of men’s souls and of the commonwealth. Moral actions belong, therefore, to the jurisdiction both of the outward and inward court; both of the civil and domestic governor; I mean both of the magistrate and conscience. Day 46, Page 27a, according to the PDF, Thursday, April 24, 2025. 'Extra Addition: John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration". Straightforward and self-explanatory. Basic salvation and living by our conscience, not by man-made laws and rules. http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf
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| Day 47 |
PG HERE, Friday, April 25, 2025, Extra Addition: "A Letter Concerning Toleration." Day 47, 27b and 28a according to PDF. But besides their souls, which are immortal, men have also their temporal lives here upon earth; the state whereof being frail and fleeting, and the duration uncertain, they have need of several outward conveniences to the support thereof, which are to be procured or preserved by pains and industry. For those things that are necessary to the comfortable support of our lives are not the spontaneous products of nature, nor do offer themselves fit and prepared for our use. This part, therefore, draws on another care and necessarily gives another employment. But the pravity of mankind being such that they had rather injuriously prey upon the fruits of other men’s labours than take pains to provide for themselves, the necessity of preserving men in the possession of what honest industry has already acquired and also of preserving their liberty and strength, whereby they may acquire what they farther want, obliges men to enter into society with one another, that by mutual assistance and joint force they may secure unto each other their properties, in the things that contribute to the comfort and happiness of this life, leaving in the meanwhile to every man the care of his own eternal happiness, the attainment whereof can neither be facilitated by another man’s industry, nor can the loss of it turn to another man’s prejudice, nor the hope of it be forced from him by any external violence. But, forasmuch as men thus entering into societies,grounded upon their mutual compacts of assistance for the defence of their temporal goods, may, nevertheless, be deprived of them, either by the rapine and fraud of their fellow citizens, or by the hostile violence of foreigners, the remedy of this evil consists in arms, riches, and multitude of citizens; the remedy of the other in laws; and the care of all things relating both to one and the other is committed by the society to the civil magistrate. This is the original, this is the use, and these are the bounds of the legislative (which is the supreme) power in every commonwealth. I mean that provision may be made for the security of each man’s private possessions; for the peace, riches, and public commodities of the whole people; and, as much as possible, for the increase of their inward strength against foreign invasions.nd of the things that belong unto this life is the business of the commonwealth;
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| DAY 48 |
PG here. Good evening. BLOG ON ISAIAH 58 MINISTRIES: "#4 Page 25 pdf Extra Addition John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration, TODAY IS DAY 48, PAGE 28b PDF ON BLOG. These things being thus explained, it is easy to understand to what end the legislative power ought to be directed and by what measures regulated; and that is the temporal good and outward prosperity of the society; which is the sole reason of men’s entering into society, and the only thing they seek and aim at in it. And it is also evident what liberty remains to men in
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| DAY 49 |
1.) PG here, Day 49, Page 29a according to the PDF, "A Letter Concerning Toleration." John is laying out the part the magistrate or government plays between someone's property and religion. The government's role is to protect a person's property. If a judge does not like his religion, the judge has no say in the matter and can not take someone's property or be prejudiced against the person. In 1689?? When this was written, judges could put people to death for their religion, and their bodies were their property. What if the judge does wrong? It is up to God Alone. When you were a child, 1, 2, and 3, right and wrong were strongly on your conscience. 2.) You just knew if someone did something wrong, something bad would happen to them. God wrote this into each person's mind and heart. As we grow, it becomes dull and foggy, they say. We must pray for God to help us get that clear vision or great faith of a child back. Jesus said you must become like a child to enter the kingdom of God or have heaven on earth. Suffer the children to come unto me, for theirs is the Kingdom of God. Do you understand what he is saying??????? http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf
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| DAY 50 |
1.) PG here, Monday, April 28, 2025, Page 29b according to the PDF, "Of A Letter Concerning Toleration." Written by John Locke. The fact is when the righteous are in power, the people are happy, suffering ends, and the righteous shut down those who enjoy the suffering of others. There are hundreds of thousands of people who enjoy watching others cry, feel pain, heartbreak, etc. so much they cause others to suffer on purpose. Once they catch their prey in a cage, a snare, or a box, they torture them night and day, day and night.
The Amish or Pilgrims call them the strangers. That is what they are; they are not a part of the body of Christ. It could be you, your friend, or your neighbor. We are surrounded by suffering because we are surrounded by others who like and enjoy it when others suffer. It is called witchcraft. They purposely disturb the peace of mind of others, screaming, yelling, fighting, raising their voices, and insisting they are right, all to cause others to fear them, believe their lies, put people into a trance, and cause a state of shock. Societies are formed to protect the minds of men from these witches; they even use snake venom, poisons, etc. Their words are not inspired by God, so they are poisonous, and so are their actions, deeds, and drinks.
It seems most conservatives have this same problem: violence, verbal violence, and anger because they tolerate wickedness in themselves and in others. Did you know that a man can not even talk to a woman unless he gets permission from her parents? Why?
Women fall in love with anyone easily. It is a job of the mother and father to look to her future. Make sure if she marries someone, she will be blessed and never suffer. She marries someone with the heart of a lion to fight off anyone who would cause her any suffering, even he himself if he has the capacity to harm his wife or children.
Today in America, women have to work. The Bible calls this an "affliction" because women are "to be keepers at home" and not in an affair, in bed with another partner or individual, seeing how to please others instead of God her Father. Pornography has their husbands in adulterous affairs with women showing off their naked bodies to men around the world, causing them to lose their minds and their capacity to fight off predators. This is all extreme suffering for women and children. Evil is tolerated while the freedom of this kind of true religion is suppressed. A man must prove he can fight lions, bears, and the most evil and work diligently without reservation to make sure his wife and children never have to suffer and go without Jesus' perfect peace on their souls. Women know their husbands are working with God, with the power of God's Holy Spirit to protect them and provide for them. Through justice they receive safety and security, and they know they will never suffer. That is the power and assurance of God's perfect love towards mankind.
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| DAY 51 |
PG here Tuesday, April 29, 2025, Day 51, page 30a of 40 according to the PDF. "A Letter Concerning Toleration." Prerogative was the word for today's reading of John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration." A leader's, or supreme executive's, prerogative. The letter of the law kills, it is the spirit or purpose, reason for, or goal, like justice, that brings life. Prerogative is the word for this reading also.
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| DAY 52 |
PG here Wednesday , April 30, 2025, Day 52, Page 30b of 40 according to PDF. Extra Addition John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration" Dover Thrift Edition. Terms and definitions from 1680s: "Mahometan" is an older, somewhat outdated term for someone who follows the Islamic religion, ecclesiastical:relating to the Christian Church or its clergy, communion:1.) the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level. 2.the service of Christian worship at which bread and wine ae consecrated and shared. Ipso facto is a Latin term meaning “by the fact itself” “by that very fact or act” or “for this fact alone”. The terms "frivolous" and "fallacious" both describe something that is not serious or accurate, but they have slightly different connotations. "Frivolous" implies something lighthearted, trivial, or not worthy of serious consideration, while "fallacious" implies something is logically flawed or deceptive, often due to an error in reasoning. Last couple of sentences meaning: Men are accountable to God who will punish them or reward them ***.Nor does the frivolous and fallacious distinction between the Court and the Church afford any remedy to this inconvenience; especially when both the one and the other are equally subject to the absolute authority of the same person, who has not only power to persuade the members of his Church towhatsoever he lists, either as purely religious, or in order thereunto, but..... 31a: can also enjoin it them on pain of eternal fire. fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf
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PG here, May 1, 2025, page 31a of 40 according to the PDF, Day 53. ... "A Letter Concerning Toleration." Written in the 1670s, so the language and conversation are hard to understand. The written word is anointed by God, and his spirit will enlighten your understanding. ... between the Court and the Church afford any remedy to this inconvenience; especially when both the one and the other are equally subject to the absolute authority of the same person, who has not only power to persuade the members of his Church to whatsoever he lists, either as purely religious, or in order thereunto, but can also enjoin it them on pain of eternal fire. It is ridiculous for any one to profess himself to be a Mahometan only in his religion, but in everything else a faithful subject to a Christian magistrate, whilst at the same time he acknowledges himself bound to yield blind obedience to the Mufti of Constantinople, who himself is entirely obedient to the Ottoman Emperor and frames the feigned oracles of that religion according to his pleasure. But this Mahometan living amongst Christians would yet more apparently renounce their government if he acknowledged the same person to be head of his Church who is the supreme magistrate in the state. Lastly, those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all; besides also, those that by their atheism undermine and destroy all religion, can have no pretence of religion whereupon to challenge the privilege of a toleration. As for other practical opinions, though not absolutely free from all error, if they do not tend to establish domination over others, or civil impunity to the Church in which they are taught, there can be no reason why they should not be tolerated. It remains that I say something concerning those assemblies which, being vulgarly called and perhaps having sometimes been conventicles and nurseries of factions and seditions, are thought to afford against this doctrine of toleration. But this has not happened by anything peculiar unto the genius of such assemblies, but by the unhappy circumstances of an oppressed or ill-settled liberty.
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| DAY 54 |
PG here. An Extra Addition "A Letter Concerning Toleration" by John Locke. One-half a page a day. About 40 pages; this is 31b of 40 according to the PDF, It is day 54. Toleration of men's conscience beliefs in the assembly of believers in churches. ***Liberty of conscience is every man's right.*** Ohio's conscience has this written into it.
Note: Separation of Church and State was written to someone in Ohio who did not want the government interfering with his religion. But religion can interfere in government and is the cornerstone of government: all liberties come from Jesus Christ, and the gospel is the power from which these liberties are secured. Given to us through Jesus Christ's salvation and freedom from sin or freedom from committing crimes.
#1 MOST IMPORTANT RIGHT OF ALL MEN RIGHT UP FRONT! FREEDOM OF RELIGION GOVERNMENT IS APART OF EVERYONE'S RELIGION. RELIGION IS WHERE OUR MORALS AND ALL LAWS COME FROM. IT IS WHAT A PERSON BELIEVES DEEP DOWN IN THEIR CONSCIENCE. GOVERNMENT CAN NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM EXERCISING THEIR RELIGION IN ANY PLACE IN GOVERNMENT AND IN AMERICA. THE FOUNDING OF THIS COUNTRY WAS MEN EXERCISING THEIR FREEDOM OF RELIGION. PUTTING DOWN ON PAPER THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND WHAT THEY BELIEVED. READ JOHN LOCKE ALONG WITH ME AND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE DAILY. YOU WILL MEET THE MAKER OF ALL GOVERNMENTS OF ALL THINGS SEEN AND UNSEEN.
https://www.hymnsite.com/AmericanHistory.html Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death"; but in current textbooks, the context of these words is omitted. Here is what he actually said: "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian?
The following year, 1776, he wrote this: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our creator." He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role.
On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."
In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader which was used for over 100 years in our public schools, with over 125 million copies sold, until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. For all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology."
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the Scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
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| DAY 55 |
PG here, Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, Day 55, 32a of 40 according to the PDF. ***"A Letter Concerning Toleration"*** an extra addition to John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government." This reading is self-explanatory. A magistrate, a government official, a judge, a lawyer, or a police officer—someone in society treats the people he goes to church with really well, but he is prejudiced towards people who go to different churches. He treats them poorly, unfairly. He is afraid of them; they are dangerous to him because he is cruel to them. John Locke is telling them to turn the tables, treat them like his own congregation equally, and he doesn't need to be afraid of them. Reading in pic Above. Words below. Side note: True religion and undefiled is to take care of a widow or a child without a father. If you want to love someone, find a good loving mother who isn't married and provide for her and her children. Doctors, dentists, eyeglasses, a small apartment room and board, shoes, clothing, food, water, electricity, a car, money, and homeschool necessities. No woman should feel forced to marry someone like a prostitute to be provided for and stay home and love and be with her children while they are growing up. She can not do anything for you. She is to teach and raise her own children. That is charity work. But never, never, never, take in a man who can do things for you that is defilement of your flesh, your soul, your mind, body, spirit, and emotions. It is very harmful to your health. A man's head must be Jesus Christ; he must trust God to provide for him. That is the love of God. If the woman feels safe, she might fall in love and marry someone that is kind to her and really loves her and wants to protect and provide for her.
32a..As if an agreement in matters of religion were in effect a conspiracy against the commonwealth; or as if men would not be so much the more warmly unanimous in religion the less liberty they had of assembling. But it will be urged still that civil assemblies are open and free for any one to enter into, whereas religious conventicles are more private and thereby give opportunity to clandestine machinations. I answer that this is not strictly true, for many civil assemblies are not open to everyone. And if some religious meetings be private, who are they (I beseech you) that are to be blamed for it, those that desire, or those that forbid their being public! Again, you will say that religious communion does exceedingly unite men’s minds and affections to one another and is therefore the more dangerous. But if this be so, why is not the magistrate afraid of his own Church; and why does he not forbid their assemblies as things dangerous to his Government? You will say because he himself is a part and even the head of them. As if he were not also a part of the commonwealth, and the head of the whole people! Let us therefore deal plainly. The magistrate is afraid of other Churches, but not of his own, because he is kind and favourable to the one, but severe and cruel to the other. These he treats like children, and indulges them even to wantonness. Those he uses as slaves and, how blamelessly soever they demean themselves, recompenses them no otherwise than by galleys, prisons, confiscations, and death. These he cherishes and defends; those he continually scourges and oppresses. Let him turn the tables. Or let those dissenters enjoy but the same privileges in civils as his other subjects, and he will quickly find that these religious meetings will be no longer dangerous.
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