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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56257	Of the nature and qualification of religion in reference to civil society written by Samuel Puffendorff ... ; which may serve as an appendix to the author's Duty of men ; translated from the original.; De habitu religionis Christianae ad vitam civilem. English	Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694.; Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?; Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694. De officio hominis et civis.	1698 (1698)	Wing P4180; ESTC R6881	106,116	202

us but by all gentle means persuades us to a Compliance with his Will according to St. Paul's 2 Cor. 5. 20. Saying Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God § 4. It is an unquestionable Truth and The first Care of religious Worship lodged in Parents generally received among Mankind That one is obliged to give a helping-hand to another in several Respects In the same manner it is with Religion that these who by nearest of Blood are in Duty bound to take Care of young Peoples Education ought at the same time to Instruct them in the true Knowledge of God and prepare their Minds for the receiving of the Christian Doctrine 'T is upon this score that this Care touches most nearly all Parents in regard of their Children it being the principal Part of Paternal Duty to take effectual Care that they may be throughly Instructed in all Matters relating to God and his holy Word and to be encouraged in all manner of religious Exercises For i● is too dangerous to leave young People to their own Inclinations till they may be capable by the Strength of their own Reason to learn their Duty towards God And it would be much more dangerous to defer it under pretence or expectation of Revelations to be made upon that account at this time when the Word of God is already planted and established among us Besides that Children soon grow head-strong and refractory if they are not in their tender Age accustomed to pious Exercises Nevertheless Parents ought not to exercise this Paternal Office any otherwise than in a manner suitable to the Genius of the Christian Religion which will have them not to act with Violence but to be diligent and assiduous in Teaching Exhorting Praying and announcing God's Wrath. Wherefore the Priestly Office was originally joined with the Paternal in the antient Fathers of Families and Abraham is commended both for a good Father and a good Master of his House because he instructed his Children in all manner of Piety and himself Administred Circumcision Gen. 18. 19. The like Commands were made to Parents both in the Old and New Testament and the Patriarch Jacob removed the Idols out Ge. 17. 20 Deut. 6. 7. 11. 19. Eph. 6. 4. Gen. 35. 1 3 4. of his Family not by Compulsion but by Instructing those of his House in the Knowledge of the true God who thereupon voluntarily surrendred those Idols to his Disposal This part of the Paternal Office like all the rest does cease as soon as a Son after leaving his Father's House comes to set up for himself and consequently becomes the Father of a separate Family and enjoys the same Rights which his Father had before over him And tho' perhaps in such a Case a Father may still retain the priviledge of giving some Paternal Admonitions to his Sons yet ought the same to be look'd upon to resemble in their Nature our last Will or Testament which does not always imply properly a Command but ought to be observed for its good Intentions sake and to shew a due Reverence to the Memory of a Father never to be neglected by any that will not at the same time profess themselves guilty of Improbity § 5. Out of what has been said before it Civil Societies were not Instituted for Religions sake is most evident That Civil Governments were not erected for Religions sake or that Man did not enter into Civil Societies that they might with more conveniency establish and exercise their Religion For since Religions Exercises could be performed as well by a few as by a great Number and in a small Congregation as well as in a great one it was unnecessary to erect several great Societies on that account Besides that those who committed open violences against others which was the first motive that obliged Men to enter into Societies for their mutual Defence did not aim at the Religion of Mankind but to robb these that were weaker than themselves of their Liberty Life and Fortunes Neither does a Man's Probity and Piety receive the least addition by the Number of People which join in their Devotion For every one must be acceptable to God Almighty upon his own account neither is a Man always deem'd the more pious because he lives among such as are pious themselves Those Patriarchs that liv'd before Civil Societies were erected are no less Famous for their Piety than those that lived afterwards under a settled Government From whence it is evident That Religion is not an ingenious Invention of the first Founders of Commonwealths but as antient as Humane Raceit self it being sufficiently apparent that Mankind did not enter into Civil Societies till long after being enforced thereunto by great and weighty Reasons tho' at the same time it cannot be deny'd but that some have cunningly abused Religion for obtaining their Ends in the State But Religion in it self considered is not made subordinate to the State or to be deem'd a proper Instrument to serve a States Turn and to keep the People in Obedience And when Religion is called Vinculum Societatis Civilis The Cement of Civil Society it must be taken in this Sense That if all Religion and Regard which ought to be had to God's displeasure were abolished there would be no Tie left strong enough to oblige Mankind to a compliance with those Laws and fundamental Constitutions which are the original Foundation of all Common-wealths And that without the fear of being accountable to God Almighty no Human Power alone would be prevailing enough to bridle the Enormities of some stubborn and refractory Spirits § 6. It being therefore beyond question Subjects did not submit their Opinions in Matters of Religion to the Disposal of their Sovereigns That Commonwealths were not erected for Religions sake it is easie to be understood that the antient Fathers of Families when they first submitted themselves under a Civil Government were thereby not obliged to surrender at the same time their Religion in the same manner as they did their Lives and Fortunes to their Sovereigns for the obtaining the End of Civil Society which was their common Security The more because Religion was not instituted for the obtaining of this mutual Security and as such do's not contribute any thing towards the maintaining of Civil Society Religion arises from a much more noble Spring than Civil Government and more strictly obliges Mankind than any Civil Power and therefore is unalterable in its Nature Thus it would be not only useless but imply a Contradiction if a Man who is to become a Subject to a Civil Government should be obliged to swear Allegiance to his Sovereign in these following Terms I. N. N. Submit my Will entirely to your Commands I promise to love honour and trust in God according to your Pleasure and to put more Confidence in you than in