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A43978	De corpore politico, or, The elements of law, moral and politick with discourses upon severall heads, as of [brace] the law of nature, oathes and covenants, several kinds of government : with the changes and revolutions of them / by Tho. Hobbs of Malmsbury.	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1652 (1652)	Wing H2221; ESTC R41339	83,707	190

declared out of the Holy Scriptures as matter of Faith but the Belief of those Fundamental Articles before set forth neverthelesse there are required other things as matter of obedience For as it is not enough in Temporal Kingdoms to avoid the punishment which Kings may inflict to acknowledge the Right and Title of the King without Obedience also to his Laws So also it is not enough to acknowledge our Saviour Christ to be the King of Heaven in which consisteth Christian Faith unless also we endeavour to obey his Lawes which are the Lawes of the Kingdome of Heaven in which consisteth Christian Obedience And forasmuch as the Laws of the Kingdom of Heaven are the Laws of Nature as hath been shewed Part. 1. Chap. 5. not only Faith but also the Observation of the Law of Nature which is that for which a man is called Just or Righteous in that sense in which Justice is taken not for the Absence of Guilt but for the Endeavor and constant Will to do that which is Just not only Faith but this Justice which also from the effect thereof is called Repentance and sometimes Works is necessary to salvation So that Faith and Justice do both concur thereto and in the several acceptation of this word Justification are properly said both of them to justifie and the want of either of them is properly said to condemn For not only he that resisteth a King upon doubt of his Titl● but also he that doth it upon the inordinatenesse of his Passions deserveth punishment And when Faith and Works are separated not only the Faith is called Dead without Works but also Works are called Dead Works without Faith And therefore S. James Chap. 2.17 saith Even so the Faith if it have no works is dead in it self and vers. 26. For as the Body without the Spirit is dead even so Faith without works is dead And S. Paul Heb. 6.1 calleth Works without Faith Dead Works where he saith Not laying again the Foundation of Repentance from Dead Works And by these Dead Works is understood not the Obedience and Justice of the inward Man but the opus operatum or external Action proceeding from fear of punishment or from vain glory and desire to be honoured of men and these may be separated from Faith and conduce no way to a Mans Justification And for that cause S. Paul Rom. 4. excludeth the Righteousness of the Law from having part in the Justification of a sinner For by the Law of Moses which is applyed to mens Actions and requireth the Absence of Guilt all men living are liable to Damnation and therefore no man is iustified by Works but by Faith only But if Workes be taken for the endeavour to doe them that is if the Will be taken for the Deed or Internal for External Righteousness then doe works contribute to Salvation And then taketh place that of S. James Chap. 2.24 Ye see then how that of works a man is iustisted and not of faith only And both of these are ioyned to salvation as in S. Mark 1.5 Repent and believe the Gospel And Luk. 18.18 when a certain Ruler asked our Saviour what he ought to doe to inherit eternal life he propounded to him the keeping of the Commandements which when the Ruler said he had kept he propounded to him the Faith Sell all that thou hast and fellow me And Joh. 3.36 He that beleeveth in the Son hath everlasting life And He that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life Where he manifestly ioyneth Obedience and Faith together And Rom 1.17 The Just shall live by Faith not every one but the Just For also the Devils beleeve and tremble But though both Faith and Justice meaning still by Justice not absence of Guilt but the Good Intentions of the Mind which is called Righteousness by God that taketh the Will for the Deed be both of them said to iustifie yet are their Parts in the Act of Justification to be distinguished For Justice is said to iustifie not because it absolveth but because it denominates him Just and setteth him in an estate or capacity of salvation whensoever he shal have Faith But faith is said to justifie that is to absolve because by it a iust man is absolved of and forgiven his uniust Actions And thus are reconciled the places of S. Paul and S. James that Faith only iustifieth and A man is iustified by Faith onely and shewed how Faith and Repentance must concur to salvation 11. These things considered it will easily appear That under the Soveraign power of a Christian Common VVealth there is no Danger of Damnation from simple Obedience to Humane Lawes for in that the Soveraign alloweth Christianity no man is compelled to renounce that Faith which is enough for his Salvation that is to say the Fundamental Points And for other Points seeing they are not neces●ary to salvation if we conform our Actions to the Lawes we do not only what we are allowed but also what we are commanded by the Law of Nature which is the morall Law taught by our Saviour Himself And it is part of that Obedience which must concur to our Salvation 12. And though it be true whatsoever a man doth against his Conscience is sin yet the Obedience in these Cases is neither sin nor against the Conscience For the Conscience being nothing else but a Mans setled judgement and Opinion when he hath once transferred his Right of Judging to another that which shall be commanded is no lesse his Judgement then the Judgement of that other So that in Obedience to Lawes a man doth still according to his owne Conscience but not his private Conscience And whatsoever is done contrary to private Conscience is then a Sin when the Lawes have left him to his own liberty and never else And then whatsoever a man doth not only believing it is ill done but doubting whether it be ill or not is done ill in case he may lawfully omit the doing 13. And as it hath been proved that a man must submit his Opinions in matter of Controversie to the Authority of the Common Wealth so also is the same confest by the practice of every one of them that otherwise deny it For who is there differing in Opinion from another and thinking himself to be in the right and the other in the wrong that would not think it reasonable if he be of the same Opinion that the whole State alloweth that the other should submit his opinion also thereunto or that would not be content if not that one or a few men yet all the Divines of a whole Nation or at least an Assembly of all those he liketh should have the Power to determine all the Controversies of Religion or who is there that would not bee content to submit his Opinions either to the Pope or to a Genenerall Councel or to a Provincial Councel or to a Presbyterie of his owne Nation And yet in all these Cases hee submitteth

also all such as be evidently inferred from thence as Belief in God the Father Joh. 12.44 He that beleveth in me believeth not in me but in him that sent me 1 Joh. 2.23 He that denyeth the Son hath not the Father Belief in God the Holy Ghost of whom Christ saith Joh. 14.26 But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my Name And Joh. 15.16 But when the comforter shall come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth Beleife of the scriptures by which we beleeve those points and of the immortality of the Soul without which we cannot beleeve that he is a Saviour 7. And as these are the fundamentall points of faith necessary to salvation so also are they only necessary as matter of faith ●nd also essential to the calling of a christian as may appear by many evident places of Holy Scripture Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eteral life and they are they which testifie of me Now forasmuch as by the Scripture is meant there the Old Testament the New being then not written the beleife of that which was written concerning our Saviour in the old Testament was sufficient beleife for the obtaining of Eternal Life but in the old Testament there is nothing revealed concerning Christ but that he is the Messiah and such things as belong to the Fundamentall Points thereupon depending And therefore those fundamental Points are sufficient to salvation as of Faith And Joh. 6.28.29 Then sayd they unto him what shall we do that we might work the works of God Jesus answered and said unto them this is the work of God that ye beleeve in him whom he hath sent So that the Point to be beleived is That Jesus Christ came forth from God and he which believeth it worketh the works of God Joh. 11.26.27 Whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall never dye Beleevest thou this She sayd unto him yea Lord I beleeve that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the World Hence followeth He that beleiveth this shall never dye Joh. 20.31 But these things are wri●ten that ye might beleeve that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that in beleiving ye might have life through his Name By which appeareth that this Fundamentall Point is all that is required as of Faith to our Salvation 1 Joh. 4.2 Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come into the flesh is of God 1 Joh. 5.1 Whosoever beleiveth that J●s●s is the Christ is born of God and ver. 5. Who is it that overcometh the World but he that beleiveth that Jesus is the Son of God and vers. 13. These things have I written unto you that beleeve in the Name of The Son of God that ye may know that ye have ●ternall life Act. 8.36.37 The Eunuch said Here is Water what doth let me to be baptized And Philip said unto him if thou beleevest with i● thy heart thou mayst He answered and sayd I beleeve that Jesus Christ is the Son of God This point therefore was sufficient for the reception of Man into Baptisme that is to say to Christianity And Act. 16.30 The Keeper of the Prison fell down before Paul and Silas and said Sirs what shall I do to be saved And they sayd beleeve in the Lord Jesus Christ And the Sermon of S. Peter upon the day of Pentecost was nothing else but an explication that Jesus was the Christ And when they had heard him asked him what shal we do he said unto them Ac. 2.38 Amend your lives and be baptized evry one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of sins Rom. 10.9 If thou shalt conf●ss with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt beleeve in thy heart that God raised him up from the Dead thou shalt be saved To these places may be added that wheresoever our Savior Christ doth approve the Faith of any man the Proposition beleeved if the same to be collected out of the Text is alway some of those Fundamentall Points before mentioned or something Equivalent as the Faith of the Centurion Mat. 8.8 Speake the word only and my Servant shall be healed beleiving he was omnipotent The Faith of the Woman which had an Issue of Blood Math 9.21 If I may but touch the Hem of his Garment implying he was the Messiah The Faith required of the blind men Mat. 9.28 Beleeve you that I am able to do this The Faith of the Canaanitish Woman Matth. 15.22 That he was the Son of David implying the same And so it is in every one of those places none excepted where our Saviour commendeth any mans Faith which because they are too many to insert here I omit and refer them to his Inquisition that is not otherwise satisfied And as there is no other Faith required so there was no other preaching for the Prophets of the Old Testament preached no other and John the Baptist preached only the Approach of the Kingdome of Heaven that is to say of the Kingdome of Christ the same was the commission of the Apostles Mat. 10.7 Go preach saying the kingdome of Heaven is at hand And Paul preaching amongst the Jews Act. 18.5 did but testifie unto the Jews that Jesus was the Christ And the Heathens took notice of Christians no otherwise but by this name that they beleeved Jesus to be a King crying out Act. 17.6 These are they that have subverted the state of the World and here they are whom Jason hath received And these all doe against the Decrees of Caesar saying that there is another King One Jesus And this was the Sum of the Predictions the Sum of the Confessions of them that beleeved as well Men as Devils This was the Title of his Crosse Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jewes This the occasion of the Crowne of Thorns Scepter of Reed and a man to carry his Crosse This was the Subiect of the Hosan●a's And this was the Title by which our Saviour commanding to take another mans goods bad them say The Lord hath need And by this Title he purged the Temple of the profane market kept there Nor did the Apostles themselves believe any more then that Jesus was the M●ssiah nor understand so much for they understood the Messiah to be no more then a Temporall King till after our Saviours Resurrection Furthermore this Point that Christ is the Messiah is particularly set forth for Fundamentall by that word or some other equivalent thereunto in divers places Upon the Confession of Peter Matth. 16.16 Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God Our Saviour ver. 18. saith Upon this Rock will I build my Church This point therefore is the whole Foundation of Christs Church Rom. 15.20 S. Paul raith I so inforced my self to preach the Gospel not where Christ was named lest I should have built upon another mans foundation 1 Cor. 3.10