Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, A dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection. / By Tho: Hobbes.

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Author:	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Title:	Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, A dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection. / By Tho: Hobbes.
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TO THE Right Honourable, WILLIAM, Earle of Devonshire, My most honoured Lord.

THE AUTHORS PREFACE TO THE READER.

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treatise

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Philosophicall Elements OF A true Citizen.

CHAP. I. Of the state of men without Civill Society.

CHAP. II. Of the Law of Nature concer∣ning Contracts.

CHAP. III. Of the other Lawes of Nature.

CHAP. IV. That the Law of Nature is a Divine Law.

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DOMINION.

CHAP. V. Of the causes, and first begin∣ing of civill Government.

CHAP. VI. Of the right of him, whether Counsell, or one Man onely, who hath the supreme pow∣er in the City.

CHAP. VII. Of the three kindes of Govern∣ment, Democraty, Aristo∣craty, Monarchie.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Rights of Lords over their Servants.

CHAP. IX. Of the right of Parents over their children, and of here∣ditary Government.

CHAP. X. A comparison between 3. kinds of government, accord∣ing to their severall inconveniences.

CHAP. XI. Places and Examples of Scri∣pture of the Rights of Go∣vernment agreeable to what hath beene said before.

CHAP. XII. Of the internall causes, tending to the dissolution of any Government.

CHAP. XIII. Concerning the duties of them who bear Rule.

CHAP. XIV. Of Lawes and Trespasses.

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RELIGION.

CHAP. XV. Of the Kingdome of God, by Nature.

CHAP. XVI. Of the Kingdome of God under the Old Covenant.

Of the Kingdome of God by the new Covenant.

CHAP. XVIII. Concerning those things which are necessary for our entrance in∣to the Kingdome of Heaven.