------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Marginal sidenotes which span multiple pages were often repeated on each page. These have been removed. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. LEVIATHAN, OR THE MATTER, FORM, AND POWER OF A COMMONWEALTH ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL. [Illustration: _Non est potestas Super Terram quæ Comparetur ei._] THE ENGLISH WORKS OF THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY; NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND EDITED BY SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, BART. --- VOL III. --- LONDON: JOHN BOHN, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. --- MDCCCXXXIX. LONDON: C. RICHARDS, PRINTER, ST. MARTIN’S LANE. TO MY MOST HONOR’D FRIEND MR. FRANCIS GODOLPHIN, OF GODOLPHIN. ------- HONOR’D SIR,