1. That _the judging of good and evil belongs to private persons_ is a seditious opinion. 2. That _subjects do sin by obeying their princes_ is a seditious opinion. 3. That _tyrannicide is lawful_ is a seditious opinion. 4. That _those who have the supreme power are subject to the civil laws_ is a seditious opinion. 5. That _the supreme power may be divided_ is a seditious opinion. 6. That _faith and sanctity are not acquired by study and reason, but always supernaturally infused and inspired_, is a seditious opinion. 7. That _each subject hath a propriety or absolute dominion of his own goods_ is a seditious opinion. 8. Not to understand the difference between the people and the multitude, prepares toward sedition. 9. Too great a tax of money, though never so just and necessary, prepares toward sedition. 10. Ambition disposeth us to sedition. 11. So doth the hope of success. 12. Eloquence alone without wisdom, is the only faculty needful to raise seditions. 13. How the folly of the common people, and the elocution of ambitious men, concur to the destruction of a common-weal. [Sidenote: That the judgment of good and evil belongs to private persons, is a seditious opinion.] 1. Hitherto hath been spoken, by what causes and pacts commonweals are constituted, and what the rights of princes are over their subjects. Now we will briefly say somewhat concerning the causes which dissolve them, or the reasons of seditions. Now as in the motion of natural bodies three things are to be considered, namely, _internal disposition_, that they be susceptible of the motion to be produced; the _external agent_, whereby a certain and determined motion may in act be produced; and the _action itself_: so also in a commonweal where the subjects begin to raise tumults, three things present themselves to our regard; first, the _doctrines_ and the _passions_ contrary to peace, wherewith the minds of men are fitted and disposed; next, their quality and condition who solicit, assemble, and direct them, already thus disposed, to take up arms and quit their allegiance; lastly, the manner how this is done, or the _faction_ itself. But one and the first which disposeth them to sedition, is this, _that the knowledge of good and evil belongs to each single man_. In the state of nature indeed, where every man lives by equal right, and has not by any mutual pacts submitted to the command of others, we have granted this to be true; nay, proved it in chap. I. art. 9. But in the civil state it is false. For it was shown (chap. VI. art. 9) that the civil laws were the rules of _good_ and _evil_, _just_ and _unjust_, _honest_ and _dishonest_; that therefore what the legislator commands, must be held for _good_, and what he forbids for _evil_. And the legislator is ever that person who hath the supreme power in the commonweal, that is to say, the monarch in a monarchy. We have confirmed the same truth in