that judicature belongs, to him also pertains the knowledge of all those cases which concern the inheritance and succession of all the goods and rights, not of private men only, but also of sovereign princes. And hither also in some respect tends the _virgin life of ecclesiastical persons_; for unmarried men have less coherence than others with civil society. And besides, it is an inconvenience not to be slighted, that princes must either necessarily forego the priesthood, which is a great bond of civil obedience; or have no hereditary kingdom. To this end also tends the _canonization of saints_, which the heathen called _apotheosis_. For he that can allure foreign subjects with so great a reward, may bring those who are greedy of such glory, to dare and do anything. For what was it but an honourable name with posterity, which the Decii and other Romans sought after; and a thousand others, who cast themselves upon incredible perils? The controversies about _purgatory_, and _indulgences_, are matter of gain. The questions of _free-will_, _justification_, and _the manner of receiving Christ in the sacrament_, are philosophical. There are also questions concerning some rites not introduced, but left in the Church not sufficiently purged from Gentilism. But we need reckon no more. All the world knows that such is the nature of men, that dissenting in questions which concern their _power_, or _profit_, or _pre-eminence of wit_, they slander and curse each other. It is not therefore to be wondered at, if almost all tenets, after men grew hot with disputings, are held forth by some or other to be _necessary_ to salvation and for our entrance into the kingdom of heaven. Insomuch as they who hold them not, are not only condemned as guilty of disobedience; which in truth they are, after the Church hath once defined them; but of infidelity: which I have declared above to be wrong, out of many evident places of Scripture. To which I add this one of Saint Paul’s (Rom. xiv. 3, 5): _Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not, and let not him that eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him. One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind._ END OF VOL. II. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note In the summary of Chapter XIII, the last article is misnumbered as ‘13’, rather than ‘17.’ On p. 221, a reference to article 13 in Chapter V almost certainly should have been to the 12th article of that chapter. Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. 3.1 ζῶον πολιτικ[ο/ό]ν Replaced. 5.5 that same [ἐυ/εὐ]δοκιμεῖν Replaced.