DAY 19, March 21, 2025, Page 9b of 40, Pages based on pdf

***A Letter Concerning Toleration,*** Author John Locke.

http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter Concerning Toleratin PDF.pdf

Extra Addition to John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government. The second half of the book is A Letter Concerning Toleration. The first book on government is founded on this letter. Real, true Christianity is biblical. It is not today's Christianity. It is not made up of arbitrary rules, laws, and doctrines—false teachings of mere men because evil men are counterfeiting money.

The Bible does not give the church the right to persecute others. I.E., fire, sword, and compulsory punishments if they join their faith and live by their doctrines.......The end of a religious society (as has already been said) is the public worship of God and, by means thereof, the acquisition of eternal life...... The church cannot get people to give what they have to them. .........Nothing ought nor can be transacted in this society relating to the possession of civil and worldly goods.... ..... That punishment is for the magistrate..... For force belongs wholly to the civil magistrate, and the possession of all outward goods is subject to his jurisdiction.........

Men join civil or political government for the protection of their possessions and property.

Arms or weapons of the church are......The arms by which the members of this society are to be kept within their duty are exhortations, admonitions, and advices. If by these means the offenders will not be reclaimed and the erroneous convinced, there remains nothing further to be done but that such stubborn and obstinate persons, who give no ground to hope for their reformation, should be cast out and separated from society.