#2 Extra Addition John Locke's Government Treatise: A Letter Concerning Toleration Blogger Isaiah 58 Ministries

PG here: Excerpt from page 5b, of 40 according to the PDF. Day 8, Monday, March 10th, 2025

It is a reminder of what we are learning, our true freedoms, and what we are fighting for. A society free from wickedness, filthiness, dirty-minded people, and slothfulness. We turn from and fight to be a good, honest society. More importantly, wholesome for the common good, happiness, fairness, justice, and equality of all men. Which comes from Almighty God to those who have turned from a life of crime, sin, licentiousness, dirty-mindedness, and lying. Men who have turned to God to be cleansed from all dirtiness of mind, soul, and body, all corruption, and defilement of the flesh. These good, clean, pure people join and unite in society to love one another, for it is our Christian moral right, duty, and responsibility to worship God freely and protect ***The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.***

Today's reading will take today and tomorrow to write about. It is about supposing, as an example, happenings in two churches in the 1600s. In Constantinople and who has the rights and responsibilities in the church.

Today's reading is 12a of 40......excerpt: the one of Arminians, the other of Calvinists—residing in the city of Constantinople. Will anyone say that either of these churches has right to deprive the members of the other of their estates and liberty (as we see practised elsewhere) because of their differing from it in some some doctrines and ceremonies, .................. fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Locke/Letter%20Concerning%20Toleratin%20PDF.pdf