The Golden Age

PG here, Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, Chapter 8, Sections 110 and 111, Pages 51 and 52, DAY 51, "The Golden Age." Reading one page a day for about 100 days. John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government with A Letter of Toleration." Besides the Bible, which inspired this book, explaining God's true form of government—for and by the people—this book is the foundation of most Western governments. Chapter "Of the Beginnings of Political Societies."

Section 110 continues on the topic of paternal, "father's," leadership, which, without many people on the earth, is natural. Then his firstborn descendants carry on the responsibility for leadership. ....What is the need?... Quote sect. 110, "brought together, uniting into society, the need of "a general", (*king, magistrate) whose conduct might "defend them against their enemies in war," and the great confidence the innocence and sincerity of that poor but virtuous age, (such as are almost all those which begin governments, that ever come to last in the world) gave men one of another, made the first beginners of commonwealths generally put the rule into one man's hand, ....What for? ...for the public good and safety, and to those ends, ...What sustained his position?.... without such nursing fathers tender and careful of the public weal, all governments would have sunk under the weakness and infirmities of their infancy, and the prince and the people had soon perished together.

This is a very barbaric and futile way of leadership. Through Jesus Christ's leadership, when men are full of the power of the Holy Spirit to convict men of their sins. Men know what true power and honor are. Men are innocent and free from sin and corruption. Jesus delivers us from sin. We all need to go back to our childhood before 5 years old to find our innocence!

Just a snippet of section 111 from page 51. ***The golden Age" A perfect government or union, the infancy of a country done perfectly like America. It was created by men who were pure, holy, men of honor, honest men, and virtuous, like innocent children. Sect. 111. Direct quote: ....But though the golden age (before vain ambition, and amor sceleratus habendi, {"Amor sceleratus habendi" is a Latin phrase that translates to "the accursed love of possessing" or "the cursed love of having". }evil concupiscence, had corrupted men's minds into a mistake of true power and honour) had more virtue, and consequently better governors, as well as less vicious subjects, and there was then no stretching prerogative on the one side, to oppress the people; nor consequently on the other, any dispute about privilege, to lessen or restrain the power of the magistrate, and so no contest betwixt rulers and people about governors or government: yet, when ambition and luxury in future ages* would retain and increase the power, without doing the business for which it was given; and aided by flattery, taught princes to have distinct and separate interests from their people, men found it necessary to examine more carefully the original and rights of government; and to find out ways to restrain the exorbitances, and prevent the abuses of that power, which they having intrusted in another's hands only for their own good, they found was made use of to hurt them.

concupiscence: Wiki... from the Latin verb concupīscere, from con-, "with", here an intensifier, + cupere, "to desire" + -scere, a verb-forming suffix denoting beginning of a process or state) is an ardent longing, typically one that is sensual. In Christianity, particularly in Catholic and Lutheran theology, concupiscence is the tendency of humans to sin.
There are three occurrences in the King James Bible. It is also one of the English translations of the Koine Greek epithumia (ἐπιθυμία), which occurs 39 times in the New Testament.
Involuntary sexual arousal is explored in the Confessions of Augustine, wherein he used the term "concupiscence" to refer to sinful lust.