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Sect. 1. Concerning Religion before Civil Societies were Instituted

Sect. 2. Every Man is accountable to God for his own Religion

Sect. 3. How the same might be exercised in the free State of Nature

Sect. 4. Parents had originally the Care of Religious Worship lodged in them

Sect. 5. Civil Societies were not constituted for Religions sake

Sect. 6. Subjects did never submit their Opinions, as to Religious Worship, to the Disposal of their Sovereigns

Sect. 7. What Power properly, and according to the Laws of Nature, belongs to Sovereigns in Ecclesiastical Affairs

Sect. 8. Of the Nature of Revealed Religion

Sect. 9. Among the Jews there was a very strict Union betwixt the Church and State

Sect. 10. Who was the Supream Head of the Jewish Church

Sect. 11. The Christian Religion is quite different from the Jewish

Sect. 12. Some Reflections on the Behaviour of Moses, when he laid the Foundation of the Commonwealth of the Jews

Sect. 13. What on the other Hand our Saviour did, when he Established his Church here on Earth

Sect. 14. Christ was not the Founder of a New Commonwealth or People

Sect. 15. Neither had he any Territories belonging to him

Sect. 16. Christ did not exercise any Sovereign Power

Sect. 17. But the Office of a Doctor or Teacher

Sect. 18. The Apostles did propagate the Doctrine of our Saviour

Sect. 19. The Apostles had received their Authority of Teaching from God alone, independant from any Human Power

Sect. 20. The Apostles never assumed any Authority of Commanding others

Sect. 21. Whether their Authority of Teaching does indirectly imply any right of Commanding others

Sect. 22. Whether the Power of Absolution does imply any Right of Sovereignty

Sect. 23. What is to be understood by absolving from Sins

Sect. 24. Under whose Authority the Apostles did exercise the Power of Absolution

Sect. 25. Of what nature it was

Sect. 26. Whether St. Peter had any Prerogative granted above others

Sect. 27. Whether the Power of Excommunicating imply Sovereignty

Sect. 28. The Commission granted by Christ to his Apostles contains nothing of Command

Sect. 29. The Kingdom of Christ is no Temporal Kingdom

Sect. 30. Whether the Christian Church ought to be considered as a State or Sovereignty

Sect. 31. In the Primitive Church there was nothing like it

Sect. 32. There is a great difference betwixt the Church and State

Sect. 33. And the Doctors or Teachers in the Church are quite different from those that exercise the Sovereignty in a State

Sect. 34. Whether the whole Christian Church ought to be considered as a State

Sect. 35. It is not requisite to reduce the whole Christian Church under one Independant Sovereignty or Head

[Sect. 36. Whether there ought not to be one Supream Judge in the Church, to determine such Differences as may arise from time to time]

Sect. 37. An Example of a Controversie composed in the Apostles Times

Sect. 38. Some Observations concerning the Nature and Usefulness of General Councils

Sect. 39. Concerning the Condition of the Christian Church under the Pagan Princes

Sect. 40. Concerning its Condition under the Christian Emperours

Sect. 41. The Church has not changed her Nature of being a Colledge or Society

Sect. 42. Neither are Sovereigns thereby become Bishops

Sect. 43. Christian Sovereigns are obliged to maintain and defend the Church

Sect. 44. Of the Prerogatives of Princes in Ecclesiastical Affairs

Sect. 45. Of the Power of Sovereigns over the Church Ministers

Sect. 46. Of the Power of calling a Synod or Convention

Sect. 47. Of their Power, as to Church-Discipline

Sect. 48. Of their Power of making Laws and Ecclesiastical Constitutions

Sect. 49. How far Sovereigns are obliged to intermeddle in Religious Affairs, when the Publick Safety lies at stake

Sect. 50. Concerning Toleration of several Religions

Sect. 51. Princes ought to be very careful not to be led away by false Suggestions

Sect. 52. Sometimes the Prerogatives of Sovereigns are impaired under a religious Pretext

Sect. 53. Concerning the Power of setting up a Reformation

Sect. 54. Whether Subjects without the concurrence of their Sovereigns can pretend to set up a Reformation