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 1 1|   commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only
 2 1|           I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves
 3 1|            is a free and voluntary society. Nobody is born a member
 4 1|        himself voluntarily to that society in which he believes he
 5 1| incongruous in the worship of that society to which he has joined himself,
 6 1|           No member of a religious society can be tied with any other
 7 1|         life. A church, then, is a society of members voluntarily uniting
 8 1|           subject.~Forasmuch as no society, how free soever, or upon
 9 1|         can belong to none but the society itself; or, at least (which
10 1|          thing), to those whom the society by common consent has authorised
11 1|            may object that no such society can be said to be a true
12 1|        time to join myself to that society in which I am persuaded
13 1|       perhaps, indeed constitute a society accommodated to his own
14 1|           the decrees of their own society, and that cry out continually, “
15 1|             The end of a religious society (as has already been said)
16 1|          can be transacted in this society relating to the possession
17 1|          which the members of this society are to be kept within their
18 1|         out and separated from the society. This is the last and utmost
19 1|            against the laws of the society. For, these being the condition
20 1|      communion and the bond of the society, if the breach of them were
21 1|      without any animadversion the society would immediately be thereby
22 1|        that, the resolution of the society in that respect being declared,
23 1|           certain things which the society communicated to its members,
24 1|        before—a free and voluntary society. It neither requires the
25 1|   immutable right of a spontaneous society—that it has power to remove
26 1|         such an authority upon any society of Christians, nor give
27 1|          enter into some religious society, that they meet together,
28 1|            against the laws of the society, I say, unless they will
29 1|          obliges men to enter into society with one another, that by
30 1|          other is committed by the society to the civil magistrate.
31 1|          outward prosperity of the society; which is the sole reason
32 1|      reason of men’s entering into society, and the only thing they
33 1|     consciences. For the political society is instituted for no other
34 1|         opinions contrary to human society, or to those moral rules
35 1|          the preservation of civil society, are to be tolerated by
36 1|       undermine the foundations of society and are, therefore, condemned
37 1|       which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an
38 1|           that Church or religious society, but from the common disposition