id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 992 Spinoza, Benedictus de A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV] .txt text/plain 28413 1486 75 which has sovereign right over all things; and, inasmuch as the power of nature the laws of its nature it has a sovereign right to do, inasmuch as it sovereign a right as he who orders his life entirely by the laws of reason. (16:96) If men were naturally bound by the Divine law and right, or if the Divine law and right were a natural necessity, there would have been no need everyone is bound, in the state of nature, to live according to Divine law, power, which alone is bound both by Divine and natural right to preserve and transferred to Moses their right to consult God and interpret His commands: of government, possessing the sole right of consulting God, and consequently state of nature reason has no more rights than desire, but that men living to the rights and authority of the sovereign power, and that every man ./cache/992.txt ./txt/992.txt