ABSTRACT
Aristotle deals with the theoretical good or virtue and its procurement in a commonwealth. The prince’s administration regarding religion and piety is considered in two ways: either absolutely and in a peaceful state or in its accidental character and in a state of disturbance. The custom of the Elector Palatine cannot be praised enough: he has two types of councillors at his court, namely political and ecclesiastical ones. The magistrate or prince should not interfere in the task of the ministers of the church, but should make use of their position in the preaching of the word of God and the administering of the sacraments, because God wants the positions of ministers and magistrates to be strictly distinct. Even natural law itself, through which self-defence is granted to a person against another person, teaches that such a prince must be resisted.
