Tracts of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury containing I. Behemoth, the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, from 1640 to 1660, printed from the author's own copy never printed (but with a thousand faults) before, II. An answer to Arch-bishop Bramhall's book called the catching of the Leviathan, never before printed, III. An historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof, corrected by the true copy, IV. Philosophical problems dedicated to the King in 1662, but never printed before.
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- Tracts of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury containing I. Behemoth, the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, from 1640 to 1660, printed from the author's own copy never printed (but with a thousand faults) before, II. An answer to Arch-bishop Bramhall's book called the catching of the Leviathan, never before printed, III. An historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof, corrected by the true copy, IV. Philosophical problems dedicated to the King in 1662, but never printed before.
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- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
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- London :: Printed for W. Crooke ...,
- 1682.
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- Bramhall, John, 1594-1663. -- Catching of the Leviathan.
- Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
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"Tracts of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury containing I. Behemoth, the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, from 1640 to 1660, printed from the author's own copy never printed (but with a thousand faults) before, II. An answer to Arch-bishop Bramhall's book called the catching of the Leviathan, never before printed, III. An historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof, corrected by the true copy, IV. Philosophical problems dedicated to the King in 1662, but never printed before." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
AS in all things which I have written, so also in this Piece, I have endea∣voured all I can to be perspicuous; but yet your own attention is always necessary. The late Lord Bishop of Derry published a Book called The Catching of Levia∣than, in which he hath put together divers Sentences pickt out of my Leviathan, which stand there plainly and firmly prov∣ed, and sets them down without their Proofs, and without the order of their de∣pendance one upon another; and calls them Atheism, Blasphemy, Impiety, Subversion of Religion, and by other names of that kind. My request unto you is, That when he cites my words for Erroneous, you
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will be pleased to turn to the place it self, and see whether they be well proved, and how to be understood. Which labour his Lordship might have saved you, if he would have vouchsafed, as well to have weighed my Arguments before you, as to have shew∣ed you my Conclusions. His Book contain∣eth two Chapters, the one concerning Re∣ligion, the other concerning Politicks. Be∣cause he does not so much as offer any re∣futation of any thing in my Leviathan concluded, I needed not to have answered either of them. Yet to the first I here an∣swer, because the words Atheism, Impi∣ety and the like, are words of the greatest defamation possible. And this I had done sooner, if I had sooner known that such a Book was extant. He wrote it ten years since, and yet I never heard of it till about three Months since; so little talk there was of his Lordship's Writings. If you want leasure or care of the questions be∣tween us, I pray you condemn me not upon report. To judge and not examine is not just. Farewell.
T. Hobbes.