Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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Lucy, William, 1594-1677.
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1663.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Leviathan.
State, The.
Political science.
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Sect. 2.
All the Opinion of Ghosts,* 1.1 which he expresseth in the former part of this Chapter, he makes to be an Error; now for Errour to be a s••ed of Truth, was never heard of before; an ill tree cannot bring forth good fruit, nor ill seed a good tree; Errour the greater growth it hath, the greater is the Errour, but it never growes into Truth. Again, in the seventh Chapter he makes Opinion to be a very weak assurance, as indeed it is, although his descrip∣tion of it is weak in that place, but the assurance that
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there is a God, is the greatest that may be; and there∣fore not to grow out of such a seed. Thirdly, consider, that although there can be no assurance of God without an assurance of a Ghost or Spirit, because God is exprest in Scripture to be a Spirit, yet the beliefe and assurance of God cannot grow out of the Opinion of Ghosts; for although the Opinion of Ghosts hath many reasonable and probable arguments in Nature to induce it, which prevailed with many Philosophers to perswade them, that there were such things; yet the Arguments for them are not of like force with those which evince, there is a God; and therefore the assurance of God may introduce and be a seed of the Opinion of Ghosts; but the opinion of Ghosts, which is lesse certain, and lesse evident, cannot introduce it. He brings no manner of proof for what he speakes, and in his Catalogue of those Deities which this opinion should produce, Pag 55. He nameth Chaos, Ocean, Planets, Men, Women, and other things which have no likeness with Ghosts or Spirits, although his Daemons and some others have. Now although the opinion of Spirits may perswade a Religion towards those things which were thought Spirits; yet it could never invite, but would crosse and oppose those, Religions which were paid to corporeall things; for by all men, who have writ of Spirits, both Christian, and others, Spirits are thought to have a more God like power in them then Bodies; and therefore the opinion of them could not introduce the other.
Notes
* 1.1
The opinion of Ghosts could not in∣troduce the as∣surance that there is a God.