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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London :: Printed by J.G. for Nath. Brooke ...,
1663.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Leviathan.
State, The.
Political science.
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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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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Sect. 1.
CErtainly the sole immediate seed of Religion, is the assurance that there is a God of an infinite excellency governing all the world; for therefore men perform Religion to him; but that which propagates this natu∣rally, is first without doubt an innate principle, born in, and with a man, which naturally every man hath as soon as he hath reason; and there never was Nation, or so∣ciety of men, found in the world, which denied it. It is true, there may be now and then, by the suggestions of the Devill, a man found, that with malicious reason hath laboured to diswade this Principle; but that is not material; There are Errours and Monsters in the morall part of man, as well as in his natural: This Gentleman, who hath by nature the sight of Colours, and ability to discern them, yet hath studied reasons to make men beleeve he sees none. There is nothing so abhorring to Reason that malicious Reason doth not oppose; but such
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a truth as this, Quod ubi{que} semper, et ab omnibus, hath been held, cannot be other then natural; and whereas he can shew one man breaking this rule, I can shew him a hundred that have no use of reason at all, and a thou∣sand that have lost it; so that as such a man, as he, is a rarer sight then those; so he may well be reckoned a∣mongst the worst of fooles and mad-men; and there∣fore the Psalmist, Psal. 14.1. saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; and he himself in this Chapter, pag. 58. affirmes, That an opinion of a Diety and Powers invisible, and supernatural, can never be abolished out of humane nature, but that new Religions may be made to spring out of them: So that this Seed is so naturally and firmly rooted in mans heart, that it cannot be extirpa∣ted by any thing, that doth not likewise with it extirpate reason.
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The sole im∣mediate seed of Religion an innate principle.