Sect. 5.
I will adde one note more, pertinent to this business, that although in the following 59. pag. he puts downe examples which illustrate his other grounds of suspicion,
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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yet, as a man guilty, he sets down none for this, but ha∣ving (as I have reason to mistrust) some ill design, puts it downe in a language, and manner fit enough to steale a beleefe of what he speaks into an inconsiderate Reader, although he gives no proof of what he writes to a ju∣dicious Reader. And now I have finished what I inten∣ded concerning this Chapter, for the other things which, he saith, bring these persons into suspicion, by rea∣son of the deficience of those qualities, I grant to him, and cannot choose but say, they were handsome and inge∣nious expressions, and likewise fitted with very perti∣nent examples; but they accidentally only, when un∣luckily they happen to be observed by weak capacities, doe distract the vivacity and quicknesse of their Faith, and so, perhaps, may in tract of time quench and extin∣guish the flame of it to its first Principles, as I have shewed. And here I will settle my self to what followes in the next Chapter.
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Mr. Hobbes's subtiltie in his citation and praetermission of examples.
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Which, though pertinent, are dangerous to weak capaci∣ties.