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 ...

Sect. 1.

[THE right of Nature, which Writers commonly call jus Naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, his own life, and consequently of doing any thing which in his own judgement and reason he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.]

Here is a description of the right of Nature, which is that he saith,* 1.1 Writers call Jus Naturale: I believe this Gentleman never in his life read Jus Naturale so de∣scribed in any Author. It is true, to preserve a mans own life is a branch of the right of nature, but it doth not contain the whole nature of it, as if the right of nature extended to nothing else but the preservation of a mans own life; there are many other things which the right of nature enables us to doe; but because I find this question in my opinion more methodically and Schol∣larly delivered in his Book entituled De Copore Politico,

Cap. 1. I shall therefore consider that first; and, having cleared that discourse, apply my self to this description, and I will begin with his 6. Number.

That number begins thus.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The right of Nature ex∣tends farther then to the preservation of life.