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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Sect. 3.

* 1.1What he saith, that (necessity of nature makes us de∣sire our own good, and avoyd that which is hurtful) is true in that generality, but applyed to any particular, is false; for there is no particular but may appeare to some men good, and to others hurtfull: even these things, life or death, are such; some men have thought this temporall life a misery clothed with these circumstances they pos∣sesse it with, like a rotten house, which, when the winds and raine drives in, is worse then the open fields; like a Prison, it were better have no house then that; such is the body to the soul; and therefore men may, and have often wished to be delivered out of it, and death to some men is as desired as a freedome from a Gaole. This Gentleman talkes up and downe in these books, not only like a natural man, but like the worst of them, and the wickedest; for wise men among them have written much in contempt of these sensual temporal things, in which he placeth the only aime and happiness of man.

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