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. 9.

* 1.1[He proceeds, It is not against reason that a man doth all he can to preserve his own body and limbes both from death and paine] had he put in that little word and esteemed a little thing by him, (justly and honestly) he had said truth; but alas else how unreasonable a thing it is, that a man, to save himself from a little pain, should act things prejudiciall to the glory of God, the publique good, or else some greater good of his own; any man, who hath sense of any thing but sense, and unworthy ease, cannot choose but apprehend that the greater good should be chosen before the lesse, such are those before specified. Therefore in such Cases that they, for paine

or death its self, are relinquished is against reason. What he adde's [And that which is not against reason we call right, &c.] I agree to; for certainly there is no wrong which is not against reason; but his deduction [It is therefore a right of Nature, that every man may pre∣serve his own life and limbes with all the power he hath] This deduction, by what is already said, cannot be true, but when his life and limbes are not opposed by some greater good.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In what cases life should not ••e pre••er'd to Death.