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 June 7, 2024.

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Sect. 2.

* 1.1Then secondly, let us consider that here is not in this Charter expressed any right a man hath over other men, but this right is equally granted to Man over those crea∣tures there specified, but none to any man over another; Therefore all right that any man hath to doe any thing to another must either be by nature, as Parents, in regard of whose origination of their Children's lives and educa∣•••••••• of them, they have naturally a right to governe and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 any things concerning them; or else it must be by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Covenant, concession or yielding, expressed or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of one to the other; but in the original Charter 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is not any grant or priviledge given to one over 〈◊〉〈◊〉; and therefore barbarous acts of inhumanity, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it is to be supposed that no man would yield 〈◊〉〈◊〉 should act upon him, no man can have right to 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Upon these Considerations his proposition must 〈◊〉〈◊〉 perish, when he saith, every man hath right to any 〈◊〉〈◊〉; but he seemes to prove it thus. [For seeing all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 he willeth must therefore be good to him, in his owne ••••dgement, because he willeth them, and may tend to his pre∣••••••vation some way or other, or he may judge so, and we have ade him judge thereof, Sect. 8. If he had said, I have ade him judge thereof, the force of the Argument would quickly have been shatered, because his authority is weake to constitute a Judge in so weighty affaires; but when he said we, I wonder who he meanes. I am sure I was none of them, nor doe I remember to have read any other, but himself, of that mind, That every man must be judge of his own Cause: I know every man will judge and act according to his judgement, who is an honest and

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vertuous man; but to be a Judge Authoritativè, which that phrase (we have made him judge thereof) doth imply,* 1.2 is that which no man saith but himself; how he is a Judge, I have shewed before, by what right to judge, by the law of Nature, not by his making him; his will hath not right with it to act any thing because he willeth it, but because it is regulated by the lawes of nature, and acts according to those rules, therfore only he hath right to doe what he doth by them; and therefore his Conclu∣sion, which (he saith) follow's out of his premises, is vain, which is, that all things may be rightly done by him.

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