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. 3.

He proceed's, [Though the original of Iustice be the ma∣king of Covenants; yet injustice there can be none, till the cause of such feare be taken away, which, while men are in the condition of warre, cannot be done.] Thus farre he: This phrase, such feare, must be understood of that feare a man hath of another's violation of Covenant; I think all this is satisfied: that there may be injustice before Covenant; injustice against the practicke law of nature; injustice af∣ter Covenant, in the violation of it; and although he imagine's feare to secure a man from violating Covenant, it must certainly be such as the Casuists speak of, metus cadens, such as would shake a valiant or constant man,

as some certaine argument of Death, or ruine, not sus∣picion's, that another will not keep his Covenant which must excuse. Againe, I have already shewed, that men are not naturally in a condition of warre; so that he build's upon very false foundations. I will not trouble the Reader with nine or tenne lines together, which are no∣thing but repetitions of formerly refuted conclusions: but in the next page 72. neare the beginning, he bring's somthing like a new Argument, from the usuall defini∣tion of justice among the Schoolemen, thus:

Notes

• The Casuists metus ••adens.