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 15, 2024.

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Sect. 5.

* 1.1His second Argument is, That [if this proportion should be observed, then it were injustice to give more than a man deserves.] This Argument may be blown away with saying, that giving, or not giving, have nothing to doe with justice; giving belong's to another vertue, caled Liberality; acts of Justice are acts of Duty; acts of Giving are acts of Bounty: but this I may tell him, that it were an act of Injustice for that Judge or Um∣pire,* 1.2 in a Case of Commutative Justice, betwixt John A-stiles and John An-oakes, who should make John A-stiles to give John An-oakes but a little more than the Arithmetical proportion was due to him; he may give him out of his own purse what he pleaseth; but, out of justice, he can compell John A-stiles to give no more, or rather pay no more, than a shilling-worth of money for a shilling-worth of work, unless for costs, or cause of 〈◊〉〈◊〉: So that▪ here▪ his second Argument against 〈…〉〈…〉

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another man hath merited, but he cannot justly be for∣ced to pay more.

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