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. 1.

THIS Chapter I should wholly have let pass, but that, by a few weak Grammatical Notes, the plot of it seeme's to be aymed at most pro∣fane and wicked purposes: for that reason I must cen∣sure it, as not befitting a Christian Writer, and in its self containing many dangerous falsities; he begin's it thus:

* 1.1[A person is he, whose words or actions are considered, either as his own, or as representing the words or actions of another man, or any other thing, to whom they are attribu∣ted, whether truly or by fiction.] Reader, here is a strange Definition; Definitions should be short, without un∣necessary Circumstances, of which this is composed: I will make it shorter for him, in his own sence; A per∣son is he who doth or speake's any thing; and this is as full as his; for whosoever doth or speake's, his words or

deeds are considered either as his own, or anothers; or he might have say'd, it is a particular man, for actions or speeches of every particular man are either considered as his own, or representing another man, or thing; so that his tedious description might, without such cir∣cumstances, have been cut shorter, and have had the full expression of his intendment. But because Mr. Hobbes will speak pertinently, and be clearly understood what he meane's, he proceede's with a distinction.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mr. Hobbes's definition of a Person too cir∣cumstantial.