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 16, 2024.

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Sect. 9.

* 1.1Well, I will write no more of this Terme, from the beginning: I come now to the last Terme, a diebus Se∣culi, from the dayes of age; they quarrell at every thing; This (say they) cannot be spoken of eternity, for eternity hath no days, but is totum simul, without distinction of dayes; this hath been answer'd many times; that since the infinite excellencies of God are such, that man, with his weake and finite understanding, cannot com∣prehend them in their proper notions, he is pleased to vaile that glory with such Clouds as man may behold somewhat of him, in part, as the Apostle speak's, dark∣ly, like the Sun behind a Cloud; and in this manner he teacheth all his Attributes, which is well known, and consented to, by Divines; and in this manner he teach∣eth his eternity.* 1.2 So Psalm▪ 102.27. thou art the same, and thy yeares shall have no end; if he have years, he hath dayes, one as well as another; so likewise Iob 10.5. Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy years, as mans dayes? there dayes are attributed, because man is ac∣quainted with no duration which is not successive; there∣fore God is pleased to expresse himselfe in such a man∣ner as man is capable of learning him by; whence, as it is evident in other God's glorious Attributes, so▪ in this very particular, eternity is used to be expressed by his own pen, in such a language as here, by dayes, and there∣fore may abide that sense here; for their expression of David, that his were the dayes of age, or time, which were

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mean't here; The Arguments before alleadged are of strength against it; likewise, he could not be said to go forth, when he was not, if he had no other being but his humanity, which was born long after at Bethlehem.

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