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. 6.

Socinus saith, it is used now here in Scripture, but in the writings of this Evangelist; so my search need not be farre; in this place of the Gospell in his first Epistle Chapter 1. Verse 1. that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen, with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of Life, &c. here is no Circumstance inducing us to search a sense, that merely a man should be called the word, but rather the contrary, something divine, to which that humanity was united, because (as here) it

was from the beginning; and because, in the second Verse, that life, of which this is called the word, is term∣ed eternall life, which was with the Father, and was mani∣fested to us, was eternall, and with him, he must therefore be eternally with him, this was afterwards manifested to us. A third place is Rev. 19.13. his name is called the word of God; where I can find againe nothing to that sense, but in each place of these, this Term, word, may most aptly be understood, according to the Orthodox Catholick sense, for the internal word of God; nor indeed can they shew me any thing like it in Scrirture. Let a man conceive with himselfe what a strange uncouth phrase it is for a man, who speake's, to be called the word, which he speake's; yet so must he in their lan∣guage.

Notes

• Christ called the Word, ac∣cording to none of those figures.
• But according to the Catho∣lick sense is the internal Word of God.