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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Sect. 2.
To understand which give me leave to preface some∣things necessary to be preconceived; first,* 1.1 we must know that there is a God; that this God is of an infi∣nite excellency, infinitely true, good, immense, eternal, &c. all which have a great consent among Divines, that they may be proved by reason. Secondly, Consider with me that there is a great difference betwixt these two; the man pretended able to prove this by naturall reason, who never heard nor apprehended it by faith; and him who hath assented to it first by faith; for the former hath no reason to enquire, or with industring to search, because those things of God onely concern him by which he is ruled, as his omnisciency, his justice, his
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providence, and the like; but these internal excellencies which are onely in God, and onely work as one princi∣ple in the outward works, concerning the Creation or Government of the world, these he hath no occasi∣on further to busie his Soul about; but then when they are revealed by faith, a contemplative Soul ambitiously strive's how he may climb up to them by reason. These permitted, I shall undertake the Question.
Notes
* 1.1
What of God to be proved by Reason, and by whom to be attempted.