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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But you may object, a certain portion is not allotted to every single man,* 1.1 but any part of the world; neither is it lawful for one to subdue the whole, for then it would be lawful for one man, if he had power to deprive others of the necessaries for life, yea to kill another, which seem's to op∣pose what he had said before, when God decreeing to man the use of this life did decree likewise to bestow upon him the use of these things usefull to his life, which, saith he, one man cannot take from another, unless in extreme necessi∣ty, but he doth subvert the end which God intended in the creation of another. To this he adde's another objection concerning the birthright of the Eldest Son, who, he saith,* 1.2 hath title to his Father's estate without compact; this second I esteem very weak, and so meddle not with what he write's concerning it; but the first, I am perswaded, is of invincible force, and his answer to it is miserable; his answer is page 103. we answer, saith he, not onely in extreme necessities a man may subdue the world,* 1.3 such a necessity being granted (such a necessity is impossi∣ble say I, because the world cannot be necessary to re∣lieve any man's extreme necessity, but onely very little parts of it) but also if any profit or commodity may be pro∣mised to arise thence, as any Lord may use his good, nei∣ther can he offend against that justice by which he is bound to render to his neighbour that which is his; the rest in that Paragraph is but flourished to this purpose; now let a man consider how this satisfies the preceding ar∣gument, that argument was drawn from the end which God intended in the creating of both these, the preserva∣tion

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of either was equally intended; doth not then that man violate that justice which ought to be used towards his neighbour, when, for his commodities, even in su∣perfluities, he shall deprive his Brother of necessaries? In his discourse there is no semblance of satisfaction to this objection, when in his answer he only affirm's, that a man hath right to all thing for his commodity, but ne∣ver set's down, God's end is preserved in that right; I mean to urge this Argument stronger hereafter.

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