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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Subject terms
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 April 30, 2024.
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Sect. 2.
That (saith he) without doubt, God would have conser∣ved in me which, if it be taken away, he had in vain given me certain partes and proprieties; There is a truth in that proposition, but we must consider this Phrase, God would have conserved in me; I suppose he means by me; else if he mean it absolutely, without doubt God intend's by the fabrick of man, and many times by his justice upon wicked men, not to conserve that man to whom he hath given many parts and proprieties, for no other purpose then to preserve his life.
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Secondly, if he take it, as I think he doth (for a con∣servation by that man himself) it will be so farre true on∣ly, that a man must preserve that life, that being, in or∣der to which those parts and proprieties were aimed, un∣till some greater good then that, at which those parts were directed, shall arise out of the neglect of it; and this will be made good out of that contemplation of his upon himself as part of the world; now a part must be lost rather then the whole, a hand then a man, a finger then a hand, and so in all relation of parts one upon ano∣ther.
Notes
Animadversi∣ons upon his ambiguous sense, touch∣ing the con∣servation of life.