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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1663.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Leviathan.
State, The.
Political science.
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CHAP. XXV.
  • I. The right of nature not such as Mr. Hobbes define's it; 190
  • II. Not liberty, as he describe's it. 191
    • Externall impediments may hinder, but not take away, natural power. ibid.
  • III. Exceptions against Mr. Hobbes's definition of the Law of Nature. 192
    • A veine of errours that run through his Book. 193
  • IV. Mr. Hobbes may be allow'd to say, he declare's, when he prove's nothing; but not to suppose a multitude of falshoods to make the horridness of one Conclusion. ibid.
    • A term wanting to Mr. Hobbes's just engagement in a War; 194
  • V. And to him a remembrance of his own principles. 195

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      • War not the only preservative of Man's right or Nature's; ibid.
      • The discourse of Man's laying down his right to all things, &c. unnecessary. ibid.
    • VI. That is not alwayes really good for which a man part's with his right. 196
      • A man may lay down his right to resistance, and preservation of his life for a greater good. 197
      • Objection answer'd. ibid.
      • Tertullian's signal instance in the Christians of his time. ibid.
    • VII. He may suffer imprisonment, &c. without reluctance, for the same reason; 199
      • Obedience being better then sacrifice. ibid.
    • VIII. A man may renounce his right pro aris & focis. 200
      • For the good of his posterity. ibid.
      • Monastick retreats. 201
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