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 ...

CHAP. XXVIII.

• I. Mr. Hobbes unkind to Religion in the disparagement he put's upon naturall knowledge; 226
• II. What a perswasive the natural knowledge, or belief we have of eternal happinesse, is to withdraw us from our opinion of tem∣poral

• ... felicity. 227
• III. The transcendent delight here in our hopes of eternall hap∣pinesse; 228
  • For which we loath worldly pleasures; ibid.
  • And welcome tortures. 229
• IV. Objection answer'd. ibid.
  • The worldly advantages in prosecuting divine happinesse. ibid.
  • The Merchant-adventurers hazard. 230
• V. Mr. Hobbes can render himself no more secure of temporall then he seem's to be (with little satisfaction) of eternal felicity. 231
• VI. The promises and oaths of men, which he make's his greatest assurance being very fallible. ibid.
• VII. His scornful scale of knowledge. 232
  • Our evidence greater of future felicity then that ever there was such a man as Julius Caesar; ibid.
• VIII. Being not only deliver'd to us by Tradition, but most conso∣nant to Reason. 233
• IX. In Man's fellowship with other creatures, and his excellen∣cy above them. 234
• X. A very child require's the satisfaction of his Will. 236
  • A man's will satisfyed with no worldly goods, whether bodily, sensuall, or intellectual. ibid.
• XI. His knowledge is defective, and cannot do it. 237
  • Nor ought else which is not infinite, and that infinite is God. 238
  • Riches do it not, which bring with them an impatient covetous∣nesse of getting more, when men have most. 239
• XII. Man hath some imperfect knowledge of God in this life; 240
  • None positively of his eminencies, but by revelation. 241
  • What Faith doe's toward it. 242
  • What Dreames, Visions, Ecstacies, &c. ibid.
• XIII. The severall parts acted by the Understanding and the Will, both which faculties are imperfect in this world. 243
• XIV. The certainty of felicity after death resum'd and prov'd. ibid.
• XV. The Objection answer'd, touching Man's felicity in the

• ... knowledge, &c. he hath, though imperfect. 245
  • A second Objection answer'd, about eternall felicity, being the last Article of our Faith. 246
  • The same Conclusion may be the result of Faith and Reason. 247
  • An Argument to confirm this drawn from the holy Martyrs constancy in their sufferings. ibid.
  • Mr. Hobbes suspected of a design, to disparage the foresaid Ar∣ticle of our Faith. 248