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 ...

Sect. 10.

And first (saith he) it is evident that the fire, the only lucide body upon earth, worketh by motion equally every way, insomuch as the motion of it stopt or enclosed, it is pre∣sently extinguished, and no more fire: He is not to be trusted, no not for that which he sayes he sees, for that which he sayes is evident, I am confi∣dent, to him that hath eyes, appeares otherwise, that fire doth not work equally every way; for a candle, any fire that you ever looked on, consider whether it move not by its flame upwards; for although in a candle it necessari∣ly creep downward for its sustenance, yet the motion of the fire is upward more then any other way, whether the endeavour it hath to propagate its like, which is in∣nate

in every thing, makes it follow the smoak, as a fit matter to be ignified and made fire▪ or a desire to ascend to the place of motion, as heavy things downward (which I am likely to vindicate from his scorn hereafter) what∣soever it is, that it is done, is evident, against that which he sayes is evident, that it moves equally every way.