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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Sect. 2.
The negative piece which saith, which is more then man hath,* 1.1 is very false; for although, by reason of his cor∣rupt will, Man sometimes mistakes ill for Good, Good for ill, and prosecutes these things accordingly; yet he doth not this as a Man, but as a depraved man, and ei∣ther in things which belong to his Election, having an indifferent nature; or else out of some predominant passion within him, which as it draws his Will, so it blinds oftentimes his Understanding; or else when there is a disguise put upon the Obj••ct, which makes it appear other then it is; but Man, as Man, hath abilities both to know, and prosecute what is Good, and he alwayes
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doth desire what is Good, at the least apparent, nor can he do otherwise.
Notes
* 1.1
Appetite and knowledge is no•• more then man hath.