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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Sect. 1.
This I conceive erroneous, in that latitude of terms which he useth; for, no doubt, there are many Prophetick Dreams, concerning which the Scripture, both the Old and New Testament, are full of Instance, as Gen. 40. the Butler and Baker had Prophetick Dreams, so likewise Gen. 41. Pharaoh had a Prophetick Dream; such another you may find Dan. 2. of Nebuchadnezzer. In the New Testament we may observe in the 1. Chap. of S. Mat. v. 20. How an Angel appeared to Joseph in a dream: so likewise S. Paul, Acts 16.9. Now these, and many more, which the Scripture and story furnish us withall, and we are bound to believe, do shew us, that there are dreams which arise not from the agitation of the inward
parts, there being nothing in them that could progno∣stick any such thing; and therefore this Universal Pro∣position, (Th••re can be no dream but such) was a fault not to be pardoned: He spake much better in his Humane Nature, Cap. 3. Num. 3. where he saith, [That the Cau∣ses of Dreams (if they be natural) are the Actions or Violence of the inward Parts.] That Parenthesis (if they be natural) stopt a great gap, for these instances were not natural: It was much he should correct the first Copy, making it more erroneous; error it had before, but the rent in his Leviathan was made wider then in his first piece of Humane Nature.
Notes
There have been progno∣stick dreams, and such can∣not be said to arise from the agitation of the inward parts.