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LUCY, WILLIAM: OBSERVATIONS, CENSURES, AND CONFUTATIONS OF NOTORIOUS 
ERROURS IN MR. HOBBES HIS LEVIATHAN, and other his bookes. To which are 
annexed, occasional animadversions on some writings of the Socinians, and 
such haereticks; of the same opinion with him. London, Printed by J.G. for 
Nath. Brooke ..., 1663. 23 p. l., 440, [22] p. (lacks coat of arms used as 
Frontis.) 20 cm.: FIRST EDITION. p. 207-208, 368 incorrectly numbered 208, 
200, 378 respectively. Table to the several chapters following prelim. 
quire 6, signed Lll-Ooo. -first errata on verso of the last page of the 
table. With a second and final errata leaf. Title within double line 
border, marginal notes. Lucy objects to the thoroughly rationalist and 
utilitarian philosophy of Hobbes and to his demystification of Christian 
religion. Hobbes, while a Christian and willing to act as a pious Anglican, 
if necessary, none the less describes the "Spirit of God" only in 
allegorical terms, and Angels as more examples of the same.  This  as well 
as his basing of the good things in the state on the delegation of powers 
from the individual all go contra to Lucy's orthodox understanding of 
Christian religion and of Aristotelian Ethics.. CBEL I, 878, Wing; L3454; 
OCLC 3 Locs.[CLU, NUI, RBN]. Marbled boards, later half calf, black title 
label, silvered. Title page with water margins OW Very Good. $1125.00

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