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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43996	The last sayings, or, Dying legacy of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmesbury who departed this life on Thursday, Decemb. 4, 1679.	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2245; ESTC R26062	5,132	4

THE Last Sayings or Dying Legacy OF Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmesbury Who departed this Life on Thursday Decemb. 4. 1679. Quid mihi Curae erit Transfuga Senec FEar of Power invisible feign'd by the mind or imagined from Tales publickly allowed is Religion not allowed is Superstition It is with the Mysteries of Religion as with wholesom Pills for the Sick which swallow'd whole have the vertue to Cure but chew'd are for the most part cast up again without effect To say that God hath spoken to a man in a Dream is no more than to say he Dreamt that God spake to him To say he hath seen a Vision or heard a Voice is to say that he hath Dreamt between sleeping and waking To say he speaks by Supernatural Inspiration is to say he finds an ardent desire to speak or some strong opinion of himself for the which he can alledge no natural reason In matters of Right or Interest where Reason is against a man a man will be against Reason Evil men under pretext that God can do anything are so bold as to say he does every thing that may serve their turns As for Witches I think not that their Witchcraft is any real power but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief joyned with a purpose to do it if they could For Fairies and walking Ghosts I think that opinion is taught only to keep in credit the use of Exorcisms Crosses and Holy-Water to lay those Spirits which never were raised The best Prophet naturally is the best Guesser and the best Guesser he that is most vers'd and studied in the matters he guesses at Whatsoever we imagine is Finite therefore there is no Idea or conception of any thing we call Infinite When we believe another man's Revelation not from the Reason of the thing reveal'd but from the Authority and good opinion of him to whom it was so revealed then is the Speaker or Enthusiast the only object of our Faith and the Honour done in believing is done to him only and not to him that revealed it So on the contrary if Livy says the Gods once made a Cow speak and we believe it not herein we distrust not God but Livy Thhre is no greater Argument of Madness than the arrogating to ones self Inspiration for if some man in Bedlam after he had made a long sober discourse should at last tell you he was God the Father I think you need expect no further Argument for his Madness He that believes a thing only because it may be so may as well doubt of it because it may be otherwise A certainty of Error in any part of a thing implies a possibility of Error in the whole Nil fuit in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu When a Pope excommunicates a Kingdom he may rather be said to excommunicate himself the Pope being the only loser thereby That Daemoniacks were no other than mad-men from Joh. 10. 20. He hath a Devil and is mad As a Man that is born blind hearing men talk of warming themselves by the Fire and being brought to warm himself by the same may easily conceive there is somewhat there which men call fire and is the cause of the heat he feels but can have no Idea of it in his Mind such as they have that see it So also by the visible things of this World and their admirable order a man may conceive there is a cause of them which men call God and yet not have an Idea or Image of him in his Mind No Persons ought so justly to die for Religion as those that get their living by it To measure Good or Evil by the Reward or Punishment assigned by the Laws of our own Countrey is like little Children who have no other measure of good or ill but from the correction of their Parents The Church is a Mother-in-law to the Laity but an own Mother to the Clergy That the Popish Consecration is no other than Conjuration or Incantation For when their Priests in the Sacrament pretend to turn the Bread into Christ's Body wherein differ they from the Egyptian Conjurers who are said to have turn'd the Rods into Serpents and the Water into Bloud However if as in the Sacrament the Bread remain'd Bread still the Rods had also remain'd Rods still and they had nevertheless faced down the King contrary to his own eye-sight that they were Serpents what impudent Rogues had these been that had been both Enchantment and Lying and so is it in Transubstantiation That we might not give too much credit to all pretended Miracles let us examine the many Impostures wrought by Confederacy wherein we shall find that there is nothing how impossible soever to be done that is impossible to be believed For two men conspiring one to seem Lame and the other to cure him with a Charm will deceive many but many conspiring one to seem Lame another to cure him and all the rest to bear witness will deceive more In these four things viz. Opinion of Ghosts Ignorance of second Causes Devotion towards what men fear and taking of things Casual for Prognosticks consisteth the natural Seed of Religion which by reason of the different Fancies Passions and Judgements of several men hath grown up into Ceremonies so different that those which are used by one man are for the most part ridiculous to another That Law which is absolutely necessary to Mankind's future Happiness ought if the Law-giver be just to be generally made known unto all men No one reveal'd Law was ever made known unto all men Ergo No one reveal'd Law is absolutely necessary to Mankind's future Happiness That God is Almighty Matter That the prime Law of Nature in the Soul of Man is that of Self-preservation That the Law of the Civil Magistrate is the only obliging Rule of Just and Unjust Dreams are the Reverse of our waking Imaginations the motion when we are awake beginning at one end and when we dream at the other LONDON Printed for the Author's Executors 1680. Malmsburiensis Obît decurso Lumine vitae Qui genus humanum Ingenio Superavit omnes Praestrinxit Stellas exortus uti Aethereus Sol. THE Love of the knowledg of Causes draws a man from the Consideration of the Effect to seek the Cause and again the Cause of that Cause till of necessity he must come to this thought at last That there is some Cause whereof there is no former Cause but is Eternal which is God so that it is impossible to make any profound enquiry into Natural Causes without believing there is one Eternal God If any man think this World without a mind I shall think him without a mind Nothing is Law where there are not manifest signs that it proceedeth from the will of the Soveraign To be slow in the belief of Miracles is not a contempt of Divine Power but a just circumspection