In Memory o^ FREDERICK BENJAMIN KAYE: (Yale, 1914) JPro^cssor of English .Morih-ofesicrn UniOersiiy^ 1916-1930 Norih-oJcsicrn Uni'OcrsHy Efhrary E%)a.nsfon, lUinois m L;^;, the TRUE EFFIGIES OF THE j^onfter of jWalmeotarp i OR, THOMAS HOBBES IN HIS PROPER COLOURSJ L0NT> ON 3 Pi'intcdm the Year, i68o» <«V vwv W t&ii^ TO THE READER; Ibefire thou fTiouldid underftand that the Author of the following Verfes againft Mr. Hobbes, a- bout Twenty Years fince conceived that nation againft him, and that Hatred of his Illopcal and Jtheijitcal Genihs which he has here Bxpreft, and that he Avers that it is both the EffeEi of the DARK.NESSE of this Mans Heart, and the Cauje of the Encrjafe of it, that he holds that there cannot be an Idea of an Infinite 'Being. I cafinot think of any o- ther of his wicked Conceits, but what has been a- B ^ bundantly To the ^aderl ' bundantly confuted by one or other of his Learned Adverfaries ^ but I have not obferved that this hath been taken notice of by any one except Tes Cartes j - wherefore I fhall dehre the Ingenious Reader to be- flow his utmoft Intention on thefe Words,. which the Author of thefe Verles ddiveredTn aDifcourfe to a. great Auditory about feven years fince : But my hardeft Task is yet behind ,, to Prove, as to a ftubborn Atheift, that there is a GOD. Many men . declare that they have in their minds the Idea or No- - tion of GOD, that is to,fay, of.a Being Abfolutely Infinite; L fay many men declare that they have _ the Idea of this Being , therefore certainly there is fuch a Being. How, may fome fay ? This is a fine Argument indeed ,• It is lo , becaule Many Men think it is fo. Why may not that which you call an . Idea of GOD, be nothing elle but a meeiT Conceit or. Figment of the Mind.- To this we anfwer, that " jWe-undertake to VemojiJlrate ths-t it is not ameer Conceit, which we apprehend under thefe Terms J A Being AWblutcly Infinite. If it were a meer Conceit, m - Bns^^tiojik, or Empty Notion, then this Propofition would be True : Some mcer ,Conceit or Figment of the Mind is- That which the Mind may Apprehend under thefe Terms, A Being, But that we Prove to be Falfe, thus; That which 'tis poflTible for the Mind to compre- . -- ---. (Judder. Keridj and to know for certain that 'tis nothing elie ^ but what it works or frames to it felf, is not That ' which the Mind may Apprehend under thefe Terms, A Being Abfolutely Infinite: Every meer Conceit, Ens ^tionls, or Figment ^ of the Mind is that which 'tis poffible for the Mind ^ to comprehend, isrc. therefore.No meer Conceit, ^ <^c. is That which the Mind may Apprehend under ® thele Terms, A Being Abfolutely Infinite, By thele Words 'tispolTible/or the Mmd to coniprehend^l mean, As 1 to the lltmoft Extent of its Natural Capacity :not but that it may be IrapofTible for the Mind by reafon of fome Accidental Defedt to Cowjjrekni its own Opera- ® tion : Abfolutely Infinite plainly implies All Ex-- cellency and Perfedlion that we can Underftand and That which Infinitely Tranfcends our Under- ^01 ftanding. - We know nothing more cettainly than h'.' this, that Our Holy One is Incomprehefifible: tbIo eer aviv (Qiv) « 'Anripi'A, E,yes that Incomparable lefe Divine St. Gregory Na-^iangeii^ 'ti And nowlfhall demonftrate to i^// Chriftihts that on, there is an Ideaj or Notion of God in the Minds cei of All men : And by this it will appear that 'tis very id Indifcreet (not to lay Wicked) for any Chriftian to A flights this Argument for the Convidlion of the Mad- IS; nefs of Atheifin. I do not wonder to fee it flighted by )!(■ that Monfter^ the Father of the Leyiathany^ or by his ;jid " - ' ^ ■ " 'Friend I / To the ^(fder, tifiend GdJJmclHS, who has fuch Abb'ftiifiable Grbfs Conceits of the Deity, that 'tWbtild look like a kind of Prophanenefs to mention them in En^lip> before fjch a Promifcuous Auditory. But this I fhall fay in fcorn of thole Ugly th'mgs which this ISlew ^hilofo- pJmy and. New VtVme has written in oppofition to 2)of Cartes; that it is not ftrange that he who writes the Life of Ga ffeuduSj fayes of that he was Gaf- fendo chmfjimm, But let thelc men, and the Admi- rers of their rare Metaphyfich Prate what they pleale, we know 6c are afllifd that thele words wete di<5ta= ted to St. 'Paul by the Holy Ghofly Kom. i, i Which piew the Ifiork of the Lato written m their hearts. He ipcaksofthe Gentiles^ which have not the La1v,that is, flays the truly Learned, and Pious Do(5tor Hammond) Tvhich haye not that 'P.eyelation of Gods Will and Latv tvhich the Jelps had. By the work of the Lam we underftand Tl^at which the LaTV Requires to he dons, which our Sa- viour reduces to thele Two Heads, Tioou p?alt love the Lord thy God, 8cc. And thy Neighbour as thy felf What can be more evident than this, that in the work of the Lam written in the Hearts of Men there is implied an Idea, or ISlotion of God ? fith the Principal work of the Law is. To Love God, which Pythago^ ras, and his Followers declare to be Written in their Hearts by that celebrated Saying of theirs'eu or ©e n, Follolp God. What a fiiame is it for any Chriftian not to To the K.eader^ to R,efle(£^: upon the Brightnefs of his own Soul,' II' luftrated'by this Splendid Notion of the Deity, fo aS to defpife All the Glories of this perifhing World I !But, r/;e Perverfenefs of our Wills averts ourUn- derfiandrng from refleciing on its own Light. Shine upon^ uSy laehefeech theOj O Father of Lights, m tkKtceo/' J.!^US CHRIST, the Brightnefs of thy Glory, that m thy Light Tt>e may fee Light. Here I Jhall mind you of thofe Tiibo Sacred Arguments to T>emonHrate the 1Deity,^hich the L^falmijl ufesin^L i p. to frit, the Light of the Vifihle World^ and the Turity of the L(n» of GOD, th at Sftritual Light that proceeds jro?n the Sun of Righteoufnefs, the Sun of the Inyifihle umid^ Tfal.ip* 1, 2,3, <67-0. The Apoftle layes exprefly, Rom. 1.20. 'J]}e Inyifble things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly feeuy being underfiood by the things that are made, eyen his Etejual ^otner and Godhead. And as for the Law of God , the Holy Scriptures, jphofoeyer reads them tvith All 'Diligence, and compares irhat k Keads "ttiith what he Sees in the World, and what he often Lceh in his own Soul, he ynll certainly cry out ydth the Dleffed ^falmiH, Verily there is a Reward for the Righteoii; j verily he is a God that Judgeth in the Earth. And now I fhall mention another of Mr. Hohhes's, wicked Conceits, that thou maift more clearly per- ceive the of that vehement 1 have a^ainfthim. In his late ?amphkt-^iUuhAi An Hiflori. cal To the 'Keader. aiVHarrdthe concerning Werefte^ p. 11. He fhews that he would fain have this Doctrine go for a piece of POPERY, That a mans Will and Purpofe to commit Sin, does not proceed from God, but origi- nally from himfelf or from the Devil. Unhappy man, who endeavours lo plainly and openly to ftain the Glory of the HOLY ONE ! and to ^con- cde us to Sin, the Only Jhjolute EVIL! For he can ne- ver Rationally conclude-that Sin deferves our utmoft Hatred , who has a Conceit that it Proceeds from GOD. The Spring cind Original of all Sin is SELF- WILLy Sin being an J^^erfton from GOD, whilft the Will of the Creature Affects It felf, and not the Will of the Creator, as the Prmie Motrre in its Tendency or Inclination. Mr. Hohhes may. call this ISlon-fenJe^ or what he pleafes; but he Ihall quickly Know that 'tis a Truth of the greatell: Importance. I grant that He has a very Elegant Style both in Engltjl? and La- tme, Profe and Verfe: But his LeViathaHy and other Books of his are fo full of Madnefs and Follyy that 'tis impofTible they Ihould be fo Taking as they are, but that the 'PraBices oflo Many even of them that have Named the Name of CHRIST, are fo Agreeable to His iSlotions.But the time draws on apace when He 6c his Followers fhall Know that the LORD our God will not be Mocked, and that he will Hear the Voice of his Chiircfo., crying unto him, Artfefi Godyplead thine olrn Cdufcy remember hoip the Feolijl? 77ian 'lleproachcth thee daily. To Mr; COWLBTs V E R S E S In „ V yfji Bodies of Ptyilofsptf j. i oft ^ave jeen f, and read^ But all are BoMes deady Or Bodies hy Art felBioned; . / never yet the living Soul could f ee , But in thy Books ^ and thee. . 1 ''Tis only God can know ■) [ f£T-j- j ■ " fd^htiher the fair Idea thou dofi JhorVy... . y , . ^gree entirely with his own, or no. , f ■ This I dare boldly teHj \ ' ■ "^Tis fo like Truth "'twill Jerve our tu^n aswet^f Tufi as in '^Nature thy Propqrtioris ,^e,,. ^s full of Goncord their fx ■ ,;r yds firm the fXrts u^on their X^nt&Vjreff > ^ , j/^nd all fo Solid arty that they at leafs ' . ^ y^s much as Nature, Emptinefs dctpil»V /<. ^ h-. pjA rj ; •• A 2 f 4f h ( 2 ) What Bodies of Philofophie You oft have feen ,• and read, .1 wifh. you had but mentionedj Wee'd judge if they're alive, or dead." ' We e^onot, judge before we.Xrye.. The M^oralf-ef the Are Stars which to th' Dark World gave Zight, But Hohks by his would turn our Day to Night, 6^reat Zenoftion , and Plato, who" relate. How Socratts embrac'd his Fate, And all the Brave Socrattck RacCf Whole Momnttnts Time can' t deface, Shall live, when Hohhts fhall "^have hi^ Doom, So Lit as dead , as dOrh ■ «(^ood''Mtb"ljris Knavery fpie: His Books contarli^ibtnb Trujth^^'^and many'aLic, Some Truths mil known^, hut firaHgeVta^xQtf. * Stay 1 • ftay I where now fond Zad / Thy Wit thus ftrain'd,,TKi^u'rt, fen timeS; >worlc. than What's Nature but the Ordmaf^ waj^ ^ \ (Mad»v Wherein our Good Creatdf ddth'di^Iay \ His Power, gnd IVifdom in the things he made' For his own Man's^ not Z- Shade^ But utter Darknefs aHy^lhnt'^ • ^ ■ Whilft his works zrt He that will Hohbes Applaud muft firft Blaffheme. s A - (J; r 2) JOoHg did the mighty Stagirite remm The univerfal Ifltelle£taal Reign, Saw hu own Countrys jbort-liv^d Leopard flai*5 The ftronger Roman Eagle did otittflyf Oftner renewed his y^ge, and faw that Dye, Mecha it [elfin ffight of Mahomet pffofi, y^nd chafed hy a wild Deluge from the £aft^ His Monarchy new planted in the fVefl But as in time each great Imperial Race Degenerates, and giv es fame new one places So did ibis Nohle Empire wafl; Sunk by degrees from Glories pafi^ y^ndin School-mens hands perifht quite at Ufi^ Then nought, hut words it gren\ yind thofe aU Barbarous too. It perifht, ayid it vanifht yhere. The Life and Soul breathed out ^ became but empty yiirl • r 2 y X The Empire of the fublime and piercing wiv (Thoth'Empire both of Greece , and Rome Time did long fince or'ecome ) ( fubmit; Shall ne'rc decay , but men fhafl ftill to its vaft Power For All weil-order'd thoughts muft go /Fithin the Comp^ils of thofe Rules , which his great Quv H^RHTT-y whofe bright Fame fArt did fhew. So DaasePd Envies Eye, that flie * Could (o could never fee The leaft Pretence to lefTen his Great Name, Even He commends the Stagirite To ail Pofterity? As one that had a Clear Infight Into the Secret ways of Natures MajeHy. 'Tis true he fail'd in that he did not fee That thiings $ucce[Jive could not be From all Btertiith: But yet he faw That this is Natures Law, That all things muft depend en him alone, Who gives to all things Motion, though himlhlf has none. Who Is, and Was, and Ever Ihall Be ONE In all SimfUcifki From Compcjttion^ and from Altera,tion free: To whom may all true Praife be given In Earth, as 'tis in Heaven. (?) The FieUs yvhich anftvered weHthe Antients Plow, Spent and out-worn return no Harveft »cw. In Barren Age wild^ and ungloriotu lie And hoafi of paft Fertilitie, The poor relief of prefent Poverty. Fosdi and Fruit we now mufl wanty Unlefs JVew Zands we plant. JFe break up Tombs with Sacrilegious hands; Old Rubbifh we remove^ To walk in- Ruines like vain Ghofts we love, And with fond Divining Wands IVe fearth among the Bead, fsr ( ?) For Tredfures Burkdt dVhtUi Jlill the liberal Farthdoes hdU So many Virgin Mines of undiibovered Gold; ( 3 ) That in this Age Men don't their Thoughts confine Within the Zine Of what Judicious Arifotk laid; Nor are his Works lb eomme»tiedj , * As they were in thofe" Days;- They don't hereby detract from his Great Praife. Sith they walk in thofe ways. To which his mighty Genius led. His Commendation was not this* that, he Did fhew the Truth of this> or thiitPartic^Uritiei But that he Ihew'd the. way to clear our Thought, That every Man mightthat Truth, which fliould ('by him be fought. •_ > I - t.l (4) The Baltic > Euxin, and the Cafpian, jdnd fender limyd Mediterranean Seem Marrow Creeks to Thee , and only ft for the foor wretched Fifher-Boats of Wit: Thy Nobler fejfel the vaf Ocean tries, yfnd nothing fees but Seas and Skies, Till unknown'Regions it defer its. (phies. Thou great QolnrnhMS of Golden Lands # New Philoib- Thy Task was harder much than bis 5 for thy learned America is M'cr '( 8 ) ' only found, out firji hy thee^ ' ■ " y^nd rudely left to future. Induftry5 But thy Eloquence , and thy Wit Has planted, peopled., built, and civilized it. , (4) 'Tis true» tby New Philofbpher has left the Cuf^Un, The Baltic 1 Euxin y MediterraneAHi -' The Narrow ways to ali that f^tritie i wi^ loM Which Mortals can defcric; He Sails i'th' Ocean of the raoft Profound Zmpiety; And from the Coafts of HeK He brings thofe Wares y which he mall never fell To any, but thofe darkened Souls, which lie, where yZdam The Power of Earthly Princes he doth fooUfjlypretend {feR. By his fictitious Loyalty t' extend (alone: To larger meafures; gives to 'Kings what's due to God Thus what he feems to make moregreaty he really makes .For Xure on Earth there is No Monarchy{none: If it confift in ABSOLUTE Sovereignty. The King of Kings commands us to obey our King, By chearful Doing , or by quiet Suffering : He that the Power of Kings would have much higher His KingDishonourSj^d his GOD he doth Defpifc.-ftoarife. Such Folk' dwell in thofe Colonhsy) Which Hobbjh^s planted in his Lands of Elew Philofobhks^ • \ *Y\ w . . (5)' I little thoughl- before, (Al'or being my own ft If fi poorj Could comprehend fo vaft Could have afforded half enuff Q/bright, o/new , and lafting Stuffs To cloaththe mighty limbs of thy Gigantick Senfc) Thy folid Reajon like the from Heaven-, To the Trojan Hcroe given , Too (Irong to take a mark from any mortal Dart, Tet jhines with Gold, and Gems in every part^ And wonders on it graved by the learned hand of Art; A Shield that gives delight Even to the Enemies fight. Then when they"*re fure to lofe the Combat by't» ( J ) His Monftrous Thoughts may well be call'd Gigantick To Heaven they fain would offer violence, (Senfe^ Like thofc Giants of old Of which the Poets told. Even like Goliath they Defie {Die, The Armiei of the Living God , and like him too they - The Man with his Gigantick S'enfe, his mighty Spear Comes forth into the Field; and Shield And for fome time he Boafted ther e As if he had no Caufe to Fear. His Captive-Darkned Soul cannot fee, fVhat "'tis to have our Souls fet free From the Black Chains of dire MECESSITIE\ This and a Thoufand Errors more He ftrives to Land upon our Sh o ar* B ' But ( 4 ) " But tl^en the Mighty comes, and takes his- (Arms away. Shews that this Painted, ShkW s not ft for Fight ^ but Play^ Strikes down the Monftcr,doth to All his Ugly Shape difplay. Then in another Field he's met by th'Mig hty WARDj And here 'twas plainly feen,that he could neither guard Himlelf from being Wounded, or give Wounds; Down ftrait he falls , his Armour on him founds, What e're his Followers fay, he never Rofe agaim His Ghoftis]iQdsd to Rave ibmetimes, but then Bold TV AP was flain-. {6) IPor can the , which now cold Age doesJhed Upon thy reverend Head,, Quench or allay the noble Fires within. But all which thou haft bin, And allthat Youth.c^nht,, thou rtyet. So fully siill doft Thou Enfby the Manhood , andtheBloomof TFit, And all the Natural Heat, but nottheBozvov too* iSo. Contraries ificna's Top confpire Her hoary Frofts , and by them breaks out Fire. A fecurepeace the iddthfol'Hti^hQms keep,^ entboldned Snow next'to the Flame does fleep. And if we weigh like Thee, Nature, and Caufeswefballfee,, That thus it needs muft be; To things Immortal, Time can do no wrong. And that which nefver is to Dye, for ever muft be Young, TOM'S C 5 ) TOM's grown Another Man, and now himfelf betakes To Poetry , and Sonnets makes Of Goas, and OoddeJJes , and fuch like things; He's now the £ccho of what HOMER Sings. If T'irjifying be a Sign of Touth-, The Man Politicks is youthful^\\\; He does not here Pretcn d to fhew the Truth, On which Pretence how much Ink did he fpill! O' that he had fpent all the Time In hard Tranjlations , and in Rhyme^ (we climb. Which he fpent in Oppofing TV/#/?'/ , by which to Heaven No wonder, that Old Age, & Youth, Mtnean Cold, & Heat Should Meet in Him, in whom long fince fuch Contradictions r wifh he may not Die toofoon after fo long a Life, (Met* That he no longer would maintain hiscurfed Strife jGainfl: That, which would make him repent of all's Im- (pieties : , Leaft his Long Life bring him i'th' End toth' WORM that {Never Dies. F I K I S. ;-- fAT-,:; - '-.- n--o -a > . ^J. • • • ■A -A ■ . .c-T -■ •. 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