Considerations Upon the Reputation Loyalty Manners Religion of Thomas Hobbe
Considerations Upon the Reputation Loyalty Manners Religion of Thomas Hobbe
Hobbes Thomas
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And for detecting, further than you thought fit, the fraud of 'the Ro- man Clergy. Your diflike of his Divinity was the leaft cauie of your calling him Atheifr. But no more of this now. The next Head of your Contu- melies is to make him contempti- ble, and to move Mr. Boyle to pity him. This is a way of railing too much beaten to be thought Witty. As As for the thing it felf, I doubt your Intelligence is not good, and that you Algebricians, and Non-Con- formifts, do but fain it, to comfort one ...another. For your own part, you contemn him not, or elfe you did very fooliilily to Entitle the beginning of your Book, Mn Hobbes considered ; which argues he is con- fiderable enough to you. Befides, 'tis no Argument of Contempt, to fpend upon him fb many angry lines as would have furniiht you with a dozen of Sermons : If you had in good earneft defpifed him, you would have let him alone, as he does Dr. Ward^ Mr. Baxter, FV^f, and others, that have reviled him as you do. As for his Reputation beyond the Seas, it fades not yet : And becaufe perhaps you have no means to know it, I will cite you a paifage of an Epiftle, written by a E learned learned Frenchman to an eminent Perfon in France^ a paffage not im- pertinent to the point now in que- ftioiu It is in a Volume of Epi- fHes, the fourth in order, and the words, page 167.
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