world, Hobbs would have abjured
them all, rather than have suffered a moment's pain on their account.
Such a man may be admired for his invention, and the planning of new
systems, but the world would never have been much illuminated, if all
the discoverers of truth, like the philosopher of Malmsbury, had had
no spirit to assert it against opposition. In a piece called the Creed
of Mr. Hobbs examined, in a feigned Conference between him and a
Student of Divinity, London 1670, written by Dr. Tenison, afterwards
archbishop of Canterbury, the Dr. charges Mr. Hobbs with affirming,
'that God is a bodily substance, though most refined, and forceth evil
upon the very wills of men; framed a model of government pernicious in
its consequences to all nations; subjected the canon of scripture to
the civil powers, and taught them the way of turning the Alcoran into
the Gospel; declared it lawful, not only to dissemble, but firmly to
renounce faith in Christ, in order to avoid persecution, and even
managed a quarrel against the very elements of Euclid.' Hobbs's
Leviathan met with many answers, immediately after the restoration,
especially one by the earl of Clarendon, in a piece called a Brief
View and Survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and
State, in Mr. Hobbs's Book entitled Leviathan, Oxon. 1676. The
university of Oxford condemned his Leviathan, and his Book de Cive, by
a decree passed on the 21st of July 1638, and ordered them to be
publickly burnt, with several other treatises excepted against.

The following is a catalogue of his works, with as full an account of
them as consists with our plan.

He translated into English the History of the Grecian War by
Thucydides, London 1628, and 1676 in fol. and since reprinted in two
volumes in octavo.

De Mirabilibus Pecci, a Latin Poem, printed at London 1636; it was
translated into English by a person of quality, and the translation
was published with the original at London 1678.

Elementa Philosophica, seu Politica de Cive, id est, de Vita civili &
politica prudenter instituenda, Paris 1642 in 4to. Mr. Hobbs printed
but a few copies of this book, and revised it afterwards, and made
several additions to it, with which improvements it was printed at
Amsterdam, under the direction of Monsieur Forbier, who published a
French translation of it. Dr. John Bramhall, bishop of Derry in
Ireland, in the Preface to his Book entitled a Defence of true
Liberty, from an ante