TRACTS

O F

MR. THOMAS HOBBS

OFR.$.53.

Malmsbury.

GONTAINING

I. Behemoth, the Hiftory of the Caufes of the Civil Wars of England, from 1640. to 1660. printed from the Author's own Copy: Never printed (but with a thoufand faults) before.

II. An Answer to Arch-Bifhop Bramhall's Book, called the Catching of the Leviathan: Never printed before.

III. An Hiftorical Narration of Herefie, and the Punishment thereof: Corrected by the true Copy.

IV. Philofophical Problems,dedicated to the King in 1662. but never printed before.

LONDON,

Printed for W. Crooke at the Green-Dragon without Temple-Bar. M DC LXXXII.

THE

BOOKSELLER

TO THE

READER.

M

T Duty, as well to the Publick as to the Memory of Mr. Hobbs, has obliged me to procure, with my utmost diligence, that these Tracts fhould come forth with the most correct exactness.

I am compell'd by the force of Truth to declare, how much both the World, and the Name of Mr. Hobbs have been abus'd by the Several Spurious Editions of the History of the Civil Wars; wherein, by various and unskilful Tranfcriptions, are committed above a thousand faults, and in above a hundred places whole Lines left out, as I can make appear.

I must confefs Mr. Hobbs, upon fome confiderations, was averse to the publishing thereof; but fince it is impoffible to fupprefs