With regards to human nature, natural rights, and the role of government, who do you agree with more, Thomas Hobbes, or John Locke?

Is there answers to pick? I can try to help: In 1649, a civil war broke out over who would rule England—Parliament or King Charles I. The war ended with the beheading of the king. Shortly after Charles was executed, an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), wrote Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings. The title of the book referred to a leviathan, a mythological, whale-like sea monster that devoured whole ships. Hobbes likened the leviathan to government, a powerful state created to impose order.

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Edwards became full pastor at the First Church of Northampton when Solomon Stoddard passed on. It was here that his sermons began to stir the fires of revival in his church