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A discovery of D. Jacksons vanity. Or A perspective glass, whereby the admirers of…A discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie. Or A perspective glasse, wherby the admirers of…
A discovery of D. Jacksons vanity. Or A perspective glass, whereby the admirers of D. Jacksons profound discourses, may see the vanity and weakness of them, in sundry passages, and especially so far as they tend to the undermining of the doctrine hitherto received. Written by William Twice, Doctor of Divinity, as they say, from whom the copy came to the pressA discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie. Or A perspective glasse, wherby the admirers of D. Iacksons profound discourses, may see the vanitie and weaknesse of them, in sundry passages, and especially so farre as they tende to the undermining of the doctrine hitherto received. Written by William Twisse, Doctor of Divinitie, as they say, from whom the copie came to the presse
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, Sodom and Gomorrah were consumed with fire from heaven; were not some children in their mothers wombs, some hanging at their mothers breasts, some newly come to the use of reason, all consumed to ashes, and made an example of Gods wrath, and suffered the vengeance of eternal fire, as Inde speaketh? Here is no forbearance of divers particular persons: so it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man; for while they shall say, peace and safety, sudden destruction shall come upon them, as sorrow upon 1a woman in travail, and they shall not escape.
Againe, Sodome and Gomorrah were consumed with fire from heaven; were not some children in their mothers wombs, some hanging at their mothers breasts, some newly come to the use of reason, all consumed to ashes, and made an example of Gods wrath, and suffered the vengeance of eternall fire, as Inde speaketh? Here is no forbearance of divers particular persons: so it was in the daies of Noah, so shall it bee at the comming of the Sonne of man; for while they shall say, peace and safetie, sudden destruction shall come upon them, as sorrow upon 1a woman in travaile, and they shall not escape.
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The difference you make between man and God, I like well; man by forbearance may bereave himself of power to execute vengeance, God cannot: and this is a good reason of his forbearance towards the very reprobates; but towards his elect, a power exercised in another kind, yet a power too, namely, to sanctify the consideration of his forbearance, to bring them unto repentance; as also a power to provide for satisfaction to be made for their sins, by the blood of his Sonne. A sentence related out of the book of Wisdom. ch. 12. 15, 16, you say is canonical, although the Author be not; a distinction that I never read nor heard of before. And if the truth of a sentence be sufficient to make it canonical, the canonical Scriptures shall be multiplied unreasonably, not out of the book of Wisdom only, but out of the rest of the works of Philo the Jew, and Josephus too, yea and out of Seneca's works, and Plutarchs morals; not to speak of Plato, and Aristotle, or your Plotinus. But let us consider this canonical sentence you speak of and weigh the truth of it in the balance of the Sanctuary. I pray, wherein had our Saviour Christ and the Son of God deserved to be punished? And did not God (think you) think it agreeable to his power to condemn him, notwithstanding his innocency, and his fervent