A14095:1049
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.
But how I pray do• these when they are refused by some, the more overflow to others? They that hear the same Sermon, have never a whit the more for others resisting it; they that hear it not, have no part of it, though all resist it. As for the current of glory, how hath any man the more, for that others are wholly deprived of it? yet it is true, that even the reprobation and damnation of some, tends to the increase of glory to the elect, in ⟨p. 449⟩contemplation of the mercy of God towards them in comparison of others, and of the sorrows from which God hath freed them, as both the Apostle signifies, Rom. 9. 22. And is maintained both by Didacus Alvares, and Alphonsus Mendosa. But I do not find you have any such meaning. But when you have taken up a metaphor by the end, you play upon it, and make as good music with it as pigs do, in playing upon Organs.
But how I pray do• these when they are refused by some, the more overflow to others? They that heare the same Sermon, have never a whit the more for others resisting it; they that heare it not, have no part of it, though all resist it. As for the currrent of glory, how hath any man the more, for that others are wholly deprived of it? yet it is true, that even the reprobation and damnation of some, tends to the increase of glory to the elect, in ⟨p. 449⟩contemplation of the mercy of God towards them in comparison of others, and of the sorrowes from which God hath freed them, as both the Apostle signifies, Rom. 9. 22. And is maintained both by Didacus Alvares, and Alphonsus Mendosa. But I doe not finde you have any such meaning. But when you have taken up a metaphor by the end, you play upon it, and make as good musicke with it as pigges doe, in playing upon Organs.