A14095:1072
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.
And as one blemish of their best actions was this, that they were not performed in reference to his glory; so another very suitable hereunto I take to be this, that they were not performed in obedience to his will. For the horrible sin of the ⟨p. 464⟩Jews in offering their sons and daughters unto Moloch, is amplified thus in holy Scripture, Things that never entered into 1my heart to command them. And why should God regard that which is not performed in obedience to his will? Many things may be done, and are done by strangers living in far Countries, agreeable to the laws of this Kingdom; but we ken them no thanks for this, because they do it not in obedience to the laws in this kingdom. There is no likeness between the goodness of God, and the moral goodness of the creature. For look what goodness is in God, the same is in him necessarily; it is not so in man.
And as one blemish of their best actions was this, that they were not performed in reference to his glory; so another very suitable hereunto I take to be this, that they were not performed in obedience to his will. For the horrible sinne of the ⟨p. 464⟩Iewes in offering their sonnes and daughters unto Moloch, is amplified thus in holy Scripture, Things that never entred into 1my heart to command them. And why should God regard that which is not performed in obedience to his will? Many things may be done, and are done by strangers living in farre Countries, agreeable to the lawes of this Kingdome; but wee ken them no thankes for this, because they do it not in obedience to the lawes in this kingdome. There is no likenesse between the goodnesse of God, and the morall goodnesse of the creature. For looke what goodnesse is in God, the same is in him necessarily; it is not so in man.
- 1Jer. 7. 38.Ier. 7. 38.