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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.
because pure, therefore he hateth lust, (whereas to touch one thing more by the way that was omitted, it is well known that God is as pure from lawful lust, as from ⟨p. 467⟩lust unlawful) here in this place you make no mention at all of any condition in God, whereunto the practice of violence should be incongruous, but in place of reason, which you bring not so much as in show, you make us amends with variety of phrases. Yet what more violent act, then for the father to cut the throat of his most innocent child? and you well know, God sent Abraham that holy Patriarch in such an 1errand as this. Samsons faith is commended by S. Paul; his first rising against the Philistines, was as the subject rising against their Princes, as the men of Judah signified unto him, saying, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? and thereupon 2they were content to deliver him into their hands, to manifest themselves to be no confederates with him in this insurrection. Afterwards we read how he died flaming with desire of revenge upon the Philistines, and that for his two eyes; 3and to the end he might be revenged on them, was content to be his own assassinate; and all this in an holy manner performed, commending himself by solemn prayer unto God. For he called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God remember 4me, I pray thee, and strengthen me I pray thee only this once; O God, that I may be at once revenged of the Philistines for my two eyes; and thereupon taking hold of the two pillars of the house, he bowed himself, and said, Let me die with the Philistines; 5and the house fell upon the Lords, and upon all the people that were within: so the dead which he slew at his death, were more then they which he slew in his life. What a strange zeal possessed Phinehas, when he ran his javelin through Zimri and Cosbi, 6thus perishing in their incestuous act, and thus he as it were sending their souls to hell, as well as their bodies to the grave. Yet God approves of it, and seals hereupon unto him the covenant