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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.
But consider we what is that which you plead for your self. You enter upon it after your course with great state, discovering unto us a wonderful providence of God, in drawing those Articles; for you tell us, that No National Council, though assembled for that purpose, could fit their doctrine more expressly to meet with all the late restrictions of Gods love, then the Church our Mother, even from the beginning of reformation, hath done, as if she had then foreseen a necessity of declaring her judgement in this point, for preventing schisms or distractions of opinions amongst her sons. Here we have a pretty Comedy towards, and you have a poetical wit for fiction. Had our Church foreseen a necessity of declaring her judgement in this point, where I pray was it fit that she should do this, but in the Articles of Religion? But you find no place where she hath fitted her doctrine to meet with the restrictions of Gods love, but in the Liturgy and Catechism. Was that think you a fit place to fit her doctrine for the preventing of schisms and distractions in opinion?
But consider wee what is that which you plead for your selfe. You enter upon it after your course with great state, discovering unto us a wonderfull providence of God, in drawing those Articles; for you tell us, that No Nationall Councell, though assembled for that purpose, could fit their doctrine more expresly to meet with all the late restrictions of Gods love, then the Church our Mother, even from the beginning of reformation, hath done, as if she had then foreseene a necessity of declaring her judgement in this point, for preventing schismes or distractions of opinions amongst her sonnes. Here we have a pretty Comedy towards, and you have a poeticall wit for fiction. Had our Church foreseene a necessity of declaring her judgement in this point, where I pray was it fit that she should doe this, but in the Articles of Religion? But you finde no place where she hath fitted her doctrine to meet with the restrictions of Gods love, but in the Liturgy and Catechisme. Was that think you a fit place to fit her doctrine for the preventing of schismes and distractions in opinion?
Again, had she intended to prevent (as you say) distractions in opinion about the extension of Gods love, would she not have done it rather expressly, then only in such a manner as to leave it to others to draw conseques therefrom, for the manifesting of her opinion about the large extent of Gods love to mankind? Who would think that a sober man should be carried away with such vain and frivolous presumptions, without all tolerable ground? But let us come to the particular scanning of the places. All of them, I mark, are only the expression of prayer for others. Whence it no way followeth, that God will therefore save them, because we pray for their salvation. The child prayeth for his father, the father for the child, the brother for the brother; but hence it followeth not that God will save them; though we are bound to pray for the salvation of one another.