A14095:1167
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.
To help your argument drawn herehence; as if you should reason thus, We must pray for this family, therefore we must pray for every one throughout the world. You tell us that, The tenor of this petition, if we respect only the form, is indefinite, ⟨p. 508⟩not universal: but being in a necessary matter it is equivalent to an universal, as every logician knows. To which I answer, first, that the tenor of the petition is not indefinite, but definite, (to follow you in your own language) for therein we pray definitely for that family which is before us. Now that family is a particular family; and never any Logician was so simple as to think it law full to infer an universal out of a particular. Again, here is no necessary matter in it. For to use such a form of prayer is merely the arbitrary constitution of our Church.
To helpe your argument drawn herehence; as if you should reason thus, Wee must pray for this family, therefore wee must pray for every one throughout the world. You tell us that, The tenour of this petition, if wee respect onely the forme, is indefinite, ⟨p. 508⟩not universall: but being in a necessary matter it is equivalent to an universall, as every logician knowes. To which I answer, first, that the tenour of the petition is not indefinite, but definite, (to follow you in your owne language) for therein wee pray definitely for that family which is before us. Now that family is a particular family; and never any Logician was so simple as to thinke it law full to inferre an universall out of a particular. Againe, here is no necessary matter in it. For to use such a forme of prayer is meerly the arbitrary constitution of our Church.
Suppose God had bid us to pray in this form, to wit, for this family present; yet this makes not the matter necessary absolutely, but merely upon supposition of the will of God, and yet in this particular only. As for example, Our Saviour 1