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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.
For you plainly profess, that albeit both reason and faith drives us to confess both time and place to be finite, yet our imaginations will hardly suffer infinity to be severed from them, which can admit no other interpretation then that whi•h I have impugned. That whi•h you talk, of certain School brains pu•ed in passing this unsoundable gulf, and that so far as to suspect, that God, who now is in every place of the world created by him, was as truly in these imaginary distances of place and time before the creation was attempted; is nothing but a bundle of mysteries unto me. For I never kn•we any that offered to p•sse that unsoundable gulf, you sp•ake of, otherwise, then by imagining; •nd how their brains were puzzled in giving way to this imagination I know not; much le• do I understand▪ how being pu•ed in this imagination, they should herehence grow to suspect, that God was as truly in •hat imaginary distance of place as in things truly exist, and truly distant •ach from other. And most of all do I wonder, ⟨p. 91⟩what you mean to clap the imaginary distance of time▪ with the imaginary distance of place. For though I hav• read of some that discourse of vacuum lo•i, an imaginary distance of place, and maintain that God was and is therein▪ yet I never heard nor read of any man discoursing in like sort of Vacuum temporis, and maintaining that God was and is therein. And as touching the question, whether God be i• Vacu• or in that imaginary distance you spe•ke of; I have read the question proposed by Vasquius, and th opinion of some