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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.
Thus far you have discoursed of nothing; now you come to discourse of something, or rather of God.
Thus farre you have discoursed of nothing; now you come to discourse of something, or rather of God.
And God, you say, cannot be said to have being no where, before the World was made, but with this limitation, save in himself. But I judge this to be a very improper speech, as that which supposeth Gods being in himself to be a kind of being somewhere, which in my opinion is untrue.
And God, you say, cannot be sayde to have being no where, before the World was made, but with this limitation, save in himselfe. But I judge this to be a very improper speeche, as that which supposethe Gods being in himselfe to be a kinde of being somewhere, which in my opinion is untrue.
The truth is, God is in himself, but not as in place. And to be in place, here, or there, or every where, is a denomination too base to be attributed unto God: who as Durand saith is no where that is in no place secundum se, in respect of his essence, but every where by his effects, as filling all places, all bodies, all Spirits, whether of men or Angels with his effects. You say, he is so in himself as that he is more then all things. But consider I pray, how is plurality a fit attribute for indivisible unity? Yet tis •ue, he can produce more then all things of this world of creatures put together, are. You say he is longer then time; I had rather say, He is more ancient then days; because he is eternal, & being eternal and all mighty could have made time more ancient then it is. You say, he is greater then place; It had been more fit to say, he is greater then space; because the greatest place, is but the hollow superficies of the uppermost heaven, the spacious body whereof is far greater; and God greater then it.