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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.
TO THE PREFACE OR SOME PASSAGES IN THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.
TO THE PRAEFACE OR SOME PASSAGES IN THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE.
I Desire to fetch a walk in your Paradise of contemplation; & although you profess to encamp therein, & are very martial in your words & phrases of terror, little answerable to that expectation which a Paradise doth bespeak; yet doth it nothing dismay me, because you profess opposition only against the enemies of God, & my self, though a chief of sinners, yet have found mercy at the hands of God, that I should be faithful unto him & to his truth in such sort, as to do nothing against it, but rather engage all my poor ability 1for it. And in case I find your self going not the right way to the truth of God, (an error incident to as great an Apostle 2as S. Peter), I shall take boldness to interpose my judgment forth discovery of error, & that I hope without all just blame, or deserved censure in respect of that old acquaintance ⟨p. 2⟩which hath been between us; for as much as I have learned both of my great Mr. in knowledge natural, Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato, amicior veritas. And of my far greater Mr. in knowledge spiritual, & to whose blessing also 3I chiefly owe my progress in knowledge natural, that he who loveth his Father or Mother more then him is not worthy of him; & whose peremptory voice is this also; If any man come to me & hate not his Father, & Mother, & Wife & Children, & Brethren & Sisters yea & his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. God 4forbid, the maintenance of truth should be interpreted to proceed from hatred, or want of love to a mans person;