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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.
His infinite power and wisdom serves his turn first to make them, afterwards to preserve them, and unto proper & congruous ends to order them, and with his various effects to fill them, but not with his essence, least we should be driven to ascribe extension to his essence, and maintain that he was and is in Uacuo as before I have showed. Undoubtedly Gods essence is as present with us on earth, as with the Angels and Saints in Heaven, and no more distant or absent from us, then from them.
His infinite power and wisedome serves his turne first to make them, afterwards to preserve them, and unto proper & congruous endes to order them, and with his various effects to fill them, but not with his essence, least we should be driven to ascribe extension to his essence, and maynteyne that he was and is in Uacuo as before I have shewed. Vndoubtedly Gods essence is as present with us on earthe, as with the Angells and Saints in Heaven, and no more distant or absent from us, then from them.
But how is God present? Not as praesensibus Corporis according to Austins exposition of the word praesent; for God is no sensible thing, for then he were corporal, and to be praesensibus animi is nothing to the purpose. God doth coexist with every thing that is. For they do exist, and God doth exist: But doth God coexist with them in time? they do exist in time, that is their measure of duration, but God in eternity that is the measure of his duration, to wit himself.
But how is God present? Not as praesensibus Corporis according to Austins exposition of the word praesent; for God is no sensible thinge, for then he were corporall, and to be praesensibus animi is nothing to the purpose. God dothe coexist with every thing that is. For they doe exist, and God doth exist: But doth God coexist with them in time? they doe exist in time, that is their measure of duration, but God in eternitie that is the measure of his duration, to witt himselfe.