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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.
And how can you avoid it, in making the essence or substance of God to pierce all things; how, I say, can you avoid the maintaining of Gods essence to be changeable from place to place, (upon supposition that the World may move either Eastward, or Westward, farther then it is) or that his essence is in Uacuo, and that after a manner of extension, as ⟨p. 116⟩before hath been argued. Now you tell us, that mutability is incompetent with infinity: yet in the very next section foregoing, you reckoned it a point of impotency not to be able to change, as Angels do their mansions, when they mislike them. Of which course of Angels, either as touching their mistake, or change of mansion I am nothing conscious, as neither am I of any oracle tending that way.
And how can you avoyde it, in making the essence or substance of God to pierce all thinges; how, I say, can you avoyde the maynteyninge of Gods essence to be changeable from place to place, (upon supposition that the World may moove eyther Eastward, or Westward, farther then it is) or that his essence is in Uacuo, and that after a manner of extension, as ⟨p. 116⟩before hathe bene argued. Now you tell us, that mutabilitie is imcompetent with infinitie: yet in the very next section foregoinge, you reckoned it a point of impotency not to be able to change, as Angells doe their mansions, when they mislike them. Of which course of Angells, eyther as touchinge their mistake, or change of mansion I am nothing conscious, as neyther am I of any oracle tending that way.
By your leave; there is no proportion between Gods immensity in respect of all places filled by him, and the infinity of his nature.
By your leave; there is no proportion betweene Gods immensitie in respect of all places filled by him, and the infinity of his nature.