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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.
You pursue the phrasifying of your own conceits according to your own pleasure: But where do you find in Tertullian or Philo the penetration of Gods essence thorough all things? Yet I confess Anselm saith, that Natura Dei penetrando cuncta continet; and whether you took it hand over 1head from him I know not: You seem to make Gods essence a space of some spiritual extension; to which kind of conceit our imagination I confess, is wondrous prone; as if it did penetrate all things as light doth penetrate the air, and so fill all things with it self, and not only with his multifarious effects as Durand interpreteth it. Now this is a dangerous conceit and obnoxious to a foul error, and opposite to the simplicity of Gods nature: which you perceive well enough, and therefore you think to check this error of conceit, by saying that he is indivisible, as if words would serve the turn to salve Gods pure simplicity.
You pursue the phrasifying of your owne conceytes according to your owne pleasure: But where doe you finde in Tertullian or Philo the penetration of Gods essence thorough all thinges? Yet I confesse Anselme saythe, that Natura Dei penetrando cuncta continet; and whether you tooke it hand over 1head from him I knowe not: You seeme to make Gods essence a space of some spirituall extension; to which kinde of conceyte our imagination I confesse, is wonderous prone; as if it did penetrate all thinges as light dothe penetrate the ayre, and so fill all thinges with it selfe, and not only with his multifarious effects as Durand interpreteth it. Nowe this is a dangerous conceyte and obnoxious to a foule errour, and opposite to the simplicitie of Gods nature: which you perceave wel enoughe, and therfore you thinke to checke this errour of conceyte, by saying that he is indivisible, as if wordes would serve the turne to salve Gods pure simplicitie.
- 1Ansesm. Monolog. cap. 23.