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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.
The proper differences of corporal things saith Durand are not to be extended to incorporeal things, such as Angels are. Imagination contradicteth this, which doth not transcend quantities, according whereunto we fashion to our selves Angels, as if they were of a most subtle quantity. But we do not well to follow imagination in this. For Angels are natures abstract as well from quantity as from quality; & therefore like as they are not white and black, cold and hot, and so of the rest of corporal qualities: and so they are not great or small, because they have no quantity, & consequently, are not here, or there, in respect of their essence, seeing these differences are proper unto quantity.
The proper differences of corporall thinges saythe Durand are not to be extended to incorporall things, such as Angells are. Imagination contradicteth this, which dothe not transcend quantities, according wherunto we fashion to our selves Angells, as if they were of a most subtile quantitie. But we doe not well to followe imagination in this. For Angells are natures abstract as well from quantitie as from qualitie; & therfore like as they are not white and black, cold and hott, and so of the rest of corporall qualities: and so they are not great or small, because they have no quantity, & consequently, are not here, or there, in respect of their essence, seing these differences are proper unto quantitie.
But some may say, If Gods essence be not here, where is it then? I answer that God is as much here as any where, and when I say God is here and every where, I do not exclude his essence. For by God I understand his essence. But I deny that he is here or any where els secundum ess•ntiam. as if his essence had any situation here, which kind of being is proper only to bodies, and not to Spirits, and makes Gods nature subject to extension.
But some may say, If Gods essence be not here, where is it then? I answeare that God is as much here as any where, and when I say God is here and every where, I doe not exclude his essence. For by God I understand his essence. But I deny that he is here or any where els secundum essntiam. as if his essence had any situation here, which kind of being is proper only to bodies, and not to Spirits, and makes Gods nature subject to extension.