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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.
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 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.
We may be bold to say, that Gods essence is indistant from every thing; For herein we go along with the Apostle, who ⟨p. 120⟩saith, that God is not far from every one of us. For in him we live & move & have our being. But as for penetration of all things with Gods essence, I leave that phrase to them that like it. As for Gregory's trimembred sentence, one part thereof alone is to your purpose, namely when he saith, that God is intra omnia non •nclusus. And indeed we all say, that God is so in all things as that he rather contains them, then is contained by them. Now which I pray is the more sober speech, to say that Gods essence contains all things, or to say that Gods power & will contains all things, let every learned and sober Reader judge.
We may be bold to say, that Gods essence is indistant from every thing; For herein we goe along with the Apostle, who ⟨p. 120⟩