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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.
Now will it not follow herehence, that it is absolutely necessary, that God should not exist at all, and that by reason of his infinity? For to coexist with that which is impossible to exist, what is it, but not to exist at all? O' what dangerous consequences do your wild assertions go as it were with child, withal; and how fit are such lettuce for the lips of ⟨p. 126⟩Atheists? mark how Durand discourseth against this conceit of yours, as when you say, that by reason of his infinity God must be every where.
Now will it not followe herehence, that it is absolutely necessary, that God should not exist at all, and that by reason of his infinity? For to coexist with that which is impossible to exist, what is it, but not to exist at all? O' what dangerous consequences doe your wilde assertions goe as it were with childe, withall; and howe fitt are such lettice for the lipps of ⟨p. 126⟩Atheists? marke how Durand discoursethe against this conceyte of yours, as when you say, that by reason of his infinity God must be every where.
Per eandem rationem dicendum est quod non competit Deo esse 1ubique, ita quod infinitas suae substantiae sit ei, ratio ubique essendi, Si enim competeret Deo esse ubique ratione suae essentiae infinitae hinc competi ei esse necessario ubique, vel in loco infinito, & nullo modo finito, sicut a contrario dicitur de Angelo quod ratione suae essentiae finite convenit ei esse in loco finito, & nullo modo in infinito.
- 1Durand. 1. dist. 37. p. 1 quest. 1.