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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.
Secondly you tell us, that some Divines hold it possible, there may be a magnitude or material sphere actually infinite. But you do not love to betray your Authors.
Secondly you tell us, that some Divines holde it possible, there may be a magnitude or materiall spheare actually infinite. But you doe not love to betray your Authors.
I have read in a late Spanish Jesuit a discourse to prove 1that infinitum potest dare. But in this he is a mere mountebank, and affectator of singularities, I have heretofore read also in Hills Philosophia Lencippaea, Democritica, so bold an assertion as this, That the World is infinite; Otherwise, saith he, the effect were not suitable to the cause. For God the Author of the World is infinite. But he was conscious of this his heterodoxy in the opinion of the World, & therefore would profess (as I have heard) that if in Oxford he should dispute thus, we in the University would cry out for a Limitor, for this Infinitor.
I have read in a late Spanish Iesuite a discourse to proove 1that infinitum potest dare. But in this he is a meere mountebanke, and affectator of singularities, I have hertofore read allso in Hills Philosophia Lencippaea, Democritica, so bold an assertion as this, That the World is infinite; Otherwise, sayth he, the effect were not suitable to the cause. For God the Author of the World is infinite. But he was conscious of this his heterodoxy in the opinion of the World, & therfore would professe (as I have heard) that if in Oxford he should dispute thus, we in the Vniversitie would cry out for a Limitor, for this Infinitor.
- 1Petr. Hurtado de Mendosa. disp. in Universam Philosoph. Tract. de Infinito.Petr. Hurtado de Mendosa. disp. in Vniversam Philosoph. Tract. de Infinito.