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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.
Yet I guess at your meaning: For we now existent, albeit we are before the things that are to come, yet it is not necessary, that we should be after them. But God as he is before all, so, if it please him, he may be after all; For God is that which was, & is, & is to come; that is, which shall be, and that for ever of himself.
Yet I gesse at your meaning: For we now existent, allbeit we are before the things that are to come, yet it is not necessary, that we should be after them. But God as he is before all, so, if it please him, he may be after all; For God is that which was, & is, & is to come; that is, which shall be, and that for ever of himselfe.
Now this phrase; to be after all, in a sublimate strain of conceit attributed unto God, is more truly and perfectly to be accounted his being before all, then after all, in your opinion, as it seems; like as the Heavens environing the Earth, though they seem to sense to be under the Earth, and under our Antipodes, yet indeed they are above them; So God in being after all things future, is more properly and truly to be accounted before them.
Now this phrase; to be after all, in a sublimate streyne of conceyt attributed unto God, is more truly and perfectly to be accoumpted his being before all, then after all, in your opinion, as it seemes; like as the Heavens invironning the Earth, though they seeme to sense to be under the Earth, and under our Antipodes, yet indeed they are above them; So God in being after all things future, is more properly and truly to be accoumpted before them.
This mystery I seem to find by your subsequent iscourse and I wonder what you mean to carry your self so in the clouds, when you might have expressed your self plainly.