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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.
That, which went immediately before, was this: God is before all times future, as well as all times past; Now to infer that God was before all time, therefore all time flows from his eternity, is no good consequence. You might as well argue thus. God was before all place, therefore all places flows from Gods eternity. We our selves are before all times that are to come; but herehence it follows not, that all times to come flow from our eternity, or from us.
That, which went immediately before, was this: God is before all times future, as well as all times past; Now to inferre that God was before all time, therfore all time flowes from his eternity, is no good consequence. You might as well argue thus. God was before all place, therfore all places flowes from Gods eternity. We our selfes are before all times that are to come; but herehence it followes not, that all times to come flow from our eternity, or from us.
Suppose Angels had been made before the World, yet would it not thence follow that the World did flow from them.
Suppose Angells had bene made before the World, yet would it not thence followe that the World did flow from them.
Now for the proposition it self inferred, it is subject to exceptions divers ways. The phrase, to flow, savoureth of a natural & necessary emanation, & so much the more when it is resembled by the flowing of water from a fountain. But nothing created doth in such sort flow from God.
Now for the proposition it selfe inferred, it is subject to exceptions divers wayes. The phrase, to flow, savoureth of a natural & necessary emanation, & so much the more when it is resembled by the flowing of water from a founteyne. But nothing created doth in such sort flow from God.