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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.
By this let every sober man judg to what shifts this great Schoolman was put to salve this opinion of a possibility, of the worlds being eternal from contradiction. To this you add that in like sort our actual being or existence whiles it l• steth, is composed of a capacity to be what we are, and of the actuation or filling of this capacity; you might well say so or in like sort, for there seems as like truth in this as in the former. Man as he is unum pierce is said to consist ex potentia et actis, which is as much as to say ex materia et forma rationali; which Maxim had a capacity of receiving this form, upon whose conjunction doth arise that compositum, which we call a man, and us it had a power, so an appetite thereunto, all which was contained under that principium generationis which is called Privatio, According to that saying Materia appetit formam sicut femina virum. But the particular appetite being satisfied with the form, it no longer remaineth, nor the capacity to receive it, that time being now past. But rather an appetite there is in the matter to a new form, by corruption of the present compound, which is the natural ground of mans mortality. And the general appetite of matter is never satisfied.
By this let every sober man judg to what shifts this great Schoolman was put to salve this opinion of a possibilitie, of the worlds being eternall from contradiction. To this you adde that in like sort our actuall being or existence whiles it l• steth, is composed of a capacity to be what we are, and of the actuation or filling of this capacity; you might well say so or in like sort, for there seemes as like truth in this as in the former. Man as he is unum perse is sayd to consist ex potentia et actis, which is as much as to say ex materia et forma rationali; which Maxim had a capacity of receaving this forme, upon whose conjunctiō doth arise that compositum, which we call a man, and us it had a power, so an appetite thereunto, all which was conteyned under that principium generationis which is called Privatio, According to that saying Materia appetit formam sicut femina virum. But the particular appetite being satisfied with the forme, it no longer remayneth, nor the capacity to receave it, that time being now past. But rather an appetite there is in the matter to a new forme, by corruption of the present compound, which is the naturall ground of mans mortality. And the generall appetite of matter is never satisfied.