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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.
For first, in my Judgement, it is a manifest untruth to say, that time is a participation of eternity: For as immensity is to place or magnitude, so is eternity unto time: But place or magnitude is no participation of immensity, therefore also time is no participation of eternity.
For first, in my Judgement, it is a manifest untruth to say, that time is a participation of eternity: For as immensity is to place or magnitude, so is eternity unto time: But place or magnitude is no participation of immensity, therfore allso time is no participation of eternity.
And like as Gods immensity is without extension, & therefore quite of a different nature from magnitudine corporal; So his eternity is without succession; and therefore of a quite different nature from duration corporal.
And like as Gods immensity is without extension, & therfore quite of a different nature from magnitudine corporall; So his eternity is without succession; and therfore of a quite different nature from duration corporall.
And whereas you say, that He should define the several branches of time most exactly, that could number or decipher that several actuations, draughts, or replenishments, which are derived from the infinite fountain of life and being, to fill the capacities or satiate the internal desires of things temporal; Here again you slip back to the transcendental notions, far above, not only common sense, but all sobriety of conceit.
And whereas you say, that He should desine the severall branches of time most exactly, that could number or decipher that severall actuations, draughts, or replenishments, which are derived from the infinite founteyne of life and being, to fill the capacities or satiate the internall desires of things temporall; Here agayne you slip back to the transcendentall notions, farre above, not only common sense, but all sobriety of conceit.