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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.
These conceits of yours are so popular, that they cross withal: In grief or pain to thrust time from us, is but to wish it were shorter then it is; as it is signified Deut. 28. 67. In the morning, thou shalt say, would God it were evening. and at evening thou shalt say, would God it were morning: And yet the meaning hereof in effect, is but this, to wish that our pain were shorter, then would we not care though the time were longer. And so our joy to be continued, we desire not the moments of our time to be fixed.
These conceits of yours are so popular, that they crosse withall: In grife or payne to thrust time from us, is but to wish it were shorter then it is; as it is signified Deut. 28. 67. In the morning, thou shalt say, would God it were evening. and at evening thou shalt say, would God it were morning: And yet the meaning hereof in effect, is but this, to wish that our payne were shorter, then would we not care though the time were longer. And so our joy to be continued, we desire not the moments of our time to be fixed.
Still you confound a mans condition with the time, as if time it self were sweet or sour. Let every sober man judg, whether it be not an absurd conceit to affirm, that men desire to prolong their days by living the same time over and over again. As if we could not have the sam•oy, without living the same time over and over again: Whereas it is manifest, that in one and the same time, one man may be in case and joy, another in pain and sorrow.
Still you confound a mans condition with the time, as if time it selfe were sweet or sowre. Let every sober man judg, whether it be not an absurd conceyt to affirme, that men desire to prolong theyr dayes by living the same time over and over againe. As if we could not have the sam•oy, without living the same time over and over againe: Whereas it is manifest, that in one and the same time, one man may be in case and joy, another in payne and sorrow.