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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.
The fruition of pleasure may be as entire as our selves; and it is no more true, that they are begotten and die in every moment, then it is true of us, that we are begotten & die in every moment: For this scrupulous hicetie ariseth from no other ground, then the being measured with time, their duration is partly past, partly future, and but a moment present: And judge whether this conceit of but a moment present, be not a vain conceit: For I pray, what is that which follows this present moment immediately? Is it a moment only, or no? if not a moment only, what is become of your conceit? If a moment only, will it not follow, that time consisteth of nothing but moments? And you may as well say, that magnitude consists of nothing but points, which were indeed, to consist of nothing.
The fruition of pleasure may be as intire as our selfes; and it is no more true, that they are begotten and die in every moment, then it is true of us, that we are begotten & die in every moment: For this scrupulous hicetie ariseth from no other ground, then the being measured with time, theyr duration is partly past, partly future, and but a moment present: And judge whether this conceit of but a moment present, be not a vayne conceit: For I pray, what is that which followes this present moment immediately? Is it a moment only, or no? if not a moment onely, what is become of your conceit? If a moment only, will it not followe, that time consisteth of nothing but moments? And you may as well say, that magnitude consists of nothing but points, which were indeed, to consist of nothing.
We truly say, this day is present; this month is present; this year is present, like as time is said to be present, to wit, by way of succession of parts, which parts are not moments succeeding one another, but times Homogeneall, though according to reason divisible in infinitum, as all things continual are.
We truly say, this daye is present; this month is present; this yeare is present, like as time is sayd to be present, to witt, by way of succession of parts, which parts are not moments succeeding one another, but times Homogeneall, though according to reason divisible in infinitum, as all things continuall are.