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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.
Now I hope it is without question; that the glory of Heaven shall not increase, but be at full, at the very first, and so continue without end. And, in my judgement, it is a very poor conceit, to deny that a man hath his whole life together, because the duration of it, is not all at once.
Now I hope it is without question; that the glory of Heaven shall not encrease, but be at full, at the very first, and so continue without end. And, in my judgement, it is a very poore conceit, to denie that a man hath his whole life togeather, because the duration of it, is not all at once.
If we had our life by degrees, one part at one time, and another part at another time, this were a manifest imperfection; but having all of it together, to conceive that the duration & continuance hereof longer & longer is an imperfection, is a very wild conceit in my judgement: This were to cast us upon the denial of Gods continuance; For like as our time being upon supposition of 60. years, if we should have all of it, within an hour, it should end at an hours end; so likewise, if God should have his continuance all at once, it should end all at once.
If we had our life by degrees, one part at one time, and another part at another time, this were a manifest imperfection; but having all of it togeather, to conceave that the duration & continuance hereof longer & longer is an imperfection, is a very wild conceit in my judgement: This were to cast us upon the deniall of Gods continuance; For like as our time being upon supposition of 60. yeares, if we should have all of it, within an houre, it should end at an houres end; so likewise, if God should have his continuance all at once, it should end all at once.
But we say, that the Divine essence as it is without beginning, so it is without end: and nothing past with him, nor nothing to come to him, as it is with all creatures, which are subject to motion in some kind or other: if not of corruption, yet of perfection, at least capable of it: if no such thing were, yet as they come from nothing, so they might return to nothing: But that God, as he gave them their being, so he continueth it. As for God he receiveth not his being from anything,