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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.
And whereas you say, that Natures capable of these differences have always the one accomplished by the other, is either without sense; as if you mean it of the parts of time, as if one were accomplished by the other; For how I pray you, is time past or present accomplished by that which is to come, or that which is present or to come accomplished by that which is past: Or if in respect of natures subject to time, which are perfected by time, or rather in the course of time; thus, as it is sometimes true, so sometimes it is notoriously false: For as there is a time of growth in perfection, so it is well known that there is a time of diminution, & corruption also; And, I pray you, how doth a mans dotage accomplish him either in soul or body? And in the Kingdom of Heaven, what accomplishment by time, when our glorious condition shall be as full and perfect at the first, as in the progress, for what space imaginable soever.
And whereas you say, that Natures capable of these differences have alwayes the one accomplished by the other, is either without sense; as if you meane it of the parts of time, as if one were accomplished by the other; For how I pray you, is time past or present accomplished by that which is to come, or that which is present or to come accomplished by that which is past: Or if in respect of natures subject to time, which are perfected by time, or rather in the course of time; thus, as it is sometimes true, so sometimes it is notoriously false: For as there is a time of growth in perfection, so it is wel knowne that there is a time of diminution, & corruption also; And, I pray you, how doth a mans dotage accomplish him either in soule or bodie? And in the Kingdome of Heaven, what accomplishment by time, when our glorious condition shalbe as full and perfect at the first, as in the progresse, for what space imaginable soever.
As for this state, 'tis well known, that as there is a time of repairing and increasing, so there is a time of impairing and decaying: And though perfection cannot be perfected, yet it may be continued; so it is in man, so it is in God; but by necessity of nature continued in God; by the pleasure of his gracious will continued in the creature: And therefore though ⟨p. 169⟩