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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.
But some may say, If Gods future existence be not present, when it is present, something is added to Gods former duration; As for example, when tomorrow comes God is a day older, then he was: I answer, nothing grows older by access of time, but that which took it being either with time, or in process of time; So did not God.
But some may say, If Gods future existence be not present, when it is present, something is added to Gods former duration; As for example, when tomorrow comes God is a daye older, then he was: I answer, nothing growes older by accesse of time, but that which tooke it being eyther with time, or in processe of time; So did not God.
Secondly, I answer, Gods future existence is nothing else, ⟨p. 175⟩but his coexistence with time to come, or with things which shall be in time to come; which is an external denomination, arising from the futurition of things to come: In any other sense it is false to say that God hath any future existence, or past existence.
Secondly, I answer, Gods future existence is nothing els, ⟨p. 175⟩but his coexistence with time to come, or with things which shallbe in time to come; which is an externall denomination, arising from the futurition of things to come: In any other sense it is false to say that God hath any future existence, or past existence.
But his coexistence with time or things in time may be said to be past, or to come, as well as present; and in this sense is the Scripture phrase to be understood, when it is said that God is he which is, which was, and which is to come: That is, when this World, and Angels were first made, then he was, that is, he did coexist with them, and so all along unto this day present; And so shall exist all along with all creatures & times that are to come: Now this existence of God, more properly to be called his coexistence is partly past, partly present, partly to come; not in respect of Gods existence, (who hath neither motion nor shadow of change, & consequently nothing in him is found to be past or to come) but in respect of the existence of creatures which is partly past, partly present, and partly to come.