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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 scope you aim at, is to prove that in Gods eternal being there is no succession; Et quis Herculem vituperat? who ever said there was? In man the very life vegetable, sensitive and rational grows more and more perfect by degrees: No such motion, no not to perfection, is to be found in God; In Angels there may be a succession of thoughts & of affections: no such succession is to be found in God.
The scope you ayme at, is to prove that in Gods eternall being there is no succession; Et quis Herculem vituperat? who ever sayd there was? In man the very life vegetable, sensitive and rationall growes more and more perfect by degrees: No such motion, no not to perfection, is to be found in God; In Angells there may be a succession of thoughts & of affections: no such succession is to be found in God.
Yet doth he and you also maintain Gods life to be interminable, that is, of such a continuance as is without end, as well as without succession.
Yet doth he and you allso maynteyne Gods life to be interminable, that is, of such a continuance as is without end, as well as without succession.
But you shall never be able to prove herehence, that Gods existence is present to every part of succession of other things, as namely, both to that which is past, and also to that which is to come.
But you shall never be able to prove herehence, that Gods existence is present to every part of succession of other things, as namely, both to that which is past, and allso to that which is to come.