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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 if they have no true being, then they have no being at all, as afterwards yourself acknowledge this manner of consequence to be good. And albeit to have a being and to have a true being be all one, yet hence it follows not, that truly to be and always to be is all one. I grant that to be always, without beginning and without end, doth infer an independent being. But even true beings may be dependent; otherwise the beings of Angels and men made after the image of God were no true beings. For undoubtedly their beings are dependent beings.
And if they have no true beinge, then they have no being at all, as afterwards yourselfe acknowledge this manner of consequence to be good. And albeit to have a being and to have a true being be all one, yet hence it followes not, that truly to be and allwayes to be is all one. I grant that to be allwayes, without beginninge and without ende, dothe inferre an independent beinge. But even true beings may be dependent; otherwise the beings of Angells and men made after the image of God were no true beings. For undoubtedly theyr beings are dependent beings.
Another use of the word always is to note (as you say,) the interminable, indistinguishable, and indivisible power, which needs nothing besides that which it actually & for the present hath. But I see no congruity in the word always to signify all this. And first I wonder what you mean to leap from Gods life and power; seeing you propose the infinity of each, as several branches of Gods infinity to be discoursed on a part, Say then it denotes his interminable and indivisible being or duration: ⟨p. 178⟩yet I cannot like this neither.
Another use of the woord allwayes is to note (as you say,) the interminable, indistiuguishable, and indivisible power, which needs nothing besides that which it actually & for the present hath. But I see no congruity in the woord alwayes to signify all this. And first I wonder what you meane to leape from Gods life and power; seing you propose the infinity of each, as severall branches of Gods infinity to be discoursed on a part, Say then it denotes his interminable and indivisible being or duration: