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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 you after your manner, seem under these arms whatsoever is expedient to be had, to include and comprehend duration future, as if duration future were already present unto God; which is a groundless conceit, arising merely from a superficial interpretation of the nature of eternity, which is commonly called an instant of duration.
But you after your manner, seeme under these •rmes whatsoever is expedient to be had, to include and comprehend duration future, as if duration future were allready present unto God; which is a groundles conceyte, arising merely from a superficiall interpretation of the nature of eternitie, which is commonly called an instant of duration.
[…] It is true, the duration of God is not to come; For it is present, and incapable of succession as being subject to no manner of mutation.
〈…〉 It is true, the duration of God is not to come; For it is present, and incapable of succession as being subject to no manner of mutation.
But there is a duration of time, and of things measured by time to come; which future duration is no way present to God, in respect of his coexistence with it.