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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.
That a thing looseth so much of perfection, as it wants of duration, is a wild assertion; unless under perfection, you comprehend duration; and then your proposition is identical, and no more then to say, that a thing looseth so much of duration, as it wants of duration.
That a thing looseth so much of perfection, as it wants of duration, is a wilde assertion; unles under perfection, you comprehend duration; and then your proposition is identicall, and no more then to say, that a thing looseth so much of duration, as it wants of duration.
Otherwise I say it is manifestly untrue, not only because Aristotle was bold to say that, Bonum non ideo melius quia diuturnius; good is not therefore better because the more lasting, or everlasting, but also, because by the same reason of yours it would follow that a Crow, an Hart, and a Raven were much more perfect then a Man; if it be true as some write, that a Crow lives three times as long as a Man, an Hart three times as long as a Crow, and a Raven three times as long as an Hart.
Otherwise I say it is manifestly untrue, not only because Aristotle was bold to say that, Bonum non ideo melius quia diuturnius; good is not therfore better because the more lasting, or everlasting, but allso, because by the same reason of yours it would followe that a Crowe, an Hart, and a Raven were much more perfect then a Man; if it be true as some write, that a Crowe lives three times as long as a Man, an Hart three times as long as a Crowe, and a Raven three times as long as an Hart.
Sure we are the least star hath continued from the beginning of the World.
Sure we are the least starre hathe continued from the beginninge of the World.