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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.
As for my self, I never •ept upon Plotinus his Parnassus, nor was ever acquainted with his muses. Nay, I have been so long time departed out of the university, and while I was ⟨p. 182⟩there so long removed from these kind of studies, that I may well be said to have forgotten Aristole. Nun• mihi sunt oblita sophis•ata. Yet will I adventure to compare the remnants of my old Peripatetic store with your achievements out of Plotinus.
As for my selfe, I never •ept upon Plotinus his Parnassus, nor was ever acquainted with his muses. Nay, I have bene so long time departed out of the universitie, and while I was ⟨p. 182⟩there so long remooved from these kinde of studies, that I may well be sayde to have forgotten Aristole. Nun• mihi sunt oblita sophis•ata. Yet will I adventure to compare the remnants of my old Peripateticke store with your atchievements out of Plotinus.
I say then, the resolution of this question depends upon the resolution of a more general question.
I say then, the resolution of this question depends upon the resolution of a more generall question.
And that is concerning the beginning and ceasing of form, now the rules thereof most received as I remember, are these. The forms we speak of are, either permanent, or successive. Forms permanent begin per primum sui esse, by the first instant of their being; desiunt per primum sui non esse, they cease to be, by the first instant of their not being.