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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.
If you account nothing present but an instant; it is well known, that an instant deserves no more to be accounted time, then a point deserves to be accounted magnitude.
If you accoumpt nothing present but an instant; it is well knowne, that an instant deserves no more to be accoumpted time, then a point deserves to be accoumpted magnitude.
But if you speak of time properly, it must have parts, which cannot exist together, but only by succession. As for example, this minute of an hour is present but how? only as having a part past, and a part to come.
But if you speake of time properly, it must have parts, which cannot exist together, but only by succession. As for example, this minute of an houre is present but how? only as having a part past, and a part to come.
For this only to exist is to exist by way of succession. In ⟨p. 184⟩like sort this present hour doth truly exist; but how […] as having a part past, and a part to come.
For this only to exist is to exist by way of succession. In ⟨p. 184⟩like sort this present houre dothe truly exist; but how 〈…〉 as havinge a part past, and a part to come.