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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.
They who made doubt, whether navigators were to be accounted amongst the living or amongst the dead, affected more wit then truth. For if Navigators, undoubtedly, they are living and not dead; Indeed after they have set forth, we are uncertain what is become of them: and equally as uncertain may we be, what is become of our friends that are travailed unto China by the way of the Continent. But to make doubt whether time consists rather of being then of not being, is a conceit little becoming a Philosopher in my judgement, though it may become such a one as entertains a vulgar contemplation of things successive, and in motion, whether by Sea or land.
They who made doubt, whether navigators were to be accoumpted amongst the living or amongst the dead, affected more witt then truthe. For if Navigators, undoubtedly, they are livinge and not dead; Indeede after they have sett foorthe, we are uncerteyne what is become of them: and equally as uncerteyne may we be, what is become of our freindes that are travayled unto China by the way of the Continent. But to make doubt whether time consists rather of being then of not being, is a conceyte litle becomming a Philosopher in my judgement, thoughe it may become such a one as enterteynes a vulgar contemplation of thinges successive, and in motion, whether by Sea or land.
I should think that sorry imagination, is grounded upon conceiving that nothing in time is but an instant, which if it were true, would infer that time were nothing but a succession of instants.
I should thinke that sory imagination, is grounded upon conceavinge that nothing in time is but an instant, which if it were true, woulde inferre that time were nothing but a succession of instants.
But were it so; yet surely the shortness of continuance of any thing, nothing hinders the true being thereof, when