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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.
Again, God looks not out of himself for the knowledge of any thing now, more then he did before the World was made.
Agayne, God lookes not out of himselfe for the knowledge of any thinge now, more then he did before the World was made.
For surely the making of the World wrought no change in him as touching the manner of his knowledge, with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of change. When you take upon you to tell us how Eternity is indivisible, to wit, by containing all the parts or perfections possible of succession in a more eminent manner then can be contained in time it self. I pray remember, that in like manner you professed, that God did contain all entities even the entities of brute beasts; and you expounded it in this sense, because forsooth he was able to produce them.
For surely the making of the World wrought no change in him as touching the manner of his knowledge, with whom there is no variablenes nor shadowe of change. When you take upon you to tell us how Eternitie is indivisible, to witt, by conteyning all the parts or perfections possible of succession in a more eminent manner then can be conteyned in time it selfe. I pray remember, that in like manner you professed, that God did conteyne all entities even the entities of brute beasts; and you expo•nded it in this sense, because forsoothe he was able to produce them.
And thus we easily grant God contains all perfections of successions, in as much as he can produce them. If so be succession may be counted a perfection, whereof but erst you ⟨p. 186⟩made doubt, whether it had any being at all. Yet we doubt not, but God can produce them; yea so far forth as to exceed all that is contained in time.