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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.
I do not affect to quarrel with Plato his wit; much good do you with it, and if you please your self with such fancies, as namely that time is a movable image of that which is unmoveable; a divisible image of that which is indivisible; a successive representation of that which is without all succession; a model finite, with beginning and end of that which is infinite, without beginning and end, you shall not displease me.
I doe not affect to quarrell with Plato his witt; much good doe you with it, and if you please your selfe with such fancies, as namely that time is a moovable image of that which is unmooveable; a divisible image of that which is indivisible; a successive representation of that which is without all succession; a modell finite, with beginning and ende of that whic• is infinite, without beginning and ende, you shall not displease me.
You have another sophism or seeming contradiction to unloose or salve by these rarities of curiosity; and that is, how it may be verified, that Petrus in aeternitate aegrotat, & Petrus in aeternitate non aegrotat. If this were spoken of the same time, you say it were contradiction; but being spoken of eternity, you say it is not, and yet you confess Eternity is more indivisible, then any time.
You have another sophisme or seeming contradiction to unloose or salve by these rarities of curiositie; and that is, how it may be verified, that Petrus in aeternitate aegrotat, & Petrus in aeternitate non aegrotat. If this were spoken of the same time, you say it were contradiction; but being spoken of eternitie, you say it is not, and yet you confesse Eternitie is more indivisible, then any time.
Let who will think, that you have salved this knot of seeming contradiction, to my understanding you leave it as you find it. The propositions containing a seeming contradiction are both absurd.