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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.
For Peter cannot be said to be sick in eternity, as in that which is the measure of duration either▪ of himself, or of his sickness, but only in time, with which time, eternity, I confess, is coexistent, but when? not till the time that Peters sickness doth exist, nor after it hath ceased to exist. For coexistence supposeth existence on both sides. And as the existence of the creature is past, present, or to come; so is Gods coexistence with it, either past, present, or to come; which hath both Scripture & reason to warrant it; whereas your wild conceits are warrantable by neither.
For Peter cannot be sayde to be sicke in eternitie, as in that which is the measure of duration eythe▪ of himselfe, or of his siknes, but only in time, with which time, eternitie, I confesse, is coexistent, but when? not till the time that Peters sicknes dothe exist, nor after it hathe ceased to exist. For coexistence supposethe existence on both sides. And as the existence of the creature is past, present, or to come; so is Gods coexistence with it, eyther past, present, or to come; which hathe bothe Scripture & reason to warrant it; whereas your wilde conceytes are warrantable by neither.
6. Materia prima, is ingenerable and incorruptible not because it is no body, but because it is no compound body. But God is ingenerable and incorruptible, because he is no ⟨p. 187⟩body at all: Therefore better it is to liken him unto the Angels who are ingenerable and incorruptible, because they are Spirits.
6. Materia prima, is ingenerable and incorruptible not because it is no body, but because it is no compound body. But God is ingenerable and incorruptible, because he is no ⟨p. 187⟩body at all: Therefore better it is to liken him unto the Angells who are ingenerable and incorruptible, because they are Spirits.