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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.
And as Trismegist did define Gods immensity, by the similitude of a Sphere, whose Centre was every where, but his Circumference no where.
And as Trismegist did define Gods immensitie, by the similitude of a Spheare, whose Center was every where, but his Circumference no where.
So you will take upon you to define Gods Eternity, neither out of Trismeg st, nor out of Plotinus, nor out of Ficinus, but out of your own invention to be a Circular duration, whose instants are always, whose terminations or extremities never were, never shall be.
So you will take upon you to define Gods Eternitie, neyther out of Trismeg st, nor out of Plotinus, nor out of Ficinus, but out of your owne invention to be a Circular duration, whose instants are allwayes, whose terminations or extreamities never were, never shall be.
We willingly grant, that Gods eternity is a duration without beginning, and without end; This is nothing strange, nothing remote from vulgar capacity.
We willingly grant, that Gods eternitie is a duration without beginninge, and without ende; This is nothing strange, nothing remote from vulgar capacitie.