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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 though the Heavens run round, yet the time of the Heavens and of the World runs not round, nor returns to the period of time from whence it began.
For thoughe the Heavens runne round, yet the time of the Heavens and of the World runnes not round, nor returnes to the period of time from whence it beganne.
Yet is duration successive more fit to be accounted duration Circular, then duration constant, which hath no parts succeeding.
Yet is duration successive more fitt to be accoumpted duration Circular, then duration constant, which hathe no parts succeedinge.
I hold it to be a notorious untruth, to say that eternity coexists to every parcel of time. For to say it coexists with time to come, is to say, that eternity existeth, and time to come existeth also, which latter clause is most false. For if it were present, it were not to come.
I holde it to be a notorious untruthe, to say that eternitie coexists to every parcell of time. For to say it coexists with time to come, is to say, that eternitie existethe, and time to come existethe allso, which latter clause is most false. For if it were present, it were not to come.