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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.
No time defines eternity, we say, but rather eternity sets […] end to time.
No time defines eternitie, we say, but rather eternitie sets 〈…〉 ende to time.
But we dare not entertain so absurd a conceit as to say, eternity circumscribes time; as if time were some lower sphere, and eternity an upper sphere, and so time should be a circular duration as well as eternity.
But we dare not enterteyne so absurd a conceyte as to say, eternitie circumscribs time; as if time were some lower spheare, and eternitie an upper spheare, and so time should be a circular duration as well as eternitie.
Your next sentence begins to open the mystery, as whe• you say, Though the motions of the Heavens should continue without end, yet every period of time shall fall within eternity, now totally existent.
Your next sentence beginnes to open the mystery, as whe• you say, Thoughe the motions of the Heavens should continue without ende, yet every period of time shall fall within eternitie, now totally existent.