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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.
God hath been, is, and ever will be, unto every minute or Scruple ⟨p. 191⟩of time that hath been, is, or shall be, alike everlastingly coexistent. If one word had been left out (to wit the word everlastingly) it might have admitted an handsome interpretation, and a sober meaning taken respectively thus, God hath been coexistent to things that have been, is coexistent to things that are, shall be coexistent to things that shall be.
God hath bene, is, and ever will be, unto every minute or Scruple ⟨p. 191⟩of time that hath beene, is, or shallbe, alike everlastingly coexistent. If one word had beene left out (to witt the word everlastingly) it might have admitted an handsome interpretation, and a sober meaning taken respectively thus, God hath beene coexistent to things that have beene, is coexistent to things that are, shall be coexistent to things that shall be.
But to apply all these differences of time past, present, and to come, to each of the things mentioned, (as namely to say, that God hath been, and is, and shall be coexistent to all things that have been, and is, and shall be, coexistent to all things that shall be) is most absurd.
But to apply all these differences of time past, present, and to come, to each of the things mentioned, (as namely to say, that God hath beene, and is, and shall be coexistent to all things that have beene, and is, and shall be, coexistent to all things that shall be) is most absurde.
For the coexistence of God doth as well imply the existence of the things themselves with which God is said to exist, as the existence of God.