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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.
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.
For the coexistence of God doth as well implye the exisstence of the things themselfes with which God is sayd to exist, as the existence of God.
And therefore though it be true to say, that God was coexistent with all things past, because there was a time when these things did exist and at the same time undoubtedly God did coexist with them; yet it is false to say that God doth or shall coexist with things past; for that saying doth imply, that things past do now exist; and also are to come. In like sort though it be true: that God doth now coexist with all things that now are, for as much as both these things do indeed at this time exist, and God must needs coexist with them as the author and preserver of their existence; yet it is untrue to say that God doth now coexist with time past or to come, and with the things which were or shall be therein, for if this were true; it would follow that not only God is now present, but also that time past and time to come, are also present withal things contained in them, which every man knows to be most untrue.