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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 yet that this is the meaning appears by the adding of the word everlastingly, which addition makes the proposition untrue in every member of it, though taken respectively, which otherwise as I have showed might admit a tolerable interpretation. For though it be true that God was coexistent with Noah's flood, yet is is undue that he was everlastingly coexistent with it.
And yet that this is the meaning appeares by the adding of the word everlastingly, which addition makes the proposition untrue in every member of it, though taken respectively, which otherwise as I have shewed might admitt a tolerable interpretation. For though it be true that God was coexistent with Noahs floud, yet is is un•ue that he was everlastingly coexistent with it.
At the time of Noah's flood God was coexistent with it by virtue of his eternity, which makes him necessarily to coexist with all things when they are, like as by virtue of his immensity he necessarily filleth all places, as soon as there are any places to fill. But God was not everlastingly coexistent with Noah's flood, for as much as neither before the time of Noah's flood, was God coexistent with it nor after: For to coexist with Noah's flood doth imply the existence of Noah's flood: But Noah's flood did neither exist before the time of it nor after.
At the time of Noahs floud God was coexistent with it by vertue of his eternirye, which makes him necessarily to coexist wiih all things when they are, like as by vertue of his immensitie he necessarily filleth all places, as soone as there are any places to fill. But God was not everlastingly coexistent with Noahs floud, for as much as neyther before the time of Noahs floud, was God coexistent with it nor after: For to coexist with Noahs floud doth implye the existence of Noahs floud: But Noahs floud did neyther exist before the time of it nor after.