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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 we shall have a mad World quickly, when men shall take upon them doctórally to dictate conclusions unto others from certain principles (as about the eternity of God, and the indivisible nature thereof) superficiarily apprehended, and never rightly, much less sufficiently understood.
But we shall have a mad World quickly, when men shall take upon them doctórally to dictate conclusions unto others from certayne principles (as about the eternitie of God, and the indivisible nature therof) superficiarily apprehended, and never rightly, much lesse sufficiently understood.
What time you have bestowed in the study of these attributes of God I know not; but as for my self I profess I never bestowed any hereabouts as I can remember, but ever contented my self with common notions generally received. And whereas I met sometimes with strange suppositions grounded upon these common notions, I have rather contented my self with ignorance how to justify them, then to think it worth the while to enter upon the discussion, only in the question about the presence of all things in eternity maintained by Aquinas, I found in Scotus a discovery of that errourous conceit.
What time you have bestowed in the study of these attributes of God I know not; but as for my selfe I professe I never bestowed any hereabouts as I can remember, but ever contented my selfe with common notions generally received. And whereas I mett sometimes with strange suppositions grounded upon these common notions, I have rather contented my selfe with ignorance how to justifie them, then to thinke it worth the whyle to enter upon the discussion, only in the question about the presence of all things in eternitie maynteyned by Aquinas, I found in Scotus a discovery of that errourous conceite.
And though Alvarez hath laboured to repair the credit of Aquinas in that particular and to answer Scot, yet the vanity of that discourse of his, I have laboured to discover, and therein have reasonably well satisfied my self.