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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
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Now being cast upon these Meditations, by reason of this your discourse, which in the very Epistle dedicatory manifest your affection towards Arminianism, which I profess I hate as much, as I love the grace of God, and desire to be zealous in the maintaining of it to my last gasp; I am driven herewithall to take into consideration your Philosophical discourse concerning the essence of God. and his attributes, and finding therein some prodigious assertions by way of deduction from the received notions of Gods indivisible and yet eternal being; out of the Logical faculty which I brought with me long ago, out of the University, I make bold to observe well the soundness of such illations, and finding no ground for them, but rather utter disproportion between them, and the principles wherehence they are inferred, in the course hereof I become better acquainted with the nature of Gods eternity then before; and hope to be better enabled to encounter any unsound assertions, derived therehence and grounded thereupon, then heretofore.
Now being cast upon these Meditations, by reason of this your discourse, which in the very Epistle dedicatory manifest your affection towards Arminianisme, which I professe I hate as much, as I love the grace of God, and desire to be zealous in the mayntayning of it to my last gaspe; I am driven herewithall to take into consideration your Philosophical discourse concerning the essence of God. and his attributes, and finding therein some prodigious assertions by way of deduction from the receaved notions of Gods indivisible and yet eternall being; out of the Logicall facultie which I brought with me long agoe, out of the Vniversitie, I make bold to observe well the soundnes of such illations, and finding no ground for them, but rather utter disproportion betweene them, and the principles wherehence they are inferred, in the course hereof I become better acquainted with the nature of Gods eternitie then before; and hope to be better inabled to encounter any unsound assertions, derived therehence and grounded thereupon, then heretofore.
And we are like to be acquainted with your mysteries to the full in the next Section.