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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 in this case it can neither properly nor improperly be said, that God is after it. For it is manifest contradiction to say, that hath an end which is supposed to have no end.
And in this case it can neyther properly nor improperly be sayd, that God is after it. For it is manifest contradiction to say, that hath an end which is supposed to have no end.
You seem to groan in the delivery of some quaint subtlety when you write thus: Yet that eternity now is and ever was a• infinitely preexistent to all ages in succession coming towards us one way; it is, and was to the Worlds nativity the other way.
You seeme to groane in the delivery of some quaint subtiltie when you write thus: Yet that eternitie now is and ever was a• infinitely preexistent to all ages in succession comming towards us one way; it is, and was to the Worlds nativitie the other way.
Here you make a full point, whereby it comes to pass, that wanting a principal verb, the sentence contains a manifest non-sense; & it is the observation of others as well as mine, if divers such non-sensed propositions have dropped from your pen in this discourse, yet your meaning we see plainly in the sentence following, as when you say, This is a point which we must believe, if we believe God to be eternal, and know what eternity is.
Here you make a full point, whereby it comes to passe, that wanting a principall verbe, the sentence contaynes a manifest non-sense; & it is the observation of others as well as mine, if divers such non-sensed propositions have dropped from your penne in this discourse, yet your meaning we see plainly in the sentence following, as when you say, This is a point which we must beleive, if we beleive God to be eternall, and know what eternitie is.