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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.
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.
So the former speech of yours though imperfect, & indifferently capable of being, pronounced to be a fable as a truth, we perceive to be received by you as a truth, and not so only but affected also by you as a truth, whose consideration hath not been so well taken to heart, by those who have had Gods eternal decrees and the awards of it most frequently in their mouths and pens; as it hath been by your self.