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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.
Once before I observed a certain gradation tending to this purpose, and that with some wonderment, as when you affirmed in the beginning of this section, that God was as truly before all times future, as before all times past.
Once before I observed a certayne gradation tending to this purpose, and that with some wonderment, as when you affirmed in the beginning of this section, that God was as truly before all times future, as before all times past.
As if to be before all times future, were a greater matter then to be before all times past; whereas I had thought that such poor snakes as my self might truly be accounted to ⟨p. 196⟩be before all times future. So in this place it might well make a man wonder what you mean to affirm in solemn manner that God is and ever was as infinitely preexistent to all ages coming towards us, as to the Worlds nativity.
As if to be before all times future, were a greater matter then to be before all times past; whereas I had thought that such poore snakes as my selfe might truly be accoumpted to ⟨p. 196⟩be before all times future. So in this place it might well make a man wonder what you meane to affirme in solemne manner that God is and ever was as infinitely preexistent to all ages comming towards us, as to the Worlds nativitie.
As if to be preexistent to the times to come, were as great a matter as to be preexistent to times past, which might seem to carry no sobriety in the forehead. For ever the meanest worm that creeps upon the Earth, is preexistent to all ages to come, but none is preexistent to all ages past but God himself. But there is, no doubt a mystery in this.