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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.
Heretofore I had a sent of it: But now it begins to break forth in great measure.
Heretofore I had a sent of it: But now it beginnes to breake forth in greate measure.
For when we say God is preexistent to all ages past, & consequently must needs be preexistent to all ages that are to come, we understand all this but one way according to the course of time from future to the present, from being present to become past, and so that which is first actually existent, is before all that which arrives to actual existence afterwards. But you tell us of two ways & that God is preexistent before all ages past one way, & before all ages to come another way, by which other way your meaning seems to be this, that as God is afore all ages past, so also he is after or behind all ages to come; which phrase of speech in saying God is after or behind any thing, because you think it too ignoble to be attributed unto God, and perhaps in part to astonish your Readers with some strange language being never acquainted with the like; This being after all ages you are pleased to instil & call his being before them, but another way or a different way from his being, before all ages past.
For when we say God is preexistent to all ages past, & consequently must needs be preexistent to all ages that are to come, we understand all this but one way according to the course of time from future to the present, from being present to become past, and so that which is first actually existent, is before all that which arrives to actuall existence afterwards. But you tell us of two wayes & that God is preexistent before all ages past one way, & before all ages to come another way, by which other way your meaning seemes to be this, that as God is afore all ages past, so also he is after or behinde all ages to come; which phrase of speech in saying God is after or behind any thing, because you thinke it too ignoble to be attributed unto God, and perhaps in part to astonish your Readers with some strange language being never acquainted with the like; This being after all ages you are pleased to instile & call his being before them, but another way or a different way from his beinge, before all ages past.