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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.
These your propositions I can find reason to make them good in some tolerable construction. Yet you add a reason of it, which should be more evident then the Conclusion, but indeed is far more obscure, and when the meaning of it is perceived, is found to have most need of reason to prove it, as being in show contrary to all reason; yet you content your self with dictating it, & thence proceed to a wild goose race of illustration by the heavens that environ both us and the Antipodes; so to make way for the circular duration which formerly you attributed unto God, by comparing it with the heavens turning round (upon supposition) in a moment.
These your propositions I can finde reason to make them good in some tolerable construction. Yet you adde a reason of it, which should be more evident then the Conclusion, but indeed is farre more obscure, and when the meaning of it is perceived, is found to have most need of reason to proove it, as being in shew contrary to all reason; yet you content your selfe with dictating it, & thence proceed to a wild goose race of illustration by the heavens that environ both us and the Antipodes; so to make way for the circular duration which formerly you attributed unto God, by comparing it with the heavens turning round (upon supposition) in a moment.
The rational proposition without reason delivered is this: For that only is eternal which always is, and so always is, that it hath precedence or preexistence infinite to all successions, which way soever we look upon them or take their beginning, whether ⟨p. 199⟩backwards or forwards: Now this saying of yours is full of incongruities if not rather of foul absurdi its.
The rationall proposition without reason delivered is this: For that onely is eternall which allwayes is, and so allwayes is, that it hath precedence or preexistence infinite to all successions, which way soever we look upon them or take theyre beginninge, whether ⟨p. 199⟩