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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.
For the same reason, though God be infinitely preexistent before times past, yet he cannot be said no not in your phrase and your meaning, that he is infinitely preexistent to all times to come, the meaning whereof is to continue infinitely longer then all ages to come; for that were to suppose that God shall be when all ages have run their course and are come to an end, which you suppose shall never be. Thus from your Antipodes which you devise in the course of time, I come to the consideration of the Antipodes in respect of place and situation. And hereupon I remember what you delivered in the entrance upon this discourse of eternity, and it is this; whatsoever hath, been or rightly may be conceived of divine immensity, will in proportion as well suite unto eternity, and in like manner whatsoever is incident to space of place, the same in proportion may be verified of space of time. And ⟨p. 200⟩therefore like as Antipodes are found in place, so in some proportion Antipodes may be found in time. For when you begin at the ends of time you seem to turn the heels of it upwards.
For the same reason, though God be infinitely prexistent before times past, yet he cannot be sayd no not in your phrase and your meaning, that he is infinitely preexistent to all times to come, the meaning whereof is to continue infinitely longer then all ages to come; for that were to suppose that God shall be when all ages have runne theyre course and are come to an end, which you suppose shall never be. Thus from your Antipodes which you devise in the course of time, I come to the consideration of the Antipodes in respect of place and situation. And hereupon I remember what you delivered in the entrance upon this discourse of eternitie, and it is this; whatsoever hath, beene or rightly may be conceaved of divine immensitie, will in proportion as well suite unto eternitie, and in like manner whatsoever is incident to space of place, the same in porportion may be verified of space of time. And ⟨p. 200⟩therefore like as Antipodes are found in place, so in some proportion Antipodes may be found in time. For when you beginne at the ends of time you seeme to turne the heeles of it upwards.