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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.
And yet you flatter your self in this erroneous conceit, as if it were some exquisite invention, by another fiction, & that is by conceiting eternity to compass and environ time, as the heavens environ the earth.
And yet you flatter your selfe in this erroneus conceite, as if it were some exquisite invention, by another fiction, & that is by conceyting eternitie to compasse and inviron time, as the heavens inviron the earth.
Now because the earth is immovable, but time hath succession of parts; and the heavens wonderful nimble in motion, and contrariwise eternity a constant and permanent instant; therefore you may do well to salve the [Greek or Hebrew] in the Sphere of your discourse to consult with Copernicus about blowing some quicksilver into the dull and sullen earth & set it going round, and on the other side persuade the Heavens to favour themselves and take their rest, the model of eternity, and time represented by you would be something the more accurate.
Now because the earth is immoveable, but time hath succession of parts; and the heavens wonderfull nimble in motion, and contrariwise eternitie a constant and permanent instant; therefore you may doe well to salve the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the Spheare of your discourse to consult with Copernicus about blowing some quicksilver into the dull and sullen earth & set it going round, and on the other side persuade the Heavens to favour themselves and take theyr rest, the modell of eternitie, and time represented by you would be something the more accurate.
Some helps for this you have, I confess, of your own devising, to wit, by supposing the Heavens to move in an instant, leaving it to the Readers judgment whether to account that motion a cessation from motion, or a vigorous rest, besides that of the top & scourge, which we may have time to consider of in due place. But to proceed; of the beginning of this World past, and the end of it to come, there is no difference between us.