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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.
This World as it had a beginning, so it shall have an end. But successive duration even in your opinion, shall have no end.
And therefore you cannot say without contradiction, that God looks thorough the several ages thereof from their last end to their beginning.
And therfore you cannot say without contradiction, that God looks thorough the severall ages thereof from theyr last end to theyr beginning.
Yet this last end, you might have called a beginning according to your phrase and tenet, maintaining God to be before all ages, not only before ages past one way, but also ⟨p. 202⟩before ages to come another way. Again, that all things are known to him, as well things to come, as things past, or present, is without all question.
Yet this last end, you might have called a beginning according to your phrase and tenent, maynteyning God to be before all ages, not onely before ages past one way, but allso ⟨p. 202⟩before ages to come another way. Agayne, that all things are knowne to him, as well things to come, as things past, or present, is without all question.