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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.
If a Crow lives many ages of a Man, and an Hart more then the Crow, and the Raven more then the Hart; how many thousands have begun to breath & ceased to breath within the limits of their duration; yet what an absurd thing were it to say, that they environed them all, as the Heavens environ the earth, yet you proceed, sitting upon these addle eggs, to hatch congruous conclusions, you say that in this sense were it possible, the world might have been created from everlasting, the Eternal, notwithstanding should have been everlastingly before them. Which as it is most false, so it is most inconsequent. Most false, for like as God cannot be after that which hath no end (as your self before in a manner professed) and the reason is manifest. Because to be after a thing, as for instance to be after the world, is to be after the world is come to his end, which were untrue if the world had no end.
If a Crowe lives many ages of a Man, and an Hart more then the Crowe, and the Raven more then the Hart; how many thousands have begunne to breath & ceased to breath within the limits of theyr duration; yet what an absurde thing were it to say, that they environed them all, as the Heavens environ the earth, yet you proceed, sitting upon these addle eggs, to hatch congruous conclusions, you say that in this sense were it possible, the world might have bene created from everlasting, the Eternall, notwithstanding should have bene everlastingly before them. Which as it is most false, so it is most inconsequent. Most false, for like as God cannot be after that which hath no end (as your selfe before in a manner professed) and the reason is manifest. Because to be after a thing, as for instance to be after the world, is to be after the world is come to his end, which were untrue if the world had no end.
In like sort to be before the world, is to be while the world had yet no being, which is contrary to the supposition of being everlasting.