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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.
Thus I have helped you in raising a Spirit: Now without your help I will assay to lay him again.
Thus I have helped you in raisinge a Spirit: Now without your helpe I will assay to lay him agayne.
To the Major; I grant it in part, namely that there is as much reason why the two next Millions of years, whether you take them of the time past, or of the time to come, should coexist with God now existent, as well as one Million; but when you proceed and say; therefore by the same reason all that are to come, and all that are past, are coexistent with God now existent, you make an incredible stride or leap, infinitely greater then the stride, not only of Polyphemus, but of the Colossus at Rhodes too: For a Million and a Million, yea & a third Million, yea and though you make the progression in such sort while you will, still the number is but finite, but to leap herehence to all that are to come, is an infinite leap: For all are infinite both ways, both as touching time past and time to come: in which respect, no progression, from Million to Million, shall ever reach to all, nay it shall never make the number of years remaining, either for the time past, or for the time to come, less then infinite.
To the Major; I grant it in part, namely that there is as much reason why the two next Millions of years, whether you take them of the time past, or of the time to come, should coexist with God now existent, as well as one Million; but when you proceede and say; therfore by the same reason all that are to come, and all that are past, are coexistent with God now existent, you make an incredible stride or leape, infinitely greater then the stride, not only of Polyphemus, but of the Colossus at Rhodes too: For a Million and a Million, yea & a third Million, yea and though you make the progression in such sort while you will, still the number is but finite, but to leape herehence to all that are to come, is an infinite leape: For all are infinite both wayes, both as touchinge time past and time to come: in which respect, no progression, from Million to Million, shall ever reach to all, nay it shall never make the number of yeares remaininge, eyther for the time past, or for the time to come, lesse then infinite.