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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 you your self are in doubt whether it were fit to call it a cessation from motion or a vigorous rest or supermotion: you may do well to put it to Plotinus to resolve this, or Ficinus his Commentaries upon his Enneads. I perceive you have very vigorous conceits, which whether I should so call them, or rather a cessation from all sober conceit or a superconceyte, let the reader judge. In the mean while that must needs be a proper motion which may be called a cessation from motion, and a rest and that a vigorous one. Yet wonderful strange is it, that a rest or cessation from motion should contain in it parts of motion successively infinite, and I confess it were a very hard thing to determine what to call it; for it is a certain kind of Chimera, that never I think was hatched in the conceit of man or Angel before.
And you your selfe are in doubte whether it were fitt to call it a cessation from motion or a vigourous rest or supermotion: you may doe well to put it to Plotinus to resolve this, or Ficinus his Commentaries upon his Enneads. I perceave you have very vigourous conceites, which whether I shold so call them, or rather a cessation from all sober conceyte or a superconceyte, let the reader judge. In the meane while that must needs be a proper motion which may be called a cessation frō motion, and a rest and that a vigorous one. Yet wonderfull strange is it, that a rest or cessation from motion shold conteyn in it parts of motion successively infinite, and I confesse it were a very hard thinge to determine what to call it; for it is a certaine kinde of Chimera, that never I thinke was hatched in the conceyte of man or Angell before.
If this were granted you, then you presume the mover would not move it more slowly this day or year then he should the former; But consider I pray, the point is not of moving it in a day or year, but in an instant; And because two instants cannot come together, therefore for the time between while, it must stand still, and because there be infinite instants in every day and hour, it followeth it should be moved about infinite times every day and hour; and infinite times stand still. Take what co•se you will, it must stand still as oft as it moves, and because between every two instants of motion there must be a time of rest, and every one infinitely greater then the instant of motion.