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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.
For between that which is divisible and that which is indivisible, there is no proportion of greatness; Now this supposition ⟨p. 211⟩being granted you, (which you professed to be no hard suppose) we shall find parts successively infinite in one revolution, or revolutions successively infinite in one or the same instant. So like wise E•ope would instruct his Master how to drink up all the waters in the Sea, provided that first all the Rivers might be stopped, from running into the Sea, for it was most unreasonable that as fast as he drank the water out, the Rivers should be suffered to pour water in again, and that with a longer and a larger spoon then he had need to use that eats with the devil.
For betweene that which is divisible and that which is indivisible, there is no proportion of greatnesse; Now this supposition ⟨p. 211⟩being granted you, (which you professed to be no hard suppos•) we shall finde parts successively •nfinite in one revolution, or revolutions successively infinite in one or the same instante. So like wise E•ope would instruct his Master how to drinke up all the waters in the Sea, provided that first all the Rivers might be stopped, from runninge into the Sea, for it was most unreasonable that as fast as he dranke the water out, the Rivers shold bee suffered to poure water in againe, and that with a longer and a larger spoone then he had need to use that eates with the devill.
And I see no reason but a man might by ocular inspection discover the world which Galileus hath made report of, in the moon, provided that he might have a stair case sure enough & high enough & all necessary provisions by the way, & at his journeys end also, & safe return, to quit Lazarus relations of the dead, with celestial relations of he terra incognita in the moon. And yet I confess a truth, I do not find to what purpose you should say there be parts successively infinite in one revolution. For in the motion of a snail this is to be found as well as in the motions of the heavens; for every thing that is continual is divisible without end, to w tt into parts proportional; as for parts quotall, as namely fifths or thirds, or fourths, or hundreds, these ever in the motion of the heavens are finite, the other are infinite. Whereupon it is that Aristotle denies there is principium motus, in the seventh of his physics, not speaking of principium externum and effectivum, for so the nature of every thing is the cause, both of his motion and of rest, but he speaks of principium internum, and of the integral parts of motion whereof no part can be assigned to be the fist, but that it may be divided in o two parts, whereof the one is before the other; And in the same sense as there is no first of motion, so there is no last; for what part soever you take; it is divisible into two parts, whereof the one is latter then the other.