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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.
The product of motion Physical, is the form that is acquired by motion; As for example, in alteration a quality is produced, in augmentation a certain measure of quantity; in local motion a new place or a new site; Either in respect of the whole as it falls out in all direct motions, or only in respect of the parts, as in all motions Circular; which new site is said to be new in respect of that which immediately went before.
The product of motion Physicall, is the forme that is acquired by motion; As for example, in alteration a quality is produced, in augmentation a certeyne measure of quantity; in locall motion a new place or a new site; Eyther in respect of the whole as it falls out in all direct motions, or only in respect of the parts, as in all motions Circular; which new site is sayd to be new in respect of that which immediately went before.
Now in this motion of the Heavens in an instant supposed by you, there is no such product Physical, for look what site every part of the Heavens hath immediately before this instant, the same it hath still; And therefore you call it very significantly (I confess) a vigorous permanency; which is as much as to say, no motion at all; Neither do I think that by the product here spoken of, you mean a product Physical; Let us come therefore to consider, whether it may be verified of a product Mathematical, that is in the Arithmetical operation of addition: for if two numbers be added together, ⟨p. 215⟩it will produce a total, and that total shall be the product.
Now in this motion of the Heavens in an instant supposed by you, there is no such product Physicall, for looke what site every part of the Heavens hath immediately before this instant, the same it hath still; And therfore you call it very significantly (I confesse) a vigorous permanency; which is as much as to say, no motion at all; Neyther doe I thinke that by the product here spoken of, you meane a product Physicall; Let us come therefore to consider, whether it may be verified of a product Mathematicall, that is in the Arithmeticall operation of addition: for if two numbers be added togeather,