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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 how can that be called permanent, which both begins and ends in one and the same instant of time? Or ⟨p. 219⟩how can that motion be counted indivisible, which hath parts successively infinite as your self profess in the sentence immediately before? If these be sober conceits, I never knew, what sobriety in this kind meaneth. But let us proceed to the next; The motion of the eighth sphere supposed to be such as hath been said, that is motion infinitely swift, or not divisible by succession; the Sun moving successively as now it doth should have local coexistence to every star in the eighth sphere, to every point of the ecliptic circle, wherein it moves, at one and the self same instant, or in every least parcel of time. The substance of this hath reasonable good consequence, from the former supposition of a thing utterly impossible, and consequently it is not more impossible then the former. Yet by your leave, you err in many a circumstance.
And how can that be called permanent, which bothe beginnes and endes in one and the same instant of time? Or ⟨p. 219⟩how can that motion be coumpted indivisible, which hathe parts successively infinite as your selfe professe in the sentence immediately before? If these be sober conceytes, I never knewe, what sobrietie in this kinde meaneth. But let us proceede to the next; The motion of the eighthe spheare supposed to be such as hathe bene sayde, that is motion infinitely swift, or not divisible by succession; the Sunne moovinge successively as now it doth should have locall coexistence to every starre in the eighthe spheare, to every point of the eclipticke circle, wherin it mooves, at one and the selfe same instant, or in every least parcell of time. The substance of this hathe reasonable good consequence, from the former supposition of a thinge utterly impossible, and consequently it is not more impossible then the former. Yet by your leave, you erre in many a circumstance.
For first, as touching the main intention of this sentence, the Sun shall not have local coexistence with every star or with any star in the eighth sphere; how can it? there being the huge distance of three vast bodies of the Spheres, of three planets betwixt the firmament, and the orb of the Sun.