A14095:579
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 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.
For first, as touching the mayne intention of this sentence, the Sunne shall not have locall coexistence with every starre or with any starre in the eighthe spheare; how can it? there beinge the huge distance of three vast bodies of the Spheares, of three planets betwixt the firmament, and the orbe of the Sunne.
But that upon your former supposition he shall coexist in the same line drawn from the North to the South I grant in Astronomical computation, and so by the same computation may be said to have local coexistence with it, though not in computation physical.
But that upon your former supposition he shall coexist in the same line drawne from the North to the Southe I graunt in Astronomicall computation, and so by the same computation may be sayde to have locall coexistence with it, thoughe not in computation physicall.
Secondly, mark I pray you, what liberty of speech you take unto your self. For that which even now you called a vigorous permanency, in this place you term it a motion infinitely swift: as if you should say, the motion is so incredibly swift, that the body indeed stands still and moves not at all. As much as to say, such a one talks so fast that he seems, and that in a vigorous manner to hold his peace.
Secondly, marke I pray you, what libertie of speeche you take unto your selfe. For that which even now you called a vigorous permanency, in this place you terme it a motion infinitely swift: as if you should say, the motion is so incredidibly swift, that the body indeede stands still and mooves not at all. As much as to say, such a one talkes so fast that he seemes, and that in a vigorous manner to holde his peace.