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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.
Secondly I say, this swiftness of motion which you have invented is too swift, too infinite to serve your turn, to contain the revolutions of inferior Orbs. For you have already professed that it deserves to be called a vigorous rest, and that it may be called a cessation from motion,
Secondly I say, this swiftnes of motion which you have invented is too swift, too infinite to serve your turne, to conteyne the revolutions of inferior Orbes. For you have allready professed that it deserves to be called a vigorous rest, and that it may be called a cessation from motion,
Now let any sober man judge, whether a cessation from motion, whether rest, and permanency, and that a vigorous one be fit, eminently to contain the true motions of inferior Orbs, which in the space of 24. hours are turned round. Yet if leave were given you to suppose this also, namely that a vigorous rest is so infinitely swift, that it might well be said eminently to contain the motions of inferior Orbs; yet how would it herhence appear, that it should contain the times of them also?
Now let any sober man judge, whether a cessation from motion, whether rest, and permanency, and that a vigorous one be fitt, eminently to conteyne the true mōtions of inferior Orbes, which in the space of 24. houres are turned round. Yet if leave were given you to suppose this allso, namely that a vigorous rest is so infinitely swift, that it might well be sayde eminently to conteyne the motions of inferior Orbes; yet how woulde it herhence appeare, that it should conteyne the times of them allso?
Since this vigorous rest which you make to be infinitely swift, is but in an instant, and the motions of inferior Orbs of like quantity are performed, in no less space then 24. hours.