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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.
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.
Since this vigorous rest which you make to be infinitely swift, is but in an instant, and the motions of inferior Orbes of like quantitie are performed, in no lesse space then 24. houres.
Is an instant of time fit to contain 24 hours? Yes you may say eminently. For as fluxus puncti in Longitudinem makes a line, so fluxus instantis for a certain space of time, makes 24. hours. Any man hath reason to give me leave, to refresh my self a little while my wits are dulled about such stuff as this. But you labour to show how the times of the inferior Orbs motions should be eminently contained in the eighth sphere, if it moved round in an instant. And that by this reason: For say you the eighth sphere being moved in an instant, should loose the divisibility of time and the nature of motion, not by defect (as no way comprising them) but by swallowing up time into an actual permanency.
Is an instant of time fitt to conteyne 24 houres? Yes you may say eminently. For as fluxus puncti in Longitudinem makes a line, so fluxus instantis for a certeyne space of time, makes 24. houres. Any man hathe reason to give me leave, to refreshe my selfe a litle while my witts are dulled about such stuffe as this. But you labour to shewe how the times of the inferior Orbes motions should be eminently conteyned in the eighthe spheare, if it mooved round in an instant. And that by this reason: For say you the eighthe spheare being mooved in an instant, should loose the divisibilititie of time and the nature of motion, not by defect (as no way comprising them) but by swallowing up time into an actuall permanency.