A14095:618
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 a Sphere is a body, either physical or mathematical, that is, a body at least of quantitative dimensions. The world indeed is Spherical, and God is in every part of it; but will ⟨p. 227⟩you therefore conceive the nature of God to be Spherical also, and his form altered, upon the making of the World, from that it was before?
For a Spheare is a body, eyther physicall or mathematicall, that is, a body at least of quantitative dimensions. The world indeede is Sphericall, and God is in every part of it; but will ⟨p. 227⟩you therfore conceave the nature of God to be Sphericall allso, and his forme altered, upon the making of the World, from that it was before?
Remember I pray, God is in the World and in every part of it but how? as containing it, not as being contained by it.
Remember I pray, God is in the World and in every part of it but how? as conteyning it, not as being conteyned by it.
Secondly, you will have us imagine God to be capable of momentany motion, or revolution throughout the World? Now consider I pray, what a congerie of wild conceits are involved here. Is a revolution, a motion throughout the world? Every man knows a revolution to be a turning round. The orbs of the heavens have their revolutions, but do they thereby move throughout the World? or rather keep their places, & each moveth only about the bodies that are within the compass thereof.
Secondly, you will have us imagine God to be capable of momentany motion, or revolution throughout the World? Now consider I pray, what a congerie of wilde conceytes are involved here. Is a revolution, a motion throughout the world? Every man knowes a revolution to be a turninge round. The orbes of the heavens have theyr revolutions, but doe they therby moove throughout the World? or rather keepe theyr places, & each mooveth only about the bodies that are within the compasse therof.