A14095:631
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 consider I pray, will you say that God did by virtue of his immensity coexist with all places before the world was? No sober man I presume, will say this; why then should you affirm, that God by virtue of his eternity did coexist with all times before the world was? And if the actual existence of place, be required unto this, that God by virtue of his immensity should exist with it; why should not ⟨p. 230⟩the actual existence of time as well be required unto this, that God by virtue of his eternity should coexist therewith? And if before the world was, God did not coexist with times that were to come (like as then he did not coexist with place that was to come:) then surely by the same reason, he shall not at this time present coexist with time that is to come; and consequently, neither shall he be said to coexist with times that are past, like as if the world were destroyed, he should not be said to exist with those places, and bodily spaces, which sometimes were, but in this case now were not.
For consider I pray, will you say that God did by vertue of his immensitie coexist with all places before the world was? No sober man I presume, will say this; why then should you affirme, that God by vertue of his eternitie did coexist with all times before the world was? And if the actuall existence of place, be required unto this, that God by vertue of his immensitie should exist with it; why should not ⟨p. 230⟩the actuall existence of time as well be required unto this, that God by vertue of his eternitie should coexist therwith? And if before the world was, God did not coexist with times that were to come (like as then he did not coexist with place that was to come:) then surely by the same reason, he shall not at this time present coexist with time that is to come; and consequently, neyther shall he be sayde to coexist with times that are past, like as if the world were destroyed, he shoulde not be sayde to exist with those places, and bodily spaces, which sometimes were, but in this case now were not.