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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.
CHAP. VII.
Of the Infinity of divine power.
I Do not affect to contend with you in point of Rhetoric, or to call you to an account for stilling Time, a spectator of all things. If it be so, it is the more like unto a Philosopher by his account, who comparing the world unto a market, ranged the people thereof into 3. sorts, buyers, sellers, and lookers on, and these were the Philosophers. Only I would desire that you would give other the like liberty to speak in their own phrase, and not to challenge them for affecting Poetical wit more then Metaphysical truth; as upon such like terms it was your pleasure to cry down that common adage Tempus edax rerum. For if you admit time to be a Spectator, you may by as good Rhetoric admit it to be a devourer, according to that of good authority Inspexit varias merces oculisque comedit. In like sort studious scholars are accounted Helluones librorum, devourers of books, though not for the reading of them only, but for the apprehension of them, and making them their own.
I Doe not affect to contende with you in point of Rhetoricke, or to call you to an account for stiling Time, a spectator of all thinges. If it be so, it is the more like unto a Philosopher by his account, who comparinge the world unto a market, ranged the people therof into 3. sorts, buyers, sellers, and lookers on, and these were the Philosophers. Only I woulde desier that you woulde give other the like liberty to speake in theyre owne phrase, and not to chalenge them for affecting Poeticall witt more then Metaphysicall truthe; as upon such like termes it was your pleasure to cry downe that common adage Tempus edax rerum. For if you admitt time to be a Spectator, you may by as good Rhetoricke admitt it to be a devourer, according to that of good autoritie Inspexit varias merces oculisque comedit. In like sort studious scholars are accoumpted Helluones librorum, devourers of bookes, though not for the readinge of them only, but for the apprehension of them, and making them theyre owne.