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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.
Now as time and place were as you said shadows of Gods eternity and immensity, So, the power of the creature is a shadow of Gods infinite power. Yet shadows we all know have proportions to the substances shadowed by them, but between finite and infinite we commonly say there is no proportion.
Now as time and place were as you sayde shadowes of Gods eternitie and immensitie, So, the power of the creature is a shadowe of Gods infinite power. Yet shadowes we all knowe have proportiōs to the substances shadowed by them, but betweene finite and infinite we commonly say there is no proportion.
2. God, you say, is more infinite in every kind, then all the united powers of several natures, though they were for number infinite and each infinitely operative in its own kind. But let us not lye for God, as man doth for man to gratify him. True and natural beauty needeth no painting: And Gods perfection needeth no Mountebank like amplifications to set him forth. The powers of the creatures are not formally in God, but eminently, that is, they are said to be in God in as much as he can produce them, and their effects also. As for example, though he be not hot, yet can he produce heat in greater measure then fire doth.
2. God, you say, is more infinite in every kinde, then all the united powers of severall natures, though they were for number infinite and each infinitly operative in its owne kinde. But let us not lye for God, as man doth for man to gratify him. True and naturall beauty needeth no painting: And Gods perfection needeth no Mountebanke like amplifications to sett him forth. The powers of the creatures are not formally in God, but eminently, that is, they are sayd to be in God in as much as he can produce them, and theyre effects allso. As for example, though he be not hott, yet can he produce heate in greater measure then fier dothe.