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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.
And therefore you do well to take this power of God into consideration as namely of his ability to toss this universe with greater case, then a Giant doth a tennis ball (yet I never read or heard before of Giants playing at tennis ball) through out the boundless courts of immensity. By the way your overlash, in talking of the Courts of immensity, wherein this motion should be. For as for the immensity of God, that is no fit space to toss the world in.
And therfore you doe well to take this power of God into consideration as namely of his ability to tosse this universe with greater case, then a Gyant doth a tennis ball (yet I never read or heard before of Gyants playing att tennis ball) through out the boundlesse courtes of immensitie. By the way your overlash, in talking of the Courts of immensitie, wherin this motion should be. For as for the immensitie of God, that is no fitt space to tosse the world in.
And as for the immensity corporal, that is a thing utterly impossible; the motion you devise must needs be in vacuo or not at all. Now the force of the centre is no way fit whereby to illustrate this power of God. For certainly if the earth were placed in the hollow of the Moon, it together with his centre would tumble down again; as little congruous ⟨p. 238⟩is it; for the illustration of that power of God, whereby he is able to dissolve Rocks of Adamant with the fillip of his finger, sooner than bubbles of water with the breath of the Canon; In all which you seem to affect not Metaphysical truth only, but Rhetorical if not Poetical flourishes also. We believe that God, as by his word he made all things out of nothing, so by his word he can return them into nothing; this is plain English neither hath his power need of any Pyrgopolinices bombast eloquence to illustrate the Majesty thereof or set it forth.
And as for the immensitie corporall, that is a thing utterly impossible; the motion you devise must needes be in vacuo or not att all. Now the force of the center is no way fitt wherby to illustrate this power of God. For certainly if the earth were placed in the hollowe of the Moone, it together with his center would tumble downe againe; as little congruous