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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.
3. But from the breath of the Canon you fall congruously upon the consideration of the mother of it, which creature is commonly called gunpowder. And here you tell us first that our admiration of Gods active power may be raised by calculating the imaginary degrees of active powers increase in creatures; that which followeth divisible as well in quantity as operation, is of no importance but only to fill up. The Canon sends forth his bullet with greater violence then the Saker, like enough, and so every Ordinance exceeds other in force of Battery, according to the quantity of charge, or length of barrel, which I leave to the consideration of the Master of the Ordinance. To this you add that if the same quantity of steel or iron, were possible to be as speedily converted into a fiery vapour as gunpowder is, the blow would be 10. times more irresistible then it is. I do not think your meaning is to instruct the would in a new way of making Saltpetre, if it were, Saltpetre men should be your scholars, I would be none of them.
3. But from the breath of the Canon you fall congruously upon the consideration of the mother of it, which creature is commonly called gunpowder. And here you tell us first that our admiration of Gods active power may be raysed by calculating the imaginary degrees of active powers increase in creatures; that which followeth divisible as well in quantitie as operation, is of no importance but only to fill up. The Canon sends forthe his bullet with greater violence then the Sacher, like enoughe, and so every Ordinance exceedes other in force of Battery, according to the quantitie of charge, or length of barrell, which I leave to the consideration of the Master of the Ordinance. To this you adde that if the same quantitie of steele or yron, were possible to be as speedily converted into a siery vapor as gunpowder is, the blowe would be 10. times more irresistible then it is. I doe not thinke your meaning is to instruct the would in a new way of making Saltpeter, if it were, Saltpeter men should be your scholars, I would be none of them.
So much Philosophy I apprehend, that fire is most swift in moving upwards, as the Element of earth is most swift in moving downwards. And like as the contraction of more parts of the earth together makes a body the heavier, so likewise the more fiery anything is, so much the more swift in motion upwards. But to say that the active force or vigour of motion, always increaseth according to the degrees of celerity which it accumulates, is an idle speech, & as much as to say the more swiftly it moves, the more vigorously it moves. It had more show of congruity to say the more vigorously it is moved