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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.
But to salve the matter, you add that it evacuates the necessity of power distinct from it. Tis true indeed, in God, though the notions of wisdom and power are distinct, yet the things signified are one essence in God. And look in what manner soever infinite wisdom doth infer the indistinction of power with it, after the same manner, doth infinite power infer the indistinction of wisdom with it. For as much as God is essentially wise and powerful, and therefore infinite in both, & both indistinct in him, whose essence is most simple and admits no parts. That wisdom is the father and power the Mother of all Gods works is such an assertion, that I do not think you can find any to father it, or mother it but your self. Will you not give us leave to accommodate it unto the works of man and pronounce proportionably that his Wisdom is the Father, and his power the Mother of his actions? I take it to be absurd to inquire after a Father and Mother of works, save in case, the works themselves do admit these different sexes as being male or female; yet in such a case it hath a Father and Mother only in respect of univocal generations not equivocal.
But to salve the matter, you adde that it evacuates the necessitie of power distinct from it. Tis true indeede, in God, though the notions of wisedome and power are distinct, yet the thinges signified are one essence in God. And looke in what manner soever infinite wisedome doth inferre the indistinction of power with it, after the same manner, doth infinite power inferre the indistinction of wisedome with it. For as much as God is essentially wise and powerfull, and therefore infinite in both, & both indistinct in him, whose essence is most simple and admitts no parts. That wisedome is the father and power the Mother of all Gods workes is such an assertion, that I doe not thinke you can finde any to father it, or mother it but your selfe. Will you not give us leave to accommodate it unto the workes of man and pronounce proportionably that his Wisedome is the Father, and his power the Mother of his actions? I take it to be absurd to inquire after a Father and Mother of workes, save in case, the workes themselfes doe admitt these different sexes as being male or female; yet in such a case it hath a Father and Mother only in respect of univocall generations not equivocall.