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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 of the nature of your performances we have had reasonable experience. You may remember what he said while he was shearing his hogs, Here is a great deal of cry and a little wool. In the next place you dictate your parallels 1wherein it seems you take great pleasure. That Gods wisdom is infinite we nothing doubt; but to make it consist in knowing what he is able to do, we take to be a very hungry description of it. For is either man or Angel any thing the wiser for knowing what he is able to do? Gods immensity consists in filling all places which are but finite, neither is it possible they should be infinite, yet beyond things that are, this immensity is not extended. And you have already denied precisely that God is in vacuo. But as for Gods eternity that doth not only coexist with all time, but had existen•e before it actually and that without all beginning. In a word Gods immensity is not in respect of any quantitas molis, quantity of extension, but only in respect of quantitas virtutis. And what is this different from his infinite power. And indeed God is not in place after the manner of being contained in any thing, but only after the way of containing and supporting all things. And look by what quantity he made all things, by the same quantity he supports all things, and that is the quantity of his power.
But of the nature of your perfourmances we have had reasonable experience. You may remember what he sayd while he was shearing his hogges, Here is a great deale of cry and a little wooll. In the next place you dictate your parallells 1wherein it seemes you take great pleasure. That Gods wisedome is infinite we nothing doubt; but to make it consist in knowing what he is able to doe, we take to be a very hungry description of it. For is either man or Angell any thing the wiser for knowing what he is able to doe? Gods immensitie consists in filling all places which are but finite, neyth•r is it possible they should be infinite, yet beyond things that are, this immensitie is not extended. And you have already denyed precisely that God is in vacuo. But as for Gods eternity that doth not only coexist with all time, but had existen•e before it actually and that without all beginning. In a word Gods immensitie is not in respect of any quantitas molis, quantitie of extension, but only in respect of quantitas virtutis. And what is this different from his infinite power. And indeed God is not in place after the manner of being contained in any thing, but only after the way of containing and supporting all things. And looke by what quantitie he made all things, by the same quantity he supports all things, and that is the quantitie of his power.