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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 this foreknowledge of man, shall be the foreknowledge of one thing by willing and doing of another; now these are no more suitable then the hares head and the goose giblets. And to proceed a little further in my conjectures, because your concealments put me to it, I say your concealment is most unseasonable. For as much as you conceal that whereupon your argument depends, like unto a Physician that giving a Medicine to his patient, he should tell him there is one necessary ingredient more belonging to it, and he must suspend the taking of it, until he goeth to the East-Indies to fetch it. In which case his patient may have his green cap on his head before he return.
But this foreknowledge of man, shall be the foreknowledge of one thing by willing and doing of another; now these are no more suitable then the hares head and the goose gibletts. And to proceede a litle further in my conjectures, because your concealments put me to it, I say your concealment is most unseasonable. For as much as you conceale that whereupon your argument depends, like unto a Physitian that giving a Medicine to his patient, he should tell him there is one necessary ingredient more belonging to it, and he must suspend the taking of it, untill he goeth to the East-Indies to ferche it. In which case his patient may have his greene cap on his head before he returne.
Suppose faith and repentance be those contingent things upon which I may lay a necessity by believing and repenting; will you say hereupon I may foretell my salvation? If this be it, this again is nothing to the purpose in a second respect. For the assurance of my salvation is not so much built upon my faith and repentance, as upon my perseverance in faith and repentance unto the end. And I cannot hereupon foreknow or foretell my salvation until I am dead, which is not to foreknow it, much less to foretell it.
Suppose faith and repentance be those contingent things upon which I may lay a necessitie by beleiving and repenting; will you say hereupon I may foretell my salvation? If this be it, this againe is nothing to the purpose in a second respect. For the assurance of my salvation is not so much built upon my faith and repentance, as upon my perseverance in faithe and repentance unto the end. And I cannot hereupon foreknowe or foretell my salvation untill I am dead, which is not to foreknowe it, much lesse to foretell it.