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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.
As for things to come they are unknown unto us. But if they were known unto us, as by revelation they may, it were as easy for us to take notice of them successively from the end of the world, rising upwards unto this day, or proceeding from this day unto the end of the world. As for notice of them all at once, it is impossible to be taken by us, our nature disposeth us to understand things only successively one after another. Now it is without question that all things are known to God that have been from the beginning of the world unto this day, and that shall be from this day to the end of the world. And therefore if God were to take notice of them, and that in a successive manner as we do, it were indifferent for him to take into consideration first the things that have been the first year of this world, then those things that came to pass the next year, and so forwards unto this present year, and so successively to take notice of what shall be the next year, and so onwards unto the end of the world. Or otherwise he might begin to take notice of those things that shall come to pass the last year of the world, then what shall come to pass the year before it, and so upwards unto this year, and thence proceed to consider what hath been the last year, and so upwards unto the first year of the world.
As for things to come they are unknowne unto us. But if they were knowne unto us, as by revelation they may, it were as easie for us to take notice of them successively from the end of the world, rising upwards unto this day, or proceeding from this day unto the end of the world. As for notice of them all at once, it is impossible to be taken by us, our nature disposeth us to understand things onely successively one after another. Now it is without question that all things are knowne to God that have beene from the beginning of the world unto this day, and that shall bee from this day to the end of the world. And therefore if God were to take notice of them, and that in a successive manner as we doe, it were indifferent for him to take into consideration first the things that have been the first yeare of this world, then those things that came to passe the next yeare, and so forwards unto this present yeare, and so successively to take notice of what shall be the next yeare, and so onwards unto the end of the world. Or otherwise he might begin to take notice of those things that shall come to passe the last yeare of the world, then what shall come to passe the yeare before it, and so upwards unto this yeare, and thence proceed to consider what hath beene the last yeare, and so upwards unto the first yeare of the world.