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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
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And you may as well compare the Embroiderer to a boy playing at Top and scourge, as a boy playing at top and scourge to an Embroiderer. Turpe est difficiles habere nugas: If any man prove an ounce the wiser for this, he may soon prove as wise as Pauls steeple. I remember in the beginning you called this discourse of yours a paradise of contemplation, and I confess I find many flowers of Rhetoric growing therein, and especially pretty similitudes, but by applying them they are utterly cast away, for commonly they serve either for the illustration of untruths, or very vulgar truths. And great pity but they should find a place among the toys in London.
And you may as well compare the Embroiderer to a boy playing at Top and scourge, as a boy playing at top and scourge to an Embroiderer. Turpe est difficiles habere nugas: If any man prove an ounce the wiser for this, he may soone prove as wise as Pauls steeple. I remember in the beginning you called this discourse of yours a paradise of contemplation, and I confesse I finde many flowres of Rhetoricke growing therein, and especially pre•ty similitudes, but by applying them they are utterly cast away, for commonly they serve either for the illustration of untruths, or very vulgar truths. And great pitty but they should finde a place among the toyes in London.
12. In the last place for a congruous explication of Augustine's and Gregory's meaning, in passages before mentioned, you commend unto us certain observations as necessary extracts of what hath hitherto been delivered. This necessity I presume was no impeachment to the liberty of your will in broaching them, for my part I see no necessity at all of them, nor of this whole discourse of yours. In like sort as little necessary it was that my brains should be surbeaten so often in hunting after the involved sense of many sentences, through the thickets of wild phrases and figures, and affected obscure expressions.
12. In the last place for a congruous explication of Austines and Gregories meaning, in passages before mentioned, you commend unto us certaine observations as necessary extracts of what hath hitherto beene delivered. This necessity I presume was no impeachment to the liberty of your will in broaching them, for my part I see no necessity at all of them, nor of this whole discourse of yours. In like sort as little necessary it was that my braines should be surbeaten so often in hunting after the involved sense of many sentences, thorow the thickets of wilde phrases and figures, and affected obscure expressions.