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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.
And if his will were a law unto himself, it were impossible he should transgress it in doing ought. For as much as whatsoever he doth, he doth according to the counsel of his own will. But you I doubt have some other sense which 1I will labour to start out if I can. You signify his freedom ⟨p. 365⟩must be wedded to goodness. When a man is wedded to his wife, he is restrained from all others, and must keep himself only unto her.
And if his will were a law unto himselfe, it were impossible he should transgresse it in doing ought. For as much as whatsoever he doth, he doth according to the counsayle of his owne will. But you I doubt have some other sence which 1I will labour to start out if I can. You signify his freedome ⟨p. 365⟩must be wedded to goodnes. When a man is wedded to his wife, he is restrayned from all others, and must keep himselfe only unto her.
- 1Aephe. 1. 11
So belike amongst diverse things whereunto Gods power doth extend, his freedom must not extend to all, but be confined to that which is good. As if there were some rules of good and evil prescribed unto God, and he were confined to the one, and restrained from the other. This is Arminius his language, upon which occasion, I have been bold to encounter their […] in two digressions, who maintain that there is a justice tha• doth oblige the will of God. If you would deal plainly in setting down your opinion, and Scholastically, in taking pains to dispute for it, and not in some sorry manner to beg the question, I should be ready with the help of God to enter into the lists in this point with you also.