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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.
He that is the supreme efficient, must necessarily be the supreme end of all things. So from him and by him, and for 1him are all things. Much less is he bound to the rules of any goodness or justice without him. But it may be of this we shall hear more from you hereafter.
He that is the supreame efficient, must necessarily be the supreame end of all things. So from him and by him, and for 1him are all thinges. Much lesse is he bound to the rules of any goodnesse or justice without him. But it may be of this we shall heare more from you hereafter.
In the next place you return to show, how immutability and freedom may stand together; and in stead of proving it you tell us, that we may easily conceive it, provided that they be rightly joined or sorted. And hereupon you take occasion to discourse somewhat at large of the ill sorting of them, and that in such a kind as none would ever prove so mad as to sort them so; (yet that serves for matter of your discourse,) but as touching the right sorting of them, I doubt we shall never hear of in such a manner as you promise, to wit, that our conceits shall easily comprehend it, no more then we have heard of that reservation of liberty which you promised to intimate as a point of very high perfection in God.
In the next place you returne to shew, how immutability and freedome may stand together; and in stead of proving it you tell us, that we may easily conceive it, provided that they be rightly joyned or sorted. And hereupon you take occasion to discourse somewhat at large of the ill sorting of them, and that in such a kind as none would ever prove so mad as to sort them so; (yet that serves for matter of your discourse,) but as touching the right sorting of them, I doubt we shall never heare of in such a manner as you promise, to wit, that our conceits shall easily comprehend it, no more then wee have heard of that reservation of libertie which you promised to intimate as a point of very high perfection in God.