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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 though a pewterer makes a chamber-pot, yet no colour of truth, that he should be therefore a chamber pot, or that because a Chimney-sweeper makes a clean chimney, therefore himself should be a clean chimney. Never was any known to be so absurd, as to devise any such inferences. Like as I think never any before your self was known to affirm, that there was as little colour of truth in collecting, that things decreed by God should be immutable, because his decree is immutable. For I pray, what proportion do you find in these? the efficient cause that is equivocal, is not of the same nature with the effect produced, therefore the thing decreed is not immutable, by reason of the immutability of the decree whereby it is decreed.
And though a pewterer makes a chamber-pot, yet no colour of truth, that he should be therefore a chamber pott, or that because a Chimny-sweeper makes a clean chimny, therfore himselfe should be a cleane chimny. Never was any knowne to be so absurde, as to devise any such inferences. Like as I think never any before your selfe was knowne to affirme, that there was as litle colour of truth in collecting, that things decreed by God should be immutable, because his decree is immutable. For I pray, what proportion doe you find in these? the efficient cause that is aequivocall, is not of the same nature with the effect produced, therefore the thing decreed is not immutable, by reason of the immutability of the decree whereby it is decreed.
Let every Reader judge whether there be so much likeness between these, as between a fox and a Fern-bush. Yet you give no reason but the bare proportion it self to bear it out. Now the former inference which you deny, is drawn from the cause to the effect, the later inference which you deny is drawn from the effect to the cause. Yet these inferences you make proportionable. If you would make them suitable, after some such manner as this, it should proceed. God makes crows black; herhence it followeth not that God himself is black, so God decreed to damn Juda• herehence it followeth no•, and what I pray? I am ashamed t• follow the proportion of your inference least so I should utter that which in modesty is not fit, or thus. God makes Judas