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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.
Now consider we the damnation of wicked men not yet departed this life; hath God decreed it, or no? if no, then his decrees are not everlasting, the contrary whereunto you have hitherto professed in words, though I fear your meaning is otherwise.
Now consider wee the damnation of wicked men not yet departed this life; hath God decreed it, or no? if no, then his decrees are not everlasting, the contrary whereunto you have hitherto professed in words, though I feare your meaning is otherwise.
Again, if God hath not yet decreed it, then hereafter he shall decree it, (for he must first will their damnation before he damns them) and consequently there shall be a change in God, and something found in him which before was not, contrary to that which you have delivered in this Chapter, sect. 2. in these words, Unto infinite perfection what can accrue? If then God hath decreed it, and this decree or will of God cannot be changed, for you confess it is immutable, nor can be resisted, for you confess it is omnipotent; will it not necessarily follow herehence, that the damnation of such wicked men yet surviving is immutable? This I speak in your phrase, but in mine own phrase I say only that herehence it necessarily followeth, that all such shall be damned, which necessity is merely upon supposition of Gods decree: and therefore not necessity simply so called, but onely secundum quid, and upon supposition,
Againe, if God hath not yet decreed it, then hereafter he shall decree it, (for he must first will their damnation before he damnes them) and consequently there shall be a change in God, and something found in him which before was not, contrary to that which you have delivered in this Chapter, sect. 2. in these words, Vnto infinite perfection what can accrew? If then God hath decreed it, and this decree or will of God cannot be changed, for you confesse it is immutable, nor can be resisted, for you confesse it is omnipotent; will it not necessarily follow herehence, that the damnation of such wicked men yet surviving is immutable? This I speake in your phrase, but in mine owne phrase I say onely that herehence it necessarily followeth, that all such shall bee damned, which necessity is meerly upon supposition of Gods decree: and therefore not necessity simply so called, but onely secundum quid, and upon supposition,