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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.
•w at the first I wondered what you meant to bring so unequal heifers to plough under the same yoke, considering that the courses of mens lives in this sense are the actions or ⟨p. 376⟩works of men; but the dooms of men according to their courses of life, are the actions or works of God, much more have I cause to wonder to read you professing them all indifferently to be foreset by the decree of God. For as for the good, yea the most gracious actions of men, according to your opinion, they are not foreset by the decree of God. For your profession is (and that as of some singular subtlety and invention) that God decreeth contingency, but not the things contingent; whence it followeth, that as touching the most gracious actions of men, even faith and repentance (they being only contingent things) that God decreeth them not, but only the contingency of them. How much less fit is it for you (according to the tenor of your opinion) to join all the courses of mens lives, even the evil courses as well as good with the dooms proportional, and to consider them as fore-set by an immutable and omnipotent decree of God, as here you do▪ Yet I see how some one in your behalf might plead for you, namely, that this is delivered by you only by way of supposition, not positively affirmed; but I see no likelihood that you would plead thus for your self, but rather give your self to the emasculating of Gods decree by some frivolous distinctions. For you acknowledge Gods concourse to every action.
•w at the first I wondred what you meant to bring so unequall heyfers to plow under the same yoke, considering that the courses of mens lifes in this sense are the actions or ⟨p. 376⟩workes of men; but the doomes of men according to their courses of life, are the actions or workes of God, much more have I cause to wonder to reade you professing them all indifferently to be foreset by the decree of God. For as for the good, yea the most gracious actions of men, according to your opinion, they are not foreset by the decree of God. For your profession is (and that as of some singular subtilty and invention) that God decreeth contingency, but not the things contingent; whence it followeth, that as touching the most gracious actions of men, even faith and repentance (they being onely contingent things) that God decreeth them not, but only the contingency of them. How much lesse fit is it for you (according to the tenour of your opinion) to joyne all the courses of mens lives, even the evill courses as well as good with the doomes proportionall, and to consider them as fore-set by an immutable and omnipotent decree of God, as here you doe Yet I see how some one in your behalfe might plead for you, namely, that this is delivered by you onely by way of upposition, not positively affirmed; but I see no likelihood that you would plead thus for your selfe, but rather give your self to the emasculating of Gods decree by some frivolous distinctions. For you acknowledge Gods concourse to every action.