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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 in the preface you make show not so much of excepting against the doctrine of Gods decreeing all things, as against the manner of decreeing them. And when you speak of the worst courses of mens lives, as of Jewish blasphemy against the Son of God, and amplify the heinousness of their opinion, that maintain it to have been decreed by God, you rather except against the manner of decreeing it, to wit, inevitably, and that as touching the obliquity of it only, then simply against the decreeing of it. Your words a•e these, ch. 1. sect. 15. Shall we say God did inevitably decree the obliquity of Jewish blasphemy? Which cautions whereunto they tend I know not, unless to make some declination from ma•fest contradiction to the words of the Holy Ghost, Act. 4. 28. delivered with one mouth by the Apostles in their meditation ⟨p. 377⟩unto God, saying, Verily against thy holy Son Jesus both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and people of Israel, are gathered together to do what thy hand and thy counsel had determined before to be done. And indeed it is nothing but ignorance, or wilfulness in some, and trafty perverting the state of the truth in others, that makes those things seem harsh, which yet notwithstanding their harshness, are manifestly commended to us in the word of God. For what harshness I pray is in this: God determined that all the evil that was done to Christ should be done by his permission? And none give better evidence unto this truth ere they are aware, then they that with might and main oppose it, as Arminius, who professeth that the Jews proceeded so far in their ignominious handling of Christ, as God would have them, and this he delivers without all temperament.
And in the preface you make shew not so much of excepting against the doctrine of Gods decreeing all things, as against the manner of decreeing them. And when you speake of the worst courses of mens lives, as of Iewish blasphemy against the Sonne of God, and amplifie the hainousnesse of their opinion, that maintaine it to have been decreed by God, you rather except against the manner of decreeing it, to wit, ineritably, and that as touching the obliquity of it onely, then simply against the decreeing of it. Yo•r words a•e these, ch. 1. sect. 15. Shall we say God did inevitably decree the obliquity of Iewish blasphemy? Which cautions whereunto they tend I know not, unlesse to make some declination from mafest contradiction to the words of the Holy Ghost,