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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.
CHAP. X.
Of the eternal and Immutable decree.
Of the eternall and Immutable decree.
Upon this you enter with a fair promise of bettering or rectifying our apprehensions of Gods absolute and omnipotent decree. I hope we shall never be unwilling to learn of any, much less of your self. For why should we not affect to have our apprehensions if they swerve from the the truth to be rectified, and though in good propension thereunto, yet to have them bettered. For though good be good, yet better is better, especially in so precious a point of divinity as about the decree of God. Most of all if it be true (as you say) that in all ages it hath been most difficult, and is so common in this, that no divine can adventure upon any other service profitable, but he must either enforce his passage thorough it, or come so high, as to do homage to it. As for the difficulty you speak of, as you give me no edge to embrace it, so I profess I have no edge to oppose it. But as touching the commons thereof in such sort as in all profitable services to the Church, we must be driven to take notice of it, and that with appropriation to this age above all ages that went before possesseth me with admiration. For what reason can be devised why divines and fathers in former ages could ⟨p. 380⟩