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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 lets examine your opinion cleared from ambiguities. I say the decrees of God were finished actu interno before the World was made; And I prove it thus. Every decree is finished actu interno when it is made and hath existence. But the decrees of God were made and had their existence before the World was (otherwise they should not be eternal) therefore the decrees of God are not only already finished but were finished before the World was made. And the Major I farther prove thus. If before the World things were decreed by God, then also before the World, Gods decrees were made and had existence, but before the World many things were decreed by God, therefore before the World, Gods decrees ⟨p. 383⟩were made and had existence.
Now lets examine your opinion cleared from ambiguities. I say the decrees of God were finished actu interno before the World was made; And I prove it thus. Every decree is finished actu interno when it is made and hath existence. But the decrees of God were made and had theire existence before the World was (otherwise they should not be eternall) therefore the decrees of God are not onely already finished but were finished before the World was made. And the Major I farther prove thus. If before the World things were decreed by God, then also before the World, Gods decrees were made and had existence, but before the World many things were decreed by God, therefore before the World, Gods decrees ⟨p. 383⟩were made and had existence.
Again I prove that Gods decrees are already finished actu interno. Every thing that hath entire and full existence is to be accounted finished, but Gods decrees already have their entire and full existence, even as God himself, and so had before the World was; therefore Gods decrees are already finished and so were before the World was.
Agayne I prove that Gods decrees are already finished actu interno. Every thing that hath intire and full existence is to be accompted finished, but Gods decrees already have their entire and full existence, even as God himselfe, and so had before the World was; therefore Gods decrees are already finished and so were before the World was.