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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.
Yet this was not the opinion of the Stoics, of whose profession Seneca was. For though he did believe the World was made, as Aristotle professeth in his books de Caelo, it was the opinion of all that went before him: Yet did he not believe, that it was made out of nothing, but that 1the matter whereof the World was made, was eternal. Therefore they did not believe, that God was the Author of all, both of that we see, and of that we do not see. Your self confess, they conceived the matter to have been coeternal with him, and not so only, but able also to overmatch the benignity of his active power by its passive untowardliness. Again I do not find, that any of them maintained, that immaterial substances were made by God; for then they should all be made out of nothing. For Angels consist not of material extensions. And it was their general voice that nothing could be made out of nothing.
Yet this was not the opinion of the Stoicks, of whose profession Seneca was. For thoughe he did believe the World was made, as Aristotle professethe in his bookes de Caelo, it was the opinion of all that went before him: Yet did he not believe, that it was made out of nothing, but that 1the matter wherof the World was made, was eternall. Therfore they did not believe, that God was the Author of all, both of that we see, and of that we doe not see. Your selfe confesse, they conceaved the matter to have bene coeternall with him, and not so only, but able allso to overmatch the benignitie of his active power by its passive untowardlines. Agayne I doe not finde, that any of them maynteyned, that immateriall substances were made by God; for then they shoulde all be made out of nothinge. For Angells consist not of materiall extensions. And it was their generall voyce that nothing coulde be made out of nothing.
- 1Lib. 1. cont. 102.