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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. XI.
Of transcendental goodness, and of the infinity of it in the divine nature.
Of transcendentall goodnesse, and of the infinitie of it in the divine nature.
I Profess I have no desire to oppose ought in this, or in the Chapter following; yet having begun this work of examination it is fit to consider these also, if it be but to take notice of what you deliver, and rightly to understand the meaning thereof.
I Professe I have no desire to oppose ought in this, or in the Chapter following; yet having begunne this worke of examination it is fit to consider these also, if it be but to take notice of what you deliver, and rightly to understand the meaning thereof.
They which fetch light beyond the Sun, must be content with Star-light; and they which cannot satisfy themselves with day light, but seek for star-light, they are well enough served if they go to bed darkling. We commonly say, Life is sweet, and it is a truth, not because it is a principal stem of being, in my judgment, (for reason is a more principal stem of being then it) and yet is life as sweet to creatures unreasonable, as to creatures reasonable. And you confess that the appetite of preservation, of it self is natural unto all; yet it cannot be denied but that life is subject to sour things as well as sweet: whereupon some have said, Non est vivere sed valere vita. And [Greek or Hebrew]. Better eye out then always aching; and better once dead then always dying. Nay the hope of a better state, without