A01540:108
A just defence of certain passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and…A iust defence of certaine passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and…
A just defence of certain passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and use of lots, against such exceptions and oppositions as have been made thereunto to Mr. I.B. Wherein the insufficiency of his answers given to the arguments brought in defence of a lusorious lot is manifested; the imbecility of his arguments produced against the same further discovered; and the point it self in controversy more fully cleared; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and author of the former treatise.A iust defence of certaine passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and vse of lots, against such exceptions and oppositions as have beene made thereunto to Mr. I.B. Wherein the insufficiencie of his answers giuen to the arguments brought in defence of a lusorious lot is manifested; the imbecillitie of his arguments produced against the same further discouered; and the point it selfe in controuersie more fully cleared; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and author of the former treatise.
London: printed by John Haviland for Robert Bird, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Robert Bird, 1623
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1. What Mr. B. meaneth by so troubled with Lots, I know not: But that many are by means of the Doctrine by Mr. B. and others maintained, superstitiously conceited of them, I am sure; and that divers so conceited have thereupon sometime strained to sin against conscience, as themselves have confessed, to their disquiet afterward, and sometime have been constrained to undergo no small inconvenience for the avoiding of the like again.
1. What Mr. B. meaneth by so troubled with Lots, I know not: But that many are by meanes of the Doctrine by Mr. B. and others maintained, superstitiously conceited of them, I am sure; and that diuers so conceited haue thereupon sometime strained to sinne against conscience, as themselues haue confessed, to their disquiet afterward, and sometime haue beene constrained to vndergoe no small inconuenience for the auoiding of the like againe.
2. But thousands now, saith Mr. B. (as if the ⟨p. 42⟩use of such Lots had never been defended, or were never heard of till now) will now more boldly use Lusorious Lots without regard of the Cautions. Mr. B. speaketh very peremptorily; and yet I take him for no Prophet; and his prediction therefore yet may fail. But if any be emboldened by my Book upon better information to use a Lusorie Lot in due manner, where it is otherwise not unlawful, I have no cause to be sorry for it. If any be emboldened to abuse it, not regarding the Cautions, it will be their own fault, not mine, who deliver nothing that tendeth to the emboldening of them thereunto. Not to add, that the Cautions concern not a Lot used in sport as it is a Lot, but Game rather and Recreation in general: which neither Mr. B. nor any other sound Divine disalloweth,