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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. I am much beholden to Mr. B. for his1 good wishes. The Considerations that he wisheth I had taken into thought, are indeed good and needful; but unless he can assume, and make good his Assumption, that the penning and publishing of my Discourse is such and so inconvenient as is therein specified, he hath little reason to persuade himself, that it must needs doubtless have prevailed with me to the staying and suppressing of my Book. Which yet had it appeared in probability and likelihood to have been, I should not have failed to be as chary of the publishing of it, as Mr. B. himself would have had me to be.
1. I am much beholden to Mr. B. for his1 good wishes. The Considerations that he wisheth I had taken into thought, are indeed good and needfull; but vnlesse he can assume, and make good his Assumption, that the penning and publishing of my Discourse is such and so inconuentent as is therin specified, he hath little reason to perswade himselfe, that it must needs doubtlesle haue preuailed with me to the staying and suppressing of my Booke. Which yet had it appeared in probabilitie and likelihood to haue beene, I should not haue failed to be as chary of the publishing of it, as Mr. B. himselfe would haue had me to be.
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