A01540:145
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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5. This considered, all that followeth is but ga mere flash, that vanisheth so soon as it is fired, of it self. Nor will Mr. B. ever be able to prove, or to persuade any man, I believe, not sworn to stand to his sentence, beside himself, that those hdeeds not good in the Prophet were any other than ievil works, such as the kPsalmist saith, wicked men addict themselves unto: for who is bound to repent of ought that is not evil? Or that in lJohn the Baptists speech, the opposition is between fruit good, and fruit not evil; and not rather (as all Divines that ever I read, understand it) between mgood fruit, and evil fruit, or nno fruit; it being evil ⟨p. 61⟩also, as oChrysostom well observeth, not to do well.
5. This considered, all that followeth is but ga meere flash, that vanisheth so soone as it is fired, of it selfe. Nor will Mr. B. euer be able to proue, or to perswade any man, I beleeue, not sworne to stand to his sentence, beside himselfe, that those hdeeds not good in the Prophet were any other than ieuill works, such as the k