A01540:147
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
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.
First, that which may be ordinarily used in other1 civil affairs, be they more weighty or of less weight, that may also be used for matter of ⟨p. 60⟩[…] ⟨p. 61⟩[…] ⟨p. 62⟩recreation and delight. But a Lot may be ordinarily used in other civill affairs, as, by the express uauthority of Gods spirit speaking by Solomon, for the ending of contentions, and matters in suit or strife, be they weightier or of less weight: For the words in the text are indefinite, neither is there ought to restrain the ordinary use of them in that kind either there or else-where. The word used there, though in its original propriety it signify *Law-suits; yet in the ordinary xuse of it, it extendeth it self to contentions of all kinds. And the practise of Gods people recorded in Scripture showeth that even mean matters have been decided and determined usually by Lot: as in matter of Tithe, though it were not much material, which Lamb the Levite had, so that he had one of ten, two of twenty, &c. yet was it decided yby Lot. It was a matter of no great weight what gate of the Temple such or such Levites should wait at; I say not, that it was a mean matter to be a Porter in Gods house, (though z