A01540:16
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.
It hath been ever deemed that fBeginnings 2are ominous: and such matter as men meet with at the first entrance of a work, they are ⟨p. 3⟩wont commonly to look for and expect in the process. If this work of Mr. B. should by this rule be judged of, it would receive no small prejudice; sithence it beginneth at the first entrance with a flat untruth, to wit, that I confuted him by name in open Pulpit.
It hath beene euer deemed that fBeginnings 2are ominous: and such matter as men meet with at the first entrance of a worke, they are ⟨p. 3⟩wont commonly to looke for and expect in the processe. If this worke of Mr. B. should by this rule be iudged of, it would receiue no small preiudice; sithence it beginneth at the first entrance with a flat vntruth, to wit, that I confuted him by name in open Pulpit.
- fPri•ipus omen inesse […]. [Greek or Hebrew]. Eurip. Aeol. Rarus principi•est exi•us bonus mal•. Principi• qu• sunt incho•a •alo, vix est •t bon• per•gantur exi•. Leo ad M•ur. Ep. apud Gr. caus. 1. q. 1. Ubi tamē Gla paulò seveius, Vix . nquam. Malum principium callus finis sequitur. Petr. ns rg. ir. iv. Hinc Cic. ad Attic. l. 10. ep. 20. Malè psuimus initia; sic caetera sequentur.