A01540:174
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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or again, so that in the same case it shall ever fall out the same still certainly, as if in dividing of commodities bought in common, when for the parting of them the Lot hath been cast once, and the one party shall remain unsatisfied, ⟨p. 71⟩suspecting or pretending that some fraud was used in it, that upon the second or the third casting too, it shall still certainly go the same way; If this I say, be his meaning, (as the one of these two it must needs be, or else it is nothing to the purpose) experience it self will soon confute him; and as to him therefore that denieth the fire to be hot, I will wish him only to thrust his finger into the flame, so to him that shall deny a Lot to be of uncertain event, I will wish him only to make trial of it.
or againe, so that in the same case it shall euer fall out the same still certainly, as if in diuiding of commodities bought in common, when for the parting of them the Lot hath beene cast once, and the one party shall remaine vnsatisfied, ⟨p. 71⟩suspecting or pretending that some fraud was vsed in it, that vpon the second or the third casting too, it shall still certainly goe the same way; If this I say, be his meaning, (as the one of these two it must needs be, or else it is nothing to the purpose) experience it selfe will soone confute him; and as to him therefore that denieth the fire to be hot, I will wish him onely to thrust his finger into the flame, so to him that shall denie a Lot to be of vncertaine euent, I will wish him only to make triall of it.
I. B. So that I marvel much, that he findeth a Lot to be not fit to be used in any weighty affair. For why? Dividing the Land of promise, Num. 26. 55. by Lot: discovering Achan, Josh. 14. Choosing a King,