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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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T. G. What meaneth this then here? can any man tell? Or how is this inferred upon ought that went before? Or what if Mr. G. say so? What doth that avail Mr. B. unless he can prove it so to be? *A supposition, we say, giveth no being to ought. Let Mr. B. assume, and make good his Assumption; and all will soon be at an end.
T. G. What meaneth this then here? can any man tell? Or how is this inferred vpon ought that went before? Or what if Mr. G. say so? What doth that auaile Mr. B. vnlesse he can proue it so to be? *A supposition, we say, giueth no being to ought. Let Mr. B. assume, and make good his Assumption; and all will soone be at an end.
- *Hypothesis nihil ponit in esse.
I. B. Nay, I may make yet more advantage. For I may say; That maintaining the use thereof in Gaming, as it is a Lot, by practise, much more by writing, is against Charity, as well as against Piety. For so a weak brother is offended, and consequently Christ sinned against,1 that brother being occasioned, by error of judgement, to stumble. I have this reasoning from Mr. G. himself, p. 255.
I. B. Nay, I may make yet more aduantage. For I may say; That maintaining the vse thereof in Gaming, as it is a Lot, by practise, much more by writing, is against Charitie, as well as against Piety. For so a weake brother is offended, and consequently Christ sinned against,1 that brother being occasioned, by error of iudgement, to stumble. I haue this reasoning from Mr. G. himselfe, p. 255.