A01540:279
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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For the better conceiving of this point, it is to be considered, that for the doing of every act, and the doing of it in this or that manner, if natural reason will not of it self afford sufficient direction, there must be warrant had out of Gods word: and a man must know that he hath warrant thence, because fWhatsoever is not of faith, is sin. I say, where natural reason doth not of it self afford sufficient direction; for the word is given us in moral matters to supply the defects of it caused by our first Parents their fall; gneither doth it abridge us of the help and *use of it for direction in such actions, but add a further and fuller help thereunto.
For the better conceiuing of this point, it is to be considered, that for the doing of euery act, and the doing of it in this or that manner, if naturall reason will not of it selfe afford sufficient direction, there must be warrant had out of Gods word: and a man must know that he hath warrant thence, because fWhatsoeuer is not of faith, is sinne. I say, where naturall reason doth not of it selfe afford sufficient direction; for the word is giuen vs in morall matters to supply the defects of it caused by our first Parents their fall; gneither doth it abridge vs of the helpe and *vse of it for direction in such actions, but adde a further and fuller helpe thereunto.