A01540:3
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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TO HIS LOVING and much respected Friend, Mr. THOMAS GATAKER Bachelor in Divinity.
TO HIS LOVING and much respected Friend, Mr. THOMAS GATAKER Bacheler in Diuinitie.
SIR,
I have perused your Answer to Mr. B. his Pamphlet against you; wherein you have so cleared the point in controversy between you; that I much pity your opponents hard lot to fall upon such a subject and tenet concerning Lots, as afforded him so small store of Objections against your Opinion, ⟨image 3⟩that he was even constrained, according to the manner of some old Roman▪ Orators noted by Quintilian, Caussarum vacua convitijs implere. Neither the matter in hand, about which learned Protestants may differ in judgement without breach of Charity, or prejudice to Christian unity, nor your handling it dog matically and scholastically without any gall at all, could occasion such heats. I cannot imagine therefore, what should so much move him, but the badness of his cause, and the weakness of his own Arguments, which he seeth by your handling them to be like wire-strings ill-nealed, which would not endure the least straining. For albeit I confess that we are all apt to take too much hold of any point of liberty reached unto us out of Gods word; and in particular I cannot but deplore sortem sortis, the Lot of Lot it self, which hath been and is too much by the licentious abused, and thereby in a sort defamed, especially in Carding and Dicing: yet Gods truth must not be suppressed because of mans errors; neither is it a safe way to go about to cure an error in practise, by another error in judgement;