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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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The heaviest Charge cometh last. A breach1 of Charity at least. To fail in Judgement or Discretion, may argue some weakness of brain; to fail in Charity argueth xmuch more, an evil mind. But let Mr. Bs. words here and else-where be well weighed, and peradventure they will give over-much ground of suspicion of some want of that in him, that he chargeth me here to have failed in. Mr. G. saith he, failed in Charity, because he confuteth me by Name, as I was certified, having had no conference with me by speech or writing, though I be his neighbour Minister. Not to insist much on by-matters; that Mr. B. is my neighbour Minister, is more than ever I heard before: that he is ymy neighbour and a Minister, it may well be; yet it is more than I knew, when I dealt in this point; nor do I yet know, where his place of abode is, save that himself of late hath told me, that I ⟨p. 9⟩go oft by his door; and so he may be termed my neighbour, yet in no very strict sense, as any other Inhabitant in the Borough of Southwark may. But to let that pass, if Mr. B. his meaning be that I confuted him by name in the Pulpit, as he charged me at first, and which I utterly deny; how will it stand with Charity or Conscience upon a bare report, which he saith else-where he dareth not rely on, and that a•ter better information acknowledged to have been given him, yet still so oft, and so peremptorily to charge me therewith, and with breach of Charity therein? If his meaning be that I have since that confuted, and do (the zletter of my Book still abiding) by name confute him, not in the Pulpit, but in print, because he saith in the present tense, he confuteth me by name, I deny it not, nor do I hold it any breach of Charity so to do. His Book is abroad under his Name, as well as mine is under mine: Nor is it any more a breach of Charity for me by Name so to confute him in the one, than it was in him by Name to control and oppose Peter Martyr in the other. But neither could this be any ground for Mr. B. then to judge me guilty of uncharitableness, when as yet it was not; nor could any certify him then of it, unless they knew more of my mind then, than I my self did; nor was it done before I had dealt with Mr. B. by writing, as himself in the next passage freely acknowledgeth. Mr. Bs.