A01540:310
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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I. B. Well, let us examine his confirmations. First Mr. Calvins testimony in English is this. [When the Scripture delivereth general rules of a lawful use, the use is to be limited according to them.] From hence Mr. G. concludeth that a man hath a sufficient warrant for any circumstance he shall make choice of, that is not against those rules. Mr. Calvin speaketh of an Use, and of an Use do we dispute. Mr. G. concludeth a circumstance. Mr. Calvin saith, according. Mr. G. concludeth, not against. Is this sound arguing?1
I. B. Well, let vs examine his confirmations. First Mr. Caluins testimonie in English is this. [When the Scripture deliuereth generall rules of a lawfull vse, the vse is to be limited according to them.] From hence Mr. G. concludeth that a man hath a sufficient warrant for any circumstance he shall make choise of, that is not against those rules. Mr. Caluin speaketh of an Vse, and of an Vse doe we dispute. Mr. G. concludeth a circumstance. Mr. Caluin saith, according. Mr. G. concludeth, not against. Is this sound arguing?1
- 1T. G.
It is true that I quote a sentence of Mr. Calvins in the margin, as concurring with me in one clause against which it is quoted. And I might ask why Mr. B. did not take notice of him a little before as well as he here doth. But that I frame any Argument at all out of him, much less ground that I deliver upon his or any other mans authority, is untrue. As for the differences between him and me herein by Mr. B. here imagined, they are very silly and frivolous. For first of all, doth not the use of a thing consist in the circumstances of it, as in the manner of using, and the like? Or what doth Calvin mean by the limiting of the use by those general rules, but the assigning of it such circumstances as ⟨p. 124⟩those rules give allowance of.