A01540:313
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. And where, I pray you, doth Mr. G. argue on this manner? But Mr. B. fframeth me Arguments at his pleasure: And then pleaseth himself in finding faults in them; as if their defects concerned me, and not rather himself, who either must father them, or I know none else that will. For his exposition of those places, to let pass what exception might well be taken thereunto, because it is not to the purpose. It is untrue, that I produce them for confirmation of ought that I had before delivered. I imply only that the distinction I delivered (which may be ⟨p. 126⟩extended also to things or actions, as well as their circumstances; but my dispute now was of these) might in those two Rules or Sentences be not unfitly conceived. And the truth is, I had a notion in my head then of somewhat to that purpose, that in a learned gNoble-mans writings I had sometime read; which yet because I was not very certain of, nor had I the Book by me then, I forbore then to cite. The speeches are alleged as by him, so by me, not in way of Confirmation, but by way of Illustration and Allusion; as if I should have said, That rule which in another case our Saviour giveth, holdeth well here. A course not unusual, in the writings of the learnedst and most religious. I allege them but as hthe Apostle doth those iwords of the Psalmist; Their sound is gone through all the earth, and their words unto the worlds ends. Concerning which, I dare not say as Jerome doth over-boldly on another occasion, that kthe Texts alleged by the Apostle sound one way in their own places, and another way in his allegations of them: because they are spoken of the ldumb creatures publishing Gods glory in the one place, of the Apostles preaching Christs Gospel in the other. They agree well and make good harmony, since that the Apostle only allegeth them by way of allusion, for illustration of the matter that there he dealeth in, not by way of illation or inference, for the confirmation of ought there delivered, or the concluding of ought from thence. The like do I here. And Mr. B. may as well frame an Argument thus out of the Apostles words, The Psalmist saith, that the heavens preach Gods glory to all the earth: therefore the Apostles