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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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Well; Mr. G. sent me his Answer to my Dialogue.1 I acknowledge it with hearty thanks. But why have I not replied in so many years? I answer: Sat citò, si sat benè. To speak freely; I think I should never have replied, in hope that the Question would have died, had not Mr. G. confuted my Dialogue in Print. But now, the rather, being provoked by many learned Ministers and other. who tell me, that seeing of all those whom Mr. G. confuteth, viz. Peter Martyr, Zwinglius, Cartwright, Danaeus, Perkins, Fenner, &c. I only live, I ought to reply, lest my silence should give way to impious iniquity; I am ready to perform my promise in replying. Which indeed I could not have done so conveniently before, because the answer, which Mr. G. sent me, had not the positive grounds of his Opinion, which the printed book hath.
Well; Mr. G. sent me his Answer to my Dialogue.1 I acknowledge it with hearty thanks. But why haue I not replied in so many yeeres? I answer: Sat citò, si sat benè. To speake freely; I thinke I should neuer haue replied, in hope that the Question would haue died, had not Mr. G. confuted my Dialogue in Print. But now, the rather, being prouoked by many learned Ministers and other. who tell me, that seeing of all those whom Mr. G. confuteth, viz. Peter Martyr, Zwinglius, Cartwright, Danaeus, Perkins, Fenner, &c. I onely liue, I ought to reply, lest my silence should giue way to impious iniquitie; I am ready to performe my promise in replying. Which indeed I could not haue done so conueniently before, because the answer, which Mr. G. sent me, had not the positiue grounds of his Opinion, which the printed booke hath.
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