A01540:322
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. Mr. B. here beginneth to bless himself; as if indeed some evil Spirit had appeared. This belike was the blasphemous matter that he met with in my Book. But he must not think with such scar-bugs to carry it away. He hath not ⟨p. 132⟩t babes and children only to deal with. His judicious1 Readers will not be scared with such outcries, from scanning and discussing the things questioned; howsoever some simple, or some partial ones may. Before he cometh to exagitate the blasphemous Assertion, to cast some dust in his Readers eyes, and breed some prejudice of the adverse party: uhe maketh Mr. G. no better than a Juggler, who foreseeing the weakness of some thing in the Assumption or second part of his Argument, laboureth with other by-matter to trouble the Readers head before-hand, that the same may not be discerned. And this was the cause, (as Mr. B. peremptorily telleth you, having discovered the mist that I cast before my Readers eyes, and knowing my mind herein much better than I did or do my self) why I joined the doing it self of an Act with the manner thereof; and why I tell him of a supposed direction of natural reason. He had need of a long clew, that treadeth the maze of this wild and intricate discourse. But that it may appear in a word to the Reader, how sincerely Mr. B. herein demeaneth himself: What is it in mine Assumption, that I made all this do about, for fear my Reader should discover the unsoundness of it? Forsooth that A Lot is lawful in it self. Which Proposition (though none of mine, and yet I deny it not neither) M. B. to oppose telleth us (in such language as I think no learned man beside himself would use) that Every Lot is not lawful in it self. But let that position be found in any part of mine Assumption, not as ⟨p. 133⟩Mr. B. frameth it, but as it is in my Book, and I will freely confess the whole accusation, that to this very end I did it whatsoever it was that Mr. B. here saith I did; for I understand not well what it is. If no such thing be in it, with what Conscience can Mr. B. say so peremptorily, that I did I know not what to keep my Reader from discerning that, or the default of that in it, that indeed is not there at all? And thus having cleared my self from such sinister intention, as Mr. B. here chargeth me with, and I not only had not, but could not have: let us proceed now to the point it self.