A01540:330
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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And again, pleading to the Corinthians for the maintenance of the Ministry, nhe useth reasons drawn from the light of natural reason in the first place; which yet it seemeth Mr. B. would control him for, if any other should now do. Again, Nature it self, saith oTertullian, is in stead of the Law to those that are ignorant of it. pWhen the Gentiles, saith the Apostle, which have not the Law, yet do by Nature the things contained in the Law, they having not the Law are a Law to themselves. Which show the effect of the Law written in their hearts, their Consciences also bearing witness, and their cogitations qinterchangeably excusing and accusing. And surely, if the Law of Nature written in mans ⟨p. 142⟩[…] ⟨p. 143⟩[…] ⟨p. 144⟩heart be the very same so far forth as it is yet undefaced, with the Law of God revealed in the word: Then whatsoever by just consequence of Reason may be deduced from the grounds yet in Nature remaining of the one, may be certainly known to be agreeable also unto the other. And thus we have at length got out of this intricate Labyrinth which Mr. B. hath drawn or rather withdrawn us into. If the Point were so perilous, as he here pretendeth, and it vexed his soul in such manner as he here professeth, it had been a charitable work, I deem, both to me and himself, to have let me seen it before this, especially so instantly requiring the same, and so to have freed his soul sooner from this grievous vexation. But for the Point it self; rI adore, with Tertullian, the plenitude of Gods word, as much as Mr. B. or any other man doth. I acknowledge it with Chrysostom, and Augustine, to be s