A01540:339
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. No: we have had more then enough of it already too oft.
T. G. No: we haue had more then enough of it already too oft.
I. B. But touching things not determined, so much incule• ted. ⟨p. 149⟩I ask whether things must be determined particularly, or by name, or else, if not so forbidden, they are lawful. If so, why doth Mr. G. (speaking of divers particulars) as of a Key and a Book, of a pair of sheers, and a sieve, and such like, so earnestly ask, Are they any where found revealed in the Word of God? Where he is of another mind then here, arguing thus: Not found there commanded or permitted; therefore unlawful. If it be said, not so found there, to find out a thief. I then say, Neither are Lots so found there for recreation.
I. B. But touching things not determined, so much incule• ted. ⟨p. 149⟩I aske whether things must be determined particularly, or by name, or else, if not so forbidden, they are lawfull. If so, why doth Mr. G. (speaking of diuers particulars) as of a Key and a Booke, of a paire of sheeres, and a sieue, and such like, so earnestly aske, Are they any where found reuealed in the Word of God? Where he is of another mind then here, arguing thus: Not found there commanded or permitted; therefore vnlawfull. If it be said, not so found there, to find out a thiefe. I then say, Neither are Lots so found there for recreation.
T. G. What I mean by determined, may easily appear by the instances given of