A01540:344
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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we must lay our hands upon our mouths, and let them alone with them, for ought that I see. As if the Scripture were so vast and diffused a piece of work, that a man could not, without he had such an infinite memory and an universal understanding, tell what were of some particular subjects delivered in each part of it. Yea what a miserable perplexity doth ⟨p. 152⟩Mr. B. by this means plunge Christian many Consciences into, the more scrupulous sort especially, when for particular civill actions of ordinary use, their scrupulous hearts causelessly moving doubt of them, having searched to and fro in Gods Book, though they can find nothing at all that may control them in the use of them, yet they shall still be perplexed, because Mr. B. hath here informed them, that there may yet be somewhat in Gods word against them, neither can they, do they what they can, have any assurance of the contrary, unless they had such memories and understandings as Mr. B. here speaketh of? I cannot here pass by a passage of Mr. Calvins concerning such scruples; eThese and the like, saith he, se•me frivolous trifles: but there is more in them than men are commonly aware of. For when mens Consciences are once in this manner ensue red, they enter into a long and an intricate Labyr•th, from whence it is no easy mutter to get out again. fIf a man shall begin to doubt, whether he may use flax, or linne• made thereof, in his sheets, shirts, handkerchiefs, towels, table-napkins, &c. he will not long oftener have the like scruple of hemp; and after that of tow too. And he will begin to think whether he may not dine and sup without any Table-cloth or napkins▪ at all▪ and so consequently whether he may use them or no, when he may well enough be without. Yea gat length, saith he, you shall have a man come to that pass, that he will think it a sin ([…] […] say) to stride over a straw. Such height of superstition men grow unto▪ when way is given to such frinlous scruples, which yet Mr. B. here ministereth