A01540:346
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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Special Institutions in the word are as stars of the chief magnitude, so eminent and conspicuous, that they cannot easily lie hid, nor need over-much search, and a man may boldly say therefore of such and such things, that there is no special institution of them in the word. Thirdly, for moral matters, we may draw to a nearer scantling than the body of the whole Bible; hthe Sum of all is comprised in the Decalogue, and whatsoever a man is sure to be against none of those iten Words, or to come yet to a narrower compass, against neither kPiety, nor Charity, the Sum of the ltwo Tables, he may surely know not to be against many part of Gods word, and consequently to have nothing in Gods ⟨p. 155⟩word against it, though he have not such a vast capacity of understanding or memory, as Mr. B. here requireth. But consider the whilst what an nutter uncertainty and irresolution in this kind Mr. B. driveth us hereunto: For by his grounds a man may not safely say, that There is nothing against wearing of an Hat in Gods word; unless he know all consequences that may be deduced from this Sentence of Scripture, oIn the beginning God made Heaven and Earth. For if he must needs know so much of all, that may safely say so of ought, then of that in particular, that being one of those all.
Speciall Institutions in the word are as starres of the chiefe magnitude, so eminent and conspicuous, that they cannot easily lie hid, nor need ouer-much search, and a man may boldly say therefore of such and such things, that there is no speciall institution of them in the word. Thirdly, for morall matters, wee may draw to a neerer scantling than the bodie of the whole Bible;