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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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For though no indecency can be discovered in some kind of attire, yet if they hhear Mr. B. they shall hang, upon this new conceit of his, still in suspense, whether it may be avowed to be decent or no. I might add, that with much difficulty and no little ado they must have it proved to them by some sentence of Scripture, (which I would fain hear Mr. B. perform) for no reason will serve else, that it is so.
For though no indecency can be discouered in some kinde of attire, yet if they hheare Mr. B. they shall hang, vpon this new conceit of his, still in suspence, whether it may be auowed to be decent or no. I might adde, that with much difficultie and no little adoe they must haue it proued to them by some sentence of Scripture, (which I would faine heare Mr. B. performe) for no reason will serue else, that it is so.
- hEt Magis audiendū quàm auscultandum censeo: Uti de Ariolis Pacuv. Chryse. apud Cic. de divin. l. 1. de Pharmacopolis Cato in Coelium apud Gell. noct. Attic. l. 1. c. 15.Et Magis audiendū quàm auscultandum censeo: Vti de Ariolis Pacuv. Chryse. apud Cic. de divin. l. 1. de Pharmacopolis Cato in Coelium apud Gell. noct. Attic. l. 1. c. 15.
I. B. Let us consider these rules yet somewhat more nearly to the point. Touching the first: The words of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 14. 40. be these. [Let all things be done honestly, and by order.] In which is no intimation that all things are in themselves lawful to be done, which are done honestly and by order: but a charge, that all things, be they in themselves never so lawful, be done honestly and by order. Those drink offerings to Bacchus, commonly called Healths, per antiphrasin, are solemnized sometimes with standing, sometimes with kneeling, always with putting off hats, and some speech more or less: are they acceptable to God, because they are thus orderly carried? If not, then