A01540:350
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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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 ⟨p. 158⟩be Lots and the users of them in gaming never so orderly disposed, yet are they not therefore justified.
I. B. Let vs consider these rules yet somewhat more neerely 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 themselues lawfull to be done, which are done honestly and by order: but a charge, that all things, be they in themselues neuer so lawfull, be done honestly and by order. Those drinke offerings to Bacchus, commonly called Healths, per antiphrasin, are solemnized sometimes with standing, sometimes with kneeling, alwaies with putting off hats, and some speech more or lesse: are they acceptable to God, because they are thus orderly carried? If not, then ⟨p. 158⟩be Lots and the vsers of them in gaming neuer so orderly disposed, yet are they not therefore iustified.
T. G. Mr. Bs. task is to instance if he mean to do ought, against what general Rule of Gods word a lusorious Lot is; for that is the issue that we now are at. But in stead thereof Mr. B. telleth us that that no man denies, that if it be in it self unlawful, it is not the more justifiable, because it is not against this first rule of order. And what is this to the purpose? I