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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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T. G. I might answer in a word: Let Mr. B. make trial. But I refer my self to pthe instances given by me elsewhere, of divers in several places casting Lots upon the same persons for the self same places, and to what hereof hath been here before said. Only I add that no such special assurance is given us by God for the one, as in such cases was for the other. Nor doth any such thing follow thence, because God hath advised us rather thereby to end controversies than to give way to courses more inconvenient, that therefore God will by a special ⟨p. 174⟩hand of his guide the Lot thus or thus, to wit, to favour him that hath the better right in this, as to sever the innocent from the nocent in that. How far forth qthe place produced proveth any such thing, cometh hereafter to be discussed.
T. G. I might answer in a word: Let Mr. B. make triall. But I referre my selfe to pthe instances giuen by me elsewhere, of diuers in seuerall places casting Lots vpon the same persons for the selfe same places, and to what hereof hath been here before said. Only I adde that no such speciall assurance is giuen vs by God for the one, as in such cases was for the other. Nor doth any such thing follow thence, because God hath aduised vs rather thereby to end controuersies than to giue way to courses more inconuenient, that therefore God will by a speciall ⟨p. 174⟩hand of his guide the Lot thus or thus, to wit, to fauour him that hath the better right in this, as to seuer the innocent from the nocent in that. How far forth qthe place produced proueth any such thing, commeth hereafter to be discussed.
- pAnswer to Mr. Fennors reason 4. chap▪ 7. §. 10. p. 158, 159.