A01540:398
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
T. G. 1. What I yield of my liberality, Mr. B. is one thing: What you must make good, if you will maintain your own cause, is another thing. That is the translation, say I, 1word for word. Which unless therefore he can either disprove, or prove his Assumption out of it, his Argument is undone, and his cause with it, having indeed no colour of ground beside that place much wrung and wronged to support and uphold it. 2. I take not the words so, but supposing them so to be taken, I say, that no more is therein said of Lots, than may be said of all things that are done in the world, though by means the most of them, that the whole issue and event of them is of God, because he not only hath an hand in them, but it is in his power either to afford or to deny such issue unto them. And what hath Mr. Bs. cause gained hereby more than was granted it before? Or how is his Assumption hereby confirmed, when no more is ⟨p. 179⟩yielded to be said therein of Lots, than may be said of a game at bowls?
T. G. 1. What I yeeld of my liberalitie, Mr. B. is one thing: What you must make good, if you will maintaine your owne cause, is another thing. That is the translation, say I, 1word for word. Which vnlesse therefore he can either disproue, or proue his Assumption out of it, his Argument is vndone, and his cause with it, hauing indeed no colour of ground beside that place much wrung and wronged to support and vphold it. 2. I take not the words so, but supposing them so to be taken, I say, that no more is therein said of Lots, than may be said of all things that are done in the world, though by meanes the most of them, that the whole issue and euent of them is of God, because he not only hath an hand in them, but it is in his power either to afford or to deny such issue vnto them. And what hath Mr. Bs. cause gained hereby more than was granted it before? Or how is his Assumption hereby confirmed, when no more is ⟨p. 179⟩yeelded to be said therein of Lots, than may be said of a game at boules?
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