A01540:435
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. But an extraordinary Lot is by the special direction of God. True; So is an ordinary Lot by Gods special advice to end a controversy.
I. B. But an extraordinary Lot is by the speciall direction of God. True; So is an ordinary Lot by Gods speciall aduice to end a controuersie.
T. G. It followeth not from the one to the other. And the reason is apparent. Because in the extraordinary Lot the event required, be it, to find out a malefactor, as in tAchans case, or to discover who the man is that God hath fore-appointed to such an office, as in uSauls case, cannot certainly be effected without such an immediate providence; whereas in the ordinary Lot, nothing is to be determined, but may well and certainly be decided without it. But if it be so, as Mr. B. saith, that therefore in an ordinary Lot there is an immediate providence; and therefore a setting of God on working immediately so oft as such a Lot is used, because an ordinary Lot is by Gods special advice to end a Controversy: How is that true both in his Dialogue, and in the very next words implied ⟨p. 196⟩by him, that in a lusorious Lot God is thus set on working? For if God have given no allowance for lusorious Lots, how is he in them set so on working, who doth not so work, but where Lots are used by his own allowance? Or how sin they in setting God on working there, where he doth not work? Mr. B. therefore here hangeth fast in the briers.
T. G. It followeth not from the one to the other. And the reason is apparent. Because in the extraordinary Lot the euent required, be it, to finde out a malefactor, as in tAchans case, or to discouer who the man is that God hath fore-appointed to such an office, as in