A01540:441
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.
There might be divers several Arguments framed1 out of these allegations; but because they build all on one ground, and stand upon one bottom, I have thought best to put them in this manner together, that the same common answer might serve them all.
There might be diuers seuerall Arguments framed1 out of these allegations; but because they build all on one ground, and stand vpon one bottome, I haue thought best to put them in this manner together, that the same common answer might serue them all.
- 1T. G. Answer.
First therefore the using of Lots either in matters1 sage and serious, or of sport and delight is hnot of it self any desire of the manifestation of Gods special power and providence by an immediate disposition, unless men offend against the caution before given in doing it to this end, to try thereby whether God will vouchsafe to work immediately and extraordinarily or no; which being not of the nature of the thing it self, is not necessarily implied in the ordinary use of it. Neither is there any such calling in of God to decide doubts in game, but i