A01540:446
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.
Yea rather if a Lot be such, as here they say, it is not to be used in my business at all upon any occasion whatsoever. For, It is mnot lawful to tempt God nin any case whatsoever: But to use Lots in any case whatsoever is to tempt God: It is not lawful therefore to use Lots in any case whatsoever.
Yea rather if a Lot be such, as here they say, it is not to be vsed in my businesse at all vpon any occasion whatsoeuer. For, It is mnot lawfull to tempt God nin any case whatsoeuer: But to vse Lots in any case whatsoeuer is to tempt God: It is not lawfull therefore to vse Lots in any case whatsoeuer.
- mDeut. 6. 16. Matth 47.
- nPraecepta negativa lig•nt semper & ad semper. Gerson. reg. mo•al.
The Assumption is thus proved evidently oby the former grounds and grants: pTo require a work of Gods immediate power and providence in this or that kind, is to stint, and so to tempt God: But to use a Lot in any case, is to require a work of Gods immediate power and providence: (for every Lot, say they, is such:) Therefore to use a Lot in any case whatsoever is unlawful.