A01540:448
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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It is indeed *unlawful and a tempting of God to use a Lot so as they would have it used only, to wit, requiring and expecting an extraordinary work of God in it, in any case or upon any occasion whatsoever, without Gods express appointment of it, though all means should fail otherwise. For to have recourse to extraordinary means when ordinary fail, is to tempt God by refusing to depend and wait upon God, as our Saviour implieth, when rat the Devils motion he refused to ⟨p. 200⟩sspeak to his Father to have stones turned into bread, lest by so doing he should tempt God, though it were in case of extremity: that which was *the sin of the Israelites sometime in the Wilderness. No such Lot therefore at all as they allow of is allowable. And to speak as the truth is, by the course and force of this their discourse, the only lawful use of a Lot is disallowed and condemned, and an unlawful and unwarrantable use of it is allowed in the room of it.