A01540:514
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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Now in both these kinds may the Lord well be said sometime to sanctify, but not to appropriate; when by his ordinance he either enjoineth or granteth the use of a Creature so in some kind, as yet ⟨p. 221⟩he restraineth not, nor inhibiteth the use of it in any other kind. Thus are the fruits of the earth so osanctified for mans food, as they are pnot yet restrained from physic: yea thus was the water that qmiraculously gushed out of the rock so rsanctified to a spiritual employment, as yet it was not denied unto civill and profane uses, even sto the watering of brute beasts: sometime to sanctify and to appropriate, when God sequestereth and severeth the Creature so sanctified unto some one special or proper use from all other uses else whatsoever.
Now in both these kindes may the Lord well be said sometime to sanctifie, but not to appropriate; when by his ordinance he either inioyneth or granteth the vse of a Creature so in some kinde, as yet ⟨p. 221⟩he restraineth not, nor inhibiteth the vse of it in any other kinde. Thus are the fruits of the earth so osanctified for mans food, as they are pnot yet restrained from physicke: yea thus was the water that qmiraculously gushed out of the rocke so rsanctified to a spirituall imployment, as yet it was not denied vnto ciuill and prophane vses, euen