A01540:541
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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Oh nhow plentiful Mr. B. can be where no proof needeth! But okeep the horse, as they say, home to the hedge. That Lots may be used also for the preventing of controversies; (and that is more than ⟨p. 233⟩the bare ending of them: for *a thing cannot be ended ere it be begun) Mr. B. hath at large showed us. Though I know not by what Logic he can gather out of my words, that it must needs ever be either for the one or the other; because I say, it was for the one of them in the Lot cast upon Christs coat. But pwhat is all this to the purpose? How doth all this prove a restraint of Lottery to the deciding only of some controversy? which it may be Mr. B. hoped that this long discourse would have put clean out of his Readers head. That, he told you, was denied; and that, not only is not proved, but no assay of proof made of it. For Mr. B. in the whole ensuing discourse giveth it clean over, and spending many words about other by-matters leaveth his Argument to shift as well as it can for it self. qIt is the manner of those, saith the Heathen man, that maintain a bad cause, that they desire to dwell rather on any thing than that that they should deal in.
Oh nhow plentifull Mr. B. can be where no proofe needeth! But okeepe the horse, as they say, home to the hedge. That Lots may be vsed also for the preuenting of controuersies; (and that is more than ⟨p. 233⟩the bare ending of them: for *