A01540:586
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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I. B. But suppose Mr. Gs. Axiom holdeth in them: what is that to Lots, wherein is the Name of God by his immediate providence, and the use whereof is limited, to end serious controversies? In regard whereof doubt I not, but an Argument concerning the use of them may hold from the negative in matter of fact, as well as in matter of faith, or of the point of Gods worship for the substance of it. For I presume that as Abraham would not, if he had had occasion, as he did not, kill a man that told him the truth: so that all that feared God, and knew the nature and use of a Lot, would not, as they did not, use a Lot in game.
I. B. But suppose Mr. Gs. Axiome holdeth in them: what is that to Lots, wherein is the Name of God by his immediate prouidence, and the vse whereof is limited, to end serious controuersies? In regard whereof doubt I not, but an Argument concerning the vse of them may hold from the negatiue in matter of fact, as well as in matter of faith, or of the point of Gods worship for the substance of it. For I presume that as Abraham would not, if he had had occasion, as he did not, kill a man that told him the truth: so that all that feared God, and knew the nature and vse of a Lot, would not, as they did not, vse a Lot in game.
T. G. If Mr. Gs. Axiom hold in any, your Proposition is infringed. Any one particular denied, overthroweth an affirmative general. Let his Axiom alone therefore, and prove your Proposition. But that you will never be able to do: and do wisely therefore to let it alone. ⟨p. 257⟩Yea but if you will suppose and take that for granted, which was the ground of Mr. B. his first Argument, and without which never an one of them can subsist, then Mr. B. presumeth that Abraham would not have played at Cards or Dice, nor no other godly man: And what then? Why? Then we should have had no example either of Jew or Gentile recorded in Scripture that had done so. And consequently, (for that is the Proposition in Question) Nothing is warrantable, whereof there is no example in the word. Here is a deal of x