A01540:609
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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T. G. Is it not implied, when God saith, they should not serve the true God as the Heathen served their false Gods▪ but so only as he had himself prescribed; is it not implied, I say, that God had for the substance of it determined his own worship? Or is not this a senseless consequence, Mr. G. holdeth that God hath determined the substance, but not all particular Circumstances of his service and worship: Therefore Mr. G. giveth encouragement to Papists to add to Gods worship such things as they call Circumstances, but are indeed parts of the substance of it. It is as if one should say, fThe Apostle chargeth all Christians to provide for themselves and theirs: Therefore he giveth worldly men encouragement to be greedy of the world, which they call providing for them and theirs.
T. G. Is it not implied, when God saith, they should not serue the true God as the Heathen serued their false Gods▪ but so onely as he had himselfe prescribed; is it not implied, I say, that God had for the substance of it determined his owne worship? Or is not this a senslesse consequence, Mr. G. holdeth that God hath determined the substance, but not all particular Circumstances of his seruice and worship: Therefore Mr. G. giueth incouragement to Papists to adde to Gods worship such things as they call Circumstances, but are indeed parts of the substance of it. It is as if one should say, fThe Apostle chargeth all Christians to prouide for themselues and theirs: Therefore hee giueth worldly men incouragement to be greedy of the world, which they call prouiding for them and theirs.
I. B. But I should gather from that and the other places, (I think, directly, and not awkwardly,) this Conclusion: Because all things in and unto the service of God ought to be precisely according to Gods will revealed in his word; therefore whatsoever is not commanded ought not to be. And the rather (God being jealous) because of the meaning of the fringes upon