A01540:64
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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1. How any man may have sound comfort1 in any error, be it what it will, is more than I am aware of: since that every error is unsound and contrary to truth: nor can I see therefore how that should minister any sound or true comfort, that hath no soundness nor truth it self. Some *excuse there may be for it, but small comfort in it, when a man together with some great ones goeth out of the way. Mr. B. therefore must first be assured of the truth of what he holdeth, before he can from his company have any true comfort of it. The rather since that by his own confession, qhe ought not to teach a• untruth, though it were to Gods glory: and what comfort can he have of doing that, that ought not by him to be done?
1. How any man may haue sound comfort1 in any error, be it what it will, is more than I am aware of: since that euery error is vnsound and contrary to truth: nor can I see therefore how that should minister any sound or true comfort, that hath no soundnesse nor truth it selfe. Some *excuse there may be for it, but small comfort in it, when a man together with some great ones goeth out of the way. Mr. B. therefore must first be assured of the truth of what he holdeth, before he can from his company haue any true comfort of it. The rather since that by his owne confession, qhe ought not to teach a• vntruth, though it were to Gods glory: and what comfort can he haue of doing that, that ought not by him to be done?
- 1T. G.
- *Hin• Plin. ep. 5. l. 3. Ab illis, quibus notum est, quos quantosque authors sequar, facilè impetrari posse confido, ut errare me cum illis ferant.