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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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3. Many famous, learned and godly concurring with Mr. B. I name not, because I know not many; howbeit indeed all I know, I name. And for those that concur with me in the justification of a Lot used in Game; I made no special or particular relation of them, not because none such were, for there are divers, but because I was not so much to deal with them that concurred, as with those that either did indeed, or might seem to oppose. Of which number I was religious not to miss or omit any one that I could light upon, whom I found ought in to that effect.
3. Many famous, learned and godly concurring with Mr. B. I name not, because I know not many; howbeit indeed all I know, I name. And for those that concurre with me in the iustification of a Lot vsed in Game; I made no speciall or particular relation of them, not because none such were, for there are diuers, but because I was not so much to deale with them that concurred, as with those that either did indeed, or might seeme to oppose. Of which number I was religious not to misse or omit any one that I could light vpon, whom I found ought in to that effect.
4. Albeit it be not much material what humane Authorities are on either side: since that neither the sFaith of Christ, nor the Truth of God are to be held with respect of persons: Yet since that Mr. B. would seem herein at least to rely somewhat thereupon, and would make what I maintain odious, or suspicious at least, by the nakedness of it, and the want of famous, learned and godly concurring in it, such as he glorieth here to have concurring with him: let me a little, good Reader, entreat thy patience, which Mr. B. enforceth me, I might well say, to abuse, I must needs say, to detain with impertinent discourse all this while much against mine own will, while, to remove this imputation, ⟨p. 22⟩I run out a little further in relating the Opinions of others on either side, and in clearing the state of the Question in Controversy, which Mr. B. to procure the more distaste to his opponents, (as the manner is of those that maintain a weak cause,