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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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Surely either Mr. G. is a wonderful strange 1man, or else Mr. B. is very prone to wonder at ⟨p. 32⟩things that are not very wonderful. For here is nothing with him but wondering, and wonder upon wonder. He telleth his Reader again and again that he doth wonder: he demandeth of him whether he may not wonder: he would not have me, nay he thinketh, I cannot wonder, that he doth thus wonder. Some Heathen wise men have held it ca point of the highest wisdom for a man to wonder at nothing. I am not of their minds. Yet as another saith, that dit is as well reprovable in a man for him eto trust every one, as fnot to trust any: so I hold it an unwise part in any man, as well gto wonder at every thing, as to wonder at nothing; as well to wonder where just cause of such wonderment is not, as not to wonder where it is. Now all that hath by Mr. B. been said being well considered, I leave it to others to judge what just cause of so much wonderment he hath produced hitherto out of my writings.
Surely either Mr. G. is a wonderfull strange 1man, or else Mr. B. is very prone to wonder at ⟨p. 32⟩things that are not very wonderfull. For here is nothing with him but wondering, and wonder vpon wonder. He telleth his Reader againe and againe that he doth wonder: he demandeth of him whether he may not wonder: he would not haue me, nay he thinketh, I cannot wonder, that he doth thus wonder. Some Heathen wisemen haue held it c