A01540:90
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A second Motive is, because Arguments against1 lusorious Lots have made many stagger in the necessary Use of serious Civill Lots. It may be so, some failing in their Judgement. But it may be also, that many moe will be made to stagger by reading Mr. Gs. exceptions against Arguments for, & Cautions in those serious Civill Lots, cap. 5. and by his Maxim, The less weighty the matter is, wherein a Lot is used, the lawfuller the Lot is, p. 111.
A second Motiue is, because Arguments against1 lusorious Lots haue made many stagger in the necessarie Vse of serious Ciuill Lots. It may be so, some failing in their Iudgement. But it may be also, that many moe will be made to stagger by reading Mr. Gs. exceptions against Arguments for, & Cautions in those serious Ciuill Lots, cap. 5. and by his Maxime, The lesse weighty the matter is, wherein a Lot is vsed, the lawfuller the Lot is, p. 111.
- 1I. B.
1. My second motive Mr. B. here omitteth,1 and so also do I therefore. This that he saith is part of the third; part, I say; because I say more than so, and yet no more than I can make good neither, that those Arguments, the chief ⟨p. 36⟩of them, that are brought against the one kind, will, if they be sound, necessarily overthrow also the other.