A01540:97
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. Mr. B. snappeth still at many things; but1 dealeth not entirely with any. One short shred he snatcheth out of my fourth Motive, or as he stileth it, the third; and another somewhat longer out of the second, which he here calleth the fourth; letting the rest go; for what reasons himself best knoweth. But if the inconveniences there mentioned, many more than Mr. B. here relateth, may (as it is no question but that they may, if the truth be found and cleared to be on this side) be thereby remedied, it is an effect of some consequence, and such as may well recompense the travel therein taken.
1. Mr. B. snappeth still at many things; but1 dealeth not entirely with any. One short shred he snatcheth out of my fourth Motiue, or as he stileth it, the third; and another somewhat longer out of the second, which he here calleth the fourth; letting the rest goe; for what reasons himselfe best knoweth. But if the inconueniences there mentioned, many more than Mr. B. here relateth, may (as it is no question but that they may, if the truth be found and cleared to be on this side) be thereby remedied, it is an effect of some consequence, and such as may well recompence the trauell therein taken.
- 1T. G.
2. But it will rather prove clean contrary, if Mr. B. may be believed. For it will encourage Gamesters to over-crow such as are scrupulous; (and how can it do so, if those scrupulous ones shall have received satisfaction, and so shall have deposed their scruple?) having gotten so learned a patron of their gaming? A pretty nip; of the same stamp with some other before: as if others more than one or two, whose learning I doubt not but Mr. B. deemeth deservedly ⟨p. 38⟩mine to come far short of, had not before me in Print defended the use of a Lot in disport.