A01540:98
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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The Sum of his Causes (as he expresseth himself1 in his Preface to the Reader) is, To set at liberty the entangled Consciences of Godly-disposed persons. Indeed; If any Consciences, simply for playing with Lots, should seek his satisfaction in ⟨p. 39⟩private, then if Mr. G. quieted him by his grounds (supposed true) it were not amiss. But is every Doctrine, though true, to be insisted upon both by Preaching and Printing, and that affirming matter in Question, and of no necessary use?
The Summe of his Causes (as he expresseth himselfe1 in his Preface to the Reader) is, To set at libertie the intangled Consciences of Godly-disposed persons. Indeed; If any Consciences, simply for playing with Lots, should seeke his satisfaction in ⟨p. 39⟩priuate, then if Mr. G. quieted him by his grounds (supposed true) it were not amisse. But is euery Doctrine, though true, to be insisted vpon both by Preaching and Printing, and that affirming matter in Question, and of no necessarie vse?
- 1I. B.
Here is the Sum indeed, it seemeth, of1