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Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theologicalOf the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall
Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theological; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolns Inn, and now pastor of Rotherhith.Of the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolnes Inne, and now pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin, 1619
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.
CHAP. V. Of the Lawfulness of such Lots: with Cautions to be observed in the use of them.
CHAP. V. Of the Lawfulnesse of such Lots: with Cautions to be obserued in the vse of them.
§ 1. Now that Lots of this kind are lawful being used with due Caution, most Divines acknowledge, howsoever the arguments that some of them bring, are not so sound many of them as were to be wished; and their Cautions the most of them are either unsound or superfluous, as upon the view and survey of some of them shall appear.
§ 1. NOw that Lots of this kinde are lawfull being vsed with due Caution, most Diuines acknowledge, howsoeuer the arguments that some of them bring, are not so sound many of them as were to be wished; and their Cautions the most of them are either vnsound or superfluous, as vpon the view and surveigh of some of them shall appeare.
In the arguments alleged for them, the general error of most Authors is (that which hath also caused much mistaking otherwise) that they confound Ordinary and Extraordinary Lots the one with the other, and so reason without reason from the one to the other: As if a man should reason from aE•uds slaying of Eglon