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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.
Yea take the words as they are usually read, The Lot is cast into the lap, but xthe whole disposition, or ythe whole disposing thereof, is of the Lord; It may as truly be said with good warrant from divers zother places of Scripture beside *those by the Adverse party produced; that the whole issue or event and disposing of all things great and weighty, or less and lighter is of the Lord: Which yet excludeth not the means, that God worketh by or with, in the most of them, nor implieth an immediate providence universally in them: but is therefore so said, and may truly be said, to show, that it is wholly in Gods hands to dispose of the event and issue of all things, and to cross or give way to them, as he shall see good. So that a man may as well, and upon as good ground out of the places concerning all other mens speeches and actions alleged by themselves, (together with those other, which are some of them yet more general and of larger extent) exclude all things else whatsoever from game, as they may Lots, in regard of ought that concerning them can be picked out of this place.
Yea take the words as they are vsually read, The Lot is cast into the lap, but xthe whole disposition, or ythe whole disposing thereof, is of the Lord; It may as truely be said with good warrant from diuers zother places of Scripture beside *those by the Aduerse party produced; that the whole issue or euent and disposing of all things great and weightie, or lesse and lighter is of the Lord: Which yet excludeth not the meanes, that God worketh by or with, in the most of them, nor implieth an immediate prouidence vniuersally in them: but is therefore so said, and may truely be said, to shew, that it is wholy in Gods hands to dispose of the euent and issue of all things, and to crosse or giue way to them, as he shall see good. So that a man may as well, and vpon as good ground out of the places concerning all other mens speeches and actions alleadged by themselues, (together with those other, which are some of them yet more generall and of larger extent) exclude all things else whatsoeuer from game, as they may Lots, in regard of ought that concerning them can be picked out of this place.