Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theologicalOf the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall

Again who seeth it not that the lighting of Lots in this or that manner ordinarily cometh immediately from the act of the Creature? For example: In the blending of scrolls or tickets together, the motion of the vessel wherein they are blended (no regard had to the end for which it is done) causeth some to lie this way and some to lie that way, (every new shaking thereof causing a new sorting) and so some to lie higher and nearer at hand, if a man will draw of the next, some lower and further of, not likely to be drawn so soon, unless he dive deeper. Neither can any man say certainly that there is ordinarily any special hand of God, in the shuffling and sorting of them, crossing the course of nature, or the natural motion of the creature, and so causing those to lie higher and so nearer at hand, that would otherwise have lien lower, and those to lie lower and so further from hand that would otherwise have lien higher. So in the shuffling of Cards, the hand of him that shuffleth them is it that disposeth them, and that diversly as he listeth either to stay or to continue that act of his. In the casting of dice the violence of the Caster causeth the Creature ⟨p. 147⟩cast to move, till either that force failing, or some opposite body hindering it, it cease to move further, and so determine the chance.

Againe who seeth it not that the lighting of Lots in this or that manner ordinarily commeth immediately from the act of the Creature? For example: In the blending of scrols or tickets together, the motion of the vessell wherein they are blended (no regard had to the end for which it is done) causeth some to ly this way and some to ly that way, (euery new shaking thereof causing a new sorting) and so some to ly higher and neerer at hand, if a man will draw of the next, some lower and further of, not likely to be drawne so soone, vnlesse he diue deeper. Neither can any man say certainely that there is ordinarily any speciall hand of God, in the shuffling and sorting of them, crossing the course of nature, or the naturall motion of the creature, and so causing those to ly higher and so neerer at hand, that would otherwise haue lien lower, and those to ly lower and so further from hand that would otherwise haue lien higher. So in the shuffling of Cards, the hand of him that shuffleth them is it that disposeth them, and that diuersly as he listeth either to stay or to continue that act of his. In the casting of dice the violence of the Caster causeth the Creature ⟨p. 147⟩