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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.
The proof annexed to it scarce carrieth good sense: the Printer, it may be, is in fault. But if the meaning of the Author be, as I conceive it, (for I must in part go by guess) that the disposition of every Lot is wholly attributed to, and the event wholly expected from the special and immediate Providence of God; I deny it, neither do the places produced prove it. The fformer of them, concerning ordinary Lots or Lots in general, was examined and answered sufficiently before.
The proofe annexed to it scarce carrieth good sense: the Printer, it may be, is in fault. But if the meaning of the Authour be, as I conceiue it, (for I must in part go by guesse) that the disposition of euery Lot is wholy attributed to, and the euent wholy expected from the speciall and immediate Prouidence of God; I deny it, neither doe the places produced proue it. The fformer of them, concerning ordinary Lots or Lots in generall, was examined and answered sufficiently before.
The glatter is an example of an extraordinary Lot, wherein there was indeed an immediate and special providence. But hextraordinary examples make no general rules. Neither is it a good course of arguing to reason from the special, or a singular to the general and universal; much less from one extraordinary act or event to all ordinary courses of the same kind. Herein is the difference between the one and the other, between the extraordinary ⟨p. 150⟩