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

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⟩Lot, wherein there is an immediate hand of God for special purpose, and the ordinary Lot, wherein there is not; that the one could not but fall certainly, were it never so oft cast, as in the Lots used for the discovery of ⁱAchan and ^kJonah, and in the election of ^lSaul and ^mMatthias, and the like: whereas the other cast oft in the same case, as for partition of goods and chattels descending by inheritance upon, or bought in common by divers would not constantly and certainly fall out still the same. And thus much for the two first forms; which in effect are the same.

The ^glatter is an example of an extraordinary Lot, wherein there was indeed an immediate and speciall prouidence. But ^hextraordinary examples make no generall rules. Neither is it a good course of arguing to reason from the speciall, or a singular to the generall and vniuersall; much lesse from one extraordinarie act or euent to all ordinary courses of the same kinde. Herein is the difference between the one and the other, betweene the extraordinary ⟨p. 150⟩