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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 Proposition is confirmed à simile, rby the King and Council, by whose government though we all live, yet were it a dishonour to them to be called upon by children to determine their sports.
The Proposition is confirmed à simili, rby the King and Councell, by whose gouernment though wee all liue, yet were it a dishonour to them to bee called vpon by children to determine their sports.
- rEastie h•stor. of Gosp. reas. 5.
The Assumption is proved à pari, by comparing together a Lot and an Oath: xA Lot in the nature thereof doth as necessarily suppose the providence and determining presence of God, as an Oath in the nature thereof doth suppose the testifying presence of God. yYea so, that as in an Oath, so in a Lot, zPrayer is expressed or to be understood. In which regard also as an Oath, so a aLot is an bact of religion, in which we refer unto God the determining of such weighty things as can no other ways be determined: and therefore cin the use of it is ever infolded, and sometime also expressed, both a confession that God is a sovereign Judge to determine such things, and