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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 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 da supplication to him that by the Lot, when it is cast, he will be pleased so to do. A Lot, therefore, as an Oath, is not to be used but ein case of necessity and extremity: and fbeing a solemn act of religion may not be applied to sporting: gWe may as well jest with the Word, and Sacraments, and Oaths, as with Lots.
The Assumption is proued à pari, by comparing together a Lot and an Oath: xA Lot in the nature thereof doth as necessarily suppose the prouidence and determining presence of God, as an Oath in the nature thereof doth suppose the testifying presence of God.