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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.
It is indeed *unlawful and a tempting of God to use a Lot so as they would have it used only, to wit, requiring & expecting an extraordinary work of God in it, in any case or upon any occasion whatsoever, without Gods express appointment of it, though all means should fail otherwise. For to have recourse to extraordinary means when ordinary fail, is to tempt God by refusing to depend and wait upon God, as our Saviour implieth, when rat the Devils motion he refused to sspeak to his Father to have stones turned into bread, least by so doing he should tempt God, though it were in case of extremity: that which was *the sin of the Israelites sometime in the Wilderness. No such Lot therefore at all as they allow of is allowable. And to speak as the truth is, by the course and force of this their discourse, the only lawful use of a Lot is disallowed and condemned, and an unlawful and unwarrantable use of it is allowed in the room of it.
It is indeed *vnlawfull and a tempting of God to vse a Lot so as they would haue it vsed onely, to wit, requiring & expecting an extraordinary worke of God in it, in any case or vpon any occasion whatsoeuer, without Gods expresse appointment of it, though all meanes should faile otherwise. For to haue recourse to extraordinary meanes when ordinary faile, is to tempt God by refusing to depend and wait vpon God, as our Sauiour implieth, when rat the Deuils motion he refused to sspeake to his Father to haue stones turned into bread, least by so doing he should tempt God, though it were in case of extremitie: that which was *the sinne of the Israelites sometime in the Wildernesse. No such Lot therefore at all as they allow of is allowable. And to speake as the truth is, by the course and force of this their discourse, the only lawfull vse of a Lot is disallowed and condemned, and an vnlawfull and vnwarrantable vse of it is allowed in the roome of it.