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But yet they reputed not the Lot to be so sacred and peremptory a sentence, but that they might reject those that it had lighted upon, if they either ^*already knew them, or ^fupon further trial found them to be unfit: Yea and but that otherwise they might and did usually go from it, sometime ^gin case of necessity, when by accident the party was disabled to do that which by Lot he ought to have done; sometime ^hin case of religion, the party being thereby restrained from going whither the Lot had assigned him; sometime ⁱat the suit of the parties themselves; sometime ^kat the earnest entreaty of some others; sometime upon one consideration, and sometime upon another, ^lwhen after the Lots cast, upon better advice, they misdoubted that it might prove any way prejudicial to the public, if the course were not altered.

But yet they reputed not the Lot to be so sacred and peremptorie a sentence, but that they might reiect those that it had lighted vpon, if they either ^*already knew them, or ^fvpon further triall found them to be vnfit: Yea and but that otherwise they might and did vsually goe from it, sometime ^gin case of necessitie, when by accident the partie was disabled to doe that which by Lot he ought to haue done; sometime ^hin case of religion, the partie being thereby restrained from going whither the Lot had assigned him; sometime