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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.
To draw all to an head then and so to end with this argument, let any man endued with ordinary reason judge how a Lot can be said to be a sacred Oracle, and a divine sentence, that neither absolutely tieth any man for matter of fact, nor doth certainly determine ought in question of right, that never speaketh certainly, and would oft speak unadvisedly, if by humane caution it were not limited before what it should say.
To draw all to an head then and so to end with this argument, let any man endued with ordinarie reason iudge how a Lot can be said to be a sacred Oracle, and a diuine sentence, that neither absolutely tieth any man for matter of fact, nor doth certainely determine ought in question of right, that neuer speaketh certainely, and would oft speake vnaduisedly, if by humane caution it were not limited before what it should say.
§ 13. Now these were the arguments taken from the nature of Lots. The next argument is drawn from the proper use and end of them. And herein they reason sometime from the affirmative, sometime from the negative.
§ 13. Now these were the arguments taken from the nature of Lots. The next argument is drawne from the proper vse and end of them. And herein they reason sometime from the affirmatiue, sometime from the negatiue.