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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.
§ 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.
From the affirmative thus: yWhatsoever God hath sanctified to a proper end, is not to be perverted to a worse endz. But God hath sanctified Lots to a proper end; viz. to end controversies*. Therefore man is not to pervert them to a worse; ⟨p. 167⟩viz. to play, and by playing to get away another mens money, which without controversy is his own.
From the affirmatiue thus: yWhatsoeuer God hath sanctified to a proper end, is not to be peruerted to a worse endz. But God hath sanctified Lots to a proper end; viz. to end controuersies*. Therefore man is not to peruert them to a worse; ⟨p. 167⟩viz. to play, and by playing to get away another mens money, which without controuersie is his owne.