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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.
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.
- yBalmsor dialog. argum. 3.
- zMatth. 21.12, 13.
- *Num. 26.55. Trou. 18.18.