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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 first of these they thus reason: That which causeth most horrible cursing, banning, and blaspheming, is not to be endured: aDice-play so doth; Therefore not to be endured.
- aDan. de lud. alea c. 9. rat. 7.
I answer: Lot games, mixed especially (but those this Author impugneth not) do no more cause these things then Bowls, or Chess, or other like, which many take occasion by of the like outrages.
I answer: Lot games, mixt especially (but those this Author impugneth not) doe no more cause these things then Boules, or Chesse, or other like, which many take occasion by of the like outrages.
Secondly, it is not so much the game it self ordinarily in either▪ that maketh men thus overshoot themselves, as bthe wasting of their wealth, and loss of money at or by either: which being severed from the game it self, it will neither cause it with the well-disposed otherwise, nor would ordinarily occasion it with others.
Secondly, it is not so much the game it selfe ordinarily in either▪ that maketh men thus ouershoot themselues, as bthe wasting of their wealth, and losse of money at or by either: which being seuered from the game it selfe, it will neither cause it with the well-disposed otherwise, nor would ordinarily occasion it with others.