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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.
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.
- bJustinian. Cod. lib 3. tit 43. •ig. •. Et Dan. ipse ubi sup. & Calu. in Epist. ad N.N script.Iustinian. Cod. lib 3. tit 43. •ig. •. Et Dan. ipse vbi sup. & Calu. in Epist. ad N.N script.
These evils therefore (as the rest that follow) arising not from the nature of the game, but either from the immoderate and inordinate use or rather abuse of it, or from the evil and impious disposition of the gamester otherwise, make it unlawful only to those that so use it, or are so affected at it, but not simply in it self, nor to those that shall use it with due Caution in that kind.
These euils therefore (as the rest that follow) arising not from the nature of the game, but either from the immoderate and inordinate vse or rather abuse of it, or from the euill and impious disposition of the gamster otherwise, make it vnlawfull onely to those that so vse it, or are so affected at it, but not simply in it selfe, nor to those that shall vse it with due Caution in that kinde.