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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.
The Apostles speech therefore cutteth not off all recreation, it being in it self lawful and good, and ⟨p. 189⟩kwarranted by Gods word, as that lwhich refresheth both body and mind, and maketh either more fit and better able to go through with and hold out in more serious employments, mwhich would otherwise oppress either; and that which therefore it is nno wise nor religious part for any man utterly to neglect. It proveth loss and miss-spending of time to be sin, as it is questionless oa great and a grievous, pthough too common a sin: but it proveth ⟨p. 188⟩[…] ⟨p. 189⟩[…] ⟨p. 190⟩not that to be sin or evil in it self, wherein some men, yea or many men, miss-spend their time, albeit it be evil then to them.
The Apostles speech therefore cutteth not off all recreation, it being in it selfe lawfull and good, and ⟨p. 189⟩kwarranted by Gods word, as that lwhich refresheth both body and minde, and maketh either more fit and better able to goe through with and hold out in more serious imployments, m