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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 same answer must be given here, that was oft given before. This ariseth not from the nature of the thing itself: it cometh not from the spring, but from the filthy channel that the stream passeth by: it may be taken at the fountain-head without any of this filth, and it is no more defiled to those that there take it, then if there were no such abuse or defilement at all of it.
The same answere must be giuen here, that was oft giuen before. This ariseth not from the nature of the thing itselfe: it cōmeth not frō the spring, but from the filthie chanell that the streame passeth by: it may be taken at the fountaine-head without any of this filth, and it is no more defiled to those that there take it, then if there were no such abuse or defilement at all of it.
Beside that on this ground might bowls, and shooting, and tennis, and many other like exercises (yea kany game) be likewise condemned, because at such also many misspend both their time and their estates. If at these more then at those, it is because they are more usual and more obvious: And the difference, being but in degree, may make the one worse then the other, but must of necessity cashier both, if it condemn either.
Beside that on this ground might boules, and shooting, and tennis, and many other like exercises (yea kany game) be likewise condemned, because at such also many mispend both their time and their estates. If at these more then at those, it is because they are more vsuall and more obuious: And the difference, being but in degree, may make the one worse then the other, but must of necessitie casheere both, if it condemne either.
- kProverb. 21.17▪ Persequi singulous longum est, quorū aut latrunculi, a pila, aut excquendi in sole corporis cra consumpsere vitam. Sen. de breu. vit. ca. 13. Evian ludus pilae, si immodicè vel cupiè creatur, mortal fit. Alex. de Ales sum. part. 4. q. 48. & Henr. Herp. in decal precept. 3. srm 3.