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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.
§ 7. For the Assumption of the former argument, it would be considered, both what is forbidden, and how it is forbidden.
For the former; neither is all Lottery used in game generally condemned: for there might be use of it in those games that the civill Laws expressly allow, (to omit that nsome good Lawyers suppose a Lot game to have been one of them; for what they were indeed is onot certain) for joining and leading, and taking of turns, and the like; as there is use oft thereof in that kind in games allowed by our Laws; as when in shooting by arrows shuffled and severed again, men are sorted into sides, or it is decided who shall lead.
For the former; neither is all Lotery vsed in game generally condemned: for there might bee vse of it in those games that the ciuill Lawes expresly allow, (to omit that nsome good Lawiers suppose a Lot game to haue beene one of them; for what they were indeed is onot certaine) for ioyning and leading, and taking of turnes, and the like; as there is vse oft thereof in that kinde in games allowed by our Lawes; as when in shooting by arrowes shuffled and seuered againe, men are sorted into sides, or it is decided who shall leade.
- nTertius ludius à Justiniano probatus [Greek or Hebrew] dicitur, quando unus scil. per sortem deligitur ex pluribus qui imperet reliquis, si credamus Pollescil. 9. Gregor. Tolos. syntagin. lib. 39 c. 4.Tertius ludius à Iustiniano probatꝰ 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 dicitur, quando vnus scil. per sortem deligitur ex pluribus qui imperet reliquis, si credamus Pollescil. 9. Gregor. Tolos. syntagin. lib. 39 c. 4.