Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theologicalOf the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall

For first they forbid indeed some use of them, but withal they forbid as well bowling and coiting and tennis, and logetting, and throwing the stone: some exercises of art and skill, some of industry and activity, or of dexterity and agility; yea bowling more strictly and more generally then either carding or dicing; which yet no man that I know doth thereupon condemn or conclude to be unlawful.

For first they forbid indeed some vse of them, but withall they forbid as well bouling and coiting and tennis, and logetting, and throwing the stone: some exercises of arte and skill, some of industrie and actiuitie, or of dexteritie and agilitie; yea bouling more strictly and more generally then either carding or dicing; which yet no man that I know doth thereupon condemne or conclude to be vnlawfull.

Again though they forbid them to be used by some persons in some places at some times; yet they allow them to other persons, and those of the best note; as also to the same persons in other places at other times. ^sWhereby it appeareth evidently that ⟨p. 206⟩they restrain the use of the games only, but condemn them not as simply evil in themselves; yea rather that they approve them, in that they appropriate the common and ordinary use of them to great personages; unless we will say that ^tthe laws licence great ones to sin more then others, whose greatness rather should restrain them from any thing that is simply evil, in regard of the hurt that their evil examples may do.

Againe though they forbid them to be vsed by some persons in some places at some times; yet they allow them to other persons, and those of the best note; as also to the same persons in other places at other times. ^s