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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.
Others therefore allow it, as the Civill law doth, in some cases bfor somewhat presently to be expended and spent in common between them, as when men play together for the charge of a supper. Yet may men go too far also that way; as in feasting of friends (a fault in these times too usual) a man may exceed. It is said of Nabal the Churl that che made a feast like a King. And as dby feasting a rich man may soon bring himself to poverty, and a poor man to beggary: so may either do the same, which some seem to have observed, by hazarding overmuch to be spent and wasted that way.
Others therefore allow it, as the Ciuill law doth, in some cases bfor somewhat presently to be expended and spent in common betweene them, as when men play together for the charge of a supper. Yet may men go too far also that way; as in feasting of friends (a fault in these times too vsuall) a man may exceede. It is said of Nabal the Churle that che made a feast like a King. And as dby feasting a rich man may soone bring himselfe to pouerty, and a poore man to beggerie: so may either do the same, which some seeme to haue obserued, by hazarding ouermuch to be spent and wasted that way.
- bQuod in conuivio vescendi causa ponitur, in tam rē familiam ludere permittitur. C. lib. 3. tit. 43. leg. 3.Quod in conuiuio vescendi causa ponitur, in tam rē familiam ludere permittitur. C. lib. 3. tit. 43. leg. 3.
- c1. Sam. 26.36.
- dProu. 23.20, 21