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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 Rule then is here, that sPlay be used as play; for pleasure, not for profit; for game not for gain: and as no man therefore ought to wast his precious time or his estate thereat, and to buy his recreation at so dear a rate as were the expense and loss of either; so neither ought any man to seek or desire by play to increase or advance his estate, or to make a prey and a spoil of him that he playeth with.
The Rule then is here, that sPlay be vsed as play; for pleasure, not for profit; for game not for gaine: and as no man therefore ought to wast his pretious time or his estate thereat, and to buy his recreation at so deare a rate as were the expence and losse of either; so neither ought any man to seeke or desire by play to encrease or aduance his estate, or to make a prey and a spoile of him that he plaieth with.
- s[Greek or Hebrew]. Plut. symp. probl. l. 7 c. 7. Neque enim ludus est, ubi census volnitur in tabula, & ludus fit de periculo, & de ludo periculum, ut Ambr. de Tob. c. 11.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Plut. symp. probl. l. 7 c. 7. Neque enim ludus est, vbi census volnitur in tabula, & ludus fit de periculo, & de ludo periculum, vt Ambr. de Tob. c. 11.