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

§ 1. Hitherto have we considered of the former sort of Lots, which we term Ordinary, be they serious or lusorious, because the use of them requireth but an ordinary power only, for the effecting of that whereunto they are employed; which we have showed to be lawful, if they be lawfully used.

§ 1. HItherto haue we considered of the former sort of Lots, which we tearme Ordinary, be they serious or lusorious, because the vse of them requireth but an ordinary power onely, for the effecting of that whereunto they are imployed; which we haue shewed to be lawfull, if they be lawfully vsed.

We are now to consider of the latter sort of them, which we term Extraordinary, and are by most Divines commonly called ^aDivinatory Lots.

We are now to consider of the latter sort of them, which we tearme Extraordinary, and are by most Diuines commonly called ^aDiuinatory Lots.

1. aSors divinatoria Thom. & alij, generalius quàm nō nulli, qui divinam à divinatoria distinguunt, ut Peucer. & Krakevits.Sors diuinatoria Thom. & alij, generalius quàm nō nulli, qui diuinam à diuinatoria distinguunt, vt Peucer. & Krakeuits.

Extraordinary Lots therefore are such as require an extraordinary power and providence, for the disposing and directing of them or the event of them, in regard of those things whereunto they are applied. Because it is not in the power of those that use them, or in the nature of the Lot it self simply considered, to effect that thereby necessarily, whereunto it is employed. And herein consisteth the main difference between these Lots and the former, (which being not considered hath bred much confusion, and occasioned such diversity of opinion among Authors in this argument) that in the former Lots there is nothing necessarily required, but what is in the natural power of the creatures