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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.
Examples we have in Scripture of Lots used on this manner in matter of Marriage, and of Magistracy, or of Office as well civill as sacred.
Examples we haue in Scripture of Lots vsed on this manner in matter of Mariage, and of Magistracie, or of Office as well ciuill as sacred.
In matter of Marriage it is somewhat of the nature of a Lot that Eliezer Abraham's servant used, when che desired of God, what time he was sent to fetch a wife for his young-master and stood by the well-side, that if of the Maidens that came thither to draw, she of whom he should request to drink of her pitcher, should make him offer to water his Camels also, she might thereby be known to be the party that God had appointed to be his Masters sons wife: which dfalling out afterward with one of them accordingly, ehe useth it as an argument ⟨p. 271⟩to persuade her parents that God had so appointed it; who being also thereby persuaded do likewise frest thereupon and condescend thereunto.
In matter of Mariage it is somewhat of the nature of a Lot that Eliezer Abrahams seruant vsed, when che desired of God, what time he was sent to fetch a wife for his young-master and stood by the well-side, that if of the Maidens that came thither to draw, she of whom he should request to drinke of her pitcher, should make him offer to water his Camels also, shee might thereby be knowne to be the party that God had appointed to be his Masters sonnes wife: which