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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.
§ 10 But none, it seemeth was more usual both ⟨p. 292⟩there and else-where then their pbook or verse-Lotteries, when qtaking a book of some famous Poet as sHomer or rVirgil, tor of some of the supposed Sibyls, 6they either writ out divers verses into several scrolls and afterward drew of them; or uopening the book suddenly took that which they first lighted on for an answer to their present doubt or demand. So Adrian is reported 2by certain verses of Virgil to have had his advancement by Trajan to the Empire foretold him: so xClodius Albinus his stay of further tumult upon the death of Pertinax, and his victory against the Galls by the like: so Alexander Severus yyet a child his universal Sovereignty by certain Greek verses; confirmed after to him, using the like consultation zat the change of his studies, by the like verses of Vergil; as also 3by the same again, when by Heliogabalus laid for, he sought again to the same courses to be informed what should then betide him: and so lastly Claudius the latter is said to have been informed,