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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.
Thus tGregory of Tours reporteth that Morovaus thirsting after his Father Chilperick's royal estate, and having received an answer from a Witch that gave him good hope of it; to make yet further trial of the truth therein, caused the Psalter, the book of Kings and the Gospels to be laid on ⟨p. 295⟩Saint Marius shrine, and uafter fasting and solemn prayer coming to open them, he lighted, little to his comfort, on these words in the first of them, *Because ye have left the Lord your God, and walked after other Gods, and done evil in his sight, therefore • hath God delivered you into the hands of your enemies; In the second upon these, as the vulgar Latin hath them; xBut for their deceitfulness hast thou laid evils upon them: Thou hast cast them down, when they were advanced: How become they desolate? they perish for their iniquities; In the third upon these; yYe know that after two days the Paschal feast shall be; and the So••e of man shall be delivered up to be crucified. Which sayings somewhat sorted with those things that then afterward befell.
Thus tGregorie of Taures reporteth that Morouaus thirsting after his Father Chilpericks royall estate, and hauing receiued an answere from a Witch that gaue him good hope of it; to make yet further triall of the truth therein, caused the Psalter, the booke of Kings and the Gospells to be laide on ⟨p. 295⟩Saint Marius shrine, and u