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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.
§ 2. So that the point we propound concerning these Extraordinary and Divinatory. Lots is this, that bIt is not lawful, (without express warrant or special revelation from God) to use Lots, either for the discovery of any hidden truth, or for the foretelling and presaging of any future event: for the discovery of any hidden truth, as to tell where treasure lieth hid, to discover a theft, to recover things lost, and the like: or to foretell things to come, as what fortune in general a man shall have, which by fortune books is sought into, or what success he is like to have in some particular affairs, as in matter of marriage, in going to war or to sea, journeying by land, or the like: under which head are comprehended all cConsultory Lots, with the rest therefore alike condemned.
§ 2. So that the point we propound concerning these Extraordinarie and Diuinatorie. Lots is this, that bIt is not lawfull, (without expresse warrant or speciall reuelation from God) to vse Lots, either for the discouery of any hidden truth, or for the foretelling and presaging of any future euent: for the discouery of any hidden truth, as to tell where treasure lieth hid, to discouer a theft, to recouer things lost, and the like: or to foretell things to come, as what fortune in generall a man shall haue, which by fortunebookes is sought into, or what successe he is like to haue in some particular affaires, as in matter of mariage, in going to warre or to sea, iourneying by land, or the like: vnder which head are comprehended all cConsultorie Lots, with the rest therefore alike condemned.
- bSorts divinatoriae toto genere sunt i••citae. Malder. de superstit. c. 7. dub. 9. Casetan. sum. Peucer. de divinat. K••kcu•tz in Jon. & alij.