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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.
The sixth is *a Wizard, or a Wise-man, as they term him, a Soothsayer, or a Fortune-teller; one that by xthe flight of fowls, or yshrieking of birds, zor entrails of beasts, then which nothing was more usual among the Gentiles, professeth to foretell future events. To which purpose it is reported that 5when Xerxes had sometime made his army stay while his Wizards observed the flight of a foul, a Jew in the troop understanding it, shot the foul stark dead, and then asked how the foul could tell what should befall them, which had it foreknown what was to befall it self, would not have flown that way at that time.
The sixth is *a Wisard, or a Wise-man, as they tearme him, a Soothsaier, or a Fortune-teller; one that by xthe flight of foules, or yshreiking of birds, zor entrailes of beasts, then which nothing was more vsuall among the Gentiles, professeth to foretell future euents. To which purpose it is reported that 5when Xerxes had sometime made his armie stay while his Wisards obserued the flight of a foule, a Iew in the troope vnderstanding it, shot the foule starke dead, and then asked how the foule could tell what should befall them, which had it foreknowne what was to befall it selfe, would not haue flowne that way at that time.
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