A01545:669
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.
§ 6. Fourthly such lotting maketh men guilty of presumption against God. For whereas some, it may be, will say: Yea but we expect not the event when we use Lots on this wise from the creature, but from God himself the Creator. I answer those that so say: It is impiety and presumption for any to do so. For what is this but a tempting and a stinting of God? what is it but a prescribing of God what he shall do? It is not therefore true nor sound that some say, that ymen may by Lots require an immediate sentence from God in some cases, so it be done with some cautions; and zan extraordinary, yea a miraculous hand of God may therein be expected, where humane helps fail: as if it were *then only unlawful for men to use Lots in this manner, when there is no necessity urging and enforcing them thereunto.
§ 6. Fourthly such lotting maketh men guilty of presumption against God. For whereas some, it may be, will say: Yea but wee expect not the euent when we vse Lots on this wise from the creature, but from God himselfe the Creator. I answer those that so say: It is impietie and presumption for any to doe so. For what is this but a tempting and a stinting of God? what is it but a prescribing of God what hee shall doe? It is not therefore true nor sound that some say, that ymen may by Lots require an immediate sentence from God in some cases, so it be done with some cautions; and zan extraordinary, yea a miraculous hand of God may therein be expected, where humane helpes faile: as if it were *then only vnlawfull for men to vse Lots in this manner, when there is no necessitie vrging and enforcing them thereunto.
- yDe buiusmodi futuris licet per modū consultationis divinū requirere judicium. Thom. de sort. c. 5. Si quis per sortium proiectionem divinum requerat judicium, non est secuntum se peccatum. Ibid. Non est peccatm sortibus à Deo requirere cum reverentia, quando inueniri nequit qum quaeris. Paul. Palate. in