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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.
Yet to let the Authors and Masters of them pass for the present, & to turn the course of our speech, with a grave Writer, to some one of those that now use them. lThou that by lotting professest to tell fortunes, or to find out a theft or a Thief; either thou must do this by miracle, or by nature, or by some evil act: By miracle (I am sure) thou darest not say; for thou art not a likely person that God should work miracles by: And, by nature, (I am as sure) thou canst not say; for there is no such natural efficacy in the creature thou usest. It must needs follow then that that is done that is done by some evil Art, and so consequently by the Devil ⟨p. 317⟩the only Author and ordinary Assister of such Arts.
Yet to let the Authors and Masters of them passe for the present, & to turne the course of our speech, with a graue Writer, to some one of those that now vse them. lThou that by lotting professest to tell fortunes, or to finde out a theft or a Theife; either thou must doe this by miracle, or by nature, or by some euill act: By miracle (I am sure) thou darest not say; for thou art not a likely person that God should worke miracles by: And, by nature, (I am as sure) thou canst not say; for there is no such naturall efficacy in the creature thou vsest. It must needes follow then that that is done that is done by some euill Art, and so consequently by the Deuill ⟨p. 317⟩the onely Author and ordinary Assister of such Artes.
- lFacile contra sortilegos, magicos maledictos, &c. argumentum evidens apud omnes homines habentes bonum rationis judiciam. Tu sortilege, qui promittis ista facere, aut hoc est per miraculum, aut per na•aram, aut per malam artem: non per miraculum, non per naturam; ergò per malam artem. De mala autem arte nunquam boni quicquam proveniet. Gerson serm. coram Rege Franc. part. 3. consid. 3. Ille effectus, qui n•que à miraculo, neque à causa naturali fieri cognoscitur, ut à seductorij damonijs provenit consequitur. Idem de error. Mag. part. 3.