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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 gAugustine would have it determined by ⟨p. 42⟩Lot among the Pastors of Gods people, where divers are in one City, in time of public persecution: who of them should stay by it, and who should retire and reserve themselves for better times; that so neither those that stayed might be taxed of presumption, nor those that retired themselves be condemned of cowardice. As also hit is reported by some to be the practise to this day in the Church of Geneva, that by Lots cast among their Ministers, some of them are assigned to visit the infected at the Pesthouse in times of general infection by epidemical diseases.
Thus gAugustine would haue it determined by ⟨p. 42⟩Lot among the Pastors of Gods people, where diuers are in one City, in time of publike persecution: who of them should stay by it, and who should retire and reserue themselues for better times; that so neither those that stayed might bee taxed of presumption, nor those that retired themselues be condemned of cowardize. As also hit is reported by some to be the practise to this day in the Church of Geneua, that by Lots cast among their Ministers, some of them are assigned to vi•it the infected at the Pesthouse in times of generall infection by epidemicall diseases.
- gPersecutionis tē pore; qui mamant, ne fuga fiat omniti; qui fugiant, no morte eorum deseratur Ecclesia; sorte legendi sunt. Aug. Epist. 180.Persecutionis tē pore; qui mamant, ne fuga fiat omniti; qui fugiant, no morte eorum deseratur Ecclesia; sorte legendi sunt. Aug. Epist. 180.
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