A25291:1979
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
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.
20. That reason whereby it is contended, that the use of a Lot is lawful in light and playing matters, because it is lawfully used in those civill controversies which are of lesser moment, hath no consequence: for although those civill controversies in which a Lot hath place, of themselves are not great, yet are made very great by the consequences joined with them or adhering to them: which cannot be affirmed of those spirring contentions.
20. That reason whereby it is contended, that the use of a Lot is lawfull in light and playing matters, because it is lawfully used in those civill controversies which are of lesser moment, hath no consequence: for although those civill controversies in which a Lot hath place, of themselves are not great, yet are made very great by the consequences joyned with them or adhering to them: which cannot be affirmed of those spirring contentions.
21. The tithes of the living Creatures. Lev. 27. 32. The orders of priestly and Levitical administrations, 1. Chron. 26. 13, 14, &c. Luc. 1. 9. Might bring with them great inconveniences, unless they had been determined by some Divine sentence: and in that respect they were appointed by Lot by Gods institution.
21. The tithes of the living Creatures. Lev. 27. 32. The orders of priestly and Leviticall administrations, 1. Chron. 26. 13, 14, &c. Luc. 1. 9. Might bring with them great inconveniences, unlesse they had been determined by some Divine sentence: and in that respect they were appointed by Lot by Gods institution.