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2. Ye should not fail to use your Reason, and honest skill, more, in Sharings and Divisions, for preventing of a Lot. Folks sometimes, betake themselves to these for ⟨p. 109⟩case, when yet their Reason, rightly made use of, might bring to a satisfying Decision. God hath not given Reason to Man in vain, or for nought: when Reason then may do it; essay it, and forbear a Lot.

3. Let it be in such a matter, and so used, as ye may seek God in it, and in-call His Name by Prayer: To lot in a thing, that folks will not, or dare not pray in, agreeth not with Scripture examples, nor with that tenderness which a Believer should have at such a time: It should then be in a thing respecting a promise.

3. Let it be in such a matter, and so used, as ye may seek God in it, and in-call His Name by Prayer: To lote in a thing, that folks will not, or dare not pray in, agreeth not with Scripture examples, nor with that tenderness which a Believer should have at such a time: It should then be in a thing respecting a promise.

On the contrary, we may see how men fail here, 1. In weighty things, by not keeping the right manner before the Lot, in the time of it, and after it is past, when it endeth not strife. 2. In Trivial things, by making this too Customary; so that folk use the Lot almost in every thing, making that which is extraordinary to become ordinary, contrary to the nature thereof. It is an ultimate Judge and Decider, even as an Oath is for ending all Controversies: it is like unto Moses (as one saith,) the great matters should be reserved to it; yea, it is greater then Moses, its God himself, thus in His providence passing a Decision; The lesser things would be other ways decided.