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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
Again, They are divided: 1. In Divinatory. 2. Consultatory, ⟨p. 169⟩whereby men find out some-what that is Secret, as Saul found out Jonathan; or are led to some Duty. 3. Divisory, By such the Land of Canaan was divided, Joshua, 13.6. 4. Lusory, or, for Play: This division is large and Comprehensive, and hath several steps, according to the weight of the things, as they are greater or smaller, or indifferent.
Concerning them we say; That all Consultatory, and Divinatory Lots, except by an Extraordinary Warrant, are unlawful and a Tempting of God, who has now given us other ways and means, to direct us in what is meet for us to do.
Concerning them we say; That all Consultatory, and Divinatory Lots, except by an Extraordinary Warrant, are unlawful and a Tempting of God, who has now given us other wayes and means, to direct us in what is meet for us to do.
2. Concerning those Devilish Lots, there is no Question of the Abominableness of them; such as fore-telling of Fortunes, Horo-Scopes, or Deaths; the finding of things lost by naming of all suspected Persons, turning the Riddle, &c.