A iust defence of certaine passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and vse of lots, against such exceptions and oppositions as have beene made thereunto to Mr. I.B. Wherein the insufficiencie of his answers giuen to the arguments brought in defence of a lusorious lot is manifested; the imbecillitie of his arguments produced against the same further discouered; and the point it selfe in controuersie more fully cleared; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and author of the former treatise.
Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654., Balmford, James, b. 1556. Modest reply to certaine answeres, which Mr. Gataker B.D. in his treatise of the nature, & use of lotts, giveth to arguments in a dialogue concerning the unlawfulnes of games consisting in chance.
These words are not mine. Neither are they* found in the place quoted; nor would I haue spoken in that manner. Yet that I there imply a superstitious conceit in the contrary Opi∣nion, it is true. Neither is it to be taxed as a begging of the Question, being not produced there as any proofe of the point in controuersie, but as my Iudgement of them, whereupon I was induced the rather to deale with them. As for the thing it selfe, let it appeare in the Reply; and it will come yet time enough.
