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.

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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.

Author

Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.

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London :: Printed by Iohn Haviland for Robert Bird, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Cheapside,

1623.

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Subject terms

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.

Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654. -- Of the nature and use of lots.

Gambling -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01540.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed August 31, 2024. content_copy

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• TO HIS LOVING and much respected Friend, Mr. THOMAS GATAKER Bacheler in Diuinitie.
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• THE FIRST PART. Mr. BALMFORDS PREFACE, WITH ANSWER TO IT.
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  • ANSWER TO Mr. Bs. POST-SCRIPT.
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• THE SECOND PART. Mr. BALMFORDS Answer to Mr GATAKERS Argu∣ments for the lawfulnesse of a Lusorious Lot. Together with Mr. Gs. Reply in defence of his owne Arguments, which are word for word also here related.
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• THE THIRD PART. Mr. BALMFORDS Arguments against Games consi∣sting in or depending vpon Chance, taken out of his Dialogue. Together with Mr. GATAKERS Answer to them in his Booke of the Nature and Vse of LOTS. As also Mr. Bs. Reply in defence of them: and Mr. Gs. Reioinder thereunto.
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• AN ADVERTISEMENT to Mr. BALMFORD.
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