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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49906	Reflections upon what the works commonly call good-luck and ill-luck with regard to lotteries and of the good use which may be made of them / written originally in French by Monsieur Le Clerk, done into English.; Reflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire. English	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.	1699 (1699)	Wing L825; ESTC R17929	104,386	230

small Expence If the Publick Authority do not here as it does abroad enjoyn a great Rebate of their Gains to be applied to Charitable Uses yet the Gospel is a standing Law and directs us all to make the Freedom of our Distributions bear some decent Proportion to the Freedom of our Receipts And every Man in this Point may and ought to be a Law to himself the more he is left at liberty by the Civil Constitution the more generous and commendable is the good Man's choice and what is done of his own accord will be the more pleasing Sacrifice This Argument is handled in some of the latter Chapters of this Book with great Address and however selfish and worldly Men may be prejudiced against those Reasons which differ so much from common Practice yet I conceive upon serious consideration it will not be easie for a good Christian to evade the force of them I might add somewhat concerning that last Chapter drawn from the ingenious Mr. Pascall which did Men rightly attend to they could not suffer themselves to be so negligent and thoughtless in their greatest Concern But I will detain my Reader no longer than while I beg of him to manage himself with the same Prudence in the Affairs of another and better World which he would esteem scandalous not to use in those of the present and less valuable one and that as he goes along he would not confine his Thoughts to the single Matter before him but apply what he finds here to all those Cases which have an affinity to it and to the curing or correcting such Errors which by Parity of Reason those Arguments are capable of doing him Service in A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS CHAP. I. The Occasion and Design of this little Tract The Original of the Word Lot Page I. CHAP. II. The different Significations of which the Words Good Luck and Ill Luck are capable Page 8 CHAP. III. That Destiny is not the Cause of Good Luck or Ill Luck Page 22 CHAP. IV. That the Terms Good or Ill Fortune frequently mean nothing no more than Chance What Sense this last Word is capable of Page 35 CHAP. V. The Objections drawn from Lotteries and all Games that depend upon Chance answered and shewed insufficient to denominate Men Fortunate or to prove that any Persons have Good Luck constantly going along with them Page 55 CHAP. VI. Why Good and Ill Destiny and Fortune and some other such Terms though they signifie nothing real and positive should yet continue so long in common use In what Sense the Words Good and Ill Luck may be lawfully admitted Page 63 CHAP. VII That Mens Good or Bad Genius or Angels is not the Cause of their Good or Ill Luck in Gaming and Lotteries Page 76 CHAP. VIII That God does not by any particular and extraordinary Determination of his Divine Will ordain Good Luck to some and Ill Luck to Others in Cases of Play and Lotteries Page 81 CHAP. IX That Those who believe God presides over Casual Events in so particular and extraordinary a manner run into an old Errour and Superstition and think of Providence as the Heathens did Page 95 CHAP. X. That those Magistrates are not to blame who have set up Lotteries for the Benefit of the Poor A Commendation of the States of Holland in general and particularly with regard to the Lotteries opened there by Publick Order Page 109 CHAP. XI The Lawfulness of putting into Lotteries provided it be not done upon a Principle of Covetousness Some Directions how to judge whether a Man proceed upon this Principle or not Page 123 CHAP. XII A Digression concerning Liberality in general wherein the Nature of this Virtue is described and the Practice of it earnestly recommended with several Rules how to exercise it regularly Page 147 CHAP. XIII The Conclusion of this Discourse Mens Management of themselves in the Business of Religion compared with the Conduct of Those who put into Lotteries From the ingenious Mr. Pascall Page 194 ERRATA Pag. 65. in Marg. for Iliad 2. r. 16. REFLECTIONS UPON What the World Commonly call Good Luck and Ill Luck CHAP. I. The Occasion and Design of this little Tract The Original of the Word Lot LOtteries were never so general a Subject of Discourse as they have been of late since that eminent one in England in the Year 1694. Their Neighbours observing a Million Sterling speedily raised in hopes of gaining some of the Great Benefits there proposed have betaken themselves to the same Methods of perswading People to part with ready Mony which no Consideration of any good Use to be made of it would otherwise have been able to draw from them Several Cities in Holland and the Provinces adjacent and even some little Towns have even rivalled one another in this Project and many others it is said are like to be set on Foot in places at a greater distance The Few Persons who have been Fortunate in the Lotteries already drawn are so eager and full of Hope to grow Rich at a small Expence in the many more proposed afresh that every one hastens to bring in his Mony to those next to be drawn with an Intention to venture all or a considerable part of his Gains in others to be drawn afterwards This is observable to be constantly the Case where Men are perswaded of the Integrity of the Directors as in Holland particularly where great Care and Exactness is used in matters of this kind People are there as greedy of advancing Mony as if they lent it at a large Interest or put it out at the Two-hundredth Penny All Holland being now warm in these Projections a Man comes into no Company where these do not make a part of the Conversation every one is expressing his Concern for his Loss or his Joy for his Gain in Lotteries or at least his Hopes of obtaining some Benefit in those at present on Foot The Lists that come out daily are greedily bought up to see whether Mens Numbers are come up A huge Roll of Cyphers are carefully perused to observe whether there be any hopes yet left or whether they must think of making themselves Amends in some future Lottery If the Numbers lookt for are not yet past they cherish Hopes of a good Benefit yet to come And though the Odds give more ground for Fear than Hope yet every Man's Hopes are infinitely above his Fears The first Question upon every Meeting is How Tickets go and every Moment we hear of the Good Luck of those who have Benefits and the Ill Luck of those that have only Blanks Some there are that have succeeded in every Adventure and these are called the Fortunate they have the Opinion of great Good Luck attending them and are often envied upon this Account Others again who have got nothing lament their own Ill Luck and declare that now finding themselves to be Vnfortunate they resolve never to venture in Lotteries any more I happened in