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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03243	A modest reply to certaine answeres, which Mr. Gataker B.D. in his treatise of the nature, & vse of lotts, giveth to arguments in a dialogue concerning the vnlawfulnes of games consisting in chance And aunsweres to his reasons allowing lusorious lotts, as not evill in themselves. By Iames Balmford, minister of Iesus Christ.	Balmford, James, b. 1556.; Balmford, James, b. 1556. Short and plaine dialogue concerning the unlawfulnes of playing at cards or tables, or any other game consisting in chance.	1623 (1623)	STC 1336; ESTC S100662	39,722	144

writeth pag. 103. and 104. viz Where inconveniences that shall necessarily or in good probability appeare to accompany the thing questioned or ensu● vpon the doing thereof shall be such and so great as the Conveniences which stand on the other side shall not be able to countervaile there that action is worthily disallowed as Inconvenient and ● Lott consequently vnlawfull wha● he writeth in his spirituall Watch pag. 27. viz The rifer any evill i● in those places or ages we live i● the more carefull should we be to shunne and avoide such a sinne No doubt he would have taken heede how by writing he make way to the sinne of or by Lusorious Lotts Many Divines and intelligent men though of opinion that Lusorious mixed Lotts may be vsed lawfully yet wish that Mr. Gataker had never published his booke For a running horse say they needeth no spurring For my part I wish that Mr. Gataker had beene affected in writing as he professeth himselfe to be in the vse of lusorious Lottes pag. 266. Wel Whatsoever he writeth dogmatically he wisheth thee good Reader to imitate him in his practise to witt That albeit in judgment thou art rightly informed of the truth concerning the lawfulnesse of theis games in themselves yet in godly discretion thou wouldst rather abandō them considering the too too common and ordinary abuse of them and that many it may be among whom thou livest may remaine vnresolved and vnsatisfied touching the lawfulnes of them pag. 267. I desire the same and therewith a suspending thy judgment vntill thou hast well considered my Dialogue Mr. Gatakers answeres and my Reply together with mine answere to his positive groundes Here I promise with Mr. Gataker pag. 128. to raze what I have reared if my Reply and aunsweres be prooved insufficient and so commend thee to God and to the Word of his Grace which is able to build further Onely consider what I say and the Lord give thee vnderstanding in all things 14. Septemb. 1620. To the Reader THat I may doe Mr. Gataker no wrong I am to lett thee know that the 14. of March 1622. Stil Ang. Mr. Gataker denied naming me when he confuted mine arguments in Pulpit yet confessing that he named me in Pulpit with others diversely dissenting from him in judgment touching Lusorious Lotts when he entred into the question of playing with Lotts An Answere to Reasons inducing M. Gataker to allow lusorious Lottes as not evill in themselves Lib. 6. § 4. THIS Tenent seemeth to me more fearefull then beseemeth a learned man who after the turning over a wōderfull n umber of bookes to compile his Historicall and Theologicall Treatise of the Nature and Vse of Lotres setteth downe his judgment Allowing lusorious Lottes onely as not evill in themselves whereas he affirmeth them to be lawfull in themselves pag. 266. So that if theis games be vsed with due observation of all his cautions why is he fearefull to allow them as good in themselves How then may a scrupulous man who remembreth not onely his wicked wicked wayes but his deedes also that are not good build vpon such quagmiry grounds Againe Allowing theis games onely as not evill in themselves doth not manifest that Love of God which I doubt not is in Mr. Gatakers heart For whereas God is glorified by good workes and theis games be too too common and accompanied with many crying sinnes whereby God is every where and dayly much dishonoured the Love of God would have constrained him if doing truth to haue brought theis games to the light that thereby it might be made manifest that they are wrought according to God Lastly By this Tenent he sheweth not due Charity to his neighbour For now it is enoug for Gamesters to pleade A very learned man holdeth our Gaming to be not evill in it selfe Therefore they will not seeke further to know whither it be good in it selfe forgetting that it is writen The axe is putt to the roote of the trees therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruite is hewen downe and cast into the fire Is not then hereby his neighbour's spirituall daunger occasioned But here perhappes it may be said The first Reason prooving that a Lott may be matter of Recreation doth give me a checke It is a checke Then I will try if I cannot avoide the Mate The Argument collected with all faithfulnes as the rest and his aunsweres be is this That which may be ordinarily vsed in other Civill affaires be they more or lesse weighty may also be vsed for matter of recreation and delight But a Lott may be ordinarily vsed in other Civill affaires Therefore I see not what should banish it out of our disportes more than out of other though serious yet Civill affaires Is not this a fearefull conclusion like the Tenent Why doth not Mr. Gataker conclude positively thus Therefore a Lott may be vsed for matter of recreation and delighte He forsooth see 's not Can a blinde man goe stoutly on his way But blessed be God Mr. Gataker seeth well though not in this point Bernardus non vidit omnia For if God had opened his eyes in this point he might have seene plainely what should banish a Lott out of disportes more than out of other Civill affaires To witt Because God alloweth a Lott to be vsed in them but not in theis and It is praesumption of sett purpose to imploy God but as it may stand with his pleasure Hereof more hereafter In meane while in further aunswer to this argument I deny the Proposition thereof For an Oath may be ordinarily vsed in other Civill matters yet not for matter of Recreation Whereof also more hereafter Now I proceed to the 2. reason which is sett downe in twoo shapes The former is this That which best sorteth with the nature of a Lott may a Lott most lawfully be vsed vnto But the lightest matters best sort with the nature of a Lott Therefore about things of that nature may a Lott most lawfully be vsed The Proposition he prooveth thus Great is the vncertainty of a Lott Therefore not fitt to be vsed in any weighty affaire A Lott is sometimes taken for the instrument of purpose disposed vnto casualty as The Lott is cast into the lappe and sometime for the event as Give a perfect Lott Which howsoever it be casuall in relation to the former yet falleth out certainely this or that by God's whole disposing the former Prov. 16. 33. I therefore deny both the Proposition and Assumption perswaded that Mr. Gataker would never have sett downe this supposed reason if a Lott in the former acception had not drawne his religious eye from God as the onely disposer thereof to be a Lott in the latter acception So that I mervaile much that he findeth a Lott to be not fitt to be vsed in any weighty affaire For why Dividing the Land of promise Numb 26. 55. by Lott Discovering Achan