Previously lot had occasionally been employed in filling episcopal positions. But it was understood to manifest God's will. And it was the use of lot as an appeal to divine providence that Ecdesia Vestra banned. The decretal can be found in
the Liber Extra, under the heading De sortilegiis (Of Sortileges) (Tit.XXI) among prohibitions of other divinatory practices deemed superstitious. So, the Church voiced no objections to the purely secular use of lot, that is, where it was not given supernatural significance.