A30241:1861
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Therefore that you may rest satisfied, That the Scripture only can infallibly tell what is to come to pass, and that it is a high wickedness and presumption to run to Witches, Sorcerers, or judicial Astrologers, take these following Arguments.
Therefore that you may rest satisfied, That the Scripture only can infallibly tell what is to come to passe, and that it is a high wickednesse and presumption to run to Witches, Sorcerers, or judiciall Astrologers, take these following Arguments.
1. All those places of Scripture which forbid any resort to them; Consider that place Lev 19.26. Ye shall not use enchantment nor observe times, So Lev. 20 27. Deut. 10.11, 12, 13. Especially take notice of that full and efficacious place, Isa. 45.12, 13, 14. You see here by clear and plain Texts all such predictions are an abomination to God, and if we should urge beside divine authority humane, this would be enough to confirm us, all the Fathers speak with much vehemency against them, many Councils have condemned such practises, yea, divers Heathens have condemned them, for the greatest Astrologers, Ptolemy himself, as the Learned show, acknowledgeth no certain Truth can be foretold by them, Tully wrote several Books de Divinatione, condemning such Diviners, as lib. 2. de div. instancing that before a great Fight some Mice had gnawn the Buckler of a Soldier, the Soothsayer concluded, the War would be fatal and unlucky, as if (saith Tully) because the mice did gnaw some Books which I had of Platoes de Repub. therefore I should conclude that our Commonwealth should be destroyed; The very Heathens abhorred such Divinations, and we read Act. 19.19. of many when converted brought their curious Books, and burnt them, which is not to be understood of mere witchery and Sorcery Books, but of those that are given to vain and cozening Arts; Otherwise the holy Ghost would not have expressed those wicked Books under so vile a Name as [Greek or Hebrew] As Authority doth condemn, so Reason, as we may read at large in Pererius, Spanhemius, Zanchius, and others. For