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The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on…
The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremiah 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherein is showed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremy 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherin is shewed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.
S.l. : s.n., 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Item, My Learning (such as it is) together with my malice, vain-glory, Pride and Hypocrisy, I give unto the late Synod of Divines, and the rest of the Mountebank Ministers of London, the better to uphold them in their learned Barricadoes, against the gathered Independent Churches, reserving only for Vavasor Powell, and Mr. Simpson, so much of my pride and malice, as may strengthen them in these times of persecution (the one being an exile, and the other a close prisoner to Windsor for Treason) that now having time to contemplate, when they come to their thrones, they may suppress that Monstrous, Art of Astrology, and doom those Heathen English using of it to perpetual silence, with three pounds in ⟨p. 5⟩money, the which I desire may be speedily laid out upon an Umbrella, whereunder to hide and preserve these dow-baked Levites, in their Assemblies from the direful influence of the Suns Eclipse in August next, least when they seem to laugh in their sleeves, they sorrow in their hearts, for the mischiefs then impending, by the means of those Sorcerers and Wizards, who we know, do ofttimes speak truth by the help of the Devil (the Father of lies) although (we confess) it stands not with our interrest to acknowledge so much.
Item, My Learning (such as it is) together with my malice, vaine-glory, Pride and Hypocrisie, I give unto the late Synod of Divines, and the rest of the Mountebank Ministers of London, the better to uphold them in their learned Barracadoes, against the gathered Independent Churches, reserving onely for Vavasor Powell, and Mr. Simpson, so much of my pride and malice, as may strengthen them in these times of persecution (the one being an exile, and the other a close prisoner to Windsor for Treason) that now having time to contemplate, when they come to their thrones, they may suppress that Monstrous, Art of Astrologie, and doom those Heathen English using of it to perpetual silence, with three pounds in ⟨p. 5⟩money, the which I desire may be speedily laid out upon an Umbrella, whereunder to hide and preserve these dow-bak'd Levites, in their Assemblies from the direful influence of the Suns Eclipse in August next, least when they seem to laugh in their sleeves, they sorrow in their hearts, for the mischiefes then impending, by the means of those Sorcerers and Wizzards, who we know, do oftimes speak truth by the help of the Devil (the Father of lyes) although (we confesse) it stands not with our interrest to acknowledge so much.