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Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words,…
Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them, Jer. 10. 2 against the scurrilous aspersions of that grand impostor Mr. William Lillie : as also against the various expositions of two of his advocates, Mr. John Swan, and another by him cited, but not named : together with the annotations themselves : wherein the pretended grounds of judiciary astrology, and the Scripture-proofs produced for it are discussed and refuted.Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signes of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them, Jer. 10. 2 against the scurrilous aspersions of that grand imposter Mr. William Lillie : as also against the various expositions of two of his advocates, Mr. John Swan, and another by him cited, but not named : together with the annotations themselvs : wherein the pretended grounds of judiciary astrologie, and the Scripture-proofes produced for it are discussed and refuted.
London: printed by J.L. for Richard Thrayle, 1653
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Nor were either Cornelius Scipio created General of all the Roman Forces, or Aemylius Regillus made Commander of their Fleet,1 discouraged or disheartened at all by a Solar Eclipse, that fell out just at the time of their setting out against that great Antiochus the Asian King, but went on cheerfully, esteeming it as in truth it was, and had as good success against Antiochus,2 as had Dio against Dionysius: whereas the Galls entertained by Attalus King of Pergamus against Acheus, by a Lunar Eclipse, because they deemed it prodigious, were so frighted, when they were now on their way, that they would not stir a foot further, but would needs return home.
Nor were either Cornelius Scipio created General of all the Roman Forces, or Aemylius Regillus made Commander of their Fleet,1 discouraged or disheartned at all by a Solar Eclips, that fell out just at the time of their setting out against that great Antiochus the Asian King, but went on cheerfully, esteeming it as in truth it was, and had as good successe against Antiochus,2 as had Dio against Dionysius: whereas the Galles entertained by Attalus King of Pergamus against Acheus, by a Lunar Eclips, because they deemed it prodigious, were so frighted, when they were now on their way, that they would not stir a foot further, but would needs return home.
- 1Liv. l. 37.
- 2Polyb. l. 5.
To these of Dio and Miltas, we shall subjoin another Story, that doth yet more fully lay open the wicked slight of these Wizards, against their own conscience concealing the truth, and devising fables and fictions to delude people withal at their pleasure, as in that Miltas in part appeared. The very night before Alexander was to join battle with Darius, about the first watch fell out a Lunar Eclipse this struck a great terror into Alexander's Soldiers. Hereupon he sends for those of his Egyptian Wizards, whom he deemed most skilful in the Sidereal science.