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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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in the other, to wit, the Lunar, which may more truly and properly be termed an Eclipse, the light of the Moon indeed, which it receives from the Sun, is either in part or whole for the time ⟨p. 54⟩impaired:1 but the body of the Moon is no more the worse for that want of Light for a while, then is the one half of the Earth for the utter want of it all the night long. for there is the same reason and cause of either. the night is nothing else but the shadow of the Earth;2 and the Lunar Eclipse nothing else but the same shadow lighting at length upon the body of the Moon. for whether it reach higher to the next Star above, may be some doubt;3 tho that also have ben observed coming between the Sun and us to cause a seeming spot in it. And Ambrose therefore at Milan, when upon the hearing of such an hideous noise upon such an occasion by the women there made, and demanding what the matter was, it was told him, that by their shoutings they eased the Moon being in labour, and helped to heal her with their outcries; he returned them this censure, that the globe of the Moon was then troubled with sprites and spell's, when their brains were disturbed, and their eyes dazzled either with dotage or with drink. It is not out of ignorance therefore that men renounce and oppose these frivolous conceits concerning the dismal events and effects of such Eclipses. but it is rather out of ignorance and want of due consideration of the true causes and grounds of them, that men entertain such groundless, frivolous and superstitious conceits of them, and do hearken to and heed those that delude them with such fictions and fancies: which people therefore have the less regarded, the better they came to be acquainted with the due course of the creature, and attained a right understanding of the true state of those celestial bodies at such times, as they seemed to suffer such strange things, as they suffered, not in themselves, but in their addle brains only.
in the other, to wit, the Lunar, which may more truly and properly be termed an Eclips, the light of the Moon indeed, which it receivs from the Sun, is either in part or whole for the time ⟨p. 54⟩