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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
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.
But notwithstanding all this ambiguity, M. L. can resolve you, (by what other Art I know not: for the Signs by his own confession, which he confirms also afterward, by the dictate of Hermes,1 a very authentical counterfeit, Author I should have said, are mutable and convertible either to good or evil) that it shall fall out to our State, not for evil, but for good. For better bethinking himself,2 he tells us; He is confident (he hath consulted belike with some familiars since he wrote so unadvisedly in that ambiguous dialect) the Sun in this Eclipse being in the 19. degree and 15. of Aries, that our present Common Wealth of England shall have such honour and success in all their agitations and undertakings of as great concernment for the utility, benefit and happiness of this Nation, at that sad accident of the Earl of Essex his routing, upon that Eclipse then, wherein Saturn was in the 19 degree 45. of Aries, was of sorrow unto them who then sate at the stern, and unto all the meaner people. It seems the Ram, who then with his horns pushed at us▪ now fights for us. But it may well be doubted, or rather justly deemed, that unless our State-affairs be managed by sage and prudent Counsels of those that should give direction at home, and by faithful and discreet courses of those that should follow their directions and put them in execution abroad, and both seconded and accompanied with Gods blessing from above both at home and abroad, it is not all the imaginary Rams horns in the heavens, nor yet the Rams horns, that blew down the walls of Jericho, Judg. 6.4, 20. could the very same be now also had here upon earth, that will prov any whit more available to make our proceedings successful and prosperous, then were the iron horns, that Zedekias made for Ahab to push the Aramites withal, 1 King. 22.11. I remember when I made abode sometime in Essex, in house with a religious Gentlewoman Mrs. Katharine Aylof, whose Husband had invited me over from Cambridge, to further ⟨p. 57⟩him in his studies of the Hebrew tongue, while the College, whereof I was to be fellow, was in building, some wandering Gypsies came to the house, whom the servants, as the manner of young people is, were forward and busy about, to know from them their fortunes.