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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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which the pious Gentlewoman understanding, both rebuked them for so doing, and was very careful to have her children kept out of the sight of those vagrants, Not, said she, that I regard any whit what they say, whom I deem no other then cheaters and counterfeits; but lest what they, seeing them, should say of them, might run in my mind, and God should cause somewhat spoken by them, to befall them, thereby to punish me in my children, for giving so far forth heed unto them. So say I, if our State-Governors shall give heed to such Wizards as these, and upon their sandy grounds and il-bottomed predictions, promise great matters to themselves, it may be just with God, to cross and blast their designs, thereby to chastise them for hearkening to and presuming upon the flattering fictions and fables of such as he hath forbidden his people to seek to, or to be advised by in cases of this kind.
which the pious Gentlewoman understanding, both rebuked them for so doing, and was very careful to have her children kept out of the sight of those vagrants, Not, said she, that I regard any whit what they say, whome I deem no other then cheaters and counterfaits; but lest what they, seeing them, should say of them, might run in my mind, and God should cause somewhat spoken by them, to befal them, thereby to punish me in my children, for giving so far forth heed unto them. So say I, if our State-Governers shal give heed to such VVizards as these, and upon their sandie grounds and il-botomed predictions, promise great matters to themselvs, it may be just with God, to crosse and blast their designes, thereby to chastise them for hearkning to and presuming upon the flattering fictions and fables of such as he hath forbidden his people to seek to, or to be advised by in cases of this kind.
Yet if it be so, as he tells us elsewhere,1 that the Sun is the significator of Princes, Emperors and men of great Authority, and from the Eclipses of it therefore we can expect no less then great changes in Kingdoms, Common Wealths and great Families; what reason can it be, why the obscuring of this Stately Planet should stoop so low, as by Mr. Lilies reports it should, to vent all its malignity against the poor prattling Priests, affording mean while all honourable issue and glorious successes to our Common Wealth affairs,