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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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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, 2or why his deficiency should prov so prejudicial to those that have no reference to him, rather then to those that are signified by him. But as King James said sometime, the Laws were his, and who should expound his Laws but himself? so the Text being their own, they deem, it seems, they may do with their own what they will, make explications of it, and raise observations from it, as they list, and form applications from either so framed, when they have so done, at their own pleasure. The best is, their Text and their Glosses being both of one stamp, we may justly credit as ⟨p. 58⟩well the one as the other, and have as little cause to regard or fear, as to believe either.
Yet if it be so, as he tels us elswhere,1 that the Sun is the significator of Princes, Emperors and men of great Autority, and from the Eclipses of it therefore we can expect no lesse then great changes in Kingdomes, 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 pratling Preists, affording mean while all honourable issu and glorious successes to our Common Wealth affaires, 2or why his deficiency should proov so prejudicial to those that have no reference to him, rather then to those that are signified by him. But as King James said sometime, the Lawes were his, and who should expound his Laws but himself? so the Text being their own, they deem, it seems, they may do with their own what they will, make explications of it, and raise observations from it, as they list, and form applications from either so framed, when they have so done, at their own pleasure. The best is, their Text and their Glosses being both of one stamp, we may justly credit as