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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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But to let his Latin learning pass, till we come to compile some new Glossary, and touch a little upon his Emblematical skill: I remember, when I was a School-boy, after the affront and defeat given Monsieur Francis Alanson the French Kings brother at Antwerp, which he attempted to surprise, that there was a Picture drawn by some shrewd unhappy head, wherein the Netherlands were represented as a Cow, because abounding in milk and butter, which King Philip rid and spurred, as the Cavalier doth here the Bull, the Prince of Orange milked, an old woman Queen Elisabeth fed with a lock of hay, so much as might keep her in life, and the French Monsieur pulling by the tail, she all to bespattered with her filth. Now whether this Soldier, or Cavalier riding an ox or a bull, with his spur on its side, might not rather intimate, that the Cavalier or Trooper, the war continuing, should necessarily vex the poor husbandman, resembled by the Ox that helps to till the ground, by quartering upon him, and with his horse treading down his grass and his corn; fit as well, at least, with the type, as that far fetched explication and application that this our Wizard makes of it, so many miles wide of his Authors acknowledged exposition, I dare permit to the judgment of any one, that hath not captived his senses to assent unto and assert whatsoever our Wizard shall say.
But to let his Latin lerning passe, till we come to compile some new Glossarie, and touch a litle upon his Emblematical skil: I remember, when I was a School-boy, after the affront and defeat given Monsieur Francis Alanson the French Kings brother at Antwerp, which he attempted to surprise, that there was a Picture drawn by some shrewd unhappy head, wherein the Netherlands were represented as a Cow, because abounding in milk and butter, which King Philip rid and spurd, as the Cavalier doth here the Bul, the Prince of Orange milked, an old woman Qeen Elisabeth fed with a lock of hay, so much as might keep her in life, and the French Monsieur pulling by the tail, she all to bespattred with her filth. Now whether this Souldier, or Cavalier riding an ox or a bul, with his spur on its side, might not rather intimate, that the Cavalier or Trooper, the war continuing, should necessarily vex the poor husbandman, resembled by the Ox that helps to til the ground, by qartering upon him, and with his horse treading down his gras and his corn; fit as wel, at least, with the type, as that far fetcht explication and application that this our Wizard makes of it, so many miles wide of his Autors acknowledged exposition, I dare permit to the judgment of any one, that hath not captived his senses to assent unto and assert whatsoever our Wizard shal say.