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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.
And do we not need some Oedipus to arreed and assoil us these riddles? They do not act or do ought, but signify only, and yet they operate and effect. not unlike some old Wives verdict of pepper, that it is hot in the mouth, but cold in the stomach, hot in operation, but cold in working. Yea they signify only in a natural way, as irregular diet doth a disease at hand and is not that the procuring or producing cause of the disease? whereas these he saith are signs and no causes. or as a distempered pulse argues an approaching sickness: so the distempers belike of the Stars in the sky, argu some distempers in mens minds here on earth: and all this they do in a natural way, and yet have no power to act or do ought at all: And whether of the two is now ridiculous, the Divines that relate what he and his complices avow, tho not it may be in those very terms that he reports them, or this ⟨p. 66⟩our Wizard, that being ashamed of, and loath to own his own tenets, because he is unable to defend them, shuffles and cuts, as you see, and lisps and jabbers, and says and unsays in a most silly, pitiful, ridiculous, stupid and self-contradicting manner.
And do we not need some Oedipus to arreed and assoil us these riddles? They do not act or do ought, but signifie only, and yet they operate and effect. not unlike some old Wives verdict of pepper, that it is hot in the mouth, but cold in the stomake, hot in operation, but cold in working. Yea they signifie onely in a natural way, as irregular diet doth a disease at hand and is not that the procuring or producing cause of the disease? whereas these he saith are signs and no causes. or as a distempered pulse argues an approaching sicknesse: so the distempers belike of the Stars in the skie, argu some distempers in mens minds here on earth: and all this they do in a natural way, and yet have no power to act or do ought at all: And whether of the two is now ridiculous, the Divines that relate what he and his complices avow, tho not it may be in those very terms that he reports them, or this ⟨p. 66⟩our Wizard, that being ashamed of, and loath to own his own tenents, because he is unable to defend them, shuffels and cuts, as you see, and lisps and jabbers, and sayes and unsays in a most selie, pitiful, ridiculous, stupide and self-contradicting manner.