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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.
1. Its natural indeed, but comes not in any constant course, as Eclipses do, and cannot therefore be certainly foretold, as they may.
1. Its natural indeed, but comes not in any constant cours, as Eclipses do, and cannot therefore be certainly foretold, as they may.
2. That God hath appointed it to be a sign of fair weather at hand; is most untrue, in plain English, a gross lie, and a charging of God to have assigned it to be a sign of that which usually it is not. it is a sign rather of rain and storms not seldom at hand; which being sometime forewarned of by it, tho I have put spurs to my horse, and mended my pace to prevent, I have not ben able to escape, but ben wet to the skin, ere I could get shelter. It is therefore reckoned up by *Authors, who entreat of that subject, among such signs as usually give warning of rain and showers approaching, a double one especially. whence also the epithets given it of arcus ”pluvius, the rainy, and “imbrifer▪ the showery, or shower bringing bow. And you wrong your Author the Jesuit, as you did an other of them before, him but for want of understanding his Latin, this to make him speak what you please. Your Author saith serenitatis rediturae, ⟨p. 70⟩that serenity shall return, but he tells you not when; much less doth he say, of fair weather at hand.
2. That God hath appointed it to be a sign of fair weather at hand; is most untru, in plain English, a gros ly, and a charging of God to have assigned it to be a sign of that which usually it is not. it is a sign rather of rain and storms not seldom at hand; which being sometime forewarned of by it, tho I have put spurs to my hors, and mended my pace to prevent, I have not ben able to escape, but ben wet to the skin, ere I could get shelter. It is therfore reckoned up by