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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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whereas tho never so oft it fall out otherwise, there is little notice thereof taken, and a multitude of Eclipses pass away (as in this regard they all well may) without any regard at all. If after this or the like Eclipse therefore, any strange judgment should ensue, any unusual malady grow rife among us, or other dismal event befall us, a vain thing twere to ascribe it to the Eclipses or defections of the Lights in the sky, that cannot be showed in the nature thereof, to portend any such event, or to produce any such effect. Well may we do rather to call to mind and consider in such cases, what he sometime said,1 Morbos novos novi peperere mores: and, Morbos multos fercula multa fecerunt. that, New fangled devices bred many new diseases: and, Variety of diseases sprang from variety of dishes. implying, that the excess and riot of the times were the main cause of many unusual maladies, and strange diseases, that had not formerly ben so much known, or so rife in those parts. And surely if we shall in these days look into mens minds, or cast an eye upon mens lives and consider, what variety of new and strange conceits, tending to impiety and profaneness, to looseness and licentiousness are rife in the one, and what an height of rankness those wicked weeds springing up amain from such cursed seeds are shot up unto in the other; and that accompanied with such a shameful degree of shamelessness that they do no more now, as in former times, skulk in the dark, but dare open faced without mask or veil stalk in the streets, qasi pudeat non esse impudentes, as he sometime said,2 as if people were grown ashamed of nothing save ⟨p. 81⟩to seem ashamed of any thing:
whereas tho never so oft it fall out otherwise, there is litle notice thereof taken, and a multitude of Eclipses passe away (as in this regard they all wel may) without any regard at all. If after this or the like Eclipse therefore, any strange judgment should ensu, any unusual malady grow rife among us, or other dismal event befal us, a vain thing twere to ascribe it to the Eclipses or defections of the Lights in the skie, that cannot be shewed in the nature thereof, to portend any such event, or to produce any such effect. Wel may we do rather to call to mind and consider in such cases, what he sometime said,