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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.
But to what purpose doth this man talk to us of Antiquity, and of Hali, and Ptolemy, and Plotinus, and Proclus, and Albumazar, and Baranzanus, or of Rigel, Origan, Cardan, Leovitius, Dafypodius, &c. or of long experience of former ages, when as he vaunts of himself, as Lucretius sometime,1 with alteration of a word, Avia Signorum peragro loca nullius ante Trita Solo. Amidst the Signs of Heaven I trace a way, That no foot trod before me to this day.2 So he professeth and glorieth, that he walks in those uncouth paths, that no former Author had trodden in. and makes his brags, that he hath begun a new manner of Astrology, either not known to the Ancients, or omitted in their writings.
But to what purpose doth this man talk to us of Antiqitie, and of Hali, and Ptolomee, and Plotinus, and Proclus, and Albumazar, and Baranzanus, or of Rigel, Origan, Cardan, Leovitius, Dafypodius, &c. or of long experience of former ages, when as he vaunts of himself, as Lucretius sometime,1 with alteration of a word, Avia Signorum peragro loca nullius ante Trita Solo. Amids the Signs of Heaven I trace a way, That no foot trode before me to this day.2 So he professeth and glorieth, that he walks in those uncouth paths, that no former Autor had troden in. and makes his brags, that he hath begun a new manner of Astrologie, either not known to the Ancients, or omitted in their writings.
- 1Lucret. de rer. nat. l. 4.
- 2Astrolog. Predict. for. 48.49.50.
And how can any of those Authors, be they of never so great Authority, either ancienter or of later times, attest unto him, or he receive any confirmation of his Assertions from them, that are wholly silent of, and not unjustly therefore hence deemed by him, if it be so, as he affirms it to be, utterly unacquainted with the way that he walks in? unless they should speak by way of Prophecy, of his new manner of Astrology,