A42469:165
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.
1Scylax also of Halicarnassus, a familiar friend of Panetius, an excellent Astrologer, and a chief man in the government of that City, repudiated all this Chaldaiacal kind of prediction. Was it out of mere ignorance then that these men gave in their verdict thus against such kind of predictions? or was it out of any inability and incapacity to attain unto any secrets in Nature, that these our late upstart Wizards, who profess to proceed in a natural way, have now attained, but were then beyond those mens reach? or is it since their times, that those good Angels, Mr. L. speaks of, have revealed these mysteries, to such holy men as Mr. L. and the like? of their rare skill in the genuine part of Astrology, you hear what ample testimony and by whom it is given them. and if there be any other Eleusinian rites, or Magician Mysteries, that these our Wizards exercise, dealing with the Devil in the dark, I suppose had they ben acquainted with them, being judicious men and genuine Artists, they would never a whit have liked the better of their concealed, covert, and counterfeit art.
1Scylax also of Halicarnasse, a familiar frend of Panetius, an excellent Astrologer, and a cheif man in the government of that City, repudiated all this Chaldaiacal kind of prediction. Was it out of meer ignorance then that these men gave in their verdict thus against such kind of predictions? or was it out of any inability and incapacity to attain unto any secrets in Nature, that these our late upstart Wizards, who professe to proceed in a natural way, have now attained, but were then beyond those mens reach? or is it since their times, that those good Angels, Mr. L. speaks of, have revealed these mysteries, to such holy men as Mr. L. and the like? of their rare skil in the genuine part of Astrologie, you hear what ample testimony and by whom it is given them. and if there be any other Eleusinian rites, or Magitian Mysteries, that these our Wizards exercise, dealing with the Divel in the dark, I suppose had they ben acqainted with them, being judicious men and genuine Artists, they would never a whit have liked the better of their concealed, covert, and counterfeit art.
- 1Ibid.