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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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This Sermon of Mr. John Swan (a man to me otherwise utterly unknown) on Jerem. 10.2. I had not so much as once looked after, much less meddled at all with; had I not ben advertised by Mr. Lily, in his Preface to his Black Book dedicated to the Common Wealth of England, dated March 10. from his Corner house over against Strand-bridge; as some other formerly, from the three Flower de luces near Somerset house, in the Strand. (for it concerns those that drive his Trade, to make it known where they dwell to tice Customers to them) that the Annotator should have ere long the judgment of abler Divines then himself, and to better purpose on that Text. nor could I by help of friends, and their sedulous enquiry, gain the notice, or attain the sight of any, that had, since that time of Mr. L. his menacing prediction, published ought to that purpose upon that Scripture, save ⟨p. 94⟩this of Mr. Swan, on which also it was long ere I lighted. Him therefore I deemed to be one at least, if any more uncertain, foretold should be Mr. Ls. Advocates or Patrons, unto whom as having undertaken the defence of him and his cause committed to them by him, against mine Annotations on that portion of Scripture, I found my self by him there referred. That which the rather I had cause to believe, because I found his discourse concurring with a passage concerning the same Scripture by Mr. L. related out of a Nameless Author much magnified of him, whose work yet, be it Sermon, or Commentary, or what ever else, whether it ever saw the public light, is to me as uncertain as what is at this day done at Rome. And if it be so, as may most probably be deemed, it may seem, that either M.L. about that time did by the Stars foresee, that such a Sermon on such a Text should be preached on the 28. of March, and should afterward come out in print; or else that Mr. Swan before that time having penned it, and destinated it to that day, did tender a Copy of it to M.1 L. his Client, (as Lysias did an Apology to Socrates penned for him, to make use, if he thought good at his Trial) with a purpose to dispose of it, as he should either like or mislike it. With this Sermon of Mr. Swans therefore, and that parcel of that other party, whom M.L. so highly extols I shall deal in this present Discourse, as with two of M.Ls.