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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.
And first, concerning what he jabbers of his Homebred Antagonists, that have lost their oil and reputation by endeavouring to confute what thy understood not; that is, by discovering the vanity and impiety of those frivolous fictions, delusory devices and hellish designs of himself and such as himself wherewith they endeavour to amaze the minds of the simpler sort of people, thereby to bring themselves into repute with them, and to pick the purses of those that repair to them for advice, the main matter whereby this their Art of Imposture is supported and maintained.
And first, concerning what he jabbers of his Homebred Antagonists, that have lost their oyl and reputation by endevoring to confute what thy understood not; that is, by discovering the vanity and impiety of those frivolous fictions, delusorie devices and hellish designs of himself and such as himself wherewith they endevor to amaze the minds of the simpler sort of people, thereby to bring themselvs into repute with them, and to pick the purses of those that repair to them for advice, the main matter whereby this their Art of Imposture is supported and maintained.
1. I neither know, nor have heard of any one, that have lost any jot of repute amongst the wise or learned, by dealing against them. But that it fared in this case so with himself and his complices, that they have lost much of their reputation, as well with the simpler, as the wiser sort, by their late predictions, the meanest of the people and boys in the streets are able to give him notice more then sufficient.
1. I neither know, nor have heard of any one, that have lost any jot of repute amongst the wise or lerned, by dealing against them. But that it fared in this case so with himself and his complices, that they have lost much of their reputation, as wel with the simpler, as the wiser sort, by their late predictions, the meanest of the people and boyes in the streets ar able to give him notice more then sufficient.