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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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1But withal he tells us in his Aphorisms, that The application of Planets shows what is to come, the separation what is past. So that there may be signs by Mr. Lilies grant, as well of things past or present, as to come. And indeed how many signs are there so named and recorded in Scripture, that neither did, nor do portend ought, either good or evil to come.
1But withall he tells us in his Aphorisms, that The application of Planets shews what is to come, the separation what is past. So that there may be signes by Mr. Lilies grant, as well of things past or present, as to come. And indeed how many signes ar there so named and recorded in Scripture, that neither did, nor do portend ought, either good or evil to come.
- 1Pag. 63.
The Rainbow was appointed by God to be a sign and seal of that Covenant which God made with Noah in behalf of the whole world, that it should never be universally drowned again. Gen. 9.11, 12. Yet what future good or evil doth the Rainbow portend, so oft as it appears, to ensue shortly thereupon? nor let any imagine that it will suffice to say, that in the nature of it, it may conjecturally forewarn this or that, a sudden shower, or the like; the question being, not what in the course of nature it did or might either before or after foreshow; but what by virtue of that use, that God then made of it, or power that he then imparted to it, to be a pledge of his promise and the performance thereof, which it yet retaineth unto this day, and in regard whereof it is said to be a sing, it is enabled to portend. In like manner God ⟨p. 120⟩ordained Circumcision to be a sign and seal of the Covenant that he made with Abraham and his issue, either according to the flesh, or according to the faith,