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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.
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.
2. There needs not much skill in his pretended Art, to discover the vanity of it; no more then it is requisite for one to be over-much seen in geomancy, palmistry, sortiarie, auspicie, or aruspicie, to descry and discover the folly of these courses, ⟨p. 4⟩which by the unanimous votes and agreement of all sound Christians are now generally not disclaimed only, but detested, as practises merely diabolical; howsoever M. Lily and some of his Complices,1 in these times of licentiousness, endeavour to cry up some of them again. There needs no deep diving into these [Greek or Hebrew], as the Evangelist speaks, such depths of Satan, Rev. 2.14. to descry them to be none of those, that the Apostle terms [Greek or Hebrew], the depths, or deep things, of God, 1 Cor. 2.10. yea or of nature.