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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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But lastly, it followeth not, such and such things came after them, and therefore were either portended by them, or proceeded from them. When as by other causes they either might be, or apparently were produced: whereof more, when we shall come to Pericles,1 and the Solar Eclipse in his time. To conclude, as Tully saith of a Philosopher, so say I of a Divine; It is not a Divines part to ground a truth, especially in matter of faith, upon the testimony of such witnesses, as may by peradventure speak true, or through faultiness fain and fail: by reasons and arguments matters must be proved, not by events; such especially, as any thing almost may be made good by. and with that of the Lord Howard, in his Discourse of Blind Prophesies, Until a man can as well produce a certain reason to make his guesses good, as score up a register of blind events, we may rather commend his luck then his learning.
But lastly, it followeth not, such and such things came after them, and therefore were either portended by them, or proceeded from them. When as by other causes they either might be, or apparently were produced: whereof more, when we shall come to Pericles,1 and the Solar Eclipse in his time. To conclude, as Tully saith of a Philosopher, so say I of a Divine; It is not a Divines part to ground a truth, especially in matter of faith, upon the testimony of such witnesses, as may by peradventure speak true, or through faltinesse fain and fail: by reasons and arguments matters must be proved, not by events; such especially, as any thing almost may be made good by. and with that of the Lord Howard, in his Discours of Blind Prophesies, Ʋntil a man can as wel produce a certain reason to make his guesses good, as score up a register of blind events, we may rather commend his luck then his learning.
- 1De Divin••. l. 2.