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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.
But we will admit Mr, Swans Version without further debate. Take we the Text as he renders it; will it thence follow that the Scripture should speak in vain, when it saith of the Sun, Moon and Stars, Let them be for signs, unless the great Eclipses and Conjunctions had always sad Events? for upon that account is this inferred by him. Pag. 19.
But we wil admit Mr, Swans Version without further debate. Take we the Text as he renders it; will it thence follow that the Scripture should speak in vain, when it saith of the Sun, Moon and Stars, Let them be for signs, unles the great Eclipses and Conjunctions had alwayes sad Events? for upon that account is this inferred by him. Pag. 19.
Yea but, saith Mr. Swan, they could not be signs to us here below, (and to whom else unless to us?1) If they signified foreshowed or spake nothing to us, by their motions, configurations, risings, settings, aspects, occultations, eclipses, conjunctions, and the like, 2And this he sets on, to put the more strength into it, by a quaint nicety from Psal. 19.1, 3. wherein he so much pleased himself, that he repeateth it again, Pag. 23. For in the right consideration of that Psalm, (saith he) there is a double speaking to be observed; the one for God in the first Verse, the other to men, at the third V. 3that is, (as where in the second course it is served us in again) to Astrologers. for this latter language is Astrology, not the former; as before you heard from him.
Yea but, saith Mr. Swan, they could not be signs to us here below, (and to whom else unlesse to us?1