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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 first, is not this enough to make them signs, not in vain, but truly and deservedly so termed, if they signify and declare unto us the might, majesty, glory, wisdom and excellency of that God, that made them and settled them in that transcendently admirable constant state, order, course and intercourse for the benefit of ⟨p. 128⟩the creature here beneath, wherein to this day they continue? but of this further also hereafter.
But first, is not this enough to make them signs, not in vain, but truly and deservedly so termed, if they signifie and declare unto us the might, majestie, glory, wisedome and excellency of that God, that made them and setled them in that transcendently admirable constant state, order, course and entercourse for the benefit of ⟨p. 128⟩the creature here beneath, wherein to this day they continue? but of this further also hereafter.
2. What reason can be rendered, why the Voice spoken of in the third Verse, should not be the same, that was generally propounded in the first Verse, illustrated more particularly by one special branch of it, in the second Verse, and the vast extent of it, in the third?
2. What reason can be rendred, why the Voice spoken of in the third Verse, should not be the same, that was generally propounded in the first Verse, illustrated more particularly by one speciall branch of it, in the second Verse, and the vast extent of it, in the third?
3. As himself reasoneth, If they be signs, then they signify and speak somewhat, and to whom but to us? So here, if they speak for God,