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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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Mr. Swan did forecast, what would here be objected; to wit▪ that the Word of God tells us, that its God, not the Stars, that disposes ⟨p. 132⟩Kingdoms and States, Prov. 8.15, 16. that sets up and pulls down; Psal. 75.7. that, as Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar, rules the Kingdoms of men, not leaving them to the disposal of the Stars, but giving them to whom he pleaseth, Dan. 4.25.
Mr. Swan did forecast, what would here be objected; to wit▪ that the Word of God tels us, that its God, not the Stars, that disposes ⟨p. 132⟩Kingdoms and States, Prov. 8.15, 16. that sets up and puls down; Psal. 75.7. that, as Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar, rules the Kingdomes of men, not leaving them to the disposal of the Stars, but giving them to whom he pleaseth, Dan. 4.25.
To this Mr. Swan returns a long lascivious answer, winding and turning to and fro,1 as a Hare in chase to elude the the Hunts-man and his Hounds. The sum of what he saith, in short is this; that Its one thing to so dispose of Kingdoms, as to translate them to another Nation; another thing so to dispose of of them, as they who live in them to be punished for their sins. Which distinction of his, what it makes for his purpose, a better head then mine must tell. For God, he grants doth the one as well as the other, and doth he not for mans sins as well the one as the other? See