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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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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 Deut. 9.4, 5. or do not our Astrologers ascribe the periods of Kingdoms to the Stars? or have the Stars any regard to the goodness or badness of a people, working as these Wizards, and their Patrons tell us, in a natural course, not in a moral or arbitrary way, as well in the one as in the other?
To this Mr. Swan returns a long laci•ious 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 Kingdomes, 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 sinnes. 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 wel as the other, and doth he not for mans sins as well the one as the other? See Deut. 9.4, 5. or do not our Astrologers ascribe the periods of Kingdomes to the Stars? or have the Stars any regard to the goodnesse or badnesse of a people, working as these Wizards, and their Patrons tel us, in a natural cours, not in a moral or arbitrarie way, as well in the one as in the other?
- 1Pag. 18.19.