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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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3. His style is overlavish in taxing all his homebred Antagonists, all those among us, that have dealt in this Argument against their fanatical and fantastical profession, as men not understanding what it was that they dealt with. Some of them peradventure have ben able to discover his want of exact skill in the justifiable part of his professed Art; whereof more anon. But why should it be deemed want of understanding in these men, that of late among us have attempted to lay open the looseness and sandiness of the grounds which they build upon, that should move them to undertake that task, more then in those of former times, either among us, or abroad, of whom he shall hear somewhat further hereafter? No reason, I suppose, he can give for it, but this, that they are his Antagonists, and by opposing such practises he misdoubts they may mar, or in part at least impair, his market.
3. His style is overlavish in taxing all his homebred Artagonists, all those among us, that have delt in this Argument against their fanatical and fantastical profession, as men not understanding what it was that they delt with. Some of them peradventure have ben able to discover his want of exact skill in the justifiable part of his professed Art; whereof more anon. But why should it be deemed want of understanding in these men, that of late among us have attempted to lay open the loosnes and sandines of the grounds which they build upon, that should moov them to undertake that task, more then in those of former times, either among us, or abroad, of whome he shal hear somewhat further hereafter? No reason, I suppose, he can give for it, but this, that they ar his Antagonists, and by opposing such practises he misdoubts they may mar, or in part at least impair, his market.
Secondly, for his double jeer, of uncircumcised affection, and Presbyterian Charity. 1. The former term will best fit himself and his Complices: of whose Profession the first known Patriarchs, were not Adam, or Abraham, as they would make men believe, but people uncircumcised as well in flesh as in spirit, the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Philistines, and Syrians, from whom by tradition through the hands of idolatrous Pagans, and superstitious Mahometans, whose disciples and followers these men