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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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the one being no other then a depriving of us of the Sun-light in part for a while by the intervention of the body of the, Moon passing between us and it; the other a depriving of us of the same Light totally, for a far longer space of time, by the interposition of the body of the Earth, between us and the Sun. And there was therefore no more matter of dread, or dismal presage in the one then in the other.]
the one being no other then a depriving of us of the Sunne-light in part for a while by the intervention of the body of the, Moon passing between us and it; the other a depriving of us of the same Light totally, for a farre longer space of time, by the interposition of the body of the Earth, between us and the Sunne. And there was therefore no more matter of dread, or dismall presage in the one then in the other.]
1Yea but, saith Master Swan, the effects of this Eclipse brought not only misery upon his own Countries and dishonour upon himself, but did put even all Greece under the sad calamities of a long lasting war. And Master Lily his Client begins his Dark year with the same observation. [It was (saith he) as wisely as truly observed by the learned Thucydides, that some years before those three and twenty years Peloponnesian wars of the miserable Greeks among ⟨p. 149⟩themselves; wherein every City or Common-Weal of Greece, was in one kind or other engaged; that those things which in former times there went only a fame of, tho rarely in fact confirmed, were then made credible, by the ensuing wars of the Grecians one with another. the forerunners of which quarrels he says were these; Earthquakes generally to the greatest part of the World, and most violent withal, Eclipses of the Sun oftener then is reported of any former times, great droughts, &c.]
1Yea but, saith Master Swan, the effects of this Eclipse brought not onely miserie upon his own Countreys and dishonour upon himself, but did put even all Greece under the sad calamities of a long lasting war. And Master Lilie his Client begins his Dark yeer with the same observation. [It was (saith he) as wisely as truly observed by the learned Thucydides, that some yeers before those three and twentie yeers Peloponnesian wars of the miserable Greeks among