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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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and on the other side fraud cried up as prudence, perfidiousness as ⟨p. 154⟩policy, force as fortitude, cruelty as courage. This state of things, whoso shall seriously weigh, may with good ground and warrant from Gods Word, yea led by the very light of nature it self alone, ascribe rather those calamities, that afterward during that war befell the main body of Greece, that State of Athens more specially (the pride and power thereof so impaired and pulled down by the Spartan, and they brought so low,1 that they were enforced to beg a peace in most submissive and base manner; and to accept it on most dishonourable and destructive conditions, of dismantling Athens their mother City, and Pyreum their haven town, delivering up their whole Fleet, twelve ships only excepted; and receiving a new government by thirty such as the Spartan then approved, who by them supported, ruled according to their own lust,2 without regard of Law or right, and exercised such extreme cruelty upon them, that as Cleocritus avowed, they murdered more of their own countrymen within eight months space, then their enemies the Spartans had in ten whole years.) unto the just judgment of God and his wrath incensed against them, for their transcendent excess of ungodliness and wickedness, not restrained, much less reformed, but improved and enhanced upon those forepast grievous judgments, then to an Eclipse or two coming in a certain fixed course naturally at a set time, without regard had to any superfluity of wickedness or ought of that nature in those times. And I desire any pious and judicious Reader to deem, whether of the two, either are guilty themselves, or make others guilty of Epicurean security, as M. Swan from Goclein is pleased to speak, those that teach men not to be afraid of a little loss of Sunlight for a quarter of an hour more then they are of the total want of it for many hours night after night, coming in a known natural way as well the one as the other; but to fear Sin, that may cloud the light of Gods countenance towards them, and may cause him to withdraw the bright rays and gracious sunshine of his favour away from them;
and on the other side fraud cryed up as prudence, perfidiousnesse as ⟨p. 154⟩