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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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or those who would make them believe, that every great Eclipse, coming certainly in a set time, by such a course as God settled these heavenly creatures in at first, draws ever at its tail a long train of inevitable evils by a natural power stamped upon them by God, as sure to ensue, as ⟨p. 155⟩night follows the Sunset, and day the Sunrising, and to light upon such people and places and persons as these men have assigned them unto, without any regard of their doing well or ill. For it is observed by Thucydides, that in that strange infectious sickness, wicked wretches, when they saw that it surprised and swept away, as well good as bad, all sorts alike, they grew to this resolution, Let us get what we can by hook or by crook, by right or by wrong, and make merry with what we have got while we may. and will not men be prone to make the like inference from these Wizards principles? These evils attend Eclipses in as certain a course as the Eclipses themselves come; and there is no means to escape or avoid them by any religious course or change of life, no more then by any such course the coming of the Eclipse it self; and it is in vain therefore, whatsoever Mr. S. 1elsewhere tells us, to hope or assay by any such course to avoid them. and so he takes off the edge, and debilitates the force of all his pious exhortations.
or those who would make them beleiv, that every great Eclipse, coming certainly in a set time, by such a course as God setled these heavenly creatures in at first, draws ever at its tail a long train of inevitable evils by a natural power stampt upon them by God, as sure to ensu, as ⟨p. 155⟩night folowes the Sunset, and day the Sunrising, and to light upon such people and places and persons as these men have assigned them unto, without any regard of their doing wel or ill. For it is observed by Thucydides, that in that strange infectious sicknesse, wicked wretches, when they saw that it surprized and swept away, as wel good as bad, all sorts alike, they grew to this resolution, Let us get what we can by hook or by crook, by right or by wrong, and make merry with what we have got while we may. and wil not men be prone to make the like inference from these Wizards principles? These evils attend Eclipses in as certain a course as the Eclipses themselvs come; and there is no means to escape or avoid them by any religious course or change of life, no more then by any such course the coming of the Eclipse it self; and it is in vain therefore, whatsoever Mr. S.