A42469:302
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But 1. Sir, you should do well to tell us, where you find the word [Greek or Hebrew], yea or influence in the Text. the Original, I am sure, hath none of it. nor hath the Greek version any such word at all there. that our English version hath, not influence barely, but sweet influences, I acknowledge. but the epithet rather then the substantive, is suggested by, and deduced from the Hebrew, which hath no more then delights or pleasances. the word is the same with that 1 Sam. 15.32. used there of Agag. howsoever the Jewish Doctors some of them▪ by a transposition of letters, a trick with them not unusual, do in either place render it bonds. Beside, that [Greek or Hebrew], as your self give the notation of it, should signify rather a flowing upon, then a flowing into: as in the Lords Prayer, [Greek or Hebrew] would rather be rendered, on, then in. [Greek or Hebrew]. as in heaven, so on earth also. Matth. 6.10. But this is not unlike, what you have elsewhere;1 where speaking of Arcturus, in English▪ the Bears tail, (for such unruly creatures as bears and bulls have they placed also in heaven) you tell us in your margin, it is a Star so called in Job, as if such a term were found in Jobs text, Job 38.33.2 wherein you follow also your Goclein to an hair, who tells us, that the names of Pleiades, Arcturus and Orion are found in Job, and may be retained therefore without impiety or superstition. ⟨p. 157⟩What the Stars are there mentioned by the names of [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] or what Stars or Constellations are by those terms particularly designed, neither the Hebrew Masters, nor Christian Writers, do generally agree, nor, I suppose, any the Wisest man living is able certainly to determine. Not improbable is it, that by the delights or pleasances of Cimah (be the Star or Constellation what it will) are meant such delights, or delightful seasons, as the spring of the year making its entrance by the Suns nearer approach about the time at which that Star or Constellation (be it the Pleiades, or what other soever else) ariseth, is wont to produce. as on the other side by Cesil (whereof see on Isaiah 13.10.)