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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
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.
Stulti sunt, saith he, qi hîc de Chiromantia cogitant. But this obiter. the word of obsignation, or sealing up, hath in either place a manifest notion of restraint. nor doth the one any whit concern Astromancy; no more then doth Chiromancy at all the other: which may as soon be found in the Book of Job; as the Philosophers stone in the Apocalypse of John,1 where one sometime told that learned Divine of Nuremberg, he had found a promise of it in the term of a White stone, which could be no other then it, Rev. 2.17. So prone are men to wrest and writhe the words of Gods sacred Oracles for the gaining of credit to any fancy, that they inordinately affect.
Stulti sunt, saith he, qi hîc de Chiromantia cogitant. But this obiter. the word of obsignation, or sealing up, hath in either place a manifest notion of restraint. nor doth the one any whit concern Astromancie; no more then doth Chiromancie at all the other: which may as soon be found in the Book of Job; as the Philosophers stone in the Apocalyps of John,1 where one sometime told that lerned Divine of Norimberg, he had found a promise of it in the term of a VVhite stone, which could be no other then it, Rev. 2.17. So prone are men to wrest and writhe the words of Gods sacred Oracles for the gaining of credit to any fancy, that they inordinately affect.
- 1Dilher. elect. l. 3. c. 21.
Yea but it is certainly true, that the time will one day come, 1when the whole world it self shall go to ruin; before which time there shall be signs in the Sun, and signs in the Moon, and signs in the Stars,