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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.
1Yea but David saith, Psal. 111.2. The Works of the Lord are great, sought out of all those who have pleasure therein. And as was Davids doctrine, 2so was Solomons practise, 1 King 4.11, &c. For he was wiser then all men, then Ethan, and Heman, and Calcal, and Dardo; and he spake of trees, from the Cedar in Lebanon, to the Hyssop that springs out of the wall; as also of beasts, and fowl, and creeping things, and fishes,
1Yea but David saith, Psal. 111.2. The VVorks of the Lord are great, sought out of all those who have pleasure therein. And as was Davids doctrine, 2so was Salomons practise, 1 King 4.11, &c. For he was wiser then all men, then Ethan, and Heman, and Calcal, and Dardo; and he spake of trees, from the Cedar in Lebanon, to the Hyssope that springs out of the wall; as also of beasts, and fowl, and creeping things, and fishes,
- 1Pag. 16.
- 2Pag. 17.
But because all this will not help to make Solomon a member of the society of Astrologers, and a brother of their profession▪ for all this skill is without their verge, and far beneath the Sphere of their sublimated Science; yet to fetch him in, that he may grace the Society and Brotherhood of them, they fly to the Apocrypha ▪ and from the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon, falsely so termed, the work of a Nameless and unknown Author, Chap. 7. v. 17, &c. in the person of Solomon, Mr. Swan sings us the same song, that M. L. his Client before sang in the very entry of his Preface unto his Dark year; I know how the World was made;