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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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3. Who those be, that promiscuously, and without difference or distinction, out of ignorance or over-nice scrupulosity confound lawful and praise-worthy knowledge with that which is impious and diabolical, and condemn indifferently the one with the other. It is true indeed that a German Bishop sometime in the days of deep darkness by one of the Popes, is reported either out of ignorance or malice to have ben condemned of suspicion at least of Heresy, for the studying of Astronomy, and holding a very strange point, and dangerous error, that there were Antipodes, men living on the other side of the earth, and standing or walking with their heels against ours. But did any of those ancient Philosophers, Anaxagoras, Eudoxus, Panetius, Archelaus, Cassander, and others that rejected this Astromancy or Fortune-telling Astrology; or do those Christian Writers, that have professedly handled this Argument either in former times, as Abulensis, Picus and Savonarola; or of later times, ⟨p. 178⟩as Sixtus, Pererius, Calvin, Erastus, Kepler, Salmasius; or do any of our own Countrymen, that have dealt in the same subject, the Lord Howard, Fulk, Perkins, Abbots, Chambers, Willet, Gerey, Holmes, Rouland, any of them, whether ignorantly, or out of any overnice scrupulosity, without difference or distinction promiscuously confound and condemn all Astronomy or Astrology? or do they not all approve of natural Astronomy or Astrology, as an useful Science and a laudable study? condemning only this Astromancy, or that Fortune-telling Astrology, that goes masked under the specious Title of Judicial Astrology, and with us now adays more presumptuously, of Prophetical Predictions, whereby Mr. Swans Clients, for whom he pleads, and in defence of whom, it appears that he published this Sermon, (let him call them what he please, and Mr. Calvin indeed in plain terms stiles them no otherwise then he here doth) do daily cheat and delude people, pick their purses, and either commit, or make way for many abominable designs. And indeed so palpable is the distinction between the one and the other, that even those blinking and blundering Grammarians Papias and Balbus, that lived in one of the obscurest ages, wherein all good literature almost was buried in oblivion, yet by that dusky twilight, that those times afforded, were able to descry a difference between those two above mentioned:
3. Who those be, that promiscuously, and without difference or distinction, out of ignorance or over-nice scrupulosity confound lawful and praise-worthy knowledge with that which is impious and diabolical, and condemn indifferently the one with the other. It is tru indeed that a German Bishop sometime in the days of deep darknesse by one of the Popes, is reported either out of ignorance or malice to have ben condemned of suspition at least of Heresie, for the studying of Astronomie, and holding a very strange point, and dangerous error, that there were Antipodes, men living on the other side of the earth, and standing or walking with their heels against ours. But did any of those ancient Philosophers, Anaxagoras, Eudoxus, Panetius, Archelaus, Cassander, and others that rejected this Astromancie or Fortune-telling Astrologie; or do those Christian Writers, that have professedly handled this Argument either in former times, as Abulensis, Picus and Savanarola; or of later times,