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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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2. I demand, Doth this judgment concerning such a Government in the Church, of it self and in it own nature, involve any such crime, or produce any such effect? if it should, the guilt of it would include either party of his two Twins, as he terms them, both of them being equally engaged therein, ⟨p. 9⟩or, if any inequality, the Independent the deeper.
2. I demand, Doth this judgment concerning such a Government in the Church, of it self and in it own nature, involv any such crime, or produce any such effect? if it should, the guilt of it would include either partie of his two Twins, as he terms them, both of them beng eqally engaged therein, ⟨p. 9⟩or, if any ineqality, the Independent the deeper.
3. For that his large and lavish assertion of No treason without a Priest; and that it must be a Presbyterian to by his scope and instance may appear. To pas by his extreme malice and rancour, in endeavouring to involve all petitioners for favour and mercy to be extended to a delinquent, as partakers with him in that crime wherewith he is charged, or whereof he stands convicted: a censure arguing a most savage spirit, and a right devilish disposition. I never heard before in all my Logic, of an Induction consisting of one particular, or singular member. He should have done well, according to the wonted manner of disputing by Induction, after an enumeration of sundry particular treasons and rebellions, to have added, nec in caeteris contrarium est videre, nor in any other doth it otherwise appear: which had he done, he might soon have ben convinced of a most notoriously. For let him show, what Presbyterian Priest there was in managing that late insurrection in Bedfordshire and the Counties adjoining; or in that later rising in Essex and Kent: or what sedition and treason any Presbyterian Priest among us had a hand in during the Reign of Queen Elisabeth? although the Ministers that then stood for the Presbyterian Government against the Bishops, through the prevalent power of some of them in and with the State, endured much hard measure, some suspended, some deprived, some imprisoned, some exiled, some sentenced to death, and some put to death: or what part did any such bear with us, under King James and King Charles, tho not a few of them were very harshly and unmercifully handled under either, in the plotting of any treason, or raising any rebellion against either? And here I can not omit the speeches of two Bishops of London in Queen Elizabeth's time, concerning the Puritans, as they were then commonly termed, such as desired a reformation in some Church-affairs, and were for the Presbyterian Government. The one of them B. Elmor, tho none of the best, when one preaching at Pauls Cross, had inveighed bitterly against that party as a crew of seditious and turbulent persons, and had affirmed the Puritans to be worse then the Papists; No, quoth the Bishop, he said not therein aright: for the Puritans, if they had me among them, would cut my