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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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that which one of the Ancients, a man of great ⟨p. 183⟩learning, but mightily addicted to his own groundless fancies had long before him delivered,1 and endeavoured to make good by an Apocryphal Writ, entitled Josephs Prayer, wherein Jacob should say, (which I cite the rather in the Authors words to amend a default in them) not [Greek or Hebrew], Legit, but [Greek or Hebrew], Legi, [Greek or Hebrew], I have read in the Tables of Heaven, whatsoever things shall befall you and your children. for the words are said to be spoken, not as [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew], of or concerning, but [Greek or Hebrew], of, or by, Jacob, and related by Joseph, as his speech and in his person; as if Jacob by the Stars had ben informed of all that by the Spirit of Prophecy he foretold his Sons concerning what should befall either them or theirs. But such counterfeit stuff must be set out under some specious titles, that they may the better help to vend such braided wares as those are for which they are produced; unto which our Noble Countryman not undeservedly applies that of Lactantius concerning some quack-salvers, tituli habent remedia, pyxides vexena, 2that their boxes had the names of sovereign salves and receipts painted on them, when as there is nothing but trash and venom or poison within them. Yet other of them go a step further, and stick not to assert, that the Stars by virtue of an innate efficacy in way of effection, 3not of signification only produced all these things that of our Saviour have ben said. for that all those virtues and benign influences of the Stars wherewith Christ in their creation endowed them at first, did conspire and concur together to furnish Christ as largely as possibly they could at his birth, doing what service they were able then to him, from whom they had received them.
that which one of the Ancients, a man of great ⟨p. 183⟩lerning, but mightily addicted to his own groundlesse fancies had long before him delivered,1