Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words,…

Yea Cardan, a great Author with Mr. Lily, (as the L. Howard reports him; for that work of his I have not) albeit they be not certain what year, much less at what time of the year, or day of the month, and much less yet in what hour of the night his Mother was delivered of him; yet having fixed the time of his birth, to such a year, and time of the year, and day of the month, and hour of the night he pleased, following the groundless tradition of his Romish Rabbins therein; doth from the Stars, as he conceives them disposed at that instant, very solemnly and seriously deliver his judgement ⟨p. 184⟩thereupon, not only that our Saviour was to be born of a Virgin, because the first face of Virgo was then ascending, whose proper image is a Virgin nursing a Child; but that also he should be both a Priest and a Prophet, because Saturn was then in the ninth House, and in the Sign of Gemini: (whereas yet, saith the L. Howard, their great Bassa Abraham the Jew is of the mind, that whosoever finds Saturn at his birth so consorted, shall never prov a good Christian) and that he was to suffer a violent and bloody death, because Mars was then in the house of death. In which both his calculations and observations upon them, although that Honourable Person control him, as mistaken in the one, nor following the principles of his own Patriarchs in the other: yet let them go for currant, be they right or wrong in either: it being nothing to the particular that we are now upon. Only thus much, that if these grounds be firm and solid, we may through Cardanes misreckoning miss of the assurance of our Saviour: and whether his reckoning be right or no, we may come to have many Saviours, that is, many so peculiarly qualified, as he was, who was alone to be our Saviour; since that it is scarce imaginable but that sundry should be born in divers places at or about the same instant in which the Virgin his Mother was delivered of him, and consequently under the same situation of the Stars at his birth.

Yea Cardan, a great Autor with Mr. Lilie, (as the L. Howard reports him; for that work of his I have not) albeit they be not certain what yeer, much lesse at what time of the yeer, or day of the month, and much lesse yet in what hower of the night his Mother was delivered of him; yet having fixed the time of his birth, to such a yeer, and time of the yeer, and day of the month, and hower of the night he pleased, folowing the groundlesse tradition of his Romish Rabbines therein; doth from the Stars, as he conceives them disposed at that instant, very solemnly and seriously deliver his judgement