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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
The Annotations on Jerem. Chap. 10. Verse 2. and part of Vers. 3.
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.
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven] As if the event of things, or the issue of your affairs depended upon them; which those fond star-gazers bare people in hand, and took upon them thereby to determine and foretell, what good or bad success mens designs should have, Isaiah 47.12, 13. Howbeit, signs there are of two sorts; first, natural, and ordinary, the Stars themselves being set in the sky, to distinguish the times and seasons of the year; to which may be added, the conjunctions of them one with another, or oppositions of them one to another, whence the Eclipses of some of them at some time do proceed; and these are those signs, which coming in a constant course, and continued tenor, (in regard whereof men skilful therein, are able either going backward, to tell how it hath been with them for thousands of years past, or looking forward how it will be for as many, if the world it self should so long continue:) God would not have his people to be affected or affrighted with, as if in regard of them, or from them, any evil in the success of their affairs could betide them: other signs there are extraordinary, in dreadful apparitions, besides the ordinary course of the creature, by which the Lord doth sometime give notice unto his people, of his displeasure, and warning of ensuing wrath; and these God doth not inhibit his people to be affected with, and taking of them unto heart. See Joel 2.30, 31. Luk. 21.11, 25.
and be not dismaied at the signs of heaven] As if the event of things, or the issue of your affairs depended upon them; which those fond star-gazers bare people in hand, and took upon them thereby to determine and foretel, what good or bad successe mens designs should have, Esay 47.12, 13. Howbeit, signs there are of two sorts; first, natural, and ordinary, the Stars themselves being set in the skie, to distinguish the times and seasons of the year; to which may be added, the conjunctions of them one with another, or oppositions of them one to another, whence the Eclipses of some of them at some time do proceed; and these are those signs, which coming in a constant course, and continued tenor, (in regard whereof men skilful therein, are able either going backward, to tel how it hath been with them for thousands of yeers past, or looking forward how it will be for as many, if the world it self should so long continue:) God would not have his people to be affected or affrighted with, as if in regard of them, or from them, any evil in the successe of their affaires could betide them: other signs there are extraordinary, in dreadful apparitions, besides the ordinary course of the creature, by which the Lord doth sometime give notice unto his people, of his displeasure, and warning of ensuing wrath; and these God doth not inhibit his people to be affected with, and taking of them unto heart. See