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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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But leaving his spite in particular at John Calvin, lets rake a little further into the dirt and mire of his malignant ravings, in his rambling excursions, and ramping incursions upon the poor Presbyters, whom he ranked even now among the great Potentates of this world, which Jove's office is to protect. The Scottish Nation, saith he; (that is, the silly Scottish Presbytery, or, the Presbyterians and their Proselytes, 1as ye heard him before speak, for they were not surely the Royalists, or the Prelatical party) but this Scottish Nation raised an Army, and made for their pretence of War only an obtrusion upon their Nation of a Semipopish Book of Common-Prayer. But the sad consequences which after that happened, ended not so soon as it began, but in a most woeful distemper of both England and Scotland in much bloodshed and most fierce Wars: both Nations having sensibly now ben made to understand, of how dangerous a consequence it is, to embroil our selves into a war, upon the prating and pretended Glosses of those we call Ministers, who never care for the welfare of any sort of people, but of their own Hierarchy, that so they might Lord it and domineer like petty Tyrants over the Commonalty and Gentry.
But leaving his spite in particular at John Calvin, lets rake a little further into the dirt and mire of his malignant ravings, in his rambling excursions, and ramping incursions upon the poor Presbyters, whome he ranked even now among the great Potentates of this world, which Joves office is to protect. The Scottish Nation, saith he; (that is, the sillie Scottish Presbyterie, or, the Presbyterians and their Proselytes, 1as ye heard him before speak, for they were not surely the Roialists, or the Prelatical party) but this Scottish Nation raised an Army, and made for their pretence of War onely an obtrusion upon their Nation of a Semipopish Book of Common-Prayer. But the sad conseqences which after that hapned, ended not so soon as it began, but in a most woful distemper of both England and Scotland in much bloodshed and most fierce Wars: both Nations having sensibly now ben made to understand, of how dangerous a conseqence it is, to embroil our selvs into a war, upon the prating and pretended Glosses of those we cal Ministers, who never care for the welfare of any sort of people, but of their own Hierarchie, that so they might Lord it and domineer like petie Tyrants over the Commonalty and Gentry.