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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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For his little knowledge of Presbyter John, 1if there be a King so called in the world, or the King at least that is abusively so termed; he wants belike his fellow Figure-flingers glass in Finsbury fields, wherein he professed he could see what was done all the world over. But if he know nothing of Presbyter John and his Country, as he would seem here to intimate, how comes he to know what is done in the East Indies, in places far more remote then those parts of Africa, where his regiment and residence is said to be? Or if he be as ignorant of the one as of the other, doth he not apparently cheat people by taking their money to tell them in what condition their friends ⟨p. 26⟩or husbands are in some parts of the East Indies, and at what time they shall from thence return. No body belike repairs to him for inquiry concerning ought or any in Prester Jean, or Prestegians Country; and therefore he regards not to take notice of ought there: otherwise, I doubt not, but that the tender of a little yellow, some small pittance of that yolk of the egg,2 that the Diviner demanded of his Client; or not much of the White, would so clear his eye-sight, or his glass, or both▪ that he could soon come to know as well what were done in the inner parts of Ethiopia, as how matters went with men in the gulf of Bengala; alike, without the Devils help, I believe, in either.
For his litle knowledge of Presbyter John, 1if there be a King so called in the world, or the King at least that is abusively so termed; he wants belike his felow Figure-flingers glas in Finsbury feilds, wherein he professed he could see what was done all the world over. But if he know nothing of Presbyter John and his Countrey, as he would seem here to intimate, how comes he to know what is done in the East Indies, in places far more remote then those parts of Africa, where his regiment and residence is said to be? Or if he be as ignorant of the one as of the other, doth he not apparently cheat people by taking their money to tel them in what condition their frends ⟨p. 26⟩