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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 how would the man be heard and tried? forsooth, according to his own principles. Let me be heard, saith he, according to mine own principles. a very fair course indeed, and a very reasonable request; can ye blame him, if he desire so to be heard ⟨p. 27⟩and tried? For what cheater, or impostor? what malefactor, felon, traitor, or murderer, would not right willingly be heard, tried and sentenced according to his own principles? And what, think we, would their principles be? such, no doubt, as were those of Brennus and his Galls, and their plea against the Romans, whose dominions they had invaded; as Plutarch relateth it, that they did nothing evil or unjust, 1but kept to the ancientest, and most generally received and allowed Law in the World, that gives the stronger right to what the weaker held: or, as Livy more succinctly, that their right consisted in their arms, 2and to hardy persons all things appertained. and such, I believe, would their principles be, that all was of right theirs, that either by fraud or force, slight or might, they could wrest from any other, that were either way, or in either kind weaker then themselves. By which their Tenets and Maxims might they but obtain to be tried and sentenced, they would be sure, they knew, to do well enough. And the like course of Judicature doth this man plead for. Let me be heard, saith he, according to mine own principles. grant him but his own grounds (a most reasonable request) and he will soon be able sufficiently to clear himself, neither shall he need to except against any uncharitable either Presbyterian or Independent, from being of his Judges, or of his Jury.
But how would the man be heard and tried? forsooth, according to his own principles. Let me be heard, saith he, according to mine own principles. a very fair cours indeed, and a very reasonable reqest; can ye blame him, if he desire so to be heard ⟨p. 27⟩and tried? For what cheater, or imposter? what malefactor, felon, traitor, or murtherer, would not right willingly be heard, tried and sentenced according to his own principles? And what, think we, would their principles be? such, no doubt, as were those of Brennus and his Galles, and their plea against the Romanes, whose dominions they had invaded; as Plutarch relateth it, that they did nothing evil or unjust,