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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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Yea but those stupid Annotations, 1are but an unseemly Commentary, consisting of criticisms and fruitless expositions on Texts of Scripture, against the whole current of antiquity, reason, and the very genuine sense of the words themselves; the fruits of a brain ⟨p. 28⟩doting with age, and of one become a child again; in a word no better then a puddle of envy and non-sense.
Yea but those stupid Annotations, 1are but an unseemly Commentary, consisting of criticisms and fruitlesse expositions on Texts of Scripture, against the whole current of antiqity, reason, and the very genuine sense of the words themselvs; the fruits of a brain ⟨p. 28⟩doating with age, and of one become a child again; in a word no better then a puddle of envy and non-sense.
- 1Pag. 8. & 47.
Good Sir, be pleased, I beseech you, to tell us, who told you all this▪ for, I believe, you never read any great part of the whole Commentary; it may be scarce had the patience to run over the whole Annotation to an end: for you complain elsewhere of the length of it; and say as little to that concerns you in it, as if you had never read word of it. Besides, be it that you had turned over the whole Commentary from the first Note to the last; yet I suppose, you will hardly make many, if any at all, believe, that you are so well acquainted with all Antiquity, or so well versed and skilled in the Original Language and genuine sense of the Text, as to pas out of your own knowledge such a censure as this upon any mans work. and he were indeed a very silly man, and well worthy of much pity, that would deem your censures of much worth or weight in a business of this nature. As for the Annotator and his work such as it is: albeit he doubts not, but that many wants and weaknesses, defects and defaults may by a quick and piercing eye be descried in it,