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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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such as the professors and practisers of such ⟨p. 31⟩arts, when they turned true Christians, burnt at Ephesus, Act. 19.19. Ah what an envious man was Paul, that would suffer them so to do? But more particularly, that by some instances we may know what books he means, There are books (saith he from the Lord of Marchistone writing on the Revelation) among the Jews, containing doctrines, as they allege, proceeding from the mouths of the Patriarchs, affirming every great Angel of seven to rule the world 490 years. and in particular, a Book of the Government of the World by Angels; which M. L. himself hath Englished: whereof he purposes to write a special Treatise; wherein from the beginning of the World to these times, and some hundreds of years succeeding; he shall endeavour to manifest such Mysteries involved in this learning, as yet have not appeared; wherein he shall go near to give every Common Wealth of Europe a smart conjecture of the continuance or destruction of their State and Government. having gotten, forsooth, the true Key, or Cabala, as elsewhere he terms it, to unlock these Mysteries, which others for want thereof understand not. he should have done well to have added Mother Shipton's Prophesies, which he says were never questioned for antiquity and verity: And the rest of the rabble of old wives tales as the Apostle speaks, 1 Tim. 4.7. whereof he tells us, there are many more in the North. And what is all this, but to do as Satan did with God to our first Parents, who charged him with envying man divine knowledge, because he inhibited him the forbidden fruit? For therefore, saith. Mr. L. these Clergy men keep these Books out of mens sight; because out of envy they would keep people in ignorance, and withhold them from attaining such deep and profound knowledge as himself by reading of them hath attained unto. As for the Lord Napier, and his Countryman Robert Pont's, their Calculations by Jubilees from the Worlds beginning to the Worlds end, the time whereof both of them, contrary to our Saviours avouchment take upon them to determine, the one Propos. 15. the other Cap. 19. they are so groundless, that few or none that I have seen do accord with either. and for Tritemius his Treatise of the seven Planetary Angels that should in course govern the whole World by those seven Planets, which Mr. L.