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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 Advocates till we come to deal with them, we shall presume a little to cope with this grand Master in the matter of Eclipses, because they are the main subject of this his Black Book. And here I might a little question the skill of Mr. L. himself, and some of his fellow Prognostics, in that part of the Sidereal Science, which on all sides is acknowledged to be as warrantable and lawful as beneficial and useful. That which a man better versed in these things then my self, might the rather adventure to do; for that Kepler a great Mathematician sticks not to affirm,1 that Astrologi Astronomiam sinceriorem ut plurimum ignorant, our great Astrologers are for the most part not so well skilled in the sincerer part of Astronomy.
But leaving his Advocates til we come to deal with them, we shal presume a litle to cope with this grand Master in the matter of Eclipses, because they ar the main subject of this his Black Book. And here I might a litle qestion the skil of Mr. L. himself, and some of his felow Prognosticks, in that part of the Sideral Science, which on all sides is acknowledged to be as warrantable and lawful as beneficial and useful. That which a man better versed in these things then my self, might the rather adventure to do; for that Kepler a great Mathematician sticks not to affirm,1 that Astrologi Astronomiam sinceriorem ut plurimum ignorant, our great Astrologers ar for the most part not so wel skild in the sincerer part of Astronomie.
- 1De novâ Stell. Serpent. c. 11.
Now here, in the first place▪ we have ben told by some of them, the more to amaze the silly multitude, that this late Eclipse of the Sun would be greater and more terrible then any that had ben many ages before, Yea Mr. L. himself tells us, ⟨p. 34⟩