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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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Secondly, as concerning the site of the light continued during the conjunction of those two Luminaries in the late Eclipse; M. L. with divers other of his fellow Prognostics, were manifestly mistaken. for in his delineation thereof, as divers other also of them, he places the light part, such glimmerings at least of it, as he is pleased to afford us, below; whereas it was apparent to any eye sedulously observing the apparition, that the light part was above: which I hope, he himself will not have the face to deny.
Secondly, as concerning the site of the light continued during the conjunction of those two Luminaries in the late Eclips; M. L. with divers other of his felow Prognostiks, were manifestly mistaken. for in his delineation thereof, as divers other also of them, he places the light part, such glimmerings at least of it, as he is pleased to afford us, below; whereas it was apparent to any ey sedulously observing the apparition, that the light part was above: which I hope, he himself wil not have the face to deny.
Thirdly, for the summing up of the parts (as to us) obscured;1 calling in Captain George Wharton an excellent Calculator, he determines from him, who (he saith) had accurately and learnedly delivered it, that the body of the Sun would be eleven digits and fifty five minutes eclipsed. Where I wonder why Mr. Lily so great an Artist, as he professeth himself to be, should be so diffident of his own skill, that he should not dare to venture or hazard it upon any Calculation of his own, but ⟨p. 35⟩refer himself to Capt. G. W. his calculation herein, whom howsoever he pronounces in his calculation exact; and doth not less, I hope, conspire with in his Prognostics for the effects or events of it, yet as misdoubting the success and issue of the business, he seems so cautiously to have thus delivered it, that if any error came to be discovered in it, it might rather reflect upon his friend the Calculator, from whom he had taken it upon trust, then be charged upon himself. But that the Calculations, whether the ones, or the others, or agreed upon by both, is not so exact, is by others not a few, deemed in these points very skilful, agreed, and by M. L. himself in part also, but covertly, confessed. For some here at London, as I am informed, do affirm, that the obscuration in some digits fell short of that their account; and that by the observation of those at Oxford, and of a prime man among the rest in M. L. his own account, it missed much at least in the minutes; for by their Calculation it was but eleven digits, and one fourth, which I conceive to be fifteen minutes, the fourth part of a digit, consisting of sixty minutes; which why M. L.