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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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Only by the way, I should, if I might be so bold, demand of Mr. L. whether this excellent Calculator, Capt. G. Wharton, be not anagrammatised the same with Naworth of Oxford. I shrewdly guess them to be one and the same. and some friends assure me, that he himself in some of his writings hath acknowledged as much. Which if it so be; I should then further demand, (for I am in these matters but a Questionist) how it is come about, that Naworth that ABC fellow of Oxford, (for so M. L. styles him in the very entry to his Ephemeris for the year 47.) is now so suddenly become Capt. G. Wharton that excellent Calculator? Surely there must needs be some grand mystery in it. Is the transposition of a few letters, think we, so efficacious in this their new Magic, that the change of the name should suddenly produce such a strange change in the ⟨p. 36⟩man? Or may we not deem rather that his reconcilement to Mr. Lily hath effected the alteration, and made the Abce Scholar such an accurate calculator? and then the Annotator may not be wholly out of hope, but that if he would recant and claw Mr. Lily a little, M. L. as the Proverb is, would claw him again, and so he might of Thomas Wiseacre, that old doting Duns, become suddenly Mr. T. G. an excellent Divine, or, as Marcilius Ficinus, because he writes for those of his coat (for no other learning is M. L. privy to in him) an excellent learned Priest. Yea what might not those poor Snakes the silly sneaking Presbyterians, whether English or Scottish hope to prove, if they could be so happy, as to make their peace with M. L. and be admitted to kiss the hand of this Great Mogul? But neither is the Annotator, nor are the Presbyterians, he hopes, so base minded, to stoop so low, as to bear a taper before the Devil, to gain a degree in his Academy, and to attain a new Title in M. L. his books. Again, I should be glad to know how it came to pas, when time was, that Mr. N•. if not calculations, yet observations and judgments at Oxford, and M. Lilies here at London, were so divers one from another, or so advers rather either to other; or whence it is, that they do now so exactly agree. Did so small a distance of place, think we, alter the face of the sky? or hath the variation of the Scene on the earth here below, produced a variation of the Scheme above in the heavens?
Onely by the way, I should, if I might be so bold, demand of Mr. L. whether this excellent Calculator, Capt. G. Wharton, be not anagrammatised the same with Naworth of Oxford. I shrewdly gues them to be one and the same. and some frends assure me, that he himself in some of his writings hath acknowledged as much. Which if it so be; I should then further demand, (for I am in these matters but a Qestionist) how it is come about, that Naworth that ABC felow of Oxford, (for so M. L. styles him in the very entrie to his Ephemeris for the yeer 47.) is now so sodainlie become Capt. G. Wharton that excellent Calculator? Surely there must needs be some grand mysterie in it. Is the transposition of a few letters, think we, so efficacious in this their new Magik, that the change of the name should sodainly produce such a strange change in the