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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 these things, as by-matters to my main intendment at present (mentioned only to retund a little this mans insolent vauntings of his transcendent skill in the Sidereal affairs) to be made out, and made good by him as he shall deem himself able; I shall proceed unto that, which I formerly propounded to deal in a while with him, concerning the nature of these Eclipses the main matter of his Book. And here in the first place, I would gladly know, for my better learning, from him and his Complices what reason in Nature they can give us (for in his late Ephemeris he tells us they go in a natural way) of those dreadful effects or events, that to these Eclipses they ascribe. For to press that Argument against them▪ that any the meanest capacity may be able to apprehend. The interception of the light of the Sun from our sight in these Eclipses, arises from the interposition of the body of the Moon between us and the Sun: now the like interception of the light of the Sun from our sight arises in the night time from the interposition of the body of the Earth between the Sun and us, and so makes every night, not a partial of so many digits and minutes more or less, but a total Eclipse of the Sun to us and the whole hemisphere wherein we are situate. I demand then of these men, what reason they can give, why these nightly Eclipses should not justly be deemed as dreadful and as dismal as those. ⟨p. 42⟩why should not the total want of the Sun-light for divers hours together, having no Moon-light at all to supply the want of it, either the night next before this Eclipse, or the night next after it, portend as dreadful matter, or produce as direful Effects, as the greatest darkness that to us it sustained, lasting (Mr. L. himself saith it) not above a quarter of an hour?
But leaving these things, as by-matters to my main intendment at present (mentioned onely to retund a litle this mans insolent vauntings of his transcendent skil in the Sideral affairs) to be made out, and made good by him as he shal deem himself able; I shall proceed unto that, which I formerly propounded to deal in a while with him, concerning the nature of these Eclipses the main matter of his Book. And here in the first place, I would gladly know, for my better lerning, from him and his Complices what reason in Nature they can give us (for in his late Ephemeris he tells us they go in a natural way) of those dreadful effects or events, that to these Eclipses they ascribe. For to pres that Argument against them that any the meanest capacity may be able to apprehend. The interception of the light of the Sun from our sight in these Eclipses, arises from the interposition of the body of the Moon between us and the Sun: now the like interception of the light of the Sun from our sight arises in the night time from the interposition of the body of the Earth between the Sun and us, and so makes every nght, not a partial of so many digits and minutes more or les, but a total Eclips of the Sun to us and the whole hemisphere wherein we ar situate. I demand then of these men, what reason they can give, why these nightly Eclipses should not justly be deemed as dreadful and as dismal as those.