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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It will, it may be, be said, the one comes every day, the other but rarely, scarce once in some years.
It wil, it may be, be said, the one comes every day, the other but rarely, scarce once in some yeers.
This is that indeed that some of Ancients have well observed, that Miracula assiduitate vilescunt; such things,1 as were they duly considered, would justly be deemed to be as strange and admirable as any miracle whatsoever; yet in regard of the frequency of them are little regarded and lightly past over. It was not without just cause and good ground deemed a strange matter and a miracle, that the Sun at one time for some hours should stand still, Josh. 10.12, 13. and again that at another time for some degrees it should go back, Isaiah 38.8. yet if it be well weighed and duly considered, it is a far greater and much more admirable thing, that the same Sun should for so many thousand years together keep a constant course and certain tenor of continued and unwearied motion, save when by a superior overruling power it was for some short space of time a piece of a day only, once or twice interrupted. Yea it is much more admirable, that within the space of twenty four hours it should every day make up its diurnal circuit, then that for a few hours it should sometime either go back or stand still: the one is in its own nature simply considered of more difficulty then the other, tho the other seem the stranger, because it so seldom came to pas. It was in its own nature, as we said before of the Eclipse, a work admirable, that the Sun did rise and set, at his due set and wonted time, either the day before, or the day after his stay at the one time, his retrograde motion at the others, then that for so small an interval he stopped and stayed his usual progress in either. But the difference is between the case there and here, that there both the stay and the regress were contrary to the natural course by God established in the creature, and required therefore an extraordinary power and work for the effecting of either, the daily circuit being according to the constant set course by God in nature established: whereas in the present case, the interception of the Sun-light in whole by night, in part more or less by day in the Eclipse, as we usually term the one, and may as well and as truly term the other, tho not so properly either, come both alike according to a constant