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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42469	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.; Vindication of the annotations by him published	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1653 (1653)	Wing G330; ESTC R7339	172,651	208

til he were old should die at home in his own house and that with much honor none of all which fel out accordingly Vt mihi permirum videatur qenqam extare qi etiamnunc credat eis qorum edicta videat re eventis refelli Insomuch saith he that to me it seems very wonderful that there should any be extant that would stil beleiv those whom by the things themselvs and the events he may see daily refuted Hence the Tragik 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He defines a Wizard one that tels a few truths among many lies and by Seneca it appeers that in his time it was grown to a common by-word Patere Mathematicos aliqando verum dicere Give Mathematicians leav sometime to tel true Yea concerning this particular of Eclipses which directly crosseth Mr. Lilies ever Alstedius observes Experientiam testari visis Eclipsibus saepe fertilissimos saluberrimos exoptatissimos subsecutos annos that Experience testifies and gives in evidence against him that after such Eclipses seen have ensued most fertile most wholesome most desirable yeers But wil ye know the reason why so many crosse events and such as these men have foretold came to be upon record Diodore the Sicilian Historiographer wil tel you as by Photius he is related who speaking of one Eunus deemed in his dayes a great Wizard Among many things saith he that he gave out some few fel out accordingly and dum vera qisque sedulo notat falsa nemo coarguit while every one observed sedulously what prooved tru no man regarded to convince him of those things that proved false the man in short time grew into great credit In fewer words take it from the Lord Verulame Men mark how they hit mark not how they misse that which that judicious Statesman notes to be a principal cause that hath procured to their predictions some grace and credit but his Verdict of them he passeth in these terms My judgment is that they ought all to be despised and to serv but for winter talk by the fire side Tho when I say despised I mean it as for beleif for otherwise the spreading or publishing of them is in no sort to be despised for they have done much mischeif that which Agrippa a great Statesman also minded Augustus of and I see many severe Lawes made to suppresse them that which Mr. Calvin also hath observed Lastly when diseases and sad accidents come after Eclipses must it needs follow that they are produced by them That we have had after this last Solar Eclips a scorching summer and a sickly Autumn must this great Eclips therefore needs be the cause of it how many hot summers and sickly Autumns yea pestilential both without anie such remarkable Eclips ushering them in have we not almost everie yeer towards the fall of the leafe new diseases as they call them yea if as this our Wisard enformes us the effect of an Eclips may not begin to take place or the Eclips to produce its work untill eight moneths after how can it be certainly said that ought which since that hitherto hath fallen out to wit from March to November hath from this Eclipse proceeded and yet we must beleiv him that the Eclipse of the Sun that was on the second of October 1605. did produce that hellish Powder plot that had ben so long before in design and should have ben put in execution the fift of November next following But these men are the drivers at the plough or harrow of their own contrivances and can qicken or slacken the drift at their pleasure Mean while their sophisms are verie frequent for the most part in that fallacie of non caussa ut caussa And their arguing from the events ensuing after Eclipses to prove them to be effects of those Eclipses after which they ensued and the Eclipses the Efficients or producers of them may wel be paralleled with the Judgment of that grave snowie-white hayred and goodlie long bearded Old man who being demanded by Sir Thomas More sent down into Kent and then sitting in Commission to make inqirie concerning the Obstructions of Sandwich Haven what he deemed might be the cause thereof whence he deemed the thing might proceed as conceiving by his yeers and long time of observation and experience he might be able to say more in that matter then most of them then there present did to that his demand verie solemnly and seriouslie return this answer that in his remembrance Tenderden parish Church had no Steeple neither had it had anie time out of mind before and the passage into the haven at Sandwich was then verie fair and cleere But after the building of Tenterden Church Steeple the Haven began to be obstructed and Choked as then it was Whence arose that by-word of Tenterden Steeple and goodwins sands not unfitlie appliable to these terrible Eclipses and the pretended Effects of them for the Argument will be as valide and vigorous in the one as in the other Or we may wel yoak our Wizards herein with our Empirik qacksalvers who having a set number of medicines when they come to a Patient of whose maladie they are ignorant give him first one medicine and after that another and then it may be a third and if it so come to passe that by the strength of nature over-mastering the disease or the matter that fed it being wasted and spent or by some occurrent intervening the party come to recover the cure is by them ascribed to the medicine last given and that is pricked down with a probatum est upon it albeit it effected nothing at all in it and howsoever by this course they kil more then they cure and where any chance to be cured 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he speaks they are cured rather by hap hazard then by any their skil Yet there is a register made of those that recover but no record kept usually of such as miscarry and the lesse regard had or notice taken of the one then of the other because as one sometime said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their luckie haps the Sun shewes their mishaps the grave covers In like manner is it with these Wizards whatsoever distemper in the ayr or unseasonable weather or bad harvest or strange maladie or great mortality or war or seditions or sad accident whatsoever falls out in a land all is set upon the score of the Eclipse last past tho it cannot be shewed to have had any hand in it and by other courses it were both procured and produced and when such things are by gues foretold of them according to the old saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is the best Wisard that gives the best gues tho their predictions fail oftner then fall out aright and what falls out aright doth in regard of them come to passe rather by meer conjecture and casualtie then by any certain

a Solar Eclips that the Persians were under the Moon the Greeks under the Sun and the Eclips of the Sun therefore did foreshew the defection of the Greeks Cities and States to him so these Egyptian Wizards tell Alexander that the Sun was the Greeks and the Moon the Persians Star and the Moon eclipsed therefore did foreshew some great overthrow and slaughter of that Nation withal telling many Stories of great defeats that had befaln the Persian forces upon such Eclipses and this being divulged abroad in the Camp put a great deal of life and courage again into Alexanders Souldiers that were before much dampt and even ded on the nest And tho Alexander himself as having lerned it from his Master Aristotle might understand as much concerning the general nature of Eclipses as those Egyptian Wizards knew yet was he as willing to entertain these their frivolous fancies so wel fitted to his affairs as the tale of Jupiters companying with his mother Olympias in the similitude of a Serpent and the Sorceresses flatteries at the Libyan Oracle whether by an unskilful slip or a wilful mistake styling him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joves Son and refusing to acknowledge Philip his Father which tho he knew right wel to be no other then meer fictions and among the Grecians a people of better apprehension and his own countrymen that were better acqainted with his breeding he were more sparing of venting ought concerning his divine Off-spring and made but a jest of it when he shewed his frends and favourits the bloud that came from him in fight and asked whether it were such as the Gods shed and told them an other time of two things that gave in evidence against his Deitie yet with those barbarous Nations whome he desired to subdu he was willing to have such frivolous fictions and groundles conceits go for current But as these Gypsie Wizards fitted their presages of this Eclipse unto Alexanders designs and desires so the Persian Magitians might as wel with a wet finger have framed the very self same accident to Darius his affairs as those other to Xerxes his intentions and enterprises and it may be that some of them so did by telling him that the Persians were under the tutelage of the Sun whome they adored as their cheif God by the name of Mithras or Mitras for both come to one and that the Greeks and Macedonians were under the Moon on the face whereof coming in opposition to it the Sun darted the shadow of the Earth that produced that darknes whereby was portended that the Persians should darken the luster of the Macedonians that came to invade them by giving them some great and remarkable defeat and as good ground might Darius and his forces have to beleiv the one as Alexander and his folowers or Xerxes before him to give credit to the other But thus ye may see that it is peoples ignorance of the natural cause and course of such occurrents which those cunning Gypsies therefore were so careful to keep from them that makes men entertain such fond conceits of these Eclipses and to give heed to such tales as our Stargazers and Figure-casters tell them concerning the same That which Claudius the Romane Emperor tho a man otherwise of no deep reach yet not unwisely foreseeing having understood from some Mathematicians that in the fifth yeer of his reign there would an Eclips of the Sun fall out on the first of August which was his birthday lest the people prone to superstitious conceits should make some misconstruction of it and persons il-affected take occasion thereby to raise some tumults and cause some disturbance in the State he caused the same by a publick instrument to be foreshewed together with a declaration of the natural cause of it and by that means qieted the peoples minds and prevented such mischeif as might otherwise have ensued And this peice of policy if not prompted and put upon by some other of better brains then his own he might wel have lerned from the prudent and provident practise of Sulpitius Gallus who being Captain of a troop under Paulus Aemylius in the Roman expedition against Perseus King of Macedonie by the skill he had in Astronomie foreknowing that the Moon would be eclipsed the night before the battel was to be fought at such an hower and for such a space of time acqainted his General first with it and by his appointment the whole army called together for that purpose withal enforming them of the tru cause of it that they might not deem it as a prodigie no more then the ful or the wane or the change of the Moon or the rising and setting either of it or the Sun coming in a constant cours of nature as wel the one as the other and being such therefore as might no les certainly be both foreknown and foretold This thus disclosed to them before hand nothing troubled them when it came but made them much admire the man as he justly deserved for his skil and he is noted indeed to have ben the first man that divulged this mysterie among the Romans and as Plinie reports of him afterward wrote a large volume wherein he gave a just account of all the Eclipses that should ensu for six hundred yeers particularly and precisely designing in each yeer the moneth day and hower in which they should fall out the occurrences of the several succeeding yeers and ages from time to time giving attestation thereunto The Roman Souldiery therefore aright understanding the matter were not moved at all with the sight of that which they had warning of before but undauntedly and cheerfully addressed themselvs to encounter with the enemy the day folowing whereas the Macedonian Souldierie reputing it a prodigie of il-presage filled their whole camp with scrichings and howlings all the while that the Moon was in her defection untill she recovered her light again Perseus sure wanted some of Alexanders Magitians to tell his Souldiers that the Macedonians were under the tutelage of the Sun and the Romans of the Moon because those of their Gentry did wear the figure of the Moon on their rich shoes and the Macedonian forces therefore should have the better of the Romans But the event would have disproved them for Perseus his forces were the next day totally routed and the King himself captived Yea but saith Mr. Lilie from Peucer certain it is that people in all ages have accounted these Eclipses very unluckie things and mens minds have ben much therewith terrified that which by these very relations may some say doth also evidently appeer I answer No mervail for inusitata perturbant any strange thing tho coming in a natural and ordinary way yet to people ignorant thereof because unusual and uncouth is wont to occasion much trouble and misdoubt these Eclipses more especially in regard of a twofold Error wherewith concerning such occurrents the minds

while ye see by what hath ben before delivered what verdict the Spirit of God hath past upon these Chaldee VVizards observations and dictates about the Celestial Signs and yet Mr. Swans main scope throughout this whole Sermon is to disprove that which is here so peremptorily pronounced of them to give the Holy Ghost the ly to prove that they are not vanities but divine Oracles condemning the wiser sort of the Heathen that set light by them esteeming of them what they ar here affirmed to be and such Divines as are likewise minded concerning them as no better both then men out of their wits such as have rather need of Elebore to cure their brains then any reasoning with them to inform their judgements But howsoever he deem us persons that that have laesa principia a crew of crackt-braind coxcombs fitter for a Bedlam cure then for a Scholerlike dispute or debate yet we shall by Gods assistance having him and his holy Prophets we hope on our side take the boldness to examine the validitie of his Arguments produced to prove the truth of that which diametrically opposeth the dictate of Gods Spirit and the verdict here passed upon their Iudicial Astrologie which we conceive not without some ground from his own grants to be forbidden and consequently condemned in his Text. In the first place therefore to begin the fight he sends out as the manner is a forlorn hope some velites levis armaturae milites a few souldiers of light furniture not so much skirmishing with the advers partie as falling foul upon their own and fighting one against another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one or two snips or od ends of Poetrie masterlesse dictates of namles Poets but Poets at the best and of what credit such mens sayings ar that old said saw a saying of their own may shew us it saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it tels us in plain terms that they tel us many lies But let us hear what they say One of them tels us Astra regunt homines that the Stars rule men and there is good cause indeed to fear those that rule over us especially when we shall be taught that they have very spightful and malevolent affections and dispositions towards us very malignant aspects and influences upon us But how doth it appear that the Stars rule men or whence had they that power and office of regiment or regencie given them over mankind thus to sway humane affairs as these men would have them Hath God any where in his Word made it known to us that he hath assigned them any such office of rule over us It is said indeed that God made the Sun to rule the day and the Moon and the Stars to rule the night Gen. 1.16 Psal 136.8 9. that is by a certain and constant cours to make a distinction of day and night and to exercise that lightsome qalitie or facultie that God hath endowed them with whether peculiarly or immediately conferred upon each or imparted from one or more of them to the rest for he use of Mankind in either but where he is said to have appointed them to rule mens persons and their affairs or imployments civil or moral counsels and casualties genitures states terms of life issues of death and the like we no where read save in the presumptuous writings of those who have assigned them such imployments Yea it hath ben usually deemed that all the creatures mentioned in Moses to have ben made before man were for this end made to be serviceable unto man who was made in the last place when all things were fitted for him before Whence that common saying Omnia propter hominem homo propter Deum All things for man and man for God Yea the Sun it self the principal and most glorious of those celestial bodies hath his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a Chaldee term that signifies to minister or serve which word also the Chaldee Paraphrast as we term him useth in that place of Moses Gen. 1.18 in steed of that word which we render to rule and it is not amiss observed by our Writers that in those words of Moses Deut. 4.19 concerning the Sun Moon and Stars which Iehova thy God hath imparted unto all Nations under the whole Heavens which how the Jewish Rabbins have abused we shall hereafter shew there seems to be closely intimated an argument to disswade from adoring the celestial creatures as being an absurd and preposterous course for Gods people to serv them whom God had appointed to do service not to them alone but to all the Nations of the World But that God made them to be serviceable to mankind is out of qestion The qestion is Who hath made them Mans masters and governours who made them Rulers over Mankind Nor shall we need to go far to seek the resolution of this doubt or qestion Mr. Lilie will inform us We constitute Venus Ruler c. saith he in his Dark year and they that constitute Rulers are able I hope to furnish them with power as well of abilitie as autoritie whereby to exercise and execute that rule or regiment whereunto they have assigned them And indeed herein they imitate those of the Papacie that have assigned unto several Countries several Saints and designed those Saints to rule and protect them yea have deputed several Saints to be Patrons of several professions For in the like manner have these men assigned unto several Stars and Constellations the government of several Countries and Kingdoms of several states trades and professions of the several parts of mans body and the like Yea herein they tread in the steps of the superstitious Jewish Masters who because the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used Deut. 4.19 doth usually signifie to divide or distribute whereas it is freqently also taken more largely for to impart or assign even where no such division or distribution is at all intended as I have shewed on Esay 53.12 do thence gather that the Stars are by God designed to rule all the other Nations who have therefore their several Stars assigned them whereunto they ar obnoxious but his own people the Jews he hath reserved to be ruled by himself and that this is the right reason why other Nations have cause to be afraid of the signs of Heaven but the Jewish people have not And so have we the tru sense of this place as Manasses the Amsterdam great Rabbi from Abraham Esdrassonne informs us which if it be tru I hope we Christians may in these dayes expect the like priviledge that the Jewish people sometime injoyed But I suppose we have as litle cause to believe them as either the Papists or the Pagans that herein agreed with them as by their Wizards Dictates we have formerly showen But this piece of Poetrie having thus dispatcht we shall proceed to the next and that is so far from backing the former whose second it should be that as