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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

Heaven work upon this inferior world But the Sun and Moon and Stars are the Lights of Heaven Ergò the Sun Moon and Stars work upon the inferior World to the subversion of States changes of Common-Weals Laws and Religion and Translations of Kingdomes c. For who seeth not if he have but his eyes in his head that there is much more in the Conclusion then is to be found in the Premisses Or thus if you please The Lights of Heaven work upon this World by a power stamped at first upon them by God But the Sun Moon and Stars ar such Lights Ergò they work by such a power to subvert States and translate Kingdomes to make new Lords and new Laws And is not this think we an irrefragable Argument or were it not worthy rather to be hissed out of the Schools But thus we have at length the ful latitude of these mens interpretation of Moses his words or Gods rather by Moses recorded Let the Lights of Heaven be Signes not onely to foreshew what men bred and born under them shall be and shall do and what evils shall betide them in life and in death and to portend Rebellions and Ruines of Kingdomes States and Churches but efficacious Signes so to work upon men as to make them thievish and lecherous and disloyal and furious to make them subject to many miseries and disasters in their lives and to bring them at length to such and such evil ends and upon States to stir up people to sedition and Rebellion and to subvert and utterly overthrow them change their fundamental Laws and to remov the Religion professed formerly among them All this and much more then this they ascribe to the Stars and when we demand where they find that God at first endued them with this power they deem it answer sufficient to tel us that God himself when he made them said Let them be for Signes Is not this I say non sanguinem elicere but saniem exprimere to wring Scripture not until they make it yeild blood but untill they sqize out of it such rotten stuff such purulent matter as a man would wonder any Christian soul should not abhor Mr. Swan did forecast what would here be objected to wit that the Word of God tels us that its God not the Stars that disposes Kingdoms and States Prov. 8.15 16. that sets up and puls down Psal 75.7 that as Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar rules the Kingdomes of men not leaving them to the disposal of the Stars but giving them to whom he pleaseth Dan. 4.25 To this Mr. Swan returns a long laci●ious answer winding and turning to and fro as a Hare in chase to elude the the Hunts-man and his Hounds The sum of what he saith in short is this that It s one thing to so dispose of Kingdomes as to translate them to another Nation another thing so to dispose of of them as they who live in them to be punished for their sinnes Which distinction of his what it makes for his purpose a better head then mine must tell For God he grants doth the one as wel as the other and doth he not for mans sins as well the one as the other See Deut. 9.4 5. or do not our Astrologers ascribe the periods of Kingdomes to the Stars or have the Stars any regard to the goodnesse or badnesse of a people working as these Wizards and their Patrons tel us in a natural cours not in a moral or arbitrarie way as well in the one as in the other 2. To omit what he returns to an Objection of his own framing that God works alwayes extraordinarily in such cases which no wise man I think wil or did ever avow that yet the signes of Heaven have their working also and ar serviceable to God in these Which what is it else but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 principium p●tere to bring us back to that which was in qestion at first and to prove what he would have by that which is under debate Besides that the qestion is not whether God by a miraculous way make use of any creature to effect thereby what he pleaseth but whether these celestial bodies have an innate power to effect such strange alterations in States as our Wizards attribute to them I might demand of him where in any authentical Record he he finds that God ever made such use of the Stars For who almost would not smile to reade to this purpose alledged that of Asaph Psalm 50.4 He shal cal to the Heavens from above and to the earth that he may judge his people that is to hear the debates and decide the con●roversie between him and them For did not Esay chap. 1.2 and Moses before him Deut. 30.29 and 32.1 cal Heaven and Earth to hear the controversies between God and his people and to bear witnesse what was to pass in way of plea and allegation on Gods behalf against them implying thereby what they might doe and would doe were they apprehensive of such affairs See the like Jer. 2.12 13. Mic. 6.1 2. And might not that man deservedly be derided who would thence conclude that the stars had ears to hear what God or his Prophets there said as well as the Jewish Masters who with some great Heathen Writers from Psalm 19.1 assert them to be rational creatures or that should from the places before designed out of Moses Asaph Esay Jeremie and Micah maintain as much concerning the mountains of the earth and the earth it self as these men would hence gather concerning the Stars and the Heavens As litle to any purpose for proof of the point in qestion is that other instance from Deboraes words The stars in their courses fought against Sisera Judg. 5.20 For first if Rhetorical flourishes be made matter of Faith and Allegorical expressions strained up to the highest piteh of proprietie we shall soon frame a strange and monstrous Body of Divinitie and make Scripture story little better then a Popish Legend or a Jewish Talmud which by such means is grown up to a main mass of fabulous and ridiculous relations Will any be so absurd as because David one while complains that He stuck in the mire where he found no footing Psal 69.20 an other while praises God for drawing him up out of the miry clay Psal 40.2 Therefore to imagine that David sometime like to the Romane Marius lay hid in a bog from whence God in safetie drew him out Or because God threatens the Israelites by Amos chap. 8.9 that he would cause the Sun to set with them at noon tide and darken the earth in the clear day can it thence be concluded that some great Eclipse of the Sun should fall out on that day wherein the judgement then threatned should be inflicted or as some groundlesly that it should be a Prophecie of that obscuration of the Sun at the time of our Saviours suffering Matth. 27.45 or when God saith of Babel

vitious Vulgar Latin thus renders Qi signat in manu omnium hominum ut singuli noverint opera sua Who signeth in the hand of all men that each one may know his works Now howsoever Gocl acknowledgeth that the place is diversly expounded as wel by ancient as later Divines and that by those of them also who admit the Vulgar Version especially saith he by those that set light by Chiromancie as if any Divine of note old or new Jew or Christian Papist or Protestant commenting on the Text made it look that way yet if we look to the Original in the Holy toung as divers very lerned Hebrews whom he had advised with had enformed him it neither could nor ought to be understood other wise then of the use and signification of the Chiromantical Art Whereas on the contrary unlesse we will tear the words away from the Context which we ought not to do and have no regard either to the common use of the pauses or the ordinary rules of Grammatical construction they cannot at all imply or hold out any such thing but as all generally understand those first words speak of restraint of men from work abroad confinement of them to their houses by such stormy snowie and showrie wether of which in the verse next before as enforceth the beasts to betake themselvs to their covert and keep close there as it is in the very next verse after this And Mercer therefore a man singularly versed in the Hebrew toung and Hebrew Writers saith that whereas your Chiromantiks would writhe and wrest it to their purpose eo nihil facit extra rem est it makes nothing at all for them but is clean beside the matter And Cocceias one whose writings generally proclaim him a man eminently skilled in that language sticks not to term them stark fooles that dream ought of Palmestrie in that place Stulti sunt saith he qi hîc de Chiromantia cogitant But this obiter the word of obsignation or sealing up hath in either place a manifest notion of restraint nor doth the one any whit concern Astromancie no more then doth Chiromancie at all the other which may as soon be found in the Book of Job as the Philosophers stone in the Apocalyps of John where one sometime told that lerned Divine of Norimberg he had found a promise of it in the term of a VVhite stone which could be no other then it Rev. 2.17 So prone are men to wrest and writhe the words of Gods sacred Oracles for the gaining of credit to any fancy that they inordinately affect Yea but it is certainly tru that the time wil one day come when the whole world it self shal go to ruine before which time there shal be signs in the Sun and signs in the Moon and signes in the Stars Luk. 21.25 I remember to have heard a Court Preacher in Qeen Elisabeths time who having made choise of that Text to entreat of began his Sermon with these word● It is no strange matter to have the Sun in the Sign but it is a strange matter indeed to have Signs in the Sun I do not approve such dallying with Scripture Howbeit I suppose it may seriously and soberly be said that it is one thing to have the Sun in this or that Sign which in regard of the Sign is a matter of no moment and another thing to have Signs that is dreadful and extraordinary apparitions coming besides or beyond the ordinary course and nature of the creature in the Sun or Moon or Stars conspicuous and obvious to every ones eye Within which compasse cannot be forced either Eclipses because coming in an ordinary set cours and in a necessary natural way nor conjunctions of malignant aspects if any such were because not apparent unto any but such as apply themselvs unto this vain study But because Mr. S. frames no Argument from hence we shal so let it passe Suffice it shall to have intimated that the Signs there spoken of are much discrepant from those Signs of Heaven which we have now under debate Yea but David saith Psal 111.2 The VVorks of the Lord are great sought out of all those who have pleasure therein And as was Davids doctrine so was Salomons practise 1 King 4.11 c. For he was wiser then all men then Ethan and Heman and Calcal and Dardo and he spake of trees from the Cedar in Lebanon to the Hyssope that springs out of the wall as also of beasts and fowl and creeping things and fishes But because all this will not help to make Salomon a member of the society of Astrologers and a brother of their profession for all this skil is without their verge and far beneath the Sphere of their sublimated Science yet to fetch him in that he may grace the Society and Brotherhood of them they fly to the Apocrypha and from the Book of the Wisdome of Salomon falsly so termed the work of a Namelesse and unknown Autor Chap. 7. v. 17 c. in the person of Salomon Mr. Swan sings us the same song that M. L. his Client before sang in the very entrie of his Preface unto his Dark yeer I know how the VVorld was made and the operations of the Elements the beginning and the end and the midst of times the alterations of the turning of the Sun and the change of the seasons the circuit of yeers and the positions of Stars for which M. Swans Printer hath put in possessions he may mend it if he please in his next impression the Composer it may be dreamed of their houses in heaven that were not he thought fit to stand without tenants But thus they both and so far Mr. L. who tels us that from the sense of these verses it may be inferred that the Science of Astrologie or influences of Heaven are cleerly intended and the Art lawful else the wisest among mortal men would not so significantly have mentioned the Positions of Stars for no man can know the operations and virtues of the Elements except by Astrologie and a Position or figure of Heaven is needlesse unlesse from thence a judgment be derived So Mr. L. But Sir you should proov that Salomon ever spake this and unlesse you be able to make good the authentick Autoritie of your Autor which we well know you cannot do who makes Salomon speak more then he would ever have spoken of himself you may do wel to keep him by you to talk out of him to those that wil admit for substantial witnesser against whom no exception lies all such Autors as you cite your Grandsire Merlin and Mother Shipton among the rest and not offer to obtrude them upon those qi norunt qid distent aera lupinis that know how to distinguish between gold and copper or laton between currant monie and comical coin between base counterfait and authentik records But suppose Salomon had spoken those very words that your counterfeit