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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

way to insert the judgement herein of a great and eminent Astronomer or Astrologer call him whether of the two you please John Kepler the Emperors Mathematician in his Treatise of a New Star discovered in the Foot of the Serpentarie Chap. 14. hath this passage Most kinds of Divination among the Heathen were botomed upon this foundation that by Dreams by the entrails of beasts slain for sacrifice by the occurrences of some creatures by monstrous births by thunder and lightning by tempestuous winds by extraordinarie inundations by earthqakes by celestial prodigies comets and the like the Gods were deemed to give men answers and the power and direction therefore of these creatures or occurrences whereby ought in that kind was signified was transcribed to those Gods who thereby were deemed to discover their mind to men But on the other side if it were made to appeer that the motion or apparition of creature or occurrence supposed to portend ought did proceed from a natural cause so as there was no suspition of a supernatural gubernation or direction they were freed from any further solicitude of mind and composed themselves to qietnes unles peradventure some natural connexion were found between the sign and the thing signified for disposal whereof there were no need of any free and reason-using cause From the neglect of this foundation sprung up a great part of Astrologie or superstitious divination from the Stars For when many strange signs had br●d a belief that the Gods did by such speak unto men unskilful persons began promiscuously to transcribe whatsoever came to pas in the Heavens unto the Gods free disposal and to make an omen of it especially if by the noveltie or raritie of it it did much amaze their eye-sight as the Eclipses of the Luminaries and the Conjunctions of manie Stares VVho if they had at first well weighed or duely considered that all these things ar brought about by a set Law or course of Nature then they would either have sought in Nature a connexion of these celestial occurrences with those events that ar wont to follow thereupon or if they could have found none they would not have fallen into this lightnes of belief But others proceed●d to worse matters from foolerie to impietie For when they saw that the motions of the stars depended on a natural necessitie they brought in a new device not that should freely conform and frame the motions of the celestial bodies but that should in an ex●mplary way make use of their motions in framing and administring humane affairs Hence came those many thousands of Star-spr●tes far beyond the number of Mr. Lillies seven Planetarie Angels which from Trithemius and Napeir he told us of and indeed why should not the rest of the Stars have their Rulers as well as the 7. Planets but m●re truly saith Kepler Legions of infernal Devils unto whom this execrable Magike falslie termed celestial taught men to offer certain sacrifices powr out certain prayers keep certain feasts light Tapers on certain Planetarie dayes and houres and wear garments of some peculiar colour By this means came at length to be averred the Devils themselves being their fellow workmen therein those most foolish and ridiculous Decrees of the Astrologers concerning the Houses and Dominations of the Planets It were expedient at length to grow wise again The first inventers of these trifles w●re not so unskilful as we blamed those before impietie brought in this skil But you Christian Astrologers ar verie children to them when letting goe the kernel ye hang about the shell when ye imbrace the body leaving the soul when without Magik ye exercise this foolish trifling Astrologie that makes use of the Planets houses alone I suppose he means without making use of those Inhabitants the star-Star-spirits which error I hope Mr. Lilly in his Novel way hath reformed well fare ye that can so wash a lether pilch that it shall ta●e in no moisture Thus he whome the rather I cite thus at large partly because his works are not so obvious and partly because he is one against whom that Exception will not hold that he blames and condemns Astrologie for want of capacitie to understand it or for ignorance therein as also because in this passage of his we have divers points hinted that may be of much use in our future discours and debate as 1. That things deemed to come besides the cours of nature were usually deemed ominous 2. That when known to come in a set cours as eclipses and conjunctions of Stars do they used not to trouble any understanding mans mind 3. That through want of skil or regard to distinguish between the one and the other men came to have promiscuously a like conceit of either and to deem Eclipses and conjunctions of Stars ominous 4. That some hence took occasion to draw people to impiety by making them believ that their were certain Spirits or inferiour Deities attending these Stars that did by them dispose and order humane affairs and t●ught them therefore to worship them the study whereof was termed celestial Magike 5. That hence sprang that foolish and ridiculous Astrology of telling mens Fortunes by the Planets and their houses And lastly that it is as fond a thing to imagine that any man can practise this kind of Astrology without some Magical superstition as it is to undertake to wash a lether pilch and not wet it Yea that there can be no use of the one for such ends and purposes as by them it is applyed unto unlesse the other also be admitted which is the very spirit and life of it But to return to Mr. Swan again wherein he and we agree here ye have heard to wit that they should not be afraid or dismaid at the signs of Heaven that is the Stars in regard of such evil and dismal presages as the Chaldean Astrologers from the Conjunctions Oppositions Motions of them c. endeavoured to posses their minds with Now the qestion is what the reason should be why the Prophet or God rather by the Prophet would not have his people to be affrighted and dismaid at the signs of Heaven And here Mr. Lilies two Advocates and we part For passing by the reason expressed in the Text they suggest us other reasons to ●ustle that out Not saith the one of them because they did not portend such sad matters or produce such sad and dismal effects Take that away and the very ground of their Art is clean gone that which they have from God on whome his people are taught to have their trust so firmly fixed that whatsoever disaster the Heavens in the cours of nature should at any time threaten unto them they ought not to fear it And saith the other The scope and drift is that they should not so stand in aw of them as the Heathen that looked no higher then the Firmament and not knowing the God of Israel that over-rules all so feared