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THOMAS GATAKER (1574-1654)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:GATAKER (1574-1654)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:London in See also:September 1574, and educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge . From 16ox to 1611 he held the See also:appointment .of preacher to the society of See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, which he resigned on accepting the rectory of Rotherhithe . In 1642 he was chosen a member of the See also:assembly of divines at See also:Westminster, and annotated for that assembly the books of See also:Isaiah, See also:Jeremiah and See also:Lamentations . He disapproved of the introduction of the See also:Covenant, and declared himself in favour of See also:episcopacy . He was one of the See also:forty-seven London clergymen who disapproved of thetrial of See also:Charles I . He was married four times, and died in See also:July 1654 . His See also:principal See also:works, besides some volumes of sermons are—On the Nature and Use of Lots (1619), a curious See also:treatise which led to his being accused of favouring See also:games of See also:chance; Dissertatio de stylo Novi Testamenti (1648) ; Cinnus, sive Adversaria miscellanea, in quibus Sacrae Scripturac primo, delude aliorurn scriptorum, locis aliquam multis lux redditur (1651), to which was afterwards sub-joined Adversaria Posthuma; and his edition of See also:Marcus See also:Antoninus (1652), which, according to See also:Hallam, is the " earliest edition of any classical writer published in See also:England with See also:original annotations," and, for the See also:period at which it was written, possesses remarkable merit . His collected works were published at See also:Utrecht in 1698 .

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