Thomas Gataker
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Thomas Gataker (* London, 4 September 1574 – † Cambridge, 27 June 1654)<ref>Nomenclator Philologorum by Friedrich August Eckstein</ref> was an English clergyman and theologian.
Life
He was born in London, the son of Thomas Gatacre.<ref>Template:Cite DNB</ref> He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.<ref>Template:Acad</ref> From 1601 to 1611 he held the appointment of preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn, which he resigned on accepting the rectory of Rotherhithe. In 1642 he was chosen a member of the Westminster Assembly, and annotated for them the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations.
He disapproved of the introduction of the Covenant and declared himself in favour of episcopacy. He was one of the forty-seven London clergymen who disapproved of the trial of Charles I.
He engaged in a public controversy with the astrologer William Lilly, who had mentioned Gataker in an almanac, which has some further biographical details.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Works
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His principal works, besides some volumes of sermons, are:
- Of the Nature and Use of Lots (1619), a curious treatise which led to his being accused of favouring games of chance, but which Boswell called "a learned book of the age".<ref>James Boswell (Henry Morley, ed), The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. and The Journal of his tour to the Hebrides [Joshua Reynolds Edition], Vol V, Routledge, 1885, p. 228</ref> Gataker understood the random nature of lots and argued that they could not be used to discern the intention of God.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The second edition in 1627 contained a refutation of James Balmford's criticism. It was edited and republished in 2008 as The Nature and Uses of Lotteries, Conall Boyle (ed.)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Imprint Academic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Dissertatio de stylo Novi Testamenti (1648)
- Cinnus, sive Adversaria miscellanea, in quibus Sacrae Scripturae primo, deinde aliorum scriptorum, locis aliquam multis lux redditur (1651), to which was afterwards subjoined Adversaria Posthuma
- an edition of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (1652)<ref>According to Hallam, is the "earliest edition of any classical writer published in England with original annotations," and, for the period at which it was written, possesses remarkable merit.</ref>
His collected works were published in Utrecht in 1698.
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- 1574 births
- 1654 deaths
- Writers from London
- Westminster Divines
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- 17th-century English Anglican priests
- 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
- 17th-century English writers
- 17th-century English male writers