Bibliography: Works by and about Thomas Gataker

Primary Sources

Works by Gataker

Gataker, Thomas. Abrahams decease: A meditation on Genesis 25.8 . . . .. London, 1627.

---. Adversia Miscellanea posthuma in quibus Sacrae Scripturae prima deinde aliorum Scriptorum locis multis Lux affunditur. Ed. Charles Gataker. London, 1659.

---. An Anniversarie Memoriall of Englands Delivery from the Spanish invasion: Delivered in a Sermon on Psal. 48. 7,8. London, 1626.

---. An answer to Mr. Walker’s Vindication. London, 1642.

---. An Antidote against Errour Concerning Justification . . . .. Posthumously published by Charles Gataker, together with his The Way of Truth and Peace, or, A Reconciliation of the Holy Apostles S. Paul and S. James . . . . London, 1670.

---. Antinomianism Discovered and Confuted, and Free-grace as it is Held Forth in Gods Word. London, 1652.

---. The Benefit of a Good Name, and a Good End. A Funerall Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7.1. London, 1637.

---. Certaine Sermons, First Preached, and After Published at Severall Times, by M. Thomas Gataker . . . London: 1637

---. Christian Constancy Crowned by Christ . . . . London, 1624.

---. The Christian Man’s Care . . . . London, 1624.

---. David’s Instructor . . . . London, 1620.

---. Davids Remembrancer . . . . London, 1623.

---. The Decease of Lazarus Christ’s Friend: . . . . London, 1640.

---. A Discours Apologetical: Wherein Lilies Lewd and Lowd Lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the Yeer 1654, are Cleerly Laid Open . . . .. London, 1654.

---. A Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation . . . .. London, 1624.

---. Dispute with Francis Gomarus Concerning Justification, its Matter and Form. London, 1640.

---. God’s Eye on His Israel, or, aPpassage of Balaam out of Numb . . . .. London, 1645.

---. Gods Parley with Princes: with an Appeale from Them to Him . . . .. London, 1620.

---. A Good Wife Gods Gift: and a Wife Indeed. Two Marriage Sermons. London, 1623.

---. His Vindication of the Annotations on Jeremiah, Chap X. ver 2. Against the Scurrilous Aspersions of that Grand Impostor Mr. William Lillie . . . .. London, 1653.

---. Jacobs Thankfulnesse to God, for Gods Goodnesse to Jacob . . . .. London, 1624.G

---. Jeroboams Sonnes Decease . . . .. London, 1627.

---. The Just Man’s Joy, with Signs of Sincerity: London, 1623.

---. A Just Defence of Certaine Passages in a Former Treatise Concerning the Nature and Use of Lots . . . .. London, 1623.

---. Marriage Duties Briefly Couched Togither. London, 1620.

---. A Mariage Praier, or, Succinct Meditations . . . .. London, 1624.

---. A Mistake, or Misconstruction, Removed with Respect to the Antinomians. London, 1646.

---. Mysterious Cloudes and Mistes . . . .. London, 1648.

---. Noah his Obedience, with Ground of it: or, His Faith, Feare, and Care . . . .. London, 1637.

---. Of the Nature and Use of Lots: a Treatise Historicall and Theologicall. London, 1619.

---. A Parallel Between the Ministerial Ingenuity of the Forty Seven London Ministers: and the Foul Miscarriages of the Army . . . .. London, 1648.

---. Paul’s Desire of Dissolution, and Death’s Advantage . . . .. London, 1620.

---. Saint Stevens Last Will and Testament . . . .. London, 1638.

---. Shadowes Without Substance, or, Pretended New Lights . . . .. London, 1646.

---. A Short Catechism. London, 1624.

---. A Short and Plaine Dialogue Concerning the Unlawfulnes of Playing at Cards . . . .. London, 1623.

---. A Sparke Toward the Kindling of Sorrow for Sion . . . .. London, 1621.

---. The Spirituall Watch, or Christs Generall Watch-word . . . .. London, 1619.

---. T. Gatakeri de Nomine Tetragrammato Dissertatio, qua Vocis Jehovah. London, 1645.

---. T. Gatakeri . . . . de Novi Instrumenti Stylo Dissertatio; qua…S. Pfochenii de Linguae Graecae Novi Testamenti Puritate . . . .. Londini, 1648.

---. T. Gatakeri Londinatis Antithesis, partim Gulielmi Amesii, partim Gisberti Voetii, de sorte Thesibus Reposita. Londini, 1638.

---. Thomae Gatakeri . . . . Dissertatonis de Tetragrammato suae, a D. Ludovici Cappelli . . . .. Londini, 1652.

---. Thomae Gatakeri Londinatis, De diphthongis, Sive Bivocalibus . . . . Dissertatio Philologica. Londini, 1646.

---. Thomae Gatakeri Cinnus; Sive Adersia Miscellanea Animadverionum . . . .. Londini, 1651.

---. Thomae Gatakeri Opera Critica. Ed. Hermanus Witsius. Utrecht, 1698.

---. True Contentment in the Gaine of Godlines, with its Self-sufficiencie . . . .. London, 1620.---. Two Sermons: Tending to Direction for Christain Cariage, both in Affliction Incumbent, and in Judgements Imminent . . . .. London, 1623.

---. The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Gataker . . . .. London, 1654.

Translations and Collaborations (omitting prefaces)

Aurelius, Marcus Antoninus. Marci Antonini Imperatoris de rebus suis . . . . Versione Latina, et Commentariis Gatakeri. Ed. Thomas Gataker. London, 1652.

Clarke, Samuel & Thomas Gataker. A martyrologie: containing a collection of all the persecutions which have befallen the Church of England. London, 1652.

Downame, John et al. The second volume of Annotations upon all the books of the Old and Nevv Testament this third, above the first and second, edition so enlarged, as they make an entire commentary on the sacred Scripture. London, 1657. Gataker contributed annotations on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Lamentations. Earlier, less copious editions of this work appeared in 1645 and 1651. A further volume of additions, published in 1658 (after Gataker's death) is unlikely to contain material by Gataker.

Fuller, Thomas, et al. Abel Redevivus: or, the Dead Yet Speaking.: The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines . . . .. London, 1651. Gataker contributed the lives of Peter Martyr, Bale, Whitgift, Ridley, Whitaker, and others.

Gataker, Thomas, et al.. A Serious and Faithfull Representation of the Judgements of Ministers of the Gospell within the Province of London. Contained in a Letter from them to the Generall and his Councell of Warre. London, 1648.

Piscator, Johannis, et al. D. Ioannis Piscatoris Herbonensis et M. Ludovici Lucij Basiliensis Scriptaquaedam Adversaria de Causâ Meritoriâ Nostrî Coram Deo justificationis : unâ cum Thomae Gatakeri Londinatis Animadversionibus in Utraq. Londini, 1641.

Timorcus, Theophilus. The Covenanters Plea Against Absolvers . . . .. London, 1661. Attributed to Richard Baxter, Thomas Gataker, and Richard Vines.

Ward, Samuel and Thomas Gataker. De baptismatis infantilis vi & efficacia Disceptatio privatim habitainter . . . .. Londini, 1653.

Secondary Sources Referring to Thomas Gataker

Anselment R.A. "The Teares-of-Nature, 17th-Century Parental Bereavement." Modern Philology 91.1 (1993): 26-53.

Bellhouse, D. "Probability In The 16th And 17th Century: An Analysis Of Puritan Casuistry." International Statistical Review. 56.1 (1998): 63-74.

Bellhouse, Franklin J. "The Language Of Chance." International Statistical Review. 65.1 (1997): 73-85.

Bloch, R.H. "Changing Conceptions of Sexuality and Romance in Eighteenth-Century America." William and Mary Quarterly 60.1 (2003): 13-42.

Brietz, Monta S. "Foxe’s female martyrs and the sanctity of transgression". Renaissance and Reformation 25.1 (2001): 3-22.

Brink. C.O. English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson, and Houseman. Cambridge: James Clark, 1986.

Brooks, Benjamin. Lives of the Puritans. 3 vols. London, 1813.

Bull, George. Examen Censurae, or, An answer to Certain Strictures Before Unpublished . . . .. Oxford, 1843.

Casillas, Kenneth Glen. English Puritan Exegesis As Reflected In Thomas Gataker’s Annotations On Isaiah: Toward An Equitable Assessment Of Historic Biblical Interpretation. Diss. Bob Jones U, 2001.

Clarke, Samuel. A Collection Of The Lives Of Ten Emminent Divines, Famous In Their Generations For Learning, Prudence, Piety, And Painfulness In The Work Of The Ministry. London, 1662.

Cooper, T. "Antinomians Redeemed: Removing Some of The ‘Radical’ From Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Religion". Journal of Religious History 24.3 (2000): 247-262.

Donagan, Barbara. "Providence, Chance and Explanation: Some Paradoxical Aspects of Puritan Views of Causation". Journal of Religious History 11.3 (1981): 385-403.

Emerson, Everett H. English Puritanism from John Hooper to John Milton. Duke University Press: Durham N.C., 1968.

Hatten, C. "The Politics of Marital Reform and the Rationalization of Romance in the ‘Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce’ ". Milton Studies 27 (1992): 95-113.

Hetherington, W.M. History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. London, 1890: 104, 159, 172, 199, 284, 306, 352.

Mitchell, A.F. The Westminster Assembly: Its History and Standards. London 1883: xvii, 93, 121-122, 152-153, 156, 409.

Rowe, Katherine. "That Curious Engine: Action at a Distance in ‘The Duchess of Malfi.’ Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 86-110.

Smith, Thomas. Select Memoirs of the Lives, Labours, and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines. London 1828: 508-526.

Smyth, John. The Berkeley Manuscripts. The Lives Of The Berkeleys, Lords Of The Honour, Castle And Manor Of Berkeley, In The County Of Gloucester, From 1066 To 1618; With A Description Of The Hundred Of Berkeley And Of Its Inhabitants. 3 vols. Ed. John Maclean. Gloucester: J. Bellows, 1883-85.

Todd, Margo. "Providence, Chance and the New Science in Early Stuart Cambridge". Historical Journal 29.3 (1986): 697-711.

Usher, Brett. "Thomas Gataker." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Willen, D. "Communion-of-the-Saints – Spiritual Reciprocity and the Godly Community in Early-Modern England". Albion 27.1 (1995): 19-41.

---. "Godly Women in Early-Modern England – Puritanism and Gender". Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43.4 (1992): 561-580.