GAT 
tained a ftterary correfpon^ence with Dr. Uffier, after¬ 
wards archbifliop of Armagh, on the fiibject ot fome 
curious manufcripts which he pofl'eflTed, and among 
others of the famous Robert Grofthead, b'ifhop of Lin¬ 
coln. Several of thefe letters,are preferved in the col- 
leftion fubjoined to the Life of Archbifliop Uflier, by Dr. 
Richard Parr, and afford evidence not only of his pro¬ 
found erudition and critical acumen, but of his great 
modefty and humility, and of the high efleem in which 
he was held by that learned prelate. He publiflied a 
volume of his fermons, under the title Of the Nature 
and Ufe of Lots, a Treatife hillorical and theological, 
1619,410. This work is diftinguiflied by great accuracy 
of method, acutenefs of reafoning, profound learning, 
perfpicuity, and elegance of'ftyle for the time in which 
it was written. It was defervedly received with much 
appiaufe by the greater part of the learned world; but 
at the fame time it excited the ftridtures of fome indivi¬ 
duals, with whom the author afterwards engaged in 
controverfy. 
When, in 1642, theaffembly of divines was appointed 
to fit at Weftminfter, Mr, Gataker was nominated one 
of that body, and attended in his place, from a pure de¬ 
fire of rendering what fervice he could to the religious 
jnterefts of his country at that momentous crills. Mr. 
Gataker alfo engaged with other members in writing 
the Annotations upon the Bible, which were publiflied 
in the name of the affembly, and was, in particular, the 
author of thofe upon Ifaiah, Jeremiah, and the Lamen¬ 
tations, which have been generally allowed to poffefs 
great merit. While he was thus employed, the earl of 
Mancliefter offered him the mafterfliip of Trinity col¬ 
lege, which was tlie belt preferment in the univerlity of 
Cambridge; but he declined it, partly from his ill fiate 
ef health, and partly on account of his devoting what 
time he could to the compofition of two works, in which 
his learning and talents were advantageoufly difplayed. 
The firft was entitled De Nomine Tetragrammato Dijfertalio, 
qua Facts Jehovah apud nojlros recepta Vfus de/enditur, &c. 
1645, 8vo, It has been often reprinted, and is inferted 
among the author’s Opera Critica, printed at Utrecht in 
1698, folio, under the care of the celebrated Hermann 
Witlius. In the fame colleiStion may be found the other 
learned work, entitled De DipthongisJive Bivocalibus Differ- 
iatiophilologica, in qua Hterarum quarundarum Sonus germanus 
Natura genuina Figura nova f 3 Scriptura vetus veraque invejli- 
gatur, 164.6, 8vo, In 1648, he prefented to the world a 
work on the flyle of the New Teftament, which juftly 
gained him, the charafter of being one of the ableft phi- 
iologifts of iiis age. Its title is, ThomcE Gatakeri Londinatis 
de Novi Tejlamenti Stylo Dijfertatio ; qua Viri doBt/fnii Sebajli- 
Ani Pfocheniide LinguaGrtecce NoviTeJlamenti Puritate, in qua 
Hebrafmis qua vulgoJinguntur quam plurimis larva detrahi di- 
citur Diatribe ad Examen revocatur, &c. 410. This work 
was but the pracmjbr to a larger one of the fame nature, 
of great ufe in illuftrating the fenfe of difficult paffages 
in the Old and New Teffaments. It is entitled 7 Vio/«ie 
Gatakeri Londinatis Cinnus ■, Jive Adverfaria mifcellanea Animad- 
verjionum variarum, Libris fex comprehenfa, &cc. 1651, 4to, 
The remaining books of this colleftion were publiflied 
after the author’s death by, his fon, Charles Gataker, 
under the title of Adverfaria Mifcellanea-Pojlhuma, &c. 
1659, folio. The pieces lafl: mentioned are to be found 
in the author’s Opera Critica. In 1651, Mr. Gataker alfo 
publiflied a learned Latin difcourfe on infant baptifm, 
entitled De Baptifmatis Infantilis Vi & Efficacia Difceptatio 
privatim hibita inter V. C. Dorn. Samuekm Wardum, Theol. Sac, 
DoB. (3 in Acad. Cantab. Prof. 13 Thoman Gatakerum, 8vo. 
Three years afterwards he publiflied another treatile on 
the fame fubjedl, entitled StriB,ur<s ad Epijiolam Joannis 
Davenantii de Baptifmo Infantum, 8vo. In 1652, he gave 
to the world his excellent edition of the emperor Anto- 
ninus’sMeditatioiiSjwith a valuable preliminary difcourfe 
on the phiiofophy of the Stoics. In the evening of his 
days he was attacked by the famous aftrologer William 
You Vill. No. 501. 
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Lilly, in his Annus Tenebrfus, becaufe that in the anno¬ 
tations on Jeremiah, ch. x. ver. 2, he had, with, great 
fenfe and learning, expofed the vanity and abfnrdity of 
the pretended fcience of judicial aftrology. Mr. Gat- 
aker’s growing infirmities now indicated that his end 
was approaching; and foon after the publication of the 
piece lafl: mentioned, he was feized with a fever, which 
proved fatal to him in the eightieth year of his age. 
Echard fays of him, that he was “ the mofl; celebrated' 
among the affembly of divines, being highly efteemed 
by Salmafuis, and other foreigners; and it is hard to 
fay which is the mofl: remarkable, his exemplary piety 
and charity, his polite literature, or his humility and 
modefty in refufing preferments.” 
GA'TAM, [Heb. lowing of cattle. J A man’s nhme, 
GATE,y; [jeat, Sax.J The entrance or door ot a 
city, cattle, palace, or large building ; 
Open the gate of mercy, gracious God ! 
My foul flies through thefe wounds to feek thee. Shakf. 
A frame of timber upon hinges, to give a paffage Into 
enclofed grounds 2 
Know’ll thou the way to Dover ? '' 
—Both ttile and^ate, horfeway and footpath. Shake/. 
An avenue ; an opening.—Auftria had done nothing but 
wifely and politickly, in fetting the Venetians together 
by the ears with the Turks, and opening ^.gale for a long 
war. Knolles. 
In primitive times, the gates of cities were the places 
of judicature and common refort. Here the goveniors, 
or elders of the city, met to hear complaints, adminifter 
juftice, make conveyances of titles and eftates, and to 
tranfadt all the affairs of the place, whence that verfe in 
the Pfalms, “They fliall not be afhamed when they fpeak 
with their enemies in the gate,” i. e. when they are ac- 
cufed by them before the court of magiftrates. It ii 
probable that the room, or liall, where the magiftrates 
fat, was over the gates, becaufe, in the fcriptures, Boaz 
is faid to go up to the gate. The like did David, when 
he went to weep for the death of Abfalom. How con- 
fiderable they became in time for largenels and fumptu- 
oufnefs, appears by the two kings of Ifrael and Judah 
being prefent at one of them in all their royal fplendor, 
and convening thither four hundred priefts of Baal, be¬ 
tides their own guards and officers. It feems as if thefe 
places had been at firft chofen for the conveniency of the 
inhabitants, who being all hulbandmen, and forced to 
pafs and repafs, morning and night, as they went and 
came from tlieir labour, might be more eatily called as 
they went by, whenever they were wanted to appear in 
any bufinefs. Thefe gates were likewit'e markets tor 
provifions, like thofe ot the Romans, as appears by the 
prophet Elijah’s foretelling an incredible plenty to hap¬ 
pen the next day in the midft of a famine, at the gates 
of Samaria. Thofe who prelided were the elders, the 
heads of the people, the judges, and the officers. Abra- 
j^iam could not make his purchafe from Ephron the Hit- 
tite, without having recourfe to the city gates.—See 
Gen. xxiii. 10. 
Gate, at the end of the names of places, fignifies a 
way or path, from the Saxon geat:, i. e. porta. The cuf- 
tody of the gates of the city of London, is granted to 
the lord mayor, by charter king Henry IV. 
GA'TEHOUSE, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Kircudbright, fituated near the mouth of the Fleet, 
not far from the Irith fea, with a cotton manufafilure. 
Sloops come up near to the town : thirteen miles well 
of Kircudbright, and lixteen fouth-weft of New Gallo¬ 
way. 
GATES, a county of the American States, in Eden» 
ton ealtern diftri<il, north of Carolina, bounded on the 
north by the ftate^of Virginia, and fouth by Chowan co. 
It contains 5392 inhabitants: chief town, Hertford. 
GA'TESHEAD, a village of England, in the county 
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