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A86055	Natura prodigiorum or, a discourse touching the nature of prodigies. Together with the kinds, causes and effects, of comets, eclipses, and earthquakes. With an appendix touching the imposturism of the commonly-received doctrine of prophecies, spirits, images, sigils, lamens, the christal, &c. and the propugners of such opinions. / By John Gadbury philomathēmatikos.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing G91; Thomason E2131_3; ESTC R202414	80,331	276

him if that were all the Devil he could shew He answered Yes the Knight replyed You Villain you deserve to be kick't down the stairs in recompence for your knavery I am of belief the application of this story will reach if not over-reach the consciences and practices of some among us that wear the golden name of Astrologers who very commonly under pretence thereof make use of a Christal and other pretended Cheats and Shifts to Gull the sillier sort of people Nay they are made use of sometimes to persons at very great rates viz. six pound a call as they knavishly call it even to their undoing and to the great scandal of Astrologie which as it is dealt with is the onely Cover-cheat of these times and indeed to the Shipwrack and Ruine of the Practitioners Conscience Honesty and good Name Nay this villany is grown so rife and common now among us that he is not worthy almost to be deemed an Astrologer that cannot stretch both his conscience and skill like unto these persons touched who by their practises should be of Cacus's Progeny because they so eminently pretend to make with him Candida de nigris de candentibus atra Black things look white and white to look like black No man in reason can be angry at this Discourse unless he be guilty of the error taxed Which if he be I wish his return to the truth for there is a secret justice that finds out persons of unjust practise before they be aware The wicked flourish for a moment or small season but their end is destructive I hope those whom this Aenigmatical touch concerns will take convenient warning by it I point at none though perhaps I might have done by name but have been guided by that known Law of civility Licuit semperque licebit Parcere personis dicere de vitiis It Lawful was of old and still the same To scourge the vice and friendly spare the name And now I return to Cornelius again As there are some persons born to believe lyes fictions and fables so there are others that are brought into the world to broach them And such was this learned persons fate and his Nativity doth excellently well demonstrate the same For 1. ☿ Mercury who is Lord of the Ascendant thereof is combust and in □ of ♃ and the ☽ is in ☍ Opposition of him and the Sun 2. The ☋ Dragons tail is upon the very Cuspe of the East Angle 3. Saturn and Mars who is the dispositor of ☽ and a great significator of inclination and manners in his Nativity by being in ⚹ of ☽ and in △ of ☿ Lord of the Ascendent are in opposition from Angles and the Ascendent is evilly beheld by both of them but chiefly by Saturn Now I ask the honest Astrologer whether the owner of such a Nativity were not a fit person to coyn and broach fables Behold the figure thereof as the learned Origanns hath it Nascitur Cornel. Agrippa 1486 Sept. 14 d. 15 h. 24 m. P.M. I the more willingly insert the figure of this Nativity 1. Because Origanus works are not very common and easie to be had 2. That every one versed in Astrologie may see by the figure that I do not impose upon him or any other ought else then what the Scheam presents But notwithstanding these notable Arguments in his Geniture for such a purpose this eminent Person retracted those his strange Opinions as may be seen in his Book of the vanity of Sciences And happy would it be for all others that are tainted with the same error so to do But a more remarkable recantation of his I find in the third book of his Occult Philosophy prope finem Of Magique saith he I wrote whilst I was very young three large books which I called Occult Philosophy In which what was then through the curiosity of my Youth Erroneous I now being more advised am willing to have RETRACTED by this RECANTATION I formerly spent much time and Cost in these vanities At last I grew so wise as to be able to disswade others from this destruction For whosoever doth not in the truth and power of God but in the deceits of Devils according to the operation of wicked spirits presume to Divine and Prophecy and practising through Magical vanities exorcisms incantations and other demoniacal works and deceits of Idolatry boasting of delusions and Phantasms presently ceasing brag that they can do Miracles I say saith he all these shall with Jannes and Jambres and Simon Magus be destinated to the torments of eternal fire Let now the Maintainers of these Fictions and reasonless Opinions retract by the president of their learned Author If not in publique as he hath done let it appear in their practises at least But if they are resolv'd to ride it through maugre all that can be said in opposition to it and will still hug and retain this their art of cozenage and deluding the world Let them shew so much of Honesty in the midst of their Villany that while they pick the Purses of the people they may spare their wits For it is a double loss for men to be cogg'd out of great sums of money and then to be cheated into a belief that they are Honestly and fairly used 3. Of Apollonius Tyaneus This Apollonius is the last of my Ternary and was a person that pretended much skill in the making of Telismes c. In whch art if we will believe all that is written or storyed of him he was so well versed that thereby he could work wonders and do things so far beyond the reach of mans reason that some of the people of those times in which he lived accounted him a petty God rather then a man Hierocles the Stoick had so high an Opinion and esteem of him that he deemed him a better man and one of more power then Christ the Saviour of the World Nay such was the dotage of many people in those dayes a spice of which we in ours still retain that they accounted him a man so much excelling the very best sort of men that they thought him too sacred to be lightly spoken of Yea so happy was the time in which he began his pranks For it is not to be denyed but much is to be attributed unto times and seasons or else his Geniture was remarkable and prodigious for such purposes why not as well as Cornelius Agrippa's that the most Orthodox themselves began to deem him vested with power sufficient for a Deity which occasioned that so strange a doubt from Justine Martyr as cited by the learned Gregory fol. 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. If God be the Creator and Lord of the world how comes it to pass that Apollonius his Telisms have so much over-ruled the course of things For we see that they also have stilled the waves of the Sea and the raging of the winds and prevailed against the noisom flyes and incursions of wild beasts

as a Horse in Smithfield But I matter not how-ere the world esteem it either for its own worth or Authors credit 't is like to come among them now And if any Erastion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or crooked Speaker shall cavil at it as their Patron of old did at the Physick of Paracelsus and the Divinity of Luther it will utterly contemn and slight their snarlings and defie their taunts But if on the other side any better-minded shall object that this Discourse is of divers sorts as Josephs Coat of Colours Gen. cap. 37. v. 32. in that it treats of several things I shall then answer for it with the learned Arnoldus de villa nova who said Nullum simplex medicamentum fine noxa There is no simple medicine without danger Yet let me tell the ingenious Readers the discourse is only seemingly divers for there is nothing touched on in the whole Book but hath some relation to or dependance on the subject of it viz. Prodigies I therefore presume that the ingenious objector will forbear to censure For it is a ruled case Causa rationabilis semper excusat transgressorem legis humanae i. e. A reasonable cause shewn always excuseth a man in cause he be found a transgressor of some humane Law Besides I know the world is filled with as many several fancies as faces according to that Antient and most true adage Tot mundi superstitiones quot coelo stellae There are as many vain conceits superstitions and opinions in the world as there are Stars in Heaven What if to please the different fancies in the world I have written diversly Here if some things displease others may make amends If thou art not delighted in the Philosophical part hereof turn to the Historical c. if that do not Palliate try the Astrological And if that hap to disaffect thee possibly the Meteorological part thereof may please thee read that and thou wilt there find the true Physical causes of all Meteors and Prodigies And Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Thrice happy he above the chiefest Kings That doth but truly know the cause of things All that I have to say now Reader before I dismiss thee is that there is a counterfeit Copy of this Nature published by a covetous and mercenary wretch and preferred under my Name it flees about like an infection in a Plague-time under the silly title Miraculum signum Coeleste● Or a discourse of Prodigies since Christ part whereof I confess I was at the pains of composing but never perfected it as may be seen by the method I laid down at the beginning This I thought good to advertise thee of and the world also to prevent thy being cheated by the counterfeit and to unmask the knavery of the Book-seller who hath done it and to acquaint thee that both the Book-seller and the imperfect copy as surreptitiously published are detested and dis-owned and none but this acknowledged by From my House near Strand-Bridge Jo. Gadbury ERRATA In pag. 87. col 2. l. 29. read 1659. p. 91. l. 21. r. divideth p. 125. l. 22. r. Marcley-Hill p. 158. l. 9. r. Spectrums p. 164. l. ult for Parcimeter r. Perimeter p. 181. l. 22. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 191. l. 31. r. only simple p. 190. l. 26. r. pretended Books printed and sold by Francis Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street ADvice to a Daughter in opposition to the Advice to a Son by Eugenius Theodidactus Grace and Mercie to a sinner in time of affliction or the serious Meditations of Mr Thomas Ford. Geometrical Dyalling or Dyalling performed by the plain-scale or line of chords by John Collins The Mariners plain scale new plained wherein Navigation Triangles projection of the Sphere is excellently and easily performed by the plain scale or line or chords by John Collins Principles of Arithmetick by William Webster The young Sea-man's Guide by Tim. Gadbury The Nativity of the King of Denmark by J. Gadbury in which the Peace of the two Northern Crowns was Predicted Childs Book and Youths Book teaching children the most easie and delightful way to read true English by S.T. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Doctrine of Nativities comprehending the whole Art of Directions Revolutions and Transits whereby any man even of an ordinary capacitie may be enabled to discover the most Remarkable and Occult accidents of life be they either good or evil With Astronomical Tables for calculating the Planets Places for any time past present or to come more facile and compleat then any extant To be sold by Giles Calvert and Daniel White at their Shops at the seven Stars and Black-Spread-Eagle in St. Pauls Church-Yard The Idaea of the Law Government and Tyranny by J Heydon Esq to be sold by Tho. Basset in St. Dunstans Church-Yard The Rosie-Crucian infallible Axiomata a learned and excellent work written by the same Author and will shortly be made publique A Discourse Touching the NATURE and EFFECTS OF PRODIGIES DIfficile est judicium de quo caeremus exemplis multarum rerum in nostris temporibus saith one It is a very hard and difficult matter for any man to judge or treat of those things or subjects of which in our times we have few or no presidents or examples Notwithstanding the numerous and various Treatises that are daily penned and printed as well in Latine as English yet are there hardly any that treat particularly of Prodigies VVhich subject of it self is both lofty and considerable for as much as it treateth of the causes of Natures wonders and might therefore have become the paines of the sharpest and most extensive Mercurial fancie All other subjects have been conveniently handled and with much zeal and affection in this age of liberty promoted and exalted and this alone hath layen dormant in the ashes of oblivion as if there had been no such thing as a Prodigie in rerum Natura Now for to quicken or stir up some more able Pen and better composed judgment do I make this but mean Essay toward the discovery of some of the many golden Truths that lie imprisoned in this kind of Learning And that I may not anticipate my Readers hopes with too large a Preface I will give him to understand what I purpose to pursue in this Discourse by these following particulars 1. Some disquisitions touching Prodigies 2. A Catalogue of the most remarkable Prodigies since the birth of Christ with the Effects that concomitated them 3. Something touching Comets Eclipses and Earth-quakes 4. Of Meteors in general c. how caused And the method thus proposed I shall here prosecute but more briefly then I once intended because I would prevent the spreading of a surreptitious Copy of this kind that I hear hath lately by the meanes of a mercenary Book-seller invaded the world and the conscienceless promulger thereof is nor ashamed to report it a true one and owned by me But this obiter I shall come