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A92028	Judiciall astrologie, judicially condemned. Upon a survey and examination of Sr. Christopher Heydons apology for it, in answer to Mr. Chambers. And of Will. Ramsey's morologie in his pretended reply (called Lux veritatis) to Doctour Nathanael Homes his Demonologie. Together with the testimonies of Mr. W. Perkins Resolution to the countrey-man; Mr. John Miltons Figure-caster; and Dr. Homes his demonologie, all here exhibited against it, seconded and backed by 1. evident Scripture. 2. Apparent reason. 3. Authority of councils. 4. Justice of laws. 5. Arguments of fathers, school-men, and modern learned men. 6. Concessions of Ptolomy, &c. friends of astrology. 7. And the wicked practises of astrologers themselves.	Rowland, William.	1651 (1651)	Wing R2074; Thomason E1239_1; ESTC R210446	216,516	320

the Roman Laws against Mathematicians and Prognosticatours did mean Chaldeans and yet now the Priests and the Chaldeans must be alleadged for the honour of Judicial Astrology 2. If Will. Ramsey doth not here intend a difference between Astronomers and Astrologers contrary to his Tenet afore in that he puts both names in the Title to his Catalogue yet he thinks learned men may put that difference so that if any of them should whip him for his false Scrowl proving many of them no Astrologers yet they may be found Astronomers 3. W. Ram. Catalogue of them from Adam c. is ridiculous We have no such thing in the Bible and therefore can know no such thing For Greek Homer the Poet is the ancientest humane Authour that is extant The man flourished about 911. years afore Christ The onely Authour pretended of the greatest antiquity viz. concerning things so ancient as the beginning of the Empire of Babylon and of Ninus the first Emperour thereof is one Berosus of whose writings saith learned Sleidan almost all men make a doubt and think them counterfeit The most judicious and true Chronologer leaves out Berosus Helvicus puts him in ad annum Mundi 3690. Lib. 7. cap. 37. which is but about 281. years afore Christ which is but yesterday in comparison of Adam Seth Enoch Pliny saith this Berosus was an Astrologer And of the true and forged Berosus learned Gesner in his Bibliotheck writes thus There are extant in our age five Books of Aniquities ascribed to Berosus but all the more learned judge they are not of Berosus but feigned by I know not what Fabler and set forth in Berosus his name To this famous Pezelius on Sleidan adds Josephus saith he cites the Histories of Berosus l. 1. con App. Athenaeus l. 14. The genuine Berosus perished There remains the Fictions of Annius Viterbiensis a Monk neither are the fragments of Metasthen and Manethon of a better metall W.R. his SECT V. Demonstrating the antiquity of Astrology VVE have seen already how Astrology hath been proved lawfull by the Scripture and reason not condemned by Councils but admired and honoured in all ages by the wisest of the ancients we come now to shew its antiquity and from whence it had its first original Concerning this point there hath been much controversie amongst Writers but most hold that it was first revealed to man in the infancy of the World by God Aristotle deriveth it from the Egyptians Tully from the Assyrians others from the Sidonians Chaldeans Persians Indians Arabians and Greeks but however it is most certain if we will believe the ancientest Historiographers that the Priests and Kings amongst the Egyptians the Chaldeans among the Babylonians the Magicians among the Persians the Gymnosophists among the Indians the chief Philosophers of Greece and Italy and the Druides of France were all Astrologers and esteemed by those Nations for the wisest men But Josephus in his Antiquities lib. 1. cap. 2. deriveth it from Adam and Seth and that they taught it to their posterity and that Seth was so well skilled therein that foreseeing thereby the destruction of the World first by Water then by Fire least the knowledge should perish by the Flood engraved it in two Pillers the one of Stone the other of Brick and he farther witnesseth that of Stone to remain in Syria in his own time and in the 3. Chapter of the same Book he affirmeth that man lived so long before the Flood by the permission of God to learn Arts and Sciences especially naming Astrologie and Geometry the which saith he Ediscere non potuissent nisi sexcentis viverent annis could not be learned under six hundred years time for these are Studies that require much experience and particular observation which could not be done on an instant Again in his eighth Chapter of the same first Book of his Antiquities he further affirmeth that Abraham having learned this knowledge in Chaldea being the place of his birth when he came into Egypt he first taught the Egyptians the knowledge of Astrologie and Arithmetick and since the Egyptians have been most exquisite therein so that some Historians have believed Atlas King of Egypt to be the first inventer thereof others have thought Henoch and Atlas to be both one but most Historiographers hold Atlas to be after the Flood And that Astrology is derived from Adam SURVEY Antiqui●as sine retitate est vetustas erroris Were it not that the Reader might suspect my leaping over something that were considerable I would have left out this Section it being a vain Tautology We have already answered to the antiquity of Astrology and in particular to Josephus The Fathers rule is excellent Antiquity without verity is the ancientness of Errour All that are here reckoned up to countenance Astrology were either the worst of men viz. Heathens or diabolical Magicians or Idolaters or both or all as were the Druides whom some ancient Authours call Magos others idolalatras or the most uncertain if not the foolishest of Traditions as that of the two Pillars of which Josephus hath store and therefore not to be regarded in what he saith of such ancient times of Abraham as we have given sufficient reason in the Survey of the former Section or self-contradictions as that a man could not learn Astrology under six hundred years yet now William and William and I know not who will pretend great skill in it at half sixty or Ridicles For naming Adam to be an Astrologer he might well think the Reader would judge if he was an Astrologer he was so after the Devil had given him the fall and if there were a derivation of Astrology from him as such it was in the traduction of sin For conclusion of this Section let me deal truly seriously and plainly with William that it is brought to me by good hands from his own Brethren in Astrology that they set him on work because he was one of the silly mean ones among them thereby to disgrace the Doctour But I will say what others say that William hath but blown upon the Question Demonology stands like a Castle of Steel The Astrologers have laid their heads and prompted Will. Ram. but nothing is done but the disgracing of their own cause W.R. his SECT VI. That Astrology is the most profitable Study reveated under the Sun to mortals WHich I shall indeavour to make clear thus first that it is most profitable for the knowledge of Moral Philosophy viz. of our selves and others Secondly for Natural Philosophy Thirdly for Physick Fourthly for Health Fifthly for Husbandry Sixthly for giving a reason for Climacterical years which other Arts cannot and other things Seventhly and lastly for Military Discipline First that it is most profitable for the knowledge of Moral Philosophy M. Homes will not deny if he know any thing in the Art that the constitution of the body and the disposition of the minde is by Astrology known so that hereby we

Eclipsed in Aries and presently after shewed all his force There was a great sedition in Prague that year In Paris an uprore between them of the Citty and the University and two thousand Schollars were slain then also Wenzeslaus King of Bohemia being in a great Palsie dyed In the year 1524. There was a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Scorpius and also a great eclipse of the Sunne in June which took their effects the same year Charles King of France driven forth of his Countrey warre between Danes and the men of Sleswick There was a great plague in Germany Civil dissention amongst the Princes of the Empire and them which took the part of John Husse 1452. An eclipse of the Sunne in Sagittarius his effects began presently and lasted a great while Even then Constantinople was taken by the Turke The Hungarians and Bohemians besieged Frederick the Emperour 1473. the 27. of April the Sunne was eclipsed in Taurus Mars being in Aries and Jupiter in Sagittarius The same year in Summer was such heat and driness of weather that woods even withered and one might wade over deep rivers In the years of our Lord. 1476. 1460. 1469. 1486. 1502. 1518. And many years after their were both great conjunctions and strange eclipses which took their effects presently not one or two or three years after as our heaven-gazers bear them in hard All these examples which I bring against them I have not feigned but taken forth of those books which they have in greatest estimation and could if need should serve bring an hundred more all to shew their lies when as they commonly say thus There shall be an Eclipse this year marry I will not here determine his effects but reserve them to be declared in my Prognostication one year or two years hence when it will take place To know where the effects of the starrs shall take place they have appointed unto every signe certain countryes as over Europe they have set the fiery Triplicitie over the Orientall and North parts of the Asia the airy Triplicity the watery Triplicity over Africa over the South parts of the Asia the earthy Triplicity and so every peculiar signe hath his dominion over some parts of those Now therefore when a conjunction or eclipse is in any of these signes the Cities and Countryes subject unto them feel the force of that constellation especially This is a most manifest untruth and may be confuted by many reasons 1. The nature of the signs is not the same now as it was in times past and by the confession of the best learned have other effects now then they had in the days of King Ptolomy yet we see the nature of Countryes and people to remain the same still as may be seen by reading Tacitus Plime Casar Strabo 2. America which is half the world hath no signs appointed over it why it was found out of late True it is but this is an argument that the Rules of Astrology are absurd and were the bare inventions and imaginations of idle brains For there is no doubt but that America his parts and I lands as Bresilea Peru Pari Terra Florida Java Major Java Minor Puloana Pavilonga Subath Massana Mattan Juvacana Cozumella Jamaica c. have felt the force of these Constellations which they attribute to some parts of the old world Because these Countreys be about the middle Zone and have both Planets and signs full over them and therefore if the Starrs threaten any strange thing to come they must especially feel it 3. Experience the cause of all acts is against them as is manifest in these examples 47. years before the Nativity of our Saviour Christ there was a Conjunction of the higher Planets in Scorpius and then was civil warre between Caesar and Pompey And the change of the Empire was in Europe But according to the institution of Astrologers all these troubles should have been in Africk because Scorpius hath his dominion there In the year of our Lord. 34. there was a great Conjunction of Planets in Leo and then faith one very prophanely was the Gospel preached through the world But if he make this Conjunction to be a sign of the preaching of the Gospel then it should more have been preached in the parts of Europe then Asia which is not true In the years of our Lord. 331. and 1127. There were great Conjunctions in Virgo and yet the Countryes subject to this signselt no harm but Italy was troubled with the Popes superstitions and Arrius his heresie broached There was a meeting of Planets in Sagittarius 73. years after Christ when as Otho Galba vitellius and Vespasian troubled the Romane Empire yet there was no where more grievous warres then in Palestine and no greater slaughter then of the Jews who are subject unto Scorpius and not unto Sagittarius In the year 1464. a Conjunction of higher Planers was in Pisces under whose dominion although Europe be not placed yet it most felt the smart by troubles and civil warrs So 1576. and 1577. Two eclipses of the Sun the one in Leo the other in Capricorn took their effects in Germany when as Leo and Capricorn do not rule that Countrey It is vain to shew the absurdity of this rule by more examples these shall be sufficient This shall suffice to have spoken of their generall Predictions now follow their speciall determinations of the state and temperance of the weather wherein I will set forth first of all a most manifest and absurd contradiction which most of them make and that is this They use as I have said to set down their judgements of the whole quarter that it should be either moist hot cold or dry afterward judging particularly they disprove by particular dayes that which they said before In the year of our Lord. 1581. one said that in the Autumn quarter should be a great drought yet I perusing his particular judements upon the dayes of the quarter I find it should have plenty of rain In the year last past another said the summer should be so hot and dry that wells and rivers should be dried up and fishes be scarce and Cattel dy for want of water yea the same party in his particular judgement of the weather maketh 20. dayes of the same quarter at the least rain and misling and 30. other either temperate or very cold In one word the judgements which are set down of the weather they are more tolerable then the rest yet as long as the wold endureth no man shall be able to prognosticate truely what weather shall be in every day of the year The causes of this I have set down before and need not now to repeat Wherefore they might leave of any longer to busie themselves in this kind And it shall be sufficient for thee leading a christian life to know the generall and ordinary estate of the parts and seasons of the year The third Reason Impieties Besides all this the