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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18368	A treatise against iudicial astrologie Dedicated to the right Honorable Sir Thomas Egerton Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seale, and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Councell. VVritten by Iohn Chamber, one of the prebendaries of her Maiesties free Chappell of VVindsor, and fellow of Eaton College.	Chamber, John, 1546-1604.	1601 (1601)	STC 4941; ESTC S107654	105,203	193

Christ by whose death his tyranny ouer mankind was to be abolished and dissolued neither would he be so busie in tempting and molesting the Saints of God if he knew before he should be foiled by them and so increase their glorie But what do we speake of the diuell seeing neither the Angels nor blessed soules of the faithfull who still behold God and see into the course of starres as farre as any Wisard cannot certainely know our actions before hand without some speciall reuelation from God What madnesse were it then to giue that to the diuell which is denied to Angels and Saints Againe whatsoeuer belonged to Christ or the state of his Church we see hath beene euer foretold long before by the Prophets most distinctly and plainely which things if they could haue beene foretold by the starres and starre-gazers then were the foundation of all true religion shaken Neither by this meanes is religion and Diuinitie shaken onely but also all morall doctrine and philosophie for whosoeuer is perswaded that all dependeth on heauen and therefore thinketh that all mens deeds and euents may be foreknowne and foretold by tooting vpon the starres he must needs thinke withall that the soule is mortall and the prouidence of God not to be such as our faith teacheth and that the mysteries miracles of our religion though they be indeed supernaturall yet depend vpon celestiall causes and powers How ill Christianitie and Astrologie stand together may appeare by the fact and practise of the Ephesians Act. 19. who as soone as they were conuerted by the Apostles preaching bid farewell to figure-flinging and flung their curious books into the fire The speech of S. Augustine receiuing a certaine penitent figure-flinger into the church is very notable in these words after the exposition of the 61. Psal This man being seduced by the enemy was a long time a figure-flinger being seduced himselfe and seducing others he deceiued entised spake manie lies against God who hath giuen men power to do good and not harme This man denied that his owne will committed adulterie but Venus and that his owne will committed murther but Mars and that iustice was done not by God but Iupiter and many such blasphemies did he vtter And after a few lines continuing the same speech he saith This man was lost but he hath beene sought and is now found brought home the books that would haue burnt him he bringeth with him to be burnt that they being cast into the fire himselfe may find refreshing Epiphanius in his booke de ponderibus telleth of a Bishop that was depriued for studying figure-flinging Farther all our religion faith the comming of our Sauiour the labour and paines of his Apostles and Prophets in planting the Church by this meanes should be in vaine vnlesse some perhaps will not sticke to say that the miracles of Christ with his death birth c. depend vpon constellations and aspects of starres And then wee may also go on and say that we are by destinie called to Christ and that either there is no difference betweene good and euill or that God is the authour of euil Some of them say there is such vertue in Mars wel placed in the ninth house that by our only presence we chase diuels out of possessed bodies Others by this arte thinke they can iudge of mens thoughts and consciences Maternus saith that they which are borne Saturne being in Leo shall first liue long here afterward go to heauen Albumasar saith that he that shall pray to God for any thing when the Moone and Iupiter are ioyned in the head of the Dragon shal obtaine whatsoeuer he asketh Of this Petrus Aponensis saith that he had triall in himselfe For in that coniunction when he had asked learning of God he perceiued he said that he was thereby mightily furthered yet I thinke that many haue had as much wit as he had without asking and of those that haue asked without the help of that constellation no doubt many haue far passed him for all manner of gifts Wherfore it should seeme that there be some constellations better for wit then this for himselfe it was wel that he asked in pudding time as they say for if he had not perhaps we should haue had a very wise man of him But that it hath bin alwaies pernicious and hurtfull to the Church may thence appeare because alwaies the greatest astrologers haue made religion as well as any humane or politique lawes subiect to constellations Ptolemy in the second booke of his Centiloquium ascribeth to the nature of celestiall formes starres that this motion hath one religion and that another And a certaine greeke interpreter of Ptolemy attributeth the miracle of Moses passing the red sea on foote with the people to the skil of Moses obseruing the fluxe and refluxe of the sea as if in the same water both Gods people were not saued and Pharao with his astrologers drowned as if Iosue had not passed Iordan drie foote where was not fluxe nor refluxe to yeeld to him Albumasar deriueth from heauen both our religion and the Turkes and all other lawes and his interpreter Henricus Macleuiensis found a ship in heauen by which Noe framed his arke which deuise Halliacensis admitteth with great applause Abraham Iudeus very impiously and ridiculously referreth to diuerse constellations the law of Moses the departing out of Egypt and whatsoeuer els hapned to that people Guido Bomattus also most prophanely and madlie saith that Christ vsed elected howers when he answered the Apostles desiring him not to goe into Iudea that there were twelue howers of the daie He made choise of an howre saith he in which the Iewes could not hurt him as if we did not reade in the same Gospell that he ouerthrew them and passed through the midst of them vnseene euen at none day Others thinke that when they reade in Paul of the fulnesse of time and in the Gospell now is your hower and the power of darkenesse and in an other place my howre is not yet come that by these places are meant their constellations For answer to them I would gladly know of thē whether they thinke it eating time whē they are hungry and drinking time when they are thirsty how soeuer it fareth with heauen at the same time If they be not starke staring madde they will graunt that euery thing hath a time howsoeuer heauen goeth according to the nature of the thing in hand and the oportunitie of Doing So diuine miracles haue their time but according to the purpose of God not according to the constitution of heauen The same Guido saith that the Christian religion is the religion of Iupiter and in the proems of his Theorickes against Gerardus he writeth that wee must praie deuoutly to Mercurie in choosing of a new Pope Roger Bacon saith that Christians might doe well to keepe Satterdaie holie daie with the Iewes becāse it is no good day for worke as belonging