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A87111	Vox caelorum. Predictions defended or, The voyce of the celestiall light, wherein is proved five things: 1 That the starres have received influences. 2 That they operate and worke upon sublunary things, according to the nature and quality of those received influences. 3 That God hath revealed those received influences to man. 4 That it is not unlawfull to predict according to the knowne nature and quality of those received influences. 5 That it is not unlawfull to call the starres by such and such names; as Pleyades, Arcturus, Orion, &c. And divers places of the Scriptures opened and cleared. With a vindication of M. William Lilly his reputation against the Epirrhesian antagonists, in these times of discovery of new lights. By Henry Harflete, practitioner in the mathematickes.	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.	1646 (1646)	Wing H767; Thomason 1179[1]; ESTC R208103	22,577	71

Heathen did too much feare the influences of the Signes Againe he saith The constellations and conjunctions of Starres and Planets Sure this is but a little better then non-sense for And is a conjunction copulative and joynes together things of severall natures And what Astronomer did ever read or heare of a fixed Starre was ever properly said to be aspected with any Planet before Master Whartons time And then it goes on And their secret motions and influences are not knowne to man What Motions are they that are secret their motions sure are not so secret but knowne to man but for their influences some are secret as some vertues are secret in Hearbs that are not knowne to the expertest Phisician And then it concludes and therefore there can be no certaine judgement thereof 't is a plaine Non sequitur And though the Judgement of man be defective yet it may be probable being grounded upon a probable reason and conjecture for I say 'T is not unlawfull to predict and who knowes not but that the word predict is Astronomically nothing else but to fore-shew the effects that may happen from the nature of the knowne causes And what man is so mad as to reject the advice of the skilfull and expert Phifitian when he tells him the nature of such a compound is good to give ease to his sicke body it may be that God will give a blessing to it or it may not be if it ease not 't is a signe of Gods displeasure c. Heywood in his Hierarchy Hierarahy lib. 7. tit Principats lib. 7. tit Principats hath no manifest or sound Objections Astrology is defined to be scientia astris a knowledge in the Starres of which he saith Pliny in his 57. Booke of his naturall History witnesseth that Atlanta King of the Mauritanians was the first inventor Indeed I read that Atlas who was King of Arcadia was the first inventor of Astronomy from whom a Mountaine in Mauritania takes it name and is called Atlas which was so high that the top of it is said to reach to Heaven and to sustaine it and therefore Atlas is said to beare Heaven upon his shoulders even by maintaining the Science of Astronomy he lived Anno Mundi 2168. Can any man thinke the worse of that Science that was invented by an Heathen if he were the first inventor of it And then he goes on Of this Art of Astrology the sacred Scripture in divers places makes mention as Deut. 4. 19. And lest thou lift up thine eyes to Heaven and when thou seest the Sun and the Moone and the Stars with all the Host of Heaven shouldest be driveu to worship them and serve them which the Lord thy God hath * That is He hath appointed them to serve man distributed to all people under the whole Heaven Is Astrology here forbidden or is this Astrology 'T is farre wide from it 't is not Astrology here forbidden but Idolatry even the Idolatry of the Aegyptians who are called Heathen Ier. 10. 2. Then he quotes 47. Esay 13. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsells let now the Astrologers the Starre-gazers and Prognosticators stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee But I pray what Astrologers c. were these were they not the superstitious Heathen such as in the former verse were called Inchanters and South-sayers who did put a vaine confidence in such things And then he comes to Philosophers and tells us what Franciseus Patr. de regno lib. 2. cap. 16. speakes of Julius Caesar who of all others was the most skilfull in the Art of Astronomy by which he had knowledge to predict his owne fate but he had not the skill to avoid it But what is this to the purpose against Astrology And then he tells us what Aristotle saith in lib. 12. Metaph. cap. 4. Astrology hath a speculation into a sublime substance sempiternall and sensible which is Heaven and what then doth this make any thing against Astrology as he pretends Thus for the defence of Predictions I come now to the 2 Fence Or bounds and limits of Predictions I say they must keepe within bounds they must goe so farre and no further they must be according to the nature and quality of those knowne influences An Astrologer must not straine himselfe too high that was the fault of the Heathen and therefore in Scripture reproved Goe to the very essence of Astrology and you shall finde that it doth reasonably demonstrate the operations and effects of the naturall beames of light and influences of the Starres and Planets in every Element and elementall body at all times in any Horizon assigned By it we learne the rising and seting of Starres mentioned by Hesiod by Virgill in his Georgicks by Hippocrates in his Medicinall Sphere to Perdicea King of the Macedonians by Diocles to King Antigonus and by other famous Philosophers a thing necessary for manuring of the earth for Navigation for the alteration of mans body being whole sick wounded or bruised Mercerus and Iunius allow of foure lawfull uses of the Coelestiall bodies to which Dr. Willet upon 1 Gen. doth consent and they be these First to distinguish day and night light and darknesse 2. To be for signes of weather 3. To serve for signes and seasons as weekes daies and yeares 4 To give influence by their heat light and motion to these inferiour parts Indeed superstitious Astrology as Willet calls it is not by any denied but to be as he faith repugnant to Scripture against reason vaine and impious and such Astology I am sure Master Lilly doth utterly abhorre and no such is his Astrology specified and written in his Booke called The Propheticall Merlin as some have vainly and foolishly imagined For his calculations of Nativities and finding out things that are lost c. which Dr. Willet comprehends under superstitious Astrology is not any way practised by him in the least kind of superstition for the manner of his practise I would wish this Antagonist to looke into his Anglicus for 1646. and he shall finde him free from superstition and I would wish those that read his Predictions there would first read his Epistle to the Reader and I am perswaded they will wave their opinion But it is the manner of our ignorant Censurers to read the Booke but leape over the Epistle thinking that that belongs not to them but I am loath to digresse too farre though Rhotoricke allow of it But for other Objections and likewise somewhat what that famous divine Meluncthon writes concerning judiciall Astrology I have in part shewne before in my generall Epistle and therefore I forbeare to reiterate it and come to speake two or three words concerning the last Proposition and so conclude 5 That it is not unlawfull to call the Starres by such and such names as Pleyades Orion Arcturus c. Were it superstition the Scriptures would not use the words Psal 147. God is there said to number the Starres and call them all by their names And what names Some are upon Record in the Scripture Job Amos and others make mention of Arcturus Orion Pleyades Hesperus and Lucifer Homer and Hesiod mentioned them especially Syrius otherwise called the great Dog The knowledge of their names as well as of their natures is very requisite and usefull Seamen have it by experience in directing their course as Aratus who was a Grecian Poet and an Astrologer and Ovid 3. Fastorum have observed where he saith thus Esse duas arctos quarum Cynosura petatur Sidoniis Helieen Graia carina notet For this cause Virgil in 1 lib. Georg. thinkes that the skilfull Mariner by the continuall observation of such Starres as might fitly direct him in his course gave them fit names for thus he saith Navita tum stellis m●meros nomina fecit The Mariner hath both numbred and named the Starres but you read in 147. Psalme that God did this himselfe Sure then it can be no superstition in these times of a great discovery of lights to call the Starres by their names though we finde them not all in holy Writ Now to conclude let the ignorant envious and censorious consider well what I have written and I hope they will be silent I hope at least have no cause further to traduce and pray to God that the Judgements depending in England may be removed and the good to the Parliament Predicted may fully be accomplished Nothing is certainely you see Predicted excluding the providence of the wise Governour of sublunary creatures Here Master Lilly speakes for himselfe and I hope the mouth of the sly Detractour will be stopped In his Anglicus for 1646. Mr. Lilly Anglicus 1646. in Marches observations where he writes thus I speake as a man that grounds his conjecture upon naturall causes positively I conclude not that 's an act belonging to Gods Providence Well weigh likewise the places subjected to the twelve signes in Master Booke●s Almanack for 1644. and I hope those that will not understand will be mute and those that cannot apprehend will admire and then I hope Master Lillies Supernaturall apparitions will startle the ignorant his Collections of Prophesies will silent the envious and his Propheticall Merlin will curbe the censorious Pray then to God to avert his Judgements and to convert all to the good predicted for the true happinesse and prosperity and honour of Englands PARLIAMENT FINIS