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A85995	Animal cornutum, or The horn'd beast: wherein is contained, 1 a brief method of the grounds of astrology, 2 a description of each planet and sign, 3 the way to erect a figure of heaven, 4 a narrative of what visible eclipses (both of sun and moon) will appear in our horizon, for these 15 years yet to come, with the month, day, and hour when they happen. Whereunto is annexed, an examination of a spurious pamphlet (intituled, Astrology proved to be the doctrine of dæmons) laying open the antagonist's malice, and folly; with a refutation of his errors, by an astrological example, in figure, and judgement. / Composed for the benefit of all those that are desirous to exercise themselves herein, by J. Gadbury, a lover of the celestial sciences.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1654 (1654)	Wing G74; Thomason E1495_2; ESTC R208533	36,911	86

of the lesser but for the greater to comprehend is no rarity but this ♂ Mars hill as Paul spoke on was more properly called the Court of the Areopagites for so the Margin reads it I doubt my Antagonist wanted the help of a pair of Spectacles to have given him sight for his eyes were dim I wonder a Minister should write thus illogically I refer him to Mr Cokes Book of Art Logique against he writes the next heap of Nonsense And thus I leave his seventh part of Passion The eight part of Passion examined MY Antagonist faults the Athenians 〈◊〉 calling Pauls preaching a setting forth of strange Daemons so do I for Pauls Doctrine was not backt on with a frozen Presbyterian zeal fault worthy they are but if those who were Heathens be thus to be blamed for spurning against that which to them was a fallacy though true in it self May not my Antagonist and the rest of his function be likewise blamed for committing the same error The Athenians call Pauls preaching a strange thing to them 't is like so it was our * Some of them others are more wise Priests of our time call Gods coming in any way but the Pulpir road a strange thing to them all ways contrary to their ways are false ways and Diabolical if they have not the power to lead men about by the nose then they roar if any Christian-like Art flourish besides theirs I grant Divinity to be the first Christian Art then they bellow Every thing is an ignis fatuus but their preaching and that is not always Gospel all is Diabobical that is not as they would have it but neverthelesse I will ask one thing of them and the resolve of this will discover which is generally most honest the priest or Artist viz. Quaere 1 Whether the strict Priests with their poysonous tongues have not caused more bloudshed in the Kingdom and more dishonour to God than the Artist hath by his Predictions Quaere 2 And whether hath not the Artist been the descrier of an impending Evil which all men in some measure might have mitigated according to the Proverb viz. A fore-warning is a fore-arming And hath not the Artist's predictions been an Antidote against the evil the Priests * Consult M. Love's Uxbridge Sermon tongues like Trumpets had broached yet will they alwayes be medling let them alone with Ephraim if happily they may repent If you wonder at that word strict Preachers you may take notice that some were more godly though not so strict i. e. not so full of persecuting zeal of which party are many worthy Divines The reverend orthodox Divine is worthy of mor● honour ●h●n Mr. C●lamies Elders whom I reverence with my heart among whom are Reverend Doctor Gell a Reverend Orthodoxal Gentleman and may equal the gravest Presbyter for learning even Mr. Gataker of Redriff A second is Mr. R●eve who was a right bred Scholar consult his Sermon entituled The now Jerusalem else A third is Doctor Swadling an admirable and very ingenuous Gentleman All these and many more are as great-sticklers for Astrology as the grave Mr. Gataker and furious Mr. Calamie and the rest of the Brethren in persecuting zeal are carpers against it But what are these carpers truly such that cannot chuse but broach their malice against what they are not affected with Are they not therefore like * Love-sick people are always passionat people in love who are led more by affection than reason surely yes if so then those that are led more by reason than affection are to be trusted unto before them Wherefore will I beleeve these forementioned ingenuous Gentlemen before the other and desire Mr. B. to find three such among his whole society of Brethren of the like conversation for Doctrine and example and this shall be his reward E●t mihi magnus Apollo as great Apollo he shall be to me for these are men hating covetousnesse fearing God not in verbis but in rebus here are qualifications worthy of double honour had Mr. B. had these I should not have found him a Detractor from the worth of so noble a Science as Astrology c. The ninth part of Passion examined MY Antagonist now is passionate to purpose hitherto he hath but carped at men but now in this strange passion at the Saviour of men even our Lord Jesus Heavens protect us that this Atheistical tenet have no influence on us for I am sure by every honest Astrologer t is exploded as diabolical and blasphemous and diabolical because blasphemous the thing in it self is so horrid that my Conscience tels me t is almost a sin to name it but seeing my Antagonist hath endeavoured to make Astrology the father of it 't will not be amisse to set the saddle upon the right horse viz. these Men-gods had their Stars saith he which they were supposed to be in after death and thereby to act on men while they were alive and having no ground in Judicial Astrology to back on or countenance his Heathenish opinion endeavours to prove it by Matt. 2. verse 2. Where is he that is born King of the Iews we have seen his Star and are come to worship him from these words he argues thus The King saith he is distinct from the Star so that there is the Daemon or Heroe his Star the doctrine of the Daemon and the Asterisme so prove one another that the one being granted the other cannot be denyed Oh profound Logician Jesus Christ is the King of Glory and therefore no underprop to the Daemon doctrine but surely had he been disputing with any Christian Astrologer he 'd hardly a granted him either his argument is stated so illogically The King that is our glorified Saviour is distinct from the Star If by this he means That Christ as King is distinct from the Star I deny his assertion and he himself cannot prove it For Christ as King is no wayes unlike the Father the Father is omni-present Ergo Christ the King is not distinct from the Star but as he is the bright and morning star is in union with all stars and beings created and uncreated Christ the child as born of a Virgin considered in his humanity may be said to be distinct but improperly because the brightnesse of the Fathers glory rested on him Now Sir your major being thus denyed if you now cannot make it good * Christ shall he present when Mr. B. shall be the preterperfect lense your Conclusion falls immediatly to the ground But 't is a main argument this my Antagonist was disputing by himself having no opposer but his Conscience and that was seared else sure he would never have gone about to have eclipsed the omni-presency of our blessed Saviour I am afraid this savours something of Julian's apostacy I advise him therefore to take heed how he spit against Heaven lest it fall into his own face I hope this is no sin against

received any special commission to take care of our souls he had best produce it otherwise I will not believe him for verily I am of a more Christian belief than to think God would give the care or charge of our souls to any particular man or men for should it have so been 't would have grieved me fore to think how sluttishly our soules which are of Gods own Essence would be looked unto But stay can he be thought a good cafor our souls that would robb us of what should doe both souls and bodies good let him read Ovid and he will tell him why God hath made us in his own Image viz. That in our aspect towards heaven we may behold his divine Majesty for Os homini sublime dedit coelumque videre Jussit ercetos ad sydera tollere vultus God with a lofty look did man indue Commanding him both heaven and stars to view Now Mr. B. can you deny Coelum est instrumentum quo inferiora agit impellit regitque the Heavens to be Gods instrument whereby he worketh enforceth and governeth all things can you deny the knowledge of these heavens which God uses as Instruments to be lawfull For the sayings of the Antients they are not in any esteem with this Gentleman * Which spring feeds his almost-extinguished lamp Aristotle's Academies he cannot away with that is a deceit and indeed so are all Arts and Sciences too with him and that 's the reason of his caring for our soules chiefly to make us his proselites viz. barkers at the Moon Momus-like Sir your Net is too narrow it cannot overspread us in this for do we not read wiser and more learned Authors fuller fraught with reason who say Stulti negligunt contemnunt Astrologiam qui contradicit ambitiosus est qui maledicit fatuus Fools neglect and despise Astrology and he is ambitious that gainsayes it c. And again qui artem aliquam destruit longe deterior est imperito nec vacat mens illius malitia desidia ignorantia He that destroys any Art is far worse than he that is unskilfull for his mind is neither empty of malice deceit and ignorance Mr. B. let it be your study to contemplate these sayings of the Antients and then I am sure you will have no need to trouble your self with our souls I have been the larger because I would take you off this care But God give me grace to trust my soul to his care for he doth provide for his servants souls Angels to attend them not Priests which shall be carefull to bear them up in all good things and to make them flee evil things And for this cause would I advise my Antagonist to addresse himself to God for a speedy care of his own soul not to trouble himself with the souls of others it being so poor a kind of imployment hee 's like to merit not so much as thanks for his labours and thus much for this piece of passion The fourth part of Passion examined MY Antagonist is still an Apologizer for now he desires as he hath writ without prejudice so we would read it If you have writ without prejudice what need have you to apologize for your self but Sir on the other side I must tell you I had not known nor any else any prejudice you had taken but by your writing so here is a plain self-contradiction for had you had no prejudice by the Art or lovers of it 't were a fond thing in you to prejudice that which did not prejudice you but to be short it appears the Art was your prejudicer you to make amends would prejudice it again a good requital but not like Pauls rule in the Romans The prejudice in writing is a demonstration of your prejudice in reading therefore doe not flatter but deal honestly and then we find nothing but a prejudice taken against this diviner Science O Sir was it not the Soul-sorrow of Hermes Trismegistus to lament the condition of Aegypt in so bewailing a manner viz. ☜ O Aegypt there remains only the stories of learning in thee the Divinity of Sciences is returned into Heaven and only perverse and ignorant men shall abide on earth insomuch that he that would apply himself to the true study of learning shall be punished with death c. Implying a paucity or dearth of the true learning or learners was to befal the Agyptians whom the Father of the faithful and Moses a servant of God and many others as Iosephus reports had laboured by their sublimer skill to instruct them in And shall it not be the curse of our Enlish Nation to have the Schools of Literature broken down I mean the usefull of all humane learning viz. the subject of this discourse which Mr. B would have roured out of the hearts of men and * Hear the holy mans dissimulation yet he hath written against it without prejudice a likely thing he can do so and yet rail * Learned men esteem Learning of greater worth against all humane learning and Aristotle's Academies in so many places as he doth I may not I cannot beleeve him in this though he be a Minister of the Gospel But again he hath not writ out of a bitter spirit his Ipse Dixit cannot command my credence here for I may not in this believe him neither unlesse he can assure me of the constant sweetnesse his spirit is possessed with which few presbyters are now a dayes if he cannot do so I may conclude his spirit Rev. 10. I am sure his words are as bitter as the Book that Iohn eat But what may be the reason of this Gentlemans passion Sure I believe he had ♈ Aries the day-house of * ♂ is naturally cholerick ♂ Mars horoscopical at birth which makes him thus exceed in choler that he may not write out of a bitter spirit next time he writes I advise him to consult his Ephemerides * A choise Election of time is a jewel of inestimable value and see what aspect ☽ the Moon hath to ♂ or whether ♂ transit the degree of his birth and if he see his significator free and the ascendant also I warrant him then he writes not so passionately next time If the Gentleman write so passionately and write but seldom I wonder how he doth preach sure as furiously as Jehu drove I wish I lived a little neerer him that I might sometimes hear how waspishly he endeavoureth to beget souls to God but I descend The fifth part of Passion examined NOw Mr. B. begins to descend to particulars and saith That ♃ Jupiter and ☿ Mercury are the Daemons the Scripture speaks of True it is the Scripture makes mention of the Lystrians love to gods Servants viz. Paul and Barnabas and how they were reputed Gods comparatively for the good tydings they brought them but what of this suppose they had bowed the knee before them nay heart and all are they

you must know Astrologers will not maintain any thing oraculous or positive for that were to robb God of his perfection Scorus 2 Sent. Dist 4. but what says Scotus Astra inclinant voluntatem in nullo tamen necessitatur accidit tamen frequenter Astrologos vera prognosticare de moribus hominum propter pronitatem eoorum ad sequendum appetitivum sensitivum i. e. The Stars saith he incline the will but in no wise necessitate it frequently it comes to pass that Astrologers fortell truths concerning the manner of men by reason of their pronesse to follow their sensitive appetite Nor are the words of divine * Dr. Gell Stella Nova Doctor Gell to be disrespected There is said he id Bruti in men that they live so much by sence that 't is almost a strange thing the Astrologer should predict false Here 's no enjoyning a spirit at all This is another of M. B's spurious brats which he would father upon Astrology an example in Astrology will prove this so silly an absurdity that 't will be a shame for a Priest to own which example you shall find annexed to the latter end of my Book The sixth part of his Reason examined THe Pamphleter keeps a hideous noise like the clattering of empty pitchers about the powers of the air he must and will have a distinction between the powers of the air and Gods powers although the powers of God be like him viz. Omni-present But admit of this nicety viz. that the Devil governs the powers of the air and that God and the Devil have their powers distinct and opposing one another are they so much out of man as in him no such thing but my Antagonist having studied the Macrocosm so much hath left the Microcosm unstudied so that he may well say I have done those things I ought not to have done and left undone those things I ought to have done I am perswaded God governs the world by harmony and not confusion but 't is the Element of air he carps at and saith God doth not but Satan doth direct * That 's the aiery powers them which cannot enter in my belief for I rest confident that that power which rules in heaven and earth rules in air also for if God be Omni-present his power must be so too else his power must be cut off and if you take away his power you may as well take away him for every thing both visible and invisible is supported by power but this being so orthodoxal a Tenet there is none but Madmen * My Antagonist is hood-wink'd Aristotle will not help him will deny it Why should any one limit Gods power and make it distinct from him when as 't is clear there is no place empty of God see Psal 139. Job saith God hangeth the Earth upon nothing I believe t is a truth to man generally because t is a paradox to him but really the earth as the Heavens is hanged upon the power of God this being as nothing in the esteem of some men But again This Earth as 't is hang'd upon nothing could not exist without the power of God in the other Elements for all the other are as correspondents with it the Water that refreshes its thirsty jawes the Fire that doth warm its benumm'd limbs and the Air doth gently breath upon it this Element of the Air is the surrounder of the Earth and one power governs both for as 't is impossible for Mr. B. to live without air so 't is impossible to make these Separatists Let Mr. B. but open his mouth 't will be full of air presently his head was full of nothing else when he writ against Astrology there 's no such jarring in the Elements as is among * Which made Mr. Erbury in his late Dispute in Lumbard-street conclude them Beasts from which conclusion I called my Book Animal Cornutum it being so infrequent a thing in England to see a Beast without Horns Clergy-men let Mr. B. say what he will of them I really believe Mr. B. wanted air when he urged this whimsey for reason he was almost smothered with Envy's soultry heat and the sweet air of Charity was absent What shall I say to this University Weather-cock even this Gods power is not to be rashly dealt withall neither is foolishly to be separated from God for To make God and his powers twain Bold person you attempt in vain The last part of his Reason examined AStrologies antiquity is questioned now by the Antagonist he is resolved now to cut it up by the roots affirming it to have beginning but in Nebuchadnezars days But Sir I would have you know Astrology is of a more longer and stronger growth and will not be so easily cut down That Astrology began but in Nebuchadnezzars days is false and all Writers that do write any thing of this Subject contradict it for * Though Mr. Gataker slanderously calls him counterfeit Hermes an antient Philosopher a man long before Moses therefore longer before Nebuchadnezzer was an admirable proficient in the Sciences of Astrology this is enough to refute his falacy but Josephus reports Josephus lib. 1. ch 3. de Antiq Jud. that Abraham the Father of the Faithful instructed the Aegyptians in this Science of the Stars that they became excellent therein The same Josephus reports how the Sons of Seth invented this Science of the Stars and that it might not be kept from succeeding ages they made two pillars one of Brasse and the other of brick to the end it might be preserved from the violent Waves of the Flood that was to come that this famous Art or Science of the Stars might not perish to which Divine Dubartus seems to allude when he sung Phalec and Heber as they wandred fand A huge high pillar which upright did stand And afterward another nigh as great But not so strong so stately nor so neat For on the flowry sield it lay all flat Built but of Brick of rusty Tiles or Slat Whereas the first was builded fair and strong Of Jasper smooth and Marble lasting long Any one may see now how this Gentleman hath launched into the lake of Lyars for Astrology is more honourable more antient than his envy could report it nay it was so honourable in old time none were created Priests without it none so honourable with their Kings as they while these Arts flourish'd the World was like a little Heaven Kings which of later years have become vicious were then virtuous by their sublimer studies in those days all adored the magnitude of their Creator and the God of Heaven was admired and worshipped in the Orders of the Heavens but since the Priests have ruled the rost there have as many ways been taught to Heaven as Taylors have found fashions to set forth Womens bodies Here you see now that in the old time no Art was in such esteem as this one was In the beginning of