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A92179	Astrologia accusata pariter & condemnata. Or The diabolical art of judicial astrologie, receiving the definitive sentence of final condemnation: being delivered in this following discourse, where the said art is briefly and manifestly opened, justly arraigned, diligently examined, and experimentally condemned by him, who was a student in the same. / By John Raunce, sometime a practitioner of astrologie, and student in the magick art.	Raunce, John, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing R317; Thomason E618_11; ESTC R206349	30,300	42

yet then even then I would denie Astrologie to be a lawfull Art But now to return again to the aforesaid Position of the Astrologers which is this viz That the Stars are naturall causes of such effects as Astrologers foretell First I will examine this Position and then shall we see whether those events which the Astrologers foretell are caused by the Stars or not Wherfore in the first place we are to know what those Effects are which the Astrologers say are caused by the Stars Now the effects which the Astrologers do affirm are caused by the Stars are these viz The particular events of those things belonging to man which things are by the Astrologers appropriate to the twelve houses of Heaven As for the things whose effects Mr. Lilly his Intro pa. 50. the Astrologers say are caused by the Stars I have mentioned many of them in the second Chapter of this Discourse and therefore I refer you thither for there you have them inserted into a Figure according as they are by the Astrologers appropriate to the twelve Houses Now in this place I am to treat of the Effects of the aforesaid things that is to say whether A question The Answer or not the effects of those things are caused by the Stars To this I answer Negatively and say that the Stars are not the causes of the Effects of those things belonging to man as for example I will instance in these particulars following viz Gauricus warned Henry the second King of France Heydons Defence of Astrologie p. 194. Page 81. not to run at Tilt in the one and fourtieth yeer of his age for that the Stars did then threaten a wound in his Head Paulus tertius warned his Son long before of the very day of his death Mr. Christian an Astrologer of Prague Rants zovi● fol. 97. admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by a Priest that he should beware of eminent Death because that many Planets were conjoyned this yeer and there happeneth an Eclipse likewise of the Moon under the earth notwithstanding the premonition he dyed that yeer 1434. Anno aetatis 49. Also Picus being fore-told by three Astrologers that he should not live above thirty three yeers confirmed the prediction Now that these aforesaid events were fore-told by the said men viz Astrologers I confess But that those men could fore see those events by the Stars or that the Stars were Naturall causes of those events both these things I do deny for these Reasons First then I say that the Stars were not naturall causes of those afore-said Events Because there is a dependence and coherence between the cause and the Effect in Naturall things but in these things there is none For every Effect and Accident doth shew it's Cause So that Naturall and Elementary effects and accidents shew forth Naturall and Elementary Causes Also Metaphysicall or supernaturall Effects and Accidents shew forth Metaphysicall or supernaturall causes Herein the Astrologers are beside the matter and are deceived in their principles for they take Metaphysicall or supernaturall effects and accidents to be effected by Naturall and Elementary causes Now why the Astrologers are here deceived is this viz because they do behold and see many Alterations changes events and accidents effected in mans body Hereupon they do beleeve that the said Alterations changes events and accidents are effected by and from Naturall and Elementary causes because the body of man upon whom the said things are effected is a naturall and elementary substance Wherefore I say that there are many things which the Astrologers affirm to be effected by and from Naturall causes the which Position I do deny and say that those things are not effected by nor from Naturall and Elementary causes But I say that those things are Metaphysicall and supernaturall Effects and Accidents and are effected and accomplished in Naturall and Elementary bodies by a Metaphysicall and supernaturall Cause as I will hereafter in these following examples declare For whereas the Astrologers do impute the Flood Albumazar ca. 3. de Max. conjunc Marcilius Ficinus in his Treatise of the Star that led the Wisemen Spine us in Catastro Mundi which was in the dayes of Noah to a certain great Conjunction of the Planets so in like manner they say of the Birth of Moses Also the coming of Christ and the preaching of the Gospel the promulgation and publication of the Law the sedition of the people their troubles persecutions banishments bloodshed deaths wars these and many other such like things as these are the Astrologers say are fore-shewed by the Stars Now all these things are supernaturall effects that is to say they are such things whose cause is not Naturall but above Nature So then for as much as the cause of these things is a Metaphysicall Agent therefore I denie that the Effects of the aforesaid things can be caused by a Physicall constellation But now I am come to the second thing which is this viz That no man can by the Stars foresee such Effects as is aforesaid Now that no man can by the Stars foresee such events it is very manifest for if all the Star-gazers in the world if they were agazing all together at once on the Stars they are not able to foresee those events in the Stars which events they do not cause That the Stars are not the causes of those events it is the saying of some of your own Authors For saith Spineus that as well the great Conjunctions Spineus as Mo●kstars Comets Eclipses and the like ought not to be called the causes of future events here then you may see that there is so great contradiction between the sayings of the Astrologers and their practises that all Rationall men may behold the Art of Astrologie to be a foolish lying Art and that the Astrologers do profess such an Art whose Rules they are ignorant of For sometimes you shall have them say with Spineus that the Stars are not the causes of Future events but do they alwayes say thus No for if we look upon their Astrologicall Predictions then shall we hear them say the very contrary For whereas they said at one time that the great Conjunctions of the Planets c. are not the causes of future events At another time you shall have them say that the very same Conjunctions do produce great Effects As for example I will instance in the said Spineus who is cited afore Spineus in Catastrophe Mundi whose words are thus in one place of his book viz. That as well the great Conjunctions as Mock-stars Comets Eclipses and the like ought not to be called the causes of Future Events But this very man Spineus writing of a Future Catastrophe to come upon the world in the same book saith thus speaking of the said Catastrophe subversion or end of the world viz that the principall causes are the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the superiour Planets the other