adds absit ut a Deo supernaturalens motionem denegemus Anno 1614. he was made a Priest besides the continuation of the other Direction he says Mercury was directed to the Antiscion of the part of Fortune Pray what is that to the purpose On that Direction he might as well have set up a Fudling-School as the Trade he did Anno â—616 he turned Jesuit he had now Mars directed to Venus Lady of the Tenth Do you think this is not a hopeful Direction to be offered on such an occasion Anno 1629. he was chosen General of the Order in France he had then the Midheaven directed to the Sextile of Jupiter and the Ascendent to the Body of Mercury As to the first I look on that as no Direction in the Zodiack and for the last I cannot see why he should lay so much stress upon it You see he doth not take one word of notice of the Midheaven to the Body of Venus nor the effect of it I am of opinion he hath made a mistake in his Correction and taken one thing instead of another for the Midheaven to the Body of Venus in Sextile to Mercury and Jupiter is a most glorious Direction and must give Eminent Preferment to a man of his Trade But perhaps this Error will more aptly appear in the following Paragraph Anno 1641. January 6. Aged 52 Years and a Month he died of a Feaver which took him the 30 of December before for this Morinus says he had the Sun Lord of the Eighth in the Ascendent ideoque Aphetae simulque Anaeretae to the Square of the Moon Lady of the Eighth and he says he predicted the day of his death First you may observe he lays a stress on the Sun Hileg in the Ascendent and because there are some degrees of Leo in the Eighth he calls him Aphaeta and Anareta by which he confounds the name of the one by the power of the other and to be sure of a killing-causeâ— he appoints both Sun and Moon Governors of the Eighth on which House he mightilâ— depends in all Cases and Directions of death Bur the most principal thing to be observed here is that he lets him outlive the Sun to the Square of Saturn and kills him with the Square of the Moon as if Saturn had not power sufficient to do â—is business or else out of Complaisance he would not which I do not often find him guilly of If Morinus lodgeth this Mystery of killing in the Moon because she is Lady of the Eighth he takes away all the Philosophick Principles at once and makes the Art wholly Cabalistical and tacitly tells his Pupils they must in the first place believe the power of the Houses without asking why or wherefore which no ingenious Man can allow For the Planets do not kill because they are Lords of the Fourth Sixth or Eighth Houses as he would here insinuate but by the Intemperance of their Natures and you see that Mankind generally dye by the Excess either of Heat or Cold and this can by no means proceed from the Houses which are but imaginary spaces except the four Angles but from Bodies and such Bodies too that consist of that Temperature and Quality that they hurt by as all men will own that have either had or observed the Sun or Ascendent to the Bodies of Saturn and Mars the one certainly by his own Nature gives hot and the other cold Diseases But if all that Morinus pretends to were allowed yet that doth not take away Saturn's power to kill and if this is Condren's true Nativity I can by no means see any reason why he should think the Square of Saturn was not as likely to kill as that of the Moon and also as likely to be believed and if you do but observe Saturn you 'll find he is as wicked as possibly he can be For he is in the Sixth Cadent out of all Dignities but a Term Retrograde among the Pleiades and in opposition to the Moon in Scorpio and if all these added to his own ill Nature will not make him able to kill this High-Priest if the Sun is Hileg then I have no more to say to him But I am certain the Sun is not Hileg and by Consequence the Figure not true that he hath printed and my reason for it is this About 40 or a little before the Sun passed 4 such Directions that nothing but a miracle could save him and they were the Zodiacal parallels of the Moon and Saturn and the Mundane Squares of the Moon and Saturn and therefore I rest satisfied that this Nativity is false and leave it to others to believe as they please and I think convenient Perhaps it may be expected by some that I should give a Correct Scheme according to my Opinion but that I shall decline for Two Reasons First he hath not given the Estimate time And Secondly I shall make such a great alteration in the time from his Figure by doing of it that it will be of no service when done because it will be at best but dubious and no man can rely on it either for Example or Judgment And therefore I will leave it as it is perhaps it may fall into the hands of some that are more able to Correct it than I am which I heartily wish But one thing I do observe on this Nativity c. That Morinus hath given us this Nativity in his Book of Revolutions and it is not so much to shew the Proof Coherence and Truth of the Nativity it self as the admirable agreement between the Revolutions and the Accidents of this Native in those Years they are set sor of which he hath taken notice of half a dozen and so I have done with his Nativities and their Examination Some Observations on the Theory and Practice of Morinus in Astrology IT is both plain and certain that Mâ—rinus had been at his ne pius ultra in point of Directions to suit to the time and accidents in Nativities and that put him upon finding out some way that might help him out in those difficult Cases and to this purpose we find his great Project laid down and demonstrated in his Sixteenth Book and that is To direct to the Aspects of the Planets with Latitude where he hath wittily taken a great deal of pains and very ingeniously both disecursed and proved what he there aims at and that is that the Aspects of the Planets fall in their Circle of Latitude which cannot be denied because it is a visible truth proved by the Diurnal Motion And yet when all that is done according as he hath managed the matter in practice it is not worth a farthing for though the thing he contends for is true in it self yet he makes a wrong use of it and the way he useth it is no more to the purpose than the former which he Condemns and full as wide from truth as that is the reason of this will appear if you
to his Twenty second Book says Verùm quam difficilis confusa fuerit hactenus testantur Veterum Neotericorum Astrologorum sententiae plurimùm inter se differentes c. But says he how confused and difficult it hath hitherto been the various and different Opinions of the Ancient and Modern Astrologers do testify And in the very first Chapter of that Book he falls upon most of the Famous and Reputable Authors even those that the Students of this present Time admire and accuses them some for their Ignorance and others for their Traditional Innovations and at last he saith Unde major in Astrologiam Confusio introducta est So that you see I am not the first that hath call'd the Abuses and Fooleries of Astrology in question and I believe shall not be the last By these Words of the Learned Morinus you may judge what a confused Heap of Stuff the then Method of Directions seem'd to him and yet he had the same Authors to inform his Judgment that our Modern Artists admire and defend and if the Methods in his Time were so confused abstruse and idle as he tells us they were pray consider what Amendment hath been made since and who hath done any thing in Astrology besides Thieving and Transcribing one from another Did not Cardan follow this same Method in Directions he found laid down by Regiomontanus and others Did not Origanus hand those things down to us that he found delivered to him by Leovitius c. and this without any Amendment And did not Argol transcribe from him and those beforementioned their Methods and Effects of Directions and gave them down to us with fresh Authority And have not our Countrymen transcribed from them all without so much as asking one Word whether they were to be credited or not Therefore why should I be blamed for asking a Question seeing Morinus goes free with Approbation and yet he hath charg'd them home in divers things and proved there are Errors to be found beyond Excuse as you may read at large in the Fifth Chapter of his Sixteenth Book wherein he justly chargeth them with abundance of Nonsensical and most Irrational Fooleries For Example If a Planet is under the Sun-Beams which they call Combust he is Weak but if a Planet is in the middle of the Sun which they call in Cozimi then he is supposed to be Strong and the more Powerful for being there as if a man should be burnt by being near the Fire but if he creeps into the middle of it he shall be refresh'd and supported and not burnt Precious Nonsense With divers other things that he there recites In the Preface to his Twenty third Book he chargeth the Astrologers with Errors in their Doctrine of Revolutions and in particular Stadius and at the same time sets up a Doctrine not allowable by the great Cardan in Seg. 1. Aph. 21. Quaedam propinquo modo ut solis Revolutio which ought to be very exact if the Doctrine of Morinus is allowed but of that Subject see Opus Reformatum page 43. But Morinus hath done admirably well in his Sixteenth Book and Fifteenth Chapter of the First Section where he hath taught the true way to take the Antiscions or Zodiacal Parallels of the Planets and quite turn'd out the old foppish way generally taught by all Authors almost except Ptolomy and Cardan who teach their Pupils to take the Antiscions with Latitude and not without it as most of our later Pretenders have done but notoriously false And a man would think That any one who was able to consider any thing might easily conclude if the Latitude of a Planet caused so much Variation in a Direction to the Ascendent c. it must do the same in an Antiscion also In the Preface to his Twenty fifth Book concerning the Universal Constitution of the Heavens he says Complectitur autem pars ista Doctrinam pulcherrimam amplissimam momenti maximi de qua Veteres Astrologi diversimodè scripserunt sed confuse imperfecte Erroneò defectu verae cognitionis principiorum hujus nobilissimae Scientiae c. It contains says he a Doctrine large delightful and of the greatest moment concerning which the ancient Astrologers have written variously but Confusedly Imperfectly and Erroneously not knowing the Principles of this most Noble Science Hence you see he chargeth our ancient Authorities with Errors in all the Parts of this Study and if you please but to read him he will make most of them appear to be so as he tells you they are And these things he doth not charge upon one only but upon most of them if not all Nay in many Places throughout his Book he falls very hard upon Ptolomy also but how he will make that appear perhaps I may a little further enquire before I conclude it being none of my Business to contend with him in this Place And yet after all this he himself hath trumpt up some Innovations that will not stand the Test and Trial and in many things he is chargeable with Mistakes as indeed we are all more of which you shall hear hereaâ—ter Lastly Mr. J. G. in his Hundred Aphorisms made and borrowed tells us in the last of them That the Art of Astrology is certain but there are few that pâ—â—ctâ—s it who rightly understand it Now if this be truâ— it must beyond all doubt proceed from hence Not knowing the true Rules or knowing too many of the false ones for a man's Ignorance in any Science is nothing else but his not knowing its true and rational Principles and the ways to attain them Now if a man in any Art knows them imperfectly and falsly I think it is high time for him to acknowledge his Ignorance and Enquire the way to Truth and such Persons this Aphorism says there are if so why is that Gentleman so angry with me for making this Enquiry after Truth But if there are no such Persons then what occasion had we for that Aphorism But besides if there are no such ignorant and false Pretenders what did he formerly mean by his Rats in Science and of late by those that he said were not Cutis deep for if we bring these and the Aphorisâ— together it proves the Affirmation more forcibly and I wish he is not found to be one of the Number he endeavours to reprove for the Ax is laid to the Root of the Tree It seems there are but few that understand it and how we shall come to know the whole Number of those few or any part of them I can't tell unless he will be pleased to give us directions for of all those that pretend to it I know there are very few but think they understand it as well as Ptolomy and Cardan did although divers can scarce write their own Names But if we compare his Words one with another and consider them with what is said by Morinus and Cardan it will then appear that there are now and ever
in at birth that I aim at and direct to and I believe there is no man that understands Directional motion that will pretend to Controvert this point unless it is to shew the Excellence of his parts in Cavilling at a positive truth But when he talks of the â™ to be directed Converse I am asham'd of it to find so great a Philosopher insist on so ridiculous a Soloecism nay a perfect impossibility for among all the Authors that ever I have read there are none that will pretend to this foolery but those who know nothing of the matter And I am certain any man will be my Convert that will but consider the Thing and it's Motion But I confess I do not wonder at this Doctrine in Morinus who doth also direct the Angles Converse and this by the same Rule with the former and upon the same ground but both false But to the point nothing can be directed Converse but what is capable of the rapt motion which the Part of Fortune is not for the Part of Fortune passeth through all the Signs in the Zodiack in 24 Hours by the rapt Motion which it could not do if it were possible to be directed Converse For Example Let us suppose the Part of Fortune to be in the Tenth in Conjunction with the Sun Moon Venus and Mercury all which four are capable of the Rapt Motion and are to be directed Converse by the same Rule for they are carried away to the Cusp of the seventh and so to the Fourth and Ascendent c. But the Part of Fortune doâ—h not go with them but stays in the Tenth or thereabouts till the next day about Noon and then it is in Conjunction with them again but meets them sooner than it did the day before being got nearer to the Ascendent by one day's motion of the Moon than it was Now you may for all this direct it Converse if you please and assign some effect to it too but it will look so like no Direction at all and your pains so ill rewarded with empty expectation that perhaps you will save that labour the next time I think this is sufficient to convince any one in this matter that is not too proud to be inform'd And for those that are too stately to be taught and bid adieu to Truth if there were ten times so much more said it would be in vain The next Heterodox point he falls upon is directing the Houses one to another and what is the Consequence of it the Angles Converse for by the same Rule you can do the one I must allow the other But to be plain with you I deny both and do say they are only imaginary and groundless and there is nothing to be said for them but opinion And to shew you the true way of doing it you must have recourse to the Nativities of Walstein and Lewis the 14th in the first of which he directs the Sun in the Seventh to the Midheaven which is in plain terms nothing else but the Midheaven Converse to the body of the Sun In the Second he directs the Ascendent Converse to the Square of the Moon both which I say are no Directions nor have they any effect But because I have spoke of these things largely before I shall omit to say more of them in this place In the 22d Book there are many things more that relate to Directions that I might have recited in their order which because I do not intend a Comment nor a particular Transcription of all I have omitted But there is one thing more that I think seems a little strange to be laid down with so much Authority as he seems to do it with and that is in page 587 to extract the Nativities of the Parents Brethren Wife Children Servants Friends and Enemies from that of the Native's because they stand related to him by the denomination of several Houses in the Figure in which matter I confess he taâ—ks well and learnedly But for the use and truth of those Nativities when gotten I judge no man will venture his Reputation and Credit I know what Ptâ—lomy says of the matter in his 3d Book and 4th Chapter and what Cardan and others say from him about it But of all that have written I think Morinus is the largest and I doubt a little too large too At last he starts a pretty sort of a Question and also Answers it himself And it is Whether by the death of any Native the Celâ—stial Iâ—fluence ceaseth from that Figure to the Parents Brethren Wife Children and all others so related But as I think there is little in the thing it self and less use to be made of it I shall pass it by with as little notice and refer those that would see more of it to Morine's own words page 588. In his 23d Book he discourseth of Revolutions and how to take them In which he hath taken a great deal of pains and in my opinion to a very little purpose for he makes the same thing the basis of his work that they all do which is 5 hours 49 minutes and the operation is almost as tedious as that of the Nativity to gâ—in the Revolution And when that is done how much are we the Exacter than what Argol did by a Table before him and what did Argol do more than Leovitius had done a hundred years before him For so long since he made the difference to be 5 hours 49 minutes between each Revolution And it is the same still as appears by them all one after another and to say the truth I see nothing of Excellence done of late but what tends to puzzle the Cause and increase labour and toil and when all this is attain'd and done they only load the Art with abundance of fooleries of no use of which this of Revolutions is one I do not say the observing the Revolutions every year is a foolery but I say the way of managing and handling them as now used and taught is a meer toy and good for nothing but trouble And that there is nothing in the Revolution but Transits and Returns that are remarkable and worth observing The first that I find did improve Revolutions after the manner now used was Schoner And since him they are grown so artificial that they mâ—ke the Revolution a second Nativity with Directions and Measure of time and other little tricks which they have thought convenient and for the improvement of these ridiculous fooleries some of our English Artists as they call them are behind-hand with none of them but of all the Modern Writers I know none that go beyond Morinus in depending on the Figure of a Revolution so taken as before mentioned as you may see from page 598. to 671. In which Book if the Doctrine is true there is enough to make any man Master of the whole Method and Matter Nay he hath been so nice not to say any worse of it page 644 to
Sense and Skill And though I do not know the Estimate time yet I will venture to make an alteration of above Half an hour sooner aâ—d then the Moon will be Giver of Life as you may see in the Figure following In this Scheme we shall have for the time of his death the Moon Apheta directed to the Mundane Square of Saturn and to her own Mundane Square That of Saturn came up when he was 73 and 6 Months old and it was that gave him those disorders of Body and lingring distempers which afterward ended in a Flux of the Bowels with death when the Moon came to her own Square in Mundo And this I have known the Moon do often when she is a Promittor i. e. gives Fluxes of the Bowels and lingring Diseases and the Direction is thus The Moon by her Latitude is exactly on the Ascendent and her distance from the Midheaven is 78 degrees 57 minutes which being turn'd into time gives 74 years and about three months and he lived 74 years and above five months and dyed in the beginning of April 1639. and though it seems very probable to be true yet it is but peradventure and perhaps it may I cannot be positive it is so but I am sure far more likely than the Dragon's tail The time of Cardinal Mantica's Birth as delivered to us by Aâ—gol is the 21st of March 1534. at 52 minutes paâ—t 7 of the Clock in the morning sub polo 45. He was bred a Civilian and was very â—kilful in his Profession and was for that made Cardinal in June 1596. on the Midheaven to the body of the Sun as my Author says He tells us like wise that by reason of many bad Directions to the Luminaries and Ascendent he underwent many grievous and tormenting distempers of body yet by the help and assistance of happy â—ngresses he recovered But at last Anno 1615. on the first day of February he dyed on the Ascendent being dirâ—cted to the Dragon's head nor doth he use any other Direction to assist it but makes this single one do the work it self and this a man would think were a little strange if well considered and examined You find he makes almost one degree of Gemini Ascending in the East The Moon is within two degrees of the Cusp of the Second the Sun on the Cusp of the Twelfth House and a New Moon preceded the Birth and therefore the Ascendent must be certainly Giver of Life which he allows passed the body of Mars Square of the Sun body of Saturn and that murdering point the Cusp of the Fourth and at last turns up his heels with the Dragon's head The tail you know of divers Creatures is believed to have a sting in it and particularly the Dragon's tail but why the Head should knock a man down is very strange I know they will tell us That a man of Eighty years old is easily kill'd with any Direction because his strength is decayed and the internal Powers are not able to defend themselves It is true that a man of Eighty is sooner kill'd by a Disease than one of Thirty and a bad Direction in one of Eighty shall sooner kill than in one of Thirty or Forty But then it must be a proper Direction and be according to Rule too or else where is your Art and the Power of the Stars but this of the Dragon's Head is by no means a proper Direction Nay it is indeed no Direction at all to the Angles because it is no Body nor no Ray it is nothing else but the intersection of the Ecliptick and Orbit of the Moon and the Sun and Moon may be directed to it but with what effect you must learn by your Experience tho' I except against the Angles being directed to the Nodes by the same Rule that I disallow the Antiscions to the Angles In a word Argol is the first man that I ever did read that allowed the Dragon's head the power to kill nor can I think he himself did imagine when he wrote it that it would be believed and embraced for a truth by any but those who will believe any thing and I am certain if there was nothing else to kill him but this of the Dragon's head he might have lived till this time for ought I know for among all the 117 Nativities he hath printed in that Book he doth not let any one dye on this Direction but this man alone A very hard fate As for his Direction of the Midheaven to the body of the Sun for his being made Cardinal it is I confess a Direction proper enough for Preferment But then how doth that for his death agree with your understanding and if you allow one you are in this case confined to the other which no man of Skill or Beason can believe And it is plain that he could give no other Direction for his Preferment but that mentioned and because the Ascendent to the Dragon's head by that Correction came up at the time of death therefore it must be that which kill'd him notwithstanding the Moon in his Figure is Giver of Life A thing he takes no notice of Now if I were to correct this Figure I should alter it but one degree and a half in the Ascendent and instead of o degrees 43 minutes of Gemini Ascending I will make 28 degrees 30 minutes of Taurus whose oblique Ascention is 35 degrees 10 minutes under the Pole 45. and then the Ascendent will be Hileg and at the time of death directed to the semiquadrate of the Moon who is in the Radix in Square to Mercury and in a Zodiacal parallel with Saturn The Ark 77 degrees 55 minutes which gives in time about 80 years and two months and before he was 81 he dyed And for his Preferment I allow him to have the Sun in his Exaltation directed to the body of the Moon who was Radically in an exact Mundane Trine with Jupiter on the Cusp of the Tenth and both these seem probable to give what he says were the effects at those two times And yet for all this I dare not assert this to be his true Nativity for the reasons I have often given before Lastly For the satisfaction of those that are minded to set the Figure I will give you the places of the Planets with their Latitudes printed by Argol and take my Leave of Franciscus Cardinalis Mantica Utinensis ♄ 18 7 ♋ 0 18 Sept. ♃ 28 51 â™’ 0 4 Mer. ♂ 0 52 ♋ 2 0 Sept. ♀ 24 23 ♉ 3 55 Sept. ☿ 19 43 ♓ 1 45 Mer. ☽ 18 48 ♊ 4 16 Mer. ☉ 9 46 ♈    ☊ 12 0 ♌    Philippus Cardinalis Spinellus was born January 4th hor. 10. min. 2. P. M. 1564. sub Lat. 41. and is a Nativity worth observing For he tells us That in 1605. in March he was extreamly subject to Sickness and Danger and this upon the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn
comes to the Body of the Sun or Moon but to the point in Mundo where they were at the Birth and for that reason I have already said That the Significator is moveable in Zodiaco immoveable in Mundo but the Promittor is on the contrary immoveable in Zodiaco and moveable in Mundo And therefore seeing it is the Point where the Significator was at Birth that the Promittor comes to by Direction I see no Reason to the contrary but that the Part of Fortune is all out as capable of meeting Promittors as any of the other Significators only with this difference that the Sun and Moon are liable to be directed convers but the Part of Fortune not and the reason is because it is not carried by the Rapt Motion as they are Now if the Part of Fortune is a point in the Heavens collected by Rule as all do agree and also that it is one of the Five Hilegiack Points then I think it ought to be admitted Hileg when it is qualified according to the Rule in that case provided and indeed they will be at a mighty non-plus to find out their Five Hilegiack Points without it Then if that be granted it is all I here do plead for and that is its quiet and peaceable admission Secondly As to its power of being directed for Death this I do believe will be something difficult to be granted by many and the reason is because they have not been inured to it but the Ascendent hath been generally the Slave to do every thing I remember but one Example in Argol where he directs the Part of Fortune for Death and that is in the Duke of Montmorancy the French-man 's Case of which I have spoke already in the Second Part and though it is but a Point and no visible Body yet that Point being in a fit part of Heaven and no Competitors is as probable an Apheta as the Ascendent it self which though it be allowed a continual Point and always in being yet it is always moving between North-East and South-East and also not constantly qualified to be Giver of Life as also is the Part of Fortune All the Five Hilegiack Points have their distinct and particular Rules by which they are elected to that Power if considered by a skilful hand yet you may talk with Twenty of the Common Practicers that know nothing of that Rule nor do indeed ever take any notice of it Nay more than that They hug themselves with the Satisfaction of being ignorant in the point and value themselves upon it With such I expect no good Entertainment nor indeed do I care whether I have or not I say each of the Aphetâ—'s have their particular Rules by which they are strictly elected to their Power and the Part of Fortune is as regularly elected as any of them and the Rules to that end as positive and absolute all which being considered the Part of Fortune if truly taken and justly elected hath as good a Claim to the Power of Hileg as the Sun Moon or Ascendent And therefore it is the Duty of every honest Artist to make Observations in his Practice and see if he can satisfie himself in the Deaths of those Persons that dye upon Directions to any other Point besides the Part of Fortune where that is Hileg And in this case I my self have not been deficient nor am I at this time But before I do conclude pray let me ask any skilful man of them all How they will make out their Five Hilegiack Points when they have admitted the Part of Fortune for one for I absolutely deny the Midheaven to be an Aphetical Point that is to be directed for Death For the Midheaven hath no more to do in that than the Cusps of the Fourth and Seventh have and therefore they ought to know which they are or else they will be but weak Pretenders if deficient in their Principles It cannot be expected from me here because I am not writing of the Rudiments but the Improvements of this Art I only mention it here to put the young Students upon the Enquiry and you know there is a certain Promise annexed to it That he that seeks shall find Lastly As to my authority to plead for both its Admission and its Power I need not go far for if you will not take my own Word for it I have a couple of Gentlemen ready at hand that will be my Security and tell you more of the matter than what I have said and they are Ptolemy and his Commentator Cardan To the first of which I need say nothing more to the men of Skill in this Science than to recommend them to those Two Chapters in his Third Book Dâ— Parte Fortunae and Quot sint Prorogatores To the Second I will say nothing because his Skill in Sciences and Universal Learning â—s so well known to all Bookish Men that my Commâ—ndation of him will rather be his Injury than his Advantage and therefore I will only recommend the Reader to his Comment on those Two Chapters before mentioned that is Lib. 3. Cap. 12 and 13. and I doubt not but any unprejudiced man may receive full satisfaction about the matter now in debate But if any conceited man shall think himself wiser than Ptolemy Cardan Naibod Maginus and Junctine he may reject their Rules and set up some wise Notions of his own Nay he may call them all Impudent Villains too if he pleaseth as a Poor Ignorant Impudent Fellow did Ptolemy this Year 1697. in Print And so I take my Leave of Argol and conclude this Third Part with this useful Discourse about the Lunar Horoscope Defectio Geniturarum The Fourth PART Continued in the Examination of those Nativities printed by Mr. John Gadbury in his Book called Collectio Geniturarum I Shall have no need to say any great matter by way of Prâ—oemium to this Part of my Book First because he is one of our own Country and Nation an Englishman or ought to be so and perhaps better known to many Persons than to my self and to all those my Information of the Man may seem impertinent and because some Difference hath been between us it may be made an ill use of either on the one hand or the other and therefore to keep clear of that Dilemma I will be totally silent in all things that concern his Person Morals Religion and Reputation and this not only here but throughout this Fourth Part I will keep the same Method laying aside all Expressions of Prejudice and only stick to the matter in hand which is to enquire into those Nativities and to see whether they are managed according to the Old and Primitive Doctrine and also whether he doth allow the same Effect in one that he doth in another and I hope no man will take it ill if there appear a just ground for Reprehension and this done in a modest Way and Terms becoming one that expects future times may have