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A42821	Dies novissimus, or, Dooms-day not so near as dreaded together with something touching the present invasion of the Turk into the German Empire and the probable success thereof / by John Gadbury ...	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1664 (1664)	Wing G82; ESTC R11481	35,221	60

all the ancient Demean Lands of this Nation are Registred called dooms-day-Dooms-Day-Book because upon any difference the parties contending thereby received their Doom Others call it Dooms-Day Quasi domus Dei But thus much of the Word now to the Thing As the Beginning of the World hath puzled the wisest Intellects to discover so the End of it hath posed the greatest Clerks to determine Generatio una abit altera advenit quamvis terra in seculum permaneat One Generation passeth away another cometh but the earth abideth for ever Eccles. 1. 4. Which for ever most Divines interpret to signifie the Last day or Dooms-day viz. that time in which the Heavens shall melt with fervent heat and the Earth shall pass away or be changed That the World shall have an end and this as certain as ever it had a beginning is a truth so splendid that it cannot reasonably be questioned no not by the subtilest Critique or Sceptique therein But to believe every fancie or idle Notion that the Melancholy heads either of former Ages or of our own time have broached concerning the end thereof would be in an ingenious Person an absurdity of the grossest kind Philosophy teacheth us whatsoever hath a birth passeth and hasteth towards death and that every thing that hath a beginning doth necessarily and interchangeably rowle towards its end And if any man should shew himself so grand an Infidel as not to believe this let him but call to his mind the Annual and Quotidian Examples hereof in all things Sublunary which are as so many certain Demonstrations in Epitomy of the end of the World and he must necessarily be convinced Nevertheless to determine the end of the world is I take it for granted such a Determination as will never give the Author cause to boast of a judicious Brain There are three manner of ways by which I finde Persons too apt and busie in prefixing the time of the end of the world 1. By Apparitions Visions c. 2. By Mathematical Conclusions 3. By Arithmetical Conceits 1. By Apparitions c. When persons by reason of an over-heated Brain and Imagination shall conceive and believe they converse with Angels or Spirits c. As it is reported of one Thoda a certain Woman of Suevia in Germany Anno Christi 848. who prophesyed the Destruction of the world in that year and her Message she pretended to have received from the mouth of an Angel After whom in several years we have had divers others as certain and true Prophets and Prophetesses as her self Story maketh mention of one of S. Gallus in Helvetia Anno 1526. who running up and down the streets of that City cryed with great earnestness That the day of the Lord was come and that it was at present And Anno 1530. one in Germany pretending to be acted by the Spirit raves at the same rate and at last so strongly prevails with many to believe that the end of the World was come that they grew prodigal of their Goods and Substance fearing they should want time to consume them And it is still fresh in memory that in our late times of confusion here in London many Ministers of the Gospel as Saltmarsh Sedgwick c. and from their examples many illiterate men and women were constantly from the years 1647. to 1656. canting That the end of the World was come and that the day of the Lord was at hand Which persons we see have been no less mistaken then the former Enthusiastick and direct Madness did so extreamly rage and reign in those years and a spice thereof we yet have in these and the end of the World was supposed and talked of to be so near That many People upon my knowledge I speak it sold their Estates and threw Moneys about the streets expecting themselves to finde the same Quarter as Solomons Lily but afterwards turned Beggers and were glad to live on the Alms of others Some there were again that they might be the more noted for their Message and Embassy and to demonstrate themselves the more eminent Converts unto this great Delusion would wear Sackcloth and shave their crowns that thereby they might the more aptly ape and imitate the true Prophets formerly sent of God Others would wear Papers in different shapes and figures upon their Breasts and Backs with idle Inscriptions thereon pretending to come before as a Guard for the approach of the King of Heaven whom they said was coming But these Mad-men remember not that the Scripture saith He shall come like a thief in the night And others there were that ran naked not onely about the streets but into Churches denouncing destruction to the Preachers and to Mankind in general and a sudden end to the world Which wild and unheard-of Actions c. moved Doctor Boreman in his Nuntius Propheticus to say That there sprang up more Heresies and strange Opinions in England in one year then in an Age in any other part of the world there did before Secondly by Mathematical Conclusions For sundry are and have been the Opinions of Mathematicians and Astrologers about the end of the World viz. As that it should suffer a total and absolute Destruction and Dissolution at the finishing the great year or Circle and this is at the least 36000 Solar Revolutions or common Years so slow is the Motion of the eighth Sphear Nay Heraclitus as Plutarch witnesseth saith it consisteth of 80000 Solar years But if we shall give credit to the incredible indeed vast number of years of the Chinesses we shall finde that the world according to this way of reckoning should have had ere now many endings For says Scaliger according to their the Chinesses account this year of Christ 1594. it being the year in which he wrote his Book intituled De emendatione temporum is since the Creation eight hundred eightscore thousand and seventy three And Diodorus tells us the world was so ancient in the opinion of the Caldaeans that they reckoned it from the time they first began to observe the Stars unto the expedition of Alexander into Asia no less then four hundred and seventy thousand years supposing the beginning thereof to be long before they began their Observation But these Opinions may reasonably be supposed to be as wide of Truth as the others fall short of it I onely urge them to shew the impossibilitie of their designes who will needs have the time of the worlds ending concluded by such a reasonless conceit As if the Almighty because he hath tied all the works of his hands to act and perform his pleasure by a certain Rule the which they cannot transgress I speak here onely of natural things should therefore be tyed unto a Rule himself Others there are who suppose when the Polar Star touches the Pole exactly that then the end of the world shall be and now they say it is very near the same But this conceit is purely Contra-Astronomical

Nay he knows in my Novice Astrologer instructed I have accounted with him already for his Cuckow-Notes and since he will needs have me to follow him I am obliged to acquaint the world that wherein he most pretends to wound me the more he honours me viz. in taxing my Education For the meaner that hath been the greater hath been my pains in the Study that now I follow And the lesser assistance any man receives it is always presumed the greater Industry he uses in the matter he undertakes For a Shoomaker to make Boots or Shooes or a Taylor a Suit of Clothes I adjudge no great piece of Ingenuity because it is their Profession so to do they were bred unto it So for a Scholar to write a Book or defend a Thesis well is not to be wondred at since his Education hath been to Learning but for either of these to take to the contrary is certainly an Argument that Education doth not naturally concentre with Inclination and the person that so doth may reasonably be termed Ingenious And here by the way were not L. so strangely ambitious I could be content to think him a little ingenious because he hath left the Trade of a Taylor to adventure as Astrologie although he was never able to do any thing in it but Quack See this proved in Captain Whartons Merlini Anglici Errata printed 1647. as also in L's own Nativity calculated and published by Mr. James Blackwel Anno 1660. But although these Gentlemen have been pleased to pronounce and prove him a Taylor I suppose they do it by the same Figure as a Pedlar is termed a Merchant and not otherwise for I am apt to believe he was as bad at the Trade of a Taylor as at the Profession of an Astrologer A very Botcher at both Yea but saith Mr. L. J. G. is not onely an Vngrateful Person but the most Vngrateful of men living Mr. L. should have done well to have told me for what for four years since he exhibited this charge against me for which I questioned him before Mr. E. Carrent now Adjutant-General of the honourable City of London before whom he did not onely deny the Expression and called a Learned Minister False Scot for telling me of it but pronounced me to him The most Grateful Person living And I am sure I have had no Dealings with Mr. L. since no not so much as to drink a Glass of Wine But let him rail on I have more then the acknowledgement of so envious a Fellow who I perceive abhors to hear I live to acquit me from so soul a Crime as Ingratitude And I am the less troubled at his Scandals because I know Contra Sycophant● morsum non est remedium There is no remedy to be had against the venomous Tongues and Teeth of Sycophants who make it their main Business Calumniare fortiter to tax and traduce stoutly in hopes that with some their words may beget credit But cui fini To what purpose trouble I my self thus far with so known an Impostor from whom I must be content to accept of Railings and Revilings for Reason and Personal Reflections and Scandals for the proof of the matter in question But this is the best on 't he hath served all others that have touched his Copyhold with the same sawce so that I am not singular in partaking of his Scurrility As for instance Captain G. Wharton he terms Asinego Vagadond Irish Wolf Obsoure Footman neither Booted or Gowned with many such-like terms of Opprobry and Contumely And in stead of soberly answering Mr. Gataker he calls him Thomas Wiseacre Covetous Churl A stiff Prelate Preaching impudently for the liberties or sports of the Sabbath viz. Cards Dice c. This is the curious Logique that Wise W. L. makes use of against all that oppose his Ignorance or discover his grand Juggling and Plagiarism And possibly for my present dealing with his Filth as well as for my former I may again have my Reputation defiled by his scandalous Viperous Pen. But this I assure him That if he shall endeavour to support by Calumniations and Forgeries the Untruths that I have here and elsewhere proved him guilty of I shall scorn hereafter to intermeddle with so shameless a Person but rather for answer do homage to Harpocrates and by silence give him my suffrage for the Whetstone Howbeit if he shall Rationally and not Railingly endeavour to defend himself from the Errours I have charged on him I promise him soberly to rejoyn for the satisfaction of all those that have taken notice of the difference between him and my self FINIS Advertisements of several Books published by the Author of this Treatise AStronomical Tables of the Fixed Stars in the Heavens made to continue fifty years yet to come Useful for Astronomers Astrologers Physitians Navigators c. Printed for the Company of Stationers Large Quarto The Doctrine of Nativities Revolutions c. both Calculative and Judiciary in three Parts Sold by the Booksellers of London Folio The Collection of Genitures both Princely Prelatical Causidical Physical Mercatorial of short Life Twins c. With an hundred Aphorisms pertaining to Nativities Sold by Mr. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill Folio The Nativity of our late dread Soveraign King Charles 1. being occasionally a brief History of the late unhappy Wars Sold by Mr. Sawbridge on Ludgate-hill Octavo Britains Royal Star Sold by S. Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet Quarto Coelest is Legatus or the Coelestial Ambassador Sold by the Booksellers in London Quarto Natura Prodigiorum or a Discourse touching the Nature of Prodigies with an Appendix touching Sigils Lamens Spirits Prophecies the Chrystal c. Octavo The Novice Astrologer instructed Octavo Nuncius Astrologicus or an Astrological Decision of the the great Controversie between the Kings of Denmark and Sweden Octavo All three sold by F. Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street The King of Swedens Nativity Quarto Sold by the Booksellers of London Tutela Sanitatis sive Vita protracta The Protection of Long Life and Detection of its brevity from Diatetic Causes and Customes Hygiastic Precautions and Rules appropriate to the constitutions of Bodies and various discrasies or passions of Minde with a Treatise of Fontinels or Issues By Everard Maynwaring Dr. in Physick Sold by T. Basset under St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet London * One or two Pamphlets I have seen in p●int so Entitled The pretended meeting of the Planets in Sagittary Decem. 1. 1662. apparently false A Planet according to his Latitude may be in a Signe different from what his Longitude discovers The Transits of the Planets of great signification in a Nativity A Planet hath no strength in a Signe before the Fifth nor after the five and twentieth Degree thereof Pontanus Lib 1. de Stellis Though the spects of this great Conjunction will be famous yet it is not in the power or skill of the wisest of men to particularize them Chronologie not certain a cause of errour in Predictions of this kind The true Figure of a great Conjunction not attainable An Artist may easily mistake in taking a non-cause for a true cause An ignorant Artist in his pretended Judgements upon this great Conjunction justly taxed Erit mihi magnus Apollo This Conjunction ♄ and ♃ in ♐ not a little or minor but a major or great Conjunction ♄ and ♃ will make their Conjunctions in the Fiery Triplicity many hundred years yet before they leave the same The several Conjunctions of ♄ and ♃ and how they are called and in what time they are severally made Another pretended Artist taken tardy in his fictitious groundless Predictions upon the great Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ c. The Sun combures all Planets but can be combured of none Moor Enth. Triumph Persons pretending Visions Revelations c. mo●e melancholy then spiritual Des Cartes Pass Soul The Discontents of these Kingdoms the onely discoverers of Prodigies and B●oache●s of Visions and Revelations That there are Prodigies in Nature is not questioned but that all things said to be such are so is and ought to be denied The true and proper causes of the Rainbow acquit it from being a Prodigie Mock-Suns not miraculous or prodigious Mock-Moons common and not supernatural Gapings or chaps in the Clouds almost every hot Evening to be seen The abatement or drying up of Rivers Natural The several Causes thereof De bello Judaic Lib. 7 c. 24 Brit. Bac. pag 85. Apparitions and Visions not to be credited so far as by them to assigne the particular time of the end of the world England hath had more Mad-men Enthusiasts within this 20 years then all Europe if not the whole world besides Mathematical Conclusions no sure ground whereon to build our Conjectures of the worlds ending * Dr. Swan Arithmetical Conceits not sufficient to discover the end of the world by Viz. 2012. ☞ Qui semel verecundia fines transicrit cum bene gnaviter impudentem esse oporter This he hath 100 times confessed in my hearing Besides there are yet persons living in the Strand that knew him an Apprentice to Pawlin the Taylor See more of this in my Britains Royal Star from pa. 29. 10 pag. 34.