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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is but one Lord c. Will any one be so impudent as to confine or limit the Holy Ghost in this Expression when he saith There are Gods many and Lords many doth he mean that there should be none called Lords but God alone or doth he mean that none should be called Lords and worshipped like God who is the true Lord I believe 't is not the name Lord as the Holy-Ghost in Paul was troubled I speak after the manner of men but the idolizing of any one like a Lord is condemned there and not the former for if it were idolatry to call any one Lord then have all London been Idolaters many years in calling a man their Lord-Mayor and Sarah was likewise to be blamed for calling Abraham Lord and Master nay Daniel the servant of the most high God was misguided in calling N●buchadnezzar which was a Heathen Lord and King Nay I do believe Mr. B. cannot excuse himself from this kind of Idolatry but be it far from me to think that Idolatry should consist in this I cannot be yoked with M. B. here But further let us consider what the word Lord imports in the Latine 't is * Here Mr. B. wanted a Dictionary Domine and hath a double signification and doth serve for the courtesiecomplement viz. Sir as well as Lord. What abundant reason hath he then to find fault with this sure this is but a project come into his Brayn by the by I would have him answer two Quaeries viz. Quaere 1 Whether a man may not as lawfully use brevity as prolixity if so Quaere 2 Whether we may not call them Lords as well as Dominators or Governors these latter consisting of two or three syllables more than the word Lord. If the word Lord imports a Ruler and no more then the Astrologers have not erred in calling the Planets Lords for if he be a Saint at one time or another he may sind them Lords too if he have not a care for that of the Poet is a true saying viz. The Stars and Planets often smile and lour They heal and hurt poor mortals every hour Now Mr. B. I would have you to acquaint your self more with the vertues of Planets against your next Herculean task for I am sure ♄ Saturn had no hand in this for he usually effects matters more solid like him This is something of silver-wing'd ☿ Mercury mixed with ♂ Mars which made you so weather-cock Cholerick in these absurd reasonings But I journey hence to your second step of reason The second part of his Reason examined HEre it will not be amisse to note one smooth contradiction seeing we have begun we are resolved to track him for we have been blinded by smooth tongues too long The very scope and drift of my Antagonists Bamplet is to prove Astrology a fable a deceit and that the World hath been * By the Priests is he had said 3000 he had not lyed deceived by it 300 years yet a little further doth ingenuously confess That the Stars which are the Artists guide have an influence upon these Earthy bodies of ours as to change them from health to sickness and from sickness to health again Nay saith my Antagonist the earthy part of a * A pure piece of Nonsense from a Priest Saint is not free from their influences but they are also changed by them If this latter be a truth as he confesses or else he must have said nothing and I affirm then is not Astrology a deceit a fable for I would know by what means a man can come to know the times and seasons unlesse by Astrology the saying of Zanchius will be found true Zanc. de Astronom 118. viz. Videmus enim effectus multos hic in terra quorum Causas ignoramus beneficio autem vtrae Astrologiae causam suam at originem supra nos in Coelis habere cognoscimus We see many effects here on Earth whose causes we are ignorant of yet by benefit of true Astrology we know they have a cause and production above us in the heavens If Astrology can satisfie us in the causes of those various effects we see on earth Astrology is not a deceit but can do more than the bulk of Divinity that dwelt in the brains of the late Synod or Mr. B. either but Astrology can satisfie us in the causes of those various effects we see on earth saith Zanchius Ergo Again if Astrologers or men by Astrology can shew the times of sickness or health as the Lord hath written them in his heavenly Book either in the bodies of Saints or carnal men then is not Astrology a deceit a fable but Men by astrology may foretell the times of sickness and health Deo permittente even in the bodies of Sains Therefore Mr. B. is in the dark and Astrology is no deceit Scotus lib. 2. de gene You shall heare what Scotus saith to this which I presume to be a man transcending Mr. B. in natural reasonings though Mr. B. 't is like may be the greater Saint Hoc modo etiam innotescit quod qui sciret virtutem signorum stellarum in eu positarum dum nasoitur res aliqua posset prognosticare de tota vita rei generatae licet hoc necessitatem non poneret quia posset impedire per accidens By this * Speaking of Astrology mean it comes to pass that he who knows the vertues of the Signes and the Planets therein placed may foretell if he knew when any creature was born of the whole life of it Now you may see what a shaken reed my Antagonist is that turns his head every way hee 'l sometimes make a Saint an intire piece of holinesse and sometimes he 'll make him subject to a deceipt but I am really perswaded That the real Saint is neither subject to deceipt or conceit for if he should 't would slain his robs of righteousness Do you not think now that my Antagonist is not a fine converter of sinners to Saints that would make Saints the worst or as bad as the worst of them What a Saint and subject to a deceit It is no wonder now to me that he cries out against all humane Arts as Astrology Philosophy Logique Aristotles Accademies and the like for by his writing he should not only be innocent but ignorant of them But why Astrology or how Astrologers hath deceived the world this 300 years I cannot gather unless he * Here the Priests shoo pinched him means by the word World the Priesthood for God be thanked it hath pretty well deceived them and in so doing undeceived the Commonalty and in this kind of deceit I think there is no sin at all For to deceive a deceiver is no deceit But if Mr. B. means that Astrology hath generally deceived the World I deny his assertion and can find in Scripture but two sorts of generall deceivers and neither of them Astrologers but the Priest is primus here

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

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