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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74721	A brief answer to six syllogistical arguments brought by Mr. Clark, minister of Bennet-Finck, London: against astrologers, and astrologie.		1660 (1660)	Thomason E2131_2; ESTC R208325	14,099	48

A Brief ANSWER To SIX SYLLOGISTICAL ARGUMENTS Brought by Mr. CLARK Minister of Bennet-Finck London Against ASTROLOGERS AND ASTROLOGIE LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed at the sign of the Printing-Press in Pauls Church-yard 1660. A Brief ANSWER To Six Syllogistical ARGUMENTS IT is a Proverb as true as antient That the Tale of one side may seem good till the Truth of the other side appear But it is but reason in a man to forbear his Censure until he seriously have considered the Pleas that both produce For according to that of the Tragoedian of old Qui statuit aliquid parte inaudita alterâ Aequum licet statuerit haud aequus fuit He that on part unheard a Doom did pass His Doom though equal were unequal was Now for the better information of the Reader I shall insert the Arguments of Mr. Clark at large and then respond to them that thereby he may understand the occasion and nature of the Difference and the Reasons thereof the readier 1 Argum. That which the Word of God condemns as a grand Offence is not to be practised countenanced or tolerated But Divining by the Stars is condemned by Gods Word Ergo. Answ I answer by denying the Minor My Reason hereof is by adding a Negative to the Assumption Divining by the Stars is not condemned by Gods word If Divining by the Stars to use the Phrase of our Antagonist were condemned by Gods Word we should find it therein condemned But therein it is not to be found condemned Ergo it is not condemned by it at all That it is not condemned by it all will most clearly appear upon the Examination of the Catalogue of Scriptures Mr. Clark citeth in favour of his Minor Proposition viz. 1. He urgeth Deut. 18.10 11. But in this Text is not Astrology so much as once concerned as the learned Adye hath largely and learnedly proved in his Candle in the dark a Book of singular worth and worthy the perusal of all sorts of persons Suppose some persons out of their hatred to Astrologers and Astrologie have turned Megnonen the Hebrew word there used Planetarius yet persons thereby signifi'd are not such that lawfully study or use the Science of Astrologie but such as abuse it And were I now disposed it were an easie matter to bring Mr. Cl. within the compass of the word in that Text yet he would be very loath to be termed a Planetarian although he hath abused Astrologie and Astrologers not a little Facinus quos inquinat Equat. A Crime makes equal where it doth pollute But Abusus non tollit usum The abuse of a thing doth not abrogate or impeach the lawful use thereof ' Cause Epicures abuse themselves with Wine Shall we neglect the Vertue of the Vine If some persons under pretence of Divining by the Stars abuse not onely themselves but others shall the honest and laudable use thereof be therefore rejected If an impudent ignorant fellow shall profanely pretend to Pulpit it and boast a gift therein above Mr. Cl. would Mr. Cl. I wonder judge me reasonable if I thereby should take occasion to blast the credit of what my Soul rejoyces in Divinity If Mr. Cl. prove his Argument no better by his other Texts in the Catologue then he hath by this we shall easily conclude him incapable of doing it at all To trip at the Threshold is by old Sawes pronounced to be a bad signe and to bode but small good Principiis omen inesse solet Beginnings are deemed ominous Isidore affirms Pel. l. 2. Epist 229. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. He that in the beginning swerveth from the truth will in his proceedings roll further from it and end at last with some shameful Catastrophe or other Mr. Cl. therefore failing thus in the first Scripture he citeth presages or predicts though he be no Astrologer how much of substantial proof we may expect to find in the rest that he musters up for his purpose The second Text he hits at the poor Astrologers head is Lev. 20.6 which in truth favours him no more then the former unless he can prove an Astrologer and a Witch to be all one The Word in the Text which he most insisteth on is Ariolos which implies the imposturisme of an hollow feigned voice and not any thing of Astrolgie as Mr. Clark would bear the world in hand that Witches and Deceivers used in their Oracling Divinations by harring in their Throats Vide Adyes Candle c. pag. 77. and Plut. de Def. Orac. I hope Mr. Cl. will not say That any man practising Astrology Quatenus an Astrologer useth any such practice the which unless he do this Scripture favoureth him no more then the first he brought The third-Text he cites is Isa 2.6 But this no more proveth the truth of his Argument then the worth of the Turks Alcoran I admit that he findes Praestigiatores in the Text which he corruptly translates Soothsayers forgetting the mean while that the word properly interpreted signifies Juglers viz. such as deceive by cunning or sleight of hand But doth not Mr. C. adde rather to the honour of Astrologers then any way de-detract therefrom when he stiles them Soothsayers or doth he believe that Soothsaying imports any other thing then the speaking of truth You see here how officious M. C. is to make that speak against Astrologers which hath neither tongue nor will to do so Et si nullus erit pulvis tamen excute nullum Quaelibet officio causa sit apta tuo And though there be no Dust yet cast off none To be officious finde occasion The fourth Text is Isa 47.13 14. where in the Original that which Mr. Cl. turns Astrologers is Viewers of the Heavens But we know that there are others that view the Heavens beside Astrologers viz. Astronomers Navigators Natural Philosophers Shepherds c. But there is in this Text another Bug-bear that affrights Mr. Clark viz. Monthly Prognosticators The Hebrew saith That give knowledge concerning the Months But I would demand of Mr. Cl. whether it be unlawful to make a Prognostication to set down therein according to the common course of Nature what is most considerable in the whole yeer It is clearly evident by this Text that the Prophet blameth not those that view the Heavens or study the Stars and thence give knowledge concerning the months but reprehended such as were abusers of these Studies those that used to exalt the Stars c. above or at least endeavoured to make them equal Causes with Him whom Divines call Causa Causarum and all good Christians acknowledge Him so to be the Cause of all Causes even GOD Himself But I have before shewed that the abuse of a thing is no good Argument to abrogate the use thereof Is it good or reasonable to say That the profession of Physick is unlawful because some Quacks by an impudent practising it do abuse and dishonour that commendable Science His fifth Text in Order for the support