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A87111	Vox caelorum. Predictions defended or, The voyce of the celestiall light, wherein is proved five things: 1 That the starres have received influences. 2 That they operate and worke upon sublunary things, according to the nature and quality of those received influences. 3 That God hath revealed those received influences to man. 4 That it is not unlawfull to predict according to the knowne nature and quality of those received influences. 5 That it is not unlawfull to call the starres by such and such names; as Pleyades, Arcturus, Orion, &c. And divers places of the Scriptures opened and cleared. With a vindication of M. William Lilly his reputation against the Epirrhesian antagonists, in these times of discovery of new lights. By Henry Harflete, practitioner in the mathematickes.	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.	1646 (1646)	Wing H767; Thomason 1179[1]; ESTC R208103	22,577	71

of his Attributes His 1 Power 2 Wisdome 3 Goodnesse 1. His Power in their Creation and that in these two considerations especially 1. In the manner of their Creation See it more fully in Kekerman his Preface to his Booke of Astronomy he but spake the word and they were created His Distum was punctually and instantly returned with a factum he but said Let there be light and it was so Gen. 1. 2. In that these huge Bodies as the Spheres are doe keep their intervals and distances one not incroaching upon another but keeping their due course 2. They set forth his Wisdome in their Government as he hath Created them powerfully so he governes them wisely 3. They set forth his Goodnesse in ordering and disposing of them for the good of man for he orders them for his owne glory and disposeth them for mans good to be a benefit and comfort to mortall and sinfull man He sweetly tempers and qualifies their natures that they aptly administer a great benefit to man He causes the sweet influences of the Pleyades and he keeps Orion within his limits and bounds Iob 38. 31. God said there to Job Canst thou binde the sweet influences of the Pleyades or loose the bonds of Orion Where I shall prove these five points as briefly as I can 1. That the Starres have received Influences 2. That they operate and worke upon sublunary things according to the nature and quality of those received influences 3. That God hath revealed those received influences to man 4. That it is not unlawfull to Predict and Prognosticate according to the knowne nature avd quality of those received influences 5. That it is not unlawfull to call the Starres by such and such names as Pleyades Orion Arcturus c. First That the Starres have received Influences For the opening of which confider these three things 1. That there be Influences 2. That the Starres have such Influences 3. That they receive them from their Creator 1. That there be Influences where I shall shew what an Influence is Influxus est virtus Coelestis estellis coelorum motu oriens Influxus quid in infcriora descendens An Influence is a Coelestiall vertue or power arising out of the Starres and motion of the Heavens descending upon sublunary things I say It is a Coelestiall vertue or power for although all things are not governed by the influence of the Heavens yet many and emminent changes doe happen both in the aire and in the body of Man whose Originall cause doth apparantly depend upon this Coelestiall vertue and power 2. Arising out of the Starres and motion of the Heavens as sometimes the Influence is helped forward through Diabolicall and wicked inchantments so oftentimes God is pleased to hinder the influentiall vertues of the Heavens at the Prayers of the faithfull And the Prophet Jeremiah cap. 10. 2. doth warne us That we should not be afraid of the signes of the Heavens as you shall perceive and the meaning in the Objections anon and so the true scope and meaning of the words It is sure that so much credit is not to be given to such Signes as the vulgar and credulous Astrologer doth imagine neither is their vertue and power altogether to be rejected neglected and despised seeing we have many and most notable examples left us upon Record which shew how prevalent the Coelestiall influences have been upon some sublunary creatures which I shall shew hereafter 3 Descending upon sublunary things Though I say these influences descend c. and they encline a man more to motion and so apt to perturbations yet they doe not compell through any necessity for the free minde of man is not subjected and as it were enslaved to any positions of the Starres for Sapiens dominabitur astris It is certaine that a wise man may see farre by such positions and fore-see many things whereby he may be warned to prevent future miseries An emminent example we read of Thales Milesius who was the first among the Grecians that was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sapiens a wise man as Diogenes saith and the first among them that found out the secrets and Mysteries of Astrology by it he foretold the Conversions and Ecclipses of the Sunne Eudemus in Historia Astrologica and Callimachus saith he first found out Vrsa minor and the Starres about her whereby the people of Phenicia did direct their Navigation Tully de Divinatione Aristotle Lib. 1. Polic. cap. 7. reports of him who by the Art of Astrology fore-seeing a great gearth of Olives got into his hands a great quantity of Olives in Miletum Chium at a low rate In Miletum Chium which he sold againe the next yeare in the time of the dearth at a very great price whereby he grew exceeding rich and whereby he did shew the worth and profit of Philosophy which men so little regard And Pliny in his Naturall History saith That Solon who was called the wise Law-maker among the Athenians did by the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone Eclipses Prognosticate the defects and subversions of certaine States and Kingdoms in Asia I could enumerate many examples But how did they this Did they deale immediatly with the Devill I never read any such thing but they did it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by their wisedome Aristotle as it were expounds it when he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through the Mistory of Astrology which shewes the effects from the the causes Thus there be Influences And the 2 Starres have Influences 'T is plaine Iob 9. 9. Canst thou bind the sweet Influences of the Pleyades and so Job 9. 9. He maketh Pleyades and Orion He maketh that is either 1. Creavit he Created or 2. he maketh that is facit operari he gives them their influences or vertuall powers Aristotle 1. Meteorolog cap. 2 Est autem necessairò mundus iste superois lationibus fere continuus ut inde vis ejus universa regatur Ea s●quidem causa prima putanda omnibus est unde motus principium existit That World meaning the Elementall World is necessarily almost next adjoyning to the supernall or heavenly motions that from them all its power or influence may be governed for that of all men is thought to be the first cause from whom the beginning of motion comes and that is from God whom Aristotle calls Primus motor ens entium the first mover and the being of beings I doe thinke that no man is such an idiot or ignorant but that he doth daily even by experience finde that mans body and all other Elementall bodies are altered disposed and ordered according to the influences and operations of the Sunne and Moone and other Starres and Planets Persons that lye sicke upon their Bed even at the point of death have found this true and that Physitians hath done them a pleasure to looke up to the second causes as governed by God the

first cause and it hath pleased the first cause to give a blessing to the meanes Paima Deus causa est causae sunt astra secunda nil si prima vetat causa secunda valet The first cause is God the second cause is the influence and powerfull working of the Planets and Stars heavenly Motions If God who is the first cause hinder not the second causes will afford a favourable aspect that Physitian that observes not this may unboubtedly send many to the Grave though he may not have the honour to be advanced as Hamon was Ester 7. 10. But looke a little further into the tenth Chapter of that book Aristot 1 Meteoral cap. 10 and there you shall finde these words Oporte igitur ut horum principia sumamus causas omnium similiter Principium igitur vt movens praecipuumque amnium priimum circulus ille est in quo manifeste salis latio perspicitur to the very same effect he speakes in 2 Lib. de Gen. Aristot lib. 2. De ger cor cap. 10. corrup cap. 10. Quocirca prima latio ortus interitus causa non est sed obliqui circuli latio ea namque continua est duobus motibus fit The uppermost motion which is the primum mobile or the upper Spheare is not the cause of Generation and corruption but the motion of the oblique Circle which is the Zodiacke and he gives a reason for it for that is both continued and is caused of two motions and in his 2 Lib. Physic c. 2. he saith That Homo gener at hominem atque Sol Man and the Sunne are the cause of mans Generation which can be no otherwise understood but that God so ordered that man who begets and the second causes have their influences and vertuall operations over the Nativity and birth of Man This is no Heathenish position for no man can be so blind but that he may see by experience which is called the Mistris of fooles the vertuall operation and power of the Coelestiall bodies in and upon the foure Elements and other bodies of them composed whether perfectly or imperfectly even by the guigance and government of their Creator Authorities may be brought of three thousand yeares antiquity and above of expert wise and godly men to prove this Position which daily and hourely men may perceive by sence and reason yea and all Beasts Frowers Plants Hearbes Trees and Fruites doe shew by their actions and passions if I may so terme them both outward and inward Thus they have influences but from whence even from him who gives life motion and being to all things Acts 17. 28. and that is the third thing herein considerable That the heavenly bodies have 2 Reccived their influences from God In the 9. of Job 9. and Amos 8. God is said there to make Arcturus Job 9. 7. Orion and Pleyades that is God from the Creation makes them operative according to their influmentiall vertues which God hath given them and that it is so the 7. verse of the 9. of Job makes it to appeare where God is said to seale up the Starres that is he can seale up or as Job 38. ●1 restraine those sweet influences which he hath given them for the good and benefit of man So Job 38. 27 28. and Chap. 37. 11 God is said there to make the Clouds to labour to water the earth or as the last Translation renders it by watering he wearieth the thick cloud From hence then we may see the folly and ignorance of some confuted and condemned who say That the Starres have received no such influences and that God hath given them no such influentiall power this is to say That God doth not worke by his Creatures as by his instruments and secondary causes which is no better then Blasphemy Nay some are so stupid and ignorant that they cannot be perswaded that any man can finde out the Diurnall motions of the Planets or that their distance from the earth their Magnitudes and the like can be found by the Art of man no instrument they thinke can shew such things as we talke and write of no marvaile then they deny their influences which are daily objected to their sence and reason But let me tell them that the whole frame and fabrick of the Creatures of God both Coelestiall and Terrestriall are to us as a bright Glasse in which they might if they were not wilfully blind see by reflection even radiations and beames representing the very image of Gods infinite Power Wisedome and goodnesse whereby we are taught to praise and glorifie our great God who hath made the Heaven to send such sweet influences downe upon the earth for the comfort and benefit of man who was made after his owne image Gen. 1. 27. Could the Heathens confesse this and shall any who professeth himselfe a Christian deny it Could the very Heathen who were judged onely by the light of nature finde out and confesse that the Starres and heavenly bodies have received influences from some higher Power but what to call that Power they knew not and shall we who live in the light of the Gospell and under the very beames of Grace and the goodnesse and mercy of a Great and good God looke upon the Heavens and Starres as an Oxe or Asse search no further what they are why Created how they execute that for which they were created the due consideration of this would make the ignorant though otherwise zealous Christian to confesse without any exposition by an Allegory with that Kingly Prophet Psal 19. 1. The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy worke even sheweth that it is not idle that God hath not given the Heavens influences to lye still and doe nothing but if he hath given them influences they doe nay they must 2 Operate And so I leave the first and fall upon the second Proposition That the Starres and heavenly bodies doe operate upon sublunary things according unto the nature and quality of their received influences This Proposition is confirmed three waies By 1 Scripture 2 Reason 3 Experience 1 By Scripture I shall name a few places instead of many Iob 38. 31. These naturall operations are called there influences the Greeke word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Super fluo to slow into or upon They must have an Object to worke upon otherwise it would be non-sense to call them influence Ier. 10. 13. when he uttereth his voice there is a multitude of waters in the Heavens Psal 135. v. 7. and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings with raine or for raine and bringeth forth the winds out of his treasures Can the vapours ascend and gather together into a multitude of waters and not operate Doth God make it Lighten to cause raine and doth he with-hold