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A96163	Astrologie theologized: wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius.	Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1255; Thomason E562_14; ESTC R204068	39,144	50

the possession of a heavenly life unlesse he learn to drive away to subject this power his Saturnine Heaven with all his ascendent Starrs and resist every inclination thereof tending to evil through the instinct of the Serpent raign over it overcome it Good God here will some ignorant say from the instinct of the Serpent of what kind is this your Theologization of Astrologie which you here handle what mortal can believe that a husbandman a farmer a steward a vinedresser a potter a mettleman a mechanick a carpenter c. cannot be made an heir possessor of the Kingdom of heaven What is the Light of Nature to be contemned and altogether rejected and must we cease from all labour what ought we not at all to act work study learn search but to be plainly idle whence shall we receive food and rayment and other necessaries to the sustentation of life seeing no man whosoever is busied in the studies labours and works abovesaid can from them attain to eternall salvation the sentence of this book seems to be wonderfull indeed and estranged from truth I answer these things do not seem strange or obscure but to the ignorant nor are they indeed a hairs breadth estranged from truth so that they be rightly received and understood For nothing can be so truly spoken or written that by the ruder and lesse intelligent may not be called into doubt or be esteemed even for a lie But a lesson read which pleaseth being repeated ten times it will please Loe this our sence If thou art a Husbandman a Countryman a Farmer a Steward a Gardner a Seller of herbs a Vinedresser a Potter a Mettleman a Carpenter a Builder c. or busied in some other like kind of life then thou art constituted and walkest in the sphere of Saturn and art governed by the Saturnine Starrs which are in thee ever and anon ascending in thy imagination cogitation and sences ruling thee inclining thee hither and thither even as thy pleasure draweth thee by free will and the inward serpent perswadeth thee Now unlesse thou as a wise man shalt be cautious and attent and shalt over-rule thy Starrs running up and down flourishing and operating in thee or shalt Theologize thy Astrologie that is unlesse thou shalt learn to Sabbathize and to cease from all thy work and keep holy the Lords day according to the mind and sence of the divine precept it altogether is and abides impossible to thee by any means to enter into the Kingdom of God and come to the possession of eternall salvation For I will make it clear by a most manifest demonstration That never any Husbandman Farmer Countryman Steward Mettleman c. could enter into the Kingdom of God who neglecting and omitting the sanctification of the Sabbath departed out of this world But I would thou shouldest take these things rightly My judgment is that no Saturnist such as are before recited can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but that he ought to be throughly converted and be made as an infant then at length he is fit to take enter and possesse the Kingdom of God not indeed as a Husbandman a Farmer a Steward a Builder a Vinedresser a Seller of herbs a Mettleman a Potter c. because there is no such thing to be done there for such workmen but see thou be as a child and infant as a new Creature as the Son of God For no man hath ascended to heaven but he which descended from heaven the son of God which is Christ and as many as received him he gave them power to be made the sons of God Now to receive Christ requires an inevitable putting off mortification yea destruction of the old Creature of the old man created of earth and the new birth of the same from above from whence also Christ is arisen Therefore the reasons and causes for which the Husbandman the Farmer the Steward the Builder the Vinedresser the Mettleman the Potter the Weaver c. cannot come into heaven are these First because in the celestiall Paradise or the Country of the Heavens there are no grounds nor oxen nor plows for Husbandmen nor farms or Lands for Farmers nor houses nor granaries for Stewards nor stones nor wood for Builders nor vineyards nor forks for Vine-dressers nor gardens herbs plants seeds for Herbsellers nor mountains fertill in metalls for Mettlemen nor loam nor clay for Potters nor flax nor wooll for Weavers and therefore there is not any need of any Husbandman Steward Builder Mettleman Potter Weaver neither shall those which inhabit there want such kind of science and industry For all these things are and are only to be found under the Zodiac in this corruptible world where in the last day at one time together and at once they shall be taken away and cease with the world So far therefore my husbandman as thy field thy oxe and thy plow shall be transported after the last day to the Kingdom of Heaven So far also shalt thou thy self with thy rustickscience and industry after this life enter into the Kingdom of Heaven that is never Therefore put off the old earthly and naturall man with all his science prudence craftinesse which thou usest in the handling of natural things and put on the new man which alone savours and desires heavenly things and leadeth thee to heavenly things by the exercise of the true Sabbath to be had in the spirit of thy mind every week And so far my Vinedresser as thy Vine and thy fork shall be found after the last day in the Kingdom of Heaven so far also shalt thou appear there with thy vinitory science and industry that is never For then all old things are passed away And so far my steward as thy houshold-stuffe and granaties shall be found out in the Kingdom of Heaven after the world is blotted out so far also shalt thou thy self be there with thy science and industry of domestick parsimony that is never For we do not act those things there which we are wont here And so far as my Gardner my Potter c. thy colworts herbs plants trees with thy garden and thy loam and clay shall after the world is defaced remain and be transferred into the perpetuall heaven so far also shalt thou thy self with all thy plantatory and pot-making science be promoted to the heavenly mansion that is never For the subjects and matter being wanting what can thy science profit thee So also it is with all the rest of the kinds and Sciences and Arts appertaining to the Astrologie of Saturn as are Mettlemen Rough Masons Stonecutters Smith and Carpenters all kind of Mechanicks Colliers Cornsellers Mowers Heardsmen Clothiers Weavers Shomakers Coblers and the like All these have their matter and subjects about which they are conversant and with which they are occupied without them in the Macrocosm which being taken away withdrawn all things wil be taken away withdrawn with them they

belongs to the moderation of the externall Firmament as if a wise man ought to rule the course of the Celestiall Starrs and signs and to reduce the frame of the Macrocosme under his power to direct govern the Sun Moon Planets and Starrs according to his pleasure and to make calme and tempestuous weather according to his will Not so But the Starrs over which we ought to rule if we wil be true wise men are all the cogitations speculations cupidities affections c. ascending by imagination out of our hearts respecting the things and creatures of the world and tending by free will and reason to abuse and pleasure to them we ought not to be too much adicted or overmuch to connive and indulge For in these that deadly and infernall snake or serpent lieth hid seducing man by all sort of concupiscences into an unlawfull love honour and worship of the creatures and thereof makes a Babilonish whore as in the subsequent matter will be demonstrated CHAP. 6. Touching a double Firmament and Starr in every man and that by the benefit of Regeneration in the exercise of the Sabbath a man may be transposed from a worser Nature into a better FRom the abovesaid there appears a most elegant Doctrine to wit although some of us by constitution and concordance of the externall and internall heaven in the point of his conception and nativity should happily have attained the most wicked constellation and nature ready and prone to commit any kind of maliciousnesse so as he should even bear in his face in his countenance in his hands and in his whole body an evident signature or phisiognomie to every most wicked crime all which should shew most certain tokens that he should act not only a most miserable and most wicked kind of life but also should expect on himself the most cruell punishment and destruction Yet neverthelesse we must not altogether despair of such a mans correction and salvation The reason is Because besides the naturall Heaven and Astralic Firmament which is in our soul we have another Heaven another Sydus another Starr another Light another Constellation which is the Spirit of God by whose power being supported we may shake off and drive away all the provocations of the evill ascendents of naturall Starrs as an Asse is wont to shake off and drive away flies and gnats stinging him on his back Therefore although nature is potent and strong in her self in inciting and forcing a man in his proper will and reason by her divers and delectable concupiscences to any kind of crime Yet the Spirit of the Lord in his vertue power and fortitude is far superiour and exceeds nature in as great a measure as the Sun is seen to excell the Moon Let a man then at length learn and do his endeavour that he may know what that most profitable precept of God touching the sanctification of the Sabbath to be exercised Sibi velit every seventh day requires of him in which exercise neverthelesse the worst of things may be corrected and also transformed into the best things For such a medicine lyeth hid in the holy exercise of the Sabbath as whole Nature with her universall vertue is not able to exhibit to a man for which medicines sake this book is written A man therefore inclined naturally to this or that vice by occasion of his generation ought not to connive at himself or to frame any excuse as if he could by right accuse the externall heaven that that is the cause wherefore he cannot live honestly and do that which is good nor by any means can overcome change break correct his sinful nature or convert it into better and so under the pretext of humane imbecillity as it were defend his spontaneous malice avarice lust pride and intemperance c. and to go forward in a vicious life O opinion most worthy of refutation and to be acursed I pray what should the cry of Christ the Prophets and Apostles avail Repent repent be ye converted unto me and I will be converted unto you put off the old Man and put on the new Man and flie evill and cleave to that which is good and lay aside the works of darknesse and walk in the light I say to what end should these things be spoken and commanded if our defence or excuse should have place in the divine Judgement Let such a man the refore so wickedly deceived of himself suffer himself to be instructed and taught by this our most profitable Theologization of Astrologie wherein we have found and tryed not without the greatest joy of the mind that besides the shop and operation of nature there is alwaies present in us something far more great and excellent with the knowledge and vertue whereof we being fraught have power of resisting not only one but all vices as well the greatest as the least whatsoever lie hid and are manifest in us Yea power not only of casting down and drowning one stone but also the whole mountain of the Macrocosme being in us in the Sea of divine Power or extirpating utterly not only one leafe but even the whole tree of the knowledge of good and evill extant in us and of transplanting it into the garden of the celestiall Paradise For so all these things are manifest in Theologicall misteries to those that understand these things Truly it is evident all things are essentially to be transferred unto Man which are divinely written for Man I say we have a power lying hid in us of over ruling whole nature See the Scripture of Regeneration and New-birth of stopping the Serpent and overcoming all his force and of instituting in us a new and that good a better the best nativity of erecting and instituting in us from a new heaven a new kind of life and a far more happy sigure and that by the sole benefit of the Sabbath by which from day to day we may put off the old Man and put on the new Man fall back from vices and passe on to vertues that is to shake off from us all the ascendent Starrs or flames of divers concupiscences and desires to all kind of pleasures of this world ever and anon provoking drawing and seducing us By this means we go forth safe and free from the house of Egipt from the Babilonian Captivity and we escape from the power of the great Creature we overcome sinfull nature we resist the Serpent we chase away the divell And by how much the more frequent we are in this exercise of the Sabbath or in this Theologisation of Astrologie by so much the more we are made strangers to Nature that we are scarce any more known or touched by her neither doth any Astrologer Phisiognomour Signatour Divinatour Artist how industrious soever know any more to erect any certain nativity or to prognosticate any thing to come Because they which are frequent in familiarity with God these are more and more alienated from the