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A51317	Tetractys anti-astrologica, or, The four chapters in the explanation of the grand mystery of holiness which contain a brief but solid confutation of judiciary astrology, with annotations upon each chapter : wherein the wondrous weaknesses of John Butler, ... his answer called A vindication of astrology, &c. are laid open ... / by Hen. More.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; J. B. (John Butler). Most sacred and divine science of astrology.	1681 (1681)	Wing M2679; ESTC R32960	105,093	181

he would set up this his most sacred and Divine Science of Astrology as a Corrival with the serious study of the Revelation of St. John the Divine so that instead of being Divines or Theologers we may turn phancyful Star-gazers or Astrologers And wot you not what great encouragement there is for it For besides his Hagiastrologia which is newly come out piping hot he mentions a little Tract of Astrology written by himself for the satisfaction of the ignorant and his Christologia or his Treatise of Christ For so the word will signifie whether he will or no which Treatise notwithstanding pretends only to tell us the Time of Christs Birth As if that Genethliacal or Astrological moment of his Nativity were J. B.'s whole Christ. And lastly He tells us which I might have put in the first place it occurring Hagiastr p. 4. of the Doctrine of Nativities written by his Friend Mr. Gadbury a person famous as well for Astronomy as Astrology These I must confess are great Motives and if I did not consider that the Apocalypse is a Book writ by truly Divine and infallible Inspiration and that the Rudiments of Astrology are but the mere imaginations and gross Hallucinations of deceived Mortals unacquainted with sound Philosophy and the true knowledge of Nature they might have made me seem to give ground a little But being as it is I stand perfectly unmoved in my self and do in the mean time take notice That J. B. in his publishing presently upon the coming out of my Apocalypsis Apocalypseos this rudely swaggering piece of his where there is nothing of Reason or Philosophy but a meer endeavour in the grossest way of Buffonry to make my person as vile and contemptible as he can acteth like one that does not endeavour more to vindicate his beloved Astrology than to stifle the good effect of my studying those Divine Oracles which tell not into what quarter an Horse or Sow and Pigs have gone astray but how much the Church pretended Catholick and Apostolick have gone astray from the Rule of the Word and wandred from the City of God the holy Ierusalem to the bloody prophane and Idolatrous City of Babylon I say his virulent Book coming out in such a nick of time as this may justly move a suspicion in me or any one else beyond the probability of any figure cast by an Astrologer that this latter is the principal meaning and chief scope of his publishing this Book of his at this time Which thing I leave to his own Conscience and the judgment of others to consider especially if they will but take along with them what he writes in his Astrology Vindicated p. 3. where speaking of my Mystery of Godliness It was full ten years date sayes he from its first coming out ere I had the hap to meet with a fight of this Explanation c. And my Christologia was in the Press first and also I had written my little Tract of Astrology for the satisfaction of the ignorant in that Art and an Answer to Mr. Selden by way of Post script before this of Dr. Mores came to my hands Only I had heard of such a Treatise and heard it very much commended by certain Anti-Astrologers c. Out of which passage it is plain that his Christologia was writ some ten years ago my Mystery of Godliness having been published near these twenty years Wherefore that he should either be or feign himself to be in such a rage so soon after the publishing of my Apocalypsis Apocalypseos I leave to the sagacious to smell out the Reason But this is only by the bye We come now to what in these Chapters concerns Astrology and Astrologers Sect. 3. A goodly speculation indeed and well befitting two such witty Fools as Pomponatius and Vaninus c. Answer But what sayes J. B. p. 11. are all Fools that just jump not with the Doctors will Repl. I must confess I think all are Fools that close with that Atheistical Hypothesis which I have above described in the foregoing Section and deny a particular Providence And that Vaninus was a Fool is demonstrable out of the Scripture which this Minister of Gods word cannot for shame deny Psalm 14. The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God If he be a Fool that sayes in his heart there is no God what a great Fool is he that not only sayes it in his heart but speaks it out with his mouth and makes it his business to Proselyte others to the same Impiety Which was the Case of Vaninus who was so great a Fool or Madman as to become Martyr for Atheism The History whereof you may see in that ingenious Writer Dr. Sam. Parker in his Disputationes de Deo Disp. 1. Sect. 26. as he has taken it out of Gabr. Barthol Gramond in his History of France from the Death of Henry the Fourth lib 3. His story is sufficiently Tragical and his Case to be lamented an Atheist being a more proper object of scorn or pity than of the extremity of such severity It were a more expeditious way to free the World of this kind of Cattle to exhibit Religion in a more credible and creditable dress than it hath been for over many Ages And yet they that have been the most effectual makers of Atheists have been the most forward to burn them But this I have also complained of elsewhere But J. B. further objects But why a witty Fool does not wit make wise Repl. I say no Wit may make witty but 't is Wisdom that makes wise It is called Wit when Imagination and Reason dance the Anticks and shew a dexterity by freakish Tricks to insinuate false and mischievous Opinions and disparage what is true and useful what is holy sacred and serious But Wisdom is an ability of maintaining weighty and useful truths by firm and invincible Arguments But the Atheist being so great a Sot that he is sunk from the belief and relish of any such things I look upon him let his Wit otherwise be what it will as on one that is not wise but a Fool. And most assuredly he will find himself so in the Conclusion Sect. 4. Never any mans pride and conceitedness exceeded the proportion of his Wit and parts so much as his Here J. B. being he does merely rail and offer no Reason to confute what I say I am excused from answering any thing to him But for the Readers satisfaction I will not stick to declare That Vaninus as to his Philosophy is a meer Pedant and that his Dialogues he bears himself so high upon are very shallow things and tiresome to any man of any skill and judgment to read them And would be the flattest entertainment to all men that can be but that some have a Palate for Atheism and Infidelity though never so homely dressed or poorly served up I never met with any one yet though never so free a Philosopher but he had the