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A68798	A prognosticall iudgement of the great coniunction of the two superiour planets, Saturne and Iupiter, which shall happen the 8. day of Aprill. 1583 the fruite of a godly minde, warning us to be mindfull of the sodaine comming of our Lord and Sauiour Christ to iudgement : a comfortable and most necessary discourse, for these miserable and dangerous dayes.	R. T. (Robert Tanner)	1583 (1583)	STC 23676; ESTC S118135	19,582	64

Through taunting tongues scofs do delight VVith wresting wits to turn things frō the right F VVhy was thou made what is thy chief intent B To please the best of purpose I am sent F Go forth therfore the best will thee imbrace B Then feare I not abrod to shew my face Nor for il tongues that would me faine degrace FINIS ¶ Probable Coniectures from the course of tymes THE holye Scripture euerye where maketh some collation between the first Adam the sinner and the Sonne of God Christ our sauiour the second Adam also betweene the floud and vtter ouerthrow of the world euen as Christ doth signifie in these wordes Et erit sicut in diebus Noe c. And it shal be as in the daies of Noe c. Wherefore I fell firste into this consideration and afterward from one to an other into these which ensue whether the tymes paste in equalitie of the same number aunswered alike for the Lord God hath ordeined all thinges by a singular and euerlasting wisdome And experience doth teach by a certaine concurring of the Stars that in such thinges a great likenesse of tymes is woont often to happen As in the byrth of Isaack and of his offering which is a figure of Christ theré is a great consent of times For from the byrth of Isaac vntill Christe were two thousande yeares fully expyred from the creation of the world was a thousand sixe hundred fiftie sixe yeares From this number the yeares of Christes byrth vnto this present yeare 1583. doe differ 73 yeares if truely that number wer fulsilled But I doe not thinke the worlde shall continue so long that the latter time should in number exceede the former for manye coniectures which followe but what maye come to passe the Lord knoweth Likewise Moses is a figure of Christe That meruailous delyuering of Israel by Moses out of the handes of Pharao is a figure of victory of christ which on our behalf hee hath by his death on the Crosse and resurrection from the dead obtained agaynst the Deuill and death And the whole gouernment of Moses is a shadow of Christs kingdome the ouerthrow of the Iewes and destruction of Vierusalem is no doubte a token of the worldes ouerthrowe And here we shal see a wonderful consent agreeing of times that so by things paste we may looke for the euent of thinges to come vndoubtedly by the singular prouidence counsel ordinance of God for no other reason can I rēder sith I cānot perswade my self that these thinges can by chaunce so wonderfully agree together First by the true account of yeares it is playne that from the comming out of Aegipt and publishing of the Law vntyl the Natiuitie of Christ are numbered a thousande siue hundred and nine yeares Nowe if the yeares from the natiuitie of Christ vntil the time in which Christ began again to be borne to the world to be brought into the light as it were through the preaching of the gospel by Luther other famous men were numbered they are in sum a thousand fiue hundred and seuenteene Againe from the departure out of Aegypt vntill the death of Christ the yeares are accounted to be a thousande fiue hundred fourtie and two And this number also doth meruailouslye agree with that generall persecution in Germanie made by Charles the fifth the Pope which happened in the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth fourtie and seuen So that these numbers being compared together will bee founde not much to differ in quantitie of number But from these poore mentions I will go higher to those thinges which especially do agree to our purpose It is manifest that Moses gouernment vntil the destruction of Hierusalem by Titus did stand in all one thousand fiue hundred eightie and three yeares Neither is it to be doubted of any but that the destruction and wasting of Hierusalem is a manifest figure of the last ruine of the worlde and therefore doth our Lord speake of these things together and saith Those dayes were like the dayes of Noe in respect of maners and the securitie of mans life Now at length what shal we gather of these thinges That the tearme of the worldes destruction shoulde agree with former number of yeares of Moses gouernment which not the sonne of an Emperour or chiefest Monarch as was Hierusalem But the sonne of God much mightier then al Emperours an euerlasting king can bring to naught which thing Melancthon seemed plainly to poynt at in the lyfe of Velpasian in his Chronicles And the like reason is here which is in the former comparison of numbers if thinges to come may be gathered by thinges past alreadye The figure doeth altogether in this place agree and the chiefest signe of Christes cōming to wit the preaching of the Gospell hath gone afore and we doe sticke in the middest of all the other foretolde calamyties and euery yeare expect more miserie Fynally also the Astronomers write if euery skilful man in his owne facultie is to be credited that the starres in the beginning of the thousand fiue hundred eightie and foure yeares which almost together doth agree with the number aboue mentioned doth threaten very fearefull and horrible thinges of diuers alterations and other wonderfull matters orels an vtter destruction of this worlde The wordes of Cyprian Leouitius a Bohemian a most excellent Mathematition in a certain book of prognostications for a twentie yeeres frō the yeare sixtie foure to the eighty four be these Anno Domi. 1582. mense Februarii there shall happen fifteene coniunctiōs of the Planets in the beginning of Pisces After which straight wayes in the yeare eightie foure shall ensue a wonderfull mixture of al the Planets almost in Taurus about the end of March and beeginning of Aprill And which is more a litle after that shall be seene an Eclipse of the Sunn in the 18. degree 42. min. of Taurus about the head of Algol a most cruell fixed starre gouerned by Venus which shall be lynked to fiue Planets in Aries tending towards the twelfe Here saith he must we watch I thinke it meete that earthly cogitations be cast off least we be destroied being vnready for this great Coniunction is of all the last which shall happen in the end of watry Trigon And watry Trigon shall haue an end and to be turned into fiery Trigon Neither any more in the space of eight hundred years the end of watry Trigon shal be nighe But because about the end of watry Trygon this monarchy shal beginne it is likely that the same also in the end of the same Trigon shal haue an end sith the son of god himself Iesus Christ our lord euen in that end of watry Trigō took vpō him the nature of man For 6. yeares before his most glorious natiutie that same very coniunction in the extremity of Pisces in the beginning of Aries happened neither came the like since that time but whē Charls the

¶ 〈…〉 sticall iudge ment of 〈◊〉 great coniunction of the 〈◊〉 superiour Planets ●● 〈…〉 〈…〉 which shall hap 〈…〉 1583. The 〈…〉 god●● minde wat●ing of 〈…〉 Sauiour Christ to iudge m 〈…〉 A co 〈…〉 most necessary disco 〈…〉 〈…〉 miserable and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 da 〈…〉 1. Pet. 4. 7. The ende of all thinges is at hande bee yee 〈◊〉 and watch vnto prayer Luke 21 36. VVatch continually and pray that yee may bee wo 〈…〉 nger this shall come 〈◊〉 And 〈…〉 before the Sonne of man 1583. To the right Honorable Lorde Frauncis Earle of Bedforde one of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell Knight of the noble order of the Garter grace and peace with God and man I Oftentimes remembring Right honourable Lorde what accountes I haue to make for the small talent which GOD hath deliuered mee to bee imployed vnto the best and so my duetie that I doe owe vnto my natiue Countrie am of force constrained to diuulgate and set abrod some part of my studies and trauailes in the Sciences Mathematicall trusting thereby my duti● towardes God and my Countrie sha●● be somwhat acquited And as it is th● accustomed maner of all those that se●● forth any booke worthie reading to select and choose out either some person who by reason of learning vertu wisdome such other like ornamēts of the mind is thought a worthie stay in a commōwealth or els such as haue well of them deserued to whom they may yeeld the first fruites of their labors dedicate their works finished In like maner I hauing atchieued this my simple skill in the setting foorth many reasons probable cōiectures from the course of times of these great cōiunctiōs of the 2. superiour Planets Saturne Iupiter in the beginning of waterie Trigon now the same coniūctiōs in the end of the same Trigon is like to happen then turned in to firie Trigon The which euents of the said Planets doeth marueilously agree with the famous prophesie of Elias many other places of scriptures of the latter dayes of the worlds destructiō to be neere at hande that the comming of our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ to iudgement will not bee long And hauing respect to your Lordships worthinesse in the weale publik also being animated with your beneuolent inclinatiō the manifold benefites towards mee extended doe boldly present and offer the same vnto your Honour desiring your beneuolent heart to vouchsafe to bee Patrone of this my litle boke and if I shal perceiue your good L. heerewith to be pleased I shal hereafter God giuing life be incouraged to set foorth the residue of my studies labours Thus I as one that esteemeth nothing in this world more then your prosperous estate do beseech God to increase you in long life perfect prosperitie Your Lordships most humble to commaund Robert Tanner The Preface PLato the Prince of Philosophers who for his excellent doctrine containing many things agreeable to the holy Scripture was called diuinus amōg many other his precepts in Philosophie giueth vs this lesson Omnia amicorum sunt communia Amongest friends all things are common The which also in olde time was taken in custome of the auncient Christians for I find it written in the Acts of the Aposcies Nemo eorum qui nomina Christo dederunt quicquam suum esse dicebat sed erant illis omnia communia None of those which were named Christians did affirme any thing to be their owne but all things were common amongst them I therefore desiring to bee esteemed among Christians doe thinke it wil be a shamefull thing for me to hide any thing ielously to my selfe yea although it bee neuer so simple wherein I might hope something to profite the common wealth For it is euident that all men cannot offer golde precious stones silke or purple but there are also that doe gratifie shew a thing very thankefull if they giue but a flower or some thing of lesse value for this cause therefore I haue thought it good Christian Reader to publish this my little booke to the vse of all Christians to beholde and marke Gods omnipotencie and goodnesse of diuers tokens warninges not only before time sent but also diuers other tokens by these great coniunctions euents of the Planets is like to ensue The consideration whereof hath caused me for your comfort by writing to place before your eyes such vndoubted signes of his comming although I will not take vpon me to tell the very houre day and yere which is knowen to God alone that easily you will beleeue and persuade your selfe that it will not bee long afore hee come Perhaps there may be some maliu●lue mocking person yet aliue whose only practise is scoffing and scorning yea whom nothing be it neuer so well can content that will finde faulte with our doinges by reason they haue drunke such a deepe draught of despight I wil nothing at al be dismaid for why should I considering I haue written nothing but that which is alreadie tried by the principles of Astronomie vnlesse perhaps there bee some Midas asininis auribus dignus which doth iudge wrongfully of this notable science minding the vtter subuersion of the same And here I shall desire the good Reader that although some man pricked with pride shoulde put in print some peeuishe peece of woorke in dispraise of Astronomie thou wouldest giue no credite vnto his foolishe reasons sith this Science hath heeretofore of the wisest and learnedest men ben honoured And further thou mayest gather that whosoeuer doth attempt the contempt of any one sciēce seemeth to be ignorant not only of the same but also of all good learning For Cicero lib. 3. de ora saith in this wise Omnis ingenuarum humanarum artium doctrina vno quodam societatis vinculo continetur That is to say All Arts liberall and humane are coupled or linked together with one hande of societie But Reader I purpose not nowe to inueigh against those kinde of persons before spoken of considering that it requireth more matter than can conueniently bee rehearsed in a short Prologue Wherefore to conclude thou shalt vnderstande that it is not the taunting toyes of skorners nor the wresting wittes of the arrogant is able to blemish our arte as all auncient monuments of Wryters yea the orders of the Planets themselues which for mans behoofe is the workmanship of God doe manifesty proue And thus I make an ende praying thee to take the paynes to reade this Booke and learne therby to amend thy former wicked lyfe Farewell good Christian Reader By Robert Tanner student in Astronomy Cosmography The verdit of the Booke made in fourme of a Dialougue beetweene the Booke and the Bookes friende F VVhat dost thou think al sorts of men to please B Nay hard it is for one to please ech whight F VVhat men are those whom thou sonest disease B Al fauting fooles that seeke to work their spight