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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35358	Catastrophe magnatum, or, The fall of monarchie a caveat to magistrates, deduced from the eclipse of the sunne, March 29, 1652, with a probable conjecture of the determination of the effects / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7485; ESTC R2956	55,961	84

Catastrophe Magnatum OR THE FALL OF MONARCHIE A Caveat to MAGISTRATES Deduced from the Eclipse of the SUNNE March 29. 1652. With a Probable Conjecture of the Determination of the Effects By Nich Culpeper Gent. Stud. in Astrol. and Phys DAN. 2. 21 22. He changeth the times and the seasons he removeth Kings and setteth up Kings he giveth wisdome to the Wise and knowledge to them that know understanding he revealeth the deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darknesse and the light dwelleth With him LONDON Printed for T. Vere and Nath Brooke in the Old Baily and at the Angel in Cornhil 1652. To the right VVorshipfull Sir William Culpeper Knight and Baronet Nicholas Culpeper wisheth Health Wealth and Peace in this World and a Crown of Glory in that to come Worthy Sir BEfore I proceed farther let me crave pardon of your Worship for these my bold attempts in presuming to Dedicate these my weak Labours to your Worship to whom distance of place hath now almost made a stranger but considering that Ingenuity of Spirit that was once in your Father flourisheth in you who are the Branch of so Noble a Root together with the antient Familiarity that was between your Father and mine imboldned me after I had converted a few idle hours into Study and having brought forth to birth what then I conceived I present it at your Worships feet I hope there is nothing in it unbeseeming the name of Culpeper if there be failings in it they are no more then what we are all subject to The Ingenuity of your Worship I know to be such that you will not onely passe by my boldness in dedicating it to you for that Objection our Alliance in blood may take off Sigenus amborum scindit se sanguine ab uno Besides as your ingenuity is Operative which the Bowels of all your poore Neighbours daily blesse God for which you are commended for even where you are not known and is is no small joy to mine your poore Kinsmans heart so shall you be eternally rewarded for it another day blessed is he that remembreth the poor your Worship knows well enough what follows I hope your Worship will expect no Flattery in the Epistle there being none in the booke if you accept the Book I shall thinke my selfe happy and I am confident those of our blood will hardly degenerate it was a notable expression of Plato O Knowledge how would men love thee if they did but know thee for as Health is the conservation of the Body so is knowledge the conservation of the Soul Though it hath been neer upon fifteen years since I saw your Worship yet have I often heard of you both by Master Thomas Culpeper and Master Whitfield who are both of our kindred as by many others more and I heare your vertues increase daily more and more the Lord encrease them till the time of your change come and though we live in such an Age which calleth Good Evill and Evill Good which takes Vice for Vertue and Vertue for Vice which think they strike at the Devill and hit God yet your Worship knows as well as I can tell you better too being no stranger to the writings of Philosophers what Plato said of Vertue and Vice quoth he If Vertue could take a bodily shape shee would be so beautifull a creature all men would be in love with her of which your Worship is one also if Vice could take a bodily shape shee would be such an Ugly beast all men would hate her for if Drunkards have so many Apish and beastly postures what would Drunkennesse it selfe have if it were Visible and yet that is but an Attribute of Vice neither I know very well and my Genius prompts me to it what an excellent love your Worship beares to Learning truly I might make another reason of that for Dedicating these my weak labours to your Worship as knowing the brightnes of your brain will dissipate the clouds of my Ignorance the truth is there arose a Question within my selfe whether I should dedicate it to your Worship or not but that contest held not long for I doubted not of your favourable acceptance for I knew well enough what failed on my part in the performance of the worke or what other imperfections you could find in the booke should be most Nobly censured and like your selfe then presently I proceeded and stampt your Worships name upon it that it may be said in despight of the proudest carper in the world it is the Godchild of a peerlesse Godfather Sir one thing more I must intreat you for I doubt I have been so bold your VVorship will thinke I flatter and that I know your VVorship hates as well as my selfe if there happen any thing in the booke which your VVorship cannot understand I know you will say as noble-minded Chion did Let my betters judge of these matters I must confesse the thing is a worke of worth if well understood else your VVorship had not had it presented to you your worship knowes very well and far better then I can tell you that knowledge requires the whole circuit of a mans life even from the terminus à quo to the terminus ad quem and the longer a man lives the more he may learne I am briefe for t is brevity your VVorship delights in therefore to use many words I account it needlesse your VVorships friendly acceptance of it shall be such a favour to me as I shall never forget indeed I have so much the blood of Culpeper in me that I cannot what such as are altogether unlearned or proudly learned speak against I shall take to be a badge of a weake or stubborn braine rather than any blemish at all to the worke I know your worship will judge like your selfe to whom I make bold to present this as a memoriall of those former favours not unknowne to your worship which passed between your Father and mine Lastly before I conclude let me intreat one favour of your worship if I have mistaken in or robbed you of any of your titles of honour I beseech you pardon Your most humble Servant and Kinsman Nich Culpeper From my Study at London Spittle-Fields next door to the Red-Lion Now published Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum containing severall Poeticall Peeces of our famous English Philosophers who have written the Hermetique Mysteries in their owne Antient Language with Annotations and severall Hieroglificall Peeces cut in Brasse By Elias Ashmole Esq. A most excellent Booke of Chiromancy or the art of Divining by the lines and signatures of the Hand a most acurate peece lately published by George Wharton Esq. Both sold by Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill A Discourse of the terrible Eclipse of the Sun March 29 1652. CHAP. I. What an Eclipse is AN Eclipse is properly the deficiency of light in a Star if it be defined in a critical sence and although any