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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

To the first of these I shall quote but onely one Example which ushered the late King Charles to the Crown 1622. in Iuly happened a conjunction of ♄ and ♂ in ♋ which though it be a little out of my road maketh not a little to my purpose during the effects of this conjunction London was afflicted with an Epidemical disease in the belly the very same disease which lately puzled all our pittiful Colledge to finde out what it was and caused by the very same aspect namely a ☌ of ♄ and ♂ in ♋ I cannot conceive it can appear a wonder to any real Physitian that knoweth upon what foundation the ground of his Art is built but that so great affliction of Saturne in a moist sign should marre the attentive faculty in man but though they had not wit enough to finde out the cause of the disease yet they had wit enough to invent a hideous name for it viz. the plague in the guts I had not mentioned this had it not been to have done a little good to my Country-men if ever it be their hard hap to be troubled with such a Colledge puzling disease t is but onely strengthening the retentive faculty and the cure is done that so you need not puzle nature to encounter with a virulent disease and preposterous physick at the same time but enough of this To proceed Under the effects of this conjunction of ♄ and ♂ Anno 1623. the Sea broak in at Amsterdam as I have been credibly informed by those that lived there at that time and now in the very same place it brake in the last time I would not say this is a strong confirmation of the truth in Astrology for fear the Priests should rail at it yet this I say what is here written is truth and if that truth which is most demonstrative is most excellent take this into that number and now wherefore do you think I have quoted all this truly to make way for what followes If the effects of the ☌ of ♄ and ♂ in ♋ 1622. jumpe so exactly with the effects of the ☌ of ♄ and ♂ in ♋ 1650. as they did as near as the men of Benjamin could sling a stone Why should not the effects of the ☌ of ♄ and ♂ in ♌ 1652 answer as exactly to the ☌ of ♄ and ♂ in ♌ 1624. The summer 1624 was exceeding dry and was it not so 1651. the summer 1625. was exceeding pestilential and if the Eternal God do not prevent the influence of the heavens threatens no less in 1653. let such as question the truth of Astrology consider of this and indeed for their sakes I quoted it I am confident many moderate souls are possest with a PRIEST RIDDEN HUMOUR that they suppose whatever a Priest prates in a Pulpit must needs be true and for truth they entertaine it without any examination it is a hundred pitties the men of BEREA are dead and none of their generation living in England whom the Holy Ghost commends for searching the Scriptures to see whether what the Apostle Paul taught were true or not but our Ministers Ipse dixit serves the turns of most of their hearers though their spirits comes as far short of Paul's as the spirit of a Hare doth from the spirit of a Lion and thus you have the first thing propounded viz What hath succeeded such a ☌ in our age and also the reasons why I did it Proceed we now to the second What the opinions of Authors is of such a malevolent ☌ as this is and I care not greatly if I begin with Haly the ☌ of ♄ and ♂ causeth impediment to Kings diseases amongst men and it hapning in a fiery sign they must needs proceed from heat of blood men first of all deceive one another and afterwards fall out and fight and so let such creatures do till I part them men are subject to hot Rhumes in their eyes according to Guido especially their right eyes fire and sword and sudden death and another inconvenience from their Geniu's their heads are not set fast enough upon their shoulders besides the ☌ happening in ♌ a fixed signe the mischief is like to be durable ah and violent too both the stars being violent and the sign no less the malice must needs be much increased unless Jupiter help and the poor soul is so weak he cannot The hast of the Printer or something else hinders me from quoting more Authors Come we now to the third thing proposed and that is my own judgement and herein I might well say as the Priest did in the Pulpit I know not where to begin nor where to end but I must begin somewhere or else I shall shame my self and confound my Auditors if this do not argue simplicity in me to recite in a book I am sure it did in the Priest to recite it in a Pulpit well then I will let it stand for a jest and thus I 'll begin First Never yet happened a ☌ in Saturne and Mars in ♌ but it punished London with a Pestilence the next year following and now they make two ☌ in ♌ one in 1652. another in 1654. what harm is it if I bid London beware of a Pestilence in 1653. and 1655. though it should never come to pass is the City ever the worse Or the Citizens e'er the poorer I am confident it hath held true as may appear by Chronicle these five hundred years The merciful God whose tender mercy is over all his works grant in mercy to his poor and almost undone Nation that it may take away our Oppressors only and spare such as mind and intend really the good of the Commonalty And if I might make an Allegory of one place of Scripture which though it were really in the letter once verified it followes not in the least but it may in a mistical sense be performed once again it follows not because God said Genesis 3.15 I will put enmity between thee and the serpent and between thy seed and her seed c. That all the Enmity between them should be onely between men and serpents greater enmity then which is not between two creatures for men though they keep beasts for their profit and birds for their pleasure and dormice for their ease as to make themselves sleep or the like yet a man when he meets with an Adder gives him no quarter but is sure to die for it and where t is said in the foregoing Scripture I will put enmity between thee and the woman and it is quoted in Plinies Natural History and I am much mistaken if the same thing be not in Gesners History of Beasts that if a serpent be put into a room where there is forty men and but one woman the serpent will single out that woman amongst all them men to do her a mischief I say doth it follow because this Scripture holds so true in a litteral sense may it not hold as true in

stout King that could fight I marry must they Jupiter to satisfie their importunity sends them the Stork who stalking about the Pool as the Frogs came to do obeysance to him he eat them up I leave every rational man to make the Moral of it it is plain enough 17. An Earthquake is like much to annoy Italy the Peoples Madness and the Jesuites Knavery much more Italy Italy that ancient Nation where the Poets say Saturn once ruled when he turned Leveller and brought up the Golden-Age I am sorry for thy sufferings but cannot help them I would thou wouldst do thy self so much good as learn a little more Wit 18. A Fire threatens Constantinople so doth Dissention and something worse then either the great Turk is either slain or runs away for his life if a bow-string stops not his journey you would laugh to see the Tartarian invade Turkey much about the year 1654 I will promise him if he do about that time he will go neer to carry it I would to God he would learn to be so wise as the noble Tamerlane who is never to be mentioned without an Epethite of Honor 19. In the year 1654 England begins to grow quiet and I am glad of that she enjoys her desired Liberty which she hath spent so much blood for the time is coming it is but two years to it or but a little more not quite three and presently after Holland begins to be pretty secure after once she hath learned to look to the Rock from whence she was howen And thus I had best leave off whil'st matters go well Apologus pro Epilogo IF I may make bold to write a short Apologie in stead of a Conclusion I desire you to take notice that in the years 1641 and 1642 the notions included in this book took up a great part of my study for indeed in those years I was totally studious but finding some weakness in them and the times changing as swift as the winde and swifter too being not in the posture at that time to receive such influences as now they are I took the pain lately a little to amend them I confess the greatest part of my judgments I drew purely from Astrologie yet will I not deny but I made use of a Caball for the perfecting most of them If any affirm it was boldly done of me to adventure upon such a manner of judgment in this Age I answer Boldness may be taken in a paradoxical sence not so much according to the deed done as according to that conception of the Caviller For King Iames held he was a bold man that first adventured to eat a raw Oyster though we now know there is no boldness in it A few years will shew whether what I have written be true or false and he that carps at me before he knows that shews rather his own folly then my weakness Imagine what I write be every word false what harm will it do Princes to prepare for the loss of a kingdom though it never come Is it not the way to teach them humility I am sure they are proud enough Were it not acceptable both before God and man that they would leave off their TYRANNY Imagine such sicknesses never come to the Vulgar as I say this Eclipse threatens will it do them any harm to make their peace with God though they do not die But most people send preparation for death before hand and intend to overtake it on their death-beds I am not conscious to my self of any grand failings in these predictions and I am the more confident of the truth of them because they jump so exactly with the Prophesies in Scripture I know it is the opinion of many in Art that the coming of Christ to reign whether in Person or in Spirit I will not dispute the story here cannot be yet these many years neither probably should it be by rules of Art drawn from judicial Astrologie neither am I ignorant that the Cabal holds it out to come sooner happily the days may be shortened for the Elects sake yet can I give you divers Characters or if you will exemplary signes even from the Scripture it self of its approaching Matth. 24 6 7. You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars Nation shall rise against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there shall be famine and pestilence and earthquakes in divers places ver. 10. They shall betray one another and hate one another ver. 11. Many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many ver. 12. Iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold ver. 24. There shall arise false Christs and false Prophets ver. 32. Learn a Parable of the Figg-tree when his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves you know the Summer is nigh even at the door I shall quote but one Scripture more 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. This know also that in the last days perillous times shall come For men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God HAVING A FORM OF GODLINES BVT DENYING IT IN THE POWER THEREOF If these be not testimonies enough the truth of my Predictions approaching I shall remit my self to the judgment of such as are more judicious and for a conclusion I will make no other then what Solomon did in his recantation Eccl. 12. 13 14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil And to such as do fear God and keep his Commandments I shall remain a friend till death Nich Culpeper