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cause_n	body_n	find_v	great_a	1,455	5	2.6101	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55415	Poor Robins opinion of the present blazing star, appearing in the north-east part of the heavens, this present year, 1677 which is far more remarkable than any before of that nature, by reason of the strangeness of its position.	Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing P2887; ESTC R15664	1,846	4

Poor Robins Opinion of the Present Blazing Star Appearing in the North-East Part OF THE HEAVENS This Present Year 1677. Which is far more Remarkable then any before of that NATURE By Reason of the strangeness of its POSITION LONDON Printed for D. W. in the Year 1677. Poor Robins Opinion of the present Blazing-Star appearing in the North-East part of the Heavens I Think I need not fear Credit from the world since they are so sensible of my Judgment in Judicial Astrology which I think is equal to any that have writ before me or since For I think I have had as good a guess at things and spoke as much Astrological Truth as Lilly or Booker of black Monday I 'le warrant you upon this occasion if any Sadness or Mischief should fall out which God divert though with Reverence and fear I speak it How they would tell ye they foresaw it a hundered years since as they did the burning of London by Nostre Dame Mr. Lillies Hierogliphicks c. which was never heard of before But for my part as I have always told truth and was less mistaken then any of my function so I desire to continue For 't was always my saying if a Winter proved cold warme Cloaths a good Fire and good Provision was the best remedy I Confess Mr. L had the good Luck to get a Meddel from the King of Sweden but for all that he could not tell the Country man who S at his door Like Gipsies we tell people their fortunes or as People at a Lottery get money I hope the people will have more wit then to believe us and to have more discretion then to be frighted However Since from General observation that things of this Nature does not happen without Relation to further Events and that they are Messengers from common experience of the most High it ought to be the care of every person to prevent the Probable sad consequence for by common experience we find that after these occasions hath hapned National miseries VVhich to effect is for every man to sweep his won door according to the English Proverb For we find it usual when Men have Committed any enormity and are discovered they would feign ease themselves of the burthen of their follies and either extenuate it in themselves or unjustly lay it upon anothers shoulders VVhen a general Calamily happens or severe Judgment though before our Vanities were not regarded the great and Righteous Judge by his Ambassadour Conscience the accusing faculty doth truly inform us it is from the occasion of sin from which we cannot receede nor deny yet forsooth we would feign make some body else the Author of our own infirmities and wickedly lay them at other doors The great danger of which if Men did but rightly consider they would shun with dilligence Immaginable for whilst I charge my fault upon another I do not purge my self and therefore my Sin remains and the cause not being taken away the effects consequently must continue And with great amazement I find for the most part they would lay at their Princes door not only foolishly to hope to quiet their own uneasie conscience but make him to bear the Scandal of their Infirmities But let such Men have a care for if Kings and Queens according to the Opinion of our Divines be the Nursing Fathers and Mothers of their Countries we must have a great regard to their Persons and Honours and above all things to take a Reverend care of exposing their infirmities for whatever evil we should here of them if it prove false to convey it to others is a most damnable Crime But should it prove true we should like Shem and Japheth take a Garment and lay it upon our Shoulders and go backwards and cover the Nakedness of our Father for fear like Ham on the contrary we should Merit a curse which may be intal'd upon our posterity to the end of the VVorld The Common indignities and affronts done to their Royal Persons being not the Least occasion of our usual disappointments and Judgments VVe have a common saying in England to our Children for faults repeated before we correct them you had fair warning God Almighty never Punishes or afflicts without being highly Provoked and before he puts it in execution trys us by all means to avoid his chastisements if Possible and to that end often times intimates to us his displeasure by some extraordinary occasion because he will not deal with us according to our sins nor Reward us after our iniquities knowing us to be but dust VVhich may be taken from the present Meteor or appearance and therefore 't is great Prudence in us all by a holy habit and disposition to oppose and overcome those threatning calamities which we may reasonably expect as the sad effects of our present condition This commet or Blazing-Stars first appearance or rising is in the North-East Part of the Heavens it is in Colour Red and bloody But the Position different from any that this Age hath produced The extremity or tayle being erect or upwards VVhich may signifie that by lifting up our hands and hearts to God in devont Prayer and repentance we may avoid those evils it portends which to effect Let us fear God and honour the King FINIS