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cause_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	1,558	5	9.6254	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09431	Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to the countri-man, prouing is vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly prognostications. Written by W.P.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1585 (1585)	STC 19721.7; ESTC S113859	31,826	108

starres worke vpon mens bodies yet so y t the nature of the Country and soyle the meates and drinkes haue most commonly greater force Why are the bodies of Gentlemen of England and poore labouring mē of diuers dispositions are they not both in one countrey do not the starres shew their force in them alike yes truely but the kinde of life and diet preuaileth In the same region why are they which dwel vpon hills of other temperatures then they which dwell vpon playne champion grounde Why doe not the same influences of Starres make them of like natures is it not because the nature of the soyle preuayleth So then when as there be many causes effectuall and differing in altering mens bodies to builde an argument vpon one cause is most vnreasonable 2. The starres worke vpon the Elementes earth water ayre by makyng heate cold moisture drines The elementes how worke they on mens bodies They will also say by making heate cold moysture dryenesse which is most vntrue for the whotter and dryer the Elementes be the colder and moyster by nature are mens bodies Accordyng to that saying of Empedocles Nature placed a whote body in a cold countrey and a cold body in a whote countrey 3. The Philosophers say that all causes are either per se or per accidens Now the heauens being causes of the alteration of the senses per accidens they must not bee causes of the inclination of the will either per se or per accidens but per accidentis accidens whiche is most ridiculous 4. This long chayne by whiche they lincke the will of man to the starres if it shalbe applyed vnto particulars it must needes breake for the actions of the will is buying selling trauailyng lying heaping vp wealth murdering spreading of false rumours offering of discourtesies hatyng of kinsfolkes and such like whiche our heauengazers foretell haue no coherēte with the first qualities heate cold moisture drynesse neither can they any waye proceede from them and therfore the starres cannot be causes of them for they worke onely by these qualittes 5. This reason is nothyng to their purpose for because they graunt that a man may freely resiste the inclination of the starres he may hinder that vnto which the stars bend his wil how dare they presume to say this or that will come to passe The heathen men gaue vp thēselues to their own lustes vanities and followed euery litle and vayne inclination of them in this order did auncient Astrologers among them diuine that this or that time such actions such vices such enterprises such affaires should be amōg them In like maner our English wisemē speake of vs as though we were beastes not reasonable men as thogh we neuer had heard the blessed Gospell of God neuer tasted of the grace of God neuer learned what is good and what is bad neuer laboured to subdue our lustes affections alwayes turned to and fro with the blast of any influence working very slenderly in vs. Thus muche of Ciuill affaires They make mentiō also yearely of the diseases whiche shall reigne but the way which they follow is taken forth of the barren and vncertaine rules of of the old Astrologers who do so ascribe vnto euery Planet certaine diseases that if neede shall require they may referre the same disease vnto many significatours as in the plague the putrefaction of humors is attributed vnto Iupiter the sharpe feuer vnto Mars the madnesse whiche followeth vnto Mercurie the whole plague vnto Mars In the plurecie the inflammation of the bloud betwene the skinne called Pluritis and the ribbs is attributed vnto Iupiter the suppuration of the bloud vnto Saturne and the whole pluresie vnto Iupiter In the Iaundes the inflamation and corruption of humors vnto Iupiter the yelow humor in the gaule vnto Mars the obstruction of the partes vnto Saturne the whole Iaunds beyng white vnto Mars blacke vnto Saturne And so in euery disease they vse this inconstancie and ambiguitie in Prognosticating It is a rule among the Astrologers that if the Planets signifiers of diseases be well affected then there shalbe no diseases but health if they be euilly affected then diseases follow Our Prognosticatours neuer marke this rule but howsoeuer the Planets bee affected they straightwayes pronounce that such diseases shall reigne For exāple the last winter quarter it was said by one of them that y e diseases which should afflict mens bodies were rewmes coughes cold laskes swelling of the face throte fallyng of the Colmel sore eyes deafenesse the stone goute dropsie greenesicknes madnes quarterne feuers c. And all the Planets signifiers of diseases in that quarter were indifferēt well affected wherfore thou hast not one cause to feare their threatninges but rather to be sorie for their continuall deceites wishing them myndes that they may one day see their owne follie Concernyng the tyme when the constellations take their effectes our Prognosticators say that some take their effectes the same yeare some not the same yeare but long after as great coniunctions and Eclipses For they say if the Moone be eclipsed one houre she worketh her effect a moneth after if two houres two monethes after and the Sunne for euery houre it is Eclipsed taketh his effect an whole yeare after Truely this rule whiche they follow must needes be agaynst all reason For why should not all coniunctions and oppositiōs of the Sunne and Moone differre their effectes as well as those coniunctions and oppositions in which the Sunne and Moone is Eclipsed if they showe forth their power immediately after why should not these also do the same Moreouer the Epignosticall Astrologers who haue conferred the course of the heauens with histories shew very manifestly that Eclipses do not deferre the tyme of working their spite vpon the earth In the yeare of our Lord. 1419. the Sunne was Eclipsed in Aries and presently after shewed all his force There was a great sedition in Prage that yeare In Paris an vprore betwene them of the Citie and the Uniuersitie and two thousand Scholers were slayne Then also Wenzeslaus king of Bohemia being in a great palsie dyed In the yeare .1524 There was a coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Scorpius also a great Eclipse of the Sunne in Iune whiche tooke their effectes the same yeare Charles king of Fraunce driuen forth of his countrey warre betweene Danes and the men of Sleswicke There was a great plague in Germanye Ciuill dissention amongest the Princes of the Empire and them which tooke the part of Iohn Husse .1452 An Eclipse of the Sunne in Sagittarius his effectes began presently and lasted a great while Euen then Constantinople was taken by the Turke The Hungarians and Bohemians besieged Fredericke the Emperour 1473. the 27. of Aprill the Sunne was Eclipsed in Taurus Mars beyng in Aries and Iupiter in Sagittarius The same yeare in sommer was such heate and drynesse of weather that woodes euen withered and one might

wade ouer deepe riuers In the yeares of our Lord. 1476. 1460. 1469. 1486. 1502. 1518. And many yeares after there were both great coniunctions straunge Eclipses which tooke their effectes presently not one or two or three yeares after as our heauengazers beare thee in hand All these examples whiche I bring agaynst them I haue not fayned but taken forth of those bookes which they haue in greatest estimation and could if neede should serue bring an hundred more all to shew their lyes when as they cōmonly say thus there shalbe an Eclipse this yeare mary I will not here determine his effectes but reserue them to be declared in my Prognostication one yeare or two yeares hence when it will take place To know where the effectes of the starres shall take place they haue appointed vnto euery signe certaine countreys as ouer Europe they haue set the fiery Triplicitie ouer the Orientall and North partes of the Asia the ayrie Triplicitie the waterie Triplicitie ouer Aphrica ouer y e South partes of the Asia the earthie Triplicitie so euery peculiar signe hath his dominion ouer some partes of those Now therefore when a coniunction or Eclipse is in any of these signes the Cities and countreys subiect vnto them feele the force of that constellation especially This is a most manifest vntruth and may bee confuted by many reasons 1. The nature of the signes is not the same now as it was in tymes past and by the confession of the 〈◊〉 learned haue other effectes now then they had in the dayes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet we see the nature of Countreys and people to remayne the same still as may bee seene by readyng Tacitus Plinie Caesar Strabo 2. America whiche is halfe the worlde hath no signes appointed ouer it why it was founde out of late True it is but this is an argument that y e rules of Astrologie are absurde and were the bare inuentions and imaginations of idle braynes For there is no doubt but that America his partes and Ilandes as Br●silea Peru Pari Terra Florida Iaua Maior Iaua Minor Puloana Pauilonga Subath Massana Mattan Iuuacana Cozumella Iamaica c. Haue felt the force of those Constellations whiche they attribute to some partes of the olde world Because these Countreys bee about the middle Zone and haue both Planetes and signes full ouer them and therfore if the starres threaten any straunge thynge to come they must especially feele it 3. Experience the cause of all actes is agaynst them as is manifest in these examples 47. yeares before the Natiuitie of our Sauiour Christ there was a coniunction of the higher Planets in Scorpius And then was ciuill warre betwene Caesar and Pompey And the chaunge of the Empire was in Europe But according vnto the institution of Astrologers all these troubles should haue bene in Aphrike because Scorpius hath his dominion there In the yeare of our Lord. 34. there was a great coniunction of Planets in Leo and then sayth one very prophanely was the Gospell preached through the worlde But if hee make this coniunction to be a signe of the preachyng of the Gospell then it should more haue bene preached in the partes of Europe then Asia which is not true In the yeares of our Lord. 331. and 1137. There were great cōiunctions in Virgo and yet the Countreys subiect to this signe felt no harme but Italy was troubled with the Popes superstitions and Arrius his heresie was broched There was a meetyng of Planetes in Sagittarius 73. yeares after Christ when as Otho Galba Vitellius and Vespasian troubled the Romaine Empire yet there was no where more gre●uous warres then in Palestine and no greater slaughter then of the Iewes who are subiect vnto Scorpius and not vnto Sagittarius In the yeare .1464 a coniunction of higher Planets was in Pisces vnder whose dominion although Europe be not placed yet it most felt the smart by troubles and ciuill warres So 1576. and 1577. Two Eclipses of the Sunne the one in Leo the other in Capricorne tooke their effectes in Germanie when as Leo and Capricorne doe not rule that Countrey It is vayne to shewe the absurditie of this rule by moe examples these shalbe sufficient This shall suffice to haue spoken of their generall Predictions now follow their speciall determinations of the state and temperature of the weather wherein I will set forth first of all a most manifest and absurde contradiction whiche most of them make that is this They vse as I haue sayd to set downe their iudgementes of the whole quarter that it should be either moyst hote cold or drye afterward iudging particularly they disproue by particular dayes that whiche they sayd before In the yeare of our Lord. 1581. one sayd that in y e Autumne quarter should be a great drought yet I perusing his particular iudgements vpon the dayes of the quarter I finde it should haue plētie of rayne In the yeare last past an other sayd the s●mmer should be so hote drye that euen Welles riuers should be dryed vp and fishes be scarce and Cattell drye for want of water yea the same partie in his particular iudgement of the weather maketh 20. dayes of the same quarter at the least rayne and misling and 30. other either temperate or very cold In one worde the iudgementes whiche are set downe of the weather they are more tolerable then the rest yet as long as the world endureth no man shalbe able to Prognosticate truely what weather shalbe in euery day of the yeare The causes of this I haue set downe before and neede not now to repeate UUherefore they might leaue of anie longer to busie themselues in this kind And it shalbe sufficient for thee leading a christian lyfe to know the generall and ordinarie estate of the partes and seasons of the yeare The third reason impieties Besides all this the impious speeches and vngodly practises whiche these men vse might moue a christian man to loath their predictions First yeerely some of them doe foretel whether men shall study and imbrace or forget and neglecte true Religion UUhat a filthie and diuelish thinge is this not to bee suffered in a common wealth where the Gospell of Christ is preached Euery man naturally is the childe of wrathe the vnprof●table seruant dead in all kinde of sinne hys vnderstanding it is enmitie agaynst God his affections are rebellious against his will none doth good no not one not one hath anie facultie to receaue or keep true religion we are as sawes in the hands of God as the prophet Esay speaketh howe then become wee religious by the onely worke of God No man can come to me saith Christ except the father draw him And as God draweth vs first vnto true religion so he also maketh vs continue in the professing of the same as S. Paul saith hee whiche hath begon a good worke in you wil finish the same c. By what meanes doth God do this