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A87589	Anti-Merlinus: or a confutation of Mr. William Lillies predictions for this year 1648. comprised in two bookes : one of which he cals Merlinus Anglicus, or An ephimeris : the other his Prognostication of the occurences in England, clearely proveing his predictions in both bookes to be groundlesse, absolutely void of art, full of contradictions, treason, falsehood, and such a ridiculous piece of foolery, as an artist would blush to owne, especially pretending (as he doth) to ground his predictions upon cacodemologie, or conference with devils, and lapsed angels, as well as on astrologie, an art lawfull and laudable. As also the authors own opinion, not only concerning what we may expect from the present treaty, and the principall occurences of the remaining part of this present year, but also his positive judgement touching the event and finall determination of this Civill War, succinctly set downe, together with his reasons in art therefore. / By H. Johnsen student in astrologie.	Johnsen, H.	1648 (1648)	Wing J768; Thomason E1171_3; ESTC R208821	32,417	70

their utter undoing had not Mercury the dispositor of Iupiter beheld the ascendent by a trine espect this will make them peece againe for a time but Saturne and Mars in their second house will signifie great expence of Treasure and much losse by fire and War at least to some of them Iupiter as he is Lord of the 10th is in the 10th from the 10th and beholds it with a sextile aspect and Saturne Lord of the 11th in the second with a trine This will doubtlesse signifie ●e est 〈◊〉 to his Maiesty and the recovery of his 〈◊〉 yea and his pristine honour Not long after the Suns enterance into Cancer viz. about the 28 of Iune there hapened a conjunction of Saturne and Mars the two malevosent and worst of planets in Gemini neere oculus Tauri in the 8th house of Heaven whose insluence will produce wonderfull alterations but not without other concurrent causes as Mr. Lilly well observeth but there are other concurrent causes enough 〈◊〉 too many if it pleased God to cooperate with this conjunction both before subsequent especially the eclipse of the moon within three degrees of the very Place of the conjunction it selfe and it hapens also in the 7 and 8. houses of heaven very neer unto oculas tauri and the very body of Saturne and this Mr. Lilly himselfe coufesseth saying that this conjunction is neer oculus tauri a most violent fixed star if we beleeve either our own experience or that of the ancients for there did never happen any Eclipse conjunction or opposition of the Superiours neer that Part of Gemini but it produced admirable and wonderfull effects add to this that the first conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in the fiery trigon was in the yeare 603. in opposition almost to the very degree of this coniunction We have sad cause I am sure his Maiesty hath to remember the effects of the Eclipse of the Sun in the tenth of Gemini anno● 1639. much more reason will the Parliament have to remember this coniunction and the Eclipse of the Moon in that place Yea Mr. Lilly himselfe confesseth this a very sad pofition of heaven for the Parliament able utterly upon the first fight yea and the second too to puzzle a weak yea Mr. Lillyes strong affection for I doubt he himself hath no more then humane principles We have Mars saith he their Significator because Lord of the Ascendent in the 8th house in conjunction with Saturn neer Oculus Tauri a sad Planet and more dismall fixed star The house he also confesseth to be the worst of houses and that it signifies to the Parliament a sad and distracted condition yea he himselfe confesseth further that it imports a parliment strugling and gasping for breath and life and that London also is the most of any city in Europe concerned in this conjunction as also that the least misehief that thereupon can happen to that City Will be sedition uproares famine if not Gloudshed And a little before hee is yet more ingenious confessing positively thas God out of his infinite mercy not preventing war and bloudshed will succeed in this very City Page 39. and I fear they will find all this and much more true enough which I shall anou discover Mutantur regna et dominia et fides sectaeque et opiniones hominum dum mutantur auges planetaru de figno in signum dico illarum gentium quarum fignificator erit plaeneta augi●s permntae mutatioque erit ad bonum vel ad malum secundum naturam significatorum superiorum conjunctionum illorum temporum et secundum naturam signi permutationis That is Kingdomes and Governments Leagues Sects and mens opinions do change and vary when the anges of the planets move out of one figne into another I say of these nations whose significator is the planet of the changed auges And this alteration shall be for good or ill according to the nature of the signisicators of the superior conjunctions of those times and according to the nature of the signe of mutation Mars is the generall significator of England whose abssis or Aphelium is at present in four signs twenty nine degrees fifty two minutes and one and twenty seconds that is 29. deg 52. min. 21. of Leo and sin the year 1656. this absis will remove into Virgo about which year M Lylly saith we must expect a strange Catastrophe in this Common wealth and Monarchy of England for Mars cannot protect Aries and Uirgo whom he beholds not all this is Mr. Lyllyes I will not own it nay I shall willingly and ingeniously confesse that I understand not why this should be so fatall to England or to London as he would make us beleive yet am I clear of his opinion in that which followes that a very sad disastre to the City is much to be feared long before that time Have a care London thou art already strongely and strangely threatned and wilt be suddainly more have a care thou rebellest no longer against thy King thou maist put an end to these Wars when thou pleasest and thou hadst a principall stroake in beginning them do what thou meanst to do quickly 't will be else too late Remember the old prophecy part of which thou knowest to be already fulfilled Lincoln was London is and Yorke Chall be the greatest City of the three Scorpio a fixed signe ascends and I shall easily grant Mr. Lilly that all the angles of the figure are also fixed and in trine to Pisces the signe ascending at the Parliaments first fitting but that all or any of these shall or can rebus sic stanti●us signifie that the Parliament shall stand firm and not be dissipated I absolutely deny and affirme the contrary to be true and evident in point of Art And let him but produce good Authors to second his assertion and I will willingly yeeld him the Bucklers in this case I thinke any Artist will think him mad or worse to judg this a sufficient reason therefore the Lord of the Ascendent being with Saturn and Oculus Tauri he knowes or at least should know signum ut corpus Planetaut anima there is little promised by any signe of Heaven which hath no planet in it nor yet well aspecting it he is almost ashamed I perceive of this reason by that which followes for he confesseth that their unfaithfull branches and rotten boughs must be lopt off We desire no more there are for all this I hope diverse honest men amongst them who greive at the Kings and Kingdoms sufferings and would help it if they could When Mr. Lilly affirmeth that this conjunction signifieth good to the Parliament quia ex duabus infortunis fit fortuna he himself contradicts what he said before and dotes most wickedly most miserably I deny not the Aphorisme 't is Ptolemies but I deny this sence of it 't is Mr. Lillies I doubt not indeed but it will produce much good to the Kingdome none to

this very Scheme is ten times more for the King then for the Parliament nay Mr. Lilly himself though at unawares confesseth as much in these words Yet this of necessity will follow either an amendment or a complyance of the Members themselves or a finall revolt of the People from them Testimonium tunm quod in aliena re leve est hoc contrate grave est The Moone who signifies the people opposeth both the Ascendant and the Sun their significator and after her separation from the opposition of Sol snee applyes forcibly to the trine of Saturn Lord of the 11. in the 2. and this must needes signifie victory to the King although the tayle of the Dragon be in the 10th house for that signifies only scandalls falls and some danger by poyson to the King Jupiter Lord of the ascendant retrograde hurts the Parliament more then the King for he oposes the ascendant there are many therefore of the Parliament men who will be for the King against the Parliament The Moone in opposition to the sun both well fortified in angles argues a defection of most of the kingdome from them and their adherance to the King in regard the Moone applyes immediately after her separation to Saturn our freind in the second But Mr. Lilly affirmeth that the King declined in honour even since the appearance of the mock-suns in 1644. and doubtlesse he would have him decline worse still upon the appearance of these new mock-suns but see how ridiculous he makes himselse there is no Artist but knowes that it was the Comet in 1618. and the great conjunction of Saturne and Iupiter and the Eclipse of the Sun in 1639. which brought his Majesty so low And the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Gemini in the 8th house near Oculus Tauri and the Moon Eclipsed in the 7th and the 8th houses in Gemini near the body of Saturne will bring the Parliament lower The figure of the Suns ingresse into Aries for the Meridian of London Here are 3. Shemes wanting the first for the Suns ingresse into Aries 9. Martij the second for the square of Saturne and Jupiter 29 Martij the third for the Conjunction of th Sun and Sarne 16. Maij. hath 26. degrees and 50. minuts of Libra ascending which signe in regard it is moveable causeth that this Scheme shall signifie unto us the actions but of one quarter of this yeare especially there being so few degrees thereof in the Ascendent and this is the unanimous opinion of all the learned in this art although Mr. Lilly thinking it fittest for his purpose would needs perswade us to the contrary and would have it serve for the whole yeare but even reason it selfe would perswade us had the learned bin silent herein that the fag end of a moveable sign ascending there is no great heed or trust to be had to such a figure and yet for this quarter it must direct us viz. Vntill the Sun enrers the signe Cancer For as much as the ascending signe is moveable doubtlesse a great change of humane affaires approacheth concerning the Rites Priviledges Lawes and Customes of this Kingdome si cutera concenserint as here they do Venus is Lady of the asccnding signe but Saturne hath more dignities therein viz. his exaltation and triplicity neither of them have much to do in the Ascendent as the case stands for in regard there are so sew degree of Libra in the ascendent they quickly leave their rule to Mars and then the dominion of the succeeding part of the year is in a manner wholly committed unto Mars not so much because he governs the signe Scorpio intercepted in the ascendent at the time of the vernal-ingres as Mr. Lilly would have it but because he is the principall Planet in most of the lunations and remarkable Aspects happening this year Clandestine practises shall therefore now faile and deeds of Armes be very frequent in many parts of this Kingdome Mr. Lilly cryes peace but to our costs we have and shall find that we shall not enjoy the settled conditon he promiseth this year will not produce it Si Mars fuerit Dominus anni directus et non aspexerit Ascendentem fignificat plurimas combustiones et nocumentum ab ignibus et agritudines quae advenient hominibus causa sangninis et destructionem vegitabilium causa valetudiuis ventorum If Mars be Lord of the year direct and behold not the ascendent it signifies much burnings and hurts by fire many diseases in men caused by peccant blood and destruction of vegitables by the grcatnesse of winds In the Plenilunium preventionall he is in the 11th house in conjunction with Mer. in opposition to the Moone this signifies great enmity amongst freinds Consumption of much treasure his posation in the revelation in the fifth denounceth much Fornication Adultery and Mortality in the Southren parts Saturn in the 8. house signifies much detriment and losse to the place which is subject to that signe he is in tribulation anguish and many contentions Saturn is in porigeo as near the earth as he can be and meets with Mars in Gemini where there are many stars of contrary nature this but not only this was the cause of the wetnesse and coldnesse of the yeare The Parelij also did promise and foreshew the same for Parelius ventos aut pluvias promittit there are also some other reasons in art therefore as you shall heare anon Luna in quartain signo infor tunato erit populu● fortiter obsessus et accident ei carceres et anxietates graves The Moon in the 4th house in an unfortunate sign signifies that the people shall be strongly beseiged and divers shall be imprisoned and great and heavy Calamities shal happen Shee is in this Scheme in Aquary the house of Saturn in conjunction with Venus lady of the eighth house both of them aspected by the late full square of Saturn in the eight the greatest infortune and in the worst of houses but if wee beleive Mr. Lilly be tells us that the Moon is fortunate because conjoyned to Venus but Venus her selfe here is Lady of th house of Death and consequently as bad as any Planet in the figure except Saturn who is locally in that house howsowever she could never take off the malicious in fluence of Saturn who squares them both from the 8. for this is a rule which no Artist will deny si times Saturnum oppone Iovem si Martem oppone Uenerem The truth of the former rule though he denyeth not yet he cruelly taxeth Mr. Wharton for his application of it to the Moon in that figure but the event has answered his prediction cont radicted Mr. Lillyes calumnies and this and his other almost infinite and grosse mistakes this yeare in point of Art will chronicle him a dotard to all posterity Especially this which followes which he stands so stiffly to maintain Venus saith he is Lady of the Ascendant Mars Lord also thereof is in