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A35570
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The angelical guide shewing men and women their lott or chance in this elementary life, in four books ... / by John Case.
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Case, John, fl. 1680-1700.
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1697
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Wing C818; ESTC R24255
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Trouble c. the Scripture tells you so The fifth Meeting of ♄ and ♃ Under this came our Saviour Christ who is greater than great Solomon Mat. 12. 42. He is the Prince of Peace This was a little more than 4000 years of the World The sixth Meeting of ♄ and ♃ Falls in the year of the World 4800 that brought in Charles the Great under whom was the Roman Empire in the time of Leo III. being Pope who prostituted his Keys to the Emperor's Feet for which the Popish People pull'd out his Eyes and cut off his Tongue Read the History Prideaux's Introduct p. 96. The seventh Meeting of ♄ and ♃ There are a parcel of irrational Animals which speak very scandalously against Predictions they say That we can speak nothing true of things to come unless told of it before or when they are past Now let the World judge and speak as they find in the Year 1682 I then published a Book Entituled Speculum Mundi in which are now to be seen the very Actions of these great Revolutions It being then my chief intention to discover to the World those great things Providence was probably likely to bring to pass from the Influences of the Meeting of the two great and superiour Beings the two Rulers of the World viz. ♄ and ♃ and likewise from the great Eclipses of the ☽ in Anno 1684 such an Eclipse hath not been these hundred Years and at that present time so many Planets in the House of Religion Then in pag. 2 you will find I cryed out with Admiration and Astonishment with the words of Dionysius Areopagita who seeing the strange Eclipses of the ☉ and ☽ at the very hour of our Saviour's Passion saying Aut Deus Naturae patitur aut Mundi machina dissolvitur Which is either the God of Nature suffers or the Frame of this World is dissolved So in pag. 4. I delivered my Judgment that here would be great Alterations in most parts of Europe of Laws Customs Constitutions of People in Matters of Religion and Changing of Kings and Kingly Government And is not this all true Were not the Popish Principles the root or cause of these Mutations and Changes And did not a Prince come from Holland with a handful of Men comparatively to that brave Army of K. James's And when this handful of Men came towards them they all fled as the Chaff before the Wind and to Admiration K. James himself fled to France when none perswaded him from his three Kingdoms and then soon after the Prince of Orange was Crowned King of England O that such things should be done without a drop of Bloodshed Surely Reader this is from the Powers above and the Powers above gave us a foresight of it by the Rulers ♄ and ♃ This hath been so admirable that our Athenians have taken notice of in their Book in asking a Question Whether a small irrational Creature as a Spider had not a Heart Because when Death or Oppression comes it struggles and makes a bustle to save its self intimating that K. James neither strove nor struggled to save his three Kingdoms or Credit This was a Comical Joke on the poor Abdicated K. James Observe the following things After the Death of K. Charles the Popish Party began to Rule and quickly after suppress'd and cut off the Head of the Duke of Monmouth then the Prince and Princess of Orange was Crowned King and Queen of England and not long after Queen Mary dyed with a long and tedious War of nine Years standing so this Revolution is a wonder to human Reason the Circumstances whereof would fill a large Volume As for the small Conjunctions I leave to the Astrologers which happen once in 20 Years CHAP. VII The Stars are reckon'd a Form of Letters according to the Opinion of the Hebrews and that it 's possible to read there whatsoever is to happen throughout the whole Universe REader did you never take notice of the Celestial Writing seeing that the Scripture so plainly speaks of it Pray take notice of this curious piece of Antiquity Seeing that the Heavens are Books and at the last day they are to be rolled together as a Book or Rolls therefore they must have Letters And I am willing to give you the method of the ways of the Old Hebrews who searched after the Heavenly Writing for News And for confirmation of this observe a Book Entituled Narratio Joseph in his time highly in esteem amongst all Men wherein the Patriarch Jacob gave his Blessing to all his Children telling them That he had read in the Tables of the Heavens all that ever was to befall them and their Posterity Legi saith he in Tabulis Coeli quaecunque contingent vobis filiis vestris Where the same Original concludes as well in this Tract as in this Question Utrum Stellae aliquid Agant as in his Book De Facto chap. 6. That the greatest Mysteries may assuredly be read in the Heavens by reason that the Stars are disposed and ordered there in the Form of Characters Nay John Damascene says That they are CLEAR MIRROURS intimating that we may see distinctly see there even as far as to the most secret motions of our Souls which was the Saying of St. Augustine For my part I shall not question the Truth of it but proceed to the Practical Part as the Hebrews did in their Hebrew Characters This Holy Language being the first in the World and sometimes there are New Stars which take their Method thus As for Example in this Word AKE if one add an L it will be no longer AKE but LAKE or if in the middle of a Word or this Word as thus an R it will alter the Word and make it ARKE so that we see one Letter as an L or an R absolutely change the whole sence in the same manner is it with the Stars where the New Stars are added varieth both in the Writing and Sence CHAP. VIII The Celestial Writing of the Ancients and how those Hebrew Characters may be understood and what they portend TO perfectly understand this Celestial Writing we must observe the Vertical Stars for those which are over a Kingdom saith Abindan do shew whatever is like to befall it and as the Astrologers observe in this our time Now saith the Author of this Celestial Writing We know that these Mutations shall happen on the Earth because we see they are written in the Heavens And this is the reason that R. Chomer affirms that the aforesaid Medusa's Head or the Stars that compose it did foretell the lamentable Desolation of Greece because that five of the principal Stars did for a good while together make up this Word Which is in the Conjugation Charab Second signifying to be Desolate understanding particularly this of Greece over which these Stars did shine because that the number of its Letters which are Jod Vau Nun and which being put together make up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉