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A92179	Astrologia accusata pariter & condemnata. Or The diabolical art of judicial astrologie, receiving the definitive sentence of final condemnation: being delivered in this following discourse, where the said art is briefly and manifestly opened, justly arraigned, diligently examined, and experimentally condemned by him, who was a student in the same. / By John Raunce, sometime a practitioner of astrologie, and student in the magick art.	Raunce, John, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing R317; Thomason E618_11; ESTC R206349	30,300	42

yet then even then I would denie Astrologie to be a lawfull Art But now to return again to the aforesaid Position of the Astrologers which is this viz That the Stars are naturall causes of such effects as Astrologers foretell First I will examine this Position and then shall we see whether those events which the Astrologers foretell are caused by the Stars or not Wherfore in the first place we are to know what those Effects are which the Astrologers say are caused by the Stars Now the effects which the Astrologers do affirm are caused by the Stars are these viz The particular events of those things belonging to man which things are by the Astrologers appropriate to the twelve houses of Heaven As for the things whose effects Mr. Lilly his Intro pa. 50. the Astrologers say are caused by the Stars I have mentioned many of them in the second Chapter of this Discourse and therefore I refer you thither for there you have them inserted into a Figure according as they are by the Astrologers appropriate to the twelve Houses Now in this place I am to treat of the Effects of the aforesaid things that is to say whether A question The Answer or not the effects of those things are caused by the Stars To this I answer Negatively and say that the Stars are not the causes of the Effects of those things belonging to man as for example I will instance in these particulars following viz Gauricus warned Henry the second King of France Heydons Defence of Astrologie p. 194. Page 81. not to run at Tilt in the one and fourtieth yeer of his age for that the Stars did then threaten a wound in his Head Paulus tertius warned his Son long before of the very day of his death Mr. Christian an Astrologer of Prague Rants zovi● fol. 97. admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by a Priest that he should beware of eminent Death because that many Planets were conjoyned this yeer and there happeneth an Eclipse likewise of the Moon under the earth notwithstanding the premonition he dyed that yeer 1434. Anno aetatis 49. Also Picus being fore-told by three Astrologers that he should not live above thirty three yeers confirmed the prediction Now that these aforesaid events were fore-told by the said men viz Astrologers I confess But that those men could fore see those events by the Stars or that the Stars were Naturall causes of those events both these things I do deny for these Reasons First then I say that the Stars were not naturall causes of those afore-said Events Because there is a dependence and coherence between the cause and the Effect in Naturall things but in these things there is none For every Effect and Accident doth shew it's Cause So that Naturall and Elementary effects and accidents shew forth Naturall and Elementary Causes Also Metaphysicall or supernaturall Effects and Accidents shew forth Metaphysicall or supernaturall causes Herein the Astrologers are beside the matter and are deceived in their principles for they take Metaphysicall or supernaturall effects and accidents to be effected by Naturall and Elementary causes Now why the Astrologers are here deceived is this viz because they do behold and see many Alterations changes events and accidents effected in mans body Hereupon they do beleeve that the said Alterations changes events and accidents are effected by and from Naturall and Elementary causes because the body of man upon whom the said things are effected is a naturall and elementary substance Wherefore I say that there are many things which the Astrologers affirm to be effected by and from Naturall causes the which Position I do deny and say that those things are not effected by nor from Naturall and Elementary causes But I say that those things are Metaphysicall and supernaturall Effects and Accidents and are effected and accomplished in Naturall and Elementary bodies by a Metaphysicall and supernaturall Cause as I will hereafter in these following examples declare For whereas the Astrologers do impute the Flood Albumazar ca. 3. de Max. conjunc Marcilius Ficinus in his Treatise of the Star that led the Wisemen Spine us in Catastro Mundi which was in the dayes of Noah to a certain great Conjunction of the Planets so in like manner they say of the Birth of Moses Also the coming of Christ and the preaching of the Gospel the promulgation and publication of the Law the sedition of the people their troubles persecutions banishments bloodshed deaths wars these and many other such like things as these are the Astrologers say are fore-shewed by the Stars Now all these things are supernaturall effects that is to say they are such things whose cause is not Naturall but above Nature So then for as much as the cause of these things is a Metaphysicall Agent therefore I denie that the Effects of the aforesaid things can be caused by a Physicall constellation But now I am come to the second thing which is this viz That no man can by the Stars foresee such Effects as is aforesaid Now that no man can by the Stars foresee such events it is very manifest for if all the Star-gazers in the world if they were agazing all together at once on the Stars they are not able to foresee those events in the Stars which events they do not cause That the Stars are not the causes of those events it is the saying of some of your own Authors For saith Spineus that as well the great Conjunctions Spineus as Mo●kstars Comets Eclipses and the like ought not to be called the causes of future events here then you may see that there is so great contradiction between the sayings of the Astrologers and their practises that all Rationall men may behold the Art of Astrologie to be a foolish lying Art and that the Astrologers do profess such an Art whose Rules they are ignorant of For sometimes you shall have them say with Spineus that the Stars are not the causes of Future events but do they alwayes say thus No for if we look upon their Astrologicall Predictions then shall we hear them say the very contrary For whereas they said at one time that the great Conjunctions of the Planets c. are not the causes of future events At another time you shall have them say that the very same Conjunctions do produce great Effects As for example I will instance in the said Spineus who is cited afore Spineus in Catastrophe Mundi whose words are thus in one place of his book viz. That as well the great Conjunctions as Mock-stars Comets Eclipses and the like ought not to be called the causes of Future Events But this very man Spineus writing of a Future Catastrophe to come upon the world in the same book saith thus speaking of the said Catastrophe subversion or end of the world viz that the principall causes are the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the superiour Planets the other

principall causes are Mock-stars changing of the Absis of the Planets Eclipses and the like so likewise the Genitures of Kings Geniturae validae regna mutant Segment 7. Aph. 166. Strong Genitures do change Kingdoms Causes Adjutant are Revolutions the progressions of the greater Orb of great Conjunctions before Noah's Flood the Birth of Christ Mahomet and the like which things being rightly considered may not only enable us to foretell the end of the world but perhaps the time also and a little after the same Author saith again viz Spineus in Catastrophe That seeing therfore the great Conjunctions of the weightier Planets are wont to produce great effects as the changes of Monarchies and Kingdoms the coming of Prophets c. by them also shall the dead be changed and all things shall be renewed and again he saith viz for like as the Causes are so shall the effects be for good Conjunctions are wont to bestow goodness and good Magistrates but evill Conjunctions produce the contrary Thus Spineus who is so much applauded by many Astrologers doth one while say one thing and another while he saith the very contrary to what he said afore as it is to be seen from his own books for one while he saith that the principall causes of that Catastrophe are the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the superiour Planets c. and not long after he saith viz that as well the great conjunctions of the Planets as Mock-stars Comets Eclipses c. ought not to be called the causes of future events what shall I say of such an Art as is Astrologie and of such Artists as are Astrologers As for the Art of Astrologie it is as I have elsewhere said viz a foolish and lying Art But as for the Artists of this Art of Astrologie they are Astrologers of them I say thus much that for as much as some of them would needs be taken for to be Prophets I deny that these Astrologers are any of Gods Prophets But that they are the Devils Prophets I grant for if in their Astrologicall predictions of the particular events of things belonging to Man they at any time do predict or foretell such an event which at the time limited by the Astrologer doth come to pass accordingly yet I say that the said particular event could not before seen by the Astrologer in it's cause without the help of a Spirit That this Position is according to your Art Centiloqui Ptol. Aph. 1. I prove by your own Authors for your great Master in Astrologie Ptolomie saith Soli autem numine afflati praedicunt particularia that is none but those inspired with a Daemon foretell particulars Marcilius Eicinus in li. 3. here also I will bring another great Artist who speaking of Astrologicall Predictions saith thus of them viz That such predictions stand not by Learning but by some instinct Wherefore it is apparent from what these two great Astrologers have said that he who doth foretell the particular events of things in Astrologicall predictions doth not foretell those events from the Positians and Qualities of the Stars But by being inspired with a Daemon or by having familiarity with some Spirit Again here I bring another great Astrologicall Author Cor Agrippa who saith Agrippade occulta Philosophia lib. 3. Astrologomania that Magick and Astrologie cannot be separated for saith Agrippa there is such affinity and agreement between these two Arts viz Astrologie and Magick That as Magick cannot be performed without Astrologie so Astrologie cannot have it's end and perfection without Magick So then the differences is not much whether we call these predictions Magicall or Astrologicall predictions Now here it is objected viz Objection Solution that the Astrologer may stay himself in his Figure and proceed no further To this I answer That for as much as the Knowledge of a particular event cannot be known without the help of a Spirit therefore I say that the difference is not great in whatsoever degree he proceedeth so he proceedeth at all with the devill in his illusions So that if he come to the knowledge of a particular event whether it be by conference or by some other means then he doth proceed with the devil in his illusions for we are herein certified that this thing cannot be done by any lawfull Art and Learning but by the help of a Spirit take that help which way you will it is diabolicall For that judiciall Astrologie either hath been or may be altogether separated from Magick this the Astrolegers can never prove if they can then let us see them do it But it is again objected by the Astrologers as followeth viz The great Objection of Astrologers That those events which the Astrologers do Predict and foretell many of those events do fall out to be as the Astrologer fore-told therefore the Art of Astrologie is usefull and profitable in the life of man To this I answer thus That to come to the knowledge of any thing by unlawfull means Answer Vide Epist de T. Vicars Deut. 13.1 does not make the practise warrantable For suppose that their predictions fall out to be as they foretold yet this makes the Astrologer never a whit the more to be believed nor his Art to be ever a jot the more lawfull as it is plain in the 13. Chap. of Deut. verse 1. If there arise amongst you a Prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a signe or a wonder And the signe or wonder come to passe yet shalt thou not hearken unto him for the Lord your God proveth you c. Again the devill in Samuels shape 1 Sam. 28.11 being conjured up by the Witch did foretell unto Saul those things which were true and as the devill had predicted the prediction proved true by the event which fell out to be as the devill had said as you may see for said the divell 1 Sam. 28.19 unto Saul 1 Sam. 28.19 Chap. 31.6 And to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me and the Lord shall give the host of Israel into the hands of the Philistines 1 Sam. 31.6 Which thing was according to the devils prediction for in the 1 Sam. 31.6 you shall finde these words viz So Saul died and his three sons and his armour-bearer and all his men that same day together Moreover we find in the Acts of the Apostles that the Pythoniss there did give a true testimony of the Apostles of Jesus Christ thus we may see that the devill telleth truth sometimes and yet he is still the father of lyes Now here you may plainly see that the devils can foretell what shall be the events of some things so then it being so that God is sometimes pleased to permit unto the devils the foreknowledge of some things and that the said devils do many times declare the future events of things as is aforesaid Therefore I say for this cause we are not to think

Astrologia accusata pariter Condemnata OR THE DIABOLICAL ART OF Judicial Astrologie RECEIVING THE DEFINITIVE SENTENCE OF FINAL CONDEMNATION BEING Delivered in this following Discourse where the said Art is briefly and manifestly opened justly arraigned diligently examined and experimentally condemned by him who was a Student in the same Omnis planta quam non plantavit Pater ille meus coelestis eradicabitur Matth. 15.13 By JOHN RAUNCE Sometime a practitioner of Astrologie and Student in the Magick Art LONDON Printed by J. Clowes for W. Learner at the Blackmore in Bishopsgate-streete 1650. The Preface to the Reader READER MY desire is in this short Treatise to disclose a part of my mind unto thee concerning Judicial Astrology and if it might be to perswade thee not to spend thy short and precious time in the study and practice of this abominable Art for I have been a Student in this very Art against which I now write also I was not quiet nor at peace in my mind until such time as I had seen all the secrets of the same Now the time being come in which I had attained unto my hearts desire then did I blindly rejoyce in my condition and thought with my self that I had now gotten the knowledge of that which would for ever make me wise thus having attained unto my Hearts desire and being in my youthful Age I here with-held no knowledge from my self which might seem to give my mind content So I mounting from degree to degree upon the slippery scale of curiosity at length I came to the height of uncertain principles which when I was thus high gone yet here found no resting place wherefore I beholding that there was more then I yet understood then did I here seek for the knowledge of those things also the knowledge of which things was not from me with-held Now I having gone to the ground of Astrology I could then dispute of the events of things c. Loe here I did vainly glory in my self as if that by the greatness of my Art and the quickness of my ingenuity made a Conquest of Plutoes Dominion But this vain conceit of mine did not continue long for when I was in the prime of my practice the Lord God from Heaven confounded my wisdom and destroyed all my Babylonian skill Now my Reader it may be here thou dost expect the story of my conversion from my diabolical practises but I shall say very little of that at this time for all that I shall declare of it at present is only thus viz. when I was in rhe prime of my diabolical ways one day I being in my study very earnest in searching out the cause of future events at this very time when I thought my self to be at peace and in a happy condition then came the Lord God in a terrible voice into my heart and wheresoever I became for many days after I continually heard this most doleful sound in my mind viz. After all such things only wicked men seek And as I heard this voice sounding in my heart so also I had my Conscience accusing me that I was one of those wicked men because I did spend my precious time in searching out the cause of those things which no man can attain unto but by diabolical Learning Wherefore my Reader it is not without cause that I have taken upon me to declare the vileness of Astrological Predictions For if I am raised up by the Lord God to be an Instrument to gain-say and withstand the Art of Astrology then assuredly I shall be able to stand before the faces of the Astrologers to witness that which here I have delivered Moreover I say unto all persons whatsoever before whom this Book of mine shall come how that I have not gone rashly nor inconsiderately to work in that I have taken in hand to declare against that wicked Art of Judicial Astrology Also I say I would them to know that I have set my self down seriously to consider what it would cost me at the highest price which if the worst come I know what I have to do And as for the scoffs and jeeres of all my Antagonists or any other whatsoever I say their scoffing and jeering is no more to me then the dirt that doth hang on my shoes which dirt at my pleasure I can shake off when and where I please Now if any man be unsatisfied in what I have here written against the said Art of Judicial Astrology because I do deny the said Art to be lawful Therefore I say unto all such men that if they can prove Astrology a lawful Art by sounder and better Arguments grounded upon the Scripture and reason then it is here or can elsewhere by me be denyed then am I willing to submit and so for the present farewell JOHN RAUNCE Of the Burrough of Chipping Wickham in the County of Buckingham From my Study November 8. 1650 The Prological Oration of the Authour to all Practitioners of Astrology and unto all other Persons whatsoever that are lovers of the same BEhold you vain Astrologers who gazing on the Sky Search out the motions of the Stars for to Divine thereby Of the particular events and ends of things which are Known by the name of contingents which no Art can declare Whose Rules are only natural and are contain'd within The bounds of learning liberal which is without all sin Where will you then a resting place for this vain Art out find That so it may not have disgrace being numbred with the kind Of wicked and ungodly Arts which are both vain and ill And doth reside in rotten hearts for to fulfill their will For all such men as do profess and folkes which seek this skill All such the Devil doth possess made Captives at his will When born their Child then suddenly the hour must be sought And so they think to know thereby It 's fortune good or naught Or if on them doth fall some losse contrary to their will Then from some Planet came that crosse who was not good but ill Also if God on them doth lay for sin some sore Disease Then presently they send away to Ekrons God for ease Or if they fear their time is nigh Astrologers they send To know if then they needs must dye and may not more amend Even as King Ahaziah who when on his bed did lie To Baal-zebub said he now go and ask when I shall dye And now then my own Countrymen my councel see you take Consider what your Art is then and from your sin awake Let no man say I here dispute contrary to my mind As if I here were destitute and this way would it find For I my self have sometime been a Student in this skill All secrets in it I have seen to satisfie my will Now to the Lord be all the praise who of his own free grace Hath brought me from my wicked ways and set me in this place That so I should

the causes of those strange alterations here upon earth in the Bodies of Men and Woemen according as the Astrologers say the 12. Houses of the Heaven do signifie Now what those significations are is elsewhere by me set forth in a Figure See Chap. 2. of this Discourse and there you may find many of those things belonging to man which the Astrologers do appropriate unto the 12. Houses and withall the Astrologers do say that these 12. Houses do give signification of the particular events of the said things and also of many others which are not there by me mentioned But once again I give all men to know how that I do here again deny that any Man can know the issue event or end of any of the things a fore by me set down in the second Chapter of this Discourse in the Figure of the Astrologers 12. Houses I say that no man can by any lawful learning attain to so much knowledge therein as thereby to know the events of the aforesaid things but that some-what may be known of the particular events of those things by unlawful and filthy Arts I do not deny 1 Sam. 28. c. 7. v. c. 31. v. 6. for we find that the Witch at Endor did predict and foretel to King Saul that which afterwards fell out to be as the Witch had said What cause now then have our Astrologert to brag so much of their Predictions because the event is as they foretold I say they have no just cause to rejoyce so much as they do seeing a wicked Witch is able to do as much Again their art is such that they are not able to prove lawful according to the Scripture and therefore it doth appear to be nothing better then an art of learned Witch-craft Daemonologiae Lib. 1. cap. 3. according to which position is the saying of the late King James whose judgement is this viz. as there are two sorts of folks that may be inticed to this a●● to wit Learned or un-learned so are there two meanes which are the first stirrers up and feeders of their curiosity thereby to make them to give themselves over to the same which two means I call the Devils School and the Devils Rudiments The Learned have their curiosity wakened up and fed by that which I call his School Judicial Astrologie is the Devils School for Learned men to learn orcery in This is the art of Judicial Astrologie for divers men having attained to a great perfection in learning and yet remain without the spirit of Regeneration and the fruits thereof finding all natural things common as well to the Countrey Clown as unto them hereupon they assay to purchase unto themselves a greater name by not only knowing the course of the Heavens Stars and Planets but likewise to climb to the knowledge of things to come thereby which at the first face appearing lawful unto them in respect the ground thereof seemeth to proceed of natural causes only they are so allured thereby that finding their practise to prove true in sundry things they study to the cause thereof And so mounting from degree to degree upon the slipperie and uncertain scale of curiositie they are at last intised that where lawfull Arts and Sciences fails to satisfie their restless minds even to stick to that black and unlawfull Science of Magick Where finding at the first that such divers forms of Circles and Conjurations rightly joyned thereunto will raise such divers forms of spirits to resolve them their doubts and attributing the doing to the power inseparably tyed or inherent in the Circles and many words of GOD confusedly wrapped they blindly glory in themselves as if they had by their quickness of ingeny made a Conquest of Plutoes Dominion and were become Emperors of the kingdome of Hell where in the mean time miserable wretches they are become in very deed bond-slaves to their mortall enemy viz the devil and their knowledge for all that they presume thereof is nothing increased except in knowing evil and the horrors of hell for the punishment thereof as Adam was for eating of the forbidden Tree I will here end with that saying of Saint Augustine who saith August de doc Christ lib. 2. cap. 23. that the running to these Wisemen is Genus quoddam fornicationis A spirituall kinde of fornication For all such as run after this Art or seek to those which practise the same I say they go from God and run after the Devil a whoring CHAP. IIII. The Positions and Arguments which the Astrologers use and bring for to warrant the legality of their Art of Astrologie examined condemned and overthrown Also their Objections opened controverted and Answered according to Reason HEre I am to Dispute of the Positions and Arguments which the Astrologers make use of to warrant their Art of Astrologie by but if the said Positions and Arguments are warily considered it will appear that they have nothing in them to prove the lawfulnesse of Astrologicall Predictions Of which Positions this is the greatest and strongest and the said Position is this Sir Christo Heydon viz That the Stars are naturall causes of such effects as Astrologers foretell From this Position the Astrologers frame many Arguments to prove Astrologie a lawfull Art for upon this very one Position doth rest and depend that great Discourse of Sir Christopher Heydon which he made in the Defence of Astrologie So that if I can but remove this Prop you shall see Sir Christopher's Defence of Astrologie drop down to the ground and so with it all our English Astrologers and their Art of Judiciall Astrologie for our Astrologers if a man questioneth the lawfulnesse of Astrologie with them they are then at stand what to say and have not any other way to resolve him that maketh a doubt of the said Arts legality But to send him to Sir Christopher Heydons Defence of Astrologie and thus these idle Drones which are not able to prove the legalitie of that Art which they daily practise are glad with all their hearts to run and hide themselves under Sir Christopher's protection as in a Mouse-hole for fear they should be catched in their own Arguments for it Come out of your selves you idle Drones and prove your Art of Astrologie a good true and lawfull Art if you can For if you are not able to prove the legalitie of Astrologie by sound and substantiall Arguments then for shame give off your practising of such an Art which you cannot prove lawfull and honest and think not with your selves that seeing we are not able to prove Astrologie a lawfull and honest Art yet we have on our side Sir Christopher Heydon and Doctor Gell and they shall prove it for us I give you to understand I will not be so satisfied for I say unto you Astrologers that if Sir Christopher Heydon and Dr Gell and all the Friends Astrologie hath I say if I were before their faces all at once