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A45203	Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	Hunt, William, lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3762; ESTC R7694	25,280	47

Astrologically we have had Saturn annoying us by his Presence all last Summer and Mars this Winter and just at the Solar Ingress into our Northern Tropick ♃ and ♂ are in ☌ in ♍ a Sign and Position by Observation and Experience noted for Sickness Where was Saturn when the last devouring Plague raged in London Was he not in Capricorn the same place wherein he now is which Distemper was agitated and stirred up by the ☍ ♃ ♂ To be brief I have too many Reasons both Astrological and Philosophical to fear a blasting and pestilential Season which will if not prevented by the Almighty produce a Pestilence and Scarcity in most of our European Countries who are already under one of God's Scourges viz. the devouring Sword But in the day of God's Anger when that he resolves to pour forth his Vengeance and join to the Sword Pestilence and Famine who can stand before him He hath been pleased like a kind Father to correct us at first gently to see and try if we would repent and amend our Ways but when he finds that will not do he then corrects us with more Severity I pray God I be not a true Prophet but that we may with the Ninevites avert his Judgments which hover over our Heads with true Repentance and Prayer And now tho contrary to my intended Method I shall consider what Countries will be most passive this next Summer Jupiter is the Planet Passive who is afflicted by ♂ in ♍ and Saturn strong in ♑ being the Significator of the Turks shews their Strength ♃ being afflicted shews the Weakness of the Christians viz. of the Emperor and K. Lewis for Jupiter in ♍ conjoined to ♂ is the Significator of the French Government Mars is our England's Defender viz. the Heroick and unparallel'd in Valour K. William who afflicts Jupiter in the very Bowels of France for France is generally known to be under the Sign Virgo who like a dying Cock is resolved to strike the sparring Blow if possible and in order to it musters up all her Force and Strength but missing her Aim she falls flat down and expires Certainly France is driven to her last Shifts when that she hath no other way to rid her self of her Mortal Enemy than to invent and contrive so horrid and devilish a Design contrary to the Law of God Nature or War viz. the Assassination of his Majesty K. William certainly every honest Man can't but hate the thing Surely it 's enough to make the Jacobites themselves which have any spark of Honesty in them to hate and abhor the Contrivers of so black and detestable Practices and come over to K. William But be it as it will his Sword will decide the Controversy and make him more Friends this Summer than ever who will be forced to sneak to him for shelter for he is born to be a Shield to the Reformed Religion What can any Protestant Jacobites propose to themselves or expect to gain by a French Power but Popery and Slavery if they should have attained their Ends but before that could have been effected the Nation must have been ruined by a Civil War For let me reason with them thus Suppose they had made an Insurrection and Invasion and that Hellish Project of theirs and the French King's had taken effect viz. the Assassination of our King which God out of his Mercy hath and I hope will prevent I say suppose they had brought in a French Army yet we see that the Confederates had Eyes over them and in kindness to us and our King was resolved to land an Army to assist us the Duke of Wirtemberg having twenty thousand Men ready to land and assist our King or Us if he had been so unfortunate as to have lost his Life by those barbarous and wicked Men I say we should not have been left to be devoured by the French but before the Disorders had been settled and that we could have crowned the next Successor the Nation might have been ruined no body considering the Miseries of a Civil War but those that groan under it Have we already forgot the Civil War in Oliver's Days We have now a King who ventures his All to make us happy who stands himself between Danger and Us who crosses the Seas to defend our Lives Liberties and Religion And yet we are so ungrateful to him and unkind to our selves as not to assist him to our Powers Had we a King who minded nothing but Luxury and Ease and cared not what became of his Subjects we might well grumble or had we a King who like the Stork in the Fable devoured us and our Liberties we might then justly complain and Self-preservation would be a great Temptation to make us rebel But contrarily we have an Hero who undergoes all Perils to make us easy and happy Therefore be so kind to your selves and Native Country as to stand by and defend your King against his Enemies and instead of bringing in the Sword amongst us let us unanimously join and carry it into the Bowels of France I say let us share in the Honour thereof for if I ben't mistaken she will be afflicted with War Pestilence and Famine this Year 1696. Scarcity and Sickness will be our Visitants in England I hope no Civil War but if it be it will be to the Cost of the Jacobites let them begin as soon as they will King William is born to bring down the Power of the French King and I believe this Campagn will end the Controversy and we shall not be long e're we enjoy the long-wish'd for Honourable Peace But yet I fear the Emperor loseth Ground with the Turks Many will be the Calamities which will afflict Europe this Year which undergoes several Catastrophes let Time demonstrate Howsoever I am certain the French War is almost at an End and the fatal Blow will be struck this Summer and so shall end this Chapter CHAP. III. IN this Chapter I shall consider of the Causes Symptoms and Cure of this Sickness or Pestilence so often hinted at in the foregoing Chapters which if it should happen in England which God divert our Physicians especially the Astrologians may prepare Antidotes and preventative Remedies as being the fittest Men to cure as well as prevent all Distempers especially those which have their dependance upon the Season and Stars who by their Nitro-sulphurious and poisonous Rays infect our Air whereby our Bodies by breathing and sucking in that Air c. whereof I said something in the last Chapter do become corruptive and tending to Putrefaction For how many Souls have perished for Want of the Physicians Knowledg of the true Nature of the Disease which alters according to the Nature of the Afflicting Planets c. for every Year brings with it a new Distemper not known to the Drug-Doctor until he hath found it out by Experience which costs the Lives of perhaps half a hundred of his languishing Patients While the Astrologian sees the true Cause and Nature of the Distemper before it comes and can if desired prevent the Malady if not destined by the Almighty to Destruction The Places chiefly menaced by the Stars are France Germany Hungary Spain England and Flanders and especially in the French Camp in Flanders The Symptoms and Nature of the Distemper 't is hard to define but may be guest at by the afflicting Planets c. Which are both Saturn in Capricorn and Mars afflicting Jupiter in Virgo Saturn in Capricorn afflicts the Head with Diseases proceeding from Melancholy which will produce Madness Ravings Frenzies beginning with great Pain and Heaviness also Pains and Weariness in the Joints Knees and Sinews c. Secondly Jupiter afflicting Mars in Virgo and Luna at the Solar Ingress in Opposition to them denotes Melancholy to have Dominion causing stoppages of the Liver Cardiaca Passio great pain in the Sinews and Joints and all over the Body and the Bowels are afflicted from a cold Cause Cholick Gripings of the Guts with tough and thick Flegm falling upon the Throat and Lungs causing troublesome Coughs And if we be so happy to escape in England from a Pestilence yet I am certain that we shall have a new malignant Distemper and the Symptoms will be partly as I have before described The Method to prevent or cure this hovering Malady is as followeth viz. we must have respect to the afflicting Planets and see how they are dignified Mars being the chief afflicting Planet and not very strong we may oppose him by Antipathy with Herbs of Venus but Saturn being strong and beholding Jupiter and Mars with a friendly Trine we must sympathize with him and make use of his Herbs in the Cure Also we must in all Pestilential Distempers make use of a certain number of Solar Herbs which have a principal Virtue to strengthen the Heart and Vital Spirit So that you must have recourse to the Herbs of Saturn the Sun and Venus being gathered according to their Planetary Strength and Vertue respect being had to their Number and Proportion in the Composition Verbum sat ☞ It 's also requisite to open the Obstructions of the Liver and Breast and to clear the Body of Melancholy this Spring by purging Medicines composed of the aforesaid Herbs c. And so shall I conclude this Embrio of Astrological Influence designing to be more large and particular in my next in the mean time farewel FINIS Errat Pag. 14. lin 24. for Faces read Phases