charactered 83 c. why reckoned from Aries and not placed in the Heavens according to the order of the four Elements 85 A time to learn to Sing 196 Sinister Aspect what it is its nature 93 A time for buying of small Cattel 173 of taming of them 174 A time for making sweet Smels 150 A time for administring Sneezings 165 Snow what it is 304 Southern Inhabitants why quickwitted 15 A time for ridding houses of Spirits 151 A time to purge the Spleen 168 Spring-time the cause thereof 9 11 Square Aspect its Nature why so called and charactered why malevolent 92 Standard-bearers their significators 220 Stars portencies what * 4 cause of sterility and fertility proved by the Word of GOD 5 most effectual and never perverted but by miracle * 4 both Signs and Causes warranted by the word of GOD 35 influence proved 3 6 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 maintained by sacred writ in spite of its Antagonists 23 31 and 33 The Annual motion of the Starry-sphere 7 10 Stationary what 110 Sterility and fertility on what they depend 10 how to judge thereof in any Year 284 A time for Storming Castles and Towns 182 To know the Strength of any Planet in any Sign 66 A time for Studying divine matters or ought else 141 Summer the cause thereof 9 11 why not alike hot every Year 9 what Physick is therein most safe to be taken 166 Sun his Influence proved 10 18 his nature complexion magnitude distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of men 56 Corporature Savours Colours Part in man Hearbs Spice Trees Birds Stones 57 Minerals Fishes Beasts Weather Places Winds Sign Triplicity Exaltation Fall Detriment Age Angel Friends Enemies 58 Day of the week Regions Orb Moneth after conception Years Diseases 59 Significations when Lord of the Year 235 in any of the twelve Houses 241 his Presence or Absence not alone the cause of heat or cold 9 Mock-Suns the reason thereof 303 under the Sunbeams what 111 Superiour what ibid. T. Tables of the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the most notable fixed Stars in every Sign from 94 to 105 of the Essential dignities of the Planets according to Ptolomy or rather an unknown Author 95 of their fortitude and debilities 66 c. of the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets and Elections thereby 129 of the mansions of the Moon 130 A time for Taming small Cattel 174 Taurus its Nature Quality Corporature 86 Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 87 why ruled by Venus 68 why the Exaltation of the Moon 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 95 Term what it is wherefore so called and why so attributed to the Planets 71 their use 72 Terms of Art explained 110 c. A time for apprehending Thieves 184 to make them confess truth 185 Third book its subject * 2 Thirds how many in a second 79 Thunder what it is 304 A time for Tilling the ground 148 A time to cut Timber to keep long 12 What Time is best to use Physick 166 Phlebotomie 170 A Time for all things under the Sun 145 A convenient time to set Children to a Trade 132 Tradition in some kind censured * 3 * 6 Translation what 111 Translation of light among the Planets and what is thereby portended in Revolutions 279 A time for planting of Trees 150 Trine aspect its Nature why so called and charactered 93 why good and benevolent 92 93 Triplicity what it is how many how nominated by what Planet ruled and wherefore 70 Tydes not so apparent in the Atlantick Sea as in others and why in some places they are hindred 11 V. Venereal sports a time for them 178 A time for applying Ventosies 170 Venus her Nature Complexion Magnitude Distance from the Earth mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Quality of men 58 Coporature Part of man Beasts Hearbs Spice Trees Perfumes Birds Stones Mineral Fishes Weather Winds Places Signs Triplicity Day of the week Regions Years Diseases ruled by her her Age Angel Exaltation Fall Detriment Enemy Friends 60 her joy 75 why so called and charactered 77 is sometimes a malevolent and interficient Planet 124 216 Significations when Lady of the Year 235 in the twelve Houses 243 in the twelve Signs from 261 to 263 when Lady of an Eclipse 314 How to order the matter for Victory 179 How to judge of Victory in any year 282 When to prune and cut Vines 12 Virgo its Nature Quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part of man under its rule 88 why ruled by Meâ—cury 68 why his exaltation and fall of Venus 69 the Number Names Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 99 Vertue of Hearbs Stones Minerals Drugs and other Medicinal things how found out 280 Vnfortunate Planets 127 A time for making of Vnguents 158 A time for Voyaging 195 Void of Course what 111 W. A time for War 179 to judge of the event 181 how to judge of it in any year where and when it shall happe 281 who shall be the beginner thereof 283 A time to bring Water to an House by pipe or otherwaies 148 A time for Weaning of Children 133 Weather how to judge of it from 288 to 303 A time for digging of Wells 148 How to know the Whisperings of any two 185 Will of any one if to be altered or stand in force and how to judge of the state thereof 189 How to Win at any game 186 Wind what it is 304 Winter the cause thereof 9 11 why not all alike cold 9 what physick is therein best to be taken 166 Women their significators general 220 their Darling toys described * 19 Word of God the chiefest Good * 22 World how governed by GOD since he finished his six days work * 5.4 ruled by Planets 328 the vanity thereof in general * 7 its description and vanity more particularly from * 14 to * 19 turned topfie turvy * 17 Writing of Letters a time therefore 158 Y. Year whether likely to be turbulent or obnoxious 278 plentiful or scarce 284 Greater Years of the Planets how known 71 Youth and its vanity and folly described * 9 * 10 From my Study at my Fathers House in Holborn within two doors of the wounded Heart near the Kings Gate this 17 of January 1652. FINIS Reader AS in all Volumes you shall finde the Printers faults so in this by reason it is a work wherewith they are unacquainted mayest thou abundantly finde their failings which I would intreat thee candidly to pass by and amend with thy pen before thou adventurest to read the same especially or that some are so gross and absurd they may otherwise lead thee into an errour unless thou art well acquainted with this manner of learning I have put the fault all along according as it should be amended in a different letter
all my days in and about this City of London save only the time I was in Scotland I am not familiarly acquainted with three people in all England for such is my disposition that I had rather be a stranger in the Land of my Nativity in this perverse and rebellious Age and to the generality of men living therein then to my self and my own conscience the which so long as I may freely enjoy I shall never repine but be ever content with what condition loss or change soever God hath farther in his Wisdom and Providence decreed for me to whom for eternal protection I shall here commend thee and remain Die ☿ 19. Januarii 1652. Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey On his Ever Honoured and most Ingenious Friend the unparalleld AUTHOR WHy wert not thou produced in those Days In which Philosophers did wear the Bays Learning and Art in this Age are beat down Learning of old was had in great renown In Syria Greece and Babylonia A rabia Persia Lacedemonia ' Mongst the Caldeans also and Assyrians REnown'd Egyptians and Sydonians And Indians with our Neighbours of France Much honoured it and still did it advance Each then in vertue striving to exceed So vertuous were they Now in our need Even when it was almost forgotten quite You were brought forth to bring it unto light W. D. Iatromathematicus On this incomparable Work and my worthy Friend the Ingenious AUTHOR VVHat shall I of these learned Labours write Or of the Author what shall I indite Come all ye Gods assist this pen of mine Come all ye Sisters come ye Muses Nine Lend here your help and let now all men know If they in Mysteries desire to grow Here they the Treasure of the East may finde And Natural hidden causes to their minde How by the vertue of the glorious Stars Health Sickness Plenty Scarcity Peace Wars Are brought to pass in their due time and all Things that are done in this World great and small And that God worketh not prepostrously As some men strangely have maintaind but by Order and Nature he brings all to pass Which we may clearly see as in a glass Could we but read the volumes of the Skie As here the Author clears it to the eye Of every notion whose elaborate pains Be recompensed with immortal gains And when he shall be taken from this place Let him be fixt amongst the Stars to grace Those Heavenly bodies and those Lamps of Light For he hath made them glorious in our sight I. W. Vpon the Authors Elaborate Pains in these his Labours VVHO in his Writings seeks all men to please Is not unlike the Merchant on the Seas Meeting with rocks winds pyrates shelves and sands Yet boldly ventures ere at home he lands His Ship full fraught returned safe and sound Discharg'd of Wealth wherewith she did abound He sits him still and lives at quiet ease Thinks the Land better then the boystrous Seas Even so our Friend in these ungratefull times Hath brought home learning bred in Forraign Clymes Is sure to meet with Find-Faults for his pains When he seeks nought but profit to their brains And pleasure all men Dolts do ever pine When they see Learning live and Vertue shine All Ages Sorts of men and Learned Schools Have honour'd this rare Science save some Fools Who neither know nay will not understand Unto what purpose God hath given command To the great Lights of Heaven Planets and Stars To shew their power on these Inferiours I envy none yet hee 's no Friend of mine Who having Pearl's will cast them unto Swine The Commonwealth of Learning cannot flourish If she instead of True-born Bastards nourish Some say those things are best which are in common But in these speculations there is no man Will so adjudge For an illiterate head But only taught to spell perhaps to read His mother Tongue high Secrets to expound Mis-leading others runs himself on ground But as our Merchant in some Forraign soyl Hath got a precious Jewel by his toyl And industry hoping thereby to raise His Fortunes brings it home which he doth praise Unto his Friends It they much magnifie And some choice person doth his Jewel Buy And much esteem it So this Far-fetcht piece Of Heavenly Science will the Golden Fleece Even much resemble Th' Author honoured be As Jason was to all Posterity I. B. The Contents of the First BOOK CHAP. I. PRoving Astrology to be one of the Liberal Sciences Fol. 1. CHAP. II. That Astrology and Astronomie are one and the same Science and that they were ever so received by the Ancients Fol. 3. CHAP. III. Shewing the excellency and nobility of the Science of Astrology as also its antiquity and the admirable power and vertues of the Heavens Fol. 4. CHAP. IV. That the Stars and Heavens have influence on inferiour and elementary bodies proved by Scripture or the Word of God and acknowledged by the Philosophers and the learned in former Ages Fol. 5. CHAP. V. Shewing that observation may be made of the motions of the Stars in answer to those that hold it impossible for any man in his days to observe the particular configurations of every Planet with the fixed stars and with one another as also that thereby we may discern their Influences if we have any capacity Fol. 7. CHAP. VI. That the variation of the Heavens from their places wherein they were in Ptolomies time or at the first Creation causeth no Errour in Astrological judgements Fol. 8. CHAP. VII Shewing the powerfull influence of the Stars and Planets and how far we are to have regard to the fixed stars Fol. 10. CHAP. VIII Shewing further the influence of the Heavens on inferiour and elementary bodies Fol. 14. CHAP. IX Shewing that the influences of the Heavens and predominancy of the stars in every climate is the cause of the several Laws and Customs of the people therein Fol. 16. CHAP. X. Containing the resolution of the main objections against this Divine Science Fol. 18. CHAP. XI Containing an Introduction to the vindication of my Lux Veritatis from the aspersions of Dr. Homes and his second with the first reason why I accounted him not worthy of my notice Fol. 23. CHAP. XII Comprehending three reasons more why that rabble of theirs was not worthy answering as to every quirk Fol. 24. CHAP. XIII Containing the Authors fourth reason and a vindication of both him and his Lux Veritatis from some of their abuses and untruths and their juglings and evasions manifested Fol. 26. CHAP. XIV Containing the Authors fifth Reason and the Scripture proofs alledged for Astrology in his Lux Veritatis proved to remain unshaken Fol. 30. CHAP. XV. Shewing that the Text in the 19. Psal ver 3. alledged by the Author to prove the Stars have influence is no wise refelled Fol. 32. CHAP. XVI Proving their Reply to Job 38.31 shewing the Stars to have influence to be frivilous and of no effect Fol. 33. CHAP. XVII Proving
Astrologia Restaurata OR Astrologie Restored BEING AN INTRODVCTION TO THE General and Chief part of the Language of the STARS In Four BOOKS THE FIRST Proving the Legality of ASTROLOGIE both by Scripture Reason and the testimony of the Ancients and learned in former Ages wherein is cleared to every Rational and Impartial man the Authors Lux Veritatis in Answer to Doctor Homes to remain unshaken notwithstanding the Doctors unowned Reply THE SECOND By a plain Method teaching the Names and Characters of the Planets and Signs as also the Reasons thereof and of their Dignities Terms Faces Houses Exaltations and Triplicities with the Reasons why the Signs are reckoned from Aries and in number just twelve and â—â—â—ither more nor less with the number of the Sphears their Order and Motions being a most necessary Introduction to the whole ART and very usefull to all wel willers thereunto for inabling them to give Reasons for any part thereof c. THE THIRD Fully comprehending Instructions and Rules for electing any manner of Work never before made publique in our Mother Tongue the which both for the Administration of Physick Letting of Blood Husbandry and other necessary Works is both usefull and profitable THE FOURTH By a most easie Introduction teacheth by Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing-stars how to Judge by the ordinary course and order of Nature of the general Accidents of Countreys Kingdoms Provinces and Cities Alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs Cause of Plenty Dearth Wars Peace Health Sickness Alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining to the life of man in a Natural Way wherein is the infinite Wisdom of GOD seen manifestly in the Government of the World by the Influence and constant Harmony of the Celestial Planets and Stars the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by demonstration of the inevitable events of the Heavens so long as GOD upholdeth the Order and Course of Nature unperverted and the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practisers of what is unlawfull By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrologie Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Astra regunt homines sed regit astra Deus Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Robert White 1653. SERENISSIMO ILLVSTRISSIMOQVE PRINCIPI AC DOMINO DOMINO HONORATISSIMO IACOBO STVARTO DVCI DE RICHMOND ET LENOX COMITI DE MARCH DOMINO IN AVBVGNY DARNLY TARBOLTON ET METHVEN BARONI DE LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD ET S. ANDREWS c. ET PERISCELIDIS INSIGNIS MILITI DOMINO SUO CLEMENTISSIMO Salutem Felicitatem Perpetuam HANC SUAM ASTROLOGIAM RESTAVRATAM SUBMISSE CONSECRAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE Illustrious and High-born PRINCE IAMES STVART Duke of Richmond and Lenox Earl of March Lord Aubugny Darnly Tarbolton and Methven Baron of Leighton Bromswold and St. Andrews and Knight of the most Noble Order of the GARTER May it please your Highness IF Nobility of Birth Antiquity of House Magnanimity of Spirit Multiplicity of Vertues and the most excellent Endowments that a Mortal Man can attain unto may justly as their due challenge the patronage of these my Labours there will be none found to anticipate your Highness and though my misfortune is such that I never had the Honour in the least to kiss your Highness hand or to appear in your presence but remain as yet a Stranger to your Highness yet by reason the Work is of that sublime Worth and Excellency I mean the Science of Astrology as appeareth by the first Book of this Volumn it being the chief of the Liberal Sciences together with Astronomy Physicks and Natural Philosophy which are all but part of one intire Science and that wherewith none is able to compare have I humbly presumed to cast it at the feet of your illustrious Self whose incomparable worth and indowments are unparalleld so that if your Highnesse's Munificence doth favourably accept of this small Token of my wel-wishes to true Nobility â—â—d in a particular manner to your Highness I must necessarily be constrained to acknowledge my self arrived to the highest pitch of Honour that for the present I am capable to expect The subject of this my unworthy Work for so I may call it in reference to your Highnesses unparalleld excellency to whom it is presented is that part of Natural Philosophy vulgarly termed ASTROLOGY which teacheth by the Natural Motions Configurations Aspects and Inclinations of the Coelestial Stars and Planets to Iudge of the Natural Accidents Mutations and Alterations of Laws Customs Kingdoms States and Empires and the general casualties of the whole World in the Natural way of its Government by the Coelestial and Superiour Bodies which next under GOD are the efficient Causes of all corruption generation production and nutrition in this Elementary World the knowledge whereof is to know NATURE the great Hand-maid of the Almighty and the temper and quality of all things and although through the mercenary practises of some by setting of Nativities and answering of Horary Questions thus abusing the Art the validity of this Science hath been brought into question reproach and contempt yet I question not but your Highnesses innate magnanimity is such that it will not condescend to give any censure on what hath not first been summoned to the Bar or Tribunal of your Highnesses piercing Judgement for because a thing is calumniated and questioned is no proof of its illegality neither doth the abuse take away the use thereof for were this admitted even the best of Sciences and chief of Studies Divinity it self could not be exempt from prohibition and condemnation wherefore since the first BOOK of this Volumn tendeth wholly to the Vindication thereof from the aspersions of the Antagonists and the abuses of the seeming Friends thereunto I shall not further inlarge on this point since it is well known unto the Learned that among the Ancients and graver sort of people in all Ages this Science being unpolluted and unsophisticated hath been still had in most high esteem nay it is of that profundity and excellency that it was first taught to our first Father ADAM by GOD himself as testifyeth Iosephus Lib. 1. Cap. 2. of hâ—â— Antiquities of the Iews who taught it to his Posterity for he further recordeth that Seth was so excellent therein that foreseeing the Flood and the destruction of the World thereby ingraved this Art for the benefit of after-Ages in two Pillars the one of stone and the other of brick and that he saw himself that of stone to remain in Syria in his own time and in the 3. chap. of his aforesaid book he further witnesseth and affirmeth that man lived so long before the Flood to learn Arts and Sciences especially naming Astrology and Geometry and in his 8. chap. of that same 1. Book of the Antiquities he doth yet further testifie that Abraham having learned Astrology in Chaldea being the place of
elementary bodies and things The Authors appeal to what he himself hath delivered in his Vox Stellarum for the justification of the validity and certainty of Astrology and for the proving the Stars and Planets to have influence over sublunary bodies and that by our monthly and yeerly prognostication made apparent to every vulgar notion and capacity so that for the further justification and confirmation thereof I shall not need to desire any better testimony then my Vox Stellarum and the writings of some of those seen in this heavenly Art published for the last yeer and the two ensuing yeers viz. till the latter end of 1654 provided they are guided by the rules of Art For instance since as touching my Vox Stellarum now I have so fit an opportunity First from page 19 to 21 and from page 105 to 107 you may see I positively concluded we should have war the yeer 1652 and yet by all judicious men it seemed very improbable both at the time of my penning and publishing that book it being wrote in August 1651 and Printed in October following at which time we were in a very seeming setled condition yet we can all now experimentally testifie that by the time the Summer quarter was well began we were at slashing and pelting with the Hollanders and they with us and at swords drawing in the Spring quarter Secondly in the thirty third page though I durst not speak plain English then yet I hope it will be no offence now it is past to mention it I declared in Latin that those signified by the sign wherein Saturn was should have the better Saturn was then in Cancer under which sign is Holland and Scotland and I need not ask either our Army in the one and Fleet against the other of the verity thereof and it is further to be noted that both these were acted about one and the same time Thirdly in the 134 page I shewed the inclination of those in Authority to Taxations and what man is there that looks into his purse but can aver that in that very Winter-quarter the Tax was raised 30000. l per mensem above what it was before Fourthly in the 103 page you may see I mentioned mischief to men by Thunder and Lightning and how fatal this proved even to the astonishment of us all is well known to all England especially to those in Leiton in Cheshire in which Town on the 20 of June 1652 being Sunday there was in the Sermon time eleven slain in the Church by Thunder and Lightning and many hurt To be short let the Merchants and such as make long Voyages hinted at in the 16. and 17. pages and other places of my Book testifie whether they have not received many crosses losses and miseries and the people in general and whether many have not sustained losses by thieves and hurts or wounds the year 1652. Also whether there was not an unusual dryness in the Summer a scarcity of Fruits insolency in the Commons fraud and deceit amongst most men treachery and such like evils abundantly mentioned in many places of that Treatise and many more which at this time I forbear to particularize Only for a farther testimony of the verity and admirable excellency of this Science let me intreat thee to make particular observation of what I have predicted by the Eclipse of the 29. of March 1652. treated of also in that same Vox Stellarum and Lux Veritatis whose effects will operate till towards the latter end of the year 1654. and tell me then what you think thereof when you shall see what is here mentioned come so punctually true as also excess of heat in Summer and divers maladies and infirmities afflicting men in general Wherefore let the weakest capacity judge then what reason or sense there is in such men as shall traduce so worthy and incomparable an Art as this which they never broke sleep to understand but content themselves being altogether ignorant with a bold facing down the unspeakable validity worth and excellency thereof which of all Arts and Sciences is both the most noble and so deserving the study of the more refined and heavenly Spirits and also the chief and most delectable of all the liberal Sciences Wherefore what hath been said shall suffice at this time for the confirmation of the influence of Jupiter and the rest since I desire not to be more tedious then I needs must and since this will be cleared more fully anon when we come to treat of Eclipses Comets Great Conjunctions and Blazing-stars where we shall shew and teach their nature and influence over all earthly things whatsoever I shall for this consideration as also for that we are here in this place still to treat of the influence of the Heavens and then to speak a word or two of that Discourse late published in pretence of a Reply to my Lux Veritatis least this Treatise grow too big crave your pardon till anon CHAP. VIII Shewing the Influence of the Heavens on Inferiour and Elementary Bodies All general accidents whatsoever are and may be known by revolutions of the World Eclipses Comets great Conjunctions and Blazing-Stars in a natural way IN this place then we are to treat of the Influence of the Heavens you have already heard how for matter of plenty or scarcity they are the immediate causes next under God and that proved and warranted both by Scripture and the Learned in former Ages for then that Eclipses Revolutions of the World Comets Blazing-stars and great Conjunctions treate of the Accidents general of all Nations Kingdoms and Languages there is nothing more true viz. plenty scarcity health plague wars peace alteration of ayr and mutations in the Laws Customs Rights and Priviledges of Nations and to be short of things appertaining to the life of man in a Natural way c. And if we have regard to Ptolomy lib. 2. cap. 2. 3. de Quadr. we shall finde that he doth not only refer the Nature and Custom of Nations unto the general Inclination and Nature of the Triplicity they are under but the inclinations of their minde particularly as well as the shape and form of their bodies as also their manners and kinde of life as those who are inhabitants of the Torrid Zone as hath been said are black Of those that live in the Torrid Zone having also black and crisped hair of a mean stature and of a hot constitution and of a fierce and cruel spirit propter longam assiduam solis moram in eorum regionibus by reason of the long and constant stay of the Sun in that Region or Climate nigra sunt corpora eorum quia Sol per Zenith suorum capitum currit eosque comburit they are black over all their body by reason the Sun constantly transites their Zenith and so scorcheth them that they are of that hue Of the inhabitants of the South And these Inhabitants of the South
in his admonition with others that attribute as little to this Art as they may do allow thereof so far forth as it extends to the state of the weather of health sickness plenty dearth and to the direction of the Physitian when to purge by Pill when by Potion when by letting of blood this being as far as I maintain the Art and make my study therein proceed as shall be cleared before the closure of this Treatise but let us here proceed CHAP. XVII Proving their Reply to Judges 5.20 weak and nowise available to their intent or purpose ENter we now on the last Text viz. That in Iudges with which they bid us compare Josh 10.11 Exod 9 23. the which you shall see maketh altogether as little for their turn as all the rest have in the other and therefore it was they durst not deliver the words which are these Iosh 10.11 And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel meaning the hosts of the 5. Kings and were in the going down to Bethoren that the Lord cast down great stones from Heaven upon them unto Azekah they were more which died with hale-stones then they which the children of Israel slew with the sword in all which we see only the vengeance of God executed on those people that Ioshuah was ordained to drive out from before the children of Israel how doth this prove that the stars in their courses fought not against Sisera in the fifth of Iudges or that they did not indeee fight also against these 5. Kings for by their own confession the storms hale wind and tempests that discomfited Siseras Army were occasioned by the influence of the stars and therefore I know no reason to the contrary but that they were also occasioners of these hale-stones so that they have gained little by this their first place to be therewith compared As touching the second it is this Exod. 9.23 The words are And Moses stretched forth his Rod towards Heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hale and the fire run along upon the ground and the Lord rained hale upon the Land of Egypt a strong argument truly that the stars in their courses fought not against Sisera what would they have it to be or their Reader to understand by these their weak come-offs would they have it the hand of God I say the same would they have it hale-storms I say so to what would they have it to be Can they shew me in either or both these their texts that the stars in their courses fought not against Sisera or can they shew that thereby we are taught and shewn to read that place otherwise but they must know this that though in neither of them there is a word to be found or mention made of any stars yet in that of Judges there is both mention of them and express testimony they fought against Sisera The stars in their courses fought against Sisera So that you see clearly my Arguments proving Astrologie to be warranted by the word of God do remain yet unshaken and that notwithstanding all that they have or can say no solid Reply can be by them produced to the contrary wherefore it mattereth not should we make no more words what either of them both or all the men in the World that are either ignorantly or obstinatly or traditionally against it do say against it for as I end that 2. sect of my 2. chap. where I prove the stars to be both signs and causes I may here you see again triumphantly sing Et si Scriptura ipse Deus nobiscum quis contra nos If the Scripture and God himself be with us who can be against us Wherefore you see now what great cause the Penner of that rabble had to say after these evasions and juggles Thus with a touch it appears that Mr. Ramesey is deceived in his conclusion to the said proofs that one of them were enough to convince any man the stars have influence for nor one nor all nor an hundred such are in any shew sufficient to convince a prudent man of this c. Thus you see he denies the very testimonny of the word of God nay although it were affirmed by an hundred places and yet with all his wit he cannot refell the least of these save with his facing down with a bold forehead which to the judicious will be but a laughing stock for now it is most manifest that whereas he said I was then in a dream he is in such a dream that he knoweth not where he is nor how to beturn or betake himself for refuge but by railing and spitting his venome Viper-like against me and that wherewith I have wounded him to the quick for it is most apparent that although he saith thus with a touch c. he hath so slightly touched my Arguments that they yet stand unshaken and had he not said thus with a touch we had not known whether he had touched them or no. Wherefore now le ts see how my Arguments also by the word of God that the stars are both signs and causes are still left also unrefelled and so hasten to a conclusion CHAP. XVIII That the stars are proved both signs and causes by the word of God and the Art lawful notwithstanding all their malice That the stars are both signs and causes proved and cleared SO in my Lux Veritatis chap. 2. Sect. 2. From these Texts you will finde I prove that the stars are both signs and causes Gen. 1.14 Hos 2.21 and Deut. 33.14 the which because it would here be too tedious to rehearse I refer unto thee to peruse at thy own leisure to all which thou shalt finde no other reply returned then this at the latter end of the 73. page The Doctor denies not that the stars are causes and this I believe is granted me because they knew no other reply without rendring themselves ridiculous to the World but if so and as it is farther granted that he alloweth of Natural Astrology and so consequently that the stars are also signs let me ask any rational man what they argue against then if the stars be confessed signs and causes of wind hale storms tempests and alteration of weather or how is it then unlawfull Diabolical or a doctrine of Devils to practise or prognosticate thereby of these accidents as Doctor Homes most wisely and discreetly termeth it And thus hast thou briefly been shewn the utmost of that discourse for the refelling of mine by which you see notwithstanding Astrologie to remain in full force that the stars have influence and are both signs and causes warranted by the Divine Word of God It resteth therefore now I only add this one place more in the 4. sect of the 1. chap. of my Discourse wherein I prove that the Art of Astrologie is not prohibited by the word of God nor the study thereof by God himself but rather by him allowed and then shall conclude with
Significators and so likewise any other thing you must supply in this nature for it were both tedious and superfluous thus to make repetition As touching riding of Horses for any Race or to win at such a time fit the Ascendent its Lord the Moon and its Dispositor as also the Planet to whom they are joined also Part of Fortune and its Dispositor and make the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon apply thereunto and then place the Lord of the Hour in the Ascendent at that time he steps out of the stable But if all these cannot be observed place the Lord of the hour to be sure in the Ascendent and fortifie the Moon and place her if you can in Sagittary or in the first half of Libra and look that neither the Lord of the hour the Moon nor the Lord of the Ascendent be in their fall for that denotes the horse shall fall in the race before he come to The End ASTROLOGIA MVNDA OR ASTROLOGY In it's PVRITY BEING A Short but Compendious INTRODVCTION To the Iudging of the ANNVAL or YEARLY REVOLVTIONS O F The WORLD by which AS ALSO ECLIPSES Great CONIVNCTIONS COMETS AND BLAZING-STARS Are Iudged by the ordinary Course and Order of NATURE the general accidents of Countries Kingdoms Provinces and Cities alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs cause of Plenty Dearth Wars Peace Health Sickness alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining to the life of Man in a natural way wherein the Infinite Wisdom of GOD is seen manifestly in the Government of the World by the Influence and constant Harmony of the Celestial Planets and Stars the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by Demonstration of the Inevitable Events of the Heavens so long as GOD upholdeth the order and course of Nature unperverted And the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practisers of what is unlawful By WILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrology Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Tempora Mutantur nos Mutamur in illis LONDON Printed by R. W. 1653. HONORATISSIMO ATQUE ILLVSTRISSIMO DOMINO NON MINVS VIRTVTE SVA QVAM GENERIS SPLENDORE DOMINO MOVNTAGVE BERTY COMITI DE LINDSEY DOMINO DE WILLOVGHBY DE ERESBY ET TO TIVS ANGLIAE SVPREMO CAMERARIO Salutem in Perpetuum DOMINO SUO MVLTIS NOMINIBVS OBSERVANDO HANC SUAM ASTROLOGIAM MVNDAM SUBMISSE DEDICAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE Right Honorable and truly Noble Montague Berty EARL of LINDSEY LORD WILLOVGHBY of ERESBY AND LORD HIGH CHAMBERLAIN OF ENGLAND My LORD DId not your Honours Merits claim this fourth and chief Part of my Labours as Your due I durst not have assumed that audacity as to implore Your Honours Patronage for as I have humbly made choice of the three preceding most Noble Heroes So my Lord lest yet notwithstanding my Fabrick should at length fall to the ground which it must inevitably do unless Your Honour pass by the presumption and unworthiness of the Penner I humbly presumed to crave Your Honours Patronage and support thereof craving pardon for this my Simile being the main pillar on which I desire it should be built and upheld not questioning then but Your Honours Vertues and most Excellent Endowments will adde such a lusture to the whole that the beholders will not question the insufficiency or unworthyness of Me the Author nor further call the thing it self in question but with all assured confidence accept thereof as most worthy and immaculate which in it self I presume to conclude it is how ever my weakness and insufficiency hath expressed it to the World the which as I question not but Your Honours piercing Judgement will discover so I hope Your Honours Munificent goodness will pass over and pardon I must confess my Lord the ridiculous and base Mercenary practises of some that have pretended to the knowledge of this sublime Science hath brought the whole Art into contempt and in question with the ignorant therein and such as are not able to distinguish between the use and the abuse of a thing or the purity of the thing studyed and the corruption of the Student whereby the very word ASTROLOGY under which this most heavenly Science and peece of NATVRAL PHILOSOPHY is exprest is become both odious and ridiculous to most of the rural now living but such is Yout Honors Magnanimity that the Traduced shall not without diligent examination and evident witness be condemned nor abolished Your Honours Presence not making Tradition but Truth and Experience the guide and ground of Your Judgement I shall not need here to speak ought in the behalf of the whole Science which I have endevoured in these my labours to purifie from its dross and feculency since in the preceding Epistles and the first Book I have hinted both at its Verity Excellency and Validity but only of this subsequent Discourse which now after my great care and indefatigable pains being produced I am by an happy gust drawn to this Anchorage and crave Your Honours acceptance and Patronage It is an Instruction to the whole General Part of that Liberal Science which is called ASTRONOMY or ASTROLOGY the which together with PHYSICKS make according to Aristotle 2. Phys 2. Cap. but one intire Science for he throughout all his works indifferently useth the Name of ASTROLOGER and ASTRONOMER and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and the same and amongst all Ancient and Learned Writers Astrology and Astronomy have been received for one and the same Science though distinct parts or properties as hath been hinted at in the first Book of this Volume and the 2. Chapter It containeth four Sections the three first treating of the Revolutions of the Years of the World and the fourth and last of Eclipses Comets and Blazing-Stars and the great Conjunctions of the Planets by which we are taught how to judge of the order and course of Nature and the Government of the World as the general accidents of the World and the alterations therein the change of Laws Customs Empires and Governments the alterations of the Ayr the cause of Plenty Scarcity Health Sickness Peace Wars c. We may also hereby most manifestly see the infinite Wisdom Providence and Government of GOD in the whole Vniverse by the constant Harmony and Celestial influences of the PLANETS and the STARS whose Portencies so long as GOD upholdeth the order and course of NATVRE unperverted must inevitably prove true and effectual they being never frustrated but by Miracle My Lord this is the ASTROLOGIA MVNDA the Pure Astrology which the Patriarchs and the Antient Fathers studyed and contemplated by which the Babylonians Arabians Syrians Egyptians Grecians Persians and Lacedemonians ruled and became famous and glorious to the whole World and therefore My Lord as being the chief and most exquisite part of these my undertakings I have placed it last that so it might not be attempted by any that are
unacquainted with the preceding Discourses which serve but as it were Introductions hereunto for which cause My Lord it is that I humbly presume to lay it at Your Honours Feet above any others being so nerely bound to Eternise for ever Your late Honorable and Vertuous Consort of happy memory doubting not but by the unparalleld splendour of Your Honours surpassing Endowments it might be exalted to that hight of Honour as to be but accepted into Your Honours Presence which will be a perpetual Fame unto it and him who in all humility Presents it to Your Honour and from thence assumes that Honour as to subscribe himself My LORD Your HONOURS most Humble Servant William Ramesey To the Studious Reader READER IN this following Discourse is presented unto thee the chiefest knowledge of the whole World and the Mysteries of Nature so I call them because they seem no other then Mysteries and strange unto us whilst we are Ignorant in the causes thereof In this peice thou mayest read the time past present and future the whole Government of the World from its Creation to its Subversion in a Natural way by the Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses Comets and great Conjunctions of the Celestial Planets and all accidents that shall happen in any Year whether good or evil whether Wars or Peace and who shall overcome whether Sickness or Health Plenty or Scarcity what shall be the condition of Kings or Grandees and those that are placed in Authority in any Region or Kingdom as also of the Beggar and such as are of low and poor degree the state of the Commons in any place the wealth and prosperity or want of any City Town or Village and of all things belonging to Man also of Rain Hail Snow Frost Dew fair Weather Tempests Storms Thunder Lightnings Earthquakes Apparitions in the Ayr and alterations therein and the causes of all these and to be short thou hast here Jasons Golden Fleece and the greatest riches of Divine Knowledge and Learning that any Man that is Philosophically given can wish or desire hereby thou shalt not only with SOLOMON know all things under the Sun but be able to Govern the World with Solomons wise man and not with Phaeton Wherefore lest it should be attempted by any such giddy rash Yongsters I prefixed these preceding Books that so this may be made the more plain and thy destruction thereby avoided I mean the gross absurdities thou wilt be ready to run into as also that thou mightest not be lulled asleep with self-conceited ignorance read it therefore warily and with attention but first be throughly informed of the Nature and Quality of every Sign Planet and Configurations thereof which thou hast delivered thee in the second and third Books and then there is no question but thou wilt soon attain to this most heavenly and delectable Science the which that thou mayst be the better enabled let me advise thee to seek first the true Knowledge of thy Creator and then afterwards study to see him in his Nature and his Works for perhaps otherwise thou wilt be apt to attribute all to His great Hand-maid NATVRE and so rob him of the glory most due unto him Yet upon better consideration I cannot see but even the most rural in Divine matters must needs acknowledge if they throughly understand the Mysteries of this Science some Superiour and Divine Power although they cannot be led to the perfect knowledge of him and this we have found in most Philosophers in former ages especially in Plato who for his rare knowledge in Divine matters which he attained to by his study in Philosophy was termed DIVINE PLATO the which Title he very well deserved as will appear to any that shall peruse his labours And this may serve very well to reprehend such Carpers at Humane Sciences and the Students thereof that think it is impossible for them to be seen in such matters without being Heathens for if I may deliver my judgement I think it will be a means rather to induce them to acknowledge a Divinity and to draw them neerer to the knowledge of the Creator the which I can experimentally aver to be true if they be any thing first grounded in Christianity Reader I shall here say no more but wish thou mayst make no worse a use of these my labours then I intended in my publishing thereof and remain Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey ASTROLOGIA MVNDA OR Pure Astrologie BEING An Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars Touching all general Accidents and Events in this Elementary VVorld portended by the Revolutions of the Sun Eclipses Comets and Great Conjunctions in a Natural way and course of the Government of the Universe SECTION I. Containing the Ground-work of Revolutions considerations before Judgement and the true Significators of such things as are necessary to be judged of in this manner of Work WE shall desire the Studier and Well-willer to this most Heavenly and delectable Art seriously to consider and weigh the subsequent Rules since this general part and it only as you have sufficiently heard is to be accounted ASTROLOGIE in its purity without fallacy or abuse Wherefore for the better illustration thereof as also instruction of the well-willers thereunto I shall in the handling of this our Introduction to the Judgement of Annual Revolutions of the World follow this Method The method the Author follow in this Book First to demonstrate since you have heard already in the Epistle the extent of Revolutions and what general Accidents may be foreknown thereby in the Elements and Elementary World the ground on which Astrological Judgements are to be laid or from whence to be deduced for the predicting or knowing any accident or mutation in the World and how many Schemes or Figures of the Heavens ought to be erected for the performance thereof Secondly what is to be considered before Judgement be given thereon necessary for the accomplishment of the work Thirdly and lastly most rational and authentick Rules deduced from natural causes how to judge of all accidents whatsoever portended by Revolutions of the years of the World which notwithstanding you have already heard them expressed by reason some of the Antients have reduced them excellently to four heads I shall thus further illustrate What accidents are portended by Revolutions of the years of the World The first denoteth such accidents as are visible in this World and to every mans sight obvious and common to every one as any Epidemical or general thing fertility and sterility rain hail storms and the alteration of the ayr and weather and such like The second such as are invisible in the Elementary World either general or particular as are Earthquakes Thunders Floods c. The third things peculiar to one single Nation or People as Wars Peace c. The fourth relateth to such things as happen in the ayr such as are fiery apparitions Lightnings Comets or Blazing stars and such like
and be Significators as you have been already shewn in the first Chapter of the first Section of our Introduction to Elections The vanity of the opinion that ♄ and ♂ are always bad and ♃ and ♀ good As for example in the Suns ingress into Aries I have Libra ascending or Aquaries or Capricorn and Saturn located therein I must not hereby because Saturn is Naturally evil judge the condition and state of the People signified by the Ascendent to be evil and unfortunate this year but contrarywise other testimonies concurring they will be in a most prosperous and gallant condition For you must know a Planet in his own house is strong and advantagious according to the old Proverb The Devil is good to his own Children and so contrarywise Jupiter in my Figure at the ingress is in detriment and afflicted and Significator or Planet from whence I am to inquire of fertility and in Square or Opposition of other Significators which also concur to the same signification must I from hence because Jupiter who for the most part is good and in his own natural inclination free from mischief affirm or conclude the year to be fruitfull and free from any want or penury No but because he is the Significator this year of this matter and in detriment retrograde in his fall afflicted impotent and weak I judge the clean contrary For I am to judge according to his signification and ability at that time not according to his natural signification for otherwise we should make most manifest contradictions and confound our selves both in judgement and reason to make Saturn and Mars the only Workers of iniquity for we see clearly all the evils in the World are not of the Nature of these two which would of necessity follow were this admitted but some are Jovial some Venereal and a third fort Mercurial others participating of the Nature of the Sun and again of the Moon But to clear this point yet more fully for I would not have the ingenious thus misled in so gross an errour admit Jupiter or Venus bear chief Rule of the eighth house which you know hath signification of death and mortality and I finde by several consequences and reasons in nature the Heavens do incline to such mischief shall I barely because one of these rules that House conclude contrary to all found reason and manifest testimonies the year will be rather healthfull Believe it I shall refuse thus to do for every Planet must perform that whereunto it is ordained Venus is now to denote death as being Lady of the eighth and therefore in such years I ought thus to judge Yet thus much I shall follow her nature as to say there shall be much mortality or death amongst the People by reason of voluptousness or Venery and such like because she hath naturally such signification In like manner if Jupiter be Lord of the eighth and mortality that year denoted I shall notwithstanding he bears rule in that part of the Heavens thus judge as hath been said viz. death and mortality but the nature thereof I shall take from his natural signification as by corruption of Blood Feavers and the like I shall say is this mortality to be occasioned c. In the next place you are to have a special care to be well instructed in the nature of every Planet and House wherefore be thou sure to have the exact knowledge of the second Treatise it being Introductory before thou adventurest thus far least thou be discouraged from ever attaining to the perfection of this study which I am certain thou wilt never do if thou beest not therein very perfect wherefore let the first eight Chapters thereof be perused over and over and then proceed Judge not upon every light testimony but according to Reason and Art do thou order thy matter for the more assurances and testimonies you have on any matter and concurrences in causes the more affirmatively may you deliver your ' conclusions Fear God study Nature follow the Rules of Art be knowing therein and be ignorant in the vanities of the course of the World and thou shalt come nearest unto Truth and infinitely augment thy knowledge In your judgement of the Suns ingress joyn also in consideration with it the significations of Eclipses great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing-stars if there be any either preceding or coming after it for be assured these things never happen but before some notable change and alteration in the World Remember that according to the Debility and strength of your Significator you are to judge of the condition of any person the people or thing whatsoever thereby signified and you have attained to a great help but now least you should be still to seek in the true understanding of the Significators necessary in this manner of Judgement I shall notwithstanding what hath been delivered in the Introduction or Second Book of these our labours here beneath clearly demonstrate them unto thee CHAP. III. Shewing which are the Significators of the King People their Enemies and Assistants in any Revolution of the years of the World LArgely have the Antients treated of these matters yet some therein have come very short and to little or no purpose troubled their heads leaving still the Student both in doubts and errors wherefore according to the sincerity of my first undertakings I shall here indeavour to undeceive my Readers touching these particulars and impart unto them the truth and surest rules for the judging thereof I shall first give you some of their Instructions and then my own or such as I in my judgement hold to be most rational that so thou mayst be the better able to distinguish truth from falshood Note that those in Authority are understood by the tenth house when there is no King We shall begin with the Significator of Kings but you are to note that in any Nation where no such are the Grandees or chief Rulers of the times are to be understood the which say they is thus to be known or found Look to the Lord of the tenth house in your Figure at time of the Revolution of the Sun into the first point of Aries who if he be free from Combustion Retrogradation Impedition and such like and within five degrees of the cusp of the tenth either before or after viz. within or without the house he shall without doubt be the Kings Significator or chief Rulers without any farther inquiry but if he be any ways impedited as in Detriment Fall Combust Peregrine Retrograde or besieged c. he shall not be significator of the King or Chief Rulers Have recourse then to that Planet who hath Exaltation in the Sign of the tenth and if he be within five degrees of the cusp as you have heard and in no sort impedited or afflicted thou shalt conclude him to be Significator of the King but if he be impedited or afflicted as abovesaid he shall not be Significator But now
Fourth Book I have already declared what an Eclipse of either of the Luminaries is and the cause of that defect in each of them wherefore it would be both needless and superfluous here again to touch thereon I shall therefore give you now the whole Method whereby to judge of any Mutation or Accident in this World portended by Eclipses and that in brief according to the Rules of our Predecessor Ptolomy whom I prefer for his shortness and plainness before any or all other Writings that I have mett with it is true Leovitius hath been very large on this subject and others but since what Ptolomy hath delivered us is sufficient for instruction to any that are to seek in these matters I shall pass them by as more mysterious and intricate and yet tending no more to edification In the first Section and first Chapter of this Fourth Book you have been taught that in your judgement of Revolutions you are to consider the place of the Eclipses of either Luminaries or both if any such happen and joyn them in judgement for if there be any Eclipse or Eclipses you are to see if there be any agreement betwixt them and the Lord of the Year and Ascendent of the Revolutions for there is nothing more certain then that there followeth many inconveniencies and alterations in the World after any of the great Lights are Eclipsed for by them all things have their subsistence and nutriment in a natural way and therefore it must needs follow sublunary things must suffer detriment in one kinde or other when either of them are deprived of their lights and influences especially if both in one Moneth whence Hermes saith Note There shall much inconveniency and trouble happen in the World when both the Luminaries shall be Eclipsed in one Moneth and chiefly in those places in which their Effects shall be manifested Wherefore in any Year if either or both the Luminaries are Eclipsed or in any quarterly Revolution see if the Lord of the Sign wherein the Eclipse is to fall be strong or weak or in Conjunction or any Configuration with the Lord of the Ascendent at the time of the middle of the Eclipse which you are to know is the time wherein you are to erect your Scheme or Figure of the Heavens for the judging of the Effects of any Eclipse or with the Lord of the Year or Quarter What time the figure of Heaven is to be erected for the judging of Eclipses or whether the Fortunes behold these or the Infortunes for if the Fortunes you are to judge good if the Infortunes the contrary The nature and quality thereof judge from good if the Infortunes the contrary The nature and quality thereof judge from the nature of the Significators as you have heard before likewise whether much evill or good is to be expected by considering the strength of your Significators and their Receptions and nature of their Aspects What things or places are signified good or evill in any Eclipse And judge this evill or good to those signified by the Planet in Configuration with these Lords or the Fortunes or Infortunes whether men or things as if the Ascendent or its Lord be beheld by the Fortunes then you may safely say the People of that Nation or Kingdom wherein the Revoluton is shall be safe of good health and prosperous c. and so judge of all the rest of the Houses according to their several significations as you have been taught before and so on the contrary evill if by the Infortunes And this shall be the more encreased if the Lord of the Ascendent or Lord of the Year be the Lord of the Sign wherein the Eclipse is to happen In like manner pronounce evill and dammage to the persons and things signified by any other House of whom you find the Lord of the Sign of the Eclipse Ruler c. Judge the time when it shall be most grievous unto them to be when the Sun comes to the same House in the Eclipse I mean the very degree and minute of the Cusp whereby they are signified or to the degree and minute of the Zodiack their chief Sgnificator was then in as if it be the Common People when the Sun comes to the degree and minute of the Ascendent at the time of the middle of the Eclipse if it be the Rulers or King it will be most grievous when the Sun comes to the degree and minute of the Tenth House at that time and so of the rest Detriment and mischief also is to be expected to all things signified by the House wherein any Eclipse is as if in the Tenth to Kings Grandees and chief Rulers if in the Ninth to Church-men in the Eighth the death of Old men c. and it shall be chiefly incident unto men if any Eclipse be in Humane Signs if in Aiery to Birds if in Earthy to the Fruits of the Earth and Seeds yet Junctinus assureth us that if an Eclipse be in Libra it signifies the rottenness of Herbs and that there shall be Sects and Schisms amongst Church-men in watery to the Fish and Creatures living in the Watery Element in Bestial Signs to Beasts according to the nature of the Sign as if Aries to Sheep if Capricorn to Goats if Taurus to Bulls Cows and Oxen if Sagittary the last 15 degrees to Horses c. and if feral signs to wild Beasts The Portence of an Eclipse in any Triplicity See also in what Triplicity the Luminaries are Eclipsed for Junctinus saith An Eclipse either of the Sun or Moon in the Fiery Triplicity denotes the motion of Armies the death and destruction of Cattell Kings and Great men imprisonments enmity between the Vulgar and Nobler sort of People dissemblings fewd and discords wars and grievous slaughter and destruction of men murthers thefts depopulations abortions to women sharp Feavers and Epidemical diseases through excess of heat apparitions in the Air scarcity of Rain especially in those Regions and places subject to the sign wherein the Eclipse is admirable and strange mutations In the Earthy Triplicity when any of the Luminaries are Eclipsed it occasions scarcity of the Fruits of the Earth and chiefly of Corn and such things as are usually sown every Year In the Aiery shews Famine fierce and violent Maladies and Pestilential Diseases tempestuous stormy winds and those very pernicious In the Watry Triplicity it promiseth the death of the Vulgar and ignobler sort of People seditions and rumors of wars and eruptions and overflowings of the Sea-banks In the Cardinal points Moreover he further testifieth that if an Eclipse happen in Aries it causeth alteration in Fruits Vines and Fig-trees shall be corrupted If in Libra in Seeds and Herbs and Schisms amongst Ecclesiastical men as you have already heard In Cancer a rot tenness or corruption of the fruit when it is gathered causing sickness to those that eat them perhaps surfeits In Capricorn it denotes Olives to be devoured
The signification of the Sun his Coments Comets and Blazing-Stars of the nature and complexion of the Sun denote the death of Kings Great men and Nobles in those parts they appear and in that Kingdom or Nation under the Ascendent of that sign where in they appear and for which the Revolution is made when they are seen in the Ascendent thereof also alterations in Government to the better continall and dayly tumults also war drought and such infirmities and are solar and those chiefly to solar men and to such places as are under his Dominion Comets of the nature of Venus and their portences Such as are appropriated unto Venus shew their Effects on Fruits and in Waters and cause change and mutations in the World alterations of the Laws Customs and Priviledges of Men damage and detriment to Women Nuns and Matrons chiefly in their Stomach Secrets and Reins c. All infirmities signified by Venus are threatned to those especially that are under her rule and also to those places subject unto her What is signified by Mercurial Comets Mercurial Comets occasion the death of some Great man still remember this is where they have Dominion grievous calamities War Pestilence and Famine Destruction Tribulation Anxiety trouble and sadness to Mercurialists and Ingenuous and wise men and such as are ruled by Mercury and grievous trouble and sorrow to such places as are subject unto him and the sign wherein the Comet appears and places to which it extends it self and where it is visible it sends Mercuriall diseases What by Lunar Lunar Comets chiefly manifest their significations on women and common people as also to all such as are under her rule whether Towns Cities Kingdoms or Nations they particularly denote troubles alteration of the Laws Customs and Rites Sterility and Wars all infirmities signified by the Moon and those chiefly to such as are by her governed c. Note also that if a Comet extends its self towards Saturn viz. its raies or tail it portends the destruction of the fruits of the Earth and a scarcity or Famine towards Jupiter wrath and destruction to Kings and the Grandees of the Earth towards Mars grievous and terrible sicknesses wars slaughters and blood-shed and the alteration of Kingdoms towards the Sun the death and destructions of Kings and Government towards Venus the death of Great and Noble women and damage to such things as appertain unto them towards Mercury much consumption of wealth with shame and infamy towards the Moon troubles and shame to the People in general CHAP. X. Shewing the Significations of Comets when they appear in any of the twelve Signs of Heaven Of the signification of Comets when they appeat in Aries ALbumaser and Junctinus with many others say that if any of the aforesaid Comets or Blazing-Stars appear in Aries it signifies evill and detriment to Noble men and the Grandees of the Earth in the Eastern parts and abundance of sadness to the commoner sort and truly I conceive all Nations Kingdoms and People Cities Towns Villages and Families under the sign Aries will suffer the same also a noise of the clashing of Arms blood-shed and the death of some eminent Prince or slaughter of some great Lady you must remember to confine your judgment herein to the places wherein the Blazing-Star or Comet hath power so also in the subsequent rules in the like case with fear and trouble of slaughter amongst men also great drought common diseases in the Head Eyes and Brain a rot amongst small Cattel especially Sheep and a dejection of Great and Noble men or an un-throning of some King and a rise or promotion of vile and ignoble mean people If its apparition be in the Eastern part of Heaven it will operate sooner and there shall be enmity amongst men but if in the Western more slow and much evill and detriment from Kings or Superiours and many showers inundations and frequent snows in Winter In Taurus If any Blazing-Star or Comet appear in Taurus it signifieth mischief to men and diminution of their goods also injuries and wrongs put upon them it uses also to signifie as say the Antients the death of some Great man Captivities injuries and a toleration of evils detriment to the greater sort of Cattel especially Buls Cows and Oxen great winds a corruption of Fruit and destruction of Corn and in Winter much cold also grievous Earth-quakes vehement sicknesses and dry scurfie diseases proceeding of putrefication as scabs c. If it appear toward the East it will sooner operate and the King shall fear his Enemies and men shall be molested with boils and swellings about the Groins and these shall continue for some years also sicknesses in the Summer-quarter and if it appear in the Western part it will work more slowly and signifies much rain In Gemini In Gemini if any Comet appear it signifies men shall be lascivious and incestuous In Gemini loose livers and neglecters of goodness also it denotes quarrels wars and dissentions amongst men sicknesses and the death of children and yong men especially also Abortive births the slaughter of Birds Famine Thunder and Lightning with very high winds to the eradication and subversion of trees and houses And if it appear towards the East part of Heaven the Effects thereof will soon be seen and many Grandees of the World shall be abased and brought down from their High Places and Honours and if it appear in the West not so soon and it signifies much captivity and abundance of rain and inundations In Cancer Also if a Comet appear in Cancer it signifies abundance of Locusts in the parts where they are naturally produced in our Climate it produces Caterpillars and such like pernitious worms which shall eat up and destroy the Fruits of the Earth also small worms in Corn and Trees a scarcity of Fruit and plenty of Worms it denotes also wars discords and much evill the death of some Great Person submersions Rapes and Robberies Famine and Pestilence And if it appear in the Eastern part of Heaven its Effects will be quickly manifest and there shall be scarcity of Provisions for the use of man towards the latter end of the year if in the Western not so soon it denotes the kindness of Kings and Great men to the Commons Again if any appear in Leo men shall be damnified by wild Beasts In Leo. Lyons and Woolfs this is to be understood in those Regions where such feral creatures are Worms and Vermin shall be destructive to the Corn an men shall be damnified in their estates the Gentry and Nobility shall suffer detriment and many of them death and War amongst Kings towards the end of the year and much effusion of bloud in the Eastern parts note the Parenthesis in Aries and pains in the Eyes And if it appear in the Eastern part the Effects are soon manifested and it signifies great Winds Lightning and a scarcity
keep Books of Accompts Stewards and Secretaries of State Trustees c. souldiers shall be obedient to their Commanders and many thefts and robberies by the High-way shall be committed so that passengers are threatned mischief ☌ ♄ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ and the ☽ in ♋ So likewise Saturn and Jupiter and Mars and the Sun and Venus and Mercury and the Moon in Conjunction in Cancer signifieth detriment in every thing and fear shall fall on men and the King shall perplex men and one man another there shall also be Earth-quakes and detriment both at Sea and Land ☌ ♄ ♃ ♂ and ♀ ☽ in ♌ And when Saturn and Jupiter and Mars and the Moon are joined in Leo Kings shall war and kill one another and there shall happen many great terrors and evils to men ☌ ♄ ♂ and ☿ in ♠☉ Eclipsed and ♂ in ☌ ☌ ♄ and ♀ When Saturn and Mars and Mercury are joined in Virgo it signifieth damage and detriment to women and Kings shall be deceived also if the Sun be eclipsed in Virgo and Mars joined unto him there shall be slaughter between the Nobles and Plebeans and great dissentions Also when Saturn and Venus are joined in this sign it denotes an increase of waters ☌ ♂ and ♃ in ♎ ☌ ♃ ☉ and ☽ in ♎ When Mars and Iupiter are joined in Libra it signifies the evill state of Noble men and their Associates Also when Iupiter and the Sun and the Moon are therein joined there shall happen mortalities to women and just men and there shall be much rain clouds and malignant ayr ☌ ♄ ♂ and ♀ in ♠Again when Saturn and Mars and Venus are joined in Scorpio it signifieth the King shall be wounded or bitten by some Beast or stung by some Adder or obnoxious creature and that Kings shall go out of their own Lands into others one King shall disagree and clash with another and they shall break the league and promise which they have made to each other Also when the Moon is also joined with them it signifies much rain and increase of waters Moreover if Scorpio be the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World and Saturn be there and Mars also joined unto him or have any participation with him in the Ascendent and Venus be then Combust and Iupiter retrograde judge evill in every thing wars and quarrels sackings and spoilings of Cities and Towns Earth-quakes terrours and blood-shed mortalities and many destructive infirmities because Scorpio is the most unfortunate of all the signs judge also that Kings shall disagree and fight one with another and Noble and Great men shall die and there shall happen many anxieties tribulations and trouble in the world ☌ ♃ and ♀ in ♠also if both the Fortunes be joined in this sign there shall many seducers be discovered and such as study to with-draw men from the true Worship of God ☌ ♄ ♃ ☿ and ☽ in ♠Also when Saturn and Iupiter and Mercury and the Moon are joined in Sagittary it signifieth there shall be many waters upon the face of the Earth and that Kings shall exalt themselves also Noblemen Scribes Astrologers and Ingenuous men shall be in great esteem ☌ ☉ ♂ and ☿ in ♑ Again when the Sun and Mars and Mercury are joined in Capricorn it signifieth destruction to Kings causeth hot and dry diseases many Combustions and fiery apparitions in the ayr many windes and a scarcity of all sorts of Vegetables and that there shall be many thefts and robberies ☌ ♂ ♄ and ☽ in ♒ Moreover when Mars and Saturn and the Moon are joined in Aquaries it signifieth a scarcity of water and rain damage to travellers and that there shall be many Snakes and Serpents ☌ ♄ ♃ and ♂ in ♓ ☌ ☉ ♂ and ♄ ♓ Lastly when Saturn and Iupiter and Mars are joined in Pisces it signifieth the death and great damage of Kings Noblemen and Grandees also if the Sun and Mars and Saturn be there joined the King shall be slain there shall be little or no rain and many Fishes shall be taken in the Sea Note that when Dragons Head and Saturn are joined in any Sign The Conjunction of Dragons Head and Saturn in any sign it signifieth evill and damage according to the nature of the Sign as if they be joined in any fiery Sign drought and damage to Beasts if in Aries to Sheep and small Cattel if in Leo to Lyons or feral Beasts and creatures of prey if in Sagittary to Horses especially in the last 15 degrees thereof if in Earthy viz. Taurus to Buls Cows and Oxen in Capricorn to Goats and such like and damage to the Earth and fruits but especially if in Virgo if in watry damage in and by water shipwracks and the death of Fish and creatures living in the water if in Aiery there shall be many tempestuous pernicious winds and storms corruption of the Ayr the death of many Kings and many infirmities c. And thus have I by the blessing of God delivered unto thee the Natural rules and reasons of fertility Note sterility health sickness wars peace alterations and accidents of this life and how to judge of them by the Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses of the two great lights and lamps of Heaven the Sun and Moon Comets and Blazing-Stars the fore-runners of great mutations which we have found in all Ages God hath used to send for the reclaiming of his people from their evill wayes before his wrath be poured on them and lastly by the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the Coelestial Planets who next under the Great Creator Governour and Causer of all causes are the Governours of the World and causes of all things therein in a general and natural way Wherefore to him alone that ordereth and disposeth all things according to his Divine will and that Created the Heavens Earth Coelestial Planets and Stars and that calleth them all by their names and that maketh them differ from each other in glory and that giveth of his free will and pleasure the knowledge of Divine and Natural things to the sons of men he ascribed all possible Praise Glory Power Dominion and Thanksgiving both now and for evermore Amen With this Chapter I thought to have concluded but since we have treated already of the Natural causes of the general accidents of the World and that some of the Antients have judged of all these things by the Falling of New-Years-Day and for that I have for some few years found them experimentally true I shall adde this own Chapter more for my Readers recreation and sport when he is so disposed yet if he diligently observe the Effects he will finde them for the most part come very near truth though many times on the otherside they may deviate therefrom CHAP. XV. Shewing how to judge of the General Accidents of the World by the Falling of New-Years Day YOu are herein to
the twelve signs in any Annual Revolution 274 Chap. 4. Teaching how to iudge of the evill of any year the nature thereof and when the year is most likely to be turbulent obnoxious and unfortunate also what is portended by any Revolution when one Planet transfers his light and nature to another 278 Chap. 5. Shewing how to judge of health or sickness in any year 280 Chap. 6. How of wars or peace Idem Chap. 7. Of fertility and sterility 284 Chap. 8. Teaching how to know the price of any thing in any year 285 Chap. 9. Containing some Instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr and change of weather in any year 288 Chap. 10. Shewing how to judge of the weather by the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets and by the several Aspects of the Planets amongst themselves 290 Chap. 11. Demonstrating the alteration of the Ayr by the Combustion Orientality and Occidentality of the Planets in every of the twelve signs of Heaven 292 Chap. 12. Containing further instructions touching the alteration of the Ayr from the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun 294 Chap. 13. Teaching by other rules how to judge of the alteration of the ayr and to know when rain is to be expected 296 Chap. 14. Shewing Haly his judgement on weather and the alteration of the Ayr 298 Chap. 15. Shewing how to judge of weather from common Observation of the rising and setting of the â—un colour of the Moon appearance of the Rain-bow Comets Clouds brightness of the fixed Stars also by the prime day and from the time of the day wherein thunder happeneth 302 Chap. 16. Demonstrating the natural causes of many Suns of the Rain-bow Rain Hail Frost Snow Dew Winde Earth-quakes Comets Thunders Lightnings and the cause of the Sun and Moons Eclipse 303 Chap. 17 Of the signification of the most notable fixed Stars both fortunate and unfortunate in any of the twelve Houses in Revolutions of the Years of the World 305 SECT IV. Teaching how to judge of the natural mutations and accidents of this Elementary World by the appearance of Eclipses Comes great Conjunctions and Blazing-stars CHAP. I. Containing Ptolomies method in judging Eclipses and how to know the Regions to which the Effects belong 310 Chap. 2. Shewing the time when the Effects of any Eclipse shall begin and how long continue Idem Chap. 3. Of the kindes of Events of any Eclipse 311 Chap. 4. Of the quality of the Events of any Eclipse whether good or evil 312 Chap. 5. Of the Sun and Moon eclipsed in any Decanate or Face of the twelve Coelestial signs 315 Chap. 6. Of Comets and Blazing-Stars what they are the many sorts thereof their Portences and how long they appear at any time 318 Chap. 7. Shewing the Physical reasons of the horrid and terrible portencies of Comets and Blazing Stars 320 Chap. 8. Shewing some other names of Comets or Blazing-Stars and their Portencies 321 Chap. 9. Of the signification of Comets and Blazing-Stars appropriated to the seven Planets 323 Chap. 10. Shewing the significations of Comets when they appear in any of the twelve signs of Heaven 324 Chap. 11. Of great Conjunctions their Number and how to judge of their Effects 327 Chap. 12. Of the Conjunctions of the superiours 328 Chap. 13. Of the mean and lesser Conjunctions and their effects 329 Chap. 14. Of the Conjunction of the Planets in the twelve signs according to Hermes 330 Chap. 15. Shewing how to iudge of the general accidents of the World by the falling of New-Years Day 332 FINIS An INDEX pointing to the chief matters contained in this Volume This mark * before any figure points you to the folio in the first EPISTLE to the READER A ABraham an Astrologer Epist Ded. 1 Postscript folio 4. The first that taught the Egyptians the knowledge of the Stars Ibid. Abuse of any thing taketh not away the use thereof among the Learned * 3 Abuses cast upon the Author by the penners of the pretended Reply to his Lux Veritatis and he vindicated from them all from folio 26 to 29. their juglings and evasions discovered 29 Acute diseases how ruled 11 Adam an Astrologer notwithstanding Mr. Gatakers evasions in his Annotations on Jer. 10. ver 2. put forth by the Synod Epist Ded. 1 Postscript and for the clearing of the Text to that aforesaid Lux Veritatis Chap. 3. Sect. 5 Ayrs alteration how to judge thereof from 288 to 303 by general significators 288 289 by opening of Gates 290 by the aspects of the Moon to the other Planets 291 by the Planets mutual aspects 291 292 Orientallity Occidentallity and combustion in the 12 signs 292 293 by the application of the Moon to the other Planets having separated from the conjunction of the Sun 294 295 Aphorisms 296 Ordinary signs and tokens 297 by Haly his judgement from 298 to 302 by the rising and setting of the Sun the colour of the Moon the Rainbow and by the appearance of Comets 302 by Clouds Stars Prime day c. 303 Aeties a stone so called its vertue 57 Afflictions portended by revolutions the nature thereof and from whence it shall arise 275 Age decrepit prohibited physick 166 Age of those that are not to use Phebotomie 170 What time of the Moon it availeth 171 A time for making of Agreements 178 A time for any work in the art of Alchimy 179 A time for All things under the Sun 145 Almuten what 111 Alterations in the world occasioned by Ecclipses of either Luminary and why 308 by Comets 319 and why 320 A time for Anointing to remove superfluous hair 169 Antiscience of the Planets their force how to know them 76 Aphorisms conducing to the judging of Elections from 122 to 128 shewing how to judge of the condition of Kings People or any other what accidents are to happen them and at what time in any year from 221 to 224 more particularly of the People from 226 to 230 Apishness in men reprehended * 18 Excess of Apparel in the vulgar condemned * 19 A time for putting on of Apparrel 137. 156 Appearance of many Suns and Moons the reason thereof 303 Application what 110 A time for Applying Medicines to all the parts of the body 163 Aquaries its nature and quality 90 Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its rule 91 why ruled by Saturn 68 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed stars 294 Aries its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its rule 86 why governed by Mars 68 why the exaltation of the Sun and fall of Saturn 69 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed stars 94 Armour-bearers their significators general in annual judgments 220 A time for buying Arms. 184 Ascendant why so called 107 Asia its inhabitants the reason
of their several inclinations 16 Aspects names nature characters why so named and charactered partile and platick 92 dexter and sinister 93 Aspects of the Planets to the Lord of the year 235 Assistance from whence to be expected and from what kind of men 282 to obtain it of great men 197 Astrologie the definition of the word * 1 its scope or definition * 3 agreeth with Divinity * 5.4 c. one of the Liberal Sciences together with Astronomy and Physicks 2 how they became separated or so accounted ibid. how brought into contempt * 1 * 3 the best of studies and lawful 4 18 23 revealed first to Adam by God not diabolical as some weakly have endeavoured to perswade the world but a great mean rather to acquaint us with a Diety 4 38 medleth not with the secrets of God 21 most useful for Physicians 23 28 its definition 29 Legality 38 Excellency 4 warranted by Councels 37 not impugned by Divine Scripture from 30 to 36 useful for all the parts of Physick 153 Athazer what 111 Atlas fained to be the supporter of the Heavens and why 4 The Author divided by the Author * 20 his exhortation to this mad world * 22 how far he holdeth of casual Events 22 his practice or way of living 28 denieth a fatality in the Stars Influencies ibid. yet proveth they have admirable Influence in all sublunaries 4 and that they are cause of fertility and sterility 5 how far he vindicateth it 37 38 alloweth not of the resolution of Questions whereby many now-a-days enrich themselves and cheat the world and bring a scandal on the purity of Astrologie but condemneth it with the setting of Nativities as toys trifles vanities cheats and abuses of the purity of the Science of the Stars * 3 * 36 38 the cause of his putting pen to paper in any of his works * 4 * 6 what books he hath hitherto wrote 4 his manner of writing in these his Labours * 25 c. the occasion thereof and his end therein * 6 his birth breeding and life hitherto declared * 28 * 29 Author of the pretended Reply to my Lux veritatis discovered and that it is not his under whose name the Epistle thereof passeth 24 B Barreness a curse * 13 A time for Bathing 169 Beasts a time to purchase 173 Beauty real defined as vulgarly received rejected * 9 A time for Begetting Boys and Girls 152 Benevolents not alwayes Jupiter and Venus 124 Besieging what 111 Birds a time to buy 174 Blackmores why black 14 Blood-letting when convenient 170 Book the first second third of this Volumn their scope * 2 the fourth * 3 Books published by the Author * 4 A time for Borrowing of money 135 A time to purge the Brain 168 A Bridle for Youth * 9 Of buying and selling 137 to profit thereby 136 C Cancer its nature and quality corporature diseases Angel colours places 87 Regions Cities part in man under its Rule 88 why ruled by the Moon 68 why the exaltation of Jupiter and fall of Mars 69 the number names nature magnitude latitude and longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 97 Capricorn its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and Part in man under its rule 90 why ruled by Saturn 68 why the fall of Jupiter and exaltation of Mars 69 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 103 Captives a time for freeing of them 201 Carbunkle its nature 57 Castles a time to build them 143 Casualties of Cities how to judge of them 144 Cattel small and great a time to buy them 173 to tame them 174 Cautions in administring Physick laxative 166 168 Cazimi what 111 Characters used in Astrological books explained 49 77 81 91 Charactery Astrologie questioned * 3 Childhood the vanity thereof * 7 * 8 Child dead to bring forth 153 Children born at the time of an Eclipse or at the Partile Conjunction of the Luminaries live not long and why 12 A time to purge Choler 168 A time to draw cholerick blood 171 Of Christening 154 Chronick diseases how ruled 11 Chrysolite its vertue 57 Churches a time to build 145 Chyrurgery a time to use 169 Circles of Heaven their number order and motion 79 Of Circumcision 154 A time to bathe for cleanliness 169 Clergymen their significators general in Annual judgments 220 more particularly 141 Cause of Climacterical years 12 Cloathing a time to buy 137 Clysters a time for administring them 164 Why it is Colder in January when the days increase in length then in December when they are at the shortest 13 Combustion what 111 Comet why so called the many sorts thereof 318 the definition thereof 304 318 the appearance thereof an evident token of Astrologies Legality and that it is allowed of by GOD 36 in what part of the Heaven they appear Continuance Portencies how to judge thereof the birth of our Saviour foretold thereby 319 Physical reasons of their portencies 320 why seldom seen and but in one part of heaven at what time of the year the reasons of their various shapes and colours distinct significations 321 Saturnian Jovial Martial Solar and Venerial their portencies 323 Mercurial Lunar 324 significations and portencies in any of the 12 Signs from 324 to 327 when chiefly they manifest their effects 326 Conception when hindred 152 when farthered 153 Vt mulier Conciplat ut non Concipiat 178 Great Conjunctions their Number Considerations before judgement 327 of the superiours and their effects 328 Lesser their portencies 329 Hermes of Conjunctions from 330 to 333 Conjunction its nature 92 How to order the matter of Conquest in any war 179 Considerations to be had in Phlebotomie 170 Constellations hindering and farthering Phlebotomie Ibid. To know the the Contents of any writing unseen 185 Contrantiscians of the Planets how to know them their force 77 Corns a time for the cutting of them 134 Coronations a time for them 197 Covetousness most detestable * 12 What sign the Sun was in at the first Creation 214 Critical-days whence caused 11 the true knowledge of them 162 may often be hindered by Saturn 13 Custome reproved* 16 a second nature 170 cannot wholly alter the Natural Constitution of any Place or People 15 The Customs and Laws of all Nations different and why 16 D. Dead childe to deliver 153 Debility of any Planet in any Sign to know 66 Decrepit age prohibited Physick 166 Degrees how many in a sign of Heaven 79 Delectatione cum muliere jacere 178 Devil ignorant of the issue of future accidents 21 Dexter aspect what its nature 93 Direction what 110 A time for any work in the Art of Distillation 139 Dog-days why not a like contagious every year 9 A time for buying of Dogs 173 of bringing them up 174 Dragons Head and Tayl what they are their nature 76 significations in the twelve Houses in the Revolutions of the years of the world 247 in
the twelve signs of Heaven 267 268 A time for Dwelling 179 E. A time for husbanding the Earth 148 Earthquakes how occasioned signes thereof 304 Earths Semidiamiter 50 Cause of the Ebbing and flowing of the sea 11 Eclipse of the Sun the cause thereof 304 of the Moon why they happen not twice every Moneth 305 how to judge of the mutations and accidents in this Elementary world thereby from 308 to 318 that alterations do follow in the world upon the Eclipse of either Luminary and wherefore 308 an Introduction from 308 to 310 what is to be considered 310 when their effects manifest themselves Ibid. how long continue 311 to know the Lord of any Eclipse ibid. the kinds of the Events 312 quality whether good or evil from 313 to 315 of the Sun in any decanate of the 12 Signs 316 of the Moon 317 Ecliptick Circle what it is why so called 79 Education not of force sufficient to alter the natural constitution of a People or Nation 15 Egypt how watred 290 A time for Electing Kings and Governours 196 Elections ordinary slighted * 3 Elections by the Aspects of the Moon to the other Planets 129 Electuaries a time to administer 168 A time for sending Embassadors 159 Enemies a time to suppress 182 Enoch an Astrologer vid. Postscript A time for Enstaulings 197 Equator or the Equinoctial circle what it is why so called 79 To know when a Planet is Essentially dignified 65 To know the event of any war 181 Events portended by the Lord of the year 231 c. where they shall be manifested 232 of Comets 319 of Eclipses from 308 to 318 To know the Evil threatned in any year to any place 278 the cause of any evil to happen 223 Europians why of magnaminous spirits and given to wars and exploits 16 To Expel a dead child 153 Eye of the Sun a Stone so called its vertue 57 A time for administring remedies to the Eyes 163 F. Faces of the Planets their use why so called 73 their significations 74 A time for Feasting 156 To know if any Land be fertile 147 Fertility and sterility on what they depend 10 How to judge of the fertility of any year 284 Figure of Heaven what it is 20 how to frame it 112 Firmament why so called 78 First Book its Subject * 2 First-mover why so called 78 A time to fish 187 Fixed Stars no cause of plenty or scarcity 10 Tables demonstrating the Names Nature Number Magnitude Latitude and Longitude of the chiefest of them in every of the 12 signs from 94 to 106 why called fixed 94 their significations in any of the 12 houses of Heaven in Revolutions of the years of the World from 305 to 308 Flegm a time to purge it 168 Flegmatick-blood a time to extract it 171 A time for flitting or removing 138 Fluxes a time to stop them 164 Fourth Book its subject * 3 Fortunate Planets 127 A time to fowl 187 Fresh-waters why not so subject to ebb and flow 11 Friendship between Brethren a time to make 140 between any two 141 a time to obtain it of any 199 Friends how to choose them * 22 prove them and keep them * 24 Frost what it is 304 Frustration what 111 Fryers their significators general in Annual judgements 220 Fugitives a time to seek 184 Furlongs how many in a sign of Heaven 79 Future accidents to know 223 G. Galen his admonition to the Vulgar 161 Gall a time to purge 168 How to win at any game 186 A time for administring Gargarisms 165 Opening of Gates what it is 299 a cause of the change of weather 290 Gemini its nature and quality Corporature Diseases Angel Colours Places Regions Cities and part in man under its Rule 87 why ruled by Mercury 68 the Number Names Nature Magnitude Latitude Longitude of its most notable fixed Stars 96 General accidents how to judge of them by the falling of Newyears day 333 General Rules will not hold in particular affairs 128 Gentlemen their vanity in general * 20 A time for getting of Girls 152 A time for giving of Gifts 155 God worketh by causes * 4 is the God of order ibid. clearly to be seen in the order of Nature * 5 10 seldom or never perverteth its order * 5 A time for the beginning of Governments 197 A time for Graffing 150 A time for buying of great Cattel 173 Groundwork of Elections 122 H. Hail what it is how condensed 304 Hair a time for cutting of it 133 a time for applying medicines to remove what is superfluous 163 when to bathe for the same purpose 169 Haiz what 111 An Harmony between the Coelestial and Terrestrial bodies 122 bodies 122 A time for administring remedies to the Head 163 A time to bathe for Health 169 How to judge of the Health of any year 280 A time to purge the Heart 168 Heavens power and vertue admirable 5 Gods book in which all things from the beginning to the subversion of the world is written 18 order number and motions 78 division into 12 Signs 79 Heliotropion its vertue 57 A time for buying of Heritages 146 Hermophrodites when begotten 152 A time for Hiring any thing 149 servants 172 A time for obtaining the thing Hoped for 199 Horizon what it is its diversity 80 A time for buying Horses 201 Houses of Heaven what the reasons of their significations 107 108 division into 12 parts 109 how to judge of any thing signified by them 275 Houses a time for buying of them 146 for building 142 letting or hiring 149 for ridding of evil spirits 151 A time for buying of Hounds 173 A time to Hunt 187 A time for buying of Land for Husbandry 147 Hyacinth its vertue 57 Hypocrites reproved * 15 I. Jacob an Astrologer 18 Impeditions of the Moon 127 Infants prohibited Physick 166 Inferiour what 111 Inferiours ruled by Superiours 123 Influence of the Stars may be found our notwistanding the slowness of the starry sphear in less then thirty years time 7 c. may certainly be predicted notwithstanding the Revolution of the starry sphear since Ptolomies time or since the first Creation 8 c. takes not away Gods government 22 may be altered by him * 4 yet it is seldom or never seen * 5 A time for acting any thing of Ingenuity 158 Inns of Court described * 21 A short Journey what it is 140 a time for going ibid. A time of Iourneying and returning and to judge of the success therein 191 Iris a stone so called its vertue 57 Issue a blessing * 13 such as desire none reprehended ibid. Judicial days whence caused 11 the true knowledge of them 162 Jupiter his Nature and Complexion Magnitude mean and diurnal Motion Revolution Distance from the Earth Humours Quality of men signified by him Corporature greatest North-Latitude South Colours Savours Spice Hearbs and Drugs ruled by him and part of Man 52 Trees Birds mineral Stones Fishes Beasts Places Weather Winds Signs Triplicity Diseases Regions
subject and scope of the second Treatise The Second comprehending the Names Number and Characters of the Signs and Planets Celestial together with the Reasons why they were so named and charactered and why there are but just twelve Signs and neither more nor less and why the Planets are assigned Rule both by House Exaltation Triplicity Term and Face therein and the Reasons why the Signs are reckoned from Aries with the number of the Sphears their Order and Motions whereby is plainly delivered a most easie and short Introduction to the whole Art of Astrology and the great and Universal Book of the Creatures made manifestly legible to the meanest and ordinariest capacity as also sufficient grounds whereby to answer all Gainsayers and Carpers thereat and to vindicate it in every respect Of the third The Third Treateth of the Rules of the Ancients touching the Election of a time proper for the accomplishment of any manner of Work necessary in this life but more especially for the Administration of Physick letting of Blood Husbandry and the like to the which it is both effectual and lawfull though in every particular in other matters not altogether so certain except depending on the general Accidents of the World as Revolutions Eclipses Comets Great Conjunctions Blazing-Stars and the particular Nativities of men Yet I have thought fit to deliver the Instructions of the Learned in former Ages in those matters also for that they may in sundry things by the weighing and considering the Natures and Temperatures of the Celestial Signs and Planets be of much use to the Wel-willers and Students in this most Heavenly and Lawfull Science of ASTROLOGY Of the fourth The Fourth is a compendious Tract of the whole general part of the Art wherein is at large manifested the Order and Course of the Government of the World by the Natural Operations and Harmonical Motions and Aspects of the Heavens Celestial Signs Stars and Planets in Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses Great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing Stars whereby is portended the general Accidents of Countreys Kingdoms Provinces and Cities the Alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs cause of Scarcity Plenty Wars Peace Health Sickness Alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining in a Natural way to the life of Man whereby is manifest the infinite Wisdom of the Great Creator and the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by demonstration of the inevitable Events so long as God by his Providential Care upholdeth the Order and Course of Nature inviolate and unchanged Also the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practitioners of what is unlawfull for thereby may a man easily judge of any Revolution Eclipse c. or any part of them to the end of the World by being thereby instructed of the Nature and Signification of every Planet in every House and Sign of the Heavens and Aspects one amongst another and of their effects when Lords of the year and well or ill located c. In which Book if thou beest well instructed and perfected thou hast the whole body of Astrology The Body of Astrology in its Purity for neither is the Judgement of Horary Questions Ordinary Elections Charactery-Astrology Nativities or any other to be esteemed in comparison thereof but as trifles uncertainties fallacies illegalities and abuses of the purity of the Art The Reason why so many Books are Printed against Astrology For truly may I say the truth such like Practises of men unacquainted with the depth of this most heavenly Science by their frequent failings have been the main and only cause of so many Books against Astrology which is in it self so pure and undefiled that the most scrutinous Wit alive cannot have one Word for the Condemnation thereof for amongst the Learned the abuse never takes away the use of a thing for then there would be nothing under the Heavens Lawfull for we see even the Purest and most Lawfull Arts Sciences and things most abused and most apt to be counterfeited As for instance is there any thing in the World more Lawfull then Divinity in its purity and is there any thing more hard to finde or more commonly abused by false Tenets Schisms Sects and Heresies And yet if upon these grounds or out of these considerations a man should positively conclude no verity in Religion or truth in Divinity you would say that man were in a most gross Errour and very Impious Then I say let no man that is not willing to forfeit both his Reason Discretion and Understanding be so weak as without an assurance of the Nature and Quality of this most Lawfull Art which I here undertake to Vindicate and deliver to the World conclude ought against it either by Tradition or the common Voice of the World both which being known to the Judicious to be very false and to hold nothing of Credit in them The Authors first inducement to vindicate Astrologie For as it was meerly a Natural inclination within me to the Truth and the propagation thereof so far as in me lies that first drew my Pen to Paper so is it the same which maketh me now this once more appear and content my self to incur all the Currish Snarls Barkings and Bawlings of the envious and ingratefull and the same it is also that imbolbeneth me not to fear nor be danted at them it is no new thing with me to know that Dogs will bark at Strangers and such as are not of their kinde Gentlemen will shew themselves what they are and love each other but what shall I expect of Gallantry from Coblers Hay-makers Taylors and Serving-men The first occasion of his writeing The first occasion of my Writing in the Vindication of this Science was the appearance of a railing Pamphlet against it without any fear or wit to whom I returned a Reply in the year 1650. it is a short Tract of two Sheets what and who the Author thereof was you may see in the latter part of my Lux Veritatis Printed 1651. for I hold him not worthy the inserting in these my Labours The second occasion The second time of my Writing was occasioned through the weak Arguments flashes and suppositions of Doctor Homes who being a Scholler should me thinks have had more understanding then to condemn this worthy Art under the notion of Witchcraft Sorcery and such like illegalities or discretion then to rail down one of the chief of the Liberal Sciences meerly for the abuses thereof The third occasion The third was that I might manifest the innocency of this Science and the legality verity excellency and validity thereof if not abused and therefore who so shall warily peruse that Discourse of mine intituled Vox Stellarum or The Voice of the STARS Printed in the year 1652. shall be satisfied that God doth work by Causes and that he hath ordained the Stars and Celestial Planets to be immediate Causes next
unto Him of all our Natural injoyments and casualties viz. Fertility Sterility Wars Peace Health Sickness Alterations of the Ayr Inundations Earthquakes Thunders Lightnings Storms Tempests Commotions Troubles Alteration of States Kingdoms Laws Customs and of all things in a Natural way incident to and in this Elementary World for there is nothing more certain then that the Portencies of the Stars so far as conduceth to the government of the Natural and Elementary World and the things therein composed of the same matter and stuff shall prove true and effectual unless God do work a Miracle and pervert the Order and Government of the World c. I do not deny the omnipotent power of God that he is able to alter the course of Nature he that made them with and by the word of his mouth can questionless by the same word not only alter their motions and pervert their effects but also annihilate them again but as this is not by me denyed so cannot the Objectors against this Science but confess that God is the God of Order and worketh in order and not preposterously for because he can alter the course and influence of the Stars argueth not at all that therefore he will for why should this be any Argument to us since we read but of three times he hath wrought in this manner since the Creation of the World viz. first in Joshuahs time when he made the Sun stand still the second in Hezekiahs time when he made the Sun go back and the third and last time at the passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ when he miraculously Eclipsed the Sun at the time of the Full Moon which caused Dionysius the Areopagite thus to burst forth Aut Deus Naturae patitur aut Mundi machina dissolvitur Either the World is at an end or the God of Nature suffereth Wherefore it is clear God worketh not or createth new things he finished his Work in the first six days he therefore now upholdeth all things by his Providence and bringeth them to pass by secondary causes according unto his inevitable Decrees and Divine Will for it were great impiety in us and detraction from the Al-sufficient Wisdom and Power of the Almighty to affirm he hath not preordained all things to come to pass from the first Creation even to the Subversion and that they are signified unto us in the Heavens have recourse to Gerson his Trilogium Astrologiae Theologizatae for we read that before the destruction of Jerusalem there appeared a Comet in the Heavens in form of a Sword for many days Horsmen also fighting in the Ayr Josephus Bel. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. Eusebius Eccles Hist. Lib. 3. Cap. 8. presaging the overthrow thereof which was after accomplished by Titus Vespasian also before the death of Claudius Caesar there appeared a Comet for a long time and before the Civil broils in Rome Octavius being Consul and again before the War between Great Pompey and Julius Caesar as Plinie testifieth Lib. 2. Cap. 25. De Nat. And if we come neerer home we shall finde the Comet in 1618. to be the forerunner of all our late Civil Un-civil Wars in England Scotland and Ireland as well as of the Commotions and Desolations in Germany c. But this will be very clear unto us even from The word of GOD That Theologie and Astrologie agree together if we but with diligence and observation read the Histories of the Old Testament of the Subversion of Kingdoms and Nations but especially that of the Jews by the Babylonians the which People upon condition they would follow the Law of the Lord were promised to be established for ever shall any one from this Promise aver that their Kingdom was not preordained to destruction in its due time and the limitation thereof long before set down but that immediatly because they disobeyed they were destroyed and carried away captive or rather that that Age wherein they were so captivated should in the fulness of that time be so inclined to wickedness as to bring that affliction so long before threatned upon them So then these two THEOLOGY and ASTROLOGY must agree together or we shall never be able to agree in Truth but run our selves into many Errours and Absurdities In that Book also you may see how far we may safely attribute to the power of the Stars and that their effects may be altered yet but by one means viz. Prayer for if GOD give an heart to pray as it ought no question he also therewith grants the Petition requested in those Prayers Lastly my main scope and chief drift in this my fourth fourfold Work is since I have so often stood up for the maintenance of this Science to endeavour to manifest unto the World the purity thereof The Authors chief drift in these his Labors having cleansed it from its pollutions and abuses that so it may appear what TRUE ASTROLOGY is and what I maintain to be so and the abuse be not only discovered but taken away that once more it might shine gloriously and be able to stand against all Gain-sayers whatsoever For notwithstanding I had delivered my self so plainly in my former Works especially in my Vox Stellarum yet did the purity of this Science remain under the censure being by many deemed no other then jugling by others to extend no further then to the resolution of Horary Questions and the Judging of Nativities and the Fates and Fortunes of men thereby or at least that this was the main and chief subject thereof when the truth is the practise of some men in these ridiculous vanities together with some other abuses of this MOST NOBLE SCIENCE OF ASTROLOGIE have brought the purity thereof into question by the unworthy and the Science it self generally into reproach with the illiterate The Authors opinion touching Nativities and Horary Questions For I dare positively affirm and shall be ready to prove it to any Rational man That the Resolution of Horary Questions is wholly vain and uncertain as also Nativities on which they depend or at least should excepting how to Judge of the particular Constitution and Temperature of the Body and the Natural inclination of Man as I shall specifie in the 20. Chapter of the first Book of this Quadripartite fol. 38. But it may be some may here demand the Reason then I do in my Lux Veritatis undertake the Resolution of some Questions But I shall answer in that vulgar and rustical Proverb It is a good Horse that never stumbles and truly this is Language fit enough for such Horse stuff as are they I am but flesh and blood Ergo as all in my condition have failings I desire not so much as to hide my fault when I finde it either of my self or by the loving advise of others much less then do I desire to continue in an obstinate way of simplicity I must confess there are many Faults in that Tract yet not so many neither as some would perswade