appear Attended on by all the Saints i' th' Year Nor am I one of those that can Repine Cause I am Clouded to see others Shine The Freedom you Indulge is Wealth enough And which is more hath made me Cannon-Proof Heav'ns Bless your Majesty increase your Powers No Guerdon's like to that of being Yours The Humblest of Your Majesties most Faithful and Obedient Subjects and Servants G. WHARTON In his Kalendarium Carolinum for the Year 1662. are these Excellent Poems 1. Under the Table of Kings SOme Princes have been Sirnam'd Red some Black Some Tall some Crook'd as well in Mind as Back Some for their Learning some for Valour stand Admired by this Learn'd and Warlike-Land Our Gracious King 's both Black and Tall of Stature Learn'd Valiant Wise and Lib'ral too by Nature But that Adorns Him more than all the rest Is Mercy in his most Religious Breast Which mix'd with Justice makes him thus to Shine Th' Incensed Glory of the Royal Line 2. Under the Terms Now that the Saints have ceased to Purloyn And Plunder let 's indulge 'em an Essoin Charles's Appearance shew'd them their mistake And he Forgave shall we Exception make No no râ—is Blest Return refresh'd Three Nations God keep 's from any more such Long Vacations 3. In January Behold the Two great Martyrs of this Age Embracing Heaven despising Vulgar Rage Blest Laud All-glorious Charles whose Cruel Death At once astonish'd both the Heav'ns and Earth Whose Horrid Murder Clouded Church and State 'Till Second Charles did both Illuminate 4. In February Let Winchester remember Burleigh's Blood Pontsract will witness Beaumont's who withstood The unrelenting Rebels and laid down Their well-spent Lives for Charles's injur'd Crown Some Crimson-streams do stain each Leaf we turn No Month but what affords us Cause to Mourn 5. In March Heroick Capel and Couragious Hyde Both mount the Scaffold both are Crucify'd Brave Bushel Son of Neptune lost his Head His Lamp was in great haste extinguished The Fifth Commandment keeping all their Crime A grievous Sin in that All-grieving Time 6. In April Their deadly Rancour floateth now amain Whilst silly Women harmless Babes are slain By their devouring Swords Boys Act Men's parts And Scarlet Gowns look on with trembling Hearts Three Red-Coats then with Bells about their Necks Were Force sufficient London to perplex 7. In May. But O the Precious Blood this Month was shed Valour its Right-hand lost Wisdom her Head Whence the Mis-judging Rude and Brainless Croud Made Earth and Skies but one Big-belly'd Cloud Till Gracious Charles Return'd whose warmer Rays Dissolv'd it turn'd black Nights to Sun-shine Days 8. In June Thrice Reverend Hewyt Noble Slingsby Dy'd Destruction was design'd them before Try'd The very Noise poor Rats and Mice did keep Amus'd the Tyrant broke his troubled sleep How could he chuse indeed but be afraid So long as Slingsby breath'd or Hewyt pray'd 9. In July And yet the Monster means not to desist His Wo's denounc'd against the Royallist Undaunted Gerard daring Ashton dye And many more whose Hearts could not comply No Constancy like that of Cavaliers Which never shrink with Force nor sordid Fears 10. In August The Valiant Lucas Death-despising Lisle And Gallant Andrews Sacrificed while The Holy Rabble Triumph and declare How Just how Innocent their Murders were Yet still methinks the Guilt sticks in their Face Vengeance pursues 'em to their proper Place 11. In September Think now of Worcester's Great Deliverance Let 's pay our Vows 't was something more than Chance That sav'd Great Charles and Us with Him did jerk The lewd Posteriors of th' Unhallow'd Kirk And taught 'em for the future to Misken Whom once they stiled Their Dear Brethren 12. In October Lo here again how fast the Wolf pursues Let him but Catch he cares not who Accuse Darby's great Earl unto the Block he brings No Blood he spar'd when once h' had spilt his Kings Thus the Revengeful whilst they are most keen In wounding others keep their own Wounds green 13. In November Lamented Kniveton doth the next appear Martyr'd not once but Martyr'd every Year Who to assure the World his Cause was Good Let not to Seal it early with his Blood Thus Martyrs suffer yet are never slain Thus Martyrs sow themselves to grow again 14. In December The Tyger follows yet His Thirst is great And nought but Humane Blood allays his Heat Sweet Norwich Holt and Downham his Rage saw They saw the Judges too but saw no Law Judgment was turn'd to Wormwood in that day Nor Truth nor Justice challeng'd any sway In his Kalendarium Carolinum for Anno 1663. We find these Excellent Verses 1. Upon the Great Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ in â™ FOrbear Enthusiasts and aim no higher Y' are Purg'd or quite Consum'd by this New fire The many Waters whilom drown'd the Land Must all Return and keep within their Strand Kings will be Kings their Awful Scepters sway The People Prompt and Zealous to Obey Now Holy Church will offer Holy things And burn her Incense under Angels Wings No Leper shall approach her Sacred Quire None touch her Altars cannot touch the Lyre Old Laws shall be Reviv'd and New ones made Wise Men arise and Fools run Retrograde Empires and Monarchies confirm'd Erected Churches Repair'd and Holy Ground Protected Tranquillity succeeds our Brutish Wars Balsoms our Wounds pours Oyl upon our Scars Commerce and Traffique then receives Increase Merchants adventure all things but their Peace Fanatick Spirits in short time forget What Principles they own'd in their Mad Fit Repining Tradesmen and Poor Handicrafts Turn Morning-Lectures into Morning-Draughts And wonder by what Wild-fires they were Led To feed on Thistles ' stead of wholsome Bread So Plain so Ugly now the Cheat appears 'T is lay'd aside for half three hundred Years 2. Under the Table of Kings The Presbyterian Oracle's a Witch For true it is as bruted by the Bitch We shall turn all Idolaters Who can Now Britain's Monarch so much more then Man Enjoy's an Angel darts such Rays Divine Do less than Worship Charles and Katherine 3. Under the Table of Terms Our Sacred Laws dispens'd with Spotless Hands Secure our Lives our Liberties our Lands But whilst th' unhallow'd Oliverian Crew Profane the Bar we hazard All anew I wonder with what Foreheads they appear T' Advance what by themselves subverted were 4. In January What still more Mischief yet more Plots on foot Design'd and Manag'd by the Rabble-Rout Plots of mean Extract and low Undertaking Shews Lord nor Lady save of Cromwel's making But such poor Snakes as our own Bosoms bred Which being all Tayl want Brains to make a Head 5. In February But form'd they have another Sion's Plea Full fraught with Treason and the Canting-Yea For Liberty to Plunder Fire and Kill First whom they can and next who e're they will Caesar himself from whence our Peace doth spring Shall have no Quarter 'cause they 'd have no King 6. In March The
and increase of Faith and the Exercise of Christian Religion than that Men should have certain Days whereon frequently to meet in the publick Assembly to hear the word of God seeing that Faith cometh by hearing thereof Therefore hath the Christian Church very worthily set apart certain Festivals Holy-Days or Solemnities and Commanded the same to be Religiously observed in the publick Congregation that so all daily Labours and Politick Affairs being laid aside we might thereon entirely apply our selves to the publick service of God to reading and Holy Meditation with Joy and Gladness as well of Mind as Body The first of which is the Lords-day or the weekly Feast of the Resurrection of Christ not instituted by Christ or God himself but by the Apostles of Christ in the room of the rejected Jewish Sabbath To the end 1. That Christians might not seem to be tyed and obliged to Judaism and the Ceremonies of the Jews or rather their superstitions but testifie the abrogation of the Mosaical Feasts and manifest the Liberty received by Christ. 2. That as the Jewish Sabbath did continually bring to mind the former world finished by Creation so the Lords-day might keep us in perpetual remembrance of a far better world begun by Him who came to restore all things to make both Heaven and Earth new for which cause They Honoured the Last-day We the First in every Seven throughout the Year 3. Because that Christ on this day Rose from the Dead perfected the work of Man's Redemption and so entred into the Glory of the Kingdom of the New Testament 4. That we can by no other Creature more congruously apprehend the Majesty of the Mighty and Supereminent Christ than by the most Glorious Light of the Sun the Ruler of this Day for it is written Et in Sole posuit Tabernaculum suum exiit de tribu Juda cujus signum Leo est Solare Animal The other Holy-days we divide into General that is such as are generally celebrated of all men and termed Solemnities as the Circumcision Epiphany Purification Annunciation Resurrection Ascension Pentecost Trinity c. and Particular which are kept but by some particular Church or of some whole Country or Communion called Commune as the Holy-days constituted in memory of the Apostles or else by some one Bishops See Parish or Town called the proper Holy-days of the Place as the days of some Saints or Martyrs Quae tamen Omnes saith Origanus sive universales sive particulares sint vel per integrum diem vel matutino saltem tempore Sacrae habeantur They are again divided in respect of the days whereon they fall in the Calendar into Moveable and Fixed The Moveable Feasts are those which howsoever they are celebrated on the same week-day have yet no fixed seat in the Calendar but in divers years fall upon sundry days of the Month. Such are all the Lords days throughout the year and so indeed the interjected Days which are Fixed to Certain Weeks Whereof in the first place The Lords Day when any happens betwixt the Feast of Circumcision and Epiphany hath no certain name assigned it save only the First or Second Sunday which it is after Christmass But the Lords days that follow after the Epiphany are denominated according to the Numeral Order by which they succeed the same As the First Sunday after it is called the First Sunday after Epiphany The Next the Second c. Whereof there are in some years Four in other years more or fewer according to the greater or lesser Quantity of the Intervallum Majus Howbeit the Sunday next preceding that of Septuagesima is always the last of the Sundays after Epiphany The next Four Lords days are thus nominated viz. Septuagesima Sexagesima Quinquagesima and Quadragesima the first three whereof had their Names from the Order by which they precede Quadragesima As Quinquagesima is so called because the next anteceding Quadragesima So of the rest Septuagesima is said to have been instituted for three Reasons 1. For Suppletion that is supplying or making up of that which lacketh For in regard some have not only not Fasted upon the Friday and therefore Sexagesima instituted as anon I shall tell you but neither also upon Saturday because thereon our Saviour Rested in the Grave in token of our future Rest And indeed 't is noted out of St. Augustine that the People of Asia and some others grounding their practice on a certain Tradition of the Apostles did not Fast upon the Saturday to supply therefore the Seven days of Sexagesima was thereunto added this Week or Se'n-night called Septuagesima 2. For the Signification thereof In that by this time of Septuagesima is denoted unto us the Exile and Affliction of Mankind from Adam to the End of the World and therefore are all Songs of Joy intermitted by the Church during the time of Septuagesima 3. For Representation of the Seventy years Captivity in Babylon wherefore as then the Israelites laid aside their Instruments saying Quomodo cantabimus Canticum Domini c. So the Church her Songs of Praise during all this time As touching Sexagesima you must know that Melchiades Bishop of Rome and Martyr who flourished Anno Christi 311. instituted that none should Fast upon Friday because of the Lords Supper and Ascension as upon that day so neither on the Sunday which being the First day of the week Solemnizeth the Resurrection thereby to put a difference between the Christians and Gentiles Therefore it pleased the Antients for Redemption of the Fridays in Quinquagesima to add this other week to the Fast which they call'd Sexagesima Now concerning Quinquagesima Forasmuch as the Church hath Commanded a Fast consisting of Forty days before Easter called Quadragesima or the Holy time of Lent wherein there is but Thirty six days besides the Lords Days on which she fasteth not in regard of her Joy for his Resurrection Therefore to supply this defect there were Four days of the precedent week added to the Quadragesimal Fast. After which it was first by Telesphorus Bishop of Rome and Martyr who Flourish'd Anno Christi 141. And since that by Gregory the Great Decreed That all Priests should begin their Fasts Two days sooner viz. Two days before the Four so added To the end that as they preceded the People in Dignity so they might precede them also in Sanctity Wherefore to the Week of Quadragesima was this other added named Quinquagesima Which is also called Esto mihi from the entrance of the Ecclesiastical Caution thereon used taken from Psalm 30.3 Esto mihi in Deum Protectorem c. Of the Fast of Lent VErstegan saith That the Old Saxons called March by the Name of Lenct-Monat that is according to our New Orthography Length-Month because that then the days did first begin to exceed the Nights in Length And this Month being by our Ancestors so called when they received Christianity and consequently therewith the
and almost at the Brink of Destruction But the Turkish Empire began in the First Quadrant with the Law of Mahomet and hath been most swiftly augmented proportionably to the Motion thereof being at this Day wherein the Eccentricity is at the least in a Flourishing Estate But shall henceforward be diminished until the other Quadrant and alike swiftly God so pleasing hasten to Destruction Indeed according to Tycho and others of the besâ— Astronomers the Eccentricity is already notably increased viz. unto Part 2. 9′ or thereabouts Lausbergius makes it Part 2. 6′ 21″ Insomuch that if the Christians of Europe could but henceforth lay aside their Ambition and Avarice and Live at Peace among themselves the God of Nature presents them with an Age wherein they may totally subvert and lay waste the Empire of â—he Turks and put a speedy Period to the Law of their Prophet Mahomet A Third Cause is the change of the Obliquity of the Zodiack which when at the greatest according to Bullialdus is 23° 52′ 53″ And this was Anno Nabonassari 381. 367 years before the Nativity of Christ. When at the least 23° 31′ 7″ and that fell out Anno Christi 1434. so that the mean betwixt these is 23° 42′ 00″ In the year 1653. the greatest Obliquity of the Zodiack was 23° 31′ 55″ For the Motion of the Anomaly of the Zodiack's Obliquity was 6s. 21° 49′ The Prosthaphaeresis 0′ 48″ which added to the least Obliquity 23° 31′ 7″ gives us 23° 31′ 55″ as before So that the Obliquity of the Zodiack is now likewise increasing for it still increaseth and diminisheth with the Suns Eccentricity Whereby it appears that the Axis of the Earth's Poles by little and little changes its Inclination to the Plane of the Zodiack through some Motion of the Libration But to find out the Physical Cause thereof my Reason concludes it almost impossible For as Bullialdus truly saith Scimus rem esse sed causam motus illius ignoramus nâ—c potest humani Ingenii acumen pervidere causas illas We know saith he there is such a Motion but are ignorant of the Cause thereof nor can the subtilty of Humane Wit throughly perceive those Causes A Fourth Cause is â—he Conjunction of the â—wo Superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter which according to Cardanus is three-fold Great Mean and Lesser The Lesser are they which happen in Signs of the same Nature or Trigon with others preceding them and so cannot occasion any great Change yet are not without their peculiar Effects as you may see in Cardâ—n Seg. 5. Aphor. 48. Of these there be ten in Number which do orderly succeed one another in the space of less than 200 Years The Mean are they which fall out in a differenâ— Trigon yet not in such as are altogether contrary is qualities that is when the Conjunctions pass from a Fiery into an Earthy Sign out of an Earthy into an Airy or from an Airy into a Watry Sign as from Ariâ—s into Capricorn out of Capricorn into Libra from Libra to Cancer As touching these it is certain they produce sundry Operations For they alter in one respect or other the Estate of Empires Kingdoms Common-wealths and Countries causing some new Empires and Kingdoms to emerge Like as that of Alâ—xander the Great in an Airy the Persians in an Earthy and that of Mahomet in a Watâ—y as you may read in Cardan Sâ—g 1. Aphor. 73. And of these Conjunctions if so be you account frâ—m the change of the Fiery Trigon into the Earthy thâ—re falleth out always three within the space of 596 Yearâ— The First in the Earthy the Second in the Airy and the Third in the Watry Trigon But they are called Great Conjunctions which begin to be Celebratâ—d in the Fiâ—ry Trigon chiefly in Aries the first Sign of thâ— Zodiack For when there shall be a Transit made from a Watry into a Fiery Sign which are as contrary â—ach to other in thâ—ir prime quâ—lities as Fire is to Water then also do great Mutations succeed all the World over And this is clear'd to all Men who have been â—ut never so little conversant in History For if we Calculate backward and allow for each of these Great Conjunctions 794 Years and about a half we shall be reduced from the Year 1603. in which there happened a Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagittary to the Year of Christ 809. in which the Roman Empire Destroyed by continual Wars is at length reformed and augmented under Charles the Great Thence to the Year of Christ 15. soon after which succeeded a great Mutation both of the State Ecclesiastical and Political From thence to the Year preceding Christ 779 soon after which followed the Institution of the Olympick Games and Times the Birth of Romulus and Râ—mus the Building of Rome and a grievous Affliction of the Kingdom of Israel by Tiglath Pileser King of the Assyrians and at length a Destruction thereof by Salmanassar his Successor Hence we recede to the 1574. Year before Christ near unto which Moses was Born who afterwards led the People of Israel out of Egypt by a Divine Power Thence to the Year 2368. within one Age after which followed the Universal Deluge afterwards to the Year 3163. and at length to the Year 3957. about which God Created the World of Nothing And 't is good Reason that like as Rome was Built a little after the beginning of the fifth Fiâ—ry Trigon the first being that under which the World was Created and afterwards by little and little increased and amongst other Cities the great Assembly of the Inhabitants People and Kingdoms she has subdued bore up her Head until at length about the sixâ—h Fiery Trigon she had reduced very many Kingdoms of Europe Asia and Africa to the Form of a Monarchy and Sovereign Empire and flourished in great Glory and that from thence the Empire bâ—ing divided into two East and West was observed to be fallen to decay been troubled with Intestine Wars and exhausted by the Alienations of Kingdoms and Provinces until about the seventh Trigon it was restored by Charles the Great and in some sort received its Pristine Beauty So also shall this Empire at this time under the eighth Fiery Trigon sustain great Mutations which I rather leave to Experience than Prostitute my own Judgment at so easie a rate Nor do only the Great Mean and Lesser Conjunctions of the two Superiours but also their Opposite and Quartile Configurations design great Mutations in the World as you may read in Cardan Seg. 5. Aphor. 49. and Seg. 7. Aphor. 6. Other Causes are Comets or counterfeit Stars c. such as that whereof Josephus Bell. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. makes mention which appeared for a years space in the form of a Fiery Sword over the City Jerusalem fore-warning her Destruction or as that at the Death of Mahomet seen at High-Noon in the shâ—pe also of a Sword which continued the space of a Month
the Office of the First Moveable That the same part of the Earth by the motion of the whole body thereof continually cometh into the Aspect of New parts of the Stellified Heaven whereby that part of the Earth shall be forthwith changed de novo unless we deny it all power of Operating thereupon Whether therefore there be no other Heavens above that of the Fixed Stars unknown I confess to the Aegyptians Chaldaeans Plato Aristotle Hyparchus and even to Ptolomy himself Or whether More according to the Alphonsins yet this is most certain and not contradicted by any That in Mundane Bodies as the Earth Water Air Fire and Heavens there is some First and Supream than which there cannot be any higher otherwise should they be infinite in Operation And also that these very Bodies are the universal Causes of Physical Mutations and subordinate one to another in Operation Therefore in that Subordination there must likewise be one first and supream Physical cause which acteth by it self and borroweth not of any former the power of Operation And from that the Middle and from these the Lowest do receive their vertue of Action Otherwise this Subordination of Causes should it self be quite overthrown For why should the Middle be said to be Subordinate to the Supream and the Lowest to the Middle in their Operation if that which is lower received no influx or vertue from that which is Superiour unto it And can the Lowest without the Influence of the Middle or these without the Influence of the Highest of themselves produce any Effect The First Cause therefore of all things can be no other than the Supream Heaven which if according to the Doctrine of the Ancients it move it moveth also the Bodies that be thereunto inferiour yet is not it self moved by any other Body superiour unto it And if according to Kepler it be immoveable and indued with Stars it hath influence at least upon the Bodies that be subordinate to it but receiveth not influence from any other Therefore either way the First Heaven shall be the First Cause or the first Physical beginning of Physical Effects and Changes For 't is but expedient that the First beginning in every kind should be the most perfect Therefore shall the First Heaven be in the Lineage of Efficient Causes which are of the most universal and powerful Active vertue which is the greatest perfection of an Efficient Cause so that there is no Inferiour Corporeal Cause which it moveth not or into which it instilleth not a vertue or power of Operation and nothing anew generated in the whole World which this vertue of it self toucheth not Which being granted how can any Man doubt but that every thing which is generated and born de novo should be referred to that First Cause thereof For it must be referred either to some part of that Heaven or to that whole Heaven But it ought to be referred to the whole Heaven For the First heaven is not the First and most Universal Cause secundum aliquam sui partem according to some part of it but secundum se totum according to the entire Body thereof Therefore every Sublunary Effect so far as it may be considered secundum se totum to wit in its Beginning Vigour Declination and Destruction must be referred to the whole heaven yet not confusedly but distinctly and orderly as the most orderly motion of Heaven it self requireth For as the whole Effect and whatsoever doth happen from Heaven during the same correspond to the whole Heaven and yet the Beginning is not the End thereof so what was in Heaven of it self the Cause of its Beginning this same thing shall not of it self be the Cause of the End thereof for so no Effect should continue nor indeed any be produced But as the Beginning Vigour Declination and End of things do differ and succeed one another So the Coelestial Causes of these likewise differ amongst themselves and must succeed one another But in Heaven Difference and Succession are not unless in respect of the parts thereof Therefore in Heaven are certain parts that be the Causes of the beginning of things or which do govern the same Others succedent to those which rule the Vigour others that rule their Declination and lastly such as govern the End or Destruction of things What part of Heaven then Nature her self guiding and teaching us shall we call the First Cause of the Natural Beginning of every thing Surely that which in the very Beginning of the thing ariseth above the Horizon thereof and arising causeth the thing it self also to arise For certain it is that of all the places of Heaven the East is more powerful than the rest as is testified by all Astrologers concerning the Rising Culminating and Setting of the Stars and as Experience it self convinceth in the Change of Air. But a Cause is said to be onely more Powerful in respect of a stronger and more difficult Effect Therefore the stronger and more difficult Effect of things must be attributed to the Ascendant Part of Heaven which none will deny to be the Rise or Production of those things But successively that Part of Heaven which is more elevated above the Horizon and possesseth the Mid-heauen in the Rise or Beginning of the thing shall have the Government of the vigour and Operative vertue thereof That which setteth at the same time the Declination of it from its perfect estate And lastly That which obtains the Bottom of Heaven shall be taken for the Cause of its Corruption And this is the simple and of all others the first Division of Heaven whereby it is truly and rationally fitted for the Begetting Increase and Alteration of all Physical things from their own Nature and at length corrupting them And which onely the Ancient Astrologers frequently used in their General and Particular constitutions of Heaven as appears by Holy in the Figure of the Comet which happened in his time For that either a more scrupulous Division of Heaven was harder in those days for want of Astronomical Tables Or because this Division might generically contain whatsoever another could more specially But when once some Astrologer had observed that Heaven was both made and moved rather for the sake of Man than any other Animate or Inanimate Creatures and how many things agreed to Man himself in respect of his more Divine Nature which did not in any wise to more ignoble Creatures He supposed that for Man's own sake also the whole Circle of Heaven was rationally Divided into Twelve parts by great Circles drawn through the intersections of the Horizon and Meridian and cutting the Aequator in so many equal parts which he called Houses the first whereof he placed in the East and delivered to Posterity That it governed the Life of Man and from thence might be had and drawn a conjectural knowledge and judgement concerning Life That the 2. which followâ—th the first according to the Motion of the Planets
the Miâ—â—ries a Man suffereth in his whole life-time Now for that all these are Enemies to Life therefore are they contained under the onely consideration of an Enemy in the 12. house which is truly callâ—d the valley of miseries and immediately followeth in this Triplicity according to the Motion of the Aequator 3. The last Affliction inhabiting the 8. House is the Death of man himsâ—lf which is an End of this Temporal and the Beginning of an Eternal Life wherefore according to the second motion or the motion of the Planets which is from West to East there is an entrance made from the 8. house into the 9. which is the house of Life in God whereby man is given to understand that he is to pass by the second motion of the Soul which is attributed to the mind or reason as the first and rapt mâ—tion is to the Body or sensitive appetite from a Tâ—mporary Death unto a Life in God which is Eternal Therefore in these Triplicities that which is First in the order of nature or dignity possesseth alway the more noble houses viz. the Angular That which is second succedent houses according to the motion of the Aequator And that which is last Cadent which are also succedent according to the motion of the Ecliptick or Planets Now I beseech you what is he will suppose this Division of the 12 Coelâ—stial houses by Triplicities appearing in this so excellent a consent and in such wonderful order to be in any wise feigned or casual Or whether by chance such consents are wont to be in things so abstruse and intermixed Or if altogether fictitious whether therefore altogethâ—r wanting a Natural Foundation which before I have plainly proved to be false and now made that most orderly consâ—nt of the Houses themselvâ—s manifest Therefore is this Division Natural and ordâ—ined by great wisdom as comprehending at least generically all worldly things that can possibly be enquired of or concerning Man forasmuch as the knowledge of Contraries is the same and that an â—ffirmative or negative may be sought of any thing belonging to any house For example Seeing Man by the force of natural light knoweth that there is one God who made and governeth the world and therefore to be worshipped and Loved above all as the Trine Aspect made from the first house the cause of all inclinations to the 9. which is the house of Religiâ—n by the first principles of nature insinuateth from the Stars and Planets or their Aspâ—cts râ—sident in the 1. and especially in the 9. may judgment bâ— given whether the native shall be inclinced to the woâ—ship oâ— God and to Râ—ligion or the contrary And so câ—â—câ—â—niâ—g other things of this nature In like manner conjecture is made from the 7. house whether he shall lead a married or a single life From the 5. whether he be fruitful and to have issue or the contrary and so of the rest of the other houses Moreover this light of the Triplicities doth very clearly distinguish the things which belong to every House per se and manifests their Errors who judge from the purpose by inconvenient or Repugnant Houses For example In a manner all Astrologers do suppose but â—rroneously that health and sickness belong to the 7. and 6. Houses per se whereas indeed they depend upon the Temperament which is the Seat of Life and therefore ought judgment to be given concerning them from the First House per se but the judgment deduced from other Houses is only per accidens that is as you shall find the Malevolent Planets or their Beams upon which the horoscope falls by Direction or which shall come by Direction to the horoscope it self or to the opposition or Square thereof during the Life of the Native And therefore if Saturn or Mars shall at the Moment of his Birth be found in the 2. or 6. House from these Houses shall judgment be given per accidens of a Saturnine or Martial disease to happen when the horoscope comes by Direction to Saturn or Mars in the 2. Or when Saturn or Mars shall come by Direction to the opposite of the horoscope in the 7. Therefore judgment per se is always referred to the horoscope The like of other Houses which Ptolomy especially seems highly to pervert but would have said otherwise had he known this Cabal of the Houses which so perfectly distinguisheth the proper house of evâ—ry thing Much more might be said concerning these Triplicities conducing to the natural light of Praedictions which here I omit presuming I shall abundantly satisfie as well the Friends as Enemies of Astrology if from the Doctrine proposed I do give a full and clear Answer to the beforementioned importunate Questions put to Astrologers concerning these houses Therefore to the first Question I say that heaven is divided into 12 Houses and no more because every one of the 4 Cardinal parts of heaven which govern the beginning vigour Declination and Death of things do by a Trine Aspect behold two other Caelestial parts which be of its own Nature whence shall arise three places out of each of the 4. Cardinal of the same nature for three times 4. doth make neither more nor less than 12. To the second I say that the first House is called the House of Life because a man is said first to Rise upon this Scene of the world when first he draws the Breath of this Life and therefore seeing that the first breathing of this Life is the beginning thereof it must be placed in the East as the beginning of every other Physical thing To the third I answer that it matters not as to the instituting of Caelestial Influxes or Praedictions what number any House be called by whether 2.3 or 4. provided heaven be divided as before into four Triplicities and the nature of the Houses not changed Yet the Physical order of the Houses is from the East to the South into the West agreeable to the Motion of the first and most universal Physical cause according to whose parts succeeding one another by that motion are the principal Estates or Ages of all generable things contained according to their succession before related in the Equator the principal Circle of the first cause and so Physically the House of Enemies is the second in order the House of Friends the third the House of Magistracy the fourth and so forth But mystically or Analogically the Numerical order begins from the East by the North Angle to the West the reason whereof is this There are two Motions in the heavens the first is of the first Moveable termed the Rapt-motion the second of the Planets who notwithstanding the Rapt-motion by which they are wheel'd about inviolably observe the Laws of their own Moderate motion ordained to the contrary of the former There are also two Motions in Man who is called the Microcosine one of the sensitive Appetite which is the Motion of man in as much as he is
where she overflows The Fertile Banks yet never further goes Without a Miracle tâ—an Natures Bounds Or if we think she do 't is where some Towns Encroach upâ—â— hâ—r 〈◊〉 â—or she Is full as constant fâ—r more just than we 7. In January All hail my Masters I must now implore Your Ticket for a twelve Months Recreation I know no Plot save that which keeps us poor And this of mine to gain your Approbation All my Designs lurk in these Rural strains My Guts Conspire indeed but not my Brains 8. In February I Honour all that have a Soveraign Pow'r Extol their Prowess be it more or less Admire them growing in a golden showre Observe but point not at their vain excess The Sun's defects seen in a line direct Hurt th' Eyes not when in Water they reflect 9. In March I pray for Kings and think 't a Pious deed Good Princes very well deserve our Pray'rs But thereof bad ones sâ—and the most in need For such be sure do stand on slippery stairs And like to Iron generate the rust From their own substance turns 'em into dust 10. In April I 'm hugely taken with the Golden Train Those lofty Stars which glide along this Sphere Yet Greatness without Goodness I disdain A Spungie Head full ill becomes a Peer Persons of Honour should have Princely parts No empty Cock-lofts or deceitful Hearts 11. In May. I Reverence Justice on the meanest seat She was a Vertue once though now a wonder I like sweet words intended not to cheat And works of Mercy not too far asunder But Cruelty how that would make me swagger Were it not common both to Sword and Dagger 12. In June I love the Ministry all but the name That Motly and promiscuous Appellation Which mingleth Dung-hill Dirt with Austin's Fame With Holy Writ pretended Revelation Give me the Priest disdains to tell a Lye That Priest who dare for his Religion die 13. In July I like the Comm'nalty that Sov'raign Pow'r Whilst not to Faction or Revenge dispos'd But Commons over-stinted or too sowre Are best improved when they are inclos'd Who gives a Giddy Multitude the Reins O're-whelms the State betrays his want of Brains 14. In August I own the Camp where Gallantry Commands Where Arts and Arms advance their awful Crosts But wish the Cramp befall such Victors Hands As cannot Conquer their Ambitious Brests Success enlarges Mens desires nay more It breeds some thoughts they dream'd not on before 15. In September I hug the Souldier dreads no violent end For stoutest Men such Fortune often have It is the Cause not Mode of Death shall send Us Glorious or Inglorious to the Grave He who'll avoid a shameful Death must run The danger of a brave one and 't is done 16. In October I fancy well our great Metropolis She harbours store of Men and store of Riches There is no sounding of that vast Abyss What wonder then if London wear the Breeches Yet must this Darling now and then untruss Correction keeps her most Obsequious 17. In November But O the Country free from jarring-strife Where Plants and Flow'rs abound with Eloquence Where ev'ry Hedge and Tree doth breath new Life Where pratling Birds do captivate my sense There I sequestred from the World abide And if needs must there I 'le be Crucifi'd 18. In Decembâ—r Thus in an Humour purely Innocent I add one Year more to a careful Age No more of this till freed from my Restraint I cannot chant like Birds within a Cage Yet know I have although my aim's not high Seleucus-like an Anchor on my Thigh 19. His Conclusion Thus have our melting Eyes England beheld With smooth-fac'd Peace and wanton Plenty swell'd Into a Monster so unweildly grown Her own vast weight depress'd her Princely Crown A Brutish War â—ore Church and State asunder Fool'd us with Fears fill'd all the World with wonder The fairest Sâ—â—rs losing their sacred light And cheâ—rfâ—l dâ—y turn'd into drowâ—ie Night Th' Aâ—tipodes true Mirrour of the Cause Re-aâ—ted through three Nations with applause Bâ—t EXIT OLIVER whilst yet we lend Oâ—r Patience till the PLAY be at an end In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1660. We meet with thâ—se several Excellent and true Verses 1. Under the Regal Table WHere 's now the Sultan What remorsless Star Remov'd that Famous Idol Olivar Unwelcom Death But what flint-hearted Fate That Mushrome-Prince his Son Our glorious State Thus then we see what luck Protâ—ctors have A restless Life or Ignominious Grave 2. Under the Table of Terms Lo here 's a Trade surpasseth all the rest No change annoys the Lawyers Interest His Tongue buys Lands builds Houses without toyl The â—en's his Plough the Parchment is his Soil Him Storms disturb not nor Militia-Bands The Tree Roots best that in the Weathâ—r stands 3. In January And is He gone indeed Then farewel He Farewel to all our New Nobility Good-night Illustriousness Adieu old Joan The Kitchen better fits you than a Throne Lay ' side your Purple and your Râ—bes off cast Play'rs are but Princes while the Play doth last 4. In February About my Muse and try if thou can'st find What pow'rful Charm rais'd that Prodigious Wind Some dis-affected Conjurer I trow Did long to hear what News there was below But others think the Devil was matched so His breath grew short and so was forc'd to blow 5. In March But where be those fine Juglers did Address Such sugred Phrase such smooth Obsequiousness That vow'd to live and die with Richard yet Ne'r blemisht when they saw his glory set Such Hypocrites run with the stream of things And will keep Time whatever Dance begins 6. In April O for a Besom now to sweep the House And rid the Palace both of Fox and Goose Some choice Perfumes withal would be design'd Ill Spirits ever leave ill scents behind And when 't is cleansed and things sweeter grown Great Berecynthia's Sons go claim your own 7. In May. What 's to be done now all are grown so Wise And our fore-Fathers Wisdom counted Lies Were all the many Ages that are past Mistaken until this un-erring Last Good God! how sped they shall none saved be But Schismaticks Then what becomes of me 8. In June But 't is the Mode Come come let 's all comply There 's no firm footing on Integrity For having said and done all what we can The Pliant Willow is the Precious Man Whose Oaths of one day though of fair pretext Vail to an Inspiration of the next 9. In July Down then with Tythes they are a burthen great For which the Parson never soundly sweat Yet let 's remember maugre all new light He that detains them robs God of his right And though to him the tenth we should not pay The Publicans will sweep it all away 10. In August Let 's lay the Clergy by What need we Priests Or Ministers w' are all Evangelists The Bible's English thank the Bishops for
seldom happen do make the most Noble and Excellent Impression Such be the Conjunction and Sextile of Venus and Mercury the Conjunction and Trine of Saturn and Jupiter So also of Jupiter and Mars Jupiter and the Sun Jupiter and Venus likewise the Trine of Mars and Mercury The Moon also partily supputated in an Angle or begirt with the Favourable Ray of a Noble Star c. yet more or less according to the Quarters of Heaven and the Places of the Zodiack The presence of the more Notable Fixed Stars do hereunto contribute very much of strength So also they whom the Position of the Stars shall encline to the contrary But there is so Beneficent a Vertue Planted in this Science or Predestination and so great LOVE that to forewarn us of Future Events the Times whereof the Dirâ—ctions of places in Corrected Genitures which I certainly know by often Experience manifest she often premits her Signatures in this or that Place of the Hand thâ—t if Fortunate Events be near a Man might happily know thereof and by his Endeavour Nourish and Enlarge the same to his Benefit But if any Misfortunes that he would and might be careful in Averting at leastwise in Mitigating the Evils ensuing And indeed concerning the LOVE extended in the First Creation unto all things Celestial and Terrestrial not withstanding an Adjunct or Opposite Strife elsewhere a whoâ—â— Volume might be writâ—â—n See the Golden Commâ—ntaries of Marsilius Ficinus upon Plato's Bâ—nquet of Love We daily Observe how some Lines are quite Vanished which were but even now in our Hands and that other arise in Lieu thereof with a different Face Some to wax Pale and others to Flourish with a kind of Ruddyness c. and indeed deride them all as Vain and Casual But yet now that Experience her self hath by several practises reduced all to an Art we cannot be so Impudent and Stupid as to deny them to contain some Events Indeed 't is requisite that the Cause or Beginnings both of the Signatures themselves and the Affections therein should not elsewhere reside than in that very Science of the Soul oâ— the World sending as it were her Standard before-â—and by the peculiar Stars and Progressions of the Stars of every Man For unless this Imaginaâ—â—â—n Science Faâ—e or Predâ—stination preceded by a certain perpetual Power nothing could be Generated nothing Increased Visible cannot be made of Invisible things Corporeal of Incorporeal The Shapes Magnitudes Colours Odours and other Signatures of Bodies will not be unfolded whether the Efflux of Nourishment be Plentiful or but small For that they have not the Foundations Roots or Principles under whose Power Protection and Patronage they might be received into the Society of a New Republick He that is oppressed with Thirst conceives in his Mind a Species of Familiar Liquor That Appetite is an Individual Companion of this Imagination And such an Imagination is Thirst made by such an Appetite The same is the desired Liquor to this Imagination because the Species that made the Imagination is the Property of the Liquor and the Liquor by means of such Imagination may satisfie Predestination Science Fate Therefore what is a Nutriment requisite to a Living Body the same is the Impletion of the Events or Impressions the Conceptions and Signatures of Worldly knowledge whether it be for good or bad which very thing the most Laudable Idea of Philosophical Physick of Peter Severine the Dane a most Excellent Man in Truth and a very Nervous Writer doth also direct us to This therefore that effects so great things in the World by a Natural and Inseparable Love is also employed in delinâ—ating the Hands of Men signifying whatsoever things a Man doth and they for the most part are in one manner or other described in the Hand it self Here we except such things as ought to be excepted The Will of Man is not in every part subjected to the Decrees of the Stars neither also that saying If today I feed upon Flesh whether shall I Dine to Morrow with Cole-worts or Carrots c. which are here added to remove timely the Objections of Fools But if you desire to know wherefore these Signatures are found in the Hand and perhaps not in any other Part of the Body you must conceive that our Hands are the most Noble Members in perfecting of all manner of Actions they are the Executors of all our Primary Conceptions Insomuch that if we wanted the Benefit of our Hands for a few days it must needs be we should all of us Perish together That therefore our Fate for the most part and our Power are very much reposed in our Hands we even not knowing it openly testifie when with closed Hands we make them Petitioners to GOD or any Man truly declaring we can do nothing of our own strength we despise and reject these Flaggs of our Fate folded up like those of War and yet that one thing which we humbly crave they obtain and make good unto us as if some Sacrament were interposed betwixt them I know not of whom such things as these may seriously be considered on in their Prayers It may now be Asked wherefore the Excellent Positures of the Stars do not always shape and depaint the Lines very clear in our Hands I have seen a Noble Man in whose Geniture all the Seven Planets were Collocated in their Dignities yet were not the Lines perspicuous in the most parts of his Hands but rather Obscure I have seen another Nobly Descended in whose Nativity Mercury was Excellently well Posited in Gemini and in the Cuspe of the Tenth Yet the place of this Star had afforded him at that time no perspicuous Signatures in his Hand but such as were dark and slender when notwithstanding this Planet was both strong and Fortunate in the Geniture and also at the time of Conception Besides the same Planet dispos'd of the Horoscope and was moreover Lord of the New Moon preceding the Nativity Now how the Power and Dominion of this Star then so strong and Powerful should be thus Impedited is the Quâ—stion It may be again Demanded how it comes that sometimes you find a Diversity of the Principal Lines in both Hands I have seen the Epatica of the Right Hand adhering in some to the Line of Life but in the Left Hand the same Remote from the Vital by a notable space Which we have also mentioned somewhere else in our Practick part Touching these we must know that many times the Seed of the Parents proves a great Impediment to the Superiour Commotions For indeed the Seed receiveth one Condition from Parents that live in Concord and Temperately but another from such as live in Discord and Anxieties especially about the time of Conception Besides there is in either Parent a certain Pattern of the Imagination of the Macrocosm both of them receiving from every part thereof sundry Impressions And therefore when the Imagination of the Greater World is one way
affected about the Conception and the Fathers and Mothers another way it must needs be that some Discrepancy will hence arise But the Impression of the Mothers Imagination is vulgarly known as much as may be at the time of the Birth The finding out of all Causes is very Abstruse Nevertheless as touching those who have the Lines of either Hand appearing with a different Face we cannot otherwise appoint and Pronounce but that such are disposed and inclined to a double Fortune Good and Bad. And now at length being about to put a Period to this our Tract we earnestly desire all Learned Men that whatsoever they know in Chiromancy as having made some certain Tryal thereof they will be pleased freely to contribute the same to these our Endeavours I confess I have not every where in my Praxis satisfied my own self I know what Experience I have need of to Compleat an Absolute Praxis And other Men also may know I have Assay'd to dig at some such thing It had been requisite to have annexed somewhat of The Soul of the World and of what appertaineth thereunto as well lest some should Rashly Proclaim Incertain things to be Explained and Confirmed by Incertain As also that we might in some sort Admonish both the Ignorant and likewise such as Deride the Lethargy of the Celestial in these Terrene Bodies comprehending much in a few words from which Beginning there may be Degrees of confirming these truly sincere things in Philosophy Thanks be to GOD that it is not estrang'd from the Holy Scriptures See the Book of Wisdom Chap. 7. 13. wherein the Lethargy of Celestial things is separated from these Inferiours lest they should Feed on the Tares of Philosophy I shall be perswaded it is possible That the Knowing and Ingenious may Favour this my First Endeavours If otherwise it sufficeth me that I received a Sober Censure at least amongst those Wise and Learned Men to whom I presented this in writing Nevertheless there be some of that Profession who suppose it otherwise I have nothing to do with the Ignorant and Malevolent AN END ERRATA PAge 585. Line 1. Read adverse to Ibid. l. 25. r. hostilly Pag. 615. l. 3. r. Pag. 545. l. 16. r. 551. Speech at Oxon. * Capt. E. A. * A Child of his so Named in memory of the Victory near York (a) Bradshaw the bold Villain that Sentenced His late Sacred Majesty to Death Steel one appointed to draw up the Charge against him but by reason of Sickness was absent Cook the Wretch that Sollicited the whole Villany and prayed the pretended Court to Murther his Soveraign (a) Those two Worthy Persons were Murthered in the Month February though in different Years viz. 1. 1647. the 2. 1648. (b) Those three Worthies were for their Loyalty Murthered March 9. 1648. (c) April 9. 1648 there were several Apprentices c. kill'd in the Streets (d) The E. of Strafford was beheaded May 12. 1641. (e) Mr. Yeomans and Mr. Bowcher put to death May 30. at Bristol 1643. (f) Sir Nich. Kemish put to death at Chepsrow May 25. 1648. (g) June 2. 1648. The Kentish-men Murdered for presuming so much as to Petition for a KING (h) Mr. Tompkins and Mr. Challoner put to Death â—t London July 4. 1643. (i) Francis Lord Villiers slain at Kingston July the 7. 1648. 1648. August 28. Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot to death at Colchester after Quarter given September 18. 1648. The Treaty in the Isle of Wight begâ—n Basing-house taken by Storm and after Quarter was promised many were Murdered October 14. 1645. Mr. Dan. Kniveton put to Death for his Loyalty on Nov. 27. 1643. at London k Major Pitcher shot to Death in St. Paul ' s Church-yard for being Loyal Decemb. 29. 1648. Sir Alex. Carew beheaded December 23. 1644. for the same Crime * Some Lords after their House was Voted useless very contentedly turn Commoneâ—s * Meaning King CHARLES the First our late Dread Soveraign * Mars this Month being in Aries cast a Quartile to Jupiter in Capricorn * Meaning our now Gracious and Dread Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second This month there was a Trine of the Planets Saturn and Mercury from Cancer and Scorpio * Mâ—aning the Eclipse of the Moon that happened in Libra on March the fiftâ—enth day this Year (o) Iove and Mars thiâ— Month wâ—re in Quartile Aspect * This was purely Prophetical and is now most happily verified * We have had Preachers of all sorts and sizes in this Age of Liberty and Licentiousness * O. Cromwel the pretended Protector and his pretended Parliament had agreed together for Triennial Parliaments * There was then an Opposition of Saturn and Mars from Virgo and Pisces (a) The pretended Protectors Tyranny began now to be most notorious * The Author was Prisoner in Windsor-Castle when he wrote his this Years Ephemeris †Saturn and Mars this Month were in Trine Aspect from Virgo and Taurus * Sirius is the great Dog-star which in July toward the latter end thereof ariseth cosmicaâ—ly with the Sun inflaming the Air whence from that time toward the end of August are termed Dog-days These Lines deserve a Comment Luke Mills was the Tapster in Windsor-Castle at what time our Author was Prisoner there Here O. Cromwels Usurpation and Tâ—ranny together with hâ—â— praying Pretences to Justice and Honesty are Curiouslâ— though Aenigmatically taxed He would be a King in Re but not in Nomine * Monarchia à Monos Archon the Rule of one Prince In the Month April 1659. the Rump appear and put a Period to the Reign of Richard Cromwel and indeed extirpate that Family whose Honour was only built upon a Sandy Foundation On October 6. Parliament Council of State and Officers of the Army were Feasted at Grocers-Hall by the City The 12. the Parliament Vote Lambert and other Officers Commissions from them 13. They turn the Parliament out of Doors for it 26. The pretended Committee of Safety erected Quere Was not this quick work and crafty c. Lord General Monk beholding the Confusions of England Marches hither to put a stop to them The King of Sweden shortly after died which this Learned Artist must needs mean by this Eclipse of the Sun * The Author was suspected privy to and guilty of the Plot in which the Reverend Dr. Hewyt c. miscarried When the Florida Ambassador was in London Col. Pride being once at Dinner with him instead of propounding a Question like a Statist asked him Whether there were not good vent for Beer and Ale in Florida Whence our Author saith A Spungie Head c. * It wâ—â— the saâ—â—eâ—t and most dismal Tragedy that ever was Acted in Englâ—nd * Oliver Cromwel †The Play that pâ—â—vâ—nted Englands Happiness is now most happily ended * At the Death of Oliver Cromwel there was a most Prodigious Wind the like hath seldom been known in England Most Countries in England sent uâ— Addresses to Richard Cromwel with as much Zeal as if he had been the most Lawful and undoubted Heir to the Government of England It is observable that the Parliament this Month gave Order to warn all Lodgers out of Whitehall that it might be prepared the better for His Royal Majestes Use. This relates to the Apprentices and some Women that were stain in London streets April 1648. * E. of Sandwich The Stars have Life The Stars Rational and Intelligent Harmony of Heaven consisteth in Motion To deny Heaven to Live is not to be a Philosopher Herbs more just to Heaven then Men.