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A47075	An astrological speculation of the late prodigy. Or A clear discovery of the approaching miseries signified by that comet, or blazing star which hath so long been visible, to several countries and nations in November, December and January; in the year 1680. Being a full account of the manner or nature of its effects, and in what countries they'l be exhibited. Also the true way of judging the effects, of all other comets, and such apparitions, carefully collected from the best experimental judgments of the choicest aphorisms, and according to their fundamental, and methodical rules; now in a seasonable time manifested in a plain and homely stile; fit for the understanding of mean capacities. By Thomas Jones a lover of learning, and student in astrology; & autodidactus.	Jones, Thomas, 1648-1713.	1681 (1681)	Wing J990B; ESTC R219123	9,547	15

represent at some times the complexion of all these four Planets viz. ♄ ♃ ♂ ☿ therefore we may conjecture its effects to be according to the Nature of the said Planets which is as followeth A comet or Blazing Star of the Nature of ♄ signifies many frights and fears among People murmuring and repining Exile or Banishment to many scarcity of food penury grievous Sicknesses tempestuous Winds Shipwracks great Frosts and Snows a destruction of Fruit by Worms Of the Nature of ♃ denotes much Strugling amongst men for matters of Religion Laws and priviledges Of the Nature of ♂ it Threatens much Wars Quarrels Sea-fights Blood-shed great slaughters Massacres in some places Change of Governors and Government Pestiferous Winds Terrible Thunder and Lightnings Tempests Ship-wracks much Robbery by Sea and Land Excessive hot weather at some times drying up Rivers and Fountains Scarcity of the Fruits of the Earth The burning of Towns and Cities and violent feavers amongst the People Of the Nature of ☿ They signifie much Wit and Policy among men and as much business to imploy it about many slie and evil consultations and Chiefly among men of Learning Corrupting of of Laws false Doctrine deluding the People in some Countries also scarcity of Food and Famine All these forementioned miseries and Calamities are by this Comet threatened to the World in some parts or other To know in what parts of the World the Effects of this Comet will be Exhibited It hath plainly appeared to the students in this Art that the Eclipses of the Luminaries the Conjunctions of ponderous Planets The Comets or Blazing Stars have operated their Effects in those Countries or Nations subject to the Signs where they happen therein This Comet made its progress as before mentioned through these Six Signs viz. ♏ ♐ ♒ ♓ ♈ and therefore according to the rule of Art and the experiences of the Ancients we must expect that the Effects of this Comet will be manifested with some of the forementioned mischiefs in all those Countries Governed under those Signs which he passed through A Catalogue of those Countries I shall give as followeth Under ♏ are governed these Countries The North part of Bavaria The Woody part of Norway Barbary The Kingdom of Fez Cattalonia in Spain Valentia Vrbine and Forum Julij in Italy Vienna Messina in Italy Gaunt Frankford upon Odar Under ♐ are Governed the Countries of Spain Hungary Slavonia Moravia Dalmatia Buda in Hungary Toledo Narbon Cullen Stargard Under are Governed these Kingdoms Countries and Cities Thrace Macedon in Greece New Turkey Albania Bulgaria Saxony the South-west part West Indies Stiria the Isles Orcades Hassia Oxford Mecklin Cleves Brandeburg Under ♒ are Governed these Kingdoms Countries and Cities Tartary Croatia Valachia Muscovia Westphalia in Germany Piemont in Savoy the West and South parts of Bavaria Media Arabia Hamborough Breme Montferrat and Pisaurum in Italy Trent Ingolstad Under ♓ are Governed these Kingdoms Countries and Cities Calabria in Sicilia Portugal Normandy the North of Egypt Alexandria Rhemes Wormes Ratisbone Compostella Under ♈ are Governed these Kingdoms Countries and Cities Germany Swevia Polonia Burgundy France England Denmark Silesia the higher Judea Syria Florence Capua Naples Ferrara Verona Vtrecht Marselles Augusta Cesarea Padua Bergamo The demonstrations of this Comet hath been so large that I think it needless to trouble the ingenious Lover of Arts with my farther Treatise on the significations of Comets or Eclipses that may happen in other signs of the Zodiack or in any other House of the Scheme or of any other Colour or Complexion Now finding our approaching woes to be many and threatned to many parts of the World and the greatest testimonies herein denotes That terrible and Cruel mischiefs will be done about matters of Religion The consideration of it moves me to pray heartily to God that I may not live to see those days which the holy man Bishop Usher foresaw through inspiration as he said with his eyes lifted up to Heaven and the tears running down his Checks That his thoughts were taken up about the miseries and persecutions that were coming upon all the Protestant Churches of Christ through all Europe which would be so sharp and bitter that the contemplation of them had fetched the tears from his Eyes and that it would be done by the hands of Papists and in the way of a sudden Massacre And that the then Pope would be the Chiefest instrument of it Therefore take head said he that you be not found sleeping and unprepared for it is even at the door Where we Suppose his meaning was that we should be prepared to die or else he saw it a seasonable time to demonstrate unto us the Words of a Prophet Joel 3. 10. Beat your Plough-shears into Swords and your pruning hooks into Spears let the weak say I am Strong He said also that there would be one great difference between this approaching persecution and those already past For in the former the most eminent and Spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally Suffer most and were most violently fallen upon But in this approaching persecution the best of People will be preserved by God as a seed to partake of that glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church assoon as ever that Storm shall be over For as it shall be the sharpest so it shall be the shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the Gross Hypocrites and formal Professors But the true Spiritual believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be over past Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this Prcphecy and keep those things which are writen herein for the time is at hand Rev. 1. 3. Since that God hath been pleased to foreshew us his approaching judgment by a token of his fierce anger fixed in the Heavens as a torch or a fiery Sword visible to many sinners that would not behold the brightness and beauty of his Laws and Statutes Now seeing that the Sword of God is ready drawn and hastening to destroy and weed the World of the rebellious People who went on raging in no less disobedience than if they had proclaimed open Wars against God It is now high time for them to awake out of Sleep and consider and lay to heart how near they are to fall over the brink of their pleasures and how dreadful a condition they 'l be in when their deserved calamities shall overtake them as Solomen tells us Eccl. 9. 12. Man knoweth not his time as the Fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the Birds that are caught in a Snare so are the Sons of Men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them Let us Praise His Clemency who seeing we are sinners reproveth our Sluggishness by these Signs When God goeth about to punish a City or Nation he is pleased first to foreshew it with Signs and wonders therefore let us fear the maker of this Comet and not the

World with Famine Plague and War To Princes death to Kingdoms many Crosses To all Estates inevitable losses To Heards-men rot to Plow-men hopeless seasons To Sailors storms to Cities civil Treasons Dubartas To know the significations or Effects of Comets or Blazing Stars by those following Rules of Art viz. First By a figure erected on their first appearance Secondly By their position and motion in Signs Thirdly By their Colour and Complexion IN unfolding the significations or Effects of Comets or Blazing Stars I am forced here to make use of some terms of Art being such words as every Reader is not acquainted with yet for the better understanding and benefit of mean capacities I shall endeavour to Explain them as clear as I can within the limitation of my liberty and thus do I now adventure to speak what I may to the purpose wishing my self one that might verifie those Scripture words Amos 3 7. Surely the Lord God will do nothing But he revealeth his secrets unto his servants Rev. 4 1. I looked and behold a door was opened in Heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a Trumpet talking with me which said come up hither and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter 14. 13. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me write blessed are the Dead c. It was ever counted by all Students in Astrology the best and properest way of Judging the effects of all Eclipses and Conjunctions of ponderous Planets by a figure erected on the exact time of their first appearance or coming together Also for Comets or Blazing Stars if possible might be found the first time of their appearance or congealing together I am sure there is no Student in this way will deny but this same way is best and properest to judge their effects also Therefore I chuse it my first rule to give my approbation of this Comet by this figure erected on the time of its first appearance to England or according to the first relation we had of it from Falmouth in Cornwel There are four waies to judg of Comets or Eclipses by a figure of Heaven 1. By the nature of the Signs where they happen therein 2. By the nature disposition and position of the disposer of them or the Lord of the Sign where they shall happen 3. By the nature disposition and position of the Ruler of the Scheme or the strongest planet therein 4. By the nature and signification of the Houses where they happen The first thing that we are to observe by this Scheme is the position of the Comet so near the Cusp of the ascendant and in the Sign Scorpio the night House of Mars and of Nature Cold watry Nocturnal Flegmatick fixed and Northern Also near some fixed Stars of the Nature of ♂ ♄ and ☿ According to these testimonies it threatens War and great alterations in the World animosity about Religion and Chiefly amongst men of Martial Discipline Secondly We are to consider the position of the disposer of the Comet in the tenth house and in the House of ☿ and in partile conjunction with the Back of the Lyon a fixed Star of the Nature of ♄ and ♍ in Nature cold earthly Melancholy barren Nocturnal By these Constellations it signifies that much wit and policy will be used amongst men and with much business imployed about vile Treacherous consultations to corrupt and Stifle good Laws and to change governments by their plotting and invading of Nations and if questioned for the same they 'l pretend to be as innocent as Lambs and truly so they may as Romish Lambs which are always of a more infernal quality than heretick Lyons as they call them Thirdly we are to consider the Nature disposition and position of the Ruler of this Scheme or the Strongest Planet herein as we find here ☽ and ♀ to be Strongest and of an equal strength also ♂ wants but one Testimony of their dignity and therefore seems to put in with them for a share Here we find ☽ Lady of the ninth posited in the third House and afflicted with an of ♄ retrograd in the ninth House a strong argument that Religion will Suffer a great detriment by those that never had any Also ♃ being retrograd in the eighth House and afflicted with a □ of ♂ from the Tenth House and with an opposition of ☿ his disposer from the Second House an argument that Gentlemen or Persons of quality in some Countries for shewing themselves active in regulating State Affairs will come off with the loss of their lives ♀ although one of the strongest Planets in the Scheme seems not to be concern'd with any neither of one side nor the other Fourthly we are to consider the nature and signification of the House where this Comet is posited in we find it within three degrees of the Cusp of the ascendant and ascending into the 12 House which signifies much Sorrows Tribulations Imprisonment and all manner of afflictions effected by private enemies also self undoing to those who malitiously undermine their Neighbours and secretly invent false accusations against them Mr. Wm. Lilly in his guide to Astrologers gives us this account of Comets A Comet immovable signifies Seditions But this Com●t was movable and very Swift in motion such he said denotes foreign Wars and one Nation invading another A Comet in the 12 House as this is threatens great pestilence and Scarcity of Corn. To know the signification or Effects of this Comet by its moving in Signs This Comet whilst it appeared to us had its transitory motion through these Signs ♏ ♐ ♒ ♓ ♈ A Comet or a Blazing Star in ♏ threatens many wicked actions among men as Wars Contentions Controversies Alterations and Changes in the World and chiefly among men of Martial discipline also scarcity of Waters and scarcity of the Fruits of the earth and famine In ♐ it denotes evil to great men Controversies about Religion and Laws also feavers and other dangerous diseases In they foreshew many inhuman actions as Murders Massacres Wars Death to great men by poyson or other Violent means persecution of many for Religion and contempt of Religion it self plague and famine in many places Great Frosts Snow Hail troubles and calamities to most sort of people In ♒ a Comet or Blazing Star signifies long lasting Wars Terrible Slaughters of men also a great mortality by a Sweeping pestilence dark obscure Air great Winds Much Thunder and Lightning In ♓ they signifie much Strife and contention about Religion division among Relations and former friends great troubles amongst great and potent persons In ♈ a Comet or Blazing Star is the forerunner of much mischief as Wars dreadful fires The ruining of Cities and Towns by Treachery The death of many eminent Commanders Sharp diseases in the heads of People To know the significations or Effects of this Comet by its Colour and Complexion The Colours of this Star hath been so various as to