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A50702	Catastasis mundi, or, The true state, vigor, and growing greatness of Christendom, under the influences of the last triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo, the late comet, &c. together with the true genitures of Mahomet the imposter, the Grand Seignior, the German Emperour, the French monarch : proving thence that the Turks will be defeated in all their attempts against Christendom, &c., notwithstanding Mr. Holwel's menaces to the contrary in his Catastrophe mundi, and his appendix thereunto : also the said Holwel's monstrous falshoods and errours discovered, retorted, and confuted, and himself remitted to the Turks, to comfort them now after their losses before Vienna / by John Merrifield ...	Merrifield, John.	1684 (1684)	Wing M1845; ESTC R2397	35,949	49

some way or other receive benefit by the means of this Conjunction rendring the Regal power like the Sun glorious and splendid but I doubt of the Conversion of the Turks under such a Conjunction though Saint Paul had his under the like In the year of Christ 94. was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and soon after Ulpius Trajanus took the Roman Empire being two and forty years of age he was strong and expert in Military affairs he was also wise moderate and courteous so that by the general consent of all he deserved the name of very good he was prosperous in War he added to the Roman Empire Dacia of Scythia in the year of Christ 102. he subdued the Armenians Ibrians Colchians the Sermats Arabians and the Babylonians he brought under his power Seleucia Ctesiphon and Babylon and several other Cities but while he sailed in the Red-Sea they rebelled against him but he in person with his Army soon subdued them again he also smote the Cyrenian Jews and Parthians with great slaughters which rebelled against him he fell sick and died naturally in Cilicia in August Anno Dom. 117. Sure had Mr. Holwel compared History with his Astrology he might have judged more charitably of Rome Italy and Christendom for never yet did Christendom under any Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo suffer Detriment but came off Victoriously over their Enemies neither can either Turk Tartar or any other Enemy to Christendom under this Conjunction preprevail against them yet I suppose the Turk will have another attempt against Christendom though he come off with as great or greater loss than he did last at Vienna In the year of Christ 153 there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and at the same time Antonius Pius was Emperor of Rome and with such virtue and goodness governed he that Empire that he excelled all others the whole World was at Peace with him all the time of his Empire foraign Princes did dread him so that they would make him the Arbitrator of their differences because of his Wisdom he died naturally Anno Dom. 161. Antonius Varus succeeded him and reigned prosperously he was succesful in War against the Parthians also in the Marcoman Wars he died of an Apoplexy Anno Dom. 171. Surely if Christian Princes were under this Conjunction so wise and successful in War against their Enemies I know no reason Astrologically why they should not be so now for the Conjunctions are the same and therefore must work the same effects let Mr. Holwel or any of Mahomets Prophets say what they will for the Celestial Powers have not changed their former Influences Anno Dom. 829. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and then Lodovick governed the Roman Empire but in the year following Pepin King of France conspired against him with the chief Governours and lays hold on the Empire but in the following year through the help of the Germans Lodowick regains the Empire and in the year 833. he is driven from the Empire by the Conspiracy of his three Sons and advice of the Bishops but in the following year Lodowick is wholly restored to Empire and so governed it to the day of his death which was in the year 840. after his decease his three Sons fall at difference for the Empire Lotharius the eldest against Lodowick and Charles the two youngest and joyn Battle so that many men were slain on both sides but in the year 844. they agree and divide their Fathers Inheritance thus amongst themselves unto Lothvrius the Roman Empire that is Rome and Italy also Lorain which took its Name from Lotharius and also the Province of Burgany and to Ludovick all Germany Mentzspirds and Worms and to Charles the West Country of France In the year 888. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo about this time was great War between the Normans and the French for in the year 890. the Normans lay Siege against Paris but took it not though as some say the Siege lasted seven years and in the year 898. the French slew of the Normans 18000 upon the Hill Faulcon near the City Anno Dom. 948. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo about this time Berengarius usurps the Kingdom of Italy from Lotharius but the Italians disliking his Tyrannieal Government which he held for the space of twelve years fled to Otho King of Germany who being gone into Italy in the year 962. received the Imperial Crown of Pope John and was saluted the first Emperor of Germany he two years after led away Berengarius into Bavaria and there he died so Otho governed the German Empire prosperously and victoriously all his days so that the German Empire had its rise under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo a fixed Masculine Regal Sign which relates to Diuturnity and the long continuance of all things begun under it Thus you may see that under these three Conjunctions the Christians have had War one against another an Error too much practised amongst some Christian Princes And indeed at this time amongst those that profess the Christian Religion there are so many animosities and divers ways of Worship that I think most of our Dissenters had rather chuse to kiss the Turks Alchoran then to submit to our Lawful Regal Authority but let such know that under this Conjunction and all other Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo there hath been and will be a cleansing and purging by Regal Authority all the dangerous dregs of Panaticism and of every wicked Principle repugnant to the well being of Government There hath also been under those Conjunctions Treachery Treason and Rebellion the Son hath conspired against the Father and driven him from his Throne the Subjects have conspired against their Prince and Brethren have made War one against another for their Fathers Inheritance God grant that no such Conspiracy happen in any part of Christendom under this Conjunction In the year of Christ 1623. there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo just at which time Mustapha the Turks Grand Signior was deposed from his Imperial Throne the second time and Morat the rightful Heir proclaimed Emperour in his room being but fourteen years of age In this year the Turks had War with the Hungarians Persians and Transilvanians and the Persians took the Province and City of Babylon from the Turks slew many of them took Mosul formerly called Nineve Mecha and great part of the Turks Territories The following year was much in effect like unto this In 1625. a Rebellion broke out in Asia against the Grand Signior and a great Plague in Constantinople In 1626. the Turks besiege Babylon but came off by the loss of 70000 Turks and Tartars and in the following year no peace could be concluded 1628. the War continued and the Persians took several Towns from the Turks This War continued till the year 1638. at which time the

time he hath had the Mid-heaven directed to the Conjunction of Venus and to the Sextile of Jupiter also the Sun Moon and Ascendent to the Sextile of Mercury which hath lifted up his heart with Pride but to abate his haughtiness in this year 1683. he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the square of Mars Lord of both his House of Honour and Friends Mars is also Lord of the third House shewing that his professed Friends will be at variance and break their Leagues with him and so will some of his neighbouring Nations to his great Loss Surely a great Oversight in Mr. Holwel to thing the Grand Seignior should over-run Christendom upon such Directions yet he will certainly come against Christendom again About the year 1687. he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the Body of Saturn I cannot positively say that he will lose his Life then about but I am certain he will undergo Afflictions of body and all his Affairs go unsuccessful for some considerable time he hath also about the same time the Mid-heaven directed to the Co-Antiscians of the Sun sure under these Directions the Christians may regain what the Turks formerly took from them and thus much of the Nativity of this great Prince I will in the next place insert the Nativity of that grand Impostor Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith shewing thereby how some men are born to make and forge Lies as he did and others born to believe them CHAP. III. Mahomet Author of the Turks Faith born April the 24th 6 h. 3o'P M. Anno Christi 569. Latitude 41 d. THis Scheme of the Nativity of Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith or Religion accords to the time given by the learned Doctor Addison and is very like to be true because it was ever by Astrologers concluded that the Turkish Faith first rose under Scorpio and Mars as the Christian Religion did under the Sun and Jupiter I was presented with this Scheme by my Friend and Tutor Mr. John Gadbury who also believes it true Most Writers accord that Mahomet was born in Mecca a City in Arabia the happy and Son of Abdalla a Merchant his Mother Hemina a Jew his Parents died when he was young and after their Decease he was brought up by his Uncle at sixteen years old he was bound to a Merchant named Abdalmutalif who finding him a witty Lad made him his Factor afterwards his Master dying he married his Mistress and until thirty eight years of age he followed his Merchandise travelling into many Countries where being satisfied with Wealth he began to think of high things for he was a curious searcher into both the Jews and Christian Religion being himself brought up a Pagan but Pride enflamed his heart and wrought in him a desire to be taken for a Prophet and to make men believe that he was a real Prophet he made use of his Disease which he was often troubled withal that was the Falling-sickness for he gave out that when he fell in those Fits that he then conferred with the Angel Gabriel by whom the pleasure of God was revealed to him and thus by his Delusions he perswaded the People so that they believed him to be a real Prophet or rather a God and do ever since honour and esteem him so to be Now that this Mahomet should be so much honoured and esteemed may be thought strange but if we do but consider the ignorance of People in those days and in those Countries we need not much scruple at it for the Heathens worshipped the Sun Moon and Stars esteeming them to be Gods because they knew not the true God nay some were more ignorant and worshipped Stocks and Stones also Images which their own hands had wrought esteeming them to be Gods also the Israelites unto whom God manifested himself by many Miracles Signs and Wonders and titled them his own People they believed not in him but made to themselves a Molten Calf and worshipped it saying these be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt although they knew that they came out of Aegypt a long time before they made it therefore no wonder that the Turks which were of the Seed of Ham that wicked Son of Noah whom his Father cursed should esteem such a lying Impostor as Mahomet was for a God or Saviour for History plainly saith that after the Death of Noah Ham went into Africa and there setled his Abode and from his Posterity sprang the Turks a sort of People much of his own nature and here in the Nativity of this Impostor Mahomet we find the Regal Sign Leo on the Medium Coeli and Jupiter the greater Fortune therein posited a most eminent token of Honour and that he might seem to be a setter up of a Religion contrary to that of Christ or rather the Author and Forger of malicious Lies we may consider that he hath Saturn in Libra the Horoscope of our blessed Saviour as Mr. Butler hath it in his Christologia and hath wilfully made himself an opposer of the Truth and hath established Christianity his Enemy as may be seen by Libra on the twelfth House and Saturn therein posited and Mars Lord of his Ascendent in Gemini the House of Mercury and the Moon Lady of the ninth House that being the House of Religion applying to a quadrat of Mercury and to an opposition of Jupiter might very well shew him to be both the Author of a false Religion and promoter of Lies and the Turks that accursed Generation of Ham addicted to believe them and that he should be an Enemy to the Christian Religion may well be observed from this Nativity the Moon being in Aquarius in opposition to Leo and Jupiter therein posited and in square of the Sun the Sign and Planets representing the Christian Religion The opinion of Mahomet or rather the Original of the Turks Religion may be said to take its beginning at the flight of Mahomet which was in the year Anno Christi 591. for in that year the Saracens drove him from Mecca at which time the Turks first began to settle their Religion and most Astrologers do conclude that the Turks Faith arose under Mars and the Moon and good reason may be shewed for it for in this Nativity Scorpio ascends and Mars is Lord thereof Cancer is on the Cusp of the ninth House the House of Religion and the Moon is Lady of it and may very well signifie a Rude and Savage Religion as well as People given to many Vices and lascivious Actions And to speak something of the continuance and desolation of their Faith if we take 264. the greatest years of Mars and 320. the greatest years of the Moon and add to the year of Christ 591. the year that Mahomet took his Flight it will make but 1175. a great mistake of Mr. Holwel who takes 480. for the greatest years of Mars and 260. for the Moons greatest

a pale colour like unto the Planet Saturn and therefore of his nature and as it was a Saturnine Comet we must expect Saturnine Effects and to discover what a Saturnine Comet Effects are both in its own nature and in the nature of the Signs it passed through let us peruse the ancient Writings of the Chaldeans and Hebrews which were very expert in these matters in former Ages and we shall find Comets of the nature of Saturn to denote many Evils as Wants Anxieties Famine Destruction of the Fruits of the Earth by Caterpillars Locusts and such like vermine Wars Treacheries and Troubles Chronick Diseases and Melancholy Distempers as Quartan Agues Falling-sickness Leprosie Palsies Consumptions and all Diseases which are of long continuance Destruction of Beasts appertaining to the use of Man Excessive cold weather in Winter and of long continuance Clouds Frost and Snow more than usually strong and high Winds Tempests Shipwrecks with destruction both of Men and Fish great Inundations and Storms to the annoyance of Cattel and of all things Men and Kingdoms under the Dominion of Saturn will suffer detriment and be in danger of destruction Is not the most part of Turky under Saturn then let them be sure to suffer much by the Effects of this Comet And as it first appeared in Libra it denotes Thefts and Robberies excessive Cold the Death of some great Man great Slaughters secret Plots and Treacheries a scarcity of Rain a Drought of Fountains and other Waters a want of the Fruits of the Earth and Provision for the use of Man great Winds horrible Earthquakes and as it appeared in the East these effects seem to operate within few years after its Apparition and places under Libra will be the greatest partakers of its effects Places under Libra are Austria Alsatia Livonia Sabandia Savoy Dalphinate Cities Lisbon Francfort Vienna Arles Spire Placentia Heilbarn Landshute and Autwerp and some of these Places have already felt too much of the effects of this Comet And as this Comet passed through Scorpio it signifies War and Rebellion against Kings change and alterations in Governments Contentions amongst great Men great Perils and Dangers the death of some eminent Person Detriment and Damage to Souldiers Labour and Travel to all kind of Men Mischief to Women with Child a scarcity of Water and of the Fruits of the Earth especially on Countries Cities and Persons under the Sign Scorpio Places under Scorpio I have shewed in the last Conjunction and therefore omit them here It s going through Sagitary denotes many Misfortunes to befal great Lords and Noble-men Bishops Clergy-men Scribes and Lawyers much evil and Tribulation to be fall wise and Learned Men sometimes War and Captivity of Princes Places under Sagitary are Spain Dalmatia Sclavonia Hungary Moravia Misnia Celtica Arabia Foelix Cities Toletum Volateras Malinum Narbonne Avignion Colonia Agrippina Buda Collen As this Comet passed through Capricorn it signifies Fornication and Adultery more than usually committed amongst Men and Women War Danger to Kings and Princes by Poysoning or by other Violent ways Cutting by the High-ways Quarrels Misfortunes and Calamitiés amongst the vulgar People it also denotes Persecution and contempt of Religion and Religious men but it s appearing in the West may defer its operation until some years after its apparition Places under Capricorn are Thrace Macedonia in Greece now part of Turky Albany Bulgary Saxony Stiria India Orcades Isles Hassia Cities Meklin Cleves Vilna Constance Augusta Brandenburg Oxford As it passed through Aquarius it denotes War of long continuance the death of some eminent Prince or illustrious Person and also of the common People an obscuration of the Air much Thunder and lightning Pestilence also and other epidemical Diseases Places under Aquarius I have also shewed in the late Conjunction and thither I refer my Reader As the Comet passed through Pisces it foreshews that Kings shall war one against another also Kindred and such as are allied one to another the Father against the Son the Son against the Father and Brethren one against another and there shall be much slaughter among men great Contentions also touching matters of Faith Priviledges and Customs in Religion and antient Traditions with destruction of Fish and dangerous Navigation Places under Pisces are Cilicia Calabria Galatia Lycia Garomantes Pamphilia and the higher Egypt Cities Alexandria Compostella Hispalis Rhemes Worms Ratisbone c. As the Comet passed through Aries it signifies Evil and Detriment to Noblemen and the Grandees of the Earth with abundance of sadness to the common sort of people a dejecting or unthroning of some King or Emperor in the Eastern parts of the World and the promoting of some Ignoble man also great troubles in the Eastern parts of the Earth much War and Blood-shed with the death of some Eminent Prince and slaughter among men much troubles violent pain in the Head Eyes and Brain a Rot of Sheep and detriment to all sorts of small Cattel Under Aries are Palestina Syria Swevia Polonia minor Denmark Germany France and England Cities Naples Capua Fararia Florence Lyndavia Padua Brunswick Cracovia Utretch Marcelles And as this Comet took his course in Taurus it foreshews the death of some Great man mischief and injuries to the meaner sort of people with captivity and diminishing of their Goods detriment to great Cattel great and tempestuous Winds corruption of Fruit destruction of Corn cold Winters also diseases proceeding from corruption of blood as Scabs Itch c. Places under Taurus have been already shewed in the late Conjunction to which I refer you And thus I have shewed you the nature of this Comet and its Signification in the Signs through which it passed also some of the Countries and Cities under those Signs in which the effects will be most manifest in some sort or other Note that if a Comet appear in the Ascendent of any Kingdom City Town or Family or in the Ascendent of the Revolution of the World it signifies Detriment or Destruction of the thing by the Ascendent signified and the Sign thereof And if it appear in the Mid-heaven or in the Sign thereof of any of these aforesaid it will bring danger to their Honour and Reputations in one way or other I come next to treat of the time when these Events will happen and herein we ought to consider whether the Comet were Oriental or Occidental for Oriental Comets soon shew their Effects but Occidental Comets shew their Effects more slowly this Comet was both Oriental and Occidental Oriental at the beginning while it passed through Libra Scorpio and Sagitary where fore the effects in those signs would quickly appear but in Capricorn it became Occidental and so continued until it disappeared whose effects will be deferred until a longer time And for the time of the duration of their effects Origanus admits for every day a Comet appears one years effect and after this account the effects of this Comet should continue seventy six years

the Conjunction of the Superior Planets and more particularly of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo in the year 1682. EVery Planet contributeth in some measure or other to the Government of this World but some more forcibly than others as the Superiours being forerunners of great and strange Accidents War Slaughter and Mutations I come now to speak something of the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter and as for Mr. Holwels method of direction to that purpose in a Figure of the new or full Moon either next before or after it I think it not a safe way there to find the time of their Effects for by this way of direction round and round the Zodiac the Effects of a Conjunction would last to the end of the World and if all the Conjunctions which have been since the Creation should to this day work their Effects as they did at or soon after they happened what a miserable time should we now live in but they are not to last always for they are appointed for Signs and for Seasons for days and years and as he hath directed Saturn and Jupiter in their Conjunction in Sagitary Anno Dom. 1603. to the new Star which was in the year 1572. and the Ascendent and Midheaven of the new Moon before the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682. directed to the same new Star is to no more effect comparatively than a man being very cold should fit by a great Fire till he had warmed and refreshed himself and many years after he being in the same Extremity with Cold and coming to the same House expecting there again to warm and refresh himself but finds neither Fire nor Inhabitants there at present nor had any been there for many years past only there remained the House empty so by this direction the House or Sign of the Zodiac may be found but the new Star long time past quite out and extinguished so are the directions to the other Promitters as erroneous and frivolous But I having been at least twenty years a Student in Astrology and other parts of the Mathematicks I have read many Authors and discoursed with Doctor Reason and Doctor Experience and they tell me that the time of the Events of Conjunctions of the superior Planets are taken two ways that is generally and particularly first generally as to the time of the whole duration of their effects take this for a general Rule that the effects of the Conjunction of any of the superior Planets continue in force but until another Conjunction of them happen which is in about twenty years and then their effects will alter according to the nature of the Sign in which it happens consideration being had to their Position and other Configurations so that the effects of that Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary in the year 1603. so much spoken of by Mr. Holwel in his Catastrophe Mundi ended in the year 1623. for at that time there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo whose effects also ended in the year 1643. and the more fully there then happening a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces a Sign of the watry Triplicity whose effects lasted but to the year 1663. for then hapned another Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary whose effects were not different from that in 1603. I mean in their own Nature and not as the many Eclipses solar Ingresses and other Configurations altered them and their effects ceased when the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter hapned in October 1682. and was the first of the Triple Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo which hapned then and in the following year under whose effects we now are and shall so be until the year 1702 and their effects in their own nature are not like to be much different from that which hapned in the year 1623 only this in 1682. is of far greater force it being a Triple Conjunction and therefore its effects will be more powerful The effects of the Conjunctions of the Superior Planets are commonly Seditions Troubles Mutations Wars Subversions of Monarchies Kingdoms States alterations of Laws Customs Priviledges Treacheries Treasons and sometimes the Death of Emperors Kings Princes Potentates and Powers and thus much of the general Operation now we come to the particular And the better to judge of the future effects of the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo in the years 1682. and 1683. let us look back into History and see what hath hapned under such Conjunctions already past and thereby we shall be the better able to judge of their following significations In the year Anno Christi 35. being but one year after the Death and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and then the Jews waxed bitter cruel against the Disciples of our Saviour for after the death of Christ the Holy Spirit falling on them they boldly profess what they had seen and heard and that openly and Stephen being chosen to perform Holy Service in the Company of the Christians because he fer-vently imployed himself in publishing the Glory of Christ being laid hold on by envious Persons was stoned to death and from that time the chief of the Jews endeavoured all they could to blot out the name of the Christians by what means they could but especially Saul breathed out threatnings against them who having the largest Power made over to him from the high-Priest he then bended toward Damascus that he might oppress them but in his Journey he was affrighted and being struck to the Earth he is converted and suddenly applied himself wholly to the Worship of Christ This hapned in the third year after the death of Christ and the first after the Conjunction And this is a very good Example of what is now coming on after the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo 1682. for Jupiter being a Significator of the Christian Religion and afflicted by the body of Saturn in Leo the House of the Sun another Significator of the Christian Religion and Saturn being Significator of the Turks may well stir them up against Christendom Saturn being the most superiour Planet put great and haughty thoughts of conquering the Christians into the Turks malicious minds But I suppose that neither the Turk nor Mr. Holwel thought of nor considered that Saturn was weak in Leo and disposed of by the Sun Significator of both the Christians and their Religion for all that Saturn can do in Leo is but to stir up Christian Emperours Kings Princes and Governours to purge out all the dangerous dregs of obstinate Dissenters and Fanaticism and those of every wicked principle contrary to the well-being of Government and that in all parts of Christendom but especially in those places under the Sign Leo also to those in Sextile or Trine to it which are Aries Gemini Libra and Sagitarius so that all Countries and Cities under those Signs will in