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A52819	A strange and wonderful trinity, or, A triplicity of stupendious prodigies consisting of a wonderful eclipse, as well as of a wonderful comet, and of a wonderful conjunction, now in its second return, seeing all these three prodigious wonders do joyntly portend wonderful events, all meeting together in a strange harmonious triangle : and all are the three royal heralds, successively sent from the King of Heaven, to sound succeeding alarms, for awakening a slumbering world : beware the third time ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing N465; ESTC R42196	44,056	49

Stars rise together yet do not set together yet none vary an Hairs-breadth from their appointed Lines of Circumference Neither 2 do they vary the time appointed them but do precisely observe it even to a Minute hereupon the Psalmist celebrates Gods Praise For the outgoings of the Morning and Evening Psal 65.8 for the exact Vicissitude of Day and Night and the admirable Equipage the Host of Heaven marcheth in according to the Ordinances of Heaven from the Lord of Hosts Jer. 31. 35. The Sun Moon and Stars know and observe precisely their time both of going down and of rising up Psal 104.19.20 which all the Powers of Hell and Potontates on Earth can neither Hinder nor Hastem Job 38.12 Psal 74.16.17 Yea so exact and regular is their Mation that Men who knows not where themselves shall be or what shall befall them to Morrow Prov. 27.1 can write Ephemerides what Eclipses will be for many Years to come in what point of Heaven and what Hour of Day or Night such and such Positions Conjunctions Oppositions c. will happen yea not only when the Sun will rise and set all the Round Year but also that the Tail-Star of the Great Bear will early and late point directly to Arcturus that Arcturus shall rise exactly when the Sun sets upon the 10th of March and that the great Star of the Lyon and of the Great-Dog though they rise together yet the Dog Star will set some Hours before Cor Leonis because their Sphere is oblique as to us this latter being neerer to the Tropick of Cancer as the former is to that of Capricorn these and many more Instances not mentioned may demonstrate how they all exactly observe their time and way without wandring Yea and 2dly All this the Stars do Without weariness also In an Host of men on Earth some Soldiers will be found both wandring and weary But in this Host of Heaven so called As none are found wandring in sano sensu So nor can we find one Star that may be reputed weary The Prophet compares God to a Chief Commander calling forth his Companies the Host of Heaven all in his Muster-Roll and laying his Commands upon them though some Soldiers may fail in their March either through Fear or Feebleness as that Aegyptian did 1. Sam. 30.11.12.13 but not so much as one Star ever failed Isa 40.26 though their March be many Millions of Miles round the Circumference and that without Rest and Respit Night or Day Yea and now for almost 6000 Years But one Instance for brevity to wit that afore mentioned 'T is a Matter of of great Admiration that Canis Major and Cor Leonis among the fixed Stars should Run a Race Round about the Globe of the Earth which the Hebrews say is distant from Heaven a 500. Years Journey rise together at their first Creation in one point of time yet though they have been Running their restless Course for neer 6000 Years now neither of them hath fainted or failed in the way so as at any time to outrun each other but still both of those Great Stars observe a precise point of time for their Rising together now as they did at their first setting forth yea and of setting together to those under the Aequinoctial though not so to us through the obliquity of their Circle and Circumference in our Horrizon The same may be said of the other Stars The 4th Remark is that the Great God hath created not only Innumerable and Vnnameable Stars that are fixed in the 8th Sphere call'd the Starry Heaven but also seven Planets or wandring Stars as the word Planet fignifies so called not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Simply but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secundum quid or Comparatively If those Planets be Simply and by themselves considered they have made their several Revolutions in their own distinct Orbs at the most fixed and most unchangeable certain Periods from the Beginning of the World to this present day but to speak comparatively in Respect of the fixed Stars all these Planets are placed under them have a differing Motion from them and hold an unequal distance to them yea and one to another in Respect of their seeming Vagabond and Eccentrick Motion they have various Longitudes Latitudes Conjunctions Oppositions Sextile Square and Trine Asp●cts Sometimes they move more swiftly sometimes more slowly as they are higher or lower in their Epicycles sometimes Retrograde Direct or Stationary never keeping the same distance among themselves or to any of the fixed Stars nor holding one and the same Situation in the Firmament as the fixed do Notwithstanding all this no Stars wander less than they do but have a most certain constant stated and regular Motion Duely performing the precise points and periods of their compass in their appointed Times As the Sun knows his going down Psal 104.19 So do all the other six Planets comprehended in one Ver●e Post Sim Sum Sequitur proxima Luna subest Wherein S is Saturn J Jupiter M Mars The next S is Sol the Sun V Venus and M Mercury with Luna the Moon All these 7 are call'd wandring Stars for the Reasons above named and this Denomination hath a Divine warrant from the Apostle Jude v. 13. where wandring Stars are mentioned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the sense only of the common Judgment of Sense which beholds them carryed about in a differing Course to the whole Circuit of Heaven beside Two of those 7. Planets are these 2. Great Luminaries or Lights of the World the Sun and Moon both which be a whole Bundle of Wonders The Sun is the Prince of Planets yet as his Hebrew Name Shemesh Signifies is a Servant to Gods Servants He cometh out of his Chamber as a Bridegroom with marvellous Splendor Pomp and Bravery when he first sheweth himself above our Horizon and Rejoyceth as a Champion to Run his Race Psal 19.4.5 This he Runs with such a wonderful Swiftness as exceedeth the Eagles Flight more than the Eagle exceeds the slow Motion of the Snail Bellarmine saith the Sun runneth seven Thousand Miles in the Eight part of an Hour Bell. de Ascens Mentis in Deum grad 7. and with such Incomparable Sweetness Eccless 11.7 that Eudoxus the Philosopher profess'd his Willingness to be burnt up presently by the Sun so he might be but admitted to come so near it as to learn the admirable Nature of it and Chrysostom cannot but wonder at the Suns darting down its Rayes towards the Earth whereas all Fire shooteth and hasteth up toward Heaven I might mention many more Marvels in the Sun were it not Besides my present Design Design As likewise in the other Great Light the Moon cal'd Hebr. Jareach of Rauach to Refresh or Refrigerate because she cools the Earth with her Influences and Moses mentioneth that as the Sun by warmth so the Moon by Moysture make the Earth fruitful Deut. 33.14 as some will needs place Hell in the Hollow of the Sun so

A Strange and Wonderful TRINITY OR A TRIPLICITY Of Stupendious PRODIGIES Consisting of a Wonderful ECLIPSE As well as of a Wonderful COMET And of a Wonderful CONJUNCTION Now in its second return seeing all these three Prodigious Wonders do joyntly portend Wonderful Events all meeting together in a strange Harmonious Triangle And all are the three Royal Heralds successively sent from the King of Heaven to sound succeeding Alarms for awakening a Slumbering VVorld Beware the third Time Si ter pulsanti nemo Respondet Abibit They that Regard not the Works of the Lord nor the Operation of his Hands shall be destroyed Psal 28.45 Lift up your Eyes on high and behold these things Isaiah 40.26 London Printed for Langley Curtiss 1683. A Strange and Wonderful TRINITY Or A Triplicity of Stupendious Prodigies consisting of a Wonderful Eclipse as well as of a wonderful Comet and of a wonderful Conjunction now in its second return c. AS the first Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in October the last was ushered into the World by a frightful Blazing Comet so their second Conjunction is attended with the two formidable Eclipses of the two great Luminaries of the Heavens The first of the Sun going before it upon the 17th of this present January and the second of the Moon coming after it upon the first of February following Insomuch that this middle Conjunction seeing these two superior Planets will again have their third and last Conjunction upon the second of May next is made the more Illustrious by a double Deliquium or ECLIPSE of both the Sun and Moon within a few days of it before and after it happening betwixt the twentieth and thirtieth of this January All which have this strange concurrency to render this present Conjunction the more conspicuous and to be of greater Observation and Authority to its Spectators I have early and late taken my strictest Prospect of the Progress and Regress that these two great Planets have made since their last October Conjunction and I have observed they have been running Retrograde untill at length they came into an equal distance each from other and from the Lions Heart in a direct line so that then these three great Stars in this posture and situation did represent the exact Form of Orions Girdle which the vulgar call the Ladys Yard-wand bright Jupiter being the middle Nail Cor Leonis and sullen Saturn were the two end-Nails of that Coelestial Yard-staff Then Jupiter marcheth off from his middle Station to a farther distance from that fixed Star the Lions Heart and the two wandering Stars Saturn and Jupiter make a nearer approach each to other all December last and all this January hitherto I have beheld every clear Evening these two Planets arising in a perpendicular posture but in the Morning towards their setting they have a traverse Aspect running near the same line in the Heavens where famous Arcturus runneth and every Night they come nearer and nearer each other until they shall within a few days compleat their second Conjunction which will happen near the same time that the two great Luminaries the Sun and the Moon shall have their compleat Conjunction also so that the Body of the Moon interposeth it self betwixt our Sight and the Sun and cover its Light and Lustre from us full nine Digits yea and the Moon shall be Eclipsed by the Interposition of the shadow of the Earth soon after it and that which makes all this still more Marvelous is these three admirable Conjunctions of the two superior Planets of the two great Luminaries and of the Moon with the Earths shadow shall be all almost in Direct Opposition one to another All these prodigious Providences thus admirably concurring at one Juncture of time do sound a loud ALARM to us to ponder both the Premises and the Consequences in our Minds until they have a kindly Influence upon our Affections To omit the Planets Conjunction upon which I am after so Copious the Theme I here Handle is the Eclipses which puts the World upon a Gaze The Prophet Joel in the old Testament and our Lord Christ in the new foretold of strange and stupendious Eclipses should be fore-runners of the Lords coming Joel 2.31 Mat. 24.29 c. Yea both the Gospels and the Epistles in the Holy Scripture do foreshew that there will be prodigious events and appearances both in the Heavens on the Earth and in the Sea Luke 21.25 and that the whole frame of the universe shall shake and tremble c. as Houses when ready to Fall give some great Cracks to fore signify it 2 Pet. 3.10 c. That Eclipse of the Sun at Christs Death Math. 27.45 was certainly supernatural For 1. It was at Full Moon upon the fourteenth day of the Moons Age at the Pass-over whereas natural and ordinary Eclipses of the Sun are always at New Moon in Conjunction with it and not in Opposition to it 2. That Darkness by a Total Eclipse continued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 over all the Earth from the sixth hour to the ninth which could not be natural for the Body of the Sun being bigger than the Body of the Moon doth soon wade from under its shadow and never continueth totally darkned for one hour much less for three 3. That Eclipse was universal which no natural can be being always particular to those Provinces which have the nighest propinquity to the Cone of that shadow whereas this was not in Judaea onely as Origen mistakes but Tiberius 't is said was sensible of it at Rome and Dionysius Writes to Policarp That they had this Darkness in Aegypt and he was so astonish'd at this Complication of many Miracles in one That he cryed out Naturae patitur Deus aut natura periclum either Nature now determineth or the God of Nature now suffereth This dreadfdl Eclipse happened under the fift Climacterical Conjunction of the two same Superior Planets since the Creation wherein the Sun hid his Head as it were in a black Mantle as ashamed to behold those shameless Indignities done to the Sun of Righteousness Mal. 4.2 by the Sons of Men. The next formidable Eclipse we read of in History is under the sixt Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 800 years after this upon the approaching Death of that famous Emperor Charles the Great who dyed on the fift of the Kalends of February 814. Whereof Eginardus writing that Emperours Life saith thus Signa multa praecesserunt mortem gloriosi Sancti Imper. Caroli nam Eclipsis solis Lunae ultra solitum fuit Apparuit per septem Dies macula Nigri Coloris in sole Many strange Prodigies did preceed this Great Charles's Death as Eclipses extraordinary both of the Sun and of the Moon and a great back Spot was beheld in the Sun for seven days which could not be Mercury as some said because of his swift Motion nor could it be a Meteor as others affirm'd because that is too high a place for

and as with some Salutations they Entertain the Sun while He is yet distant from them the space of a Trigon 3 or 4 Signs by becoming Stationary or making another stand again this done and the Sun Approaching still nearer and nearer They then Run before him as his joyful Heralds and Harbingers in a right and Direct course according to the order of the Signs and as with great Gladness glide up to the Top of their Tower again that they might as it were resign up the nearest and most Commodious and Honorable place to the Sun their King This in short is the constant Harmonious Motion of these 3 Superior Planets and the Sun The Epiphonema cannot be less than an Heart Refreshing Admiration a Soul-Ravishing Adoration of the most mighty and only Wise Jehovah who Created and hath ordered these Astonishing Stars c. The works of the Lord are great sought out by all those that have pleasure therein Ps 111.2 If all the works of God be great those on the Earth and in the Sea then much more those in the Heavens no less than great works can fall from the hand of so Great a God they are all Magnalia so should all be magnifyed not neglected or slighted It should be a pleasure to us as it hath been no little to me to search and find out such wonderfull works Though they be Great yet are they to be seriously sought into and found out by those that Delight therein and the deeper they dive into them not for vain Curiosity but from solid Sanctity the sweeter they find them God hath shewn singular Skill in all Esp in these his works and He will have Men to admire him their Maker They all a centro ad Coelum are Tip'd and Guilt with a Glory upon them this the Brutish Man understands not Ps 92.5.6 Neither his ordinary nor extraordinary Handy-work whereas a woe is Denounc'd upon those that Regard them not Isa 5.12.15 Ps 28 4.5 They shall have like for like c. God will Reward them according to the work of their hands because they Regard not the work of Gods Hands The 5th Remark to omit the Conjunctions of the Inferior Planets because the frequency thereof darkens the Significancy beside their Inferiority the Superior only are here to be handled and the other but Obiter as occasion offereth and Mars also though it carrys a correspondency with Saturn and Jupiter in the Quality of their Motions both as to Longitude and as to Laittude these three differ only in the Quantity thereof Mars fulfills his Cycle far sooner than the other so its Motion hath not so many Remarks upon it Saturn and Jupiter have many Aspects both towards the other Planets and one towards another as Sextil Trine Square Opposition and Conjunction waving all the other four I shall insist upon the Last named Their Conjunction must needs of all their other Aspects be most Remarkable seeing then and therein only those two mightyest Planets as it were twist together their most powerful Beams this they do when they come near each as do the Sun and the great Dog-star from the 20th of July to the 27th of August all which are call'd dog-Dog-days from the Hot season produced by the twisted Rays both of Sol and Sirius Indeed in true Propriety of Speech a Close Conjunction cannot be call'd an Aspect for when they have no distance wherein to look one upon another but are in the same Degree and Minute of a Sign together Thus may it sometime come to pass that Jupiter may totally Ecclips Saturn as being both in a lower Orb coming 'twixt us and it and of a larger Body seeing Saturn is but as a Star of the 2d Magnitude whereas Jupiter as one of the first Mr. Wing in his Astron Britannica pag. 1280. writeth that in the Year 1661. May the 3d. at 11. in the Night he saw Saturn totally Ecclips'd by the Moon which is a far lesser Body than it though it seem greater through its nearness to us and the others great Distance from us That these two Superior Planets as also Mars should be sometimes Direct going strait forward sometimes Retrograde stepping backward in their Motions and sometimes Stationary standing as we say-stock-still while all the other Stars call'd fixed never do so must needs be very marvellous yet their strange Conjunctions one with another is far more a greater marvel their Conjunction is Threefold 1. Minima 2. Media 3. Maxima or as Artists phrase them 1. Specialis 2. Trigonalis 3. Climacterica These 3. several sorts of Conjunctions in the two Superior Planets are caused thus 1. Saturn is of slowest Motion as he is the highest Planet and hath the largest Circle to run seldom above 3. or 4. Minutes in a day his mean Motion is as some say 2. Minutes and 11. Seconds his swiftest Motion is but 6. Minutes And if his Diurnal Motion be so slow his Annual must be accordingly which according to Keplers Tables improved by Maginus is computed not above 12. Degrees in 12. Months The slowness of Saturns Motion is further illustrated by his several Postures Retrograde Direct and Stationary He stands still neither moving backward nor forward for 3 or 4. some say five Days before he move backward or contrary to the Order and Succession of the 12. Signs and as many days before he go direct forward that is from one Degree of the sign to two and so on to the rest in which direct Posture the Sun and Moon are always found marching ●ndways and never are Stationary as the other Five Planets be or Retrograde but by a Miracle as they both stood still in Joshuahs time and the Sun went back 10 Degrees in that of Ahaz Beside Saturns Retrogradation continueth customarily as some compute it an 140. Dayes all which considered must constitute his Motion Annually to be very slow 2. Jupiter hath a smarter Motion finishing his Revolution in about 12. Years whereas Saturn doth require about 30. Years wherein to finish his Cycle Yet Jupiters Motion compar'd with that of all the other Planets is very slow also whose swiftest Diurnal Motion is but about 14. Minutes as Saturns at the most is but 7. and Mars but 31. beside his being as well as Saturn Stationary five Days before he be Retrograde four Days before he go Direct and his Retrogradation lasteth 120. Days So that he likewise is of a slow Motion Hence it comes to pass that these 2. Planets do seldom make Application each to other in their distinct Spherical Motions they seldom meet together in Conjunction and they may meet together sometimes with their Beams when they do not exactly with their Bodies The first sort of those three Conjunctions the 2. Superior Planets make is call'd the Least Meanest or Special which falls out only once in about 20. Years reckoning in the round Number all along and not troubling either my self or the Reader with the Fractions or broken

Saturn and Jupiter in Leo till we come to 1682. therefore may we more probably conjecture that this 7th Conjunction present in Leo hath some secret Mystery of Sabbatism in it and promiseth something in its signature of more singular Moment to this World than any of its Antecedents 4 Astronomers do grant that when the 2 superior Planets do pass out of the watery Trigon and have their Meeting in the Fiery be it in Leo Sagittary or Aries in which soever their Conjunction is 't is a great Conjunction and portends great Mutations not only because these 2 Interchanged Triplicitys are contrary as Fire and Water but also their Abode in one Trigon is about 200 y. And if usually 7. y. the Term of Mans Life in Law bring Changes what may 20. y. their least Conjunction and about 3 Mens Lives do much more may 200. Y. the Time of their Mean but most of all the 800. Y. which is their Climacterical Meeting New Empires c. may well arise in that Time 5 Spineus Physitian to the Duke of Padna who wrote Catastrophe Mundi 1625. y. and Engl. shed by Squire Ashmole saith pag. 24. that of all the 3 Signs in the fiery Trigon Aries is the weakest then must it follow that Leo is stronger And at this Time especially considering 6 This present Conjunction in Leo comes Notably corroborated in 3. Respects 1 it is attended with 2 frightful Comets the first esp the like whereof hath not been this 800. y. as seal'd up in its significancy with a double Signet or Seal Royal. Alsted c. affirm that such Con junctions so seal'd are most significant 2 their Conjunction is near Cor Leonis a Royal and Couragions creature whose Heart is the Seat of his Courage which must add to its significancy seeing those 2 greatest Planets go into this Regal sign and so near the Heart of it entring there as it were into a deep Consult and there confronting the Sun 3 That Mars should meet first Jupiter upon the 7th of this last September and Saturn upon the 12th to strengthen them both with his conjoined Rays as both pass'd along in Tendency towards this their Great Conjunction all these Meetings are in the same Sign of Leo though now Mars be going off from candâ Leonis as dropping down from off the Lions Tail into the Sign Virgo wishing them as it were an Happy Meeting which no doubt will be so according to Rules of Art for Jupiter having the higher Elevation and being above Saturn as yet must correct Saturns Malignity Halys comment on Ptolomy 63. Aphorism beside both Jupiter and Saturn are oriental and so is Mars which is a Situation judg'd the least obnoxious Saturn say Artists makes Plots but Jupiter above him spoils them both the Two and Mars are occidental to the Sun and therefore saith Almansor propos 30. They must give good at the latter End though the way to that End may be rough and rugged enough esp to the Northern Regions they being all so nigh to the Tropick of Cancer their Diurnal Ark or March in our Horizon pouring down their Influences for about 15 Hours and both Saturn and Mars being what Star soever they are joined with so mischievous to Mankind What their 2d Conjunction on January 30 in the Y. 83 and their 3d Conjunction again upon May the 2d in the same next Year 83. all Three in Leo though in 2 distinct Years immediatly succeeding each other and all 3 in the Compass of 8 Months which is far short of the distance of 20. years for this great Conjunction consists of all these 3 Meetings that a 3 fold Cord may not easily be broken Whereas as is abovesaid their least Conjunction hath the Interspace of 20 years may conduce hereunto time will best declare for Truth is the Daughter of Time Considering also that the Sun will lose its light so soon after this first Conjunction October the 9 82 so little before their second in January 30. in 83 for in the same Year and Month upon the 17th Day of January in the Y. 83. that great Luminary will be Ecclipsed and 9 Digits darkened in Aquarius about 3 a clock in the Afternoon much more might be added here but sat verbum sapienti c. I have duly and daily observ'd the Motion of these 2 great Planets every clear Morning since they came nigh each other and do wonder that they should be so swift in their Motion Saturn running 2 Millions 376 Thousand 261 Miles in an Hour and 3964 Miles in one Minute and Jupiter running 898 Thousand 700 Miles in one Hour and 14 Thousand 9 Hundred 78 Miles in one Minute yet are so slow in their Meeting For I find Saturn requires 12 Days in his Diurnal motion to go this one single Degree in Leo and Jupiter requires 7 days for the same before they can come through the 18th Degree of Leo to conjoin in the 19th distant only 2 Minutes whereof there be 60 in every Degree on the 9th of 8 ber 82 then on the 10th Day Saturn marches off 6 Minutes and Jupiter 8 from their so near Application It must be considered also that the proper Motion of these 2 Planets as of all the other 5. is from West to East upon the Pole of the Zodiack though the primum mobile or upper Heaven hurry them upon the Northern Southern Poles from East to West as plainly appeareth in the Motion of the Moon one of the Planets which at her Change in setting West every Night falls backward and backward towards the East till at her Full she Riseth in the East in about 15. Days 2ly Theological that it may 1 appear This Discourse is not Chaldaization or the folly of the Chaldees so much condemned in Scripture for Astronomy and Astrology must not be confounded as too generally they are That the Stars have a 3 fold Excellency light Motion and Influence is granted by all that are Judiciously Learned All the Controversy is about the last Concerning their Influence there be 3 Opinions 1 in excess 2 in Defect and the 3 in the middle between both The 2 former extremes are offensive but the 3d is inoffensive 1 Those in the Excess were the Chaldeans Arabians Egyptians Stoicks and many Jews yea and Gentiles too both Heathen and Christian who Account the Heavens to be a Book wherein the Fates of All are written and who make their Schemes and Horoscopes from thence as Creditable as the Gospel 2 Those in the Defect are such as Censure all sorts of Astronomical prognosticks for Tables and Fooleries To say Heavenly bodies do produce no effects by their powerful Influence is to Deny both Scripture and Experience They both offend in Contrary Extremes in saying that the Stars either do all things or that they do nothing therefore 3 The middle way betwixt these two Extremes must be most Approved In Medio tutissimus Ibis Ecclipses may certainly and changes of Times