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A92028	Judiciall astrologie, judicially condemned. Upon a survey and examination of Sr. Christopher Heydons apology for it, in answer to Mr. Chambers. And of Will. Ramsey's morologie in his pretended reply (called Lux veritatis) to Doctour Nathanael Homes his Demonologie. Together with the testimonies of Mr. W. Perkins Resolution to the countrey-man; Mr. John Miltons Figure-caster; and Dr. Homes his demonologie, all here exhibited against it, seconded and backed by 1. evident Scripture. 2. Apparent reason. 3. Authority of councils. 4. Justice of laws. 5. Arguments of fathers, school-men, and modern learned men. 6. Concessions of Ptolomy, &c. friends of astrology. 7. And the wicked practises of astrologers themselves.	Rowland, William.	1651 (1651)	Wing R2074; Thomason E1239_1; ESTC R210446	216,516	320

in the time of ripenesse the Sunne is alwayes in Libra we must needs also say that his place in the creation was in Libra In the 23. of Exodus God commandeth that the Feast of Tabernacles should be celebrated in the end of the year when the Israelites had gathered their fruits out of the fields Wherefore it must needs be that Harvest was in the beginning of the yeare the beginning and ending being both together and so by counting backwards we shall finde that the Sunne was in Libra in the beginning of the World To this agreeth Josephus de antiquitate Lib. 1. cap. 3. Rabbi Eleazar upon Genesis and Rabbi Abraham Aben Esra upon the 7. of Daniel The rest of the dignities of the Planets consist of principles more weak then water First what is more unreasonable to a reasonable man then this that swift motion should give unto a Planet two dignities and slow motion two debilities it seemeth to be plain contrary For a swift course hindereth the force of the Planet a flow course helpeth the same and the stations of any Planet make an effectuall and sensible operation A cole of fire in a mans hand if it be shaken about very much it heateth very little if it be shaken more slowly it heateth more but if it ly still it burneth violently Beside this also experience confirmeth my Assertion In the year of our Lord 1513. the Sun entering into Pisces was almost in Trine Aspect with Saturn stationary a little while after there was a great Frost and Snow continuing many dayes and when Saturn began again to be direct the Weather was indifferent warm In the year 1518. In April Jupiter almost in secunda statione beholding Saturn in statione prima caused a great heat considering the time of the year In the year 1520. Saturn as I said before being stationary made such a cold that spoiled the Grapes and made Wine dear Upon these Examples and many other I may conclude that the work and influence of Planets is most felt when they are stationary because their virtue is fixed as it were in one place by reason of the slow motion Combustion is in like sort a feigned thing What reason can Astrologers give why it should give unto a star 5 debilities They talk how that experience teacheth them that Planets being under the beams of the Sun do lose a great nay some say all their force It is a manifest untruth For Mercury being of the nature of that Planet with which he is conjoyned if he go from conjunction with Saturn unto the Sun he getteth no debilities thereby but rather losing the feeble and unfortunate nature of Saturn receiveth a more strong and fortunate nature of the Sun If any man say against me that Mercury combust hath no force he deceiveth himself For if he be not hindered he naturally will cause Windes being combust he not onely engendreth Windes but causeth tempestuous Windes and foul Weather In Aries Taurus Cancer he maketh Tempests in Virgo and Scorpius raging Seas in Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces Rain and Snow Again when many days together there hath been fair weather the Sun if it come to be in conjunction or any other Aspect with Saturn maketh very foul Weather and therefore the Aspects of the Sun and Jupiter are called Apertiones portarum per pluvia This could not come to pass if Saturn had his force diminished by the beams of the Sun A Planet also being in Cazimi that is being within sixteen minutes of the Sun 's middle hath thereby five Dignities which cannot well be if that Combustion give five Debilities For the Planet is in the middle of his Combustion and the Sun casteth his beams and force very vehemently upon it These Suns shew how absurd a dream Combustion is yet if it were a good and sound principle of Astrology and gave unto every Planet five Debilities yet it could not be proved that liberty from Combustion should give five Dignities being onely a meer absence and privation of the other Magnes at the presence of the Adamant is hindred from drawing Iron yet if the Adamant be away the attractive virtue of the Magnes is not increased Here I might with ease confute the triplicities of Planets Directions Aspects Applications Preventions Refrenations with many such like but my intent at this time is onely to shew thee some untruths of our Prognosticatours Thus much of the Grounds of their Predictions now follow the matters of which they prognosticate and they are very many nay there is no matter almost of which they will not give their verdict but how they do this I will briefly make it manifest unto thee that their Lies and their unchristian dealing may be more loathed of thee 1. They foretell of Comets Earthquakes Famines and Plagues c. but they do it as the blinde man which casteth his staff he knoweth not where No man as yet ever knew the true Causes of these As for Comets and Blazing stars they do not rise of the influence of any stars neither are they any earthly things but are in Heaven most commonly far above the Moon as by Geometrical and Astronomical Demonstrations may be proved how this cometh to pass the Lord onely knoweth And surely they do thee great injury that when as no doubt God doth lighten them and send the rest extraordinarily as threatning tokens of his sore displeasure yet they will rock thee asleep in the Cradle of security by telling that such tokens came from the ordinary course of the Heavens 2. They foretell all things which happen in civil affairs amongst men as these which follow As Love and hatred of Kinsfolk Marriages Increase of Farmes and Livings Injuries and Quarrels Raising of Rents Exacting of Subsidies by Officers False Rumours Imprisonments Hard intreating of Ecclesiastical Persons Buying selling undermining The studying of Sciences Friends fall out for Trisles Solemn progresses Favour of Noblemen Men shall fall Body and Goods into the Princes hands Merchandise unprofitable c. These and such like proceed onely from the will of man the Constellations of stars are neither signes nor Causes of them Some will say Non imponere necessitatem sed inclinare Stellas that is That stars do not constrain but onely incline the mindes of men a most wicked saying although most commonly spoken of and defended For the inclining of the will of man is onely the work of God as the holy Scriptures do teach us The heart of man saith Solomon purposeth his ways but the Lord directeth his steps Prov. 1.6 9. O Lord saith Jeremy the Prophet that the way of man is not in himself neither is it in man to walk and direct his steps Jer. 10.23 He speaketh this because that Nebuchadnezzar purposed to have made war against the Moabites and Amonites but hearing of Zedekiahs Rebellion he turned his power to go against Jerusalem therefore the Prophet saith that whereas he had otherwise purposed yet this was

is called Negromancy In this worst Superstition Bloud is also used and the Reason Isidorus gives is this because he desireth divine worship for in the old Law Bloud was offered up to God If by the chattering of Birds or by the voice of any other Creatures they foretell of things to come it is called Augury This kinde of divination is most blasphemous odious and against the honour of God For they fain that with a divine instinct Birds and Fowls with their Motions Chatterings Croakings Winding or fore-right slying portend either good or bad luck which the Ethnicks themselves did laugh at and contemn For Hector in Homer sharply reproved Polydamantus who delaied his fight expecting an Augury to whom Hector said Vnum esse Augurium optimum Patriam fortiter defendere There is one Augury which is the best stoutly to defend thy Countrey Also this kinde of divination was very frequent among the Jews and was laugh'd at and crost by that learned and couragious Jew Mossolamus who being in the Wars was told by an Astrologer that he should march no farther untill he had received an Augury from the next Bird he should see come flying over his Army But the Jew scorn'd the help of the Bird and laugh'd at the skill of the South-sayer instantly taking his Bow in his hand and as the Bird came croaking over the Army slew it then spake these words Doest thou think thou superstitious South-sayer that this Bird ignorant of her own safety could tell of the event of our Wars If it could have foretold of things to come it would never have come nigh this place to be slain of Mossolanus the Jew If they foretell of things to come by the moving of divers Members of Beasts then it is called Auspicium Also when a man speaks any thing to another without any intention and as it were in jest as to say He will be hang'd drown'd kill'd or the like if this come to pass then they call it Omen If they foretell of things that shall happen by signes that they see in the Lines of a mans hand then it is called Chyromancy This Art many old Women are learnedly experienced in and will tell any Man or Woman for meat drink or money what shall befall them If they foretell of any thing that shall happen by the signes they see in the shoulder-blades of Beasts then it is called Spatalmancia There is also another kinde of divination which is by Lots which Lots are made by drawing out points of an uncertain number with their Faces turned towards the Moon with other Observations to as little purpose as this The Dutchmen are very skilfull at this and have cousened the English of infinite Masses of Money by their selling of Papers so that there was not one among forty though he came never so merry to the Lottery but he should be sure to go away Blank Thus Sir have I laid forth the Brood of divination now I will come to the Observations It is a disputable Question whether by words or deeds the Devil will be compelled by Negromancers or whether being called by them they come because of some League that is between them If Devils appear forced by Negromantick witchcrafts why do not Negromancers make them come against their wills which sure they cannot which is a sign that there is a League and Covenant concluded between the Devil Conjurers either manifest or occult why else do Negromancers dedicate their Books to the chief Devils whose Name they often use but onely to make a Covenant with the Devil that when they call them by those Names Charmes Characters Exorcismes and the like they may appear themselves or send some of their inferiour Devils as soon as they hear them These then are approved signes and marks of a Covenant and that the Spirits may shew themselves to have a geater power sometimes they seem very unwilling to come either because they would make the inchanter more zealous or that he may delude simple people for he is a Lyar and the Father of Lyes And now I hope it will not be impertinent to confute the Opinion of many who will not believe that there are any devils but those that are in Hell but I am perswaded that in every corner there is a Spirit I proceed a little further to shew why under a certain Constellation at certain times and in certain terrible places Apparitions appear rather to Women and Children rather then to Men. Such matters as Conjurers use do not compell Devils but rather are signes of a League compacted between them For as S. Augustine saith The devils take their habitations in bodies that God not themselves created and are delighted in severall bodies for variety sake not as creatures with Aliment but as spirits with signes which signes are delectable in variety as sometimes by Stones Herbs Wood living creatures Verses and Rites and men are often delighted with these things Which the Devil perceiving seduce them either by subtle or crafty means or by Apparances in fawning and Friend-seeming shews or beautifull and amiable shapes as they have appeared to some men in the Forms of Lamiae which are but meer Phantasma's of fair women appearing in that beautious shape feigning themselves to be in love with young men who have been so often conversant with them that at the last they have brought them to destruction But I think there are few Lamiae in these days appear except they be substantial ones which are Whores who well may be compared to these midnight delusions For they will profess love and never leave a man while they have brought him to some Hospitall Neither could the Devil do these things but that he prieth into the heart of man and then feeds them with that which most delights them Thomas of Aquin teacheth that by these corporal things they can the more easily bring to effect that to which they are called and they desire this that their Art might be held more admirable and for this case being called under any Constellation they rather will appear But why to Virgins Children and such weak Creatures do such Appearances shew themselves more then to others but that they may bring them into an opinion of their Divinity and that prestigious Witchcrafts and delusions may soonest tempt them that have the weakest Faith And to make them afraid they appear in the Night as it were in hollow Caves and Caverns of the Earth Desarts dark and solitary Chambers whereby the fear of these melancholly places and the unseasonable time of the appearance of the Devil may the more terrifie them Thus the policy of the Devil still works on the weakest and silliest kinde of people Avec 6. de Nat. Avecin shews how the Senses may be deluded The general means is this Spirits work nothing extra nos without us for it is easie for Spirits to make many bodies of the Air which earthly bodies may wonder at For Erasmus reports a