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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	light_n	night_n	rule_v	7,457	5	10.0229	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87111	Vox caelorum. Predictions defended or, The voyce of the celestiall light, wherein is proved five things: 1 That the starres have received influences. 2 That they operate and worke upon sublunary things, according to the nature and quality of those received influences. 3 That God hath revealed those received influences to man. 4 That it is not unlawfull to predict according to the knowne nature and quality of those received influences. 5 That it is not unlawfull to call the starres by such and such names; as Pleyades, Arcturus, Orion, &c. And divers places of the Scriptures opened and cleared. With a vindication of M. William Lilly his reputation against the Epirrhesian antagonists, in these times of discovery of new lights. By Henry Harflete, practitioner in the mathematickes.	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.	1646 (1646)	Wing H767; Thomason 1179[1]; ESTC R208103	22,577	71

it Doth Mercury aspect with his fellowes and doth not God most commonly bring forth the winds out of his Store-house Psal 136. 8 9. Did God make great Lights the Sun to rule by day and the Moone and Starres to rule by night Can they rule and not operate according to their influentiall powers Iob 9. 7. God is said there to seale up the Starres in his anger to seale up their influences that they shall not operate according to their naturall and influentiall vertues and this God doth to scourge a sinfull Nation Did he not seale up the Heavens that it should not raine 1 King 18 And was not that Englands scourge Did he not restraine the sweet influences of the Pleyades not long since causing a sensible Dearth that Corne was sold at ten shillings a Bushell and many starved for want of Bread in the City of London The holy Ghost doth not say He hath sealed up the heavens that it shall not raine but the Starres to shew that they operate or not operate upon sublunary things as secondary causes according to the good pleasure will and command of the first cause which is God I could instance in many more but these shall suffice I come to confirm it 2 By reason I shall instead of many give these two Reasons why they must operate 1 Because hereby they glorifie and praise their Creator It is the voice of the Celestiall Lights to praise God Job 38. 7. when the Morning Stars sang together or as the old Translation When the Stars of the morning praised me together Now how did they praise God Even by declaring his wisdome power and goodnesse And how did they that By manifesting the same by their effectuall operation in working according to those influentiall vertues God had given them And then it followes all the Sons of God shouted for joy or as the old Translation renders it and all the children of God rejoyced The children of God meaning the Angels so Iunius and not that these words should be an explicatory to the former part of the verse as though the Stars of the morning should be the Children or Sons of God for I can see no reason why that should be wrested figuratively when it may be taken literally and that this is the meaning do but compare this place with the 148. Psalm vers 2 3 4. where he saith Praise yee him all his Angels and in vers 3. Praise yee him Sun and Moone paise yee him all yee Stars of light Praise him yee Heavens of Heavens that is the whole Heaven called Heaven of Heavens in regard of the spheres and scituation of the sixed Stars and Planets Here you see the Angels and Stars are distinguished 3 They operate because God made them for this end not to be idle but to operate for the use of Man Psal 8. 3. When I behold thine Heavens even the works of thy fingers the Moone and the Stars which thou hasi ordained To what end hath he ordained them but to serve Man and to work for this use and therefore he goeth on in the fourth verse What is man that thou art mindfull of him c. 3 It is confirmed not onely by Scripture and by reason but also By Experience Aristotle saith That the Elements and all things which are composed of the Elements do testifie that their vertues and naturall motions do depend upon the activity of the heavenly motions and influences We see daily that the Mariner by foreseeing the rising setting and culmination of some tempestuous Stars and their conjunction and anglings with the Planets hath an expert conjecture of storms and tempests and such Meteorologicall effects which are dangerous on Sea whereby he is prepared against danger Plato saith Mutationes opportunitatesque temporum praesentire non minus rei militari quam agriculturae navigationique convenit It is convenient not only for the Souldier but also for the Husbandman and Mariner to foresee the alterations and opportunities of times and seasons Virgil shewes what evident tokens are foreseene by the Sun and Moone Georg. Sol quoque exoriens cum se condet in undas Signa dabit solem certissima signa sequuntur Et quae manè refert quae surgentibus astris Ille ubi nascentem maculis variaverit ortum Conditus in nubem medioque refugerit orbe Suspecti tibi sint imbres c. And then he saith Sol tibi signa dabit Solem quis discere falsum Audeat Now let a man know more then a Common Student then he is accounted a Conjurer he deals with the Divill c. Let a man draw and erect a Scheame of the Heavens and thereby calculate his Nativity c. and frame a Judgement upon that be it according to the judgement and experience of antient Writers which cannot be taxed with the scandall of dealing with the Divell presently he is censured at the Barre of indiscretion he ascribes fatality to the Stars and that this must be the Position of the Heavens tell him so Who doth so Doth Master Booker Doth Master Lilly whom yee terme fatall men and meere Naturalists What did Moses What did David What did Solomon of whom something anon I shall say no more but onely this That it is no point of wisdom to derogate from and thereby scandalize the worth and reputation of the well deserving But to proceed I must needs here taxe foure sorts of people the Proposition being confirmed and I hope sufficiently proved to a wise man verbum sat sapienti 1 Those that ascribe fatality to to the Stars These indeed overreach themselves thinking that the Stars are answerable to their doubts and demands upon a necessary tye these indeed are meer Naturalists Animals that will tye the first cause to the secondary And because the Heavens promise so much it must needs be 2 Those that deny any Influence at all being Ignorants These undervalue the second Cause and the powers and instruments by which God works and effects according to ordinary meanes These thinke that no Influentiall vertue from the heavenly bodies beare any sway at all in Generation and corruption in this elementall world These assigne a slight superficiall even a no power to the secondary causes at all They consider not the Sun the Moone and Stars how pure how bright how wonderfull big how far in distance how manifold their Motions how constant in their Periods c. they are and so ascribe no more Influentiall power unto them then they doe unto the signe of the Sun and Moone hung up in London streets to call in Twelve a clocke Drunkards Nay the Elephant the Cynocephalus and the Ant the Pismire and other creatures shall naturally by their actions and passions more confesse the Heavenly Powers then those ignorant c. Such as those will not ascribe so much vertuall radiation and force to the Celestial bodies as they see before their eyes in a little peece of a Magnes or Magneticall