Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	life_n	year_n	4,245	5	4.7587	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23638	Judicial astrologers totally routed, and their pretence to Scripture, reason & experience briefly, yet clearly and fully answered, or, A brief discourse, wherein is clearly manifested that divining by the stars hath no solid foundation ... published by J.A. for publick good.	Allen, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing A1032; ESTC R14258	18,944	38

is plain that we are to ascribe this fertility not to the influence of the Sun and stars but the faming of the ground by the dung or soile seasonably laid upon it by the careful Farmer I shall not need to add any thing more by way of argumental confutation of Astrology as to shew you the vain Fictions concerning the fixed stars the 12 Celestial Houses the 7 Planets positions in them and their several aspects one towards another with the several imaginary effects they attribute to them I think for my own part enough hath been said in the general discourse for the confutation of it and I hope every judicious man that reads it will be satisfied with it I shall onely add some memorable examples of the frustration of the tokens of these Liars and end this work One eminent Example All Histories assure us that Henry the 3d of France died in the Fourtieth year of his age compleat of a wound received in his eye in the exercise of Tilting and yet see the Prophesie of Gaurious concerning him in his Prognostication of the year 1556 because in the Scheam of his Nativity he had the Sun almost partitely conjoyned to Venus under the degrees of his altitude and also the Moon and Venus advancing through his Horoscope under the Constellation of Arics therefore he shall live most happy and glorious till the seventieth year of his age deducting only two moneths and if by the favour of God he escape the dangerous years of sixty three and sixty four it will be very long before there be an end of his renowned life You have also the prediction of Cardan when speaking of the same King Henry he shall be said he in his old age so much the more happy by how many the more difficulties he hath passed through before And how acutely these two famous Prophets did foresee these things let the Event be Judge A second Example is that of Cardans predicting the lamentable mis-fortunes of men that were his dear friends Check of England and Raconet of France and divers others all whose Nativities he erected with all possible exactnesse and afterward printed them I cannot hold from noting that John Rudolphus Camerarius when writing against Sextus ab Heminga to declare the certainty of Judicial Astrology collected an hundred several Genitures and amongst them put the Nativities of the Late Kings of France Henry the 3d. and Henry the 4th joyning also the judgment of Fredericus Rutelius as to Henry the 3d. the businesse succeeded accordingly he told his disaster after it had befaln him But as for Henry the 4th who was then living when his Century was published in the year 1607 nothing was lesse foretold by him than the time of his death for though that best of Kings was murdered by a sacrilegious hand in the year 1610 and that in the Moneth of May our famous Prophet never suspected the least danger to him in that year or moneth but cast his death upon the year 1613 and the moneth of October as threatning some eminent danger to his life in the 59 year of his age nine moneths and one and twenty dayes he being born on the 24 of December at two a Clock after Midnight in the year 1553 and that because the Sun would then come to the body of Saturn by direction the Horoscope to a Quartile of the same and the middle Heaven to a Quartile of the Sun but truly as the death of that Prince was deplorable so was the hariolation ridiculous A Third Example is that which Suffredus Judge of Salona shewed some friends of his his Fathers Nativity with the judgments thereupon given under Nostradamus his own hand-writing they were pleased to require of him concerning his Father whom he knew well a not dying till his Son was almost arived at mans estate The Father according to that scheam was born in the year 1544 on the 13 of January 22 minutes after high Noon the altitude of the Pole being supposed to be 44 degrees which is more by the third part of a degree than ought The Son John Suffredus not being able to give any account of those accidents which Nostradamus had foretold should befal the Father in his youth as that in the 16th year of his age he should fall into a dangerous Dysentery or bloody Flux that he should fall into a violent Feaver in the 17th year of his life and in the 20 fall into love and relinquish his studies c. There were some accidents which he did certainly inform his Friends of viz. that the Prophet told him that the Father should wear his Beard long crisped but he alwaies shaved his chin bare that in the middle of his age his Teeth should be rotten but he had very white and firm Teeth to his dying day that in his old age he should go almost crooked and double but he went to the last upright and straight as any young man whosoever that in the 19th year of his life he should become exceeding rich by inheriting a strangers estate but besides what his Father left him he never had any wealth or estate that he should suffer by the treachery of his Brethren and in the 37thyear be wounded by his own Mothers Son but he never had any Brother nor had his Father more than one wife that he should marry a Forreigner but he married a French woman of Salona that in the 25 year he should be so addicted to Natural Philosophy and the secrets of Magick as no man more as also to Geometry and Arithmetick in an extraordinary manner but he never had any particular affection to or care of any of those studies but entirely devoted himself to the knowledge of the Lawes that in his old age he should apply himself to Navigation and Musick but he never delighted much in Musick nor was ever at Sea in his whole life that he should not passe the 75th year but he passed not the 54th year of which Nostradamus said not a word And these things are the more particularly handled to the end that men may judge what credit is to be given to such vain predictions I may say old women children and fools somtimes do tell truth and why may not Astrologers It s more by hap than skill if they do Cardan himself gives this advice to his Astrological Friends if you have saith he an itch to be divining be sure you foretel the quite contrary to what Astrologers promise or threaten Fourthly Historians report of a pregnant example of an Astrologer that predicted that Henry the 7th of England a wise valiant and prosperous King should die in such a year the King sent for him and asked him if he could tell in what place himself should be in the next Christmas then near at hand the Prophet being surprized with this unexpected question stood mute a good while and at last confessed he could not tell thereupon the King smiling said then my friend