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A30719	Hagiastrologia, or, The most sacred and divine science of astrology 1. Asserted in three propositions, shewing the excellency and great benefit thereof, where it is rightly understood and religiously observed : 2. vindicated, against the calumnies of the Reverend Dr. More in his Explanation of the grand mystery of godliness : 3. Excused, concerning pacts with evil spirits, as not guilty, in humble considerations upon the pious and learned discourse upon that subject, by the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph sometimes Lord Bishop of Norwich / by J.B., B.D. ...	J. B. (John Butler)	1680 (1680)	Wing B6268; ESTC R4462	159,576	280

painful observation and hard study and it comes not without great diligence and labour But then here lies the mischief that if the Astrologer has not the more Grace of God sanctifying his studies it comes to pass that either because he cannot by Astrology attain unto such perfection of knowledg as his ambition greedily urges him to pursue or he cannot have it so easily as he would he leaves Astrology and falls in with the Devil to become a Sorcerer But Grace teacheth better things and openeth our Eyes by our Astrological Studies to see and adore the infinite Prescience and Providence of God in the laying the frame of Nature in such an Order as all things do come to pass in time so suitably well even unto the utmost of admiration that Grace and Nature and Mans free agency do all of them work together in the same Subject seemingly contrary one to another and yet do so elegantly comply by virtue of this Frame of Nature in such a Wise and most Excellent manner laid as every one of them has room enough to act its proper work and that without any thing of hindrance of the one to the other in the least measure And such is the excellent Use of Astrology in this matter as Divinity it self though undoubtedly the more worthy Science yet cannot give such a plain Demonstration of these things as does the experience of Astrological Operation For what that teacheth us to believe this maketh us by experience to see and know Again it is a great Use of sanctified Astrology to observe the over-ruling Work of God even in the Astrologers very Mistakes I remember that when with most greediness of knowledg I did at any time pursue my Studies though with indefatigable pains yet have I thrown away whole Weeks and Moneths pains to no purpose My whole Operation having been rendred fruitless though tryed upon several new foundations and all by reason of heedless mistakes in the bottom thereof lurking imperceptibly until my finished work shewed the deficiency And yet at other times and in other Operations I have found my work to be true and good in two daies space So as I was constrained to confess with my self these two things First That where it pleases God to oppose Man labours in vain So it is with the Husbandman and as much with the Physitian And therefore no wonder that the Astrologer errs when God confounds him And secondly where our Passions are most vehemently earnest to know there it pleases God mostly to oppose Moderation carrying the Virtue while excess breeds displeasure God Almighty can and does confound many times Isa 47.13 the utmost skill of the most proficient Artists of all sorts and thus he did by the Chaldean Star-gazers Isa 47.13 when they failed in their Prognostications of the success of Babylon and it proved quite contrary And thus it pleases God to deal by our daies at some times But Heavenly Wisdom remedies this disturbance and sets the Astrologer well to rights Also great is the holy Use of Astrology in demonstrations of Virtue and Wisdom how they do in many things prevail against the natural Works of Heaven and rejoyce against them and yet without any disparagement unto those Heavens or their Natural acts though they be in a sense vanquished And lastly this Heavenly Wisdom teacheth us to know our ends and the number of our dayes Psal 39.4 5. that we may be certified how long we have to live with comfort and contentment and to be most advantagiously prepared for all states of Prosperity and Adversity of Life and Death and that exceedingly the better for our better knowledg thereof And no man so fit to foreknow these as He who is able to say Major sum quàm cui possit fortuna nocere HAGIASTROLOGIA OR ASTROLOGY A Sacred Science SHEWING The Excellency and great Benefit thereof where it is rightly understood and Religiously observed The Introduction Sect. 1 IT may seem something strange The Introduction in this Censorious Age that the Pen of a Divine should be found writing in vindication of Judicial Astrology but be it so yet blush we not nor know I why I should be ashamed True it is indeed that through mistake this Noble Science hath greatly suffered in its reputation and that from the Tongues and Pens of the Pious and Learned as well as Ignorant and Envious Adversaries in so much as many young Students however sufficiently well qualified with the endowments of Nature to read the Sacred Lessons of Heaven yet have feared to employ their Talents that way meerly because of the Ill Name But God forbid that all the World should be pusillanimous Shewing the occasion how this Noble Science hath been misunderstood by many learned and good men for it is not evident that it is not the Blame but the Ill luck rather of this Celestial Science that here and there a Wise man hath despised it First it hath fallen into the hands of many Chimney-sweeping Fellows who have so besmutch'd it with their unclean and sooty fingers that many times it looks not like it self And next being in this case it hath happened upon the fists of many such angry Zealots whose hair-brain'd wisdom having no leisure to examine the reason of the abused disguise have persecuted in their chafe they knew not who nor what And now if a wise and good man hath sometimes met with a Prince in his Exile cloathed in rags and beaten all over black and blue and besmeared with blood and dirt is it not so much the more a case to be pitied if he also has gone by with scorn and despised even Virtue it self because under the clowds of its persecution he could not know its face Sect. 2 How the Author from an Enemy became a Well-willer to the Study of Astrology My self also must needs acknowledge that some years since I also was one of those Enemies to this Noble Science who buffetted in the dark I knew not what until soberly tempted to taste a few Lines reading of this Subject although it was with a serious purpose to take up the apter occasion to throw dirt at it yet by this means attaining to understand who it was I spoke to it begat in me a reverence to those Gray Hairs which as unjustly as ignorantly I had despised My Study of Duty is Theology and they are not the Tythe of my Meditations which by Astrology are claimed Wherefore counting it a kind of Treason to my Function to rob it of so much leisure as would carry me thorow-stitch with the acquaintance of the Arabian Chaldean and all other Forreign Authors of this Subject I contented my self onely to peruse such English Books as came ready to my hand for it was but merely a divertisement and And of what great and good use he finds by it how it it serves him as an handmaid to Divinity as it were an Handmaid to Divinity all whatsoever

in this World whether for more or less fortunate or unfortunate favoured or disgraced Attendents upon Of the Second and Sixth Houses and their qualities and Upholders of a mans Honour and Dignity are Wealth and Servants The first of these does wait upon Mid-heaven in a succedent House called the Second House of Heaven and the other in a Cadent H●use called the Sixth House of Heaven and these two are situate both in an harmonious Trine to the Angular point of Mid-heaven it self And now look what the Planets Stars Aspects and Heavenly Matter are in either of these Houses such shall the Natives Fortune prove for matter of Wealth and Servants whereof the first for Wealth and the second for Servants Sect. 15 The third Angle of Heaven is called the Seventh House Of the Seventh House and th● Eleventh and Third and their qualities and is always that point of Heaven and the Degrees appendant which is descending or setting out of our Horizon and is diametrically opposite to the Ascendant Now as the rising Heaven is the Conduit of life so is this setting Heaven level with the Ascendent of all affairs level with life such as are Marriage and all manner of dealings in the World and the Natives Sweet-heart Wife and all persons he has to deal with whether Friends Strangers or Enemies and those either honest men or thieves And the Planets Stars Aspects and Heavenly matter in this point at a Nativity do apparently shew how a man shall be had for matter of Wives more or fewer any or none good or bad and for matter of dealing how fortunate or unfortunate he is like to prove and for matter of Thieves and Enemies how he shall be troubled with them more or less or whether he shall overcome them or they him Necessary Upholders of Marriage and Defenders against Thieves and Enemies are Friends Kindred and Neighbours And these in their Trine to the Seventh House are brought forth the first out of the Eleventh House of Heaven a Succedent House and the other out of the Third House of Heaven a Cadent House This Eleventh House and the Planets Stars Aspects and Heavenly Matter therein do shew the state of a mans Friends and Hopes in this life And the Third House describes how happy or unhappy a man shall prove in his Brothers Sisters Cousins and Neighbours Sect. 16 Of the Seventh House with the Twelfth and Eighth and their qualities The last Angle of Heaven is the Fourth House called the Bottom of Heaven and is always that point of Heaven which seems to hang at the very bottom of the round Ball of the Celestial World and is Diametrically opposite to Mid-heaven And as that shews what a man shall rise to in this World so this declares what and when shall be his fall end or death This House has signification therefore of the end of every matter and amongst other ends of the Grave which is the end of all men living And the Planets Stars Aspects and Heavenly Matter in this House do shew what kind of end every Native is like to find whether honourable or dishonourable and the like Retainers to this House are Tribulation and Death the one signified by the Eighth House a Succedent House of Heaven and the other by the Twelfth House a Cadent House And the Planets Stars Aspects and Heavenly Matter in these Houses do shew how men shall be had for matter of tribulation and afflictions out of the Twelfth House and for matter of Death out of the Eighth House Sect. 17 Now besides these named these Houses have also every one of them other significations that they take charge of upon other grounds and reasons The Ascendant signifies the Native coming into the World and the Fourth House at the same time signifies the Parents of the Native going out For one generation goes off and another always comes in Eccles 1.4 according to the course of Nature Of these Parents the Father is more especially signified by the Fourth House and then secondarily but not so forcibly the Mother of the Native is signified by the Tenth House and the Grand-father by the Seventh and Vnkles and Aunts by the Fathers side by the Sixth and Vnkles and Aunts by the Mothers side by the Twelfth Hence also comes it to pass that by the Fourth House are signified Houses and Lands and all manner of Patrimony left by the Fathers and by the Eighth House are signified Goods left by Will of the Dead Also the Second and Sixth Houses in half Trine the House of the Grave and in opposition to the Eighth and Twelfth have a secondary signification of Sickness and Death So the Eleventh and Third in half Trine to the Ascendent have secondary signification of Children and Sciences Sect. 18 Of the Accidental Qualities of Heaven as they happen by reason of something which hath affected them Thus far of the Accidental Qualities of the Heavenly Matter as they happen by means of the situation of the Heavens Now come we to the Qualities of the Heavens as they happen by reason of something that hath affected the Heavenly Matter with such new Qualities as it hath an aptitude to entertain These things thus affecting are either the Moon or some other of the seven Planets Of the Qualities of Heaven by the Moon in her Nodes affected And first and principally the Moon hath a main stroke in this work It is observed that the moon circleth the Earth once in every 28 days space but in this perambulation she does not at all keep to the Suns path in the Ecliptick Line nor does she always hold her self on the same hand of that Line but once in every fourteen days space she crosseth that Line and so moveth sometime on the North and other whiles on the South side thereof And now is it farther observed that that peculiar place of Heaven when the Moon cuteth this Line is very much affected with this her motion The Moon is the great Lady of Life and Growth and whed she cutteth this Line therefore to the Northwards which is to come nearer into this Northern World then leaves she behind her an extraordinary measure of fruitfulness upon that point of Heaven so that like unto rich Compost which whether it be laid upon Grass or Corn makes it exceedingly to grow the better so it wonderfully fructifies with its influence all things whatsoever happening within the line of its jurisdiction This point is usually called the Dragons Head or the Moons North Node and is ordinarily found marked thus ☊ which as it ascends it strengthens Life with a strong and lively constitution if in Mid-heaven it promises great Honour if in the Eleventh as much Wealth If the Planets Jupiter or Venus happen to be in this point it makes them much the stronger in their good nature to do the more good but if the Planets Saturn or Mars be in this point it makes them also the