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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53182	Observations upon the strange & wonderful prophecies of Mr. John Gadbury, now prisoner in the gate-house for high trason with astrological predictions for the year, 1680 : shewing, from the choicest rules in the sidereal sciences, what grand revolutions or accidents are likely to happen in every month, respectively, in many parts of the world, especially, England, Scotland, & Ireland : as also, the death of the Pope fore-told, etc.		1680 (1680)	Wing O123C; ESTC R38885	3,695	5

Observations upon the Strange Wonderful PROPHECIES OF Mr. John Gadbury now Prisoner in the Gate-House for High Trason WITH Astrological Predictions For the YEAR 1680. SHEWING From the Choicest Rules in the Sidereal Sciences What Grand Revolutions or Accidents are likely to happen in Every Month respectively in many Parts of the World Especially ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND AS ALSO The Death of the POPE Fore-told c. Multi multa sciunt Sed nemo omnia COrruptio optimi est pessima As the Art of Astrology is in it self of Noble Extraction and a Nature sublime So has no Secular Science been more grosly abused whil'st Fools Idolize it Half-witted-Coxcombs Contemn it and Crafty Knaves Use it as a Politick-Engine to boulster up a Cheat or colour their Mischievous Designes When the Famous Popish Gun-Powder-Plot was discovered there was one Gresham a Papist and small Pretender to the Mathematicks was violently suspected to have some Hand in 't because he wrote so near the Matter in his Almanack Young Nostredame to fulfill a certain Prophecy of his That in such a Year such a City should be burnt set it on Fire himself and for the same received his Just Reward I know not whether we have any such Cunning-Men among'st us at this day Yet cannot but observe to the World some notable Passages of a Notorious Astrologician Mr. J. G. in his Almanack for the approaching Year 1680. This Gentleman having by what Art I determine not obtain'd it seems some Notions of certain Occurrences that were design'd to happen was so full of the Business that at the first dash he breaks Bulk and presents us with these presaging Lines in January Sly Hermes with Brisk Mavors Joyns In Aquary Which must not be forgot That Treacherous Human Signe can spawn a Plot. A very pretty Predictive Him And had not the Dragon 's Tayl in Conjunction with the Meal-Tubb hindered it might in due time have ripen'd into a Prophecy In February he uses this shrewd Expression All of a sudden methinks I hear of DREADFVL Treachery Northward I trust this may not prove altogether Oraculous and yet that which is not Improbable to be sure is not Impossible There are People that would gladly make a Rebellion if they cannot find it nay would purchase it at any Rate to blanch their own black Purposes And certainly that which follows in the same Page if properly applyed to the Be-Jesuited Bigots of the Bloody Romish Synagogue is true to an Hairs-bredth viz. A Feaver of Religion turns the soonest into a Frenzy and makes each Wight an Orestes In the Month of March he hath these words I tell thee O Clandestine Conspirator be thou who thou wilt in making it thy Business to disturb either thy Governours or Country thou dost therein assuredly court thy own Destruction This in Defyance of Envy and for the Credit of Art and that Well-Experienc'd Author I will adventure to call a Prophecy And as Providence hath hitherto since the Writing thereof accomplish't the same so let it be our continual Prayers That it may still be verifyed for the Future That so our Authors Menaces in June may be defeated viz. That Vice is like to be Rampant and the Sons of Perfidiousness and Treachery should be prevalent against Men of Worth and Integrity I shall not insist upon that Passage in the Second Page of his Prog because 't is probable himself did not enough regard it viz. That there is a Spirit of Fr●ud abroad which animates Men to entrap ensnare and betray one another Yea even their very Friends and those of the same Feather and Party with them possibly to the Ruine and Destruction of Many But in the Third Page following there is a Villainous Squinting Prognostick that perhaps deserves a Severer Animadversion than I can bestow He is speaking of an Eclipse of the Sun in Aries happening the Twentyeth of March 1680. Upon which he drops these Insolent Words The Famous Cambden I suppose he means Cardan hath TRVLY minded us of the Danger attending ENGLAND from Eclipses in Aries Si quando fuerit Eclipsis in ♈ an t ♌ significat mortem Regis In plain English thus If there shall be an Eclipse in Aries as this is or Leo it signifies the Death of the KING And though he Translate it a little more generally thus An Eclipse of Sol in Aries or Leo betokens the Death or Downfal of some great Emperour or Prince Yet even this his English amounts to the same thing For in the Words before without any Occasion given by his Author who speaks indefinitely he had appropriated this to England by naming That particularly And goes on to Justify such his Impudent Judgment saying The REASON THEREOF IS NEAR AT HAND Sol is Rex Planetarum as a Prince amongst the Planets c. But we have a more sure Word of Prophecy The Lord frustrateth the Tokens of the Lyars and maketh Diviners mad turneth Wise-Men back-wards and maketh their Knowledge foolish Isa 44.25 However the Consideration hereof is modestly submitted to Authority whilst we only say From such Star-gazing Vizards of State With their Popish Prognosticks Defend us What they seem to Fore-tell they Create And they cause all the Ills they pretend us And now that we may Gratify the Reader 's Curiosity that would needs be Pick-Locking the Closet of Fate we shall present him with some Innocent Predictions on each of the Twelve Months of the ensuing Year 1680. deduced from as Authentick Grounds in Art as any Well-willer to the Mathematicks in the Town can boast of And first of January THE Year begins with Lofty Tow'ring Winds which 't is hoped may blow all the Jesuits into Lubber-Land Towards the End of the Month their Popish-Plot begins to stink worse than his Holyness when he was Roasted the other Evening at Temple-Bar with a Catt in his Belly Some New Discoveries are made and fresh Animosities and Accusations break forth And not a few Conscious Traytors who thought themselves secure are brought upon the Stage Nor will all their Interest be able longer to screw them from Incensed Justice February MArs and the Sun meet in Consultation 'T is a Good Omen when Authority and Power are United What great Martialist is he that now receives a Check or languishing with the Tortures of a Guilty Conscience Resigns his Breath The General Peace which seem'd hovering over Europe is now upon the Wing and threatens once more to leave Christendom to the Rage of Bellona though divers prudent moderate Statesmen use all their Endeavours to Court her longer Stay Good News arrives about the Twenty-Seventh Day to our Merchants from the South-West and curious seasonable Weather concludes the Month. March MArch comes in like a Lion And Mens Actions are as rough and tempestuous as the Weather There are Clouds gathering which may possibly Eclipse the French Grandeur More petty Counter-Plots are Hatched but vanish in Smoak And the devises of Mischief are Entrapped in their own