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B00136	An astrological discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the tvvo superiour planets, Saturne & Iupiter, which shall happen the 28 day of April, 1583. With a briefe declaration of the effectes, which the late eclipse of the sunne 1582. is yet heerafter to woorke. / Written newly by Richard Harvey: partely, to supplie that is wanting in cõmon prognostications: and partely by prædiction of mischiefes ensuing, either to breed some endeuour of preuention by foresight, so farre as lyeth in vs: or at leastwise, to arme vs with pacience beforehande.	Harvey, Richard, 1560-1623?	1583 (1583)	STC 12909.7; ESTC S92875	40,607	102

¶ An Astrological Discourse vpon the great and notable Coniunction of the tvvo superiour Planets SATVRNE IVPITER which shall happen the 28. day of April 1583. With a briefe Declaration of the effectes which the late Eclipse of the Sunne 1582. is yet heerafter to woorke Written newly by RICHARD HARVEY partely to supplie that is wanting in cōmon Prognostications and partely by praediction of mischiefes ensuing either to breed some endeuour of preuention by foresight so farre as lyeth in vs or at leastwise to arme vs with pacience beforehande Seene and allowed 〈◊〉 C●ARISS●●M ET GRATISSIMUS ●IN●VIVS 〈◊〉 AT LONDON Imprinted by Henrie Bynneman Anno Domini 1583. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD IOHN BISHOP OF London and his verie good Lord RICHARD HARVEY wisheth long life with increase of all honourable vertues RIGHT REVEREND my dutie in most humble wise remembred I am to beseech your good Lordshippe to vouchsafe me that fauour if not for mine owne sake or the worthines of the thing it selfe yet for Cambridge sake and that especiall affection whiche you haue alwayes borne towards Vniuersitie men and namely your singular curtesie toward my brother Gabriel when he should haue trauailed to Smalcaldie which curtesie he doth often recognise that as it hath pleased you alreadie to commit the perusing of the Astrologicall Discourse following to your most learned sonne in lawe M. Doctor Squire who can verie well iudge and hath verie friendly allowed thereof so it may now like your Lordshippe to admit of the same for the best New yeares gift that such a scholler on such a suddaine can bestow Which albeit in respect of the base handling it be nothing worthie either the view or the handling of such a personage as I can not but know your Lordship to be yet considering the great importance and consequence of the argument I am both perswaded by some friends who are to ouerrule me in a greater matter to aduenture the publication thereof insomuch that I haue made my good Lord of Rochester and M. Doctor Lewen priuie thereunto who like well of the impression and with all am incouraged to craue your good leaue that vpon your priuate liking which notwithstanding my selfe of my selfe can not greatly hope for you would suffer it to passe vnder the title of your good Lorshippes publique maintenaunce and patronage I may easily presume too much of your accustomed fauour so assuredly knowen as well in both the Vniuersities as abroad in your Lordships Diocesse and other parts of the Realme and therefore notwithstanding the importunitie of those my friends and the grauitie of the argument it selfe being loth to be ouerbold where I owe so much reuerence and dutie I haue thought good not to vse your name without your owne licence but wholy to commit the publishing or suppressing of this Discourse to your Lordshippes liking or disliking You may haply maruell what I meane either to deale my selfe in any such matter of Astrologie being shortly to professe Diuinity so soone as my place in the College shall call me thereunto or to dedicate a Treatise of anie such contents vnto one that hath both so many yeres euen in King Edwards Queene Maries daies as appeareth by his owne and others writings caried so singular credit for his knowledge and practise in Diuinitie now by Gods prouidence is in place to benefit and countenance those that being admitted to that vocation shall deserue to be well accepted therein But for the one besides that I might alleage for my defence the examples of Melancthon Chytraeus Iunctinus Maestlyne our M. Doctor Fulke your M. Doctor Squier and some other of like credit who being professed in Diuinitie to their owne speciall commendation the generall benefite of the Church were not afterward ashamed both to defend to practice Astrologie the verie subiect and matter of the Arte it selfe is such that none which knoweth it in deede can iustly charge it with the least contrarietie or repugnancie either to Diuinitie it selfe or to the soundest partes of Morall and Naturall Philosophie Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei and Platoes opinion is that our eies were principally giuen vs for this vse and end to be occupied in the contemplation of the heauens whereunto he attributeth so much that he thinketh Astronomie and wisedom to be so inseparably linked and chained togither that neither a very wise man can want Astrologie nor a very good Astrologer want wisdom To which effect that notable saying of his deserueth to be as famous as your Lordship knoweth it to be amongest the learned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which verie saying seemeth vnto me to import some part of that Diuinitie whereof so many ages he hath caried so high and honourable a surname the rather because the singular and incomparable wisedom of Salomon as your Lordshippe best remembreth is thus particularly described in the booke intituled Liber Sapientiae Deus mihi dedit harum rerum cognitionem veram vt sciam dispositionem orbis terrarum virtutes effectionesque elementorum initium finem medium temporum solstitiorum vicissitudines consummationes temporum morum mutationes annorum orbes stellarum situs ac dispositiones naturas animalium iras bestiarum ventorum impecus cogitationes hominum stirpium differentias radicum virtutes quaecunque sunt abscondita improuisae didici cum me omnium Artifex docuit Sapientia For which verie kindes of knowledge albeit I beleue neuer anie had them in that full measure that it pleased God to bestow vpon Salomon our chiefest Astrologers especiallie the most learned Arabians so often as they are occasioned to cite or mention any of their predecessors call them commonlie by the name of Sapientes which some I know merrily translated Wizardes but how wizardly if they speake generally without exception of the better sort let the prouerbe testifie which saith Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem What should I speake of Thales Milesius who being the first that among the Graecians was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Diogenes Laertius reporteth was also the first among them that searching out the secrecies and misteries of Astrologie both foretold the conuersions and eclipses of the Sunne as Eudemus witnesseth in his Astrologicall historie and found out Vrsa minor with hir litle starres whereby the Phoenices direct their nauigation as Callimachus testifieth in his Greeke verses and foreseeing a verie great dearth of oliues and thereupon purposing to shewe howe easie a matter it was for Philosophers to grow rich gat into his hands by a reasonable price all the oliue gardens in Miletum and Chium the winter before whereby afterward making his owne price at his pleasure he gained exceeding great summes of money as is crediblie recorded not only by Hieronimus Rhodius and Aristotle in Greeke but also by Tullie De Diuinatione and diuers other in Latine Aristotle saying one while he did it 〈◊〉

I auoide to be ouer tedious And yet am I violently brought to a further consideration of the premisses by such extraordinary and as a man would say presignificatiue Accidents as these following When were there euer séene so many dreadfull Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone When so many straung and wonderfull copulations of planets when so prodigious Comets not without their tragicall operations When such terrible Examples of fierie Meteors coruscations traiections impressions and inflammations in the Aier as haue bene already obserued in our Age and will more fearefully appeare within fewe yeares When was the Earth so violently terribly shaken with an Earthquake as it was the sixt of Aprill 1580. not onely in Ingland and Scotland but also in other Countries and Nations further off which Earthquake notwithstanding your pleasant Entrance into that Philosophicall Discourse deliuered thereof by you ex tempore in company of honest gentlemen gentlewomen assēbled togither to make merry séemeth yet vnto me a matter of no smal consequence wherevnto your selfe also séeme to incline in the earnester part of that Discourse Were not such signes and tokens foretold by our Sauiour Christ hath he not forewarned vs that they should appeare shew them selues as it were in their terrible likenes a litle before or in his very comming doth not withall the contempt of good learning the cōtempt of good maners y e contempt of good lawes the contēpt of good Magistrats the contempt of all good gouernment nay doth not the contempt of good religion good pietie good charitie al goodnes which since these latter daies neuer so vniuersally raigned as now it doth doe not these general abuses séeme to argue import as much whē was y e world so quite deuoid of care whē so secure so recklesse so bent against all discipline and order when so vainly wicked or so wickedly vaine when was innocencie more ridiculous faithfulnesse more contemptible vertue more abiected holines more prophaned loue more hated duty more neglected honour more dishonoured honestye more despised good life more wounded to death than now a daies Finally when such vnnatural partes such monstrous corruptions of bodye mind such vile absurd indignities such inordinate barbarous procéedings without any respect to law or conscience so vniuersally put in practise when euer y t like general lustinesse iollitie with such desperate wilfulnesse and self-loue not in one or two more highly minded or hawtily set than their fellowes but euen commonly in the whole world to speake of when euer so iust occasion of complaint with the Poet Omne in praecipiti vitium stetit What is now the Conclusion Truely that the second comming of the sonne of man draweth nigh which shall be as were the dayes of Noah for as in the dayes which were before the floud they were eating and drinking marrying and giuing in marriage euen till the day that Noah entred into the Arke and perceiued nothing till the floud came and ouerwhelmed them all so shal also the comming of the sonne of man be Mathew 2● May we not nowe sensibly perceiue that these dayes of ours and the dayes immediatly following are y e very daies here expressed yea euen those dayes which Christ him selfe did so certainely and more than prophetically foreshewe vnto his Disciples preaching vnto them of the destruction of the Temple the ende of the world and the latter dayes Why then doe we still dwell in securitie and deceiue our selues with vaine conceits building vp a mountaine of miseries insteade of the right felicitie If we knowe our Lordes will and doe it not we shall worthily be beaten with many stripes Wherefore let vs now at the last spéedily and carefully call vpon our mercifull God lest he consume vs in the heate of his heauy wrath and indignation let vs humbly sue for grace and hartily craue pardon and fauour at his hands lest suddaine destruction ouerwhelme vs let vs with penitent and obedient harts fall downe before the throne of his celestiall maiestie asking remission of our manifold sinnes and villanies and with a contrite affection earnestly and vnfainedly embrace the gladsum tidings of his holy Gospel that through his infinite goodnes and excéeding mercy we may be safely protected and wholy deliuered from all these horrible euils both of body and soule For sée what comfortable and swéete words the Lord of Hostes hath vttered with his owne mouth If ye walke in my Ordinances and kéepe my commaundements and doe them I wil send you raine in due season and the land shall yéeld hir encrease and the trées of the fielde shall giue their fruite and your threshing shal reach vnto the vintage and the vintage shall reach vnto the sowing time ye shal eate your bread in plenteousnes and dwel in your land safely and I wil send peace in the land and ye shall sléepe and none shal make you afraid and I wil rid euil beastes out of the land and there shal no sword goe throughout your land and ye shal chase your enimies and they shall fall before you vpon the sword and fiue of you shal chase an hundred and an hundred shal put ten thousand to flight and your enimies shall fall before you vpon the sword for I will haue respect vnto you and make you increase multiply you and set vp my couenant with you and ye shall eate olde store and carry out the olde because of the new and I wil make my dwelling place among you and my soule shall not loath you I wil walke amongst you and will be your God and ye shall be my people and so foorth These are the goodly and blessed promises which the Lord of Heauen Earth wil assuredly and plentifully performe vnto those that doe faithfully feare and truly worship him in that integritie of holines righteousnes that him selfe requireth For no doubt he is a most merciful God a most louing father ful of compassion full of pacience long suffering ful of goodnes pitie And yet as he is excedingly merciful to the repentant sinner so is he also iust terrible to the wilful obstinate reprobate For thus on the other side hath the Lord of Lords from the throne of his omnipotent Maiestie thundered but if ye walke contrary vnto me and wil not harken vnto me I wil also walke contrary vnto you I wil bring vpon you fearfulnes consumption and the burning ague to consume your eyes and gender sorrow of hart and ye shal sowe your seede in vaine for your enimies shal eate it and I wil set my face against you and ye shal fall before your enimies they that hate you shall raigne ouer you and ye shal flye when no man followeth you and I will breake the pride of your power and I will make your heauen as yron and your earth as brasse and your labour shall be spent in vaine for your land shall not giue her encrease neither shall the