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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

their peculiar Offices other waye● and 2. Though they are Subjects of Nature 〈◊〉 we are Shewing how it is wrought by means and that either by the Soul of the World or however by the Heavenly Influences yet are they no part of the frame 〈◊〉 Nature whereout all things in their order an● formed Now were it by the Soul of the World then for certain must there be such a Soul which as yet we are not sufficiently inform'd of and then must that Soul have its spec●● seat in the World worthy of it self where t● dwell and from whence to inform all th● whole Earth and if so then dwells it undoubtedly amongst the Celestial Matter and from thence supplies the Earth with such sto● of Virtue from the Heavens and Stars therein as brings to pass all that Shape Colour Smell Life and Increase which we see com● to pass Or if you deny this then must the Earth be supplied with all her wonderful Virtues from some Supernatural Material Substances and if so then name any thing besides the Heavenly Matter and the Stars of Heaven that can be that Substance and I have done Now either way will there be at Heavenly Astrology or an Astrology in the Heavens Onely the question is whether these Celestial Influences create the Earth immediately by God's blessing or whether there be a general Soul of the World between yea or not Vtrum horum mavis accipe I ask no more Gen. 1.1 2 3. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the Deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters Here when there was nothing but Earth and Water and Darkness over all yet the Spirit of God maintained that rude lump the Earth did he manage by the Water and the Water in the Dark by himself But now both the Earth and Water are under the face of Heaven and the Light is upon this Heaven and the Spirit of God moveth upon the face of the Heavens in that Light and as he actuateth the Earth and the Waters by the Heavens so doth he actuate the Heavens by himself Sect. 8 Thus Reason complieth with Holy Writ More proofs of Scripture confirming our Rational Arguments to be true and both Scripture and Reason are Witnesses with our Experience That there is an Astrology for certain lodged in Heaven And yet ●arther the Scriptures also do confirm all that I have brought for Reason to be both truly Rational and Divine Deut. 33.13 Concerning Joseph it is said by Moses that his blessing shall be of the precious things of the Sun and Moon Now it is well known that amongst other of these precious things by that Tribe enjoyed was the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes whence follows it that it is in the power of the Sun and Moon amongst other precious blessings under God to influence a man unto the Dignity of a Crown and so to fortunate his affairs as to bring about the enjoyment of it Hos 2.21 God promiseth by the Prophet Hosea how he will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and be Earth the Corn and Wine and Oyl and they Israel Wherein he shews us that as Man lives by Corn and Wine so they by the Earth and so the Earth by the Heavens And if so then from the Heavens is it that the Earth receives that vertue whereby it brings forth all Smell Colour Deut. 28.12 and Virtue Moses tells us God shall open his good Treasure the Heaven and that not onely to give rain unto the Land but also to bless all the work of the hand Whence it is evident that there lodges in the Celestial Bodies a Faculty of fortunating Civil Affairs as well as of managing natural things and that the root of all Earthly Blessings is from Heaven Moses says again Deut 4.19 that the Sun Moon and Stars God hath distributed to all Nations under Heaven And the Psalmist speaking of the Sun and Heavens Psal 19.1 2 3 4 5. says They declare the glory of God and shew forth his handy-work Day and night do continually tell of them and that their voice is heard into all Languages and their words are gone into the ends of the world By which it appears that the Heavens and all the Stars therein are full of such Virtues as the whole World hath need of And these Vertues God hath given unto the Heavens for this purpose His Spirit saith Job hath garnished the Heavens Job 26.13 And by the Spirit of his mouth saith the Psalmist was the whole Army of Heaven made Psal 33.16 Sect. 9 Argumentation from Gods Eternal Prescience Acts 15.18 Known unto God saith St. James are all his works from the beginning of the world These Works are either Natural or Miraculous The Natural Works of God are that whole frame of the Creation together with all Circumstances and Concerns relating thereunto in times past present and future which as a most curious piece of Art The frame of Nature compared to a Watch. Ezek. 1.2 2 3 c. to the end consisteth of all the Story of the whole World and yet is all set together in one onely entire piece of Workmanship it is like unto a Watch made up of a world of small Wheels wrapt up together one within another and yet all taking one from another and working one by and under another until you come unto the Master-wheel or first Mover which being wound up at the Creation with the Line of Time How God foresees all passages of the World by a certain order as a Watch-maker knows the Wheels of his Watch. 2 Pet. 3. of a seeming infinite length of Thread wreathed up together upon the Wheel has ever since the beginning been winding off unto this present Age and yet is there still more Line upon the Wheel but how much remains is kept onely in the breast of the Almighty but when this Line shall be utterly wound off then will this frame of Nature find its period and all Wheels must cease their motion Now in the mean time as the Watch-maker knows all the Wheels Pullies and little Pins in the Watch as perfectly as a man knows the Cloaths on his back or how to put them on or off so knows the Great and Almighty God the whole World and all the Wheels Pullies and Pins contained in every part thereof and this infinitely better than we know the Fingers of our Hands or Toes of our Feet To every man that is born of a Woman there is a certain order or course of his life how he runs thorow Health and Sickness Honour and Dishonour and all the passages of his Life from his Cradle to the Grave For Man is of himself as it were a little World within himself How every man is compared to one Wheel of the great Worlds frame and a Work

Job 38.22 23 24 25 c. After the same manner as these Stars against Sisera so also discourses the Almighty unto Job of the treasures of the Snow and Hail which he has hid against the time of trouble and the day of War and Battel Now what can be the meaning of this biding but the order of those Meteors so providently lodged and laid up in the arms of the Stars and withheld by their Influences as that they shall fall by course of Nature in such precise notches of time as the time of the punishment of God's Enemies such as was Sisera shall be just ripe to comply with those falls so as these shall fall down to be the punishment of those And yet so come these things to pass without Miracle merely by order of the frame of Nature as from the beginning it was contrived And here lies the glory that God hath so laid his great frame of Nature that all things in Nature do strangely suit and jump together in ten thousand thousand several passages and purposes and yet all in a certain course and order as was laid down from the beginning without any the least amendment or addition of new contrivance After the same rate also the Light and the Winds and the Rain and the Thunder and the Lightning and the Dew and the Frost and the Ice are all of them so neatly laid up in the position of the Heavens as all come to pass in their order and that so as to make the grass to grow even in the Wilderness where no man dwells Now were it so Job 38.26 27. that these things were all ordered by a Virtue immediately issuing from the bosome of the Deity then would the Rain and the Thunder and the rest fall onely where Men or Beasts do dwell who may see and taste of the same and to acknowledge him who sends them But seeing they fall where neither are Men nor Beasts it follows therefore that they fall by vertue of Means and that in a continued order as those Means lead them making the Grass also to grow where no Eaters are not to be found as well as where they are Sect. 7 Thus far speaks the Scripture Arguments by Reason shewing that there are Influences in the Heavens drawn from and to all such who have tried it Experience speaks as much But there are some who have not tried and being obstinate will not essay and therefore knowing nothing of this Experience refuse to believe them who do Yet me-thinks they might believe the Scriptures but if neither that will satisfie yet they might observe First 1. The Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea there is no imaginable reason can be produced how this is wrought unless it be by some secret operation of the Moon 2. The healing power of the Weapon-salve beyond all what we understand 2. They may take notice of the strange sympathy in the healing of the Weapon-salve and Sympathetical Powder Here also remains not any the least room for reason to say how this may be effected unless some Celestial or Starry virtue secretly carry between 3. The virtue of the Load-stone and the Needle in the Compass 3. They may behold the admirable power of the Load-stone how it attracts Iron at a distance and the wonderful carriage of the Needle in the Compass how that dead Body as if it were alive is always looking towards one of the Poles unless by violence you keep it off Now it is not the Stone of its own virtue can possibly do this without the communication of some higher Power affecting of it Nor is it possible ever the Needle could do thus unless something from the Celestial Matter about the Poles do attract it by some invisible Virtue or else the Pole-star or some other of those Heavenly Bodies do endue it secretly with that strange kind of quality 4. The Natural Work of Life 4. They may consider the Natural work of Life how it starts up grows and continues in the lap of Heat and Moisture proportionably conjoyned beyond all the utmost that we are able to imagine how whence it comes or which way it is maintained Now be there not this secret Influence in the Heavens which we are treating of I would fain know where or whence the Rose growing on a Dunghill got its fragrant smell or how the Plantane growing on the hard path-way side got its virtue to heal raw sores or which way the Lily standing in the mud and mire up to the middle got its fine coat of so many colours and so artificially wrought as many times we see it is Or how the wheat-Wheat-corn dropping onely into cold earth came to multiply into an Ear of 20 or 30 or 40 for one Or I would as fain know how the water or thick slime in the Egg by the sitting of an Hen or by baking in an Oven in a few weeks time converts into a Chicken and learns to peep Or how the Seed in the Womb without any art or skill or knowledge of the Mother how coagulates and turns into blood and bones and forms it self into a living Child and learns to cry and speak and call You 'll say perhaps Argumentation about the Natural Work of Life God does all these things but that we know well enough onely the question is how he does them whether with Means or without If without Means then every Child that is born and every Seed that grows out of the ground comes to pass by a new Creation as well as by Generation For to bring things to pass without Means is all one as to produce them without Matter it being no more but to say Let there be Men or Let there be Leaves and Flowers and as the word says they come to pass But we know there was never above one Creation and ever since that all things have come to pass by Nature and therefore must there be some kind of Natural means for the production of all things And now if with Means these things come to pass it is either by Earthly Means alone or by the help of some Celestial Powers also aiding and assisting that they come to pass But by the Earthly Means alone it is plain they cannot come to pass for it is not either Fire Air Earth or Water or all together that can of themselves bestow that goodly sweet savour unto the Rose There must therefore be for certain some other Supernatural Power aiding and assisting or else out of the mere Earth could never come to pass such a thing so far expelling Earth and all its adherents as Fire Air and Water And if so then came this Virtue either from some Spiritual or Material Substance exceeding all the Terrestrial Powers and Faculties If from some Spiritual Substance the● was it effected either by Angels or by the So●● of the World By Angels it could not be for 1. 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