Eclipse is when but part of the Star is darkened 3. No Eclipse can happen but at or neer one of the Nodes the Head or taile of the Dragon if I had been minded to have frighted the multitude with uncouth words I would have said Anabibazon and Catabibazon 4. The Sun seeing he is the Author of light 〈◊〉 the light of the world proceeds from him it is imposs 〈…〉 should be darkened really but only his beams are hindered by the body of the Moon from some particular place of the earth nay it is impossible the Sun should be darkened every where in the same Hemisphear it is not universaliter but secundum quid for the Moon being made of the same metal the earth is namely a lump of dirt rolled up together and by an All-powerful God hung in the Aire the foundations of it fixed upon nothing the opacous body of the Moon takes away the light of the Sun from some particular people whereas by reason of the different Paralax of the Moon other Nations in the same Hemisphear can behold the body of the Sun not in the least darkned From these things thus joyned together take this definition of an Eclipse of the Sun An Eclipse of the Sun is a taking away both light and vertue of the Sun from a particular people by the interposition of the body of the Moon And if so who but Doctor SELF and Doctor CONCEIT knowing as I told you before wherefore God Created the Sun can deny but that dismal effects must follow the interposition between a Nation and such a real such an all-friend A word is enough to a wise man In the third place I come to tell you wherefore the Moon was created and though she be but a lump of dirt she was not created for nothing had she been so man had been created for less She is called in the Scripture a great light who as Iehovah Elohim saith was made to RULE as well the Sun and because she was to rule the night she cannot be Eclipsed but in the night I wonder in my heart what the Priests would say if a man should ask them the question What rule the Moon hath in the night Or whether a prohibition of light be not a prohibition of rule Or whether a prohibition of rule bring not confusion Or whether the corruption of one thing be not the generation of another Haply my argument may appear to be truth ere long and they may feel it to their cost when God sets them to rule and they deprive one another of their power caveant mortales Well but what effects was the Moon created for that is the question and to that now turn I. She is the lesser Luminary she is the Governess of the world she changes all bodies and causeth vicissitude of times pray God the effects of this Eclipse turn them to the best Yet this I will say by the rules of natural Philosophy All things between the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem require order and good method and according as the method is in the medium so shall the end prove If the new River-water had been brought from Ware to London in lead it had come clear but being brought in earth it is muddy I will leave this Nation to pick English out of it The Moon about which our discourse is is most appropriated to man and not only to man but also to beasts and birds and fishes she carries the vertue of the Sun to the creation and causes man to change from childe-hood to youth from youth to Man-hood from Man-hood to Age from Age to decrepidness she helps man to live she helps man to dye her one light if you note it doth the like A body may gather the whole world is maintained by light and as various as the light of the Moon is so various is the life of man She receives her light from the Sun she increaseth she comes to the full she wanes and at last returnes to the place from whence she came and so must man The Eclipse of the Moon is no way to be despised neither is the Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon for this one judgement I will give you now although it be out of course when the Moon is Lady of the Ascendant and Eclipseth the Sun in the Tenth Such as the Magnates for want of better breeding or more knowledge of God or humble-wort growing in their gardens call vile Plebeian and evil men such as they could crush to peices if they knew but how will rise up both against Magistrates and against their Rulers and handle them without Mittens as they have handled them before Kingdomes will be changed and Beggars will get on horse-back let them have a care how they ride I hope I have not transgressed The Moon is to the Sun as an Ambassador is to a Prince the Sun gives her power and governs her and supplies her both with light and strength from the time of the Conjunction to the Opposition in her Opposition she is so proud she thwarts him then he diminisheth her light and takes away from her what she borrowed of him before just as when a King sends out an Ambassador to some people or Nation the Ambassador grows proud and looks upon himself as an absolute King The King quickly knows how to make him know himself even so the Sun withdraws his light againe brings her to nothing at all and bids her look to the rock from whence she was hewen But I pray you now when the Moon is in her full power and then Eclipsed must this Eclipse signifie nothing We will take her signification to be a Queen the governess of the night and a governess both over sea and land There remaines but one thing more which is to shew you what what an Eclipse of the Moon is for which take this definition An Eclipse of the Moon is a diametrical interposition of the body of the earth between the Sun and Moon whereby the light of the Sun is hindered from the body of the Moon I have done with this Chapter if you will be pleased but to take notice that the Moon may be totally obscured in the same Hemisphear because the magnitude of the body of the earth is greater then the magnitude of the Moon only take notice that the farther Eastward people in the same Hemisphear live the sooner to them will the Eclipse appear CHAP. II. Of the Attendants of the Eclipse AS great men have many and great attendants so hath this great Eclipse of the Sun And as some of the attendants of great men run before them others follow after so do the attendants also of this Eclipse and all must be heeded in this our present Judgement Before this Eclipse was the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in Pisces Feb. 15. 1642 3. which Master Lilly so learnedly treated of in his Prophetical Merlin and to see how the circumferental lines of
of the Law men will be deceived of their Legacies and the seeds of the earth will be destroyed Also if Iupiter be Lord of the Eclipse and in Capricorn Guiffus saith the effects thereof will work most potently in winter I suppose his meaning is When the Sun comes to the place where Iupiter was and it is a good reason they will appear in Sea-fishes and Ships at sea and Birds which live at sea the Laws of Cities will be changed and so they will in Nations I hope for the best Fourthly Albumazar saith it causeth the death of Noblemen Fifthly Guiffus saith that if the Eclipse of the Moon be in Libra it threatens death to mortals putrefaction to herbs and seeds famine pestilence and other sharp sicknesses proceeding of winde and heat of blood schisms amongst the Ecclesiastical persons terrible tearing windes destructive to mankinde Sixthly the Cities and Nations subject to the effects of this Eclipse are such as we shall note you hereafter in the Eclipse of the Sun PART IV. As concerning its congruity with the Vernal Ingress of Sol into Aries or which is more proper the Earth into Libra let this suffice briefly that it happens in the twelfth House of that Figure and upon the very Cusp shewing a yeer full of injuries and straights servants will slip their necks out of the collar and turn masters subjects will rebel and Kings are in a miserable case and yet will they be as tyrannical as ever subjects rise in arms against their Kings fearful wars terrible seditions and dangerous mutinies appear in the world Let such as are wise look to themselves for 't is no question but the fools will run on although they be punished PART V. The Conjunction of Iupiter and Mars in Sagittarius comes next to be considered touching which I would have writen more had not the press staid for me the truth of it is the position is but wretched it happened Sept. 13. 1651. they may set the position that have less to do then I the first degree of Virgo ascends the time is 15 ho 8 min. p.m. what they do in the Conjunction they must do alone for there is not one Planet strong enough to lend the least assistance Saturn and Luna are in their detriments and in Opposition too and that is worse and fils the heads of the vulgar with madness and sadness Venus and Sol are in their fals and Mercury is with the Dragons Taile a most pitiful position as ever your eyes saw nay there is another thing in the wind one or two the Sun is neer the place where the Moon is eclipsed in March but that which shall bear the bell away is the Eclipse of the Sun happens upon the very cuspe of the ninth house of the Conjunction and the Conjunction with a hot violent furious malevolent and martial fixed Star cor Scorpii This premised we come a little to judgement The Conjunction of Iupiter and Mars sets the sword-men and gown-men together by the ears this I am confident is so rational that none but a Clergie man will have the face to deny it I forbear my judgement here which shall get the better of it a very little time will manifest which is sharpest the Priests wit or the souldiers sword only take notice and then I have done that the Conjunction happening in the fourth house in a fiery signe and with a fiery fixed Star not only consumes the fruits of the earth by heat and driness but also consumes whole Cities and Towns by fire and sword also this happening in a humane signe for the first ½ of Sagittarius is humane There will be much effusion of blood amongst men the Nations subject to Sagittarius are never in their elements but when they are together by the ears look to it Spaine and Hungary it will touch thee and let the Turk have a care he loose not Buda either by fire or sword and say I told him of it I shall conclude this after I have quoted the judgement of Haly upon such a Conjunction When Mars is joyned to Jupiter men are in a quarrelling humor and altogether about Religion and when they have snarled a while then they fight the sword rageth in the earth sickness and mortality follows it so that those which scape the sword may die by the pestilence beasts of great valour and various in colour will appear in the aire the beginning of the yeer will be very fruitful but heat and driness consume the fruits of the earth before the harvest The King of the Country subject to the influence of the Conjunction dies look to it Spain and Hungary and let the Bassa of Buda beware of a bow-string or something else as bad As for the Quartile of Iupiter and Mars which happens in Febr. 1651 2. I shall speak nothing but only refer you to those most excellent pithy and most true verses of George Wharton Esquire upon that month and they are these Mars laies his knap-sack by and stoutly draws His trusty bilbow to prescribe us Laws Jove claims his priviledge and Mars his power Both wrangle hard and each on other lower At length Jove yeilds and Mars assumes the chaire Votes his own person noble doings faire And thus you see what way is made by other Planets for the effects of this Eclipse at what posture the inclinations of the heavens stand and the disposition of sublunary bodies is from them like to be found at the time of their operating CHAP. IV. A. Calculation of the Eclipse of the Sun March 29. 1652. SO various have the opinions of Authors been about this Eclipse and such difference in Tables such halucination in the parallax of the Moon that it would set a mans braines in such an extasie that like Hercules it would bring him to ne plus ultra The time of the day is not agreed upon nor yet what part of the body of the Sun will remaine enlightened whether the North or the South part nay Authors vary that have calculated by one and the same Hypothesis And if others may make bold to please themselves why may not I have the same liberty Therefore I got my special and loving friend whom I esteem an able Artist M. Samuel Warre to calculate this Eclipse for me by the Tables of Bullialdus together with the position of the heavens at that time and the Type of the Eclipsed Luminaries An Epilogism of the Eclipse of the SUN happening on the 28 of March Anno {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1652. being applied to the Meridian of London    ho min. Whose Longitude according to Bullialdus is 24. 45.  Latitude  51. 32.    ho min. sec. MEan Conjunction at Vranisburg the 29.   1. 39. 45 Difference of Meridian substract   48. 00 Rests time of the mean Conjunction Lond. 29.   51. 25 Interval between the mean and true Conjunct substr.   2. 52.
conceit of it although hee have none of it Sixthly A man that is revengefull and wants a sting hee will please himself with his own revengfull thoughts and take delight to conceit hee is plagueing his enemie though hee bee twenty miles from him I am confident if you look into your own conditions you shall finde I have hit the nayle on the head in some of these and then you cannot but see a reason of the troublesomenesse of the times before the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ in power This is my first reason Secondly The Devill begins to grow a little troublesome because hee hath but a short time to continue as the Bishops in England were in the height of their pride before they fell as Monarchy was most tyrannicall a little before its Catastrophe So will the Devill also if you beleeve the Scripture Rev. 12. 12. Woe bee to the Inhabitants of the earth and of the sea for the Divel is come down to you having great wrath because he knows he hath but a short time 3. God may do it to leave the wicked without excuse They have read all these things shall come before the great and notable day of the Lord appear before he pour out his spirit upon all flesh and if they will neither beleeve what they read hear see nor feel I do not know what to say to them As sure as a club their consciences cannot plead one inch of excuse 4. God may do it to make the Saints attend more to prayer When men are most in danger then they pray heartilyest and walk closest with God when they have a little rest God is quickly out of their minds And now I think of it I care not if I incite here a couple of Verses which I heard from a Commander now at present in the Army Our God and Souldiers we alike adore Even in the brink of danger not before After deliv'rance they are alike requited Our God 's forgotten and our Souldiers slighted And to tell you the truth Experience will tell us that in that persecution under the late Bishops the Saints walked more closely with God then now they do they now walk as carelesly as if the Divel were dead I shall bring all home to the purpose I quoted it for and conclude this reason with one place of Scripture which when you have read and seriously considered tell me if prayer may not be a notable help to you in these times of trouble which are so manifestly threatned and so near at hand and so nearly concern you it is Acts 2. 19 20 21. And I will shew wonders in heaven above and signes in the earth beneath bloud and fire and vapour of smoake The Sun shall be turned into darknesse and the Moon into blood before that great and not able day of the Lord come And it shall come to passe that whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD shall be saved 5. It may be to call off the hearts of the Saints from the world that so they may look up to God whether they will or no when nothing but trouble is to be seen under the Moon such may the love of God to the Saints be that he may move them to come to him by arguments of necessity This is my first Axiome 2 Magistrates walk in the clouds neither will what the common people intend quickly be known Religion in one place and execution of justice in another will be made a couple of dainty cloaks to hide mens knaveries i.e. cover ambitious thoughts from the vulgar view frigidus latet anguis in herba have a care you be not deceived that way nay have a double care such as pretend your freedom and liberty bring you not into a worse bondage A seasonable warning is given you of it not onely by the book of the Creatures but also by the book of the Scriptures Micah 7. 5 6 7. Trust yee not in a friend put ye not confidence in a guide keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosome for the son dishonoureth the father the daughter riseth up against her mother the daughter in law against the mother in law a mans enemies are the men of his own house Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation My God will hear me Here is your disease here is your cure the Scripture hath spoke enough I need speak no more 3. We told you before That a murrein amongst beasts was threatned and as amongst men in a pestilentiall time all that are infected die not neither is it probable will all the beasts therefore men eating such corrupted food taking their nourishment from it must needs be defiled by its impurity And if you will give me leave to digress a little I will not transgress First Hereby ye see what a great part of the curse of God for sin was Happy yea thrice happy is hee to whom God reveals a redresse Secondly By this you may see if you be not stark blind which takes a more laudable course to cure a disease Gailen who gives the medicine with its impurity or Paracelsus who substracts onely the medicinal part and leaves the impurity as terra damnata 4. Violent storms and unusuall if not unheard of hail will be a great prejudice unto the earth especially toward the later end of the Summer 1652 1653 and it s well if 1654 scape 5. When the air is thus troubled the spirits of the air must needs be troubled also men conceive strange ridiculous thoughts of the Divel namely that he is an ugly unquoth creature with horns on his head and cloven feet with great eys like sacers others that have a little more wit know wel enough that he is a spirit but they think he is tied up fast enough either in hell or in some other hole neither I nor they know where when the truth is his residence is in the air and therefore the Scripture calleth him The Prince of the power of the air Therefore I say the air being disturbed the spirits of the air must needs be disturbed also and such unusual sights may appear as may terrifie both your eys and hearts if not at the time of the Eclipse yet within a short time after Neither shall you see the midst of August 1652 over-past but the world shall see what I have written is truth 6. The Iew begins to take a spleen at Rome and all the Nations in Europe begin to snarl at her her finall Catastrophe approacheth but not yet However till that time come continuall sicknesses fires and tumults either one of these or all of these or something else as bad will molest her And if her learned Jesuits cannot tell her the meaning of God from it what are they good for 7. One word or two I will speak concerning the 2d opposition of ♄ and ♃ which happeneth in Iuly 1653 for then and not quite till
Star upon the Ecliptick may suffer an Eclipse when they are diametrically opposed to the Sun and although a part of the body of the Sun may be Eclipsed by Venus or Mercury in an inferiour conjunction when they have no latitude and for ought I know it carries signification too though little heeded yet if we reason of an Eclipse in a vulgar sence take the Philosophical description of it thus An Eclipse is the prohibition of the light either of the Sun or Moon from our eye And as it is necessary before we reason of an Eclipse to tell you what an Eclipse is so it is as necessary to tell you what the Luminaries Eclipsed are and to what intent the eternal and only wise God placed them in the heavens and that this may be done methodically I will tell you 1. What the Sun is 2. What an Eclipse of the Sun is 3. What the Moon is 4. What an Eclipse of the Moon is First know this that the Sun is the light and governor of the world a creature which gives life light and motion to the creation by moving about his own body upon his Axis he moves the whole creation by him is time limited by him the Planets become Oriental and Occidental he hides them and he gives them their lustre whatsoever in the creation hath motion and there are but few things without it if any they have it all from the Sun in a word he is the primum mobile of the creation it is he that makes the Trees to spring and the Birds to sing and brings forth the fruits of the earth in due season he quickens and enlivens all things and every signe is exalted above its fellows when he is in it he adds life and light and strength and heat and vertue to the earth and therefore his Eclipse is the more dismal to it he is indeed the life of the creation perhaps anima mundi when the Sun leaves a signe that signe remaines like a dead body without a spirit and motion and other signes avoyd that signe as a living body avoyds a dead body it is the Sun that causeth the motions of winde inundation of water the circulation in the creation is caused by the Sun it is he that draws the waters out of the sea and returns them upon the earth that so it may bring forth fruit in due season the truth is he is a great and famous Planet of mighty power nobility magnanimity and command and yet not like the Commanders of our times for he loves not mony His corporal Conjunction infortunates more then the conjunction of any Planet but his Trine and Sextile Aspects fortunate more then the Trines and Sextiles of any Planet And if you will know the reason why his Conjunction is so unfortunate he gives to all the Planets their light and motion and when they are with his body he takes it away againe Life and death principalities and powers vanquishing and victorie are known by the Sun beware his Eclipse upon his exaltation As he is in the heavens so are Magistrates in a Commonwealth if the one be afflicted why may not the other the motion of the Sun is natural the motion of terrestrial creatures artificial when Nature suffers beware Art In the body of man he represents the head because he is exalted in Aries mock not if you finde him represent the same in a Nation All Kings quatenus Kings are represented by the Sun do not admire if they be Eclipsed the truth of it is he is Lord Paramount in the creation and to prove this I will send you to school whither Iob sent his companions Iob 12. 7 8. Ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee and the fowles of the aire and they shall tell thee or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee To which I might add The trees themselves will do it the birds in the spring declare it to the whole Nation I wish I could call it a Commonwealth The mines in the earth yea the flint-stones will tell you what the power of the Sun is and yet he is Eclipsed we will not deny the influences of the other Planets together with that Sun for as the stomach first concocts the meat and sends or should send the chyle well concocted to the Liver and the Liver having concocted it againe nourisheth the body by the Veines and every Veine receives a part of the blood from the Liver according to its own capacity even so the Sun administers of his own power to the rest of the Planets and to the earth it self every one receives its part according to its capacity an Apple-tree bears an Apple a Crab-tree but a Crab because it is capable of no more a good Plum-tree bears a Plum and a Sloe-tree but a Sloe because it is capable of no better So that the nature of the Sun operates in all natures according to their capacitie The house of the Sun is the best and most noble house in all the heavens his exaltation is the best and most noble exaltation in all the heavens his triplicity is the best and most regal triplicity in all the heavens As a wise Ruler should be in the midst of the Gommonwealth so hath the eternal and only wise God placed the Sun in the middest of the creation and all the rest of the Planets like Serving-men attend him He hath made Saturne his counsellor by whose sober advice the violent motions of the other Planets are retarded He hath made Iupiter his Judge by whose equal temperature honesty and serenity things should be ordered I cannot say they are yet I am of Iulius Cesars opinion Tarpeio quondam consâ—dit culmine cornix Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit On the Tarpeian Steeples top the Crow Cryed out All is not well but 't will I trow And so hope I. He hath made Mars his Commander he is the Generall of his Army and he retaines that office in this Eclipse and I have some hopes he will use it well Venus buyes and sels his commodities and that is her office in the habitable world Mercury is his Accomptant and takes notice what is done and tels him of it once in two months The Moon is his Ambassador and tels fraile flesh what he intends to do and when he will do it Oh that they would be so wise to hear her And having now told you what the office was which the great First-being of all things placed the Sun in the firmament for Sensibus haec imis res non est parva repone Afford these lines a place amidst your sences And be not gull'd by flattering pretences I come now to shew you what an Eclipse of the Sun is but before we come to that take an Aphorisme or two 1. An Eclipse is either total or partial 2. A totall Eclipse is when the whole Star is darkened a partial
Gods providence fix all in the same centre Saturn and Iupiter make three Oppositions within the time of the operation of this present Eclipse a most strange thing and not to be contemned Besides there is an Eclipse of the Moon March 14. 1651 2 together with the position of the heavens at the Suns ingress into Aries The Conjunction of Iupiter and Mars in September 1651. is not to be despised nor yet the Square of Iupiter and Mars in February 1651 2. As followers of this Eclipse we have another Eclipse of the Moon in September 1652. a Conjunction of the Sun and Mars in May 1652. of the Sun and Saturn in Iuly 1652. of Saturn and Mars in August 1652. an Eclipse of the Moon in March 1653. a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars 1654. And the real truth is all the Planets by all aspects conduce together to further the operation of this Eclipse therefore the Eclipse must needs be great not onely because so great a part of the Sun is darkened and that upon the very degree of his exaltation but also because of the multitude and formidableness of its attendants which having now shewed you what they are I shall proceed to shew you what they signifie in this Chapter in the general and afterwards in particular In the general consider that Saturn is an old worn-out Planet weary and of little estimation in this world he causeth long and tedious sicknesses abundance of sadness and a Cart-load of doubts and fears his nature is cold and dry and melancholy And take special notice of this that when Saturn is Lord of an Eclipse as he is one of the Lords of this he governs all the rest of the Planets but none can govern him Melancholy is made of all the humors in the body of man but no humour of melancholy He is envious and keeps his anger long and speaks but few words but when he speaks he speaks to purpose A man of deeep cogitations he will plot mischief when men are asleep he hath an admirable memory and remembers to this day how William the Bastard abused him he cannot endure to be a slave he is poor with the poor fearful with the fearful he plots mischief against the Superiours with them that plot mischief against them have a care of him KINGS and MAGISTRATES of Europe he will shew you what he can do in the effects of this Eclipse he is old and therefore hath large experience and will give perilous counsel he moves but slowly and therefore he doth the more mischief all the Planets contribute their natures and strength to him and when he sets on doing mischief he will do it to purpose he doth not regard the company of the rest of the Planets neither do any of the rest of the Planets regard his he is a barren Planet and therefore delights not in women he brings the Pestilence he is destructive to the fruits of the earth he receives his light from the Sun and yet he hates the Sun that gives it him he partakes with Mercury to do mischief but nothing else he will be obedient to no Planet neither will he be servant to any once more Look to it Magistrates he abhors Iupiter by reason of his benevolence And pray take notice then Saturn being Lord of the Eclipse what the effects of the three Oppositions of Saturn and Iupiter may produce Post nubula Soles Having considered the nature of Saturn let us a little consider the nature of Iupiter that so we may make a firm foundation to build our following Discourse upon Oh that men would be so wise us to consider that they would but in this their day consider the things that belong to their peace before it be hid from their eyes The effects of this Eclipse will spare none it lights upon neither will it play or dally with them but Torrent-like sweep them away with a mighty ruine I hope those that preach so fiercely against Astrologie when they feel the effects of this Eclipse will probably learn wit when they are beaten to it And though I quote here the good nature of Iupiter I do not think the effects of the Eclipse will be good as the nature of Iupiter shews because Iupiter hath little or no signification in the Eclipse but I hope such times may come after and so people may live in hopes of what benefit they or their children may live to enjoy I have a reason for this my hope too for to believe a thing without a reason is in my opinion foolery and not faith It was the opinion of M. Lilly in that MASTER-PIECE of his his PROPHETICAL MERLIN that in the late Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter Saturn was the strongest Planet I can scarce believe it neither was it ever my fancie to prefer accidental dignities before essential But I shall talk more of this hereafter onely thus much of the Conjunction which according to the vulgar course of providence should have happened in a Kingly Signe by the Almighty providence of God at this time and but at this time since the Creation of the world happened in a Plebeian Signe nay in the weakest Signe of the Zodiack but the Scripture must be verified the Lord will pull down the mighty and exalt the humble and meek Enough of this I come now to the nature of Iupiter Iupiter delights in equality and so do I he delights in community and goodness and the reason why he doth so is because he is a Planet temperate in respect of heat driness coldness and moisture He is a just upright-dealing creature he will not give All to some and None at all to the rest He signifies much good to the people correction of Laws single-heartedness chastity He will correct men but he will not undo them neither destroy them He abhors the nature of Saturn and keeps him from doing that mischief which the poor old soul would willingly do He is very milde and shews goodness in his forehead and not coveteousness if he had a thousand a yeer he would bestow it all upon the poor he alwayes speaks truth in his words and carries himself truly in his actions and then to be sure he is neither Priest nor Lawyer You will be confident of it as well as I if you do but consider he hates coveteousness the truth is he mindes publique and not private good he is fortunate in all his deeds by the equality of his temper the heat of the Summer and cold of Winter is temperated by him the truth of it is by the salubrious beams of Iupiter an equality is made in the creation And now there comes in my head an odd passage of Doctor Gell in his last Sermon preached before the learned Society of Astrologers God said he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the Angels of God therefore there ought to be no community But by Doctor Gell's leave who desires a Community we desire but our
own birth-rights and the heavy yoak William the Bastard laid upon us taken off and should be glad if we could obtain that only this I desire of Doctor Gell whom I honor both for his learning and piety when God did divide Nations according to the number of the Angels whether he gave All to some and None at all to the rest whether he left any poor in the land unprovided for whether he made them not All Free-holders and leave him to be answered by his own conscience Thus much for Iupiter I come now to Mars and I shall be the more large in him because he is the chief significator of the effects of this Eclipse This world as it stands in statu quo makes a difference between rich and poor men and when a man hath pickt up a great deal of well-concocted earth I am a better man then thou quoth he though perhaps the birth and breeding of the other be ten times better then this but as the Grave equals all men so do Celestial influences nay I will tell you more then this Magistrates are grown to such a terrible hight of Pride that this Eclipse will teach them that the Lord knows the proud afar off Miserable and sad are the effects of the Eclipse like to be when the two infortunes are Lords of it and so they are in this but what their operation will be I am now to speak of only in the general and I will prefix this Scripture in the front of it Psal. 28. 5. If they regard not the works of the Lord nor the operations of his hand he will pull them down and not build them up Mars is the chief Lord of the Eclipse and you shall see what a kinde of creature he is he is a hot and dry firy burning Planet an angry conquering creature destructive to nature he is so angry that he will hear no reason the Priest with his Rhetorick in the Pulpit cannot move him neither doth he regard the Lawyer that pleads at the bar all the Sophistry in Oxford and Cambridge will not be able to qualifie his anger in the effects of this Eclipse but are all like to feel his fury he layes out all his strength in what he doth or in what he delighteth to do his natural disposition is to set people together by the ears I may say of him as Virgil said of Alecto Tu potes unanime is armare in praelia fratres Atque odiis versare domos tu verberatect is Funereasque inferre faces tibi nomina mille Mille nocendi artes faecundum concute pect us Disjice compositam pacem sere crimina belli Arma velit poscatque simul rapiatque juventus The dearest knots of friendship he unties And utterly subverts whole families With dismal funerals and bitter wrath A thousand names a thousand arts he hath To break sweet peace by his impetuous charmes The Youth desire and crave and handle armes Look you here now what a master the eternal God of heaven and earth hath appointed you over this Eclipse one that delights in nothing in the world but killing and murdering setting people together by the ears quarrelling folly and impatience vehement anger one that neither fear nor entreaty is able to hold or retard from sowing the seed of sedition and war when he sets upon it Saturne I told you before was another Lord of the Eclipse and Mars is exalted in the house of Saturne as though both the malevolents were conjoyned to execute the will of God in the destroying effects of this Eclipse Mars is of that nature that he will run on right or wrong and never regard what the end will be He causes infirmities and sicknesses diminution of substance madness and revenge thunder and lightening and what else can terrific the mindes of the giddy-headed multitude But in this Eclipse because Venus is neer him she will somewhat qualifie his malice I shall shew you hereafter how and in what manner onely in this place what the general disposition of Venus is that so I may hold to what I promised onely generals Venus is a Planet cold and moist fortunate merry and jocund I would we of the Commonalty of England had cause so to be we shall have we must have they had as good let us have it at first as at last the heavens promise it us and it is in vaine for man to domineer Heu nihil invitis fas quemquam credere divis Th' effects of this Eclipse shall clearly prove 'T is vaine to strive against the powers above Besides this by her coldness and moisture she somewhat tempers the hot and dry disposition of Mars and if we bring it home to this Eclipse she orders him having gotten him in her house she loves singing and banquetting and drinking and venerial vices diseases that come therefrom and therefore in this Eclipse she hath got a sit companion in her house cut out for the purpose Mars and she usually cause whoredom and sometimes a knock with a French colt-staffe she gives very good words and is very meek of nature she will give good words to the poor because they are cheap and cost nothing she is an enemy to Saturne though she give him an exaltation in her house I will leave Venus and come to Mercury Mercury loves all Arts and hath gotten a special command over all Clerks Accomptants and he is of a convertible nature just like a Priest I should have said a Weather-cock he is masculine with the masculine and feminine with the feminine he is a fortune with the fortunes an infortune with the infortunes he is a bold spoken fellow full of tongue his father was either a Priest or a Lawyer I know not which he is a chearful creature quick in his actions he is a divellish lyar a betrayer as full of deceit as an egg is full of meat he will promise more by a farthing candle then he will perform in seven yeers he signifies windes and in this Eclipse such windes as will rend the stoutest Rocks in Europe in peices These be the Planets which as I shall tell you hereafter have one way or another signification in this Eclipse and there can be no more nor more variety of these significations which I have here delivered I have shewed you here their natures in general I come now to shew you their natures in particular only before this let me premise this one thing the Moon hath a very great signification in the effects of this Eclipse the general signification of which I gave you in the first Chapter the particular signification both of her and other Planets you shall have hereafter when I come to the particular dimension of time in which the effects of this Eclipse are to Operate CHAP. III. Of the Prodromi or forerunners of the Eclipse THE Prodromi or Forerunners of this Eclipse because they are very many and something contrary the one to the other I will not
told you in the beginning of the Treatise but seeing we are long in learning and very subject to forget such things as threaten evil to us I will give you a brief Epitomy of what persons are signified by the ☉ He signifies all Magistrates in general from the Emperor to the petty Constable the sign afflicted is ♈ the exaltation of the ☉ and the chiefest sign in the Zodiak we shall tell you by and by what hath ensued upon the Eclipses of the ☉ in ♈ in former ages ♈ is a sign Masculine Diurnal Moveable Cardinal Equinoctial Fiery Cholerick Bestial Domestical Luxurious Intemperate Violent Oriental The opinion of Giuffus of an Eclips of ☉ in ♈ is this I pray God it do not prove too true It threatens destruction to the fruits of the Earth kills the fruit in the bud kills sheep and other cattel great KINGS PRINCES and MAGISTRATES are either banished or imprisoned or put to death Princes and their Subjects agree like Cats and Dogs first they snarl and then together by the ears huge Armies terrible wars slaughters of men burning of Towns Theft Rapines Depopulations Fire and the sword raign lords paramount in the Nations threatned by this Eclips Neither shall the women want their share for for such of them as are with child shall be too too subject to miscarry let them make use of my DIRECTORY for MIDWIVES to prevent it both men and women are subject to acute Feavers or other Epidemical diseases the air is hot blasting and burning barrenness of the Earth and dearth of Corn is threatned to those Nations under ♈ CHANGE of GOVERNMENT death of KINGS Magistrates and rich men the execution of which my Author confesseth is in the hands of God the less reason have the Priests to rail at him We leave now Giuffus and come to Proclus but before I quote the words of Proclus here is something else to be considered namely in what face of ♈ this Eclips is to be found we vulgarly hold that it is in the latter end of the second face and we know as well that since the Creation the fixed Stars are almost moved out of the signs they were Created in now the query lies thus whether we should take the faces according to the signs or the fixed Stars in the signs We will not much contend about the business ye may take which you please there is never a barrel better Herring and in both Proclus shall be my Author if we take the Eclips to happen according to the vulgar account in the second face of ♂ It makes Kings and Magistrates Goal-birds and if it do not lay them in prison it most terribly afflicts them nothing in the world thrives with them what ever the matter is some of them whom God pleases lose their heads and then they feel the lighte◠others are hanged and they cannot feel at all t is as wretched a time for Kings as ever the Sun saw But if you will measure the time by the fixed Stars it happens in the last face of ♓ and that shews Sedition Cruelty Fierceness and Inhumanity of Souldiers Souldiers will be in Armes against their Governors right or wrong a sword and a gun are two prevailing arguments there is none like them to be found in Keckermans Logick nor Ramus Dialects all the Sophistry in all the Universities in the world will not be able to appease them Caesar is dead and cannot appease his souldiers dangerous mutiny Galesus in Virgil and Emathion in Ovid were both slain in doing the like Office when the business comes to pass you 'll know what I mean mean season let old father Time be witness either of the truth or falsehood of my predictions and thus much for the Planet Eclipsed and the sign and place he is Eclipsed in We come now in the thrid place to the Lords of the Eclips of which ♂ will challenge the preheminence and will be angry if we should not give it him and now I cannot but remember two verses in Lucan I 'll make use but of one verse and a peece of another Quid tantum Gradive paras Nam mitis inalto Iupiter occasu premitnr What What! Stout ♂ and must thou needs rule all Poor Iove is set i th' West and in his fall Take notice ♂ rules the souldiery even from the Generalissimo to the Snapsack boy let none of them take exception at this it belongs to them all as they are a Military body ♃ signifies all civil Magistrates Priests and Lawyers a Boy of 14. years old deserves to be whipt that cannot pick English out of this We shall shew you what the actions of ♂ in the effects of this Eclips will be First Generally Secondly Specially First Generally according to Origanus he consumes the fruits of the Earth casually by fire accidentally by heat and driness the ayre will be hot and dry and goods of rich men which they love as dearly as they love their lives which they have tired their UNLUCKY and COMMON-WEALTH DESTROYING braines to get shall be extorted by violence and consumed by souldiery all the miseries the sword can bring upon a people and they are not a few war bloodshed rapine extortion when a covetous man sowes his corn he knows not who shall reap it yet this I 'll tell you by and by the Lord by a special providence may look after them that fear him the air is hot and dry pestilential and mortal all Europe is together by the ears not only one with another but also with themselves Asmodeus the lecherous Divel enters into men and women and drawes them to their ruine Kings and Magistrates are mad and Subjects are as stubborne Pallida Tisiphone i e. ultio cordis media inter millia saevit No fear their wrath asswageth Revenge of heart midst many thousand rageth The bodies of men are troubled with choller Towns and Cities are consumed by fire and ruined by souldiery murther and theevery are as familiar as butterflies in April thus for Origanus and if I have a little commented upon him blame me not if I have spoke the truth We 'll come now to Giuffus ♂ lord of an Eclipse sets the Nations signified by the Eclipse together by the ears by reason of the TYRANNY of PRINCES seditions tumults of the People Princes and Magistrates are angry the people are like mad dogs they run at every thing they are set at a thousand reproaches disdaines and ill words begin the effects imprisonment is the middle death and repentance amongst great ones the latter end the law shall be changed and the souldiers sword shall be sharper then the Scholers wit Secondly Particularly In the next place we 'll consider the sign ♂ is in Giuffus if ♂ be lord of the Ecclips and in ♉ four footed beasts must go to wrack especially such as are useful to men imagine oxen and horses the fruits of the Earth shall be consumed by caterpilars violent heat destroys the corn either upon
the ground or putrifies it in the barns Also Albumazar saith if ♂ have North Latitude he causeth many infirmities the Small-pox Measels c. if South Latitude death of women and cattle but in this Eclips having no Latitude for ought I know he may perform them both Messaholah saith that ♂ having dominion in an Eclips of the ☉ causeth corruption by his heat diseases of choler and heat of blood violence injury dissention tumults and uproars amongst the people look to it France if thou finde not this too true say I am a lier and I 'll be content to bear the name with patience also thunder lightning tempest scorching driness sedition and privy conspiracy plague pestilence and famine battel murther and sudden death though the Dull headed Colledge of SORBON pray never so earnestly Good Lord deliver us Proclus an Eclipse of the ☉ in the fiery triplicity signifies war great drought cruel seditions bitter controversies mortal sicknesses driness and barrenness of the Earth Aâ—steed if the Eclips of the ☉ be in a fiery sign and ♂ ruler both of it and the year signifies great burnings We pass now to the second significator of this Eclipse which is the ☽ because she is lady of the succeeding Angle â— which Angle ♋ possesses the middle face of it and the Ascendants of the Eclipse If the Moon be lady of the Eclips quoth Albumazar and also lady of the Ascendant as here she is the common people flutter like a Bee in a Tar-Box and by wranglings and contentions are like to vex the Magistrates to some tune Ptolomie saith if the Eclipse happen in Equinoctiall signes either in or ♈ or ♎ which this is one of them the effects of it will fall foul upon the Clergy such of them as make a trade of prateing nonsence instead of Gospell By the rules of the Ancients ♄ cannot be brought in as a Lord of this Eclipse for though hee bee anguler yet is hee not stationary yet shall I have something to say to him by and by Thus you have the first thing I promised you namly what Authors said of the effects of this Eclipse passe wee now to the second Which is What experience Authors that were dead before we were born have left upon record of Eclipses of this nature I shal give you som few from Leovitius and but few by reason the Press stays for me Anno 1418. the Sun was eclipsed in Aries 26 degr. in Prague in Pohemia the Clergy as forsooth they call themselves and the Laity as they please to call others fell together by the eares the King of Bohemia died of a Palsie such a fanaticall fury possest the Clergy in Paris that their sawcy actions caused two thousand of them to be knockt on the head in the streets in one day Oh that they would once learn to be a little wiser Anno 1419. hapned a dismall Eclipse of the Sun in Aries 15. Mars Lord of it in Taurus as he is in this Now follows a new Tumult in Bohemia Iohn Zizka a noble Soul of an ingenious brain and an excellent Souldier gathers a great Army hee first enjoyes Bohemia routs the Clergy in every Battell unthrones Sigismund the Emperor and at last dies in his Bed a Conqueror after the Lord had made him a sufficient scourge to correct the proud insolency of the Clergy The Duke of Brunswick and his Clergy went together by the eares which war continued Three years But who gave the Clergy authority to leave their Bible and take a Sword no one breathing knows sure 't was Mars or the Devill for Iesus Christ whom they pretend they preach is the PRINCE of PEACE Anno 1486. happened a dreadfull Eclipse of the Sun in Aries 6. which set almost all Europe together by the eares and who were the authors of such a dissention think you truly the buffle-headed Clergy for t is almost a miracle to finde an evil in a Nation and they not the Authors of it the Emperor was that year taken Prisoner by the French 't is a strange thing an Eclipse of the Sun seldom happens in Aries but it plagues the Roman Emperor Caesars are but men neither shall Three yeares pass over your head counting the time from the 29. of March 1652. but they shall find and your selves shal see they are no more Anno 1530. There hapned a great Eclipse of the Sun in ♈ 18. ♂ Lord of it neer the Bulls eye being a fixed Star of a hot and violent nature and the effects of this lasted until the spring time 1632. it seems Leovitius followed not Ptolomies method concerning the time when the effects of an Eclipse began to operate In the beginning of the effects of this Eclips the Bishops perswaded the Emperor to besiege Florence which famous City after a long tedious and starving siege was taken and brought into bondage Portugale was perplexed eight daies together with Earthquakes about the midle of the effects of it after which terrifying Earthquakes succeeded as terrible a Pestilence I am almost of an opinion this Eclipse 1652. will shake down that new upstart Monarchy which revived but in the declining age of the world like a lightning before death or the violent strugles of a dying man About the end of the effects of this Eclipse appeared a Comet which run through the Grab the Virgin and the Bullance and did a world of mischief the Helvetians were got together by the ears about Religion the King of Denmark who had been ten years banisht prepares a Fleet and makes a faint assay to recover his Kingdome but the poore man was taken at Sea and comitted to safe custody the Emperours son dies and the Duke of Saxony marches to his grave the King of Hungary and Bohemia is proclaimed Emperour and to war must he go against the Turkes before he had learned to handle a sword but the world shall never say of him now he is dead and rotten that he did nothing for he beseiged a town which lay upon the confines of Germany and when he saw the towne would not yeild and he was afraid to storme it he turned Retrograde I will not shame him so much to say he run a way but the man seing he could not beat his enemies went to see what he could do against his friends with fire sword he wasted the greatest part both of Germany and Austria at last when he heard that the Christians had raised a potent army against him he being something a kin to prince Rupert loving plundering better then fighting he and his Army shift every man for themselves leaving a name of ignomy branded rather then ingraven upon his sepulcher if ever he were thought worthy of any Anno 1540 hapned a great eclips of the Sunn in Aries 28. a most parching hot and and dry summer followed insomuch that very deepe rivers were fordable and rivers of a mean bigness were utterly dried up the very heat of the sun set fire
then will the effects of the ☌ of ♄ and ♃ which we wrote of before appear in their colours that all the world may see what they are For as Herostratus set the Temple of Diana at Ephesus on fire that so he might get himself a name that he might be talked of after he was dead so the Iesuits when no other good can be done will set all the Princes in Europe that are priest-ridden together by the ears that so they may get themselves a name though of infamy I had thought to have written concerning an Eclipse of the Moon 1653. on March 3. but for some reasons best known to my selfe I shall passe it by here and speak of it in my Ephemeris for that year CHAP. Ult. What the effects of this Ecclipse are probably like to produce to every particular nation in Europe 1. IT being taken for granted that the effects begin to operate July 1652. the reasons of which I gave you before and are in full force power and vigour throughout the years 1653 and 1654. and decline in the year 1655 you may by this know the time of the sufferings of Europe an Epidemicall desease called madnesse possesses the brains of the Princes thereof the FIFTH MONARCHY of the world is coming and the effects of this Eclipse make way for him but he is no Scotch man no nor English 't is he before whose coming The Heathen shall rage and the people imagine a vain thing the kings of the earth shall set themselves together against him c. Read the second Psalm throughout and you shall see both what shall antecede his Coronation and what shall follow it I cannot but admire at the folly and sottishnesse of those that prate and scribble of any other Monarchy to succeed amongst the sons of men when the Scripture speaks exactly Dan. 2. 44 45. And in the dayes of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdome which shall never be destroyed and the kingdome shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdomes and it shall stand for ever Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountaine without hands and that it brake in pieces the iron the brasse the clay the silver and the gold c. this is the stone which the builders refused but God will make the corner stone As also that Dan. 7. 26 27. But the judgement shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end and the kingdom and dominion and the greatnesse of the king dome under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the Most High whose kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and all dominion shall serve and obey him This this is the MOMARCHY that I expect if the Lord please to grant me life to see it yet I expect it not in the effects of this Eclipse for this Eclipse shall onely make way for it I am of opinion Grebner in his Prophesie of his Vtopian Monarch having by art caballistick obtained the two first letters of his name mistook Charls for CHRIST well then this is the first namely a preparative to the fifth Monarchy and when you see all Europe together by the ears when you see Kings mad and their subjects stubborn In a word when you see all Europe in an uproar then think of these things and know that he that shal come will come and will not tarry 2. The Germanes are as bad together by the ears as they were in the dayes of that conquering King of Sweden Bohemia suffers extremely the truth of it is I doubt the poor Emperour will be totally routed and made no Emperour at all 3. As for England I cannot sing a quietus est to them as yet within a few years I shall Thou hast but one storm to endure bear that with patience I hope thy wars are almost at an end I would thou couldst keep thy own brains from fanaticall furies and learn to know what belongs to thy peace before it be hid from thine eyes Thou wilt in the year 1653 be molested with a consuming pestilence and troubles with a change of Government at one and the same time make thy choice wisely God will have his owne Government established in thee whether thou wilt or no and tell me one thing and tell mee truly whether is it fit he should have his will or thee thine should he be master or thee In making thy choice of thy next Representative take counsell of God see what he speaketh to thee or as it should be translated in thee so will he speak peace to thy soul that thou mayest not return AGAIN to folly For assure thy selfe of this thou shalt find my words true as when the Sun is upon the Meridian thou shalt never be free from plagues either of war or as I rather think pestilence or famine till thou doest submit to such a Government as God intends for thee the cryes of the poor whom thou doest tyrannically defraud of their bitthrights are heard in the ears of the Lord God Almighty Be pleased to read every morning the 26 chapter of Leviticus 4. The Jesuites set all Europe together by the ears let Padua in Italy beware of August 1653 lest either the sword earthquake or pestilence destroy it Ah poor University I mourn for thee so much goodhast thou done to the world in generall Lombardy is quite and clean destroyed and beasts possesse the seates of dead people The Pope hath got the impudence to outface heaven to see if his Bulls can out-roar the thunder 5. The Turks fall into a part of Italy which maketh his Holinesse tremble but he knoweth how to leave Saint Peters keys and take Saint Pauls sword in hand the truth is his fear is more then his harm it s not the Turk shall pull down the Pope and yet he must fall 6. The effects of this Eclipse shall shew themselves first of all in their colours in France Strange massacres desperate tumults fire and sword and whatsoever else is bad molest that kingdome and it 's his own fault he carryeth himselfe as like a tyrant over his subjects as a Pome-water is like an Apple if about the later end of this year 1652 that poor King is not either knock'd on the head or forc'd to leave his kingdome say I am so ignorant that I know not a Star from a Hop-pole let him beware of his Bishops and Jesuites especially the Colledge of Sorbon for fear they have learned a Scotch trick to sell him to his adversaries for money 7. Let not that Noble and Valiant soul the Prince of Conde aspire to the kingdome God hath a determination to blast aspiring braines If ever that Valiant and Wise Prince come to raign it shall be aut nequicquam aut nequaquam either not at all or in vaine ours was the first Monarchy that was brought