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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37889	Prae-nuncius sydereus an astrological treatise of the effects of the great conjunction of the two superiour planets, Saturn & Jupiter, October the Xth, 1663, and other configurations concomitant : wherein the fate of Europe for these next twenty years is (from the most rational grounds of art) more than probably conjectured, and the success of the present design of the Turk against Christendome occasionally hinted at / by Richard Edlin.	Edlyn, Richard, 1631-1677.	1664 (1664)	Wing E177; ESTC R24946	87,906	129

in the year 1603 its in the discourse you may see at large and this is the third Conjunction that hath happened in that Trigon which indeed should have beeen the fourth inorder c. But suppose it had been their first Conjunction we have some general rules though but short to judge of great Conjunctions nor are those presidents we have of so little use as to be neglected but must we have presidents of necessity for all we write or judge then I fear this Astrologer will hardly ever be capable of judging a Nativity true while he lives I have great reason to think and do verily believe he never yet did or very rarely As for his position of Heaven I have said as much of that in the Discourse it self as is necessary and certainly there are other things of more principal concernment to judge of than the House of Heaven which I need not stand to mention here because sufficiently handled in the Book it self and if we consider the great variety of judgement in respect of different Meridians and Elevations of the Pole who is there will satisfie or incourage an Artist for the great labour it will require But why do I trifle time in answering one who with much confidence and as much ignorance doth cavil at the labours of others nay most ingratefully against those who have been his greatest support and promoters whilest it may be made evidently appear that in all or most that ever he did yet he hath committed frequently most gross and absurd errours in his very fundamentals and this appears not to be want of care or through oversight but absolutely for want of judgement and yet he must be a corrector of or rather a caviller at other mens labours although though as I could make it appear he understands them not But I shall refer my Reader to a particular Treatise shortly to come forth wherein this boasting Ignoramus is anatomized to the full his Absurdities Ignorance and gross abuse of Art particularly laid open and made known to undeceive the world But to thou that art courteous this Book is commended to thy judicious censure the subject it self is not able and I have been carefull to my power to perform what lay on on my part without playing the Plagiary or robbing any man of his Labours nor have I had the assistance of any either in Calculations or Judgement not that I am ambitious of any Igenuity therein but having used an honest endeavour in the performance thereof if thou meetest with any errours or deficiency either in the Pen or Press let me crave as I doubt not of thy courteous censure and care to correct And as for the envious I challenge and expect their emendation or be silent Farewell From my Study next door above the four Swans in Bishopsgate-street I am thine R. E. Observationes Astrologica A Treatise of a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars whererein are also many things of principal concernment in Astrology not frequently practised A most Learned and Ingenious Discourse of the true visible Systeme of the World according to Capernicus and our late best Astronomers The second Edition to be sold by the Author and at the Angel in Cornhill I have perused this Astrological Discourse of Mr. Richard Edlin ' s and may truly say It is not more Elaborate then Learned and very worthy the view of all Judicious Artists Die ♀ Feb. 12. 1663 4. G. WHARTON I have read over this Piece and averr it is excellently and judiciously penn'd and know not what could have been said more of this Subject ☽ 15. Feb. 1663 4. W. LILLY I have seriously read over this elaborate Treatise of Mr. Edlin ' s and so far approve thereof that I wish it were made publick for the satisfaction of all ingenious persons 17. Feb. 1663 4. JOHN BOOKER PART I. CHAP. I. Containing some General Considerations of Natural Causes THe Causes of all Natural Mutations next unto God whether as to the World in general or more particularly as to Humane bodies are the vertues and influences of the Celestial bodies whereof some are termed more others lesse principal The more principal causes as they are distinguished by the Learned are the transmutations of the Absides or Aphelions of the Planets Great Conjunctions of the Superiours new Stars and Comets to which some have added though as it is conceived not upon sufficient grounds the change of the Sun's excentricity and the obliquity of the Ecliptique Causes lesse principal or adjutant Causes as Spineus termes them are Eclipses of the Luminaries Lesser Conjunctions Annual Revolutions to which are supposed the motion of profection of the great Orb of great Conjunctions before the Floud the Birth of Christ Mahomet c. All which have their variety of Effects according to their different qualities and the nature of the subject they operate upon which although some are scrupulous is confirmed by the institution of the Almighty himself Sint Signa c. Let them be for signes and for seasons And indeed in order to the will and power of the Lord they are but as signes of his providential will and pleasure but as to natural Operations they are not improperly called Causes for Sub Deo semper agunt is a true Motto And not onely this institution of God himself but the consent of the Learned do also confirm it For S. Austin the Divine hath this saying Deus inferiora regit per Superiora God governeth all inferiour things by their Superiours And the Philosopher Cardanus Segm. 2. Aph. 58. Dei igitur altissimi coelum est instrumentum quo agit impellit regitque Heaven is the instrument of the most high God by which he acteth inforceth and governeth all things Amesius in his Medulla Theologica lib. 1. cap. 9. de providentia Dei terms it modus ordinarius the ordinary and usual way of Gods providence wherein we are to consider both the antecedent and the consequent as it is in Hos 2. 22. Exaudiam coelos ipsi exaudient terram c. I will hear the Heavens saith God and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Fruit and the Corn and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel And this order saith he is that Law of Nature adhibited by God himself at the Creation Fiat esto sit ita Let it be so and it was so Hence the Prophet styles them the Statutes and Ordinances of the Sun and of the Moon and Stars Jer. 31. 35 36. ver and chap. 33. 20. he calls it Gods Covenant with them And God himself asketh Job chap. 38. v. 31 32 33. among other interrogaties of the powers of Heaven whether he knew the ORDINANCES of Heaven or could set the dominion thereof in the Earth Hence then we may conclude with Cardan Seg. 1. Aphor. 20. Astrologia altissima scientiarum est tum quia de coelestibus tum quia de futuris quorum scientia non solum divina est