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A91502	Mene mene, tekel upharsin. The second part of Mene tekel, treating of the year MDCLXXXIX. : And modestly shewing what may probably be conjectured to succeed in the affairs of Europe in general, and of England, Holland, Scotland, and France in particular; with something also about the affairs of Ireland, and the French King's forces there. : To which is added a treasonable paper dispersed among the papists, by J. Gadbury, with some reflections thereon, and also on his almanack for 1689. / By John Partridge.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1689 (1689)	Wing P619A; ESTC R203323	33,895	50

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN THE Second Part of MENE TEKEL Treating Of the Year MDCLXXXIX And modestly shewing what may probably be Conjectured to succeed in the Affairs of Europe in General and of England Holland Scotland and France in Particular with something also about the Affairs of Ireland and the French King's Forces there To which is added a Treasonable Paper dispersed among the Papists by J. Gadbury with some Reflections thereon and also on his Almanack for 1689. By JOHN PARTRIDGE Licens'd May 23 1689. J. Fraser London Printed for Awnsham Churchil at the Black-Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane MDCLXXXIX To the Honest Reader SInce Heaven and our good Stars have been so kind to give me an opportunity to kiss your hand in this nature again in my Native Country without danger of being whipp'd or Jail'd for affronting Popery c. or being indicted for Sedition for writing against it in my way so I hope these Lines will find you also in a better and a more satisfied Condition than formerly and your Jugulars more free and safe from Popish Knives and Halters a Curse too common within a few Months foregoing but God be thanked the case is altered and to our Advantage the Tables are turned and the Nation is in a very fair way to retrieve its ancient Peace and Grandeur again under his present Majesty But this by the way the Errand of my Epistle is to acquaint you with three or four things before I come to the thing in hand First then It may perhaps seems strange to see a thing of this nature come from me at this time the Year being now half spent and indeed for that reason I did not intend to have wrote any thing this Year my Almanack for 1690 excepted it being not my custom at this Season to do it But finding by Reports from divers of my Acquaintance that there was a very ill use made of my Silence not only by Papists and Tories but also by true honest Englishmen Friends to the King and Government who have reported and believed because I had not writ this Year as I use to do that from thence they judg'd it was my Opinion that the late Abdicated King would return again to his former Power and Dignity in England therefore to undeceive them and let the World know it is not my Opinion nor any thing like it I have published these few Sheets following Secondly I have often been asked by my Friends since my Return to England if I had writ any thing Prophecies being cried about the City and Country in my Name and many of them bought and indeed I have heard them cryed my self This therefore I will tell you ance for all That I never did write any thing by the name of Prophecy nor never will and therefore you may be sure if any such thing shall be published at any time under the Notion of Prophecy or any other Title in a single Sheet in my Name it is not mine but an Abuse upon me and a Cheat upon you done and managed by some of the little People that cheat by Retail Thirdly Perhaps it may seem a little rough and hard to some modest Readers when they hear or consider what I have said of John Gadbury especially he and I having been very intimate formerly and he one that pretends to have been my Tutor in these Studies 'T is true the Man was civil to me when I began to study but I own no Master but Dr. Francis Wright But to undeceive the Reader I must give a short account of the Affairs betwixt him and I. We first came acquainted in 1665 and from thence as often as we had opportunity we continued it in the usual ways of Conversation and Fellowship till the Year 1680 at which time he took occasion to differ with me about Popery and then we began to be strange one to the other till I left England in 1685 and from our first Acquaintance to that time I can speak it with a safe Conscience in the Presence of God that I never let fall an unseemly word concerning him in any Company for I had a respect for the Man because of our long Acquaintance neither was I willing to give any ground for a Quarrel But in the Year 1687 about the time that he went to Mass openly and declared himself a Papist he wrote a Book against me which he called a Reply printed by Nat. Thompson in which Treatise he abused me in such undecent and ungentile Expressions that it would have been a Scandal for any one to have used them at Billingsgate it self Rogue Rascal Traitor Villain and Renegado being the Subject of his Book and the lively Touches of his Pen and all this without any Cause or Occasion given to him on my side and I challenge him to tell the World if he can when or where I ever gave him the least occasion imaginable for it So that now I leave it to the World to judg between us and whether I am not justly provoked to do what I have and shall do for I do assure you I take no delight in Controversies of this nature neither is it a peevish passionate Humour that moves me but really to shew the World how unjust and unsteady a Man he is in his Morals and Divine Things that hath abused me and also how ignorant he is in his Profession his principal Skill and Art being his Cant and Hypocrisy But let me tell him that this is but the beginning of our Difference Fourthly I find some peevish People are apt to exclaim against Astrology because the late King did not dye in October or November 1688 pretending that I had said in Print he would then die but I would very fain have them show it to me where I have so said Indeed I did think he would have died and yet his not dying is no Injury to Astrology unless among those that are malicious and something worse However I shall say but two things in the case 1. To those that understand Astrology or pretend to it for I hear a double-sighted Man hath talked more than came to his share what I predicted was fully verified for it happened within a Month of the time mentioned and now the thing is over I will defy them to give any reason for it that shall have the same Effect in another Nativity or something like it Let them out-do it if they can 2. To those that know nothing of Astrology there is no blame to be laid on the Art nor indeed I cannot see how they can blame me for the Effect is so like Death that it doth as well for the Deliverance of the Nation and I hope they cannot say but it happened at the same time I had predicted it too It is indeed a Civil Death and to him I think worse than Death however there are some that would have quarrelled with it too if he had then died at the time exactly and said it was

Sun in a certain Persons Nativity who is now in Tribulation At the Postventional Full Moon we find there the Moon to be separating from the Square of Mars and applying to the Body of the Sun and next after that to the Square of Saturn the Sun is in Domo Octava and the Moon in Secunda and she in that part of Heaven having at the Full Moon five degrees of South Latitude made her within Rays of the Square of Saturn so that we may conclude both the Preventional New and Postventional Full Moons do exactly agree with the Figure of the Ingress here before us and do really agree in describing the Circumstantial Adjuncts likely to attend this Quarter which is indeed like to be ushered in with Violence and violent Actions and therefore let those that are like to suffer therein take care how they manage their ticklish Fortune for here is such Work approaching that is not to be dallied with and he that once plays and loseth seldom or never comes to his Stake again Having already said how the Preventional and Postventional New and Full Moon agree with the Figure of the Ingress I come now to insist on the Figure it self and the various Positions Aspects c. therein contained And the first thing to be considered is what is like to be the Effects of this Quarter in the general for here we find as perhaps some will say no Extraordinary Positions to give Violence because the Sun is in Trine to Jupiter and Saturn and the Moon in no evil Aspect except by her Latitude in Opposition to Jupiter from the first and seventh houses And now going to the Sextile of Saturn and the Sun all that is may they say is the Sun in square to Mars in the Ascendent Alas they that expect to find Causes in Mundane Ingresses to predict or forshew Actions of that kind of quality that we must now expect are extreamly deceived and cheated for in all things of this Nature we must first consider the Motion of the Superiors Saturn and Jupiter for they are the Salt or Leaven of the World and from their Motion proceeds the variety of those Causes which Mankind oftentimes so severely feels and indeed it is that and that only which is equal in another branch of this Study to the primary Directions and these Ingresses are but like Revolutions that may either abate or aggravate the Direction in its time and quality of Operation but whether the Revolution or Ingress concur or not the Direction certainly works without it and therefore we are not beholden to the Figure of the Ingress for discovering to us the Cause of Mutations Wars c. but the time when God and Nature think fit to obtrude them upon us Hence therefore be pleased to consider that there have been three Squares of Saturn and Jupiter and the last of them was last January Saturn being then in Square and Jupiter in Opposition to the last Conjunction in ♌ in the year 1682 / 3 and this also on the place and square to it of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in October preceding and in the end of March last there was also a Square of Saturn and Mars the latter of which was then in Opposition to the place of the last Conjunction and to the Ecliptical place of the Moon in this Figure and you see that altho matters and things have been working yet they have not produced any thing material more than preparation for Action and Things of a greater Nature and this not only in this part of Europe but also in Spain and Germany and the parts adjacent There are other things that are to be considered in this Judgment but because they will occasionally fall in with other matters in this discourse therefore I omit to mention them for these are the principal that I have already noted and according to the Method I and all others that pretend to Astrology do or ought to proceed in their judging Mundane Revolutions concerning Wars Plagues Mutations of Government Abdication of Kings Plenty Famine c. Therefore in the first place we shall confider what may be the Consequence of this triple Square of Saturn and Jupiter of which the two first were from Libra and Capricorn the one an Equinoctial and the other a Tropical Sign but the last was from Scorpio and Aquary two fixed rough succedent Signs from whence I draw this Judgment that the first two thirds of their Effects shall be quick noble and glorious mighty things soon dispatch'd and done and the reason is because they were from Cardinal Signs but the last part will be slow tedious and full of labour apt to go sometimes backwards and sometimes forward and variety of success attend it Now for a proof of this let us look back to the Conjunction of the two Superiors in 1623 in Leo and observe when they made their Square which was but a single one and that from the Ends of Libra and Capricorn in the Month of February in the year 1629 and compare that and its Effects then with these three now and the prospect of things likely to attend us at this time and then say whether like Causes have not like Effects for in 1629 the Hollanders took the Hertogenbosch stom the Spaniards and also many of their Ships the Janizaries quarrel with the Grand Signior the Polanders make peace with the Sweeds A Great Diet at Prague the Kings of England and France make peace having together destroyed the poor Protestants at Rochel The French make great preparations of War against Italy and in the beginning of the Next year the King of Swedland did Invade the Empire and took Francfort upon Odor and Lantsberg c. How England stood affected at that time and what the Designs of the then King were your own Histories will inform you I have onely given you those that were forreign Thus you see the same Kingdoms and Countries were concerned in Action at that time as are now but the Quarrels and pretences different yet the Popish Crew then in Spain France and Germany were for rooting out the Protestants and the Protestant Religion and yet we even we are for succouring and defending them tho I thank God I am of another perswasion These things considered are sufficient to prove the Position that I laid down before that like Causes have like Effects and that the Motion of the Superior Stars are to be considered in the publick Affairs of the World c. But I must turn into my way again this discourse being not exactly pertinent to the Affairs in Hand Haly an old Arabian and one well acquainted with this kind of Doctrine tell us Significat quod existant rebelles qui adversabuntur regie qui quaerunt regnum Etian significat Mutationes res multas in negotiis regis similiter in Lege says he the Square of Saturn and Jupiter signifies that people shall rise against their King and