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A52801 An astrological and theologigal [sic] discourse upon this great conjunction (the like whereof hath not (likely) been in some ages) ushered in by a great comet and so far upon the heavens, the planets and fixed stars as is a necessary introduction into a distinct and full knowledg of the principal subject herein handled. Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705. 1682 (1682) Wing N441A; ESTC R28721 40,837 46

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a Cardinal sign c. but in Sagittary This is most certain it must be one of those 3 sorts Greatest Middle or Meanest either that sort of Conjunctions which returns not above once in 800. Years or that of 200. Years or that of every 20. Year and this last is the more probable seeing we find that after the Conjunction in 1603. there was another after that 20. y. in 1623. another after that 20. y. in 1642 3. Another after that 20. y. in 1663. and now another after that 20. in this present year 1682. However The Author aforementioned doth well to call that in 1603. a great Conjunction because it was attended with very great and most memorable matter that James King of Scotland should become the Mighty Monarch of England and of Ireland too and that without either Blood or Blows what was this but a setting up in effect even by a Miracle a New Monarchy especially considering that old Antipathy betwixt Scots and English That prudent Prince brought peace not only to England but also to Europe yet in some sense those other Succeeding Conjunctions in the Interval of 20. y. before named may be called great as well as that in 1603. in Respect of either some great Good or some great Evil attending them For as that in 1603. was attended with the Death of good Queen Elizabeth So was that in 1623. with the Death of King James and that in 1642 3. with civil uncivil Wars and that in 1663 had both the dreadful Plague and Fire following it And God knows what great Matters may also attend this present Conjunction in 1682. whereof more afterward As to that common Notion that climacterical Conjunctions which be but 7 in all as above must be in Aries because it is the first of the Signs of the Zodiack Chief and Cardinal and under it the World some say was created and therefore must be the chief Epoche of the mightiest Matters and Mutations in the World Against this I must enter these Exceptions 1 who told them that the World was created under Aries surely Moses with all his Learning of the Aegyptians did not tell them so nor Abraham nor Job who both are reckoned up as skilful in Astronomy 't is therefore gratìs Dictum and a being wise above what is written 2 I find in the best Tables of Calculation I can consult with that the first Conjunction Recorded therein was in the 3d year of the World and that in Sagittary The 2d was 23d y. from the Creation in Leo. The very Sign of our present Conjunction and the 3d in the 43. y. to be in Aries Then the 4th in 63. y. in Sagittary and the 5th in 82. in Leo just as it is now in our 82 reckoning by 20s or thereabouts betwixt that and this all along from the Beginning of the World to this year 3 In the Tables of Kepler the best in the World improved by Maginus the Sign Leo bids fairer for the place of climacterical Conjunctions than Aries seeing the first in the Tables exclusive was in Leo A. M. 23. and the first Revolution of 800 y. which is the periodical Motion of Saturn and Jupiter after that falls in 817 y. of the World in Leo again as the Tables tell us If we reckon this as well we may for the first climacterical Revolution then we find there again the second to fall in 1611. in Leo too As the first down from the Beginning to Enochs Time so the second reaches to Noahs Days and to that universal Deluge The third to Moses in the y. 2406. and Israels Deliverance from Aegypt which was again in Leo. The fourth to the y. 3200. as some say to the Medes Monarchy or as others to Solomon and the Kings of Israel Then also was the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo also The fift to y. 4034. the Time of Christs Resurrection and in the 34. of Christ these 2. Planets met again in Leo as Representing that the Lion of the Tribe of Judah had then conquered Death the Grave and Hell who soon after Ascended into Heaven The sixth to 829. y. after Christ the Time of Charles the Great whose Offspring possess'd the Imperial Throne for an 112. years Pareus Medul Hist Eccles pag. 260. and that Time also had a Conjunction in Leo of the 2 superior Planets The seventh and possibly the last brings us down to the 16th Century wherein we find no Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo till we come to 1682. therefore may we more probably conjecture that this 7th Conjunction present in Leo hath some secret Mystery of Sabbatism in it and promiseth something in its signature of more singular Moment to this World than any of its Antecedents 4 Astronomers do grant that when the 2 superior Planets do pass out of the watery Trigon and have their Meeting in the Fiery be it in Leo Sagittary or Aries in which soever their Conjunction is 't is a great Conjunction and portends great Mutations not only because these 2 Interchanged Triplicitys are contrary as Fire and Water but also their Abode in one Trigon is about 200 y. And if usually 7. y. the Term of Mans Life in Law bring Changes what may 20. y. their least Conjunction and about 3 Mens Lives do much more may 200. Y. the Time of their Mean but most of all the 800. Y. which is their Climacterical Meeting New Empires c. may well arise in that Time 5 Spineus Physitian to the Duke of Padua who wrote Catastrophe Mundi 1625. y. and Englished by Squire Ashmol saith pag. 24. that of all the 3 Signs in the fiery Trigon Aries is the weakest then must it follow that Leo is stronger And at this Time especially considering 6 This present Conjunction in Leo comes Notably corroborated in 3. Respects 1 it is attended with 2 frightful Comets the first esp the like whereof hath not been this 800. y. as seal'd up in its significancy with a double Signet or Seal Royal. Alsted c. affirm that such Con junctions so seal'd are most-significant 2 their Conjunction is near Cor. Leonis a Royal and Couragions creature whose Heart is the Seat of his Courage which must add to its significancy seeing those 2 greatest Planets go into this Regal sign and so near the Heart of it entring there as it were into a deep Consult and there consronting the Sun 3 That Mars should meet first Jupiter upon the 7th of this last September and Saturn up on the 12th to strengthen them both with his conjoined Rays as both pass'd along in Tendency towards this their Great Conjunction all these Meetings are in the same Sign of Leo though now Mars be going off from caudâ Leonis as dropping down from off the Lions Tail into the Sign Virgo wishing them as it were an Happy Meeting which no doubt will be so according to Rules of Art for Jupiter having the higher Elevation and being above Saturn as