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

is over and ended which will not be quickly Secondly Observe That it was after a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo Anno 1623 that the Papists used all their Endeavours to bring in that most abominable Perswasion into England under the Notion of Religion and to set it up by the Power of Law upon which Endeavours of theirs there began and continued so cruel a War in this Nation between two Parties the one to bring in Popery and the other to keep it out that the like had not been known in many Ages and now under such a Conjunction as that was we have the like thing attempted over again and it had succeeded too had not the Almighty appeared for us in a wonderful manner Twit us no more about your Forty One For they that twitted us have us outdone Again observe that when Saturn and Mars came to a Conjunction in Aquary in 1640 in Opposition to the place of that Conjunction in 1623 there was indeed three Conjunctions of Saturn and Mars then as now three Oppositions immediately after the next Opposition that most horrid Murder of the Protestants in Ireland was acted which began on the 23d of October 1641 and lasted a Month in which Action the Bloody Papists used such Barbarities that one would think it could not enter into the Heart or Mind of Mankind to think or contrive but it is such a Religion that if the Priest says they must murder their Fathers Mothers Brothers or Sisters being Protestants they think their disobeying him will incur Damnation such is the Ignorance and Folly of those who are Bigots to Priests I say in this Massacre they ripped up Women with Child and cruely murdered the Infants set Men up to the Neck in Earth and play'd Bowls at their Heads and when they had done leave them to die at leisure strip Men and Women and drive them naked into the Field being Winter and there let them starve with Hunger and Cold take fat Men and kill them and with their Fat make Candles to say Mass by murder the Parents before the Children to terrify them and the Children before the Parents to do the like go into Cities and commit all the Villanies and Outrages imaginable and then take with them what number of both Sexs they pleased to hang murder torture or otherwise to use them as they according their Irish Sense Discretion and Mercy thought convenient and in this Condition were the poor Protestants in that Kingdom at that time for the space of a Month and more till they had murdered about two hundred thousand And this is the Condition that poor Nation is now in again at this time being fallen into the Hands of a merciless Enemy full of Rage Barbarity and Revenge till God in his Mercy and good time will deliver them I hope by the same Hand that he hath delivered us And assure your selves that if ever you permit Popery to enter into this Nation again for I see some are whining after it you must expect no other Favour Mercy nor Kindness from their Priests and Governors bind them never so secure by Oaths and Promises but Fire Fagot Gibbet and all other kind of Tortures Ruins Dragooning and whatever the Irish Papists gave the Protestants in 1641 so that if you like it on those terms you may as soon as you please submit fetter your selves and lay your Throats to the Knife for that must be the Effect and Consequence of bringing in Popery a Popish Government and Papists into England tho perhaps many may believe that they can bring it in so far as they please and no farther but let none trust to that for we have of late seen a large and almost a dear-bought Experiment I come now to the Revolution and Ingress of the Sun into Libra to speak something to that and so hasten to what I have promised and design'd In that Figure we may observe that the Moon is separated from the Square of the Sun and Mercury and Sextile of Saturn and Trine of Mars and is now by her Latitude in exact Mundane Square to Saturn and Mars which shews the Position to be violent and something agreeable to the other Figures that we have before considered and Jupiter upon the opposite place of the last great Conjunction in 1682 and in this Figure in an exact Mundane Parallel both with Saturn and Mars and in Opposition to Mars who is on the Cusp of the second in a certain Persons Nativity and the Sun here in Opposition also to his Part of Fortune hence we may judg First The Breach of some private Treaty because Saturn and Mars are in the Houses of Embassies Leagues and Ambassadors the Sun and Mercury in the ninth House the Angle of Journeys and the Moon on the Cusp of the second in Capricorn a Moveable Tropical Cardinal Sign it also may as probably be the discovery of some Traiterous Design that hath been going on for some time but this I dare assert that about the time of the Ingress or a little after it you will certainly hear of the Dissolution of some Treaty or the end of some Debate without Effect that was carrying on in order to some great Affairs or else some Treachery and Villany discovered about the Affairs of Ireland that hath been long in Agitation and contriving and now at last proves Abortive and of no Service to them that did endeavour and attempt the effecting of that precious Work and all this seems the rather probable because the Moon did last of all separate from Mars in the fifth House Retrograde and afflicted Besides this will divide the Councils and confound the Projects of an evil sort of People that are restless and contriving the Ruin of all those that are not of their wicked Perswasion and this seems to attend them as a Curse intailed on their Endeavours and Attempts in general and is like to continue for the Sun who is here in a particular way a Significator of them is in Conjunction with Mercury and they both going to a Zodiacal Parallel with Saturn and Mars Secondly We may judg that a certain Prince his Affairs go on very evil his Treasure very low and his Friends grow fewer than ever for Saturn in the eleventh House hath Signification of the Treasury an Exchequer of Princes their Council and Assistants Supplies of Mony and those Noble Men that attend their Courts now Saturn is here their Significator and in a very ill Condition for he is Perigrine in Opposition of Mars and Square to the Moon these Positions shew as ill things to attend him as possible can be for it doth not only shew him poor but also like to continue in that Capacity and Condition it makes their Councils treacherous and divided and what is worse the best of their Councils and Advice will be in the general frustrate and fruitless and divers of those Noble Men and Gentlemen about the time of the Ingress or

the disadvantage to his Honour that can be Disappointment in his Expectation Loss in his Affairs and all Things that depend either upon his Courage Conduct or Council go on at this Time but ill and untoward but if we mind the two Malevolents they are both in Square to his Radical Moon and in Parallel to his pars Fortunae this gives illness of Body so far as to be crazy and out of order perhaps really Sick it gives loss by Enemies and that to some consideration it also gives Disturbance to the Brain and Mind with Disorder of that Nature and whatever is signified now will be with Violence because of the Sun on the place of the last Conjunction of Opposition to Jupiter and the Sun on his Radical Mars his place This if I make a right Judgment signifies Crosses and want of Success And now expect to hear of some brisk Ingagement About the end of September the two Malevolents come to another Opposition by the Retrograde Motion of Mars and this at the time of the great Lunar Eclipse in the Sign Aries in the seventh degree thereof This Eclipse falls exactly on the place of his Radical pars Fortunae which gives loss of Health and Estate the Opposition gives all the trouble that Loss Discontent and want of Success can give Jupiter is here in Opposition to his Radical Mars as if some thar were formerly his Friends signified by Jupiter did now turn Tail and prove his Enemies But this Opposition seems also directly to point at the French Tyrant for it falls in exact Square to his Moon and Venus this gives Disappointment and Loss in his publick and forreign Affairs treachery in his Councils and perhaps a return of his old fulsom Disease in Ano and that the rather because Mars is in the fourth House of his Radix and Saturn of late Stationary on the place of the Sun by direction and this considered with his Revolution The Eclipse also will have some Influence on his Country and People as well as England in a word this Month of September and also October seem to be times of great Action and also of great Destruction among Men and Things neither will August be free therefrom In October we have an Opposition of the Sun and Mars and a Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn from the aforesaid Signs and Places but that which makes it remarkable is that it falls just upon the Suns return to his own place in that Gentlemans Nativity we mentioned before that is it falls at the beginning of his next Years Revolution which is like to give a very pleasant Year to one in his Condition to say the Truth a worse Revolution cannot be for all sorts of Mischief except Life because the one falls just before the Revolutional Point and the other after it and both so near that the Sun is afflicted by each of them to a great degree neither is the Moon and Radical part of Fortune free at the same time from the Affliction of the Malevolents which considered together do not only promise a ba● end of this Year but a very evil beginning and continuance of the next and who ever they are that expect his Return build their Hopes and Wishes on very bad Grounds and Foundations for if we consider his directions that he is now under together with his Revolutions and Transits he is so far from returning that they will still heap up more Plagues Crosses and Vexations on his perishing Fortune than they have yet done or to speak more plainly they will still increase and multiply the Misfortunes he is now under And therefore let all honest Men be incouraged to use their endeavours both by Counsel and Arms to defend their Laws Lives and Liberties against the Tyranny of France Rome and those Confederated with them to destroy all that stand in their way for the Heavens favour their Undertaking with Success and have given an Opportunity to them to make themselves a free and a happy People and therefore if they are not so it is their own faults for God is not bound to save them against their will. The season is approaching let every Man set his Hand to the Plough and the Work will be easy and we are in more Danger from an unworthy Generation in the midst of us that endeavour our Ruin than of the Abdicated King who you have little or no reason to fear and therefore expect him no more But I find there are some discontented Spirits abroad that desire to have their Popish King again and others that encourage them to expect his Return and that by Force of Arms. First then consider what People these are that wish it for when he was made King and swore to the People to maintain their Laws Liberties and Religion Did he not break thro all and invade every Mans Propriety therein concern'd and do ye believe he is grown more Just now did he not raise and impose upon you a Cut-Throat Army who threatned daily to Ruine Destroy and Dragoon ye according to the French Method and do ye think he is grown more Merciful now Did he not bring in Sholes of Priests prefer all those persons that would turn Papists incourage Popish Chappels all the Nation over and did his endeavour to give you all to understand that he was taking the best and most speedy way to bring in Popery and when that was settled to destroy the Protestants for Popery and that can by no means dwell together witness France and do you think he is now grown less a Bigot to his Religion and more free from the Government of his Irish and his Priests than he was before Did not the Papists over the whole Nation threaten you what they would do how they would use you who they would Hang and Jaile c. when their King had setled Popery and given them the power which you saw was very near doing and do ye believe that he or they either are grown better-natured people now than they were before or that they will use you more kindly No No never cheat your selves to believe Papists will be any more kind to you now then they have been to the Protestants formerly in Piedmont at Rochel in France at Paris in Ireland and many other places where they murdered them by thousands and hundreds of thousands and of late under that Tyrannical Monster in France where the Jailes Gibbets and Galleys were their Doom and the merciful Censures they received from the Papists their Protectors and Defenders and this for no other Reason but because they would not be Roman Catholicks and change their Religion And assure your selves if ever you suffer the Abdicated King to return again he will use Rehoboam's Expression that he did indeed chastise you before with Whips but now he will do it with Scorpions he only perswaded you then but now he will Compel you Before he sent out among you his Apostatical whining Regulators but now