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A65576	The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.; Rothmann, Johann. Chiromancia. English.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1538; ESTC R15152	333,516	700

thereof Otherwise we can hardly explain this matter because of his Inscrutable Majesty That therefore the Celestial Bodies are Animate is hence rightly concluded For it were absurd to deny a Life and Soul to be in Heaven and the Stars the which Inspire both Life and Soul even in the vilest of these Inferiour Bodies They give Life unto Plants which grow without Natural Seed as we see in the Mountains and Places untill'd So likewise to the Earth For if a Lump be taken out of the Bowels thereof and for some time exposed to the Rays of the Sun it yieldeth Grass or some Herbs oftentimes the twiggs of little Trees The Stars also bestow Life upon Animals not generated by Copulation Nor can we be so stupid as to imagine that Plants Trees c. are of a Nobler Condition than the Celestial Bodies This manifest perpetual Operation cannot come but from a Pure and Cleansed Body These things I suppose are sufficient to prove the World hath a Soul placed in Heaven as in the most Noble Part thereof But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved that these Celestial Souls are Rational and participate of the Divine Mind The Matter is not obscure For if the World as Plato saith be the best effect that could be of goodness it self That is of GOD for we Germans so express it because Got sounds nothing else with us than Gut if we rightly enquire the Reason of the Idiom it must certainly participate not only of Life Sense and Reason but also of Intelligence The Soul is the Perfection of the Body And that Body most Perfect which hath the Perfectest Soul Wherefore if the Celestial Bodies be most Perfect they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect Souls The Heavens therefore do Participate of the Intellect and Mind Which very thing the Platonicks plainly approve by Musical Concords For seeing that Musical Concord is as it were Living Rational and Effica●ious what Resemblance hath it unto Life it self how Pleasing is it to the Mind and even Ravisheth the whole Man And which is more the Mind and all things else are made by the Soul By her they are preserved by her they are moved And therefore Plato did not amiss when he Described the Soul to be she that made preserved and moved all Natural things especially by Musical Numbers and Proportion constituted I say by Numbers not Mathematical as some Calumniate but by Ideal and Metaphysical Proportions of Numbers This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion because that by an Aërial Nature posited in Motion it moveth the Body By a Purified Air it stirs up the Aërial Spirit the Chain of Soul and Body By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection By signification it Operates upon the Mind Lastly through this Motion of the subtil Air it penetrates vehemently It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation And by its conform Quality poureth out it self with a wonderful Pleasure By its Nature as well Spiritual as Material it at once Ravisheth and Claimeth all that is Man Wherefore let us seriously consider how the Sounds of most sweet Musick elevate and as it were double and treble our Minds And in like sort judge the Melody of the Celestial Bodies who now by a slower but anon by a swifter Motion produce a tone that is Grave or Acute Whereunto agree in these Sublunaries Gravity and Levity Cold and Heat Moisture and Dryness of Elements So likewise Matter and Form in the G●neration of things Meekness and Magnanimity Temperance and Fortitude in Humane Affairs Seeing therefore that Motion is ●very where Free in its own Nature it might easily prevaricate and wander unless it were Ruled by the Intellect and Mind The which we cannot further enquire of in this Place according to the Exigence of the Matter Besides it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own works For the Celestial Souls and so the Soul of the Universe have no Reasons of theirs of whose Spirit even we our selves are generated and live continually If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent Soul such also enjoys the Greater But we will cease to prosecute this any further concluding that the World is a System of Cel●stial and Terrestrial Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectual Whence we safely gather that the Soul of the World is a certain singular Life filling all things vivifying all things producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish and preserve one Fabrick of the whole World and be as a Monochord sounding out by the three-fold kinds of Creatures Intellectual Celestial and Corruptible at one Blast one only Life The Mystery of Unity is but known of a few Now can we here pass by the Authority both of the Holy Scriptures and also of the most approved Philosophers Deut. 4.19 Thou shalt not Worship the Sun Moon and Stars which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven Deut. 28.12 God shall open unto thee his good Treasure the Heaven c. Deut. 33.13 Concerning Joseph Thy Blessing shall be of the Precious things of the Sun and of the Precious things of the Moon But above all let us consider those thing● which are in Levit. 26.19 I will make saith God your Heaven as Iron and your Earth as Brass The same is repeated Deut. 28.23 And also in Hosea 2.21 And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel Therefore we hereby see that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the Soul of the Universe so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven as the Beginning of Motion from our Soul which are of themselves perspicuous enough To this also belongs that in Job 38.33 Knowest thou the Course of Heaven or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth The Rule of Heaven proceeds through Terrestrial and all Inferiour things as the Rule of an Emperour or King throughout his Empire and Kingdom As therefore a King is the Soul of his Kingdom so the Heaven and the Stars are the Soul of the World Likewise that of Job 26.13 His spirit hath garnished the Heavens Psal. 33.16 By the Word of the Lord the Heavens were made and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth that Body without doubt shall be Animate and Intellectual Psal. 19. God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun One Day telleth another and one Night teacheth another knowledge There is no Speech nor Language in those Heavens yet understandeth he their Voice Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth and their words unto the ends of the World in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun Psal. 89.5 O Lord even the H●avens shall confess thy wonderful Works John 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus I have told you

4. In January Now CHARLES is dead the Senate in a ditty Sung in Wild Airs about the Holy City The ill-got-Lords made worse than Indian Slaves And Priests like Churches hovering o're their Graves Whose turn is next speak you as may be free I dare not meddle with SUPREMACY 5. In February Fetch Me a Ladder and a Broom that I May sweep the Cobwebbs from the Azur'd Skie Dispatch the fumes that cloud the subtile Air And make the Heav'ns look Maiden-smooth and fair Else is that Roof too mean for those that vie With Gods themselves for Crowns and Majesty 6. In March Justice now flows and Righteousness doth stream Throughout the streets the Conduits run with Cream Our Virgins Lamps be full of Holy Oyl Themselves o're-charg'd and ready to recoil Old M●n dream Dreams and Young Men Visions see Their cloven Tongues are tip't with Prophesie 7. In April Well fare Gay knacks and men to change inclin'd They raise the dust and cloud the work design'd In gild●d Roofs who doubteth of d●ceit In troubled waters who can see the Bait He that would closely bring great things about Must mud as well as Fish the Rabble-rout 8. In June W' are all Reform'd and free as we were born Almost as naked too much more forlorn The Times are Tyrannous not Men for they Have brought to pass what Men b' asham'd to say But if one truth may slip my harmless Pen Times would be better had we better Men. 9. In July Sweet are the Sippets of a Diadem Shall Foreigners invade us or we them Victors but once grown bouzy with success Dream of nought ●lse but Gold and Gloriousness But we are lowly-minded and despise All Earthly Substance being Heavenly-wise 10. In September What fine new-nothing's this that I espy A Sect a Schism or a Heresie Or shall I Nick-nam't a Religion Say No 't relishès the sober water-way Yet wants no fire to make the Spirit beat Nor bucksome Creatures to allay the heat 11. In October Must Treasurers account 't is fit they do They shall in time make satisfaction too But these and other Pious Cheats we have Can quote us Scripture why they play the Knave Religion is a Cloak for all deceit And shrowds designs that be of greatest weight 12. In November Ho Presbyterians Prick up your Ears Advance your Troops of Jealousies and Fears Summon your Elders in their several Classes The Covenanters Directory-Asses And tell me now your blood and breath 's nigh spent Where 's one dares Fight for King and Parliament 13. In December A Blessing on the Common-wealth Affairs May that green Lady never know gray Hairs Let 's on with Courage and resolve to do What e're Necessity compels us to So long as God's with us what need we fear Whose turn it is to Reign another year In his Ephemeris 1655. I find these several Excellent Poems following 1. Over the Feasts LO here the Sacred Saint-offending days Religion's outward worth and splendent Rays Old Truth 's strong Evidence motives to Zeal Rich badges of a Christian Commonweal Fair Hieroglyphicks of what we profess ' Live shadows of Eternal Happiness Lasting Records on Earth wherein even they That won't be drawn to hearken what we say May by observing only what we do Read our Belief and reading do so too 2. Over the Table of Kings Here 's yet the Regal Table who can tell But 't may by thus long Prostitution swell Under the Table of Kings How Tyrants all what glory is 't to be Accounted Gods if Gods of Tyranny 'T is strange your Conquests were not claim enough Yet ours of one another Gosp●l-proof Either your Titles to the Crown were good Or ours so Mystical not understood 3. Over the Table of Terms Away to Westminster and do not fear We will indulge ye yet another Year Under the Table of Terms Go to brave Hero's and Abridge the Law Teach in Epitome to Hang and Draw M●ke Magna Charta speak us Lilburn-free That Treason which is writ without a T. Correct Old Littleton and Print him New The Sword 's one Tenure more he never knew 4. In January Rythm you whose measures charm you better luck I must be mute my Muse is Planet-struck Her Fancy's fetter'd and her Ink is froze Complaint is made her Pen's too broad at Nose I 'le to the Woods and find some Satyr out There 's now no fellow to the Cloven-foot 5. In May. The Pole's perplexed and the German dreads The horned Moon should pierce the Eagles heads Goths Huns and Vandals once had greatest Power The Tartars and the Turks have now much more If then success be it which best depaints A glorious Cause Turks are the only Saints 6. In September From th' Honour of our ill-begotten Peers From the sowre batch of Jealousies and Fears From slouds of Orphans and poor Widows Tears From twice-six other over-tedious Years Good Lord deliver us The Number Three Hath always in it some high Mystery 7. In December Now Falcifer Gradivus doth oppose Then through the Virgin hobling backward goes Hence th' Waters are corrupted Fishes die The Earth is Barren a Mortality Afflicts the Land Mars rageth up and down Not quiet with nor yet without a Crown In Hemerosc 1656. are to be read these incomparable Pieces of Learning and Ingenuity 1. I shall present you with his Chronology it being the last in Verse and the most compleat of all his others SInce all things were of God created good 5605 Years Since Noah ascended th' Ark t' avoid the flood 3949 Years Since God the Promise made to Abraham 3583 Years Since th' Israelites from Egypts Bondage came 3153 Years Since Solomon the Temple finished 2669 Years Since King Zedekias a Captive led 2246 Years Since JESUS of the Blessed Virgin born 1656 Years Since for Mans sins he suffered death and scorn 1623 Years Since Caesar's force the Britains overthrew 1708 Years Since hence the Rav'nous Roman Eagle-flew 1232 Years Since first the Saxons stept on English ground 1201 Years Since here the Danes the like advantage found 824 Years Since Norman William Britain over-powr'd 590 Years Since Maud the English-Saxon Blood restor'd 551 Years Since Second Henry Ireland first assayl'd 483 Years Since our first Edward hence the Jews expell'd 365 Years Since Tyler's Highness would the Throne ascended 274 Years Since he his Life with hi● Rebellion ended 274 Years Since Gu●● those mort●l Engines first were found 276 Years Since P●inting made the world with Books abound 213 Years Since Protestants by Luther first so nam'd 127 Years Since Loiola the Jesuites Order fram'd 116 Years Since Ket and 's followers seduc'd the Nation 108 Years Since hang'd upon the Tree of Reformation 108 Years Since Kentish Wiat rose against Queen Mary 102 Years Since with Spain's Philip she did intermarry 102 Years Since London streets by Coaches first molested 101 Years Since Scotland with Geneva-trash infested 99 Years Since Lightning last consumed Paul's high Spire 95

and Movable Vertue also and Action is partly Individual and Immovable so far forth as it agrees with Divine things stedfastly worketh And partly Divisible in some Respects both because it is manifold and also for that it declineth to a manifold and Divisible Body And Movable because it worketh Temporally Where we term it Intellectual we mean the Angelical Intellects which are properly Perfect and Indivisible according to Place in their Government of the Spheres And Immutable in respect of time the Natural Life and Form Corporeal being Opposite thereunto Divisible and Mutable That even these Angelical Intellects be in the Body of the World Necessity requires it because the Body of the World is through Life made fit for the Intellect Therefore look how it is in regard of Life and the like it is in respect of the Intellect And as it hath not only a Natural lying hid in the Matter of the World but an Animal also that is A Soul existing in it self So hath it not only an Intellectual Quality infused in the Soul but also an Intellectual substance therein remaining For certain Qualities are very where reduced to certain Substances As a Vital Quality to a Vital Substance so also an Intellectual Quality to an Intellectual Substance But as touching these things we shall explain our self more at large The whole Body of the World is a certain Body composed of all the Four Elements the Members or Parts whereof are the Bodies of all Living Creatures For the small Body of every Animal is a Part of the Worlds Body Neither is it composed of the whole Element of Fire Air Water or Earth but of some parts of these Elements By how much therefore the Whole is more Perfect than a Part thereof by so much is the Body of the World more Perfect than the Body of any one Living Creature Hence were it absurd to think that an Imperfect Body should have a Soul But that it neither hath a Soul nor can live Perfect None will be so mad as to say the Part Liveth and not the Whole Therefore the whole Body of the World Liveth whilst the Bodies of the Animals therein Live which are the Parts thereof And now seeing there must needs be One Soul of the whole World we will in the next place enquire in what part thereof this Soul may Reside whence she distributes her Spirit through all things and preserves the same so distributed She fixeth not her Seat and Pavilions in Bodies subject to variety of Change and manifold Corruption as are the Elements and Elementary Bodies Wherefore seeing that in Heaven there is no Corruption of Bodies there certainly is her Place of Residence And although those Elements also may be in Heaven but most Purely or Spiritually Yet is it manifest that the Element of Fire hath therein Dominion Even as here in this Inferiour Part of the World where the Soveraignty of the Elements remains in the Power of Fire And this we are sensible of in our own Bodies But much more if we do but consider how the Fire by no means Pu●rifieth nor is any way Corrupted notwithstanding it often Corrupteth other Bodies where it gets Preheminency Moreover Nature affords it Earth Water and Air as a certain Subject Matter whereon to Exercise its Power The Air it self as also the Earth with the Water surrounding it whence we are Nourish'd and draw our Breath is indeed so Affected of the Fire about it that sometimes Heat doth therein predominate otherwhiles it is so Extenuated that for want of Heat it leaves its own Quality and is forsaken of Cold. In like manner we see such Impressions conveyed from the Fire above us upon the Earth and Water that sometimes the Nature and Quality thereof is capable of some Excess otherwhiles of Defect the Celestial Fire it self remaining Entire Wherefore seeing the Soul of the World hath its Residence in Heaven of Necessity it must live in a Fiery Substance For Heaven is a Fiery Essence but withall most Temperate Pure Lucid and Incorruptible Nor shall they trouble us who deny the Fiery Heaven in regard the Motion of the Heavens is Circular the Fires Motion Perpendicular For because our Fire is Peregrine and Impure therefore it tends directly upwards and by a kind of Veneration Covets the Place of the Proper and Natural Fire yet is it not to be supposed such a Fiery Hot Heaven as that 't is Burning or Heating By how much less Fire is mingled with strange Matter by so much the less it Burneth The which is seen in the Flaming of the Purer sort of Oyl but especially of Oyl Artificiously Extracted from Gold The which true Alchymists do Witness and as these Mortal Eyes of mine have sometimes tryed Therefore seeing there is not any Matter in Heaven estranged from the Celestial no Adustion no Heat is made there We see no Adustion in Comets running through the Celestial Spheres but only some Illustration for that doubtless the Matter thereof much participateth of the Nature of the Celestial Bodies But TYCHO-BRAHE A Dane A Noble-Man An Astronomer and a most incomparable Philosopher of this Age shall anon more plainly unfold to us this matter far different from the Madded Nursery of Peripateticks and that not without the Infallible Curiosity both of Observations and Demonstrations Now because some Matter Opposed is Heated and Burnt by the Rays of the Sun contracted by a Glass that is a sudden generation of Heat and Fire increasing by the Flagration of the Collected Rays in the Glass and applyed to fit Matter which are of another Disputation Some will have the Matter of Heaven to be Aërial But for that Light is a Property of Fire enlightning even the Air it self in my Judgment we do better in supposing it to consist of a Fiery Matter Besides Heaven is next to the Divine Seat and God himself Yet not so as that God is not every where God is called The Father of Light with whom there is no Change by whom the Light may be Extinguished or Diminished Neither an over-shadowing of Change whereby sometimes he either is turn'd into Night or suffereth an Eclipse GOD is Light in which there is no Darkness that is Form wherein there is nothing Inform Beauty in which there is nothing of Deformity As therefore GOD is Light Invisible Infinite the Truth it self the cause of every truth and of all things So the Light of Heaven is the splendour or rather the shadow of Heaven Visible Finite the cause of visible things For the whole Universe receiveth Light and Life from Heaven Moses Aaron Nadab Abihu and 70 of the Elders of Israel saw the God of Israel and under his Feet as it were a work of Saphire stone and as the very Heaven when it is clear c. Exod. 24.10 Whence we shall not speak absurdly if we say that GOD shineth upon us by his Light from Heaven and the Sun as a Candle shineth through Glass and Windows made