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A96163	Astrologie theologized: wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius.	Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1255; Thomason E562_14; ESTC R204068	39,144	50

Astrologie of the Microcosme to be Theologized in all of us that are willing to use them piously But how and wherefore ought the Astrologie of Saturn to be Theologized in Man If thou askest me wherefore and how all the naturall Sciences appertaining to the Astrologie of Saturn together with all the kinds of the Saturnine life ought and may be Theologized I again ask thee that thou tell me the cause Wherefore according to that great precept of God we ought to labour and finish our work in six daies but the seventh day to sanctifie the Sabbath or Wherefore we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God and possesse beatitude in eternall life unlesse we shall be converted and be made as infants For these have one and the same reason and cause tend to one will one belong to one The answer therefore is therefore we ought to Theologize Astrologie therefore we ought to labour six daies and sanctifie the seventh therefore we ought to be converted and become as infants because nothing at all but the New Creature the new Man from Heaven he that is regenerate from above he that is born again of immortall seed is required to the possession or acquisition of the Kingdom of Heaven not the old Man from the Earth seeking earthly things gaping after earthly things rejoycing in earthly things occupied delighted in earthly things loving possessing savouring earthly things I say not such but as we have now said the man born again from above seeking those things which are above and not those things which are below not arising from the will of the flesh and not of the will of man but of God But to the end that we may be the better understood of the ruder sort first we will handle a few things in generall What is the Theologization of Astrologie afterwards we will set upon our Saturn with his professions and faculties where we shall demonstrate to the eye That in the sole Theologization of Astrologie is to be sought and found the gate of Paradise to eat of the tree or word of life which is in the midst of Paradise c. Also what is that strait gate that leads to life which few find and that the broad way which leads to hell which many walk Also what is that Babilonish Whore with whom all the people of the world commit fornication c. and many and those the greatest Theologicall misteries are here shewn to the intelligent which otherwise are and abide hidden from the eyes of all mortalls Therefore to Theologize Astrologie is nothing els then to labour six daies and to sanctifie the seventh that is to rest and desist from labour and to keep holy day in God with the spirit soul and body VVhich God the Father seriously commanded to his people by the Law in the old Testament in these words Exod 20. Remember the Sabbath day that ye may sanctifie it six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day shall be a Sabbath to the Lord thy God thou shalt not do any work neither thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant nor thy maid nor thy beast nor the stranger which is in thy gates for in six daies the Lord made heaven and earth the Sea and whatsoever is in them and rested the seventh day therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it Also Exod. 23. in six daies thou shalt do thy works but the seventh day thou shalt rest that thy Oxe and thy Asse may rest together and the son of thy hand maid and the stranger may be refreshed or take breath And in all that I have said to you you shall be wary to wit because of the Serpent Dent. 5. Also observe the Sabbath day that ye may sanctifie it even as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but on the seventh day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God But although the divine Commandement amongst the vulgar hath seemed and yet doth seem to be spoken only touching the corporall and externall labour and rest for reparing the strength of the body yet those to whom it is given as well amongst the Jews as Christians to know and understand the misteries of the mind of God and of his Kingdome they I say have known a far more profound and better cause and reason of this precept of sanctifying the Sabbath In the new Testament to Theologize Astrologie is according to the doctrine of Christ and the Apostles To receive the Kingdom of God as a child or infant to be born again from above having renounced and left all things to deny himself and seek the Kingdom of God which lyeth hidden in us as a Treasure in a field The labours of the six daies are all the actions operations studies offices businesses and occupations of all men in the whole earth and in all Islands and in every Sea amongst all orders states and kinds of life whatsoever all men every where every time act study handle operate this they do by the Light of Nature according to their divers Sciences Now the seventh part of those labours studies and actions of men are referred unto Saturn the severall kinds whereof we have before recited Moreover the sanctification of the Sabbath divinely ordained and commanded to man on the seventh day is to cease once in a week from all labour and handling of naturall things and actuall studies to desist from the Astrologicall life that is to lay aside every motion and action as well of the mind as of the body by an absolute abnegation and oblivion of the whole creature and of himself as well within as without to give and offer himself wholly to God with all that we are within the six daies we have known studied gotten and gained by our labors as well in the internall gifts of wisdom as in the getting of externall things Hither hither and to this Centre tends that divine Commandement touching the sanctifying of the Sabbath as by the following things will most pleasantly be laid open CHAP. IX A specificall Declaration how the Astrologie of Saturn in Man ought and may be Theologized FOr as much as hitherto we have heard that all the sciences actions studies states of life of all men by a certain inevitable necessity ought to be Theologized or by the exercise or sanctification of the mental Sabbath be laid aside denyed put off accounted for nothing now we would particularly see how the Astrologic of Saturn is to be Theologized in us For because infinite is the multitude of men only handling and exercising this Saturnine Astrologie And we do set down first of all in a certain Paradoxicall sence that is above the common intellect of the Vulgar That no husbandman Countryman Farmer Gardner Herbeseller Vinedresser Steward Builder Mettleman Potter Weaver Cobler Shomaker c. can ever enter into the Kingdom of God or come to

God who dwells with me that is if I could accustom my mind to quiet and spiricuall tranquillity that it should cease to wander in the variety of thoughts cares and affections that it might be at leisure from the externall things and creatures of this world and chiefly from the love of my self that I might wholly die and as it were be anihilated in my self and could come into a loathing and oblivion not alone of all the things of the whole world placed without me and of mundane friendship which I have with men but also into a plenary dereliction of my self that is of my will of mine if there be any Wisdom Knowledge Science Art Industry Prudence of mine if there be any dignity praise honor authority estimation in the world amongst men of mine if there be any Office State Degree Order and in brief into an absolute forgetfullnesse of all my negociations and occupations and of my self as well within as without which is nothing els then to Theologize Astrologie Then at length should I begin more and more to see and know the most present habitation of God in me and so I should tast and eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of Paradise which Paradise I my self am as a guest with whom God is and ought to be and I in like manner with God This I say should be the exercise of my soul the theologization of Astrologie and a regression From Externalls to Internalls Nature to Grace The Creature to God The friendship of the World to the friendship of God The tree of Death to the tree of Life Terrene things to Celestiall So should I go again to my first originall from whence I went forth by arrogating to my self a liberty of willing desiring coveting thinking speaking and doing what I pleased me God in the mean time being neglected without whom I ought not to do any thing Whatsoever therefore we have from the Light of Nature all this with most humble self-deniall once in the week is to be laid down at the feet of the best and greatest God whether it be Magic or Gabalistic or Astronomic or Chimic or Medicinall or Phisicall Science Also Liberall Arts and Methanick work and whatsoever Study Office State Order Dignity Kind of life also Wealth Riches Houses and all kind of naturall gifts All these appertain to this our Astrologie and ought so to be Theologized by the exercise of sanctifying the Sabbath which is an universall forgetfullnesse of all things and of our selves and the rest of our soul from all disquiet in a sacred silence a cessation from all will thought desire affection discourse operation c. as well within as without And this is that only and principall cause of the Sabbaths being divinely commanded to Man to wit that man should not eat death and perish to himself by the eating of the forbidden Tree To eat is to be delighted in himself and in the creatures rather then in the Creator himself To kisse himself in the gift received Rom. 1. 1. Cor. 2. 1. John 2.6 Mat. 2. Gen. 20. Exod. neglecting the giver To love the world and things which are in the world neglecting God To serve Mammon neglecting God To use all things after his pleasure and will dispising the Law of the Lord. Thou shalt not covet thou shalt not eat thou shalt not desire to turn himself from God to the creatures and to himself To commit whoredom with the creatures To depend on himself and on things created To languish in love of terrene things and temporall good things setting God aside which may be described a thousand waies Hence the Doctrine of Christ who came from above and brings celestiall and divine Wisdom from the Light of Grace sounds altogether contrary to wit That a man ought to be converted into a child and to have so much of the knowledge of good and evill to live in him as he had when he was but a child or infant newly born I say the Doctrine of Christ commands a man to eat of the Tree of life to live by the inspiration of the internall God-head which is To fall off again from the creatures and from himself to God To adhere to God Mammon being left To be united with God the love of the creatures being left To believe in God to offer and to give up himflef to God to pray thy will be done c. To put off the old Man and to put on the new Man To flie evill and adhere to good which in like sort may be explicated by a thousand manner of speakings and phrases from the very writings of the Apostles But in what manner all and singular kinds of sciences and naturall gifts and those vain studies actions businesses and differences of men c. arise from the Light of Nature or the Starrs and in what order they are referred to the seven Governours of the world and how a man ought to use them also how every one of us ought to Theologize his own Astrologie flourishing in himself and to erect to himself a new nativity from the heaven of the new Creature and to institute and assume a new kind of life and chiefly what is the solid and the most certain cause of all of the holy Sabbath that is after what manner a man ought to labour six daies and on the seventh day to sanctifie the Sabbath rightly All these things are most evidently set forth and propounded in the following Chapters of this book CHAP. 4. Of the composition of the Microcosme that is Man from the Macrocosme the great World ADam the first parent of the whole humane kind was produced and formed by the admirable wisdom and workmanship of God as to his soul and body of the slime or dust of the earth which slime or dust was such a Masse or matter which had conjoyned and composed in it self the universall essence nature vertue and propriety of the whole greater World and of all things which were therein I say that Masse slime or dust was a meer quintessence extracted from every part from the whole frame of the whole world from which slime or Masse was made such a creature with it's form excepted was one and the same with the great world of which it was produced Hence that creature was called Man who afterwards his admirable creation formation being revealed amongst the wise was wont most fitly to be called the Microcosme that is the little or lesse world The absolute description and essentiall explication of this slime dust or masse extracted from the whole macrocosme we shall find every where abundantly and wonderfully declared alone by Theophrastus Paracelsus in his most excellent writings Seeing therefore it is manifest that every produced and composed thing can take or assume his essence nature and propriety from nothing els but from that where of it is made and produced which even that first Man as an other and later World made

belongs to the moderation of the externall Firmament as if a wise man ought to rule the course of the Celestiall Starrs and signs and to reduce the frame of the Macrocosme under his power to direct govern the Sun Moon Planets and Starrs according to his pleasure and to make calme and tempestuous weather according to his will Not so But the Starrs over which we ought to rule if we wil be true wise men are all the cogitations speculations cupidities affections c. ascending by imagination out of our hearts respecting the things and creatures of the world and tending by free will and reason to abuse and pleasure to them we ought not to be too much adicted or overmuch to connive and indulge For in these that deadly and infernall snake or serpent lieth hid seducing man by all sort of concupiscences into an unlawfull love honour and worship of the creatures and thereof makes a Babilonish whore as in the subsequent matter will be demonstrated CHAP. 6. Touching a double Firmament and Starr in every man and that by the benefit of Regeneration in the exercise of the Sabbath a man may be transposed from a worser Nature into a better FRom the abovesaid there appears a most elegant Doctrine to wit although some of us by constitution and concordance of the externall and internall heaven in the point of his conception and nativity should happily have attained the most wicked constellation and nature ready and prone to commit any kind of maliciousnesse so as he should even bear in his face in his countenance in his hands and in his whole body an evident signature or phisiognomie to every most wicked crime all which should shew most certain tokens that he should act not only a most miserable and most wicked kind of life but also should expect on himself the most cruell punishment and destruction Yet neverthelesse we must not altogether despair of such a mans correction and salvation The reason is Because besides the naturall Heaven and Astralic Firmament which is in our soul we have another Heaven another Sydus another Starr another Light another Constellation which is the Spirit of God by whose power being supported we may shake off and drive away all the provocations of the evill ascendents of naturall Starrs as an Asse is wont to shake off and drive away flies and gnats stinging him on his back Therefore although nature is potent and strong in her self in inciting and forcing a man in his proper will and reason by her divers and delectable concupiscences to any kind of crime Yet the Spirit of the Lord in his vertue power and fortitude is far superiour and exceeds nature in as great a measure as the Sun is seen to excell the Moon Let a man then at length learn and do his endeavour that he may know what that most profitable precept of God touching the sanctification of the Sabbath to be exercised Sibi velit every seventh day requires of him in which exercise neverthelesse the worst of things may be corrected and also transformed into the best things For such a medicine lyeth hid in the holy exercise of the Sabbath as whole Nature with her universall vertue is not able to exhibit to a man for which medicines sake this book is written A man therefore inclined naturally to this or that vice by occasion of his generation ought not to connive at himself or to frame any excuse as if he could by right accuse the externall heaven that that is the cause wherefore he cannot live honestly and do that which is good nor by any means can overcome change break correct his sinful nature or convert it into better and so under the pretext of humane imbecillity as it were defend his spontaneous malice avarice lust pride and intemperance c. and to go forward in a vicious life O opinion most worthy of refutation and to be acursed I pray what should the cry of Christ the Prophets and Apostles avail Repent repent be ye converted unto me and I will be converted unto you put off the old Man and put on the new Man and flie evill and cleave to that which is good and lay aside the works of darknesse and walk in the light I say to what end should these things be spoken and commanded if our defence or excuse should have place in the divine Judgement Let such a man the refore so wickedly deceived of himself suffer himself to be instructed and taught by this our most profitable Theologization of Astrologie wherein we have found and tryed not without the greatest joy of the mind that besides the shop and operation of nature there is alwaies present in us something far more great and excellent with the knowledge and vertue whereof we being fraught have power of resisting not only one but all vices as well the greatest as the least whatsoever lie hid and are manifest in us Yea power not only of casting down and drowning one stone but also the whole mountain of the Macrocosme being in us in the Sea of divine Power or extirpating utterly not only one leafe but even the whole tree of the knowledge of good and evill extant in us and of transplanting it into the garden of the celestiall Paradise For so all these things are manifest in Theologicall misteries to those that understand these things Truly it is evident all things are essentially to be transferred unto Man which are divinely written for Man I say we have a power lying hid in us of over ruling whole nature See the Scripture of Regeneration and New-birth of stopping the Serpent and overcoming all his force and of instituting in us a new and that good a better the best nativity of erecting and instituting in us from a new heaven a new kind of life and a far more happy sigure and that by the sole benefit of the Sabbath by which from day to day we may put off the old Man and put on the new Man fall back from vices and passe on to vertues that is to shake off from us all the ascendent Starrs or flames of divers concupiscences and desires to all kind of pleasures of this world ever and anon provoking drawing and seducing us By this means we go forth safe and free from the house of Egipt from the Babilonian Captivity and we escape from the power of the great Creature we overcome sinfull nature we resist the Serpent we chase away the divell And by how much the more frequent we are in this exercise of the Sabbath or in this Theologisation of Astrologie by so much the more we are made strangers to Nature that we are scarce any more known or touched by her neither doth any Astrologer Phisiognomour Signatour Divinatour Artist how industrious soever know any more to erect any certain nativity or to prognosticate any thing to come Because they which are frequent in familiarity with God these are more and more alienated from the

world that they are not any more said to be of the world John 17. but of heaven although as to the body they are as yet conversant in the world And whatsoever any one doth by the Sabbath in the introversion of his mind he acts and orders with God and God with him in the hidden place of his heart this cannot be seen or known by any Spirit much lesse by Man In brief by the Sabbath alone the Phenix of our soul is renewed who altogether denying deposing refusing and accompting for nothing all the vanity of this world and it self from within and without plainly dies in the forgetfullnesse and contempt of all things Rom. 12. and of it self and offers it self a living and pleasing sacrifice to God and there being regenerate anew becomes a new creature a new off-spring from the seed of the woman by conception from the holy Spirit is made a Son of God a new Man an imitatour of Christ following his steps is made a hater of evill and a follower of good a new plant a new tree that is good which brings forth good fruits this is true repentance true penitence the true putting off the old Man c. Here some Astrologers are to be admonished of their want of knowledge who have not doubted to subject even the whole man with all things which are in him to the dominion of the world and Starrs in erecting their nativities as if a man were or had no more in himself then a bruit or beast through ignorance passing by the constitution of Man in three parts Spirit Soul and Body whose soul arising from the Firmamentall Zodiac and whose body from the Elements are altogether subject to the dominion of Nature But not the Spirit which we have from God and listning nothing to that that every Disciple of Christ and friend of God regenerate from above by faith and the death of sin in the most holy Sabbath hath within himself a most present medicine in his heart against all the poisonous and deadly wounds of nature and the Serpent and also the divine Commandement of deposing overcoming and conquering the old heaven with his inclinations of divers concupiscences and of walking in the newnesse of the Spirit in the Light of Grace To wisemen therefore that is to those that know both God and themselves rightly the matter is far better to be looked into for they know both are in us God and Nature The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of the world The Tree of Life and the Tree of Death The greater Light and the lesser Light The seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent And also that man is placed between these two to be exercised in this world in a perpetual war whether of these should overcome thence shall man have his reward for God will render to every one all crafty excuse and imbecillity being laid aside c. according to his works whether they be good or evill Here you shall observe an example touching the change of man from an inferiour and worser nature into a superiour and better nature If you take a certain stone lying by chance in a sunny place and very much heated by the too much parching heat of the Sun and put it into water or some river then the Sun can no more make it so hot or penetrate it with his heat in like manner the case is in the Theologization of Astrologie * The exercise of the Sabbath or Theologization of Astrologie is to dic to thy self and the whole creature to offer thy self wholly to God with all things which are within and without us Hither belong all the Scripture and all books speaking of the mortification of Man Take or gather and apprehend all thy evill nature and thy unsincere affections and unlawfull lusts too much operating and flourishing in thee I say take and put them by the Sabbath into the mind or spirit of thy mind which thou hast from God who is the everlasting fountain and water of life and sabathize in a solid and constant abnegation of thy self and of all things known unto thee which are within thee as well as without thee that thou maist almost wholly die there then will thy soul with all her adherent stones of concupiscences fall down and be drowned in the depth of the supernall water which is the Spirit of God infused in us and the firmamentall operation will more and more cease and be wearied in thee and the ascendant Starrs of thy concupiscences will no more afflict urge drive carry thee as before but from day to day thou shalt ease thy self from that most hard yoke of the Zodiac and of all the Planets thy youth shall be renewed as an Eagle and thou shalt be like an infant new-born and shalt perceive in thy self new vertues and affections to work and move in thee arising inclining oecupying leading and governing thee from the celestiall Starr and influence of the divine Spirit c. So as where heretofore thou hast bin the servant of sin and hast given thy members weapons of unrighteousnesse and malice now with trembling thou abhorrest the performances of thy forepast life and fraught with a new mind heart affections and desire from the exercise of the Sabbath by the Spirit of God hereafter thou shalt serve God and give up thy members weapons of justice piety charity mercy meeknesse temperance modesty chastity c. and so thou shalt rightly Theologize thy Astrologie so shalt thou best overcome correct amend thy nature so shalt thou rightly tread the head of the Serpent under thy feet so shalt thou well silence in thy self the assaults of the divell c. Hence the true Sabbath instituted and commanded of God is the best care and medicine against all kind of evill which quickly being death eternall to the soul and temporall to the body by which we may put off bear and take off that great and most grievous yoke and mountain of so great a Zodiac of so great a Firmament of so great Governours I say to take away the Kingdom or rule and to precipitate into the immense Sea of eternall water and ever and anon get new strength and come out more vivacious which was well known and used by the Patriarchs in the first age whence also they could get to themselves the Enochian long life upon earth by the exercise of this kind of mentall Sabbath which indeed is altogether obliterated abrogated in this our age and seems to be a thing unknown But how every one of us ought and may know and try in himself what and what kind truly is their Astrologie or firmamentall action or operation of the Light of Nature and how he may and can Theologize the same that is overcome Nature be made the Son of God c. this the following Chapters will illustrate and teach more clearly then the Sun CHAP. VII Touching the distribution of all Astrologie into the seven

dressers of Vineyards that purge Wines Gardners in brief all agriculture with all its species 2. Jabal was the father of inhabitants in tents and feeders of sheep The whole art and science edificatory under with all kind of Artificers and Workmen are comprehended as Rough Masons Stonecutters Carpenters Joyners and in brief the whole administration of oeconomie or household affairs joyned with parsimony or frugality 3. Tuball Cain found out every artifice of brasse and iron The whole art and Metallic science which teacheth the manner of searching and trying the bowells of the earth and of digging mineralls metalls and riches the provocations of evills also Treasurers and whosoever seem to seek and take their livelyhood from the earth by the labours of their hands as are Potters Tile-makers bearers of dead bodies Fishmongers Rootsellers Colliers and others of this kind and also Clothiers Linnenweavers Shomakers Coblers Cardmakers c. Also solitary men as Monks Hermits and like to these As touching the mind and vices Saturnists are avaritious men covetous of gain usurers lenders for gain Jews Tolgatherers or Publicans tenacious livers sparingly Mammonists altogether watching for their proper commodities Also theeves robbers makers of false money Sergeants false Judges Hangmen Inchanters Evill-doers also men austere by nature froward more sad then joyfull Thoughtfull Melancholic Phantastic very Silent Tedious Infidells Sacrilegious and what kinds of life soever of this sort Likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 laborious full of businesse tumbling macerating and wearying themselves in continuall cares and furthermore whatsoever appears like to these As to the quality of the body and externall manners Saturnists are men worn with years and age as well men as women covered with gray-hairs with a slender and lean body thin beard eyes lying deep in the head with a neglected form and not amiable alwaies looking grimly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 halting beggers often sick c. All these studies and all and singular kinds of life of men as they are formed and seen abroad amongst all Nations people kindreds c. of the whole compasse of the earth are referred to the Heaven Region Dominion Nature and inclination of Saturn I say all these kind of men with all their studies and kinds of life as well honest as dishonest as well good as bad as well private as publique are worshippers of Saturn for that in the handling of Saturn that is in the drawing forth of the nature of the Saturnine light they spend their labour and time and by diligent study and inquisition they draw forth search produce and manifest those things of Saturn which are in naturall things All the Industries Inventions Arts Actions and labours of these men in every season have proceeded and as yet do proceed from the internall invisible heaven which is in the Microcosme and are part of the Light of Nature in which man walketh whether well or ill honestly or filthily according to the diversity of his flexible will and desire as well to good as to evill and men are busied about the externall subjects of the Macrocosme without which vain were the vigour and endeavour of the Light of Nature in man For every action of the Microcosme from within tends to the subjects of the Macrocosme without because there the works of man are perfected or performed For indeed man hath from the Light of Nature in himself the Science of plowing and tilling the earth Fields building houses of seeking and handling mettalls c. but he hath not in himself the subjects matter and instruments therefore he takes them from the Macrocosme and perfects his work found out and excogitated by the Light of Nature Thus seeing all the externall work of men arise from within from the invisible revolution of the internall Starrs ever and anon ascending and shining forth by cogitations and imaginations and are perfected by externall operations and labours we may from every work of man see and know the constitution of the internall heaven what kind of positure what ascendents what motions constellations and inclinations every artificer hath where it is wonderfull to behold the variety of the naturall light Hence by how much the more the artifice doth appear in externall works by so much the more and more perfect hath the constitution and influence of the internall heaven been with the workman Therefore we must know that every species of whatsoever Science Art Faculty is a singular constellation starr inclination influence ascending from the inward heaven and shining acting and operating one by one in man therefore all the cogitations imaginations inventions desires studies and intentions of Saturnists bent or inclined to good or evill are the Astra's or Starrs ascending from the inward heaven are the operation of the Saturn of the Microcosm in the soul with his Stars agreeable to himself in which cogitations and operations that crafty Serpent which almost none in this our age seems to know is powerfull and raigneth by leave permitted to him by God to tempt and prove man placed in the midst by these delights of the Light of Nature and of the things of this world and to bend the will love desire and concupiscence thereof from Good to Evill from God to the Creature whereunto man O grievous is too too ready and prompt Truly innumerable and infinite are the multitude of men living on the earth which are found in this kind or practise of Astrologie For it is which we would have mistically spoken one of those seven Congregations or Generations of the world or people worshipping the Queen of Heaven or venerating and worshipping the Babilonian Whore and adoring the Beast endowed with seven heads and ten horns And this is the sence which sleeps with wisdom which will appear better by the following things Now as the externall heaven in the Macrocosme alwaies and ever and anon is rolled and turned about with a perpetuall motion and alwaies other and other Starrs are seen to appear ascending and alwaies descending so as there is a perpetuall mutation and viciscitude of the actions of Nature labouring in the greater world where now it is Winter now Spring now Summer now Autumn now day now night now fair weather now tempest now snow now rain now winds now storms now this now that c. which are all the Astralic operations of the Heaven of the Macrocosme So also in like sort is the course viciscitude motion and revolution of the Starrs ever and anon ascending and descending in the heaven or soul of the lesser world that is The soul or our syderean Spirit is an unquiet Spirit wherein the ascendent cogitations new concupiscences various desires are alwaies moved excited and felt now willing this now nilling that now so now thus now we rejoyce now we sorrow now we are beaten and agitated with these now with those affections now we are occupied with these now with those businesses and labours all which are nothing els then the

the possession of a heavenly life unlesse he learn to drive away to subject this power his Saturnine Heaven with all his ascendent Starrs and resist every inclination thereof tending to evil through the instinct of the Serpent raign over it overcome it Good God here will some ignorant say from the instinct of the Serpent of what kind is this your Theologization of Astrologie which you here handle what mortal can believe that a husbandman a farmer a steward a vinedresser a potter a mettleman a mechanick a carpenter c. cannot be made an heir possessor of the Kingdom of heaven What is the Light of Nature to be contemned and altogether rejected and must we cease from all labour what ought we not at all to act work study learn search but to be plainly idle whence shall we receive food and rayment and other necessaries to the sustentation of life seeing no man whosoever is busied in the studies labours and works abovesaid can from them attain to eternall salvation the sentence of this book seems to be wonderfull indeed and estranged from truth I answer these things do not seem strange or obscure but to the ignorant nor are they indeed a hairs breadth estranged from truth so that they be rightly received and understood For nothing can be so truly spoken or written that by the ruder and lesse intelligent may not be called into doubt or be esteemed even for a lie But a lesson read which pleaseth being repeated ten times it will please Loe this our sence If thou art a Husbandman a Countryman a Farmer a Steward a Gardner a Seller of herbs a Vinedresser a Potter a Mettleman a Carpenter a Builder c. or busied in some other like kind of life then thou art constituted and walkest in the sphere of Saturn and art governed by the Saturnine Starrs which are in thee ever and anon ascending in thy imagination cogitation and sences ruling thee inclining thee hither and thither even as thy pleasure draweth thee by free will and the inward serpent perswadeth thee Now unlesse thou as a wise man shalt be cautious and attent and shalt over-rule thy Starrs running up and down flourishing and operating in thee or shalt Theologize thy Astrologie that is unlesse thou shalt learn to Sabbathize and to cease from all thy work and keep holy the Lords day according to the mind and sence of the divine precept it altogether is and abides impossible to thee by any means to enter into the Kingdom of God and come to the possession of eternall salvation For I will make it clear by a most manifest demonstration That never any Husbandman Farmer Countryman Steward Mettleman c. could enter into the Kingdom of God who neglecting and omitting the sanctification of the Sabbath departed out of this world But I would thou shouldest take these things rightly My judgment is that no Saturnist such as are before recited can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but that he ought to be throughly converted and be made as an infant then at length he is fit to take enter and possesse the Kingdom of God not indeed as a Husbandman a Farmer a Steward a Builder a Vinedresser a Seller of herbs a Mettleman a Potter c. because there is no such thing to be done there for such workmen but see thou be as a child and infant as a new Creature as the Son of God For no man hath ascended to heaven but he which descended from heaven the son of God which is Christ and as many as received him he gave them power to be made the sons of God Now to receive Christ requires an inevitable putting off mortification yea destruction of the old Creature of the old man created of earth and the new birth of the same from above from whence also Christ is arisen Therefore the reasons and causes for which the Husbandman the Farmer the Steward the Builder the Vinedresser the Mettleman the Potter the Weaver c. cannot come into heaven are these First because in the celestiall Paradise or the Country of the Heavens there are no grounds nor oxen nor plows for Husbandmen nor farms or Lands for Farmers nor houses nor granaries for Stewards nor stones nor wood for Builders nor vineyards nor forks for Vine-dressers nor gardens herbs plants seeds for Herbsellers nor mountains fertill in metalls for Mettlemen nor loam nor clay for Potters nor flax nor wooll for Weavers and therefore there is not any need of any Husbandman Steward Builder Mettleman Potter Weaver neither shall those which inhabit there want such kind of science and industry For all these things are and are only to be found under the Zodiac in this corruptible world where in the last day at one time together and at once they shall be taken away and cease with the world So far therefore my husbandman as thy field thy oxe and thy plow shall be transported after the last day to the Kingdom of Heaven So far also shalt thou thy self with thy rustickscience and industry after this life enter into the Kingdom of Heaven that is never Therefore put off the old earthly and naturall man with all his science prudence craftinesse which thou usest in the handling of natural things and put on the new man which alone savours and desires heavenly things and leadeth thee to heavenly things by the exercise of the true Sabbath to be had in the spirit of thy mind every week And so far my Vinedresser as thy Vine and thy fork shall be found after the last day in the Kingdom of Heaven so far also shalt thou appear there with thy vinitory science and industry that is never For then all old things are passed away And so far my steward as thy houshold-stuffe and granaties shall be found out in the Kingdom of Heaven after the world is blotted out so far also shalt thou thy self be there with thy science and industry of domestick parsimony that is never For we do not act those things there which we are wont here And so far as my Gardner my Potter c. thy colworts herbs plants trees with thy garden and thy loam and clay shall after the world is defaced remain and be transferred into the perpetuall heaven so far also shalt thou thy self with all thy plantatory and pot-making science be promoted to the heavenly mansion that is never For the subjects and matter being wanting what can thy science profit thee So also it is with all the rest of the kinds and Sciences and Arts appertaining to the Astrologie of Saturn as are Mettlemen Rough Masons Stonecutters Smith and Carpenters all kind of Mechanicks Colliers Cornsellers Mowers Heardsmen Clothiers Weavers Shomakers Coblers and the like All these have their matter and subjects about which they are conversant and with which they are occupied without them in the Macrocosm which being taken away withdrawn all things wil be taken away withdrawn with them they