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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

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

have within themselves in their soul in which the light of Nature the wisdom industry art and understanding rightly to instute handle perform their works which soul and which light are nothing els then the Astralic Heaven and Firmament in the Microcosm where every science art work hath his peculiar starr with the ascendants convenient to it self Therefore this science and operation is once a week to be laid aside and put off and we must sabathize in God that God may act and operate his work in us to wit the work of our conversion repentance amendment newbirth and of the new Creation that we may be made fit to enter into his Kingdom after death and the resurrection Furthermore also for this cause none of the aforesaid can see enter possesse the Kingdom of Heaven because such a workman is only born of flesh and blood is the old Creature of the earth of this world and is the son of the Firmament the off-spring of Nature and although he excells in the knowledge of naturall things yet all his science and knowledge is to take an end with the life of time He that would be capable of heaven ought to be the new Man born again of God regenerate the new Creature For nothing that is earthly can take or possesse heaven therefore none of those which we have hitherto recited and shall recite in the following things shall come thither unlesse ye be converted and become as an infant who knows none of these things There shall be a new Heaven and a new earth old things are passed away saith he which doth it all things are made new A new heaven therefore requires new inhabitants fit for it and capable of it for as man at first was created of the old heaven and of the old earth and was born of mortall seed in which earth he now temporally dwelleth So it also behoveth him to be created of that new heaven and of that new birth and to be born again to be regenerated of the immortall seed in which earth he would be and inhabit eternally The third reason is because the Light of Nature with all kinds of their Sciences is given to man for this life only to till the earth for the labour of his hands to eat his bread in the sweat of his countenance c. and belongs only to the sustentation of the naturall and temporall life living in the mortall body and the body being dead and the world blotted out no such thing remaineth therefore we have no need of corn vines buildings tents houses garments meat c. therefore neither knowledge nor desire of getting or labouring for such things the cause ceasing the effect ceaseth The fourth reason is because man was not made of God finally for this world or for those things which are in this world but chiefly for the Kingdom of God where none of these things is found or is in use which in this life are every where agitated and handled with men throughout the divers shops of the light of Nature The fifth is because man was therefore constituted for a time only in this world that he might ascend from the inferiour things and seek after the superiour things that is that by naturall light and wisdome as it were from a looking glasse or shadow he might learn to know and apprehend the heavenly light and wisdom at whose Majesty and Glory all naturall things although glorious might plainly vanish and be annihilated and so leaving the inferiour and lesser light he should suddenly betake himself to and follow the greater and superiour light and departing from this transitory world forsaking and accompting all things for nothing which he receiveth hath and possesseth in this time from the world and having denied himself as a naked and new-born infant depart into that eternall mansion and region of the eternall Country and so come thither fasting and empty from the possession of all naturall science as if he had never at all been in this world or had not known any the least state of this world But these things are not propounded and written to that end that they should happen in contempt of Philosophy or of naturall sciences arts and faculties which are and flourish amongst men and which in this life cannot but be but rather that we being fraught with the sagacity of the Light of Nature may be led further may go forward and be excited to the knowledge of the greater light which may confer upon us a new birth eternall life and salvation For to all that covet and desire the Kingdom of God is the old man made of nature to be put off and laid down yea to be buried in an absolute abnegation and oblivion as well of himself as of all those things which he hath possesseth studieth knoweth learneth and the new Man is to be put on which is created according to God where there is neither Jew nor Greek neither male nor female neither bond nor free but the new Creature I say the new Creature is required to possesse the Kingdom of God wherein there is nothing left of the old leven The old leven is the knowledge of good and evill beginning to spring in man from the forbidden tree and is the prudence or subtilty of the serpent But the new heaven is the heavenly wisdom the simplicity of the dove from whom alone true life and beatitude flowes and which also only shall bear rule in the elect heirs of the Kingdom of God the naturall and terrene wisdom being then utterly together and at once swallowed up blotted out and extinct For the Kingdom of God is of such only who are converted from the old Creature into the new and become as children who never knew neither good nor evill Matth. 18. John 3. FINIS PAge 5. line 22. read some p. 6. l. 25. and in divers other places for Arthens r. Archcus p. 20. l. 11. r l was formed as p. 22. l. 31. r. premise p. 25. l. 10. r. creatures p. 30. l. 25. r. cure l. 26. r. brings p. 40. l. 15. r. wood Imprimatur Theodore Jennings