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A86498	Dæmonologie, and theologie The first, the malady, demonstrating the diabolicall arts, and devillish hearts of men. The second, the remedy: demonstrating, God a rich supply of all good. By Doctor Nathanael Homes, [sic]	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2562; Thomason E1341_2; ESTC R209143	95,747	222

because we can see the heeles of the lesser Northerne Beare adjacent to the North Pole to be downward towards the Earth in the evening and to be upward in the morning But we have no sure ground to conclude that there are more Heavens either the Chrystall ninth or the first moving tenth The grand reason brought to prove them from the two other motions of the eighth Heaven of fixed Starrs beside that from East to West in twenty foure houres as that the eighth Heaven of fixed Stars moves from West to East comming to be in the same posture as when they began that motion by the end of forty nine thousand yeares And that the same eighth Heaven hath another motion from South to North and thence to South againe which processe and recesse is a finishing seven thousand yeares and therefore that that motion of the eighth Heaven from East to West in twenty foure houres must needs be violent as forced from some tenth Heaven naturally so moving and that from West to East in forty nine thousand yeares must be also violent as forced from some ninth Heaven naturally so moving and the last motion of the eighth Heaven Viz. From South to North and back againe in seven thousand yeares to be the naturall peculiar innate motion of that eighth Heaven seeing that as they forme the Argument one simple single moveable body can have but one natural motion I say this Argument doth not evince my reason in the least to beleeve the existence and being of a ninth and tenth Heaven For God that by his Word at the beginning sayd to the Earth Stand thou still and to the Sea Move thou continually with severall motions as of flowing and reflowing twise every twenty foure houres and they obey his voice to this day the same God commanding the eighth Heaven to runn from East to West every twenty foure houres and withall to linger and slinck back every day a little from West to East as suppose with the Astronomer as much as comes to one Degree or sixty miles in an hundred yeares which is about three quarters of a mile in one yeare and halfe a quarter and also to roule forward from South to North and back againe from North to South so gradually till in seven hundred yeares it is as it was cannot choose but obey the voice of God and so move without ceasing And to throw away Traditions in Philosophy as well as in Divinity t is a readier way and surer to say God commanded the Heavens so to move at first creation and they obey then to say Primus motor God moves the Angels or Intelligences they move a tenth Heaven a tenth heaven moves the other heavens And to the clause of one natural body we say that there is hardly any naturall motion without some violent as the Philosopher cals violent For if fire ascends no more of the flame ascends in a pure natural motion but that which ascends in the Mathematical indivisible line in the point of the Pyramis pointing from the center-point of the earth to its correspondent point in the Sphere of the lowest Heaven Indeed if the Pyramicall forme of the flame were turned upside downe then all the flakes of flame might seeme to take their natural order proportionable from one center-point in the Earth to their severall correspondent points in the Sphere of the lowest Heaven So of any heavy body Stone or Bowle c. falling downe from some high places to the Earth no more of it moves naturally in a precise notion of naturally then the very middle of it tending downward in a Mathematicall strait Line to the Center-point of the Earth the corners of such a Stone or the circumference of that Bowle falling not with the like naturall motion because there is but one universal Center-point in the middle of the Earth to answer to all downward motions which is the Physicall demonstrative reason why naturally the Earth is round the heavy parts more pressing to the general Center-point the lighter lesser So the Water in its motion in a River it naturally tends downeward yet desires not to be so low as the Center of the Earth And the meane while it tends progressively forward and in this progressive motion no more is precisely naturall but what proceeds in a strait line For the water hath no minde of it selfe to goe out of its Line that being out of its way and besids its design So that either we must say one body may have many naturall motions or we must no more feigne more Heavens then eight to move the rest in their several motions then we dare feigne more Elements then foure to manage the severall motions that are in each one of them Secondly Touching the imaginarie Sphere the Zodiack this must needs be an infalible conclusion so far as the Heaven or firmament of the Zodiack is feigned so farr of necessity must the Zodiack supposed in that Heaven or firmament be a meer feigned thing We heard afore that most Learned Philosopher and Astronomer Keckerman lay it down for a sure rule That Astronomers may make and use Hypotheses that is Suppositions but Astrologers may not But the ninth and tenth Sphere or Heaven are feigned therefore the Zodiack imagined in them is also feigned T is worth the while to heare Alsted which is to our purpose what he sayth concerning the Zodiack The Zodiack saith he of the first mover that is the tenth Heaven is IMAGINARY of the eighth Sphere real The imaginary is Primaryly and ORIGINALLY in the first Mover or tenth Heaven in the inferior Spheres it is secondarily conceited The Reall changeth its situation the IMAGINARY doth note The signes also of the real Zodiack are wonderfull UNEQUAL but in the imaginary equall In accounts the imaginary Zodiack is more commodious but not so in predictions Thus you see how much fiction there is about the Zodiack and more honour ascribed to the feigned then to the reall Thirdly Touching the twelve imaginary Signes There is no such formes of Starrs as of themselves seeme such Compare Taurus and Aries And Aries lying under Balaena Tradition and Globes tell us such things but the Starrs of themselves cold never make us so imagine See the Celestial Globe Fourthly Touching the disorderly placing of the hott dry Signes in parts that are not hott and dry Note that Alsted a Learned Philosopher and was also an Astrologer at least in opinion affirmes in his System or Treatise of Astrologie that the twelve Signes are divided into foure Trigonos that is Ternions or Threes In primo trigono sunt signa ignea videlicet ARIES LEO SAGITTARIUS In his dominatur Calor siccitas quae dominantur cholerae sapori amaro that is In the first Ternion are the fiery Signes ARIES the Ram LEO the Lyon and SAGITTARIUS the Archer In these Signes are predominant heat and drynesse which have dominion and rule over Choler and bitternesse So Alsted

and endeavour to keep Nicodemus off John 7.52 Search and looke for out of GALILEE ariseth no Prophet This is just like those furies that are in the Ranters of this present Age they pretend to Preach and speak some good things but mix many abominable blasphemies to the dishonour of God and Religion But divine extasies in good men are wholy for the revelation and confirmation of the truth See in that of Peter Acts 10. And that of Paul 2 Cor. 12. By the first is revealed and confirmed the call of the Gentiles By the second the call of the Apostle the knowledge of the excellency of Christ and the glory of locall Heaven which are things now doubted of by this present Age. Thus you see how in Divination the Devill makes Diviners or Witches his immediate Instruments he speaking in them or to them to informe their Clients Next followes how in Divination the Devill makes other things the instruments of the Diviners or Witches whereby to make knowne his minde to them for predictions to others that seek to them for that purpose and these Instruments with the art of using are as really the doctrines of Devils as the Apostle speaks as any of all that hath been sayd touching Witchery Inchantment c. And all as truely the Doctrine of Devils as Doctrines of Heresie and impiety if not more immediately of the Devill then Heresies and Impieties which are compounded partly of the wicked reason and lusts in men and partly of the Devils suggestions These instruments wayes and devices with the artifice of using and understanding them of which we are now to speak are specifically and principally eight First Auspicie that is Aves aspicere to Divine by beholding the flying of Birds Secondly Augurie that is Avium garritus to Divine by the noyse of Birds Thirdly Pullarie of Pulli to Divine by Pullen or Chickens Fourthly Aruspicie that is to Divine Aras inspiciendo by looking on and into Sacrifices on the Altars Fifthly Sortilegie sortilegium that is Divination by lots Sixthly Necromancie that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Divining by the dead that is making as is pretended the dead to rise and declare that which is desired which we English men commonly call the Black Art Seventhly Oneiromancie or Oneirologie that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Divining by a judgement given upon dreames Eighthly Astrologie that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Divine by judgement on the effects of Planets c. Lawful Astronomie having another name is the measure motion distances c. of the Starrs obvious to sight And because there is a lawfull naturall Meteorologie from apparant causes as touching Weather Tydes of the Sea c. therefore for more distinction the unlawfull Astrologie of secret events from pretended hidden vertues in the Starrs and their power upon the arbitrary wils and judgements in men is called Judiciary Astrologie Of these eight we shall speake both because to these all other Magical Doctrines of the Devill may be reduced as also because most of these in whole or in part are in these most evill dayes in credit with persons named Professors or Christians CHAP. VI. Of Diabolicall Divination by Auspicie the flying of Birds Augurie the noyse of Birds Pullarie the Chickens eating their meat and by other Occurrences of Beasts and Things either conducing to or concurring with the sayd Arts or are Appendices of this kinde of Divination in generall OUR first worke must be to heare the voice of the Word of God what it intimates of and speakes against these things as observing the inclinations of men to these Deut. 18.10 There shall not be among you an Inchanter The Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which by the consent of most both Jewes and Gentiles in all the learned ancient languages signifies such a one as practiseth the aforesayd Arts. The Chaldee Paraphrase renders it by a word neer the same namely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Translators of the Chaldee render Qui observat auguria The Syriack Augur The Arabick Augur The Samaritan Qui auguretur The Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one augurating Hierom in his latine Translation Qui observet auguria R. Abraham in his Commentary on this place renders it There shall not be found in thee one augurating The Hebrew Doctors say of our word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it signifies one that Divines by food falling out of the mouth by the falling of ones Staffe out of the hand by ones Son calling his Father back againe by a Crow crying towards or after one by an Hart Kidd Goate Roe interrupting a man in his way by a Serpent on the right hand or a Fox on the left hand or by a Weesell or by Birds or by Starrs It appears already by that which hath been sayd 1. That men are inclined to the foresayd Diabolical Arts. Evil manners occasion good Laws 2. That as Augurie is sometimes taken precisely for divination by the chattering or noyse of birds so sometimes by the figure Synechdoche for many other kindes of Divinations which we call Soothsayings 3. That all these are condemned by the word of God both in the fore quoted Deut. 18.10 And also in Levit. 19.26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood neither shall ye use inchantment nor observe times The word ye shall not use inchantment are in the Arabian language do not Auspicate or use not Auspicie that is as we explained afore Divine not by beholding birds or observing the flying of birds in the Syriack do not augurate by a winged living creature The Samaritan is Neither shall ye augurate Augurie being properly taken signifying as we said afore Divining by the noise of birds Hierome also in latine and the Septuagint in greek render it ye shall not Augurate So the Caldee also The sinful superstition and diabolical art used in these three kinds of divination that we here put together in this chapter because of the interchangeable intermingling of them in several circumstances and appendices is in briefe this The Augure or Augurer or hee that useth Auspicie sate on some kinde of Tower the ayre being clear without dark Clouds or raine with his Lituus a crooked Staffe in his hand clothed in his Laena a robe adorned with Scarlet and Crimson guards his head covered his face towards the East in which posture he quartered out with his Staffe the Heavens into certaine Temples Regions or divisions observing in which of them the Birds did appeare If they came towards his left hand then that was a token of good luck because it shewed that they came from their Heathenish God his right hand For the givers right hand is towards the receivers left hand From this superstitious divination sprang those phrases among the Latines and Greeks Auspicari rem to begin a matter with auspicie to doe a thing Bonis avibus with lucky Birds or Bonis auspicijs with

Master Builder is helped by his servants to build an House is not onely an unwarrantable but a most sinfull I had almost sayd a blasphemous speech That God that can doe all things immediately of himselfe as we see in the Creation and miraculous operations when he useth any of the Creatures in producing any effects HE ASSISTETH THEM not THEY HIM And we finde not in the Scriptures that Hee used any Creatures to predict voluntary actions but his Prophets Those that will defend Astrologicall predictions by a distinction betweene Non illicitum and Licitum that though Astrologicall predictions are not lawfull yet they are not unlawfull doe not consider that lawfull and unlawfull are immediate contraries so that whatsoever cannot be truely asserted to be lawfull is unlawfull And as weake is their defence to presume to say that Astrologicall predictions are no where in the Word of God forbidden either explicitely or implicitely For notwithstanding their superficiall glosses not worth a particular answer on two or three Scriptures that are against them whereby to abate their edge and to save the head of Astrology from wounding it hath heen abundantly afore demonstrated out of many Scriptures that Astrology strology indefinitely without exception is condemned by the Word of God To whiffle off the dint of any Scripture expresly disliking Astrology as Isa 47.13 c. with the distinction that there superstitious or Heathenish Astrology is forbidden not lawfull Astrology hath been already answered That all Astrology properly so called is condemned in the Word of God by such and the like Epithites of superstitious Heathenish c. as all vice is condemned by the names of filthy uncomely c. vice And those termes added to Astrology of Superstitious Heathenish c. are of the very dint of the Arguments in many places of Scripture whereby the holy Ghost intends to render all Astrology odious For the great matter that some would make of the mention of a Starr Matth. 2.2 appearing at Christs birth c. whereby to countenance Astrologie I shall answer briefly because the Presse calls upon me to shut up Either we must consider this Starr singly or conjunctively If singly then if this was a reall Starr it was either ordinary or extraordinary If ordinary namely made and settled in its being in the first creation and ever since common in appearance how should it of its selfe signifie Christs birth an effect once onely to be from the beginning to the end of the World It is unpossible that a common cause or signe of it selfe can be a sure demonstration of a new single singular effect never to be but once If it was an extraordinary Starr then either so in being newly created which inferrs that God did not create all things in the beginning no not all kindes of things for the Starrs say the Philosophers upon the ground of their different natures do Differre specie differ in kind If extraordinary only in appearance now and not afore appearing how should it of it selfe teach any Astrologer the sayd event who mainly pretends experience If it were a seeming starr that is a Comet or Blazing starr First that rather presageth death then birth by reason of the noysome and filthy fumes and exhalations of which it is compounded and being on fire diffuseth them into the ayer in which the Sons of men are enwrapped Secondly Then this starr belongs rather to Metereologie a part of naturall Philosophie then to Astrologie If we consider this starr conjunctively namely together with propheticall explanations upon it as the starres in Joel 2. And Matth. 24. then the consideration of this starre was more Theologicall then Astrologicall And this is supposed by the Learned both ancient and moderne that the wise men of the East tooke into consideration the signification of this starre by the help of Scriptures either immediatly comming to their view being Estern neighbors of the Jews or mediatly by the hands of them that had their glosses of such a thing to come out of the Scriptures T is put upon Chrysostome that he affirmes that in the East in a City called Seth neere the Ocean there were a society of men twelve in number studients in Astrologie who learning out of Balaams prophesy Numb 24.17 that such a Starr was to appeare gave themselves from yeare to yeare to observe the Heavens and to waite for the appearing of it and for continuation of that observation throughout many ages till it did apreare did at the death of any of the twelve choose another in his roome by which at last they saw this Starr Calcidius likewise a Platonick Philosopher flourishing in the time of Christs birth writing upon Plato his Timeus concerning diverse Starrs and their wonderful effects saith thus there is a more holy and divine history meaning the scriptures Which reports that by the appearing of a certaine extraordinary Starr not diseases and death were foreshown but the venerable descent of God for mans salvation which Starr was observed by the Caldeans who worshipped God new born and become man and offered him gifts So farre Calcidius And whereas in Hebrew that prophesie of Balaam runnes thus There shall come a STARR out of Jacob and a PLANT or BRANCH shall rise out of Israel according to which Isaìaeh and Jeremiah Prophesie Isa 11.1 Jer. 23.5 and 3.15 the Greek of the Septuagint who wrote about 300. yeeres afore Christ translates Starr by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Starr but Plant or Branch which our Translators render Scepter the Septuagint translate by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MAN which the Vulgar Latine followes So that the Learned Estern people by their knowledge of the Hebrew and of so ancient a Greek Translation might compound a due sence our of these two that ae Starr should arise to signifie the birth of a most eminent man to be borne of the bloud of Jacob or Israel Lastly the Ancient Sibylls who wrote long before Christ Some as anciently as the Babylonian captivity some mentioned by Virgil who flourished above 40 yeers afore the birth of Christ c. do in their way foretell of Christ and somtimes in an Astrologicall phrase Jam redit virgo redeunt Saturnia regna Jam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto These Sibylls were so wel known in he Estern world that from them how ever they came by it they might have some hints of this Starr and its pointing at Christ These things being so t is plaine not the Starr of it selfe Astrologically but the theologicall pre-expositions of that Starr did cause men to understand at the oppearence thereof that Christ was to be borne T is wel confest by some whom they cry up to be for their Astrologicall way That both nature and Art may beat a stand in spirituall things especially concerning Christ which as the Apostle witnesseth are very mysterious Ephes 3.4 1. Tim. 3.16 The wise men hoping wel of the Jews as Gods peculiar people goe to Jerusalem

neither named nor knowne Yea thirdly thousands of Starrs cannot be so much as seen a minuit together as the Philosophers confesse in their discourse of Via lactea the Milky way in the Heavens to be seen in a most starry night especially in Winter Fourthly Because all the Starrs doe shine upon the earth at once joyntly and promiscuously so that they that are under them cannot by any rule from nature know what influences shall be predominant in their effects Fifthly They have more time to alter the Complexions of young people from the Cradle to manhood carryed and walking abroad I say to alter their complexion by radiation and influence then to stampe upon them an unchangable impression upon them in the secret Chamber of their birth as we see many natural men and Women not differenced by grace much altered from Melancholly to Cheerfulnesse c. So that if some Starrs in one position in an instant at birth have a power to imprint other Starrs and perhaps more prevalent have likewise a power to blot out that in many yeares and to instill a new one Sixthly There are many causes below between us and the Starrs to alter the influence of the Starrs or interrupt their native operation as the various complexion of the ayre diversity of windes the different postures and situations of men as somtimes under a direct sometimes under an oblique radation c. Seventhly Astrologers depend on Clocks and Dyals to know the posture of the Heavens at the houre of their prognosticating which Dyals and Clocks oft are false which may make a wide difference in a minuit in which as we heard some motions of the Heavens run sixty Miles Eightly The Astrologer cannot be able to allow exactly for the exaltation in the Apoge and descension in the Perige of the Planets with their swifter motion in the one then in the other so as to determine justly how much power of prevalence there may be in their influences at such changes Ninthly A man can never certainely conclude of a particular event from a cause that is most universal most remote and so but a partial cause of the thing predicted But the Starrs are no other but such a kinde of cause of mens complexions and actions and therefore are no sure grounds of prediction concerning the future afaires of men The Parents complexion Divine dispensations occasions and opportunities among men and a mans owne obedience or disobedience to God have farre more influence into man to dispose him to be or doe this or that then all the myriads of Starrs Tenthly Astrology contending for such a power of Starrs over the soule of man which is the principle of all actions inferrs as if the soule of man were ex traduce generated by the Parents First Contrary to many Scriptures Psalm 102.18 The people that shall be Created shall praise the Lord. Eccles 12.7 The spirit returnes to God that gave it whiles the body returnes to the Earth Heb. 12.9 We have had Fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits Secondly Contrary to the rules of art reason and experience Calum non agit in animam c. The Heavens cannot act directly upon the soule nor can a mans body complexionate alter or master his naturall spirit So that the To intelligere and To Velle the Acts of reason and wil doe not depend on sense For in sleep wee have strong actings of reason And when awake in the time of deepest rationall meditations the senses are uselesse and their acts suspended as if we did neither see nor heare The fourth and last Argument against Astrologie that I shal urge passing by innumerable others is That a maine part of the ba●s and bottom on which Astrologers build the structure of their Art of Prediction is but meer imagination for there is no such thing as the tenth or ninth Sphere And therefore the Zodiack placed by Astrologers in them is but a dreamed fiction yea and one of the Quondam great Astrologers M. P. will dare to say that the twelve Signes bounded as they suppose within the demensions of such a thing as a Zodiack namely the Signes of Aries Taurus Gemini c. that is a Ramme a Bull c. feigned to have power over the twelve parts of mans body are onely twelve imaginary Signes For in the HEAVENS saith he there is no such matter as a Ram a Bull c. And how saith he can it stand with reason that in a firmament FEIGNED by Poets and Philosophers a FORGED Signe which indeed is NOTHING should have any power or operation in the bodies of men Againe the very order of Government of these signes in mans body is fond and without shew of reason For according to this platforme when the Moon commeth into the first Signe Aries shee ruleth in the head and when shee commeth into the second Signe Taurus shee ruleth in the neck and so descends downe from part to part ruling two insome three dayes c. Where observe saith hee that the Moon is made to rule in the cold and moyst parts when shee is in the hot and dry Signes whereas in reason a more consonant order were this that when the Moon were-in hott and dry Signes as in Aries Leo and Sagittarius shee should rule in hott and dry parts of the body and when shee is in cold and moyst Signes she should rule in the cold and moyst parts of the body and so still governe those parts which in temperature come neerest to the Signes wherein the Moone is Beside this some learned Physitians have upon experience confessed that THE OBSERVATION OF THE SIGNE IS NOTHING MATERIALL and that there is no danger in it for guelding of Cattell or letting of blood And the vanity of the old conceit and imagination of them that have put much in the Signes appeares in the common practice of men who commonly upon Stevens day use to let blood be the Signe where it will The truth is saith he the Signe in its owne nature is neither way available being but a phantasie grounded upon supposed premises and therefore ought to be rejected as meer VANITY Thus farr he Now let me add some particulars suiting to what he hath sayd to illustrate the same and so I shall not onely confirme him but also what I affirmed my selfe in the beginning of this Argument First Touching those feigned Firmaments or Heavens called the ninth and tenth Heavens besides that the ancient famous Astronomers Plato Aristotle Hipparchus and many others knew no such thing sense also doth evince that we can be sure of no more but eight For wee see distinctly the seven Planets Sun Moon c. and their severall motions in twenty four hours c. And we can perceive the eighth Heaven of fixed Starrs knowne by their twinckling to move in one motion round the Earth in twenty foure houres