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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85894	Stella nova, a nevv starre, leading wisemen unto Christ. Or, A sermon preached before the learned Society of Astrologers, August 1. 1649. in the Church of S. Mary Alder-Mary, London. By Robert Gell D.D. minister of the Word there.	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.	1649 (1649)	Wing G473; Thomason E568_15; ESTC R204208	25,557	39

Aspect in all places of Christendome to run the same course to keepe the same proportion distance and situation every where and in every point with the fixed Stars by the space say some of 15. Moneths others of two whole yeares Peucerus in his Chronologie an eye witnesse of it as many thousands more were he writes thus of it fulget sub aster ●s … o Cassiop●iae novam sidus cujus simile nulla vidit ●tas cam magnitudine quantum ad visum stella● omnes tam errantes quam fixas superet Haerer immobile in to coeli loco quod primum effulsit et à nobis conspectum est Many of that time delivered their opinions of it what it might portend Beza wrote verses on it it was held by all and called by Tychobrahe stella mirabilis a wonderfull Star And well might it be so called for that wonderfull Star pointed at the great wonder in Heaven Revel 12.1 Christ born the second time in these last dayes according to the Spirit The woman the Church clothed with the sun Mal. 4.2 With Christ the sun of r●ghteousnesse the Moon the changeable world under her feet Thus some of the Antients understood Jericho which hath the name from the Moon a kind of Luneburg the City of the Moon the changeable world That was troden under the feet of Iosuah and the Church with him the spirituall and true Joshuah the Lord Jesus He hath the same name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he clothes the woman the Church who through Him treads the mutable world the spirituall Jericho under her feet _____ At this wonderfull birth in these last dayes that glorious and wonderfull Star pointed and yet points all truly wise men Not like that other Star which doubtless was not higher than the lower Region of the aire Otherwise how could it be said to goe before them as that Numb 24.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incessit it went and stood over the place where the Child was Matth. 2.9 But this wondefull Star shone over all Christendome over the whole Spouse of Christ of whom Christ is born the second time Yea befides this wonder in Heaven and this wonderfull Star directing to it in the same years 1572. and 73.4 5. c. brake forth the most glorious and wonderfull light of spirituall and heavenly Doctrine The everlasting Gospel which had an Angel for the Preacher of it flying in the midst uf Heaven Revel 14.6 7. And this glorious light of the everlasting Gospel again breaks forth in these last dayes though the Dogs extreamly bark a● it But we must be content If wrathful and envious Dogs barke at the Moon the lesser light no marveil though they bark at the Sun the greater light and the woman clothed with it But the time shall come which ye read in Joshua 10.21 That none shall move their tongue at the Children of Israel Now as the Lord called the Heaven to witnesse the Spirituall birth of Christ and an Angell flying in the midst of Heaven to give testimony to the everlasting Gospell So in the yeer 1575. when the light of it brake forth into this Island the Lord called also the earth to witnesse the same truth Master Camden in his Britannia tels us in the Description of Herefordshire that Prope confluentes Lugi Vagae Collis quem Marcley-hill vocant anns salutis 1575. quasi somne solutus consutrexit triduum se in immanissimam molem propellens horrenao reboans mugitu obvia quaeque prosternens in superiorem locum magna cum admiratione se promovit eo terrae motus genere ut judico quod Physici Brasmatiam vocant Master Speed in his Description of the same County gives us the History more fully onely there is in him a mistake of of the yeere unlesse it were onely the Printers fault as I beleeve Marcley-hill in the East of this Shire rowsed it selfe out of a dead sleepe with a roaring noyse removed from the place where it stood and for three dayes together travelled from the first site to the great amazement and feare of the beholders It began to journey upon the seventh day of Febr. being Saturday at fix a clocke at night and by seven the next morning had gone forty paces carrying with it Sheepe in their coates hedge rowes and trees whereof some were over-turned and some that stood upon the Plaine are firmely growing upon the Hill those that were East were turned West and those in the West were set in the East In which remove it overthrew Kinnaston Chappell and turned two High-wayes neere one hundred yards from their usuall Pathes formerly trod The ground thus travelling neere about six and twenty Acres which opening it selfe with Rocks and all bare the earth before it for foure hundred yards space without any stay leaving that which was Pasturage in the place of Tillage and the Tillage over spread with Pasturage Lastly overwhelming her lower parts mounted to an Hill of twelve fathoms high and there rested her selfe after three dayes travell r●maining His marke that so laid His hand upon this rocke whose power hath poysed the Hill in His ballance Iob 28 9. Esay 40.12 This although we may referre unto its second causes as Master Camden doth yet if we consider the great manifestation of that Divine light by the publishing of the everlasting Gospell that very yeere unto this Nation we cannot but apply that of the Psalmist What ayled yee yee Mountaines that yee shipped like Rams and yee little Hils like yong Sheepe Tremble thou Earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Iacoh Psal 114. The Lord then made manifest His presence by the moving of the Earth and this is not uncouth For thus when the Lord is said to have bowed the Heavens and come down the foundations of the Hills were shaken Psal 18.7 8 9. And Psal 68. Wherein some of the Fathers tell us decantari Mysteria utriusque Testamenti that the Mysteries of both Testaments are reported and chanted out by the sweet singer of Israel v●rse 7.8 This came to pass in the Letter when God gave his Law Exod. 19. and 20. Hoc ideò ut cum illa quae legis sunt gessit in his quoque ea quae Evangeliorum sunt praeformâsse sciretur This the Lord did that in delivering the Law He might be known to prefigure those things which belong unto the Gospel Hilar. So that the Lord therein testified of another trembling another moving of the Earth when the Gospel should be revealed which accordingly came to pass when the Wise men in my Text came to Ierusalem and in quired where is He that is born King of the Iewes When Herod the King heard these things he was troubled and all Ierusalem with him Matthew 2.2.3 Herod was an Idumean an Edomite a figure of the earthly man that must needs be moved and troubled at the presence of the heavenly For the Edomite the earthly man beares rule in us

which of old were made plaine and flat they were wont to contemplate and behold the Starres and Motions of the Heavens and thence to praise God in his Works Of this Profession though not of this Citie were those Magi in my Text. Such Wise-men they were as knew God and the invisible things of God being cleerly seene and understood from the Creation of the World by the things that are made as his eternall power and God-head And thus knowing God they glorified him as God Rom. 1. Such as were not hearers of the Law but doers of it such as having not the Law were a Law unto themselves shewing the worke of the Law written in their hearts Rom. 2.14 15. Such as were faithfull in little and therefore God imparted more unto them according to that generall and never failing rule Habenti dabitue To him that hath that is useth what knowledge grace and strength he hath shall more be given Yea to such a Plerophory and full perswasion of Divine truth they had attained that they made not any question whether Christ were borne the King of the Jewes or no that they tooke for granted but asked where he was borne Where is He that is borne c. But how came they so confident They saw His Starre in the East there 's their first Reason from the impulsive cause But is it satisfactory For explication of this Reason it 's necessary we satisfie these Questions 1. How knew they the King of the Jewes 2. How was this Starre His 3. How knew they this Starre to be His 4. From what part of the East came they where they saw His Starre 1. How knew they Him Who was their Teacher Tutor or Counsellour They had two sorts of Counsellours or Teachers one inward that was God the Father They kept his Law and his Law was their Schoolemaster unto Christ Gal. 3.24 2. 'T is probable they had outward Teachers Tutours and Counsellours both Balaams Prophesie who came out of the East Num. 23.7 out of Chaldea his Prophesie was wel known there a most antient Prophesie of Christ and the Starre in my Text Num. 24.17 There shall come a Starre out of Jacob and a septer shall rise out of Jsrael the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in the first acception signifies a yong tender plant even that which Es 11.1 cals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Jer. 23.5 33.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we turn a Branch a Branch from his roots a Branch of Righteousnesse though neither word properly signifies a Branch for a Branch growes not up from the root of the tree but a tender Plant a sucker a shoot a springet But for more proof the 70. turn the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Vulgor Latin Homo even the man Christ Jesus He should rise out of Israel and ver 19. out of Iacob shall come he that shall have dominion Dan. 7.14 This Prophesie of Balaam 't is probable they knew and the man that should have Dominion even he that should be born King of the Jewes This was one of their Tutors or Counsellors Another kinde of Counsellors probably they had the Sibyls though some learned men undervalue their authority their oracles And the very word Sibylla signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the counsell of God Ten of these were famous throughout the world all of them Magae or Prophetesses and the most of them Prophesied most plainly of Christ as the Cumana Sibylla in the time of Tarquinius Priscus whose maine Prophesy was of these times Magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo Jam redit virgo redeum Saturnia regna Jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto But more maniesstly the Sibylla Erythraea to this effect that in the last days God should be humbled the Son of God made man the Deity united to the humanity and should be brought forth and nourished by a Virgin This Sibyll and her Prophesies ' t●s likely were well knowne in the Estern parts of the world whence these Wise men came 2. But how was this his Starre not as if the other Starres were not also his but as John the Baptist was his Angel and sent for this purpose to give testimony unto Christ and to prepare his way and having so done be finished his course and was taken away so this new Star gave notice of the new man comming into the world guided the Wise men to him and so vanished away and in that respect its said to be His. 3. But how knew these wise men that this was his Sarre there is a tradition said to be own'd by some of the Fathers Saint Chrysostom is named That in the East in a Citty called Sheth neer the Ocean a society of men 12. in number Students in Astronomy learning out of Balaams Prophesie that such a Star was to appear they set themselves to observe the heavens and waite for the appearing of it and that when any of the Society died others we●e chosen in their room this number of Students so continued in their observation for many ages untill at length the Starre appeared unto them Now that this Starre appeared not in a corner Chalcidius a Platonies Philos pher who lived at the time when our Lord was made manifest in the flesh he writing upon Plato's Timaeus concerning divers Starres and their direfull effects as Plagues and Warres hath these or the like words There is saith he a more holy and Divine History which reports that by the appearing of a certaine extraordinary Starre not diseases and death was foreshown but the venerable descent of God for mans salvation which Starre was observed by the Chaldeans who worshipped God new borne and become man and offered him gifts So he There remaines yet one Question to be answered 4. From what part of the East came they Here I finde a difference Some say from Persia because that is full Ea●●●r●m Jerusalem And the Persian Kings were wont saith Plato in his Alcibiades to traine up their Sonnes who should succeed them in the Kingdome in Naturall Magicke But not onely in Persia but also in other parts of the East and in Egypt th●y had their Magi and out of their Magi or Wisemen were chosen their Priests and out of their Priests their Kings as the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports It seemes to me most probable that these Wise-men came out of Arabia Pelix for the Chaldeans and Arabians were much given to the study of Astrologie before the Persians were and more famous for it Such Magi were Job and his friends saith Clemens Alex. Job being reported to be a man perfect and upright fearing God and eschewing evill and the greatest of all the men in the East and neighbours they were to the Sabeans and Chaldeans as the Arabians are Besides the Prophesie is well known Psalm 72.10 The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles the Kings of Sheba and Saba shall being gifts Where the