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heaven_n	light_n	night_n	rule_v	2,440	5	10.1833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15724	A discouerie of sundrie errours and faults daily committed by lande-meaters, ignorant of arithmetike and geometrie, to the damage, and preiudice of many her Maiesties subiects with manifest proofe that none ought to be admitted to that function, but the learned practisioners of those sciences: written dialoguewise, according to a certaine communication had of that matter. By Edward Worsop, Londoner. Euery one that measureth land by laying head to head, or can take a plat by some geometricall instrument, is not to be accounted therfore a sufficient landmeater, except he can also prooue his instruments, and measurings, by true geometricall demonstrations.	Worsop, Edward.	1582 (1582)	STC 25997; ESTC S120271	43,934	78

with him the furie is not onely then qualified but turned vnto pleasantnes and in steade of great warres they prognosticate great adulteries insolences and vnchastities Thus these diuinors behight generally vnto the whol● worlde an vniuersall spending of the yere according to the dispositions and vsages of licentious persons The vniuersall people at their appointmentes must spend the whole yere either prouidently and vertuously or dissolutely and vitiously If any bee desirous to vnderstand at large the vanities contrarieties lyinges falsehoodes heresies and other abhominations proceeding from abused Iudiciall and Diuinatorie Astrologie let them read the treatise of Iohannes Picus Mirandula Cornelius Scepperus and Cornelius Agrippa against such Astrologie And also two English treatises the one intituled An inuectiue against Astrologie the other An admonition against Astrologie Iudiciall and other curiosities Abused Astrologie is a greater hinderer and depressor of lawful Astrologie and Astronomie and the other singular and lawfull mathematicall knowledges then rancke weedes of good corne We may reade in the first Chapter of Genesis wherefore God made the Celestiall bodies where it is thus written And GOD saide Let there bee lightes in the firmament of heauen that they may deuide the daie and the night and let them bée for signes and seasons and for daies and yeres And let them bee for lightes in the firmament of heauen that they may giue light vpon earth and it was so And GOD made two greate lightes a greater light to rule the day and a lesse light to rule the night and hee made starres also And God set them in the firmament of heauen to shine vppon the earth And to rule the day and the night and to make difference betweene the light and the darkenesse Here the worde of GOD sheweth for what causes the Sunne Moone and starres were made namely to diuide the day and the night and to bee for signes for seasons for daies for yeres to giue light vppon earth to rule the day and the night and to make a difference betweene light and darkenesse Lawfull Astrologie and Astronomie entreate not of the Sunne Moone and Starres nor of their courses and aspectes to further end then these Who so goeth further committeth as great euill as hee that addeth to the worde of GOD or maketh the worde of GOD a cloake to couer his wicked diuinings All sensible people perceiue that these lightes gouerne and deuide the day and the night for when the Sunne is aboue our horizon then is it day with vs when vnder then night They be signes vnto vs of Gods great power maiestie and goodnes By the courses which GOD hath giuen vnto these signes wee knowe the approching present and declining times of spring Summer Haruest and Winter Nauigation into farre Countries can not conueniently be without taking the height of the Sunne and certaine starres whereby men knowe in what parte of the worlde they are and by the age of the Moone they knowe when it is full sea or lowe water in any hauen or porte whereby the safest times of bringing in their vessels is knowen vnto them These and sundrie other greate commodities receiue we by these signes We see also that our seasons for plowing sowing setting planting shredding cutting felling reaping and gathering are knowen by the courses and influences of these lights and celestiall bodies When the Sunne is in the tropike of Capricorn then is it with vs winter season when in the Equinoctiall spring time when in the tropike of Cancer sommer These al other seasons are knowen to skilfull Astronomers by the courses of the celestial bodies The knowledge of the day naturall which is the space of foure and twentie howres and of the day artificial which is the time betwene Sunne rising and Sunne setting is of great necessitie in our humane affaires In like manner to knowe in what space of time the yere is accomplished is a thing of greate commoditie vnto vs. C C C lxv daies vi houres and a small portion more of time make the yere which Astronomers haue found out by obseruing the course of the Sunne through the whole zodiake If the reuolutions and courses of the celestiall bodies should not yerely be exactly obserued by Astronomers they could not set forth almanakes and if we had not almanaks great losses inconueniences and confusions in humane affaires would immediately ensue Philip Melanchton saith in an Epistle of his that it is a greate and manifest profitte to keepe a true and certaine account of the yere How great would the confusion be of present buisines of contracts of bargains of iudgements how great disorders would there be if there were not a distinction of yeeres and moneths If the numbring of yeares were taken awaye what greate obscuritie woulde there bee in Hystories The beginning of the Worlde coulde not bee thought on neyther the begynninges of religions discerned nor the alterations of kingdomes distinguished It is euident that the knowledge of these things are greatly necessarie to diuinitie and to many partes of our life Wherefore the ingratitude or rather the peruersenes of many can not sufficientlie be maruelled at which reproue this doctrine of the heauenly motions and description of the yere The greatnes of the profite the iudgements of the wisest Princes and of the best learned who with great labour searche and diligence haue set the yere in order ought to moue the ignorant to detest the hearing and vsing of such doltishe and scoffing reprofes as are vsed against good artes so excellently set out as it were by diuine inspiration The worthiest princes magistrates and philosophers haue had a great care rightly to describe the yere that times may be discerned the memorie of things set forth and conserued We must needs grant that our first fathers the Patriarks and Prophets who excelled in wisedome and godlines as it were by diuine inspiration enforced haue obserued and set forth the distinction of yeres We reade the Patriarke Abraham taught the Egyptians Astronomie and Geometrie And godly Iob nameth certaine starres by proper names Great reasons profes authorities as well from Diuinitie as from Philosophie and naturall reason might be brought howe worthie and needefull the Mathematicall knowledges are Therefore they are greatly too blame and much ouershoote themselues in bewraying their ignorance and ill disposition which scoffe at Mathematicians calling them fantasticall and vaine fellowes They which haue no vnderstanding in Mathematicall arts when they see a fellow with a running head or light braine especially if he be studious and giuen to solitarines say in way of scorning he hath a mathematicall head They thinke they speake finely and aptly but they make themselues more ridiculous vnto the learned by vsing this newe terme then the simple man that calleth an arbitrement a bikerment and him verie vnrude whom they would condemne for carterlines In their imagination a running or fantasticall head and a mathematicall head are of one signification 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enchauntments and other vnlawfull practises vnder the names of Diuinatorie and Iudiciall Astrologie Watkins Coniurations sorceries inuocations of spirites enchauntments witchecraft and such like are cut off by our statutes so that none vse them but fellons and reprobates I vnderstand not what you meane by Diuinatorie and Iudiciall Astrologie Worsop Diuinatorie and Iudiciall Astrologie as a learned author saith entreate of the reuolutions of the yeres of the worlde of natiuities of questions of elections of intents and thoughtes it teacheth moreouer to foretell to call backe to auoide or flie the endes of all things that may happen and the secret disposition of Gods prouidence An other saith that the practisers thereof say that they can tell of all things that are not come to passe before they come to passe by the course and mouing of the starres By this they make their Prognostications that tell of raine and faire weather sicknes and health warre and peace plentie and dearth with such like By which also they cast natiuities tell fortunes pretende to giue knowledge of things that be lost and last of all appoynt you daies and times good or ill when to iourney by land when by water when to marrie when to buie and when to sell Some of these doctrines and practises are vnlawfull The Prophet Esay in his xlvii Chapter saith Let the heauengasers and the beholders of starres and mooneprophets come on now and deliuer thee yea let them showe when these newe things will come vpon thee Behold they shall be like straw which if it be kindled with fire no man may rid it for the vehemencie of the flame and yet it giueth no synders to warme a man by nor cleare fire to sit by Thus are they with whom thou hast wearied thy selfe By this it appeareth that heauen gasers beholders of starres and mooneprophets can not by their prognostications foretell the secret disposition of Gods prouidence Therefore they are ill suffered to foretell of wars of plagues of famines of vnseasonable weathers to their owne destruction as strawe consumed with fire and to the deceiuing of the people who can receiue no more good by their diuinations then warmth and light from the synders of burnt strawe Ieremy saith in his tenth Chapter Ye shall not be afrayde for the tokens of heauen for the Heathen are afraide of such Yea all the customes and lawes of the Gentiles are nothing but vanitie By these words they of the houshold of faith are taught not to feare howsoeuer planets threaten by aspects In the eighteenth Chapter of Deuteronomie among other prohibitions it is forbidden that there be not any choser of daies among the Israelites for the chosing of daies is an abhomination before the Lord. It is one of the sins for which God cast out certaine nations before the Israelites So abhominable are such elections in the sight of God One of the ils which Manasses did in the sight of the Lord euen after the abhominations of the Heathen was that hee maintained tellers of fortunes and built altars for all the hoste of of Heauen and worshipped all the host of Heauen as it appeareth in the one and twentie Chapter of the fourth Booke of the Kinges Therefore the casting of natiuities the telling of fortunes by Palmestrie and by such like waies are also abhominations before the Lord. The Priestes of the Gentiles being ignorant of the true God deuised these abhominations They brought the people in beliefe that certaine ingenious men and women after their naturall deathes were stellified They named certaine starres after the names of such men and women and made the people beleeue that they were Gods and Goddesses and that they had placed themselues in the heauens to behold the earth and doings of men and to order men and humane things according to their pleasures and dispositions when their turnes of regiment came about The Caldeans and Egyptians hauing obserued certaine courses of starres planets and constellations which God appointed them in their first creation say that that planet shal be lord of the ascendent for that yere which is in the signe ascendent aboue our horizon at the houre when the Sunne entreth into the first minute of Aries And that all things that yere are gouerned here on earth chiefely according to the disposition of that planet Therfore they caused Temples to be erected in the honour of them which they deuised for their gaine and estimation and for the better pleasing and ordering of the people They fained a certaine man called Mars who in that age was the most politike valiant and fortunate in martiall affaires to be the God of battaile after his death and that he was placed in the heauens to our sights in the shape of a redde and fiery starre according to the nature of fierce warriours appointed vnto him for his habitation a large heauenly region An other called Mercurie because he had a deepe and readie witte and was singular eloquent while he liued here on earth after his death they brought the people in beliefe that he is the God of eloquence the messenger of the gods Therefore Poets faine that hee tyed wings to himselfe when he went on any message painters paint him with wings as they fondly paint Angels To him also they appointed an heauenly region They fained a certaine woman called Ceres to be the Goddesse of corne because she first deuised the yoking of oxen the plough and that order of tillage The inuention of the art of whooring is attributed vnto Venus who therefore was reckoned in the number of the Goddesses and called the Goddesse of loue For she being vnchast and occupied in al excesse of carnal pleasures taught the women of Cyprus to please men with their bodie for monie This so pleased the priests the people that they haue appointed the brightest planet the sun moone excepted in remēbrance of her to the greater celebrating of her honour Many other men and women they fained to be turned into Gods and Goddesses as Iupiter Apollo Saturn Iuno Pallas and such others some for their humane vertues and some for their vices assigning starres and planets and erecting Temples and Oratories in the honour of them We reade in the Acts of the Apostles of Iupiter his Prieste and of the Temple of Diana the great Goddesse of the Ephesians These Caldean and Egyptian Priestes and fabling Poets fained stars planets and constellations to be the chiefe gouernours of men and humane causes by turnes much like the chosing of some kinde of officers one yere in the next yere out and within a fewe yeres after in againe For one while Mars is Lord of the ascendent an other while Iupiter an other while Saturne and so of others When Iupiter is Lord they prognosticate a prosperous and happie yere But when Mars is Lord therof they prognosticate chiefly of wars and destructions namely if Venus be retrograde that is declining from him But if she be in coniunction