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honour_n	image_n	worship_n	worship_v	5,699	5	9.5098	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07418	Astrologaster, or, The figure-caster Rather the arraignment of artlesse astrologers, and fortune-tellers, that cheat many ignorant people vnder the pretence of foretelling things to come, of telling things that are past, finding out things that are lost, expounding dreames, calculating deaths and natiuities, once againe brought to the barre. By Iohn Melton.	Melton, John, Sir, d. 1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 17804; ESTC S112560	60,603	93

walke let them but reade the Scriptures and they shall find it to be most false for that affirmes that the Soules of the good instantly goe to Heauen and of the bad instantly to Hell therefore their Spirits cannot wander Againe the Soule that is in Heauen minds no earthly matter and it was neuer knowne that any Soule euer returned out of Hell for the Poets themselues say Nullus redditurus ab Orco But these Images and Tricks of the Fryers do but resemble the Statues of Negromancers made with great toyle and labour Fryer Bacon Albertus Magnus For Fryer Bacon was many yeeres before hee could make his Head speake And the Image of Albertus Magnus was to be wondred at which hee made in the full and perfect shape of a Man who with the Wheeles and other Engines that he had cunningly artificially wrought in it made it speake and pronounce words as distinctly as if they did proceed from a man indued with sence and reason This Statue Thomas Aquinas when Thomas Aquinas was sent into his Chamber where it lay hid heard it speake very articulately which when he heard then looking for it and finding it and viewing it very seriously at last strucke it with a Club and brake it all to pieces Which when Albertus heard and saw he cryed out and said Thomas thou hast destroyed the worke of thirtie yeeres labour and paines Now can any man iudge that either Bacon or Albertus made these vnder any Constellation or that it spake by the influence of any Starre if they doe they are wretchedly deceiued for it was either by a materiall Engine or the Deuill that spake within them brought into them by their Art Therefore wee may perswade our selues that all these Images made by the Art either of a Fryer or Negromancer are vnlawfull to be made of them or vsed of any other These Images lawfull But if we must allow any Statue or Image they must be those of Pasquil and Morphirius on whose brests were written no Lie-Bills as the Popes called them but True-Bills of their villanies These Statues were of stone and the verses carued on their brests were bitter and Satyricall sharply reuiling the Sorcery Sodomitry Symony Incest Phil. Can. p. Medita c●n● Murther Witchcraft Poysoning and Sacriledge of the Popes and Cardinals whereupon the Gentlemen of Rome wittily sayd That it was not lawful for men to speake there vices the stones did proclaym them But pope Adrian would haue taken an order and haue them flung into Tyber Pope Adrian Suessanus if Suessanus the Legate of Charles the Emperour who fauored them had not preuented him who sayd to his Holinesse that if they were flung into Tyber the Crocodiles and Rats and other monstrous Serpents would catch them and sing them to which answer some report the holy Father stood as mute as one of his Cardinals Mules but some report that he began to be angry at Suessanus answer and in a rage suddenly sayde that he would haue them burnt to whom the Legate wittily replyed againe saying If you burne these Images their ashes will not be blowne through the citie but into other countreys so that the people will take occasion to celebrate and reuerence those Ashes for the writing sake and so it will come to passe that they being dispersed throgh the world the sinnes of Rome will generally be knowne to all nations At this second answer his Holinesse wae more perplexed then before and seeing he could doe no good either by drowning or burning hee bid them stand in the Deuills name But I haue made too long a digression therfore I will returne againe to our Negromancers and now I haue spoken of their Images I will briefly and plainely lay open the viperous generation of Negromancy which are Idolatry Diuination and vaine obseruasion with all the hellish brood that proceeds from them The damnable ofspring of Negromancy IDolatry is a Diuine Worship attributted to Idols which Idolls are Statues or Images which the Gentiles worshipped with Diuine Honour Idolatry the daughter of Negromancy beleeuing there was some diuinitie in them by reason of their answers and wonderfull effects the Deuill wrought in them Such were the Images of Hermes Tresmegistus otherwise called Mercurie in which they did beleeue that by a kinde of Art the soules of Deuills and Angels were encluded vnder a certaine Constellation which Diuinitie and Naturall Phylosophy doth reprehend for they hold that a Spirit cannot possibly bee vegitable Notae Aristotle de Anima or can substantially informe artificiall bodyes For the Soule as Aristotle saith is an Act of a naturall body not artificiall for a man cannot by any matter as Herbs Wood Stone Words or Constellation expell a good or bad Spirit or being cald that it can come presently and dwell in an Idoll because corporall things cannot by any naturall order haue any operation in incorporall things There haue beene some of the Gentiles that haue not onely attributed Diuine honour to Statues and Images but beleeued them to be Gods for some vertue or magnitude of their Acts these Statues represented as to Iupiter Hercules Venus and the rest and other monsters of this kinde Also they did not onely honour corporall but incorporall things as Intelligences Angels and the Soules of heauenly Bodyes which they call Aeria Animalia and they did not separate the soules of men from Diuine honour which is most diuellish This kinde of Idolatrie at these dayes is vsed among our Antagonists the Papists for they pray to Iron Papists Wood Gold Siluer and woodden Images that haue neither sight feeling sence life or operation in them and haue as small influence in them after are made either by the Caruer or Goldsmiths hand as they had when they first were in a massie lumpe either in the Tree or Mine Diuination the 2. daughter of Negromancie Isidor lib. octa Etymologia The second daughter of superstition is Diuination by which our Astrologers miserably labour to know of future things either good or bad These are they Isidorus saith report themselues to be full of diuination who by craft and deuice foretell of things to come by the effects which proceed vpon necessitie from causes vnlesse they are especially hindered of God certainly proceeding from the cause of nature as the eclipse of the Sunne and the Moone and the effects which proceed from these causes may bee foretold of by as probable coniecture as well as a Mariner may foretell of a storme that will arise by a darke cloude that is either before or behinde him Haue not many olde women told by the vnhappy conditions of a boy that he would be hangd and hath it not falne out right Haue not many graue Matrons foretold that young wanton Lasses would proue Wagtails hath it not come to passe Haue not many men by the damnable tricks they haue seene in Catchpoles foretold that they would proue knaues and