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A16293	A pronostication for diuers yeares ryght vtyle and profytable to al sortes of people, wherin is declared what persons hath mooste and leaste dominacions ouer the starres and elementes, whereby the iudgementes of the astrologiens be scarsely true, geuynge together great consolation to those who muche fear the constellations. Also of the fourth and laste monarchie, the whiche Charles the. v. ryghte victorious Emperoure of the Romaynes, and Edwarde the. vi. mooste noble Emperoure of great Bryttayne, by the grace of God, gouerneth, comprehendynge also brieflye some words of the last age of the world, gathered together by Master Arnold Bogarde doctour in medecyne, resident in Bruxels and translated into Englysh oute of Frenche by Iohn Coke, clarcke of the Recognysances, or vulgerly called clark of the Statutes.; Prognostication pour plusieurs années. English	Bogaert, Arnould.; Coke, John, clarke of the Kynges recognysaunce.	1553 (1553)	STC 3204; ESTC S120622	13,978	56

planettes Mars and Saturne the contrary retyreth vs from an euyll admyration of thynges semynge to vs wholesome and salutaire and maketh vs turne to the Auctour of the same whiche is onely God this wytnesseth Ieremy which saith feare not the starres and signes of heauen as in tyme past the wicked Ethnyckes and Paynyms dydde The prophete condempneth not here all feare but when thynfydeles transported the gouernement of the worlde to the Starres and Elementes they thoughte howe theyr felicitie or miserye was in the iudgemente of them and not in the wyll of God Yf so be that the starres elementes threateneth any thinge as apte to vices euyl inclinations and other lyke thynges our maners ought to be gouerned with a dylygent and meane temperaunce to the ende that the euyll inclynations be not vanquysshers In aduersites we must cloth our selues with force and magnanimitie In thynges prosperous and equall the starres geueth vs inclination to some vertue or good maners enforce our selues to be aided by studie and knowledge kepynge vs not to passe a meane in our courage callyng al way aide of God to be gouerned by hym Lette vs not glorifye in our gyftes as the stronge man was wonte to do in his force the ryche man in his ryches yet in vayne but let our reioysynge be to vnderstande and knowe that it is the Lorde that doth mercy iudgemente iustice in thearth the whiche in greate libertye by his wysedome maketh that whiche he purposed to make from y e begynnyng of the worlde and by his incomprehensible and mightye puissaunce putteth in execution that whiche he predestinated to make It foloweth then that by his prouydence not only the heauē thearth or creatures be gouerned as aboue is sayde but also the wylles and councels of men ben gouerned to come to thende to haue knowen hym before To fortune or good aduenture we ought not to attribute any thynge as the paynyms do If good succes be blessynge of God c●lamitie and aduersitie be contrary these wordes be by for tune or at aduenture and agree to the pouidence of God but for so muce that by thordre of reason thnde and necessitie of thinges wiche commonlye cometh vpons be hydden in the councell o God and by humayne opinion incomprehensible menne calle● them fortunes albeit that they p●ede from y e wyl of god Like reason is to be geuē of thinges to come this is confyrmed by the holye Scripture wherof all those that trauayle and turment them selues in the thinges abouesayde maye take a remedye Dauid sayth in y e .liiij. psal Caste your solicitude vppon the Lorde and he wyll nourysh you And in the fyrste of Saynt Peter the .v. Humble youre selues vnder the puyssant hand of god to thende that he exalte you in the tyme of visitation castyng all solicitude in him for he soroweth for you And Saynt Mathewe in the. vii Chapiter He soroweth for vs as the mother doth hyr chylde Hereby it is euidente howe muche and howe great is the solicitude and beneuolence of God towardes vs. The Astrologiens make obiectiō esteminge howe the starres and elementes be ordeyned to infallible mouementes as apparaunce or rising and goynge downe of the same elementes coniunction of lumyres and planetes appositions and other aspectes Eclipses by the cognysion congression consentment discordant and regression of them men maye predicte diuers accidentes commynge to the worlde as warres mortalities famines contagious sickenesses peace haboundaunce of goodes mutacions of realmes and sectes death of Princes tumultes of people perturbations of publyque thynges inundacions earthquakes and lyke thinges the whyche by the influence celestyall vertue of the Elementes and puyssance of the starres we se folowe and fall on vs. These thynges as we confesse be made and depende by the stable and constante mouynge of heauen and the coning Astrologien in predestinatynge these thynges is only God Let vs beleue and we muste confesse that God may by his mercy and pitie turne these ryghte horrible thretenynges of the starres and present euylles and of his bountye and by prayers of good people chaunge turne his sentence from vs. We rede that this chaūsed to the Niniuites to whome was declared by Ionas the prophete howe within fortye dayes they shoulde peryshe Lykewise the furnace of Babylon burnyng aboue the accustomed fashion by the commaundemente of kynge Nabuchodonosor coulde not burne the chyldren beinge putte therein The death of Ezechie pronounsed by the mouth of Iesaie was by compassion diuyne prolonged bycause of his lamentation and prayers ▪ God is not nowe abriged what thyng shuld lette but that the euylles which the starres threateneth maye be chaunged by this remedye We haue seen in yeares paste ryghte cruell warres shortlye appaysed agaynst the opinion of dyuers Nowe we muste praye God to geue vs the same succes and fortunes in those thynges that in this troubelous tyme they maye be profytable to his honour and to the increase of his church ▪ Finallye in thynges that be more worthy then the heauen thaccion of the starres is of no puissāce as the soule reasonable enspired of God and the which worke by his wyll is more noble then all other creatures for she beareth with hyr the ymage of God and to the vtilitye of the same by the ryghte haboundaunte larges of God the other creatures be geuen to vs this confyrmeth Ptolomee in Centiloque y e .viij. chapiter the soule sayth he of the wyse man aydeth the celestiall vertue as the good paisaunt or husbandman labouryng and culturynge y e earth aydeth nature Yf then the soul be cause ayding to thynges celestiall she semeth to be free seynge that she is more noble then the heauen Also the vertue of the starres be muche ayded by the complexions of the people the whiche be causes of maladies for these complexions chaungeth by the disposition of the starres and lykewyse doth thynclinations that by tharte medicine grace of god we easly vanquysh which to the Lucianistes Atheistes and Epicuriens ▪ is impossible who maketh a confusion of the soule and of the complexion of the body herin they be greate imitatours of Galien whereof is the religion to eate dryncke play and after this lyfe ther is no ioye but let vs relynquysh these foles which haue no god And seyng the benefytes of God be so great let vs demaund his succoures and aide he wyll geue it vnto vs oftentimes as he shewed to Moses in the readde sea and to Iosue likewyse he retarded the sonne manifestly geuyng ayde against thumayne esperāce This honor perteineth ought to be referred only to god to thend that we shulde beleue y t god may wil succor aide vs w tout lokīg for it Also thastrologiē must regard y e causes vniuersal as warres cōtagious maladies y e which haue more strēgthehē y e causes perticulers as techeth Ptolomee in the fyrst Centiloque hereby it is euident howe dyuers men be subiectes to the constellations as

the sonne and the more he trauayleth therein the lesse he shall fynde and if the sage saye that he knoweth yet he cannot fynd it And in Ecclesiastici serch not thynges excedyng thy intendement but to that whiche God hath commaunded the vpō that only thinke alwayes for the inquisitour of the maiestie shall be thrust downe from glory These thynges shalbe more clere when we haue declared what men be least gouerned by the constellations as fyrst Emperours and all kynges be not subiectes to y e starres Of themperour of Thassuri●ns Iulius Firmicus in the seconde boke the .xxxiii. cha sayth that some Mathematicien can not say truth nor discerne of the fortune of Emperours Themperours sayth he be not subiecte to the course of the starres for they be only of whom y e starres hathe no maner of puissaunce for to descerne theyr fortunes forsomuch as they be lordes of al the world theyr fatale fortunes are gouerned by the onlye iudgemente of God Hitherto be the wordes of Firmicus Of the kynges the holy scripture testifieth how theyr harts ben gouerned of the hand of god And in Prouer xxv the heauen is the heyght and the erth is the lowe part but the hart of a kyng is inscrutable All thynges then onelye of kynges be made to vs yet though to our iudgemente they seme euyll it is necessarye that they be good for god indifferently vsyng kynges as instrumentes for y e most parte geueth them to vs for oure synnes and enormities for there is no euyll in the citie whiche the lord hath not geuen the which Citie if god kepe it not they labour in vayne that kepeth it Thys is a greate consolation to all Chrysten men to the ende that for mourmurynge and resystynge the worde of God there come not vppon vs thinges more greuous This opinion confyrmeth Firmicus howe there is no man vnto thys presente tyme hath sayde other thinges then incertayne of them perour Charles the .v. and of other kynges but we shal declare thynges veritable of the maiesty of this sayde Emperoure when we shall make mencion of the. iiij Monarchie We maye saye some thinge by his reuolution but for certayne respectes we wyll not touche it The wyse men not after this present world as some be disguising theyr vysages and apparell resemble wyse haue do mination ouer the starres and elementes Of this true wysdom is the begynnynge of the fear of god the whiche surmounteth in the heartes of them that trulye knoweth hym The true knowledge is to embrase hym as beynge onely y e fountayne of truth wysdome bountie iustice iudgement mercy pitie puissance and helth and that we should do reuerence to his fatherly bountie by a loue the whiche the Sonne ought to haue towardes his father for to the louers of the lord all thinges turneth to goodnes This knowledge thus aduaunsed enstructeth vs in a true fear and reuerēce that he maketh vs beleue and truth it is howe all goodnes commeth from hym They knowe alsoo as we haue sayde before howe of God commeth peace warre lyfe death lyghte and darckenes peste famyne haboundaunce helth and dyuers innumerable other thin ges wherby he sheweth vnto vs his wyll to our welth or the seuerytye of his iust iudgementes with vengeannce Those be thei the whych nothyng so difficile or be so maleheureux that departe from the charitie of Iesu Christ Those I saye haue dominacion ouer thelementes and haue armures that is to say the buckler of fayth The contrary the debilitie of fayth maketh the courage ryght feble in tymes of afflyction wythout remembryng God Thempyres and dominations of kynges be thereby augmented and demynyshed he molifyeth our dolour yfwe beleue S. Paule the whyche admonisheth vs of the perylles that shal come vpon vs at the laste dayes not onelye as to the bodye but also to the spirite to thende that we shall learne to defend our selues and in so greate calamytye all thynges to aske of the onelye GOD ayde and consolation and to obteyne the same lette vs not doubte In this last age of the worlde we be fallen into suche time that one brother aryseth agaynste thother one countrey agaynste an other so that the geste shall not be sure of hys hoost Euerye man studieth for his perticuler welth one wyll take no payne for his brother yet alwayes after the sentence of Saynt Augustyne he lyueth well and holylye whiche the leaste that he maye lyueth for hym selfe Lette vs not thynke that the fyrste partes be premysed to the loue of hym selfe and the seconde to the charity of his neighbour Saint Paule teacheth vs by thaffinitie composicion connexion proportion and beaultie of our members that whyche one member oweth to thother here by the offices fraternelles be geuen to vs to knowe that we haue a father in heuen to whom all that we thinke to be secrete is knowen But alas our confidence is returned from vs the whiche is fyxed in our rychesse but the knowledge therof profiteth litle to thē whiche dayly attende affliction as all Christen men do which haue no warre with heauen but with the worlde the Deuyll and the fleshe what more all theyr lyfe is but warre Lykewyse also the saige falleth not here for by dyuers sciences as Philosophie Theologie the sciences of the lawes Phisicke Astrologie c. we be eleuated and come to the wysdome of God the whiche is profoundly reueyled in these artes and sciences to thende that we may be reduced to his knowlege For the heauens manyfeste the glory of God and the workes of his hande sheweth the fyrmament Who shalbe he that regardyng man the which of the philosophers is called y e litle world shal not be rauyshed in great admiration of his maker and creator If you looke on hyghe you shall see the dyuers mouinges of the starres and elementes lykewyse theyr situations distaunce propertie and yet so manye lampes burnyng two greate lightes as in the day the Sonne in the nyght the Moone the whyche shynynge and illuminynge ouer all the worlde be created for the vsaige of man and to manifeste the glory of God These be creatures and instrumentes wherby God enspireth his natural puyssance accordyng to his wyll and conuerteth to accions suche as he hath predestinate We haue of no creature more greater and maruelous vertue then o● the sonne the which ●●●●uers for that cause hath bene honored for a god by reason wherof the Lorde to thende that all prayse redounde to his glorye hath made the lyghte and hathe fylled thearth with all kindes of herbes before the creation of the Sonne Man then as sayth Aristotle maketh not the sonne y e pryncipall and necessary cause of thynges that hath ben created before that but it is an instrument wherewith God vseth his pleasure For withoute that he myght worke by hym self this cōsideration deliuereth vs of a supersticious feare and is made of the creatures y e which we think is contrarye vnto vs as amongeste the

Roialme of Iesus Christ Dyuers haue attempted to subuerte the same pryncypallye the Turkes the whiche albeit they haue obteyned certayne vyctoryes agaynste Themperoure yet shall not this last Monarchi be put in subiection nor broken as by longe experyence it hath ben hytherto approued but it shall abide one tyme in greate augmentacion and another time with discresemente vnto suche tyme as of the Mountayne is cutte a stoone withoute handes and vntyll she haue brused the stature of Nabuchodonosor the whiche representeth the Monarchye of the worlde and the face falle entierlye and this stone become a greate mountayne that is to saye the great Roylme durynge the worlde This we haue wylled to putte to to the ende that all Chrysten people shoulde knowe that the Monarchies be gouerned diuynely and that they rule ouer the configurations celestialles And thys laste Monarchye the whyche Charles the fyfte gouerneth at this presente shall not be brused nor affeabled by humayne puysaunce althoughe dyuers be of the opinion and sentence that the Roialme of Turques shulde abate it but by the onelye stone whiche is Chryste it shal perysh when he shall come to iudge the quycke and the dead but the day and howre when he shal returne to iudgemente is not knowen of any creature nor of thaungelles but it is in the only wyl and iudgement of the heauenlye father the whiche clearelye rehearseth S. Mathew in the .xxiiij. Chap Neuerthelesse it is permytted by holye scripture to enforce by some coniectures similitudes to attayne and come to the age or year of his comming always the day and the houre abydyng vnknowen Our Lorde hath inuited and drawen vs for to serch and obserue by a couenable similitude or parable of a fygge tre when the braunch is tender and his leaues be out you know that Somer is approchynge You also lykewyse when you se the thinges aboue sayd in the .xxiiij. cha Lyfte vp your heades knowing that youre redemption and the kyngdome of God is next to the gates By these wordes and by the fashyon of thynges future nowe presente whereof also many be past he that diligently searcheth thē may easely coniecture somethinge for vs of this which dyuers auctours haue lytle reculed of the breuite and small enduryng of this worlde we shall briefely resite Fyrste we wyll set forth the wordes of Elie whereby the Iewes confounde them selues which haue set fourth as they saye howe the worlde shall endure syxe thousande yeares that is to saye two thousande yeares without lawe two thousande yeares with the lawe and two thousande yeares after the dayes of Christe To these wordes it semeth Saynt Peter confyrmeth in his seconde epistle in the thyrd chapitre sayinge that one daye to the Lorde is as a M yeres and a thousand yeres as one day Of the lyke that foloweth that as the Lorde in syx dayes created al and the vij day he reposed him self lykewise sixe m. yeres he gouerned this worlde subiect to generations corruptions in the. vii M. he beganne repose perpetual as the syxt day was not in all permytted to worke and trauayle but that a good part of the same day drawynge towardes euenynge was laide to the saboth likewise the sixte thousande shall not be holye suffred nor graunted as it is wrytten in other passage that the Lorde shall abrydge y e dayes for the chosen as the sixe first generations that is to say of Adā Seth Iared Cainan Malaleel Iared be trespassed or departed and the seuenth whiche is of Enoch is immortall Lykewyse sixe thousande yeares shall regenerate death in y e seuenth shall haue the fortunate immortalitie his vigour Item in S. Math .xxiiij. S. Marke .xiij. sayth the Lord of this daye and houre no creature knoweth nor yet thaūgelles of heauen but my father onlye And as the dayes of Noe were lykewyse also shalbe the comynge of the sonne of man for as they were in the dayes before the deluge eatynge drynckynge maryinge and geuynge in mariage vnto the daye that Noe entred in the arcke they knewe nothyng nor vnto the time y t the deluge came toke them awaye all Lykewyse shall be the commynge of the sonne of man By these wordes it semeth Iesus Chryst to haue taken not onlye the similitude of the qualitie but also of the quantitye of thynges I call qualities manners of this corrupted worlde wherof there is no doubte for S. Luke confirmeth it in his xvij Chapter the quantitie is called the nombre of yeares The sentence is somewhat more obscure but Saynt Mathewe declareth it when he sayth Lykewise as the dayes of Noe were so shalbe the cominge of the sonne of man And Saynt Paule to the Romaynes in the v. Chapter affyrmeth how Adā was the fourme and figure of the commynge of Iesu Christ As also he sayth in the fyrst to the Corinthiens the .xv. Chapt. The fyrst man Adam in soule 〈…〉 and the last in spyryte 〈…〉 the fyrste man of thearth 〈…〉 the seconde manne that is to saye the Lorde is of heauen Yf then Iesus Chryste is the other Adam of whome the fyrste hath ben the fygure and that the cōmynge of Iesus Christ shalbe as the dayes of Noe before the deluge who wyl not beleue that so longe tyme that is passed from Adam terrestre vnto the dayes of Noe the deluge that it shall not passe so muche from Adam celestiall the whiche is our lorde Iesus Christ vnto thende of the worlde or deluge of fyre Saynt Peter sayth in his seconde Epistle in the thyrd chapter the day of the Lord shall come as a thefe in the nyght wherby the heuens shall passe in maner of a tempest and the Elementes beynge chafed 〈…〉 the earth shall founder 〈…〉 thonerages or workes 〈…〉 in them shall burne and by and by after the same sayth whereby the heauens beyng on fyre shalbe defayted and the elementes beyng burned shal foundre Nowe it is euydent oute of Genesis the .v. Chapyter that from Adam vnto the deluge be passed M. CCCCCC .lvi. yeares it is lykewyse true howe the ende of the world shalbe approchynge to like yeare of our lorde thousande syxe hundred fyftye and syxe It is nere at hande for there remayneth nowe no more but. C. and foure yeares Yet alwayes for so muche that none knoweth the abreuiation of the sayde tyme the whyche is purposed for the electe for this reason it semeth ryght difficyle precisely to knowe the tyme. There is other that saye how the yeares of the Lord ought to be accompted not from his Natyuytye but from his resurrection Ascencion or sendynge of his holye spyryte whyche shoulde make greate variation and mutacion of the yeares And as Noe knewe not the daye nor the howre of the deluge yet alwais of the yeare not ignoraunte Lykewyse to vs is permytted by the holye Scryptures to searche the yeare albeit that the daye and howre remayne vnknowen Some also coniecture the ende of the worlde from