Cardines Coeli OR AN APPEAL To the Learned and Experienced Observers of Sublunars and Their Vicissitudes whether the CARDINAL SIGNS OF HEAVEN Are not most Influential upon Men and Things Proved by X. Remarkable GENITURES c In a Reply to the Learned Author of COMETOMANTIA Wherein the Character of GASSENDUS is Defended And sundry other Starry Truths are Justified By JOHN GADBURY Student in Physick and Astrology Qui Artem aliquam destruit longe deterior est imperito nec vacat mens illius Malitia Desidia Ignorantia Cardan Tantae dignitatis est humana Genitura ut in eam omnes Coelorum partiter atque terrarum potestates conspirent atque miraculosè suis in explicabilibus donis exornent Naibod Coment in Cap. 1. Ptolom Why Art should be Excluded from the Cognizance of Nativities I cannot see since Praedictions according to the Precepts of Art for many Ages known and approved have been found so True Dr. R. Gell. Stell Nov. page 9. LONDON Printed Anno Domini MDCLXXXIV To the Truly Honourable And constantly LOYAL my ever Honour'd Friend Sir EDWARD DERING of SHARSTED in the County of KENT K nt One of His Majesties Commissioners of the PEACE for the said COUNTY Honoured Sir NOt so much for your Countenance and Encouragement to Me though that 's a favour I shall ever covet as to the TRUTH do I at this time appear before you and pray your Iudgement in a Cause which against my will I am made a PARTY to by a Learned yet unknown ADVERSARY I am Learned Sir for the Truth 's sake assaulted And I cannot but with an humble security promise my self where I have ever found even in Arduous Cases a Refuge that Divine URANIA can never fail of finding her ASYLUM It is not I therefore but TRUTH that seeks your Noble PATRONAGE at this Time My ADVERSARY seems to be a Benefic'd Man though not the Poor One he Stiles himself that I look on only as Complement to my Lord Bishop and gives us to understand that he can by the Canon wear a ShortGown I hope he intends not to Lengthen his Garment by Plowing Furrows upon the Back of my Reputation I never did him wrong I do not know him But as for Me Learned Sir I have not the Honour of either Benefice or Gown to boast of Yet when I consider I have your Favour I esteem that every whit as Great and as Dear to Me. The Great Doctor of the Gentiles tells us as Truly as Eloquently That all are not Israel that are of Israel And I find a Man may be in Orders and Benefic'd too and yet have somewhat of the Salamander in him which may make even the Flames of Contention his Delight I could willingly hope better of my Learned Adversary though all things consider'd I have but little Reason For I believe I am the First Man that have been questioned for matter of Fact in Art after Twenty Four years time and I think my Antagonist is the First CLERGIMAN that ever serv'd any Man so whereas if either the Divine or Moral Law had been valuable with Him in this matter a Seven years space must have Limited us both and cover'd my Imperfections had I been guilty with an AMNESTIA or a JUBILEE It is my great unhappiness not to be acquainted with that most Noble Lord and Excellent PRELATE before whom my Adversary hath Arraigned me that I might have presumed to entrust my Cause with Him For I am fully perswaded He would do me Iustice as Fame tells me He doth to the whole World But I have an Humble Sign Ascending at my Birth and dare not be Confident but where I am thoroughly Known And that is another Reason most Honour'd Sir why I implore your Worthy Iudgement between Me and my Opponent I have had and ever shall have an Honour and Reverence for the Church and all the Worthy Dignitories thereof esteeming them the Lawful Ambassadors of the Blessed Iesus And could I be Reasonably perswaded that either my STUDY or PRACTICE of ASTROLOGY were UNLAWFUL and prejudicial to Either I would never Set a FIGURE or make an ALMANACK more So much unwilling am I Sir to Offend those I ought to Obey So far should I be from Opposing the truly Venerable Persons of that Sacred Order But Learned Sir when I know that many of our best Authors in ASTROLOGY have been DIVINES who have not only largely Cultivated but liberally Defended the ART I cannot believe that I ERR in pursuing so Harmless so Useful so Veritable a STUDY Sed sub Iudice lis est The Matter is before you Honour'd Sir and your Noble Iudgement is Prayed in the Case I will not be affraid or troubled at whatsoever CENSURE you shall please to Pass For I am well assured that your Knowledge in Art is such as renders you a most Proper and Capable JUDGE in this Affair and I dare believe That like Soloman you will Judge Righteous Iudgement Let the Mothers of both Children or Arguments Plead as animated by their Passions never so waywardly or in Favour of their own Cause or Issue Let the TRUTHS of ASTROLOGY Rise and Shine under your Favour and Protection and the ERRORS pretended to belong thereunto be ever Banish'd and Disown'd as by your Honour'd Self so by All that shall dare to profess themselves Subjects of URANIA Thus begging your Pardon for my presumption in this bold Address which I can almost promise my self from your Noble Nature the occasion consider'd give me leave hereby to Thank you for all your Manifold Favours chiefly those afforded me in the time of my greatest Distress when you so Generously interposed on my behalf and helped to stop the Mouths of LYONS that were then opened against Me and heartily wishing both to You and to your most Excellent and ever Virtuous LADY all Happiness both here and hereafter I remain Most Honour'd Sir Your ever Obliged and most Faithful Humble Servant and Honourer JOHN GADBURY To the Impartial Readers AS a very Learned Divine most truly said of Religion so may I as justly of Astrology It is a common thing for its Enemies to throw Dirt in the Face thereof and then perswade themselves that it is Natural Complexion They present it in a Shape most Ugly and Deform'd and then bring That as a Plea wherefore they esteem it no more or give it no better Entertainment Needs must the greatest and transporting Beauty in the World appear uncomly and carry a Cloudy Aspect with it if compell'd to wear the Vizor or bear the Marks of Pride and Calumny and to suffer under the Scars of Ignorance and Prejudice Might but Urania be permitted to keep her Native Colour and Complexion only Her brightness is such that it would Out-shine all other Objects and dazle the dull beholders But to be Beautiful is bless'd Urania's Crime Os homini Sublime dedit c. Nor were those Glorious Lamps of Heaven made only to stare on but to
have done Me Justice He should have told the World the Truth as I had done which He could not but see and know viz. That that Character was none of Mine but a Quotation made use of by Me and not in such words neither as He mentioned but in words far different as you shall see anon The Author whereof was Mr. now Dr. F. B. a Learned Physician and Astrologer and very well able to defend his own work Whose particular words I will relate together with the Provocation given by Gassendus which occasion'd that Smart but true Animadversion upon his Geniture which himself gave to the Learned Morinus of France § 61. The words which I made use of and annexed to the Nativity of Gassendus are to be found in my Col Geni p. 126. and Printed Anno 1660 viz. I shall not need to observe any more on this Figure then I find already done in an Appendix to an Apology for Astrology published lately by my Loving Friend Mr. Vincent Wing the Author of which Appendix is Mr. F. B. and my very good Friend also who hath responded both like an Artist and Schollar to Gassendus ' s Objections against Astrology For a sight of which I refer the Ingenious Reader to the Appendix it self and shall only present him with what relates to the Scheme viz. Here you may see the Malignant Planets ♄ and ♂ have the chief Dominion in the Scheme ♄ is Lord of his Horoscope peregrine Retrograde and in his Detriment and unfortunate in ♋ which made his Lungs much oppressed with Flegm rotten and corrupt of an ill habit of body very sickly subject to Catarrhs c. That for Manners ♄ in □ of ♂ and both in ill aspect of the Ascendant made him of an evil Disposition Envious Suspitious Revengeful Angry Peevish Contentious Injurious Fraudulent a Lyar a Calumniator an Impostor Covetous a Robber of other Mens Honours a false Friend a perfidious Traytor a notorious Hypocrite an Athiest and to say no worse of him than he does of Mr. Des Cartes though unjustly a Toad swell'd with Pride and malicious Venom as you may see in that Book against Des Cartes and other of his Works As he had ☿ in ⚹ ♂ and in the House of ♄ so he had a wit apt enough for Mischiefs Quarrels and contentions Sharp in Disputation as in □ to the ☽ so it was turbulent enough and had not ☿ applyed to a ⚹ of ♃ also he had been so ill nature'd he had scarce been sociable But that good Aspect gave him so much wit as to dissemble it under Zeal to Religion and make that seem the severity of his Devotion which was the Morosness of his Nature § 62. These are the words contended against by my Antagonist And I will not refuse to confess they seem to sound somewhat harsh and severe what then The ☌ □ or ☠of ♄ and ♂ is a harsh and severe Aspect and that all Astrologers know and so little of the Character could be spared that I might have gone further in this Discription without injury to Astrology and possibly too without the breach of good Manners But yet supposing which I do not grant that the words were too harsh and that the same things might have been express'd in softer terms Yet I must let my Learned Opponent know That it is not customary for any man to speak of his Enemy in the same Key and Character as of his Friend In such a case the Satyr should ever be debar'd the use of his Whip Gassendus had proclaimed War against Astrology injured the innocent Truths and Professors thereof not confuted either It or Them as my Antagonist thinks That 's a task not so easily perform'd as talk'd of But besides what if it be made appear that Gassendus's Rough and Moross dealing by the Truth as well as by Des Cartes hath pull'd this upon him He hath indeed given too broad and too foul a provocation for an Astrologer thus truly to depaint him And that is the second thing I promised to give an account of § 63. 2. The Truth of the matter stands thus Dr. F. B. in reading Gassendus Contra Astrologiam met with many unworthy Provocations Falsifications Scoffs c. against Astrologers which he could not possibly without a mark of Indignation pass by and among the rest of his scornful and contemptuous Expressions These Vnsavory Obscene and Ridiculous words Nor are we to say such an Infant was born infected with a foul and contagious Disease because the sixth House was his Horoscope but because his Mothers lower House was Impure and Infectious Apol. for Astrol. p. 122. In which words here is 1. a great Truth of Art impugned which the Author of the Character hath very well answer'd And 2. a Wity Falshood is made use of in the room of Reason to defend it And can any Artist be patient under such affronts as these Must the poor Astrologer be laughed to scorn by the Waspish Spleenatick Gassendus and not be suffer'd so much as to speak for himself or to reply upon his Adversary without being term'd a Bespatterer of him If Truth offend either Gassendus or my Antagonist I cannot help that nor shall I Trouble my self so far as to make an excuse for the offence The Scandalum Datum is of Gassendus's side He began the Quarrel and was the real Aggressor § 64. But I would fain know to what purpose Gassendus gave his Nativity to Morinus if not to be inspected and Judged by Astrology And if Dr. F. B. meeting with it happen'd to observe the □ of ♄ and ♂ therein and that Artist must be blind that could not was it a crime for him to declare the Effects which naturally Issue from such a position according to the Judgments of Astrologers Or for Me to Quote it from him with approbation when I know he hath written like an Artist What shall Gassendus be suffer'd to Spit against Heaven Scoff at Starry Influences Bespatter the honest Students in that noble Art Make sport at Gods Glorious Host And shall no Man be permitted having his Geniture too as given by himself to acquaint him with Astral Cause of such Drivels May Gassendus as his own Spleen swells be allowed to call the Renowned Cartesius a Toad swell'd with Pride and malicious Venom and for his so fulsome and Anti-Philosophick a Character be esteemed otherwise than Ill-natur'd Had I not seen Gassendus's Nativity I could easily have Judg'd he had had ♄ ill posited upon reading such words in him Ill Water never flows from wholesom Springs § 65. Howbeit I do really love my self to keep within the bounds of Modesty and good Language and good Manners And do heartily wish Gassendus had not given the occasiou for so rough though true a Treatment I can look upon an Ill position in any Man's Geniture with Pity and Compassion rather than Scorn or Derision And bless the God of Heaven that my own
Quoniam Mars in quarta loco Caeli nonsolum ostendit haec enim vero demonstrat quod in bello plerumque infelices erunt in Pacis tempore fortunatissimi si superavint haec tempora 1583. 1585. 1603. 1607. 1625. 1666. 1691. 1699. 1770 1880. Praeterea spicam Virginis cum Saturno qui ex diametro respicit Solem Dicimus significare quod non transibunt Anni 52. quod Civitas haec manebit in Terra Vt declaratur à Luca Gaurico his versibus Virginei partus seclis bis Octo peractis Epilogo Emergens faecunde Colonis Praebebit miseris alimenta à frugibus altis Nec Pisces Nautae capient in littore sicco Sed varios puere stores gramina pingues Laeta boves hasta non remis pulchrae juventus Certatim ludent mestu spectante Senatu § 115. Sure my worthy Antagonist will not now persist in his Opinion but believe with me that it is not possible for Astrologers to speak against Themselves and Science together He may now most plainly see that the most Learned and Judicious Astrologers even his own selected Ones do not refuse to ascert the Doctrine of Genitures because of the Genitures of Buildings I wonder much why so Learned a man as he in other things hath shewn himself I mean in his Discourse of Comets should offer to obtrude so strange a Paradox to say no worse of it upon the World If yet this be not of power sufficient to convince him and I am sure half so much in the like case would have struck me Dumb He may be further satisfied by a sight of sundry other Nativities of Cities Forts Castles c. with Judgements on them given by Gauricus Iunctinus Garcaeus c. Of which our before quoted Learned Gregory hath also taken notice § 116. I think there is but very little more for me to reply unto or that I stand particularly chargable with by the Pen of my Opponent So that I may with freedom come to the second thing promised for the support and Honour of the Energy and Influence of Cardinal Signs which they are by experience found to have over Men. And this shall be as I promised by Ten several experimental proofs in the Genitures of as many Remarkable and Prodigious Natives in their kinds for all of them stand not on the same Level which I esteem little less than Demonstrative of the Truth they are brought to prove For the Learned Author of the Leviathan however he may have been mistaken in some things is most certainly in the right when he affirms all Knowledge to be nothing but a Train of Experiences § 117. The Genitures which I shall select for this particular Service from among many others shall be these Ten following 1. Carolus Gustaevus King of Sweden 2. The Great Duke of Guise 3. Arch-bishop Laud. 4 Lord Treasurer Clifford 5. Mr. Thomas Hobbs 6. Mr. H. Burton C. C. Oxon. 7. Michael Nostradamus 8. Gregory Lopez the Hermit 9. Sir Theodore Mayerne 10. Oliver Cromwell § 118. VVhere by the way I must beg my Adversaries Pardon if I suite them not to his mind for my business in these matters is not Heraldry but a proof of the thing in Question I Study Truth not Titles The Scepter and the Spade in this case are equal to me And a Poor Hermit is as serviceable to my purpose as a Prince Bishop or Philosopher § 119. But before I begin I must presume to acquaint my Opponent that it was not my Work but His to SUITE Gustavus Adolphus with Cicero Arch-bishop Laud and Oliver Cromwell I very well knew that Gustavus Adolphus had not all the Cardinal Signs upon the Angles of his Geniture and therefore He could not SUITE to my purpose in that case But Carolus Gustavus His Nephew had them so and He it was that I mention'd and not the Other As may be seen in my Collectio Geniturarum fol. 89. The very place which this my Antagonist is offended at though it be not quoted by him Of this Errour therefore my Adversary if he be not a Presbyterian must needs Repent I. CAROLUS GUSTAVUS King of Sweden § 120. THis great Prince his Geniture doth not meanly plead for the Honour and Power of Cardinal Signs upon the Angles of a Nativity Not only as the Native from a Private Gentleman in a manner came to be advanced to the Honour and Power of a Throne or Kingdom as he was and that by a strange accident too viz. By the Resignation of Queen Christina of Sweden his Uncles Daughter It is not an ordinary or common thing for Princes to part with their Scepters or Diadems but also for his extraordinary Prowess aud ever to be admired Acts in War against the Kings of Poland and Denmark Duke of Brandenburgh States of Holland c. all at a time He was esteemed for the space he Reigned the Scanderbag of Christendom and put it into many terrible Feaverish Fits He came to the Crown in Iune 1654. And in February 1659. He died in the Island of Funen His Empire was but short yet very violent and his Story will ever remain the wonder of Princes and Learned Men. 'T is none of my business here to Register all his Stupendious Acts. 'T is sufficient they were Cardinal and like those Signs possessing the Angles of his Illustrious Geniture II. The Great Duke of GUISE § 121. IF my Reader be desirous to acquaint himself with the Glorious Heroick and Daring Actions of this Great Prince the better to see and consider thereby how they are answer'd in a great measure by the Cardinal Signs on all the Angles of his Geniture He may read them at large in his Memoirs Printed and Published in the English Tongue some years since and commonly to be had among the Booksellers I mention it only for a proof of the thing in question and to fortifie the Aphorism impugned by my Antagonist But this not to exclude the Force and Power of other eminent Arguments very observable therein Here are you see no less than three Planets in Cardinal Signs besides their possession of the Angles The Sun is in his exaltation in Horoscopo in Sextile to the Moon Saturn is in Aries in Sextile of Luna likewise And benign Iupiter is with spica Virginis All which have eminent signification of wonderful Actions and with the other render the Nativity Stupend and Prodigious and so were the Life and Actions of this Valliant and puissant Prince III. The most Reverend Arch-bishop LAUD § 122. THis Excellent Prelate and most Pious Martyr of the Church the great promoter of Learning as may be seen by his many Noble Gifts to the Vniversitiy of Oxford and Envy of an enraging Multitude was born for Great and Glorious Actions and to arrive at great Dignity which he did though but of mean Descent and Parentage agreeable to the Cardinal Signs on the Angles of his Scheme Never was any Reverend worthy Man more Teaz'd and Worried than