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A42844	The just and pious scorpionist, or, The nativity of that thrice excellent man, Sir Matthew Hales, late Lord Chief Justice of England who was born in the year of our Lord 1609, on Wednesday Novemb. the first 7h 8' manè, under the cœlestial scorpion, astrologically consider'd / by John Gadbury.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1677 (1677)	Wing G85; ESTC R30397	12,631	34

The Just and Pious SCORPIONIST OR THE NATIVITY Of that thrice Excellent Man Sir Matthew Hales Late Lord Chief Justice of England Who was born in the Year of our Lord 1609. on Wednesday Novemb. the first 7 h 8′ manè Under the Coelestial Scorpion Astrologically consider'd By JOHN GADBURY Student in Physick and Astrology Sapiens dominabitur Astris Si quis animas corpora humana fatalibus Stellis credit astringi sicut Pagani Priscillianus dixerunt Anathema sit Conc. Brac. Licensed Feb. 21. 1676 7. Ro. L'Estrange London Printed by J. D. for Robert Boulter at the Turks-Head in Cornhil over against the Royal-Exchange 1677. To the Honest and Intelligent READER THat I present thee with the following Geniture it is partly to illustrate the Horoscope thereof and partly to let the World plainly see the vanity and daring of those ignorant and malicious Pens that are constantly darting forth their Arrows of Envy against all Persons drawing their breath under the same As if the Signs of Heaven had an uncontroulable Influence to enforce Men to Good or Evil and that We were by Original appointment left destitute of Power and freedom of Will to oppose their Energie but born the Slaves of Fate and Destiny to wear their Fetters and go no further than they permit us a Chain and condemned so by our Stars to remain and continue even against the very Principles of Natural Light Reason and Religion Had I conceiv'd it necessary I could have published the Genitures of sundry Princes and Potentates c. born under the Sign Scorpio beyond what I have done already in my Obsequium Rationabile but this one Instance in the Birth of so excellent a Man I deem sufficient He being so well known by his Vertues to the whole English World and a Person without exception as well in his Principles as Practices that a more apt and positive Example cannot be produced And I hope that no one once having perused this Nativity will be so idly impudent hereafter as to charge Scorpio as the most vicious Sign in the Heavens If what Divine Seneca says be true That we abuse our selves when we think Vices are born with us and that they do not rather steal upon us and so come to be ingested in us It must needs be a grand Error to make the Signs of Heaven under which we are born chargeable with our Crimes and Misdemeanors For it is no fair or rational proof that any Sign is naturally capable of producing vice and ill habits because it happens sometimes that ill People are born under it sith such an Argument would conclude cost and dammage against the whole Mazzaroth or Twelve Signs there having been ill Persons born under every one of them as is very easie to be evinced Nor yet is it any valid or convincing Testimony against the worth and vertue of Scorpio that some Ancient as well as Modern Authors have spoken ill thereof since some of both have argued friendly for it And it is not hard to believe that an Astrologer may be byassed by Interest as well as a Professor of any other Science our own Age affording us most eminent proofs thereof Would you know how Scorpio came to be reputed of sharp Influence It was not from any innate venefique Principle therein lodged but because it was observed commonly to bring the first tydings of the cold and dismal Winter And for this reason Antiquity hath added a Sting to it Winter being the destruction of Vegitables and the death of all outward Comforts But was this think you for the Sign 's sake or for the Seasons in which the Sun enters into that Sign that Scorpio was thus termed the sharp cold Weather as his Austral Declination then notably increasing And that you may be farther convinced that this Office of first bringing news of the approaching Winter is not entailed upon Scorpio by Patent let it be considered That in August last year viz. 1676. the Fall of Leaf began And as I am informed by a Learned Divine of this Nation viz. Mr. Butler Author of Christologia about 30 Years since it did the same which he attributes to some peculiar Influence of Saturn 's being in Taurus So that you see Virgo can prove as prejudicial to humane Felicities and to humane Life also as Scorpio and yet neither of them may have power of themselves to enforce these things The Passive Flint never yields any Fire but when it is struck against the Active Steel Besides should we admit it for an unquestionable Verity that Scorpio were always destin'd to be the Harbinger of the Winter 's cold Frosts and Gloominess c. which you see it is not Must it therefore follow that it hath a power to freeze up the Spirit of Vertue and Religion in us too This is a Non-sequitur with a witness and every Apothecary can shew the absurdity thereof In that the most stinging Frost that the envious Winter is able to produce cannot prey upon Spirits or Essences The nobler part of Man hath a priviledge above the Stars his brutish part is only liable to their Influences and he may secure that Fort from them also if Reason do but interpose For Astra non necessitant sed inclinant Yet a little further Let but the unsatisfied in these Matters confult the Globe and there they 'l find that the Coelestial Ballance is placed in Scorpio as if Justice it self did delight to quarter in that Particular Dodecatemoria And should we estimate things according to their Emblems it were very easie to prove That Scorpio doth inherit the Librarian Vertues and Sagittarius is vested with the Vices said to belong to the Scorpion But this were to play at Push-pin with Astrology and make sport with the most glorious part of the Creation to the great dishonour of God and the Stars But alas Astrology fostereth many hard-favour'd-Brats which have no legitimate relation to the Truth of that Noble Art Direct Falshoods masked with seeming Verities are to be found within her Pallaces viz. 1. As that Children born upon a New or Full Moon are not long vital 2. That Saturn on the Ascendent is an absolute Argument of short Life 3. That Saturn with Spica Virginis induceth beggery 4. That Venus joyn'd to Mercury sub Radiis Solis menaceth Castration 5. That Persons are generally improsperous who have their Moon void of Course 6. That Saturn in the Mid-heaven destroyeth Honour Fame c. All which I assert to be so far from being absolute certainties that there is scarce one of them that of it self singly is so And ought therefore to be exploded and banished the Pale and Court of True Astrology together with the common bruited Opinion of Scorpio 's being naturally vicious Virgo 's being essentially Barbarous Mars 's being joyn'd to Mercury making the Man's name Matthew Neither let any Ingenious Astrologer think that I hereby intend to lessen much less to destroy Astrology but rather to

improve it because I like well of the Wine of this worthy Science shall I be compel'd to drink the dregs too I know that the Principles of the Art are Just and True But the Superstructures that have been by Parasites and other partial Students raised or built upon them hath been of such rotten defiled and deceitful Stuff that all sober Artists must judg it an excellent Service done to the Truth if they were wholly destroyed And the Garden of this chief and worthy Science once well weeded we might then be in hopes to find growing and thriving therein such an admirable variety of Flowers of Truth and Certainty that the Orchard of no other Art though never so happily and neatly cultivated can ever be able to boast of For it is the Divine Urania and she alone that is the Mistris and Queen of all Natural Sciences Brick-Court by the Deans-yard Westminster John Gadbury The Just and Pious SCORPIONIST OR The Nativity of that Excellent Man Sir Matthew Hales late Lord Chief Justice of England who was born ☿ Novemb. 1 d. 7 h. 8 m. A. M. 1609. in the Latitude of 52 d. North. THe Planets places at the time of this worthy Natives Birth are as followeth out of the Ephemerides of David Origanus with Reduction considered Longitudo Planetarum ° ′   ☉ 18 53 ♏ ☽ 14 26 ♉ ♌ 21 24 ♋ ♄ .06 16 ♒ ♃ 18 40 ♊ ♂ 24 44 ♎ ♀ 06 10 ♎ ☿ 07 18 ♐ Latitudo Planetarum ° ′   ☽ 04 34 Meridional ♄ 00 07 Meridional ♃ 01 24 Meridional ♂ 00 13 Septentrional ♀ 01 54 Septentrional ☿ 02 24 Meridional Antiscia Planetarum ☉ 11 07 ♒ ☽ 15 34 ♌ ♄ 23 44 ♏ ♃ 11 20 ♋ ♂ 05 16 ♓ ♀ 23 50 ♓ ☿ 22 44 ♑   ° ′ Ascentio Recta Solis 226 05 Ascentio Recta Temporis Substr 73 00 Ascentio Recta Medii Caeli 153 05 Ascentio Obliqua Horoscopi 243 05 For the Cusp of the Mid-heaven   ° ′ ♍   ° ′ Proxime Major 154 01 02 Ascent R. 153 05 Proxime Minor 153 04 01 Arc. Min. 153 04   0 57 01   0 01 If 57′ give 60′ what will 1′ give Answer 1′ which added to the lesser degree leaves the Cusp of the Medium Caeli in the Ecliptick in ♍ 1° 1′ For the Cusp of the Horoscope in the Latitude of Birth   ° ′ ♏   ° ′ Proxime Major 243 12 14 Ascent O. 243 05 Proxime Minor 241 46 13 Arc. Min. 241 46   1 26 1   1 19 If 1° 26′ give 60′ or one Degree what shall 1° 19′ Answer 55′ which added to the lesser degree makes the Cusp of the Horoscope in the Latitude of Birth in ♏ 13° 55′ in the Ecliptick The Cusps of the Intermediate Angles are obtained truly enough by the Domifying Tables fitted to the Latitude of Birth And The Figure of the Nativity follows The Position of Heaven at the Birth of that Excellent Man Sir Matthew Hales late Lord Chief Justice of ENGLAND ☿ November 1° 7 h 8′ manè 1609. hor. ♀ ☾ á □ ♄ ad 8 ☉ Arcturus ♀ 6. 10. ♎ 3. ♍ 1.1 Helice ☊ 21.24 ♋ 17. Auriga ♃ 18.40 ♊ 9. ♎ 24. ♂ 24.44 Lanx Australis ♏ 13.55 ● 18.53 Cor. ♏ ☿ 7.18 ☾ 14.26 ♉ 13.55 ♐ 9. Fomabant ♓ 1.1 ♑ 17. ☋ 21. 24. ♄ 6. 16. ♒ ♈ 3. ♁ 9. 28. ♈ 24. Judicium Astrologicum It is eminently observable that all the Angles of the Figure are adorned with eminent Constellations viz. The Stars of Helice are Culminant in the Mid-Heaven The South Ballance and the Sun arising in the Horoscope The Pleiades setting with the Moon in the West-Angle The glorious Star Fomahant in the North Angle A Star which the Learned Gardan saith bestows Immortality upon Mortal Men. And most of the Planets are not only very powerful in the Scheme but near great Fixed Stars also viz. Jupiter is near the Stars of Auriga and Orion Mars with the Virgins Spike a glorious Star Venus is plac'd with the Star Arcturus Mercury is in Conjunction of the Scorpions Heart It is a glorious Scheme of Heaven both in the parts thereof and in the whole Of which more anon A Table of the Dignities of the Planets in this great Persons Nativity ☉   Strong   9   ☽   Strong   16   ♄   Strong   18   ♃   Strong   2   ♂ is Strong by 9 Testimonies ♀   Strong   20   ☿   Strong   21   ♁   Strong   8   1. Of the Almutens or Lords of the Geniture From this Collection of Testimonies it is apparent that there are not less than four Planets contending and notably striving for the Dignity of Almuten or Dominator over this Learned Natives Inclinations Manners Actions Affections and Passions viz. Mercury Venus Saturn and the Moon And a fift also will not be debar'd a share in the Dominion thereof the Sun I mean And by these five Planets generally was this excellent Native Influenced all his Life time First There was Conspicuous in him the Learning Dexterity Apprehension and Ingenuity of Mercury And Men of great Places such as this Natives were had need of strong and powerful Mercuries Persons of mean Souls are not capable of being employed or fit to be entrusted in Lofty Matters This Honourable Native had a Mercury fortunate in earnest though in Sagittarius Which tells me that Astrologers are Arbitrary and impose upon the World when they assign Imbecillity or Male-effects to Planets simply for being in Detriment and not regarding other assistances Besides we know it for a certain truth That a Man may be as free in the House of another with whom he hath a fair and noble Reception as if he were in his own and had all his Tenants about him paying to him the greatest Fealty and Homage Mercury is here not only near a Kingly fixed Star and in a glorious Reception of Jupiter befriended by the kind beams of Saturn and Venus which as Astrologers tell us naturally inclines Men to be Just Prudent Honest and to be of Praise-worthy and Upright preserving Principles It shews Men propense to the study of the Law and Theologie and to all good Literature and declares such Natives to be eminent pursuers of Justice and Goodness and to be remarkably serviceable to their Prince and to the People they shall live among As an afflicted Mercury shews turbulent disturbant spirited Persons and promoters of Mischief and Discord so an assisted and fortunate Mercury denotes quiet worthy and peaceable Natures abetters to Amity Friendship and Concord and to all generous and laudable Actions among Men all which was true in this Native Such a happy Mercury doth likewise make Excellent Poets Orators Philosophers c. And was not this great Native all this For his Oratory the World sufficiently was acquainted herewith from all his Excellent Legal Orations made on the Judgment Seat For his Philosophy let