pass to the Eclipse of the Sun Of the Eclipse of the Sun BElla sonat sonat arma minas sonat omnla Martis All the Evils the Sword Sedition Famine Pestilence can do to Europe may be expected from the effects of this Eclipse Oh that the Princes of Europe would once learn to be wise that they would once learn to know from the Book of the Creatures what the Will of their God is before their Houses be left them desolate before their destruction comes as an armed man The time of the Eclipse and Position of Heaven at the time at London is this D.H.M. March 29.10 1. A.M. a Sol ad □ Saturn Behold the Prince of Planets the Sun cclipsed just upon his Throne upon the 29 of March this present year 1652. 〈◊〉 terrifie your eyes for if the day be clear you may see the Stars the body of the Sun will appear of a ruddyish gray colour very formidable to the ignorant multitude and God knows what other strange and supernatural sights may be seen at or neer that time some I am of opinion will and God shews none in vain It is a remarkable thing the two superier Bodies Saturn and Jupiter who always use to make three Conjunctions in one and the same Triplicity should the last time anticipate and make the third in the watry Triplicity having made but two in the 〈◊〉 their last being in the weakest and meanest sign of the Zodiack This I can neither read nor beleeve they did since the Creation of the World until these our days for we are brought forth to live in those days in which the Kingdoms of the World shall become the Kingdoms of our God and of our Lord Christ blessed be his holy Name for it How ever by this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter God manifesteth by the Book of the Creatures as well as by the Book of the Scripture that be will pull down the lofty and exalt the humble and meek and this you may read in them and the time when without a pair of Spectacles if you are but of the number of the men of Issachar 1 Chron. 12. or of their Spirit to anoint your spiritual David King who had skill in the times to teach Israel what they ought do which could not be intended concerning the Law of God because that belonged to Levi and in no wise to Issachar I tell you and I tell you but the truth the year 1655. shall not pass over your heads but you shall acknowledg one knowing man of 〈◊〉 to be of more worth then all Sion Colledg and King Harry the seventh Chappel to boot Yea so indulgent is the great God of Heaven and Earth both over proud insulting domineering Priests and over poor silly men and women whom they lead in ignorance that he will give them more significations then one or two by the Book of the Creatures even those great Eclipses of the Sun this I now handle and that other anno 1654. upon the second of August then which to our eyes nor the eyes of our fathers grandfathers great-grandfathers never saw greater nor more terrible Johannes Henricus Alstedius in his Book entiruled Speculum Mundi taking occasion to speak of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter saith It would bring a new Government into the World different from Kingly Government and indeed many years ago I fixing my mind upon that his speech set my self to study what reason might be given from the Book of the Creatures for it And although 't is probable that if I had minded other things at that time when I was minding what should become of the Princes of Europe it might have been better for me in matters of this World then now it is yet it repents me not having now an occasion to declare that to the world which by study I found out then And that this may be done methodically be pleased to take notice 1. The part of Heaven afflicted by this dismal Eclipse is the tenth House which signifies Kings Princes all Governors even from the Emperor to the Constable Generals of Armies c. 2. The Planet afflicted is Sol whose signification is the very same with the House 3. The Sign is ♈ a Regal or Kingly Sign nay the chief Sign of the Zodiack 4. The Sun is afflicted upon the very degree of his Exaltation and Mars is Lord of the place as though the Lord had given up the Princes of Europe to the Sword Beleeve me nay beleeve that Book of God which only and alone he brought to convince Job Job 38. Before the effects of this Eclipse be over the World shall see Princes are but men All this is too General to come a little to particulars That we may know what Kings and Governors are threatened by this Eclipse which will be so formidable to Europe and indeed it ayms at no small Fools It is requisite we consider what Kingdoms and Nations are under ♈ under which Sign are most of the Princes of Europe and if you add as some do such as are under ♎ ♋ and ♑ and as ptolomy would have it such as under the fiery Triplicity either few or no Princes in Europe shall scape the fury of Gods Vengeance 〈◊〉 by this Eclipse let them but look upon it and they shall lee God gives them fair warning of it I confess I do not intend to hang my Judgment upon any of those tacks but considering 1. The House is Regal 2. The Sign Regal 3. The Planet Regal and eclipsed upon the very degree of his Exaltation Thence I gather That all the Princes of Europe are threatened by it yea all those of the World where it is visible and angular together with HOGHENS MOGHENS ILLUSTRISIMO's and TITTILLADO's I cannot 〈◊〉 a quittus est to our present States I wish I could I cannot flatter neither dare I write what I think all I desire is to lead a peaceable and quiet life under them yet this I say and this I desire of them That they would be of the number of the meek of the earth and seek the Lord seek Righteousness and Judgment and IT MAY BE they may be hid in the day of the Lords wrath for his Iudgment is appearing upon the earth and who shall stand They that fear God need fear nothing else I will tell our States what true Religion is nay one of the Apostles did it before me I desire but to rub up their memories Jam. 1. 27. Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to KEEP THEMSELVES UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD and if they do so Peace shall be to them as well as to the Israel of God I am of belief that Gods special providence will not in this in the least contradict his general Gods general providence I as yet conceive to be that whereby communicating himself to his creatures he upholds one part of the Creation
AN EPHEMERIS for the Year 1652. BEING Leap year and a Year of Wonders Prognosticating The Ruine of Monarchy throughout Europe and a Change of the Law Manifested by Rational Predictions 1. From the Eclipses of the Moon 2. From that most terrible Eclipse of the Sun 3. By Monethly Observations as Seasonable Warnings given to the Kings of Europe more especially to France and Portugal By NICH CULPEPER Gent. Student Astrol. ACT. 2. 19 20. And I will shew wonders in the Heaven above and signs in the Earth beneath fire and blood and vapor of smoak The Sun shall be turned into darkness and the Moon into blood BEFORE that great and notable day of the Lord shall come London Printed for T. Vere and N. Brook and are to be sold in the Old Bayly and at the Angel in Cornhil 1652. To the Reader I May say of this my little Book as Socrates said by the dyet he had provided for his guests when one told him He had not provided half enough quoth he If my guests be honest here 's enough for them for they 'l more accept of my good will then of my food if they be dishonest here 's too much for they will never be contented with Reason And I know as well good men will pick out what 's good in my Book and make much of that and only such as are evil pick out my failings to carp at The World is come to such a pass in this our age that if a man do foolishly he 's laught at if wisely he 's 〈◊〉 and that by such brutish creatures that are so far from being rational that they know not what Reason is If God have bestowed a little more knowledg upon a few men then he hath done upon the World in general the Priests call him a Conjurer and a Witch and the justice of the Peace a Figure-flinger Pray ye tell me and tell me seriously did not God make the Sun the Moon and the Stars Did not he set them to RULE the Day and the Night Did not he appoint them for SIGNS and SEASONS And can that be a Sign which signifies nothing A man of Davids spirit will meditate on ALL the Works of the Lord I pray you you that despise Astrology wherefore do you think did God make the Stars For Sailors to sail by you say 〈◊〉 is very well and is that all Subtract the biggest of them and let me see that Sailor that can sail by the smallest of them The least of Gods Works are very considerable and worthy of our chiefest regard David infinitely admired at them and declares the doom of them that despise them or disregard them either Psal. 28. 5. Because they regard not the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands the Lord will destroy them and not build them up But to leave such whose manners shew them to be better fed then taught and come to the Honest Reader who desires to be taught Thou findest many sad Predictions in this Book which in all probability are very speedily like to be produced into act Make use of thy time while thou hast it Make thy peace with God in the first place Deny thy self of the World Do not trust in shadows Labour to spend 〈◊〉 time well God made time Do not thou trifle it out in vanity It is no Wisdom for any man to spoil that which he cannot make God made nothing to throw away but will have an account of thee bow thou hast spent thy time If thou findest my Predictions prove true know there is a God and that God is just Those that prove false will witness me to be but a man I am no more and am called Spittle-Fields next door to the Red Lion August 14 1651. Nich. Culpeper Of Eclipses happening this Year 1652. FOur Eclipses happen this Year two of the Moon and not one fewer of the Sun three of which namely two of the Moon and one and that no smal one neither of the Sun wil be visible to us if the Aire be clear however if we see them not we may happen to feel them of these only I shall treat and let the other pass as though I saw it not The first Eclipse of the Moon happens upon a terrible windy time if not rainy viz. upon Monday the 15 of March 37 minutes past 3 of the clock in the morning at which time is the apparent opposition of the Luminaries and the very middle of the Eclipse And here I cannot chuse but take notice by the way of a vulgar speech frequently used by the common people of our times whose manners shew them to be better fed then taught by far viz. when the wind blows strongly they say men are a conjuring the speech if rightly considered by the Word of God is little better then Blasphemy the Scripture saith the Lord bringeth the winds out of his treasuries and they say Conjurers bring them now which of these is the rather to be beleeved let any moderate soul that hath but any care what shall become of him another day judge The second cause or if you will the providencial cause of these winds at this time seems to me to be the Sextile of Jupiter and Mercury both of them being with fixed stars of a Mercurial nature at the very time when the Eclipse happens But to return to the Eclipse which though it be partile yet above eleven parts of 12 are darkned The face of Heaven at the midst of it appearing in this form D.H.M. March 14.15 37. P.M. 1652. ab ☠ad □ Iupiter ⚹ Iupiter Mercury Poli. 51. 34. I shall not be very large upon either of the Lunar Eclipses because my own opinion is that although their operation be great yet will they at this time shew their operations more in preparation for action then in action it self All Authors agree that many dangers ensue and those no small ones neither when 〈◊〉 Luminaries are eclipsed in one moneth as now they are The Planet here afflicted is the Moon whose influence is most shewed upon the vulgar The House of Heaven is the eight which signifies Death Sorrow Sadness which together with loss of inhoritance is like to be the effects of this Eclipse and so much the rather because Luna is Lady of the sixth The sign afflicted is 〈◊〉 Equinoctial and movable the effects will succeed the sooner The places subject to the influence of this Eclipse are Austria Alsatia Lisbone in Portugal Vienna Frankford on the Main England France Sweden Poland Denmark Burgundia Padua Naples c. These or so many of these as God pleaseth are like to be afflicted by the effects of this Eclipse but what the Affliction may probably be you shall hear more anon The Rulers of this Eclipse are Venus and Saturn Venus because she is Lady of the place wherein the Eclipse falls as also because she is the strongest Planet at the time which ought to be heeded in all
by another His special providence I take to be that by which he keeps those in a way of close walking with himself whom he hath united to himself by the person of Jesus Christ I told you this Eclipse foretold to the World the Sword Sedition Famine and Pestilence look you if the Book of the Scripture agree not with the Book of the Creatures 〈◊〉 24 6 7. Ye shall hear of wars and Rumors of wars c. For Nation shall rise up against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places I never read yet that God would take away this for the Elects sake indeed I have read that he will shorten the days for the Elects sake for Saints must not think to live in an evil World and not be partakers of the punishments of the World Mat. 24. 21 22. In those days shall be great tribulation such as never was from the beginning of the world until this time nor never shall be and except those days should be shortened no flesh should be saved but for the Elects sake they shall be shortened But to come a little closer home to the business in hand I shall first give you the Opinion of Authors concerning the Eclipse Secondly my own proclus Sol 〈◊〉 in the second face of ♈ threatens Sedition amongst Kingdoms and People a hot dry and pestilential Ayr Sadness Imprisonment and danger of death to Kings Rulers and Governors it 〈◊〉 and spoils the fruits of the Earth Thus he And the Judgment of Messahalah is layd down almost in the very same words If the Sun be eclipsed in fiery Signs it signifies the death of Kings Princes and Potentates as also of great men dryness and barrenness of the earth The matter is so apparent we need quote no other Authors The Lord of the Eclipse is Mars who according to Origanus threatens that the fruits of the Earth shall be consumed by fire heat and dryness of Ayr extorted by violence or consumed by Soldiery he threatens sickness of heat and dryness War and Bloodshed Rapine and Extortion he sets Europe together by the ears one Nation against another divides Kingdoms against themselves He raiseth Sedition and Tumults Kings are mad and Subjects stubborn violent diseases of Choler young men perish by the Sword and by the Pestilence Cities are consumed by fire and ruined Countries are spoyled by Injuries Murther Rapine and Theeving the Ayr is hot pestilential and mortal I shall desire the favour to add a word or two of my own rationally deduced from the Scheam The Planets afflicting are 1. Luna because she darkens Sol. 2. Mars because Lord of the place eclipsed 3. Saturn because in the Ascendant and in to the Luminaries The Moon Lady of the Ascendant darkening Sol in the Tenth and in his Exaltation shews that the glory of Kings shall be darkened by their Subjects or else by men of low degree and small account in this World Saturn is Lord of the Eight in the Ascendant and this threatens a Pestilence which I fear not only England but almost all Europe will feel And when honest Jupiter should help he hides his head as though he were ashamed of such actions Nam mitu in 〈◊〉 Jupiter occasu premitur As for the Clergy as they stand at state present they must down for as the Book of the Creatures shews it here by the Eclipse so the Book of the Scripture also witnesseth Joel 2. Acts 2. that when God shews wonders in the Heavens above and signs in the earth beneath when he turns the Sun into darkness and the Moon into blood then the great and notable day of the Lord is coming then will God pour out of his own Spirit upon all 〈◊〉 your sons and your daughters shall prophecy your young men shall see visions c. Indeed you shall be all taught of God and by the power of his Spirit As for such Blasphemous Creatures for men I cannot call them that say they are Christ and God and such as say Iesus Christ is again conceived and they have seen the Wench that hath him in her womb when Christ shall come in the evidence and demonstration of his Spirit God knows and I tremble to think what shall become of such Impostors The Law shall quite and clean be changed when the PRINCE OF PEACE the great LAWGIVER shall come in the Power of his Spirit and dwell in our hearts there shall be no more wranglings no more going to Law The holy Ghost the Comforter shall lead us into all truth And whence come wars and dissentions amongst us Come they not from our lusts because we are carnal Fy upon me I had almost forgot his HOLINESS the POPE For though his Holiness his House is cadent i. e. falling yet no signification of his fall can I draw from this Ecliple it hastens and you may see the time when by that Eclipse 1654. I shall onely give him a touch of it in some of my Monthly Observations Because I cannot perceive this Eclipse to touch much at the fall of Rome or her absolute Catastrophe therefore I cannot conceive the second Coming of Christ not to Judgement but to raign by his Spirit in the hearts of his Saints to be during the effects of this Eclipse this doth but make way for it If you would build a House in a wood you must first cut down the tall trees and the lower shrubs and bushes this will be done under the effects of this Eclipse but Antichrist shall be destroyed by the brightness of Christs coming Neither shall you see the effects of that Eclipse 1654 passed before it be accomplished During the effects of this Eclipse you shall see the Heathen rage and the people imagine a 〈◊〉 thing The Kings of the earth shall set themselves together and the Rulers take counsel against the Lord and against his anointed c. Yea christ shall break them with a rod of iron and 〈◊〉 them in pieces like a potters vessel During the effects of that 1654 Christ shall be set upon his holy hill of Sion As for the time when you may expect the Effects of this Eclipse to operate I desire the liberty to leave my Authors and write my own thoughts in it You shall see the beginings of the Effects and preparations for the rest for as such great things as they cannot be done in a corner so can they as little be done on a sudden the beginnings I say you shall see in July 1652 at which time Mars cuts the Ascendant of the Eclipse and the place of Saturn in it 1653 1654 and part of 1655 shall finish the Effects of it Lastly I desire you to take notice that I pretend no divine inspiration nor revelation from Angels for what I write nor any thing else besides what God teacheth me from the book of the Scripture and the book of the Creatures conjoyned together The one teacheth me what
better then thou dost thy self Mice and Rats have possessed thy decayed buildings and have been no plague at all for want of men to be a plague unto If thou wilt but at this time consider the things that belong to thy peace thy poor remnant may be saved Remember the words of Solomon Wo be to that Nation whose King is a Child Women are subject to hard labors in Child-birth this Moneth let them peruse my Book entituled A Directory for Midwives or A Guide for Women The Moneth ends as full of Whoredoms as an Egg is full of Meat He does not know himself that knows not his wife from another woman And if the German Emperor chance to change this life for another about the latter end of this Moneth remember I told you of it 1652. March hath xxxi days Moneth days Week days Moons Latitude The Sun 's eclips'd in 's throne the Ld defend us From those sad mischiefs this Eclipse portends us For suddenly doth Sol with Saturn square Wishing both Kings and people to beware Kings had as good be warn'd for down they must The dealings of the Lord are always just M. A. 1 d 0 2  2 e 1 13 Shrove Tursday 3 f 2 23  4 g 3 22  5 a 4 8  6 b 4 39 First quarter 4 minutes after 11 at night 7 C 4 56  8 d 5 0  9 e 4 48  10 f 4 25  11 g 3 51 Beware Scotland thy Counsels shall come to no effect 12 a 3 6 Look to 't Holland or else all the fat 's i' th fire 13 b 2 9  14 C 1 15 Full Moon Eclipsed 3 hours after midnight Windy 15 d 0 13  16 e 0 51  17 f 1 53  18 g 2 51  19 a 3 41  20 b 4 21  21 C 4 48  22 d 5 0 Last quarter 6 minutes after 7 at night 23 e 4 54  24 f 4 31  25 g 3 51 Lady day 26 a 2 54  27 b 1 45  28 C 0 29  29 d 0 48 New Moon about 3 of the clock in the morn 30 e 2 1  31 f 3 5  Observations on MARCH IN this Moneth Astrologers begin their Year They hold the World was created at that time when Sol entred ♈ and my self could almost afford to be of that opinion If the Year do begin then it begins but scurvily and what will the end be Kings look but poorly upon the business This Year will not please them and it will do them less good to be angry for Impedit ira animum ne possit cernere verum Kings and Magistrates theeve by Authority as thinking themselves above the Law The common people theeve and make a Law of the Sword Expect Thunder and Lightening about the 12 day of this Month in the morning The Month ends with Execution of Justice upon Malefactors and they no small fools neither Remember what Daniel told Belshazzar Dan. 5. Holland look to thy self if the beginning of January and the latter end of March be not fatal times to thee I cannot read true English from the Book of the 〈◊〉 The Sword of the angry Angel is drawn against thee and it is not yet put up into its Scabbard When thou wast few in number and little in the Land thou wast humble and thy God lookt upon thee and taught thee for he always teaches the humble then thou grewest proud and hast forgotten thy God and mindest thy self thy God knows how to bring thee poor again Thou wast a good Servant but prov'st an ill Master 't is only affliction must do thee good and thou shalt have it I tell thee of it before it is quite come upon thee Remember thy Creator before the evil days come Because there is some good things in thee thy House shall not absolutely be left thee desolate Dan 4. 26 Thy Kingdom shall be sure to thee after thou shalt have known that the Heavens do rule Wherefore let my Counsel be acceptable to you c. And thus though I forgot you in Ianuary yet I remembred you in March What remains but that you remember your selves and look to the 〈◊〉 from whence you are hewn 1652. April hath xxx days Moneth days Week days Moons Latitude Just at beginning Saturns lowring eye Molests the Earth with a disquiet sky Besides all this you shall be sure to find The ayr distemper'd with impetuous wind Mens brains are addle 〈◊〉 their dispositions To vex our State with violent Petitions S. A. 1 g 3 56 Cold and windy weather begins the Moneth 2 a 4 33  3 b 4 54  4 C 5 0  5 d 4 51 First quarter at a quarter of an hour past 4 in the afternoon 6 e 4 30 What Cony catehers are here 〈◊〉 7 f 3 51  8 g 3 15  9 a 2 23  10 b 1 25  11 C 0 24 Palm Sunday 12 d 0 40  13 e 1 43 Full Moon 17 minutes after 7 at night 14 f 2 42  15 g 3 35  16 a 4 17  17 b 4 45  18 C 4 59 Easter day 19 d 4 55  20 e 4 35  21 f 3 58 Last quarter at one of the clock in the morn 22 g 3 4 Clear weather but windy 23 a 2 3 Perilous Counsels are abroad God knows what the end will be 24 b 0 50  25 C 0 25 Mark Evangelist 26 d 1 39  27 e 2 46 New Moon half an hour past 7 at night 28 f 3 41  29 g 4 24  30 a 4 50  Observations on APRIL IF I had not known that the Devil had been a Lyar from the beginning and also ruled in the children of disobedience I should have admired that so many lying Pamphlets should have flown about the streets like Butterflies in the Sun this Spring Quarter But I know it and Admiration is the daughter of Ignorance What does the Lawyers go about to contend with the State or be they Judges or what be they Perhaps 't is Term time Lawyers a word or two with you Have you taken a Lease of your places Have you built you a Fools Paradise in the Ayr Do do and walk up and down in 't when you have done I shrewdly suspect you will act something this Moneth which will occasion your final ruine 'T is the absolute property of a Fool to go about to out-wit a wiser man then himself Learn to be wise and know this that two years shall not pass over your heads before the time comes that a 〈◊〉 de non molestando shall not be procured for you for love nor money Because a Fieri facias could not make you honest men a Scire facias shall make you know that you are but men The latter end of the Term will prove more fortunate to my Brother Commoner then the beginning 1652 May hath xxxi days Moneth days Week days Moons
warning of it 1652. October hath xxxi Dayes Moneth Dayes Weeks Dayes Moons Latitude The Sun and 〈◊〉 with the Virgins Spike Brings wholsom winds and showers this I like The Sun and Iove in sextile cleare the Ayre And tell the Husbandman it will be faire 〈◊〉 e're the Month end Sol 〈◊〉 with Saturn square Let them to whom t' belongeth have a care M. A 1 a 4 21  2 b 3 35  3 C 2 36  4 d 1 26  5 e 0 7  6 f 1 10  7 g 2 23 Full Moone halfe an houre past 3. in the morn Wind and raine 8 a 3 26  9 b 4 14  10 C 4 45  11 d 4 59  12 e 4 57  13 f 4 38  14 g 4 7 Last Quarter 43. Min. past 4. in the morning 15 a 3 24  16 b 2 34  17 C 1 39  18 d 0 39 Luke Evang. 19 e 0 23  20 f 1 25  21 g 2 23  22 a 3 16 New M. 8. min. past 9. in the morn Faire and clear weather 23 b 3 59 Tearme begins 24 C 4 33  25 d 4 54 Bitter cold winds 26 e 5 0  27 f 4 50  28 g 4 24 Simon and Jude 29 a 3 43 First Quarter halfe an houre past 9. at night 30 b 2 49  31 C 1 43  OCTOBER Observations NOw every one lookes to himselfe Can Subjects finde no other time to Rebell but when Winter drawes on A mad World Subjects would be Kings and what the Nobles would be neither themselves nor I know The Pope hath all Holinesse and no Wit perhaps neither Thou wast made Pope but onely for a Cloake for the jesuits villany Thy condemnation is of thy selfe O Rome Thou writest thy selfe a Servant of Servants and now thou art made such a foole indeed The Plague increaseth in London and the Colledge in Amen-corner cannot helpe it Praevisum nequit arte levare Malum Honesty is an excellent Herbe in the Garden of the Magistrates and Humblewort would suit the Commons very well either of them both being taken in the Morning fasting you shall be safe from Gods Vengeance that day London the latter end of this Moneth will be troublesome The Heavens give thee warning of it and so doe I. 1652 November hath xxx Dayes Moneth Days Weeks Days Moons Latitude The World 's distracted Councells Consultations Do fill the heads of the Europian Nations Embassadors are rife O cruell Fate N'ere to take Councell ere it be too late I feare a great ones Life and cause I have But Kings and Beggers levell'd are i' th Grave M. A 1 d 0 30 All Saints 2 e 0 46  3 f 2 0  4 g 3 4  5 a 3 53 Powder Treason Full Moon a little after two in the afternoone 6 b 4 57 Wind and cold Rain or Sleet 7 C 4 57  8 d 4 48  9 e 4 44  10 f 4 14  11 g 3 34  12 a 2 45 Last Quarter almost at 12 at Night 13 b 1 49  14 C 0 49  15 d 0 11  16 e 1 12  17 f 2 11  18 g 3 5  19 a 3 52  20 b 4 28  21 C 4 51 New Moon almost at 3 in the Morning 22 d 5 0  23 e 4 〈◊〉 24 f 4 28  25 g 3 49  26 a 2 55  27 b 1 51  28 C 0 41 Terme Ends 29 d 0 32 Last Quarter half an hour after 6 in the morning 30 e 1 45 Andrew Apostle NOVEMBERS Observations I Had forgotten the last Moneth that some great person may expect a Catastrophe 〈◊〉 but a change out of one World into another and that wee were all borne to What difference is there betweene a Prince and my Selfe when wee are dead nay when a Prince is but asleepe what is hee the better for his Kingdome London let thy Grandee's take no per-nicious Councell this Moneth for ' 〈◊〉 come to nothing doth not hee looke more like a Mad-man then like a Saint that 's catching Butterflies when he should be quenching his House that is on fire Thou standst humming and hawing and fending and proving when thou shouldst be looking after able Physitians to cure thy children of the Pestilence T is not a Plaister of Turbulencie mixed with a little Oyle of Nonsence and distilled through the Alembick of a Fooles braines that can cure thee at this time you will not give your Children what they desire when they are waspish neither will your God you Bitter cold weather ends the 〈◊〉 Moneth the time of the yeare considered and I hope the 〈◊〉 man when hee reades it will looke to his Cattell it may propably be too late when hee feeles it There 's a Lyon will dye neere about this Moneth you will know what I mean when it comes to passe 1652 December hath xxxi Dayes Moneth Days Weeks Days Latitude Moons Good Lord how truly this Moneth is troubled With violent actions How our feares are doubled It is impossible to live at ease For those that know not Christ the Prince of peace He doth with inward joy to 's Saints appeare His person 's lovely Thus I end the Year S. A 1 f 2 47  2 g 3 47  3 a 4 26  4 b 4 53  5 C 5 0 Full Moon half an houre after two in the morning 6 d 4 50  7 e 4 24  8 f 3 46  9 g 2 56  10 a 2 2  11 b 1 2  12 C 0 4 Last Quarter 46 Minutes after 9 at night 13 d 1 0  14 e 2 0  15 f 2 54  16 g 3 42  17 a 4 20  18 b 4 47  19 C 4 59  20 d 4 55 New Moon 20 Minutes after 7 at Night 21 e 4 35  22 f 3 57  23 g 3 4  24 a 3 2  25 b 〈◊〉 50 Christs Nativity 26 C 0 24 Steven Protomar 27 d 1 37 Iohn Evang. First Quarter almost at 3 in the afternoon 28 e 2 42 Innocents 29 f 3 38  30 g 4 24  31 a 4 49  DECEMBERS Observations THe Yeare drawes now towards an end I would willingly have written so doe our Troubles but instead of Troubles the Compositor sets Wits Oh! what a Moneth is here comming How many blessings hath God given this poore Nation and it made it as mad almost if not altogether as those were That when they came into a fertile Countrey went to erect a Tower of Babell I would have said Confusion for I thinke the word signifies no other But God came downe to see the Tower which the children of men were building and confounded their Language and so he will your Actions Nature and the God of Nature bids you be quiet if not the one will leave you and the other destroy you Ah London London hast not thou