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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

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

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 The yeare of oure Lorde God M. D. LIII Iohn Cooke to the Reader IN semblable manner as people beynge free of infirmities customably are not desyrous of Phisicke so those as lyue prosperously seke scarcely remedies in tribulation But if it be discretion among worldly people in peace tyme to be in a redines for the battayle and to exercyse armours before the daunger approche it is no lesse necessary for all Christians beyng borne to haue no peace but a dayly conflycte whyles they abi●● in this fleshe to preuent in prosperitie 〈…〉 suffre afflictions and to put in a redines w●●pon agaynst aduersitie considerynge we be subiecte to aduersitie troubles persecutions miseries in firmities and death And albeit in holy scripture haboundaunce is left to vs of such furniture yet our slouth and negligence is suche that we reste peaceably as if we were in assuraunce we take no sorow as thoughe we were cleare withoute daunger and not mynded to searche and prouyde municions of warre for vs defensible whiche causeth vs in tyme of affliction or death sodenly approchynge for the more parte to be founde slomberynge naked and out of a redines thus withoute resistence constrayned shamefullye to yelde our selues vnto dispayre Agaynst the whiche stormes let vs fortifye our selues with holy scripture and walke in the commaundementes of God that by the grace of his holy spirite we may he conforted in suche wyse in our couraiges that we may feare no daungers perylles nor yet death Although thende of the worlde approche at hande as by this moost necessarye and godlye pronostication set forth by the worshypful clark maister Arnolde Bogarde doctour of Phisicke resident in Bruxelles maye appeare which pronostication beyng in Latyn Frenche Dutche was delyuered vnto me by a louynge frende of myne to be translated out of Frenche into Englysh whiche I haue gladlye done Desyringe the gentle reader to accepte my good wyll And in the translation though I haue not curiously folowed the letter I haue very litle or nothynge varied from the mynde of the aucthour Fare you well LOnge tyme amiable reader I thought howe I myght not onely heale the cōmon people half blid but also those which haue knowlege to take away theyr errors desyrynge that it may profyte al men pryncipally to witnes and shewe my good wyll towarde● the magistrates and Senate of Bruxelles seynge then that in these present tumultes destructions of townes robbyng of villages and euyll reportes on all sydes all persons excepte suche as be madde gladly trust of better tyme the which thing the cōmon people were wont to looke for in the yerely pronostications as of y e Oracles of Apollo whervnto dyuers gaue more fayth then in tymes past to y e sayinges of the Sibelles Neuertheles of tentymes they varied farre frō the truth as they maye knowe whiche wyll take payne to rede our opinion herein the fartilitie of the yere is desired by the paysant or husband man Dyuers be curious to knowe yf the yeare shalbe subiect to many maladies or not and principally the phisitions and Apotecaries the man of warre enquyreth whether the confederation of the peace shalbe kept or not Of the succes of townes and gouernemente of the same enquyreth the Citezyn and handycraftman Fynally by the pronosticatours y e fortunes and encombraunces of Emperours and kynges be loked for but therin they speake soberlye for by experyence princes desyre no euyll tydynges All this is treated diuersly of many that coldly and doubteously wytnes the yere precedent M. D .lij. for of the great fluddes there chaūsed two or thre tymes not without great damage of Selande Brabant no man declared Neuerthelesse it had ben profytable to haue knowen it for thynges foresene receaueth not so muche hurte as thinges not foresene Of the warres not loked for so secretelye wroughte by the Frenche kynge agaynst themperour who aduertised his maiestie Of y e tumult of y e Iarmanes who pronosticated Of the laste weat rayny wether beyng som what damageable no man made brute If in these litle things as dayly rayne and tempestes men fayle then by a more stronger reason in thinges more secrete Thastrologiens fayle Cardanus sayth how no man can pronostike of thynges secret whiche knoweth not the daylye disposicions of the ayre We conlesse Astronomye as thother artes to be a gyfte of God amongest whom Astronomye occupyeth not the least place for sondry vtilities that they haue necessary to the life humayne She disposeth the measures ordre nombre of dayes monethes and yeares by the circuyte and mouing of the Sonne and the Mone by the whiche we knowe that the worlde lasteth not alwayes for if this good ordre of yeares were not knowen thentendement rauyshed from thyngs of time past shulde fall into innumerable errours and darckenesse And shoulde not awayt after certayn yeares thend of the generation humayne nor also of the deade retourned to lyfe shalbe of God seperated nor his holye churche from other and adourned with the rewardes perpetual There is further in the hystories dayly businesses ryght great vtilite of the whiche he that maketh no compte disprayseth the common welth and lykewyse that whych to the lyfe of man is moost excellent In the same Astrologie we haue aboundantly proposed certayne great and true signes signyfyinge many thynges yet neuerthelesse they be not to be feared nor credited as goddes but to thende that by deuyne signes we be admonyshed to know our selues and from euyll threteninges to kepe oure selues Y et alwayes trustynge in the goodnes of god we slepe in pleasures and delites which therby prouoketh his wrath towardes vs yet he chastiseth vs from our excessiue euils by some discipline as warres sterilitie inuudation sicknes burninges takyng our riches goodes and by these meanes as by men of warre as sayth Theo philacte distresseth vs of our puissances to thende that recognisyng our euyls we shuld not perysh by the which chastisemente he wyll correcte vs. Dyuers by tharte of Astronomy wold make certaine aduertisementes albeit that they know not the pleasure of God Ecclesiasticus sayth I regarde all the worke of god seyng that man cannot fynde anye reason of that which is done vnder

y e birth of Chryste vnto his passion and resurrection whiche cometh to xxxiij yeares and certayne dayes whose nomber is vnknowen And for euerye yeare of Iesus Christe they accompte so manye great yeares Mosaiques y t is to say Iubilaires and make euery yeare fyfty yeares the which iubiles semeth ryght wel to accord together for .xxxiij. Iubiles be of our Ciuile yeares M cccccc and. L. wherevnto adde certayne fewe yeares for the portion and rest of the dayes y t Chryst lyued amongest vs more thenne the sayde .xxxiii. yeares It shulde be more euident yf euerye one of the sayd yeares of the life of Iesu Christe we shulde make comparison and similitude to euery iubile of the churche then begynnynge And if the symilitude of thynges make so many yeres of Christ as of the Iubilaires of the churche it shulde be the more to accoumpte of the ende of the world but forsomuch that these thynges deuines oughte to be more subtyly and at length treated and that it pertaineth more vnto Theologiens then to medecynes we wyll make here no further mention There is other thynges that would a litle serue to this purpose as thaccomplishment parfytte of the escriptures and Prophecies insomuche that one iote is not wrytten in the holy scrypture that shall not be ▪ accomplysshed before thende of the worlde By these wordes we maye certaynelye perswade that the worlde is nowe lame and very aūcient and in maners and fashions falleth and greatly halteth Nowe lette vs pray the eternall father of oure Lorde Iesu Christ maker of thumayne gendre that to this tyme so euil and daungerous by whom merueylous sygnes sheweth vs greate calamyties for the loue of hys sayde sonne ▪ oure sauiour whom he woulde to be offered for oure synnes that he kepe his church and so by the vertue of the grace of his holye spirite he confyrme and conforte in suche wyse oure couraiges that we feare not any daungers or peryls nor alsoo the death Here we haue finished our pronostication yf the reader had not attended some thyng of the warres peace fruites of the earth and suche lyke thynges as men were accustomed to put in pronostications Our pronostication forsomuche as it is vtile and continuall of dyuers yeres maketh of suche thinges no mentiō addynge neuerthelesse that the warres whiche hathe happened in the churche in the laste dayes of the worlde that is to say discentions sectes dyuers factions and lyke thynges be more to be had in horreur then the discordes of Emperours and kynges and what is worse they be more hurtefull then shoulde be warre turquoyse Let vs praye to god that it wyl please him to be peace and accorde in his churche and as he is the selfe same veritie so to declare and manyfest the only verite and in suche wyse to accorde the hearts of prynces that they maye with one minde resist the cruell beast whiche alwayes is thursty of the Christen bloud The Lorde shall geue largelye the fruites of the earth yf we folowe the counsayle of Moyses Deutero .xi. Chap. and Leuitic .xxvi. The Lorde sayth yf you walke in my ordinaunces and kepe my commaundements and do them I wyll geue you the rayne in his tyme the earth shall geue fruyte the thresshynge shall reache vnto the vyne harueste and the vyne haruest shall reache vnto the sowynge tyme you shall eate your meate in plenteousnes and dwell in your landepeaceably and I wyllsende peace in the earth and you shall slepe without any man to make you afeard These thynges we must daylye remember to thend that GOD turne not his wrathe vpon vs and shette the heauen But lette euery man walke so in his vocacion that he asmuche as he may kepe hymselfe from offendynge God and lette vs at his hande attende his greate munificence the whiche to his owne he neuer denyed ¶ Conclusion ¶ Gentle Reader seynge that pronostications comonlye be not welcome and that men call them the bokes of lyes we wil asmuch as i vs is possible preserue ours from that vyce and haue fortified it by holy scripture and with the sayinges of the good philosophers more then by the doubteous opinions of thastrologiens this maner hath not ben longe vsed but when it shalbe in vsaige it shall haue the moore swetenes and grace for euerye tyme hath his guyse and vse of his methode or practike what he wyll we haue folowed oures semynge to vs mooste conformable and nereste the trueth And to thende that those whiche haue almooste loste theyr corage and be ouermoche fearefull we maye delyuer from theyr feare and that they shulde not fall as dyuers dyd the year past into desperation Fynallye this calamitie and myserye the whiche was wonte to come by pronostications toke his begynnyng of the phisicions for leuing the counterpois they meddled thynges agaynste the deuoir of Phisicke Reade and geue no more fayth to pronostications then they meryte and confyrme your harte in such sorte agaynst al thinges that you may lyue ioyousely and in the ende dye in the fayth of Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ Imprynted at London in Paules churcheyarde by Myllyam Awen