hath made the starres and the course of them to be as it were clocks of his eternall counsel and gouernmentes of such thinges in his Church cōmon weales euen as the Lord God also doth witnesse himselfe that those lightes in the firmament of heauen shoulde be fore signs of times and dayes yeeres And therefore from these thinges doe cunning Astronomers fetch their coniectures because through a certaine order which the starres doe keepe they haue by long vse obserued very many things that so from a true obseruation of principles they maye bring forth general coniectures whose euents do meruailously agree together And that ther is a certain order or a true course of the stars that wōderful agreeing together of yeres cōtinually in alteration of kingdōs religion which hath bin marked is a great proofe as by that which is alredy spoken may hereafter shal more plainely appeare Truly as often as I consider these thinges I am not onely exceedingly troubled in minde but as it were cōpelled to beleeue that that especial tyme of the end of this world is nigh at hād because the Lord among other things also hath giuen vs certaine tokens to wit that afore his comming there shal be a darkening of the sunne and moone that the qualities of the heauēs shal be troubled By which words no doubt he woulde signifie that the whole sirmament of Starres should be altered and as it were threaten a destruction We haue a notable example hereof in Noes preaching by whome the Lorde GOD did first accuse the world of disobedience before hee drowned the same for lacke of repentance wherefore let vs caste from vs both our carelesse securitie and mistruste of the promyses of GOD let vs renounce the diuell and the workes of the fleshe which are not sufferable by the word of god and let vs listen to the frendly admonition of our Sauiour Christ warning vs in these wordes Take heed least at any time your minds be Luk. 21. ouer laden with surfeting and drunkennes and cares of this life and so the sodaine day of the Lorde take you vnwares for euen as a snare it shall come vpon all which sit vpon the face of the earth be yee watchfull therfore at all times And as Matthew addeth Because ye know not the houre in whiche Mat. 25. your Lorde will come praying that yee may escape all these thinges which are to come may stand before the sonne of man O God and most mercifull father illuminate our mindes with thy holy spirite by which wee may bee prepared to all good workes in the holinesse and newnesse of life that so with Paule wee may desire to leaue this worlde and to be with Christ and so in the comming of the Lorde being found readie with oyle in our lampes and adorned with our wedding garmentes wee may finde entrance to the Lordes mariage which thou for thy sonne and his beloued spouse the Church hast prepared and appointed from the beginning of the worlde To thee therfore O heauenly father to the only begotten sonne and to the holy ghoste our comforter be all prayse honour glory for euer and euer Amen Whereas before I haue declared of manie reasons and probable coniectures from the course of times nowe I will proceede by the Art of Astronomie to shewe and set foorth in what maner and forme the faces of the heauens are at the time of these greate coniunctions of the Planets which shall happen in the ende of waterie Trigone in Anno Domini 1582. in the moneth of Februarie the 12. day about the houre of 7. of the clocke in the morning the Moone then readie to change in the second degree and 40. minutes in Pisces in coniunction with all the Planets as by a figure heereafter calculated to the learned and skilfull in this Art may appeare The like coniunctions haue neuer bin seene in these our dayes nor yet in many yeeres before for this great coniunction is of all the laste which shall happen in the ende of waterie Trigon and waterie Trigon shall haue an ende And about the eight day of April in Anno 1584. a little before that the Sun entreth into Taurus then turned into firie Trigon neither any more in the space of eight hundred yeeres the ende of waterie Trigon shal be nigh Heere followeth the figure expressing the same lights of the coniunctions of the Planets in ♓ Anno. Dom. 1583. The 12. day of Februarie hora 7. in the morning a new Moone at the Sunne rising in coniunction with 5. Planetes in the Ascendent in 2. degrees and foure minutes in ♓ AT the time of this entrance the cuspis of the East is in 7. degrees of Pisces The 2 house 9. degrees and 4. minutes of Taurus The 3. house 6. degrees 23. min. of Gemi The 4. house 20. degrees in Gemin The 5. house 2. degrees and 58. min. of Cancer The 6. house 22. degrees 50. minuts of Cancer The 7. house 7. degrees in Virg. The 8. house 9. degrees and foure min. of Scorpius The 9. house 6. degrees 23. minutes of Sagittarius The 10. house 20. degrees of Sagittari The 11. house 2. degrees and 58. minutes of Capricor The 12. house 22. and 50. minutes of Capricor The Moone is in 2. degrees and 4 minuts of Pisces pars fortunae is in the 27. degrees and 0. minutes of Pisces Saturne is in the 12. degrees and 23. minutes of Pisces Iupiter is in the 4. degree and 19. minutes of Pisces Mars is in the 9. degrees and 5. minutes of Pisces The Sunne is in the 2. degrees and 4. minutes of Pisces Venus is in the 29. degrees and 18. minutes of Aquarius Mercurie is in the first degree 0. minutes of Pisces Caput Draconis is in the 27. degree and 30. minutes of Sagittarius Cauda Draconis is in the 27. degrees 30. minuts of Gemini In viewing of the starrie skie it plainely doth appeare Great waters yea of sundrie sortes shall raigne this present yeere Like as therefore by certaine signes the same were shewed to me So I the same loe heere doe shew good Reader vnto thee Sixteene Coniunctions shall bee made with the Moone other planets betweene the 12. day of Februarie and the 26. day of the same moneth in Pisces the like number in the space of 15. dayes in one signe hath neuer beene seene in these our dayes nor yet in many other yeeres before The 12. The number 〈◊〉 6. ☌ day of Februarie next there shall bee these many coniunctions in one day The first is a coniunction of the Sunne and the Moone in Pisces A coniunction of the Moone and Mercurie in ♓ A coniunction of Venus and the Moone in pisces A coniunction of Iupiter and the Moone in Pisces A coniunction of Saturne and the Moone in Pisces A coniunction of Venus and the Moone in Pisces The 13. day of Februarie a coniūction of
Through taunting tongues scofs do delight VVith wresting wits to turn things frō the right F VVhy was thou made what is thy chief intent B To please the best of purpose I am sent F Go forth therfore the best will thee imbrace B Then feare I not abrod to shew my face Nor for il tongues that would me faine degrace FINIS ¶ Probable Coniectures from the course of tymes THE holye Scripture euerye where maketh some collation between the first Adam the sinner and the Sonne of God Christ our sauiour the second Adam also betweene the floud and vtter ouerthrow of the world euen as Christ doth signifie in these wordes Et erit sicut in diebus Noe c. And it shal be as in the daies of Noe c. Wherefore I fell firste into this consideration and afterward from one to an other into these which ensue whether the tymes paste in equalitie of the same number aunswered alike for the Lord God hath ordeined all thinges by a singular and euerlasting wisdome And experience doth teach by a certaine concurring of the Stars that in such thinges a great likenesse of tymes is woont often to happen As in the byrth of Isaack and of his offering which is a figure of Christ theré is a great consent of times For from the byrth of Isaac vntill Christe were two thousande yeares fully expyred from the creation of the world was a thousand sixe hundred fiftie sixe yeares From this number the yeares of Christes byrth vnto this present yeare 1583. doe differ 73 yeares if truely that number wer fulsilled But I doe not thinke the worlde shall continue so long that the latter time should in number exceede the former for manye coniectures which followe but what maye come to passe the Lord knoweth Likewise Moses is a figure of Christe That meruailous delyuering of Israel by Moses out of the handes of Pharao is a figure of victory of christ which on our behalf hee hath by his death on the Crosse and resurrection from the dead obtained agaynst the Deuill and death And the whole gouernment of Moses is a shadow of Christs kingdome the ouerthrow of the Iewes and destruction of Vierusalem is no doubte a token of the worldes ouerthrowe And here we shal see a wonderful consent agreeing of times that so by things paste we may looke for the euent of thinges to come vndoubtedly by the singular prouidence counsel ordinance of God for no other reason can I rēder sith I cānot perswade my self that these thinges can by chaunce so wonderfully agree together First by the true account of yeares it is playne that from the comming out of Aegipt and publishing of the Law vntyl the Natiuitie of Christ are numbered a thousande siue hundred and nine yeares Nowe if the yeares from the natiuitie of Christ vntil the time in which Christ began again to be borne to the world to be brought into the light as it were through the preaching of the gospel by Luther other famous men were numbered they are in sum a thousand fiue hundred and seuenteene Againe from the departure out of Aegypt vntill the death of Christ the yeares are accounted to be a thousande fiue hundred fourtie and two And this number also doth meruailouslye agree with that generall persecution in Germanie made by Charles the fifth the Pope which happened in the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth fourtie and seuen So that these numbers being compared together will bee founde not much to differ in quantitie of number But from these poore mentions I will go higher to those thinges which especially do agree to our purpose It is manifest that Moses gouernment vntil the destruction of Hierusalem by Titus did stand in all one thousand fiue hundred eightie and three yeares Neither is it to be doubted of any but that the destruction and wasting of Hierusalem is a manifest figure of the last ruine of the worlde and therefore doth our Lord speake of these things together and saith Those dayes were like the dayes of Noe in respect of maners and the securitie of mans life Now at length what shal we gather of these thinges That the tearme of the worldes destruction shoulde agree with former number of yeares of Moses gouernment which not the sonne of an Emperour or chiefest Monarch as was Hierusalem But the sonne of God much mightier then al Emperours an euerlasting king can bring to naught which thing Melancthon seemed plainly to poynt at in the lyfe of Velpasian in his Chronicles And the like reason is here which is in the former comparison of numbers if thinges to come may be gathered by thinges past alreadye The figure doeth altogether in this place agree and the chiefest signe of Christes cōming to wit the preaching of the Gospell hath gone afore and we doe sticke in the middest of all the other foretolde calamyties and euery yeare expect more miserie Fynally also the Astronomers write if euery skilful man in his owne facultie is to be credited that the starres in the beginning of the thousand fiue hundred eightie and foure yeares which almost together doth agree with the number aboue mentioned doth threaten very fearefull and horrible thinges of diuers alterations and other wonderfull matters orels an vtter destruction of this worlde The wordes of Cyprian Leouitius a Bohemian a most excellent Mathematition in a certain book of prognostications for a twentie yeeres frō the yeare sixtie foure to the eighty four be these Anno Domi. 1582. mense Februarii there shall happen fifteene coniunctiōs of the Planets in the beginning of Pisces After which straight wayes in the yeare eightie foure shall ensue a wonderfull mixture of al the Planets almost in Taurus about the end of March and beeginning of Aprill And which is more a litle after that shall be seene an Eclipse of the Sunn in the 18. degree 42. min. of Taurus about the head of Algol a most cruell fixed starre gouerned by Venus which shall be lynked to fiue Planets in Aries tending towards the twelfe Here saith he must we watch I thinke it meete that earthly cogitations be cast off least we be destroied being vnready for this great Coniunction is of all the last which shall happen in the end of watry Trigon And watry Trigon shall haue an end and to be turned into fiery Trigon Neither any more in the space of eight hundred years the end of watry Trigon shal be nighe But because about the end of watry Trygon this monarchy shal beginne it is likely that the same also in the end of the same Trigon shal haue an end sith the son of god himself Iesus Christ our lord euen in that end of watry Trigō took vpō him the nature of man For 6. yeares before his most glorious natiutie that same very coniunction in the extremity of Pisces in the beginning of Aries happened neither came the like since that time but whē Charls the
the Sun Iupiter in Pisces The 13. day again a coniunction of the Sun Mercurie in Pisces The 14. day of Februarie a coniunction of Iupiter Mercurie in Pisces The 16. day of Februarie a coniunction of Iupiter and Venus in Pisces The 18. day of February a coniunction of Saturne and Mercurie in Pisces The 21. day of February a coniunction of Mars and the Moone in Canc. The 22. day of February a coniunction of Saturne and the Sunne in Pisces The 23. day of Februarie a coniunction of Saturne and Venus in Pisces The 25. day of Februarie a coniunction of the Sunne and Venus in Pisces This great coniunction doth threaten strange and wonderfull thinges to happen For first after the mightie Coniunction of the two highest planets Saturne Iupiter in Cancer whiche is reckoned the fyrste signe of the aforesaide waterie triplicitie which coniunction happened in the fourth house in the moneth of Nouember at whiche time the worlde was ouerflowed with water which to this day doth and shall euer beare the name of Noahs flood suche a flood as the worlde shall neuer see agayne The next coniunction of the Superiour Planets happened in Scorpio the seconde signe of the same Triplicitie 47. yeeres before the glorious Natiuitie of our Sauiour Iesus Christ fiue yeres before the destruction of the most valerous and puissant captaine Iulius Caesar and Pompey was very hoat that violent The ende of that which Ciuil warres betweene the saide Iulius and Pom pey was a little after the same coniunction Whereupon Iulius Caesar hauing oppressed the contrarie force and valiantly subdued his enemies which defended their auncient state and common libertie did fyrst establishe this fourth most Noble Monarchie Thirdly not long after this namely sixe yeeres before the happie byrth of our Redeemer there happened a coniunction of these mightie superiour Planets Saturne and Iupiter in the last face of Pisces which is the last signe of waterie Trigon and the beginning of Aries which is the first signe of the firie Trigon which coniunction happened neuer since but onely in the dayes of the woorthie Christian Emperour Carolus Magnus Anno 789. which is almost 800. yeeres agoe But is now to happen once againe in this yeere 1583. Touching which cōiūctiō this yere now ensuing is the last coniunctiō that euer shall happen in the end of that waterie Trigon And heereafter ensueth the figure Astronomically of the said great cōiunction of Saturne Iupiter in the 8. house in Pisces Anno Domini 1583. The 28. day of Aprill hora 12. of the clocke at noone ☌ ♄ ♃ Polus Claudiocestrensis De. M. 51. 32. AT the time of this entrance the Cuspis of the East is the 27. degrees and 24. minutes of Leo. The 2. house is the 17. degrees and 49. minutes of Virgo The 3. house is the 11. degrees 34. minutes of Libra The 4. house is the 16. degrees 00. min. of Scorpio The 5 house is the 29. degrees and 27. min. of Sagitra The 6. house is the 30. degrees 55. minutes of Aquar The 7. house is the 27. degrees and 24. min. of Aquar The 8. house is the 17. degrees 49. min. of Pisces The 9. house is the 11. degrees and 34. minuts of Aries The 10. house is the 16. degrees 00. mi. of Taurus The 11. house is the 29. degrees and 2◠minutes of Gem. The 12. house is the 3. degrees and 45. minuts of Leo. The Mooue in 4. degrees and 54. min. of Sag. Pars fortunae 15. degrees and 34. min. of Pisces Saturne is in 21. degrees 00. min. of Pisces Iupiter is in 21. degrees and 00. minutes of Pisces Mars is in 4. degrees 6. min. of Leo. The Sun is in 16. degrees and 48. minutes of Taurus Venus is in 4. degrees and 6. min. of Gemin Mercurie is in 21. degrees 20. minutes of Aries Saturne is Orientall ♃ is Oriētall Mars is Occidentall ☿ Mercurie Occidentall Considering that this fourth monarchie began first about the end of watery Trigō and was afterwards weakened decayed vnder the same as appeareth by the premisses may it now seeme likely and probable enough that it shall also finally bee ended destroyed vnder the same Trigon And for as much as our Lorde and Sauiour tooke our humane nature vpon him beeing borne of the Virgin Marie in Bethlem at the end of the waterie Trigon and beginning of the firie Trigon the same nowe hapning againe may it not also signifie and portende some wonderfull and marueilous alteratiō shortly after to ensue yea why not euen that great dreadful time wherin the same Jesus Christ shall come again in vnspeakable maiestie to iudge both the quicke and the dead consuming the whole world by fire For now shall the firie Trigon raigne and all the coniunctions of the superiour Planets which hereafter shall happen shall continually be in firie signes till the accomplishmēt almost of 200. yeeres The ancient famous prophesie of Elias concerning the worldes continuāce foretelling that the same should stand 6000. yeeres 2000. vaine 2000. the lawe 2000. Christe which together make in all the final number of numbers 456. yeeres more to come do make vp the iust nūber of 6000. yeeres the full time whiche Elias speaketh of But I cannot thinke that the full computation of the number shal be filled 6000. yeeres whereof it hath alreadie contained 5544. So that not so much as 500. yeeres do now remaine of which also some euen of those that are yet behinde shall bee shortened in respect of our infinite sinnes exceeding wickednesse as it followeth in the same prophesie yea our Sauiour Christ himselfe hath promised in his Gospell written by Saint Mathew that 24. chapter that he will detract somewhat of the appointed time saying except those daies be shortned there shal no flesh be saued but for the elects sake they shal be shortened what doubt is there but that we may perswade with our selues that the comming of Christ to iudgement will not be long Of the sicknesses and infirmities this yeere of our Lord 1583. in generall throughout the yeere which are like to happen ACcording to the doctrine of the auncient Princes and diuers other famous learned in the Sciences Mathematicall It manifestly appeareth that this yeere shall raigne many painefull dangerous Feuers the blooddy Flyxe blacke Iaundies Opilation of the Liuer obstruction of the Splene Apostumes commyng of Flegme paynes in the eyes teeth Epilepsia Stitches Collicke and stone Laxes payne in the bowels Plurisies the Dropsie Cathares Rewmes small Pockes and Measles paines of the belly many maydens and women shall be vexed with diuers diseases in the Sōmer quarter these diseases shal most raign bleeding at the nose paines in the back belly Dissenteria Strangurion In Autumne the Winter quarter paynes in the throte Agina Apoplexia paines of the breast tremblyng of the hearte the
quartaine and quotidian Ague the Palsey Rewmes Plurisie the Goute and many women shall peryshe in their trauell of childe many people speechlesse in their sicknesses and sodaine death From the which and all other euils the Lorde in his mercie deliuer vs. Amen Our sinnes alas doe still procure these plagues and many more Yet if wee will ropentance shewe our Lorde hath grace in store Let vs doe as the Niniuites did when Ionas did them warne Then shall no plagues of Pestilence or sicknesse doe vs harme Thus endeth the eightie three yeere and nowe to proceede with eightie foure yeere Anno Dom. 1584 the 8. day of Aprill one in houres and 44. minutes at noone at what time the figure of the heauens is such at what time the Planets doe enter into firie triplicities LEo ascendent in the 15. degree and 12 min. The 2. house 4. degrees 54. min. of Virgo The 3. house 26. degrees 34. mi. of Virgo the 4. house 28. degrees no mi. of Libra The 5. house 12. degrees and 30. min. of Sagittarius The 6. house 20. degrees and 26. min. of Capric The 7. house 15. degrees 12. mi. of Aquar the 8. house 4. degrees and 54. min of Pisces The 9. house 26. degrees and 34. min. of Pisces The 10. house 28. degrees and no min. of Aries The 11. house 12. degrees and 30. min. of Gem. The 12. house 20. degrees 26. min of Cancer The Moone is in 11. degrees and 4 min. of Leo. Pars fortunae in 28. degrees and 8. min. of Sagit Saturne is in no degree and 14. min. of Aries Mercurie is in one degree and 22. min. of Aries ♂ Mars is in 3. degrees and 26. minutes of Aries Iupiter is in 15. degrees 20. min. of Aries The Sunne is in 28. degrees and 8. min. of Aries Venus is in the 16. degree and 52. min. of Pisces Saturne is Orientall Iupiter is Orientall Mars is orientall Venus is Occidentall Mercurie is Orientall * These Planets conioyned together in firie triplicities is a great token to bee marked of the worldes destruction that the latter daye is at hande Therefore let vs watche and bee mindful of the Lords comming The seruant which diligently watcheth at all houres for his masters commyng Mat. 24. doth in that meane season such things as his master hath appointed him is blessed For hee shall enter into his masters ioye But the seruant that liueth without care is idle watcheth not looketh not diligently vpon his office thinketh not of his masters comming smiteth his fellowes cateth and drinketh with the drunken that seruaunt I say shal haue his part with hypocrites and shall be cast into vtter darknes where weeping gnashing of teeth shall be c. Wake because ye know not what houre Mat. 24. your master will come of this bee yee sure that if the housholder knew what houre the theefe would come he would surely watch and not suffer his house to bee broken vp Therfore be ye also redie for in an houre as ye thinke not the sonne of man commeth Watch and pray that yee fall not into Mat. 26. temptation Let your loynes bee gyrte about and Luke 21. your lightes burning your selues like men that wayte for theyr master when hee will returne from the wedding that as soone as hee commeth and knocketh they may open vnto him Blessed are those seruants which the Lorde when hee commeth shall finde waking c. Take heede watche and praye for yee Mark 13. know not whan the time is And I say to al watch Take heede to your selues leaste your hearts be grieued with surfeiting and drunkennesse Luk. 21 cares of the world whē the day shal come sodenly on you For as a snare shal it come on all them that sit on the face of the earth c. Philip. 4. The Lord is at hande The daye of the Lorde shall come euen as a theefe in the night when they shall say 1 Thes 5. peace and no danger than commeth there on them sodaine distruction as the trayuailing woman with childe and they shall not escape c. Let vs not sleepe as other doe but let vs watch and be sober Bee pacient and settle your hearts for Iacob 5. the comming of the Lorde draweth nygh Beeholde the Iudge standeth before the dore Be sober and watch for your aduersary the deuil as a roring Lyon walketh about 1. Pet. 5. seeking whom hee may deuoure whom resist stedfast in the fayth The daye of the Lorde shall come as a theefe in the night 2. Pet. 3. Little children euen nowe is the laste 1. Iohn 2 time Yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tary Heb. 10. The fiue wise Virgins prepared both lampes and oyle tarying and watching for the comming of the bridgroome Therfore when he came they beeing in a readinesse went in with him into the wedding But the fiue foolish Virgins slumbred and slept so that when the Bridegoome came they were vnprepared and had no oyle in their lampes and therefore were they shutte out of the doore Watch for we know neyther the daye nor the houre when the Sunne of man shall come c. Domus Diei ♃ hora 4. min 56. ante Merid. This figure expressing the faces of the heauens of the Eclipses of the sun in the east angle about the time of the change of the moone Anno Dom. 1584. the last day of Aprill about the houre of 5. of the clock in the morning a litle after the sun rising AT the time of this entrance the cuspis of the East is the 29. degrees and 25. min of Taurus The 2. house 28. degres 34. minutes of Geminie The 3. house 14. degrees and 12. minutes of Cancer The 4. house is 28 degrees 0. minutes of Cancer The 5. house is 17. deegrees and 30. min. of Leo. The 6. house is 0. degree and 30. min. of Libra The 7. house is 29. degrees and 54. min. of Scorpio The 8. house is 20. degrees and 34. minutes of Sugittarius The 9. house is 14. degree and 12. min. of Capricorne The 10. house is 28. degrees 0. min of Capricorne The 11. house is 17. degrees and 30. min. of Aquarius The 12. house is 0. degree and 13. min. of Aries The Sun in the east Angle 18. degrees 42. min. in Taurus The Moone 17. and 49. min. applying to a Coniunction of the Sunne in the 18. degree and 42. minutes of Taurus Pars fortunae in the 26. degrees and 10. m. of Gemini in the seconde house Saturne is in 2. degrees 41. min. of Aries in the 12. house Venus in the 12. house in 11 degrees and 44. min of Aries Mars in the 12. house and 20. degrees and 24. min. of Aries Jupiter in the 12 house 20. degrees and 25 min. of Aries Mercury in the 12. house 1. degree and 48.