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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04920	Mr. John Petrige's [sic], new prophesie of this present year 1684. Wherein are foretold themost considerable events and mutations in Great-Britain, France, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Italy, &c. According to the opinion of the best astrologers.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing P624; ESTC R181495	4,380	4

Mr. John Petrige's NEW PROPHESIE OF This present Year 1684. WHEREIN Are foretold the most considerable Events and Mutations in Great-Britain France Ireland Holland Germany Italy c. According to the Opinion of the best Astrologers THat the Superior have influence on the Inferior Bodies no man that hath not given himself over to stupidity can deny but that their Influence is so great that their Effects are inevitable is more then we affirm For to what end do we disturb and amuse the World with the unpleasant Rumours of horrid and dreadful Calamities that seem approaching but to warn and incite men to a use of means for the preventing of severe Judgments which otherwise will overtake them We read in the Holy Scripture that they were placed in the Heavens for Signs of Seasons of Night and Day Winter and Summer c. Now if we besides the proper and natural meaning of the Words do likewise use a Metaphorical Interpretation of them to wit that they also are for Signs of the Night or Winter of Adversity and the Day or Summer of Prosperity I humbly conceive we do not thereby pervert the true meaning of the Scriptures And tho we are forbid in the Holy Scriptures to be afraid or dismaid at the Signs of Heaven viz. To be possessed with such a Fear as is inconsistent with our confidence in God or as disturbs us in performing the Duties we owe as Creatures to our great Creator or so as to become Infatuate that through the excess of Fear we suffer our Reason to be so far Eclipsed that we cannot put it in exercise either for our Temporal or Eternal well-Being Yet I do not see but we may Lawfully so far be admonished by them as to forsake an evil course and to deprecat that great Wrath that by our innumerable iniquities we have drawn down upon us I hope therefore that the candid Reader will concur with me in my design in publishing this following Prediction on this present Year in which I shall be as brief as possible I shall begin my Judgment from the time that the Sun entred Capricorn at which time the Face of the Heavens in the Meridian of London is thus Aquarius Nine Degrees Culminant and Gemini 14. Ascending the Moon 12. Degrees in Aquarius and Mars in Sixteen the Sun 00 Degrees in Capricorn and Venus in 8. Degrees of Capricorn Mercury 14 Degrees in Sagittary and Saturn in 4 Degrees and Jupiter in 21 Degrees of Virgo There is not one Planet well seated in the whole Scheme the Moon is applying to the body of Mars and square of Mercury these two Stars govern the Brain and the Faculties thence proceeding the Moon the substantial part and Mercury the Actions of it Now what may we expect when the two Governors of Reason are Afflicted by Mars the great Corrosive among the Stars The effects thereof will be according to the Opinion of most famous Astrologers strange Rumors effusion of Blood and much deceit and lying And this flows either from the violence of the present impending Affairs or from the effects of such pernicious and wicked Counsels that shall be contrived under the influence of this Ingress But this is further aggravated if we consider the part of the Heaven where it falls whether Ecliptically or Mundanely for the Ecliptical place of this Conjunction is directly opposite to the place of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo this doth greatly encrease its Malignity but Mundanely it happens in this Figure and Meridian too in the tenth House the Angle of Honour The great Masters of this Science do agree that the Moon in Conjunction with Mars threatens Mankind with all kinds of Calamities that belong to Mars and as they are so near Mid heaven it shews its expedition and that what depends on this Ingress will shortly appear In the beginning of this Year we meet with an opposition of Saturn and Mars in cold Signs Virgo and Pisces after which follows an Eclipse of the Sun which has a very bad influence That Epidemick Distemper of Itching after Novelties will be no less common now than it hath been these several Years past Saturn and Jupiter being got into Virgo and Saturn being there in Reception with Mercury things will be Managed with great Secrecy and Policy And the former Opposition in a little time will discover it self in making strange Divisions among the people and to see one impeaching another will be no matter of Admiration Also not a few shall pay their last debts to Nature Saturn by his Retrograde motion returns into Leo at which time many Pamphlets are dispersed for which the Authors and Printers are called to answer Sol opposes the 2 Superiors Many forsake honest Callings and turn Highway-men The Popish Priests bestir their stumps for their God is like to be taken away from them The Turk is busie in his Neighbour Countries and many shortly may taste his Mercy Mercury is opposed again by Jupiter Old Sores begin to pain The City is uneasie and the Countrey little better The Trine of Jupiter and Venus may give some ease but heals not the Wound Mercuries weakness occasions decay of Trade Saturns Square to Venus will make Women wear Tears on their Faces instead of Pearl The Effects of the Comet 1680. will I fear ere long be discovered God preserve the Life and Health of all our great Ones and our City from Contagious Distempers The Square of Sol and Saturn denotes Fears Anxieties and Imprisonment to great Ones and that Rulers and Magistrates will fall out among themselves and the Conjunction of Mars and Mercury fills the Nation with Thieves and I fear the time is at hand when no body can call any thing their own save Tribulation and Affliction The Conjunction of the Sun and Mars will have a strange Effect in some Countreys in Europe and some Prince perhaps East from England finds it true Let them therefore be wise betimes Some Money'd Men shall suffer loss and that from the breaking of some great Banker or Bankers in or about the City of London some Clergy men may be frowned upon by his Prince and several belonging to the Law turned out The Eclipse of the Sun Jul. the 3d. is very considerable It s happening in the 9th and 8th Houses and Mars the principal Lord thereof sheweth Wars Seditions Captivities Imprisonments popular Tumults displeasure of Princes also Death and detriment in Mens Bodies burning Feavers and Violent Deaths chiefly of young Men in our Lives Violences Injuries Burning of Houses and Towns Man-slaughter Rapes and Robberies In the Air Pestilence and Contagious Winds Flashing Lightnings and Whirlwinds according to Ptolemies Opinion The same Author says that its happening in a Tropick signifies mutation of Air and in publick Matters a change of Laws and Customs and that an Eclipse in Cancer brings damnage to the Fruits of the Earth and Sea affairs Saturn threatens to give some Persons of Honour