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A92033	Lux veritatis or, Christian judicial astrology vindicated, and demonology confuted: in answer to Nath. Homes, D.D. Wherein his allegations of the learned, reasons, divine proofs, and arguments, are particularly examined and convinced. With the legality of the art maintained and warranted by Scripture. Whereunto is annexed, a short discourse of that great eclipse of the sun, March 29. 1652. By William Ramesey Gent. student in astrologie and physick.	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.	1651 (1651)	Wing R209; Thomason E1341_1; Thomason E1351_3; Thomason E1341_1*; Thomason E1351_4; ESTC R209141	67,612	156

of the Art inconsistent with truth or foundation but first he denyeth absolutely any such viz. ground or principles at all to be in the rules of Astrologie but with what apparent falsehood malice and invective wickedness this is done shall appeare to the world by these examples following being some few questions and resolutions which by my own experience I can against all malicious adversaries affirme to be most punctually true wherefore I have thought good here to devulge them to the world that such envious carpers at this most true Art may be for ever silenced or at least that their perverseness may be apparently and vulgarly knowne in their colours but see how inveterately they traduce it notwithstanding milions of the like examples which they know not otherwise what to say for themselves unanimously this surpassing the natural capacities of their profound judgements when they so clearly see themselves by experience convinced they presently say it is impossible this should be true sure this is very strange nay I am confident this could not be done by Art this is a plaine dealing with the Devil it is witchcraft and the like simple and malicious censures or rather scandals hereon but to the business intended Die ♃ 10. Ian. 1649 10. h. 0. m. P. M. ☽ a. △ ♀ ad ⚹ ♃ Shall I receive my money and when A Gentleman a very good friend of mine having expected some money from an Vncle of his a Fathers brother and being disappointed two several returnes of the Post being therefore doubtfull of the receipt thereof propounded unto me this question Whereupon I erected this Sceame it being the punctuall time of his question I find here but two degrees ascending and that of the signe ♎ which according unto the rules of some Astrologians and indeed all that ever I met with ought not to be judged on yet I agree not alwaies with them in this point nor in many more besides this The reason then I take this question to be sufficiently radicall is because it so exactly discribeth the Querents body together with his marks besides the question concerned not the ascendant but the second House and there is 24. degrees ascending c. But to be short I find ♃ here significator of the Querents Uncle from whom this money in question is expected as being lord of the third from the fourth yet the sixth in the figure he is located in the Querents second intimating therefore his intention and willingnesse to performe the Querents desire which judgement was the more confirmed by being in ⚹ with ♀ Lady of the Querents second as also ♂ lord of the seventh which is the Uncles second in a △ to the Querents second House and ☽ separating from a △ of ♀ and immediately applying to a ⚹ of ♃ in the second both being friendly aspects and principle significators though she separated not from ♃ and applyed to ♀ yet they being both fortunes and her application was to ♃ in the querents 2d I judged as abovesaid that his Uncle had a great willingnesse to performe his desire and that he should receive the money he expected of the which I was the more confirmed by reason I found ♁ disposed of by ♀ and that within a fortnight after the time of the question the reason I nominated just that time was for that ♃ and ♀ lackt just two degrees of the perfect ⚹ aspect ♀ indeed as she is in a moveable signe might denote but dayes yet by reason ♃ is in a fixed signe which might signifie months or yeares but as the ancients teach a te et a scientia I tooke the medium therefore of these extreams which was weeks which accordingly happened and not till then for on the 25th day of the same moneth he received it notwithstanding by a Letter presently after the question a sooner time was nominated and after that not above four dayes before the day I nominated came a messenger from his Uncle about other businesse to him and yet brought it not which did seeme very strange to the Querent This Gentleman viz. the Querent till his acquaintance with me had but a weake belief of Astrologies legality or veritie I believe he is at this present in this Town and can justifie this for a truth But because some ignorant traducers of this Art do affirme that Astrologers will never undertake nay and that they cannot to resolve the querents doubts without he comes to them with a great belief of their skill and of the power of the Art I will here give you my judgement on two figures propounded not onely by unbelievers but enemies of Astrologie which were propounded by way of discourse and in their arguing with me of the verity of Astrologie The occasion of this Question was thus upon some conference of the verity of this Art of Astrologie we here undertake in this small Treatise to Vindicate a Gentlewoman of very long acquaintance with me being then in company was very invective against it insomuch she would no wise believe any one could resolve her any thing she should demand and wondred I would maintain in the least the verity thereof whereupon I desired her to propound any question to me whereupon she told me that she was confident if there were any verity therein yet I could not resolve her question her reason was because no Astrologer she told me would undertake to resolve an unbelieving querent so that I desired then the willinger to be demanded some Question the rather for that I was desirous to convince her of this weake opinion but to be short she at length after much intreaty propounded this Question as followeth ☿ 19. Decem 1649. 4. h. 30. m. P. M. ☽ a. ⚹ ☉ ad ⚹ ♂ Shall I receive the money due from the Parliament I find here the ☽ significatrix of the querent in ♏ disposed of by ♂ and he lord of the 11 whereupon I told her she depended much upon a friend or so in pretence which might happily be a souldier which I was the more confident of by reason I saw ☽ going straight to the ⚹ of ♂ but because she separated last from the ⚹ of ☉ lord of the second and so transferring the light of ☉ to ♂ I told her I feared her friend was not very faithful unto her but did under-hand seek to defraud her of what she expected of the Parliament or of as much as in him lay he could do I found also ♃ significator of the Parliament disposed of by ♂ as also ☉ lord of her second separated from a ⚹ of ♃ I acquainted her they had lately promised her faire but still I told her I did believe her martiall friend did obstruct their good willingnesse unto her and because I saw ♂ so very near the □ aspect of ♃ and that he was disposed of by ♂ I told her I was confident notwithstanding all the faire promises of which she confessed she did plentiously abound the

life of the Patient and that these times are onely to be known and judged by the Starres Fernelius a learned Physitian doth hereunto also condescend as also Ficinus for there is nothing more certain then that Astrologie doth plainly deliver rules for all the parts of Physick abovesaid which Mr. Homes I am confident if any whit read therein dare not but confesse and not onely so but teacheth also the critial dayes without which they cannot be known with any certainty wherefore it is that those Physitians ignorant in Astrologie conclude the seventh and fourteenth dayes to be dangerous when most times they are deceived and so consequently apply contrary remedies to their Patients much to their prejudice The reason of Critical dayes if not absolute destruction The reason is the ☽ by her various motion commeth sometimes sooner and sometimes latter to her □ and ☍ or quadrat and opposit part of the place she was in at the beginning of the disease viz. Sometimes she comes to her □ in seven dayes sometimes not till the eight or ninth day other times at the sixth dayes and to her ☍ sometimes at the fourteenth day sometimes at the thirteen day other times not till the sixteenth day I would faine now Mr. Homes you would shew what Art in the whole earth is more beneficial to Physick then Astrologie c. but I hasten to the remaining proofs Fourthly For health Astrologie profitable for health which none but the most ignorant and malicious wil deny since the constitution of the body the only ground wise Physitians go upon and look first too that that foundation being layd they may then fall to the rebuilding of the Patient otherwise as you have heard destruction like a house founded on the sand is to be expected Then consequently the most envious cannot but confesse and acknowledge it to be the most profitable thing for our health under the Sun Wherefore then let us see whether the husband-man will acknowledge it to be beneficial to him in his way of living viz. Husbandry Astrologie profitable for Husbandry Fifthly Husbandry and first let me aske him whether he lops his Trees from the time the Sun declines from our Horizon till he againe reenters the equinoctial point or if he knows not if he should that it wil not grow again or whether he use to sow Pease in the increase of ☽ or if so whether they wil then ever leave blooming or blossoming or whether therefore he doth not observe and remember to set them in the waine or decrease of ☽ Nay it is reported of the women in the North both of England and Scotland that they diligently observe a time of the Moon to set their Egges that they may all come to good and furthermore let me aske the Husband-man whether he observeth not a time to graffe and prune his Trees but this is so common that to spend more time hereunto were to no purpose Sixthly For rendrin a reason for Climacterical years For rendring a reason for Climacterical yeares it happening by the profection of the Planets and Horoscope ascendant or first House as ye may call it to the ☍ or □ aspects or their places in Nativities or by the motion of ♄ if he have any power in the Nativity for Ptolomie and the wisest in this Art give ♄ as much power in the decree several of yeares as the Sunne hath in months or the ☽ in dayes and if his course be observed it will bee found finished much about the same number of years as the Moones is in dayes and further that ♄ in every seven years comes either to □ or ☍ of his place in the Radix of Nativities And further know that if there be no danger as we find by experience of some mens lives at these yeares they have either some of the beneficial Planets in their eight House or the direction of the ascendant Looke Ranzovius on this subject or Aphetical places are free from all impediment and affliction of the interficient and malignant constellations Seventhly and lastly Astrologie profitable for military affaires for military Discipline History is full of examples herein and for brevities sake because I will hasten to conclude this first Chapter that I may proceed to Mr. Homes his second Section I will hear content my self with this one which the Indian Histories shew forth unto us which is that Columbus having the Art of Astrologie and being in a straight for want of Victual together with the whole Army of the King of Spaine Ferdinand and foreseeing an Eclipse of the ☽ within few daies to happen threatned the Indians he would send infinite plagues amongst them if they speedily relieved them not in token whereof they should at such a time see the ☽ light taken from them which they at first slighted but when they saw according to the former words that the Moon began to be darkened and grew so more and more and being ignorant of the cause thereof did not onely send them the victual they formerly retained from them but also threw themselves at Columbus feet asking forgivenesse So then you have had as brief as may be shewn unto you what Astrologie is that it is an Art and a lawfull Art allowed of by Scripture the antiquity of it and the utility of it there is it may be some Arts that may be beneficial or helpful to another but you see both positively and conclusively that Astrologie is generally helpful to all Arts and Sciences nay what other study in the whole world in this point is like it or able to compare with it and seeing it is so very indiscreetly and unfitly doth Mr. Homes joyn it or compare it with Augury Auruspicie Auspicie Pullarie Necromancy Sortelegie Onieromantie or Palmestry which are no Arts as he clearly seeth this is and that by the judgement of the wisest men and greatest Philosophers wherefore if he will be wiser then all these he hath been shewn by my consent he shall be elected the 8th wise man wherefore seeing truth and authority of these as well as Scripture standeth with it and distinguisheth it from these sortelegies haphazards and chances it mattereth not what either he doth or can say or do against it CHAP. II. In Answer to the opinions of the learned touching Astrologie wherein is further shewn the legality of Astrologie that the Stars are both signs and causes and that Mr Homes his quoting the Fathers and learned is meerly fallacious and envious and no wise available to his intent and purpose I Am come now to Mr Homes his second Section wherin we shal see how he vents his malice most invectively all along against Astrologie thinking he bringeth the learned to condemn it but what are the learned Schoolmen or great Philosophers to me or their sayings in this matter Truth and reason the touchstone whereby all controversies are decided further then they have truth and reason on their side