fifth and about the year 1175. this Faith was at the highest for then the Othoman Family were much increased and setled their Religion by a Law which I confess was before this time done or else this had been but a birth of this Religion and because God hath said in the Holy Scriptures that all Nations shall be converted to the Christian Faith before the Day of Judgment therefore we will consider about what time this Faith may have a Dissolution which according to the Rules of Astrology and secondary Causes if we add 584. the greater years of Mars and the Moon to 1175. it will make 1759. so that about the year Anno Christi 1759. we may expect the Dissolution of the Turks Faith for I would have Mr. Holwel as well as my Reader know that as any Religion hath a rising and increasing before it comes to its full height so it will have the like time of Diminishing before it can have its full Dissolution CHAP. IV. Treating of the Nativity of the present Emperor of Germany IN this Chapter I will first shew you how that Mr. Holwel in his Appendix tells us that this present Emperor of Germany was born on the thirtieth Day of May in the year 1640. at nine hours three minutes post Meridiem or after Noon in the Latitude of 48 Degrees and that he had seven Degrees and forty five Minutes of Scorpio on the Mid-heaven and Jupiter in four Degrees and fifty four Minutes of Capricorn as may be seen in his Scheme which he affirms to be the true one because saith he it was rectified by the Mid-heaven to the Square of Saturn and Jupiter and the Square of the Moon at which time saith he the Emperor and Empire had much Suffering for the Turks did invade him but behold his grand Mistake for I will appeal to all Artists how the Mid-heaven can come to the Square of Jupiter as he is posited in less than 150 years whereas it was directed to the Square of Saturn and the Moon about the twenty fourth year of his Age and therefore in the year 1664. but any thing will serve with such Artists to fill a Book good enough for ignorant People to read and admire for it is nothing with too many now a days of our Godly Traitors Sanctified Hypocrites Religious Atheists and Protestant Turks as Mr. Pelling titles the Fanaticks in the twelfth page of his Sermon preached on the ninth of September 1683. being a day of Thanks-giving for deliverance from the Fanatick Conspiracy to blast the Honour of Christian Kings and Potentates especially those of other Nations when they can scarce forbear our own but I will forbear to speak any more of this Mistake and proceed to a greater This Nativity published by Mr. Holwel is taken out of Mr. Gadburies Book of Comets only the time a little altered and it is the true Day but not the true Hour as hath been proved by Mr. Gadbury since he wrote that Book for any one that hath had any Discourse with any man that hath seen him or hath but seen his Effigie may very easily conjecture that this noble Emperor hath not Capricorn ascending on his Horoscope but rather Gemini and therefore I will insert a Scheme of the true time of this Emperors Birth which is as followeth and given me also by Mr. Gadbury himself Leopoldus the present Emperor of Germany was born May the 30 th 4 h. Ante Mer. Lat. 48. ☽ ☌ ♂ add ☌ ♄ This present Emperor of Germany was born the thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord 1640. at four a Clock in the Morning and christened Leopoldus Ignatius Franciscus Balthazer Joseph Falicimus in the City of Vienna At the birth of this Magnanimous Prince Gemini was on the Horoscope and the Sun in the Ascendent and Mercury Lord of the Ascendent in his own House and in the Sign of the Ascendent which are testimonies of the greatest Honour Dignity and Soveraignty and though Saturn Mars and the Moon be in the Mid-heaven yet will they not destroy the Natives Honour and Grandeur because they are not afflicted for Saturn is Lord of the tenth House and Mars and the Moon are in trine to the Sun in the Ascendent from the Mid-heaven which are rather testimonies of Honour than Disgrace and here we have Mercury Lord of the Ascendent stronger than Jupiter Lord of the Seventh the House of publick Enemies which is an eminent token that his publick Enemies shall not prevail against him yet his Position in the twelfth House may shew the Native to have many Enemies the rather being in square to Saturn but Mercury is strongest in the Figure therefore as aforesaid his Enemies can never prevail against him for the Lord of the Seventh is weak and in his fall neither can I suppose the Native to die in Battle as Mr. Holwel awards because the Lord of the Eighth doth not afflict either the Ascendent or the Moon nor is there any signification of a violent Death he hath about this time the Mid-heaven directed to the Sextile of Venus Lady of the sixth House a glorious Direction shewing that his Servants and Subjects will be faithful to him so that he need not neither will he fear either Turk or Tartar nor yet the power of Mahomet the Treachery of Count Teckely or Mr. Holwels idle Predictions nor yet any other of Mahomets lying Prophets whatsoever they shall write or predict against Christendom but let such Predictors know that God hath a Divine Providence over Christendom and will not suffer the name of Christ to be destroyed but this Emperor hath had many ill Directions in his Life past and he hath also had many Controversies and Troubles answerable to them but the main cause of this his present trouble is that he hath Lately had the Sun and Ascendent both directed to the 60 Anticians of Jupiter the Significator of the Christian Religion and I think he hath not been free from trouble since he had the Mid-heaven directed to the Square of the Sun and the Moon to the Square of Jupiter which was about ten years since and it is much to be feared he will not be free from trouble until he hath passed the Mid-heaven to the Square of Jupiter which will be about the year 1688. yet before that time he hath good Directions for about the year 1685. he hath the Moon to the Sextile of the Sun and the Sun to the Sextile of Venus Directions good enough in a mean Nativity to raise a Beggar to good Preferment much more in a Regal Nativity to give a King or Emperor Victory over his Enemies to a great degree of Worship and Adoration from all kinds of People The Moon directed to the Sextile of the Sun is held by all Astrologers to produce unto the Native honourable Acquaintance and Familiarity with some of great Rank and Quality whose Friendship he will make use of to his great advantage more
he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the square of Mars Lord of both his House of Honour and Friends Mars is also Lord of the third House shewing that his professed Friends will be at variance and break their Leagues with him and so will some of his neighbouring Nations to his great Loss Surely a great Oversight in Mr. Holwel to thing the Grand Seignior should over-run Christendom upon such Directions yet he will certainly come against Christendom again About the year 1687. he hath the Sun Moon and Ascendent directed to the Body of Saturn I cannot positively say that he will lose his Life then about but I am certain he will undergo Afflictions of body and all his Affairs go unsuccessful for some considerable time he hath also about the same time the Mid-heaven directed to the Co-Antiscians of the Sun sure under these Directions the Christians may regain what the Turks formerly took from them and thus much of the Nativity of this great Prince I will in the next place insert the Nativity of that grand Impostor Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith shewing thereby how some men are born to make and forge Lies as he did and others born to believe them CHAP. III. Mahomet Author of the Turks Faith born April the 24th 6h 30′ P. M. Anno Christi 569. Latitude 41d ☾ △ ♄ add □ ☿ THis Scheme of the Nativity of Mahomet the Author of the Turks Faith or Religion accords to the time given by the learned Doctor Addison and is very like to be true because it was ever by Astrologers concluded that the Turkish Faith first rose under Scorpio and Mars as the Christian Religion did under the Sun and Jupiter I was presented with this Scheme by my Friend and Tutor Mr. John Gadbury who also believes it true Most Writers accord that Mahomet was born in Mecca a City in Arabia the happy and Son of Abdalla a Merchant his Mother Hemina a Jew his Parents died when he was young and after their Decease he was brought up by his Uncle at sixteen years old he was bound to a Merchant named Abdalmutalif who finding him a witty Lad made him his Factor afterwards his Master dying he married his Mistress and until thirty eight years of age he followed his Merchandise travelling into many Countries where being satisfied with Wealth he began to think of high things for he was a curious searcher into both the Jews and Christian Religion being himself brought up a Pagan but Pride enflamed his heart and wrought in him a desire to be taken for a Prophet and to make men believe that he was a real Prophet he made use of his Disease which he was often troubled withal that was the Falling-sickness for he gave out that when he fell in those Fits that he then conferred with the Angel Gabriel by whom the pleasure of God was revealed to him and thus by his Delusions he perswaded the People so that they believed him to be a real Prophet or rather a God and do ever since honour and esteem him so to be Now that this Mahomet should be so much honoured and esteemed may be thought strange but if we do but consider the ignorance of People in those days and in those Countries we need not much scruple at it for the Heathens worshipped the Sun Moon and Stars esteeming them to be Gods because they knew not the true God nay some were more ignorant and worshipped Stocks and Stones also Images which their own hands had wrought esteeming them to be Gods also the Israelites unto whom God manifested himself by many Miracles Signs and Wonders and titled them his own People they believed not in him but made to themselves a Molten Calf and worshipped it saying these be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt although they knew that they came out of Aegypt a long time before they made it therefore no wonder that the Turks which were of the Seed of Ham that wicked Son of Noah whom his Father cursed should esteem such a lying Impostor as Mahomet was for a God or Saviour for History plainly saith that after the Death of Noah Ham went into Africa and there setled his Abode and from his Posterity sprang the Turks a sort of People much of his own nature and here in the Nativity of this Impostor Mahomet we find the Regal Sign Leo on the Medium Coeli and Jupiter the greater Fortune therein posited a most eminent token of Honour and that he might seem to be a setter up of a Religion contrary to that of Christ or rather the Author and Forger of malicious Lies we may consider that he hath Saturn in Libra the Horoscope of our blessed Saviour as Mr. Butler hath it in his Christologia and hath wilfully made himself an opposer of the Truth and hath established Christianity his Enemy as may be seen by Libra on the twelfth House and Saturn therein posited and Mars Lord of his Ascendent in Gemini the House of Mercury and the Moon Lady of the ninth House that being the House of Religion applying to a quadrat of Mercury and to an opposition of Jupiter might very well shew him to be both the Author of a false Religion and promoter of Lies and the Turks that accursed Generation of Ham addicted to believe them and that he should be an Enemy to the Christian Religion may well be observed from this Nativity the Moon being in Aquarius in opposition to Leo and Jupiter therein posited and in square of the Sun the Sign and Planets representing the Christian Religion The opinion of Mahomet or rather the Original of the Turks Religion may be said to take its beginning at the flight of Mahomet which was in the year Anno Christi 591. for in that year the Saracens drove him from Mecca at which time the Turks first began to settle their Religion and most Astrologers do conclude that the Turks Faith arose under Mars and the Moon and good reason may be shewed for it for in this Nativity Scorpio ascends and Mars is Lord thereof Cancer is on the Cusp of the ninth House the House of Religion and the Moon is Lady of it and may very well signifie a Rude and Savage Religion as well as People given to many Vices and lascivious Actions And to speak something of the continuance and desolation of their Faith if we take 264. the greatest years of Mars and 320. the greatest years of the Moon and add to the year of Christ 591. the year that Mahomet took his Flight it will make but 1175. a great mistake of Mr. Holwel who takes 480. for the greatest years of Mars and 260. for the Moons greatest years I wonder from what Author he had them but I suppose this is one of his own new Inventions and like his Directions of the Othoman Family being taken four years before it began as may be seen in his Appendix page the
to the Government of this World but some more forcibly than others as the Superiours being forerunners of great and strange Accidents War Slaughter and Mutations I come now to speak something of the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter and as for Mr. Holwels method of direction to that purpose in a Figure of the new or full Moon either next before or after it I think it not a safe way there to find the time of their Effects for by this way of direction round and round the Zodiac the Effects of a Conjunction would last to the end of the World and if all the Conjunctions which have been since the Creation should to this day work their Effects as they did at or soon after they happened what a miserable time should we now live in but they are not to last always for they are appointed for Signs and for Seasons for days and years and as he hath directed Saturn and Jupiter in their Conjunction in Sagitary Anno Dom. 1603. to the new Star which was in the year 1572. and the Ascendent and Midheaven of the new Moon before the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682. directed to the same new Star is to no more effect comparatively than a man being very cold should fit by a great Fire till he had warmed and refreshed himself and many years after he being in the same Extremity with Cold and coming to the same House expecting there again to warm and refresh himself but finds neither Fire nor Inhabitants there at present nor had any been there for many years past only there remained the House empty so by this direction the House or Sign of the Zodiac may be found but the new Star long time past quite out and extinguished so are the directions to the other Promitters as erroneous and frivolous But I having been atleast twenty years a Student in Astrology and other parts of the Mathematicks I have read many Authors and discoursed with Doctor Reason and Doctor Experience and they tell me that the time of the Events of Conjunctions of the superior Planets are taken two ways that is generally and particularly first generally as to the time of the whole duration of their effects take this for a general Rule that the effects of the Conjunction of any of the superior Planets continue in force but until another Conjunction of them happen which is in about twenty years and then their effects will alter according to the nature of the Sign in which it happens consideration being had to their Position and other Configurations so that the effects of that Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary in the year 1603. so much spoken of by Mr. Holwel in his Catastrophe Mundi ended in the year 1623. for at that time there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo whose effects also ended in the year 1643. and the more fully there then happening a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces a Sign of the watry Triplicity whose effects lasted but to the year 1663. for then hapned another Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitary whose effects were not different from that in 1603. I mean in their own Nature and not as the many Eclipses solar Ingresses and other Configurations altered them and their effects ceased when the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter hapned in October 1682. and was the first of the Triple Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo which hapned then and in the following year under whose effects we now are and shall so be until the year 1702 and their effects in their own nature are not like to be much different from that which hapned in the year 1623 only this in 1682. is of far greater force it being a Triple Conjunction and therefore its effects will be more powerful The effects of the Conjunctions of the Superior Planets are commonly Seditions Troubles Mutations Wars Subversions of Monarchies Kingdoms States alterations of Laws Customs Priviledges Treacheries Treasons and sometimes the Death of Emperors Kings Princes Potentates and Powers and thus much of the general Operation now we come to the particular And the better to judge of the future effects of the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo in the years 1682. and 1683. let us look back into History and see what hath hapned under such Conjunctions already past and thereby we shall be the better able to judge of their following significations In the year Anno Christi 35. being but one year after the Death and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and then the Jews waxed bitter cruel against the Disciples of our Saviour for after the death of Christ the Holy Spirit falling on them they boldly profess what they had seen and heard and that openly and Stephen being chosen to perform Holy Service in the Company of the Christians because he fervently imployed himself in publishing the Glory of Christ being laid hold on by envious Persons was stoned to death and from that time the chief of the Jews endeavoured all they could to blot out the name of the Christians by what means they could but especially Saul breathed out threatnings against them who having the largest Power made over to him from the high-Priest he then bended toward Damascus that he might oppress them but in his Journey he was affrighted and being struck to the Earth he is converted and suddenly applied himself wholly to the Worship of Christ This hapned in the third year after the death of Christ and the first after the Conjunction And this is a very good Example of what is now coming on after the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo 1682. for Jupiter being a Significator of the Christian Religion and afflicted by the body of Saturn in Leo the House of the Sun another Significator of the Christian Religion and Saturn being Significator of the Turks may well stir them up against Christendom Saturn being the most superiour Planet put great and haughty thoughts of conquering the Christians into the Turks malicious minds But I suppose that neither the Turk nor Mr. Holwel thought of nor considered that Saturn was weak in Leo and disposed of by the Sun Significator of both the Christians and their Religion for all that Saturn can do in Leo is but to stir up Christian Emperours Kings Princes and Governours to purge out all the dangerous dregs of obstinate Dissenters and Fanaticism and those of every wicked principle contrary to the well-being of Government and that in all parts of Christendom but especially in those places under the Sign Leo also to those in Sextile or Trine to it which are Aries Gemini Libra and Sagitarius so that all Countries and Cities under those Signs will in some way or other receive benefit by the means of this Conjunction rendring the Regal power like the Sun glorious and splendid but I doubt of the Conversion of the Turks under such