works according to his will 2 Tim. 2.26 and therefore as a spirit he is said to worke it on the spirit the body the soule he directing their influences according to his several purposes hence in Scripture Matth. 12.29 the world is called the house of Satan the severall Orbs or Sphears as the upper Roomes the earth the Sea c. the under Roomes thereof in which he governs and rules the men of the world and being called powers in heavenly places Ephes. 6.12 Shews that not as by a Law but by power he rules the powers of the ayre assisting him thereto on the Inspection whereof at best doth depend the Judgement of the Starres as it relates to Satan and wicked men Not that I denie but the influence of the Starres may alter the state of Gods Elect in their bodyes to health or sicknesse but free from that power of Satans acting them on him they being redeemed from the world and power of Satan unlesse God permit him for some particular ends Hence the scars in the bodyes of men under the severall Constellations are from them as naturall without the coactings of Satan it being common to Elect and Reprobate 8. In these very operations of Satan the divine providence no lesse appeares then in the powers of the ayre they not having power to act in the least or over the least beyond the limits of Gods permission says the Astrologer Deus regit astra yea Demonem cum astris Christ when he stayd the winds and seas he shewed his power over the powers of the ayre 9. It seems to me God sends out the Elect Angels to direct the powers of the ayre to the good of the Saints Heb. 1.14 and to keep them that they dash not their feet against a stone in all their wayes as the evill Angels on the Reprobates by whom God as vessels of wrath fits them for destruction In Jude 9. the good and evill Angels contend about the body of Moses God not suffering the bodyes of Saints to be demonized as Saturne Mars Venus Diana Mercury theeves whores murtherers c. Spirits onely fit to set out wicked men by and not good men Rev. 12. 10. I have read with admiration Heb. 2.5 He hath not subjected the future government to Angels Vide Hieronym in Gal. 4.3 Necesse esse priusquam quis credat in Christo illis arbitris viz. Angelus gubernetur 1. Implying that the government of the natural state of men in the world is subjected to Angels as the Astronomers say 2. In what Saints are naturall if subjected to good Angels 3. That the government to come that is in Christ hath other power Heb. 6.5 called the power of the world to come and not that of the ayre which is ministred by another Spirit even that of God as they are of another house another houshold even the house and houshold of God redeemed from the world and the power of Satan to God Act. 26.18 That he is denied to act in them as before whiles they lived according to the Prince of the power of the ayre 11. Satan is called the God of this world 2 Cor. 4.4 and Mat. 4.8 shewing Christ all the Kingdomes of the world and the glory of them saying He would give it him if he would worship him How farre God may make use of Satan in the preferment and fall of some by the powers of the ayre inciting men thereto or how farre he may permit him to doe it on others is not cleare but we may see it in the Contracts of mean men with him to be advanced to the Papacy and other dignities in the world And indeed in this sence by this Doctrine I suppose Balam is called a Prophet 2 Pet. 2.16 who went to the high places of Baal and in Answer to the seven Demons built seven Altars and offered seven oxen and seven Rams when the Angel of the Lord yea the Lord himselfe opposed him and his Demons with the spirits so that he cannot divine against him his eyes in former divinations were shut but now opened It s notably sayd in Jude of the Antichrists Ministry that they are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as if they had as men the influence in their way on the world as all the Planets in Heaven had acting one whiles as ♄ anon as ♃ then as ♂ anon as the ☉ and then as ☿ Retrograding opposing and joyning one with the other and ingaging the world with them of which see my expos. on Jude Now as for the true Ministry Rev. 1.20 They are sayd to be held in the right hand of Christ Againe whereas by ♃ is understood the Demon of Priests and Lawyers and the Astrologers have predicted their fall which will be most certainly accomplished it proves that that Romish Ministry as the Flammins who were first understood hereby are of the house and government of the world as they were or the divination were nothing and under the powers of the world That which is eminently considerable to prove what I have said to be truth is this the time is come in which Satan is binding that he cannot deceive the Nations any more Rev. 20.2 In which he is not permitted to direct the Planetary influences as before for whereas before in the same Conjunctions and Ecclipses he so ordered the same that he advanced error and the Rule of his Kingdome by it yet now he being bound the Influences of the powers of the ayre are such on the inferior bodyes as utterly dissolve the frame of the government of the old world Monarchy Peers Priests People and servants so oppose one another that the Rule is dissolved for the Ruler thereof being captivated he cannot deceive the Nations with the Name of Liberty or shew of Religion or the pretext of succession nor will any wayes of reconciliation serve the turne a signe of which binding appeares in the liberty granted Religion which Satan in Kings Priests People have alwayes untill now opposed persecuted c. which binding continues a thousand yeares and being loose by the powers of heaven he deceives the Nations againe Now the Lord Jesus Matth. 24. with the signes in Heaven shall be a shaking of its powers which produceth a change in the powers below signified in the warre between Nation and Nation which will be done in such a way then as never was when mens hearts will fayle them for feare looking for those things were to come on the earth viz. in the dissolution comes on the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the order and rule thereof out of which confusion ariseth the redemption of Gods people Note among these Demons some are fortunous others Infortunous others between both By which meanes the persons states natures and conditions come largely to be treated of in this Doctrine of Demons And to hold up the honour of the fortunes say they they would doe good oft-times did not the Cacodemons hinder and oppose
have dominion in such Quarters of the world and over such part of mans life c. in directions 1 Cor. 8.5 6. There are many are called Lords but to us is but one Lord Jesus Christ opposing Christ worshipped to these Demons the Heathens then worshipped and eate and dranke the bloud and flesh sacrificed to them 1 Cor. 10.21 8.10 Which was done in the Temple built to ♃ c. In which was an Idol where he was supposed to be in on earth as in heaven in his starre which meat so sacrificed sold by their Priests to such as sold meat in the shambles was an offence to the Saints It is superstition and condemned of God to name the names of these how then to name the day from them and to give the Rule of its houres to them Why ☽ on the first day must have the first houre at ☉ rising and begin the government of the day when she is in opposition to us and not seen by us appeares not to me but to confirme a Heathenish observation of the day to the Moone and the Doctrine of Diana and the preserving of her Magnificence for as God had a day of rest to his service so the Demons had theirs on which men devoted to them did visit their Temples and did sacrifice to them on their Altars Some Astrologers have said the seventh day was observed by the Jewes in honour of ♄ and that we sin not keeping it To bring the people thereunto they did no other but hold out to them how they were preserved by them and how their punishments came from them and good was conveyed by their Starres to them hourly daily yearly as in the Doctrine of Astrologie is set forth Which was the tye they had to binde them to their worship and service Acts 19.27 Asia and all the world worshipped Diana the ☽ sure the Nations that call the second day ☽ day did worship the ☽ on that day in time of these names 6. To hold out this distinction of the god Demon and his Starre as distinct by the Scripture see Acts 7.43 And ye retooke up the Tabernacle of Moloch and the starre of your god Remphan Moloch was the Demon Saturn whose starre was Remphan that is the highest of the Planets according to the Arabian Dialect so that there was the god the Tabernacle and the Starre as distinct things the worship was set up the Tabernacle the influence ascribed to the Starre as the meanes thereof and the worship given to the Demon 7. Whereas the Scripture says I would not ye should have fellowship with Demons 1 Cor. 10.20 Now where one acknowledging the Demons in their Doctrine in their dayes in their rule in their Characters in their names in the starres as theirs be not a having communion with them or no It s good to consider Levit. 18.3 and to speake and foretell by their rules Deut. 7.4 8. In the Conjunctions Retrogradations and several aspects of the Planets in the doctrine of Demons is held out what men acted as they say by them would produce among themselves as if old men melancholy envious c. having the disposition of ♄ stirred up in them according to the emergencies of the times so men borne under Mars having a spirit of warre and bloud in them are by the influence of Mars stirred up to warre and revenge So those borne under Venus are as by a spirit of venery lead to dalliance delights neatnesse and Mercury to the god Demons a man-servant to the goddesses a female who as their servant is nimble witted to councel the worst and please the best being of a false and treacherous spirit so of the Men of the Moone the Sunne c. Now the difference if it be about Dominion with the ☉ about women with Venus or Priesthood with ♃ and Saturne be of the one side and those acted by him and ♂ on the other side with those acted by him the Judgement will be what the event thereof is say they if ☿ have a hand in the business unlesse ♃ by a △ prove a Moderator if it be but in a square it s but as it were say they a falling out and not as in an ☠or an open defiance to which in agreements they compare the ⚹ and △ the signes where fixed or moveable helping in the Judgement in the undertaking whereof 1. There is not onely scientia the art and rules therein 2. But there is required in the man a spirit inclined to and acquainted with or acted by the Influence of Mercury and ♃ in a prophetick way which differs from the spirit of divination the one immediatly the other mediately by rules predicting things as in that axiom a te a scientia the knowledge without this spirit is nothing 3. This spirit is as much to inquire into the state of affayres in the world below as well as in the configurations of the heavenly bodyes above for it is confest that grounds of this art doe depend upon experiences these things would require a volume but my intent is onely in a generall way how they are opposed and what opposed and what God allowes of in the Starres sayes Mirandula Ptolemeum plus conceptui quam geniturae tribuisse 1. The seven Planets are Gods creatures called by Jude {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} erring Starres because of the irregularity of their motion sometimes direct then stationary then retrograde opposing conjoyning one with another as friends and foes 2. By these Planets power and operations the change of seasons and ayres and weathers are produced usually called by the Astrologers in receptions oppositions and other configurations apertio portarum but in the word they are indeed said to be the powers of the ayre Ephes. 2.2 Signifying that the heat the cold the moyst the wet the dry the winde the snow the hayle and exhalations are produced or wrought by these in the ayre as heat in the rising of the great Dog-starre 3. By the ayre these powers worke on the earth and on man composed of the Elements themselves were first made of as by a tacture the Starres applying themselves by the ayre to the severall bodyes of men as they agree with or are contrary to them to sicknesse or health 1. Hence some are sayd to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Moone struck 2. Others are sayd c. 4. The soules being ex traduce their Influence extends to incite some joy hate feare wrath as the temper of the body is first wrought on 5. And because man consists of a spirit immediately given of God and not made of the matter other Elementary bodyes were of remaines unwrought upon by them as being above them and not to be corrupted by them 6. To all these Satan he adds his operation Ephes. 2.2 who is the Prince or chiefe of the powers of the ayre who workes with them or by them 7. On the children of disobedience he thereby
ASTROLOGIE Proved to be the old Doctrine of Demons professed by the worshippers of Saturne Jupiter Mars Sunne and Moone In which is proved That the Planetary and fixed Starres are the Powers of the ayre which by Gods permission are directed by Satan the chiefe Power thereof by meanes whereof nothing can by their Configurations be foreseen but by Satan Farther As Satan directs the ayery powers to act by in the unbelievers according to his will so God before the Gospel used the Ministry of the Elect Angels to direct the Starry Powers for the good of his and so in the state of Antichrist After the fall of Antichrist and in the true Church still God immediatly Rules the Powers by Jesus Christ and in the thousand yeares Satan is to be bound he shall not act by the Starry Powers to deceive the Nations more when the Demon Doctrine by which the world three thousand yeares hath been deceived shall cease with the Doctrine of Antichrist the Learning profest in Academies of Aristotle c By which untill the Devill is bound he deceives the Nations Written by an unworthy witnesse of the truth of God JOHN BRAYNE LONDON Printed by M. S. for John Hancock and are to be sold at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Corn-hill 1653. Johan Pic. Mirand. in Astrol. l. 12. cap. 4. speaking of the Zodiac Hanc divisionem quasi natura non Arbitrio factam quot jam partes ipsi finxerant sibi tot influxuum vires proprietates diversas esse decreverunt tum pro numero signorum duodecim loca divisere sex supra finitorem sex infra sunt sex quoque signa sub terra sex supra semper revolvuntur Ita magno errore definitum observandum Inprimis sub quo loco quo signo planeta collocaretur alias enim ad influendum pro loci signique varietate vires adipisci c. Hermes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Porphyr Cited by Euseb. volum 6. Evangelicae praeparationis Say's that the gods in the Oracles by the Motion of the Starres did foretell things to come as when Apollo was askt when a woman with childe went with a male or female and told another that an ill day was at hand to him which Saturne and Mars had together agreed on A Souldier askt him why in such perill he should stand upon the matter the Question was about a thought he had who answered him that Mars being the Lord of his Geniture stirred him up to it And in another Answer To day says he it is best for me to say nothing of the way of the Starres upon which says Eusebius Stellarum motu impeditur TO THE ASTROLOGERS {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1 TIM. 4.1 With those that give heed to the Doctrine of Demons Greeting and good will in the Gospel of God FRiends I write not this for any offence taken from you or doe I write it to give offence to you but out of unfained love to God and the Gospel with a tender care of the good of your soules and spirits and bodyes This onely I crave that as I write without prejudice so that you also will reade the same I have writ nothing out of bitternesse of spirit if any thing seeme harsh to you know there is no more intended but an honest handling the word of truth and plaine dealing with the souls of such as it doth concerne which ought to be desired of all in our converse about the things of God to be in him that speaks for God Now so it is that a whiles Astrologie called Christian Astrologie was with some delight looked on by my selfe but when I considered the Demons in ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ their Starrs with the Heroes and Heraes in the Asterisms with the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the Zodiac the Doctrine God in mercy undeceived me and therein bound to seeke the promoting of the same good to others also 1. That Jupiter and Mercury are the Demons the Scriptures speake of appeares Act. 14.11 12. Where the Lystrians tooke Paul and Barnabas for their Gods calling Barnabas Jupiter and Paul {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Hermes or Mercury And from the Doctrine of Demons they thought Paul Mercury from his being chiefe in delivering the Message And for Diana {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which is the Moone the Ephesians Act. 19.27 she is called a Goddess she had her Temple and was esteemed of great Magnificence so that Asia and all the world worshipped her Acts 17.19 Athens was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ♂ hill where his Altar was 2. They had their Priests of which I take Dionysius called the Areopagit to have been a Priest of Mars there were the Priests of Jupiter Acts 14.13 who sacrificed Oxen to them but to Saturne and Mars were men sacrificed 3. These Priests were those men called Flammins and the old Astrologers call Philosophers who to keepe the people in a way of worshipping of them did teach that for doctrine to men that this day by tradition hath been continued and received for Astrologie which is no other then the Doctrine of Demons 4. This will appeare Act. 16.18 in that the Athenians called Pauls preaching Christ a setting forth strange Demons he shewing Christ a man dyed and rose againe was in heaven and did minister salvation to men which proves a custome among them of setting forth their Demons called by the Apostle the Doctrines of Demons that is of men-gods ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ for which they were Magi wise men Seers that did thus set out the Demons doctrine to the people and as there Prophets or Diviners predict things thereby 5. These Demons had their Starres in which they were supposed after death to be in and thereby to act on men as when they were alive Thus the Magi Matth. 2.2 Where is the King of the Jewes we have seene his Starre and are come to worship him the King is distinct from the starre so that there is the Demon or Heroe his Starre The Doctrine of the Demon and the Asterisms doe so prove one the other that one being granted the other cannot be denied as if the highest of the Planets be Saturns then Saturn is supposed to be in it and the doctrine of that Starre holds forth the Demon Saturn not the starre and so of Mars Venus c. For the nature of the starre is not knowne but by the nature of the Demon who is onely described in the Doctrine and Emblem To which Demons after the way of Heathens the houres of the day the dayes of the weeke and yeares of the world and Climates of the Earth and Cities of the Nations are said to be ruled and subjected in the Demon doctrine In opposition to which Lords for so the Astrologers say of ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☉ ☽ that they are Lords in Genitures of Houses of Ecclipses and
and destroy the good they intended by which one was beloved the other feared 2. God in Scripture gives the ends of the Starres creation to be three 1. For light 2. For seasons as summer and winter autumne and spring to sow to plant to reape Lactantius summer is from day winter from the night 3. For signes of drought and raine heat and cold winde and snow 1. Hence the Scripture speaks of the Starres Cisli which wee prophane the Scripture by calling them Hyades from the Demon Doctrine which are in the Asterisme of the Bull and are to be read the unconstant ones because they rising signified the unconstancy of the weather 2. By the other {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which was as prophanely read Orion which is an Asterism of a Heroe and pertaines to the Demon Doctrine is a great prophanation of the word the Originall understood would set out to us in the Starres the signes of the weather they brought with them which were better Astrology then the other and as much as need be knowne 3. These Asterisms continued in our translated Bible corrupt the Text and the understandings of men and seems to owne the Doctrine of the Demons then which God hates nothing more Zeph. 1.4 God would cut off the Remnant of Baal the name of the Chemarims the Priests and the worshippers of the host of Heaven with such as swear by the Lord and Malcham in which Baal hath his Chemarims his Priests his host his worshippers and those swear by him all distinct yet relating one to another and in that sence depend one upon another among whom some swear by the Lord and Malcham As among the Corinths some drinke of the Cup of the Lord and the Cup of Devils so now may it not be as dangerous to professe the Gospel and heed the Doctrine of Demons much more to professe the one and practise the other 4. We not calling them by their proper names given them of God agreeing with their nature {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but by the names of Demon gods given them by their worshippers yea more using the Characters to distinguish them by that did set out the vertue of these Demons to the world as ♄ represented in a sithe which Saturn carried in the hand of his Emblem thus ♂ Mars is represented carrying in his hand a whip and Mercury with ☿ with his staffe of Serpents c. Now so farre is this Demon way owned by us 1. God is induced to leave and deliver men up to Satan to deceive 2. Satan is ingaged and at liberty in respect of us yeelding to the temptation 3. In respect of the rest of the Demon Doctrine to lead us where or unto what he please thereof 5. In the Cabal of Astrologie they rest not in the Philosophy of the Flammins or Priests of the Demons teaching by the Starrs and the Doctrine of the Asterisms but proceed to the Chemarims Zeph. 1.4 That in the government these Demons are assisted by Angels Every Planet say they hath his presiding Angel and Legions of assistants imployd by him which Angels I take to pertain to the retinue of the god of the world called Secundarian Intelligences The good Angels are onely sent out to minister to the Elect and not otherwise 1. The Angel or Spirit of Saturn is Oriful 2. Zathariel the Spirit or Angel of Jupiter 3. Samael the Angel of Mars 4. Michael the Angel of the Sunne 5. Gabriel the Angel of the Moone 6. Anael the Spirit of Venus the Starrs and the Spirit at least 7. Raphael the Spirit of Mercury or Satan acting by Mercury Now it being so that to each of these Spirits there are so many millions of attendants as some Authors report as it is said Heb. 12.22 The Saints coming to God come to an innumerable company of Angels It seems in like manner the Astrologer coming in every figure to the seven Demons and in them come to an innumerable company of Chemarims which are above his Starres and Priests when he need take heed of the great attendants about him In going from the first Generall of Astrology the seven Planetary Starres we come to the second by the Demon Doctrine divided into two general parts 1. The Zodiac or Circle of Living Creatures called Signifer which containes the path of the Sunne his course compleating the yeare by his ascending its southern latitude and descending to its North latitude from the Equinox 2. The Asterisms contained in the Heavens between the Zodiac and the Poles North and South For the Zodiac 1. By the doctrine of Demons those twelve Asterisms the Ram ♈ the bull ♉ Gemini ♊ c. which are all said in Heaven to be alive and acted by the spirits of the gods placed them there having their Characters Starres Influence c. as the Heroes but Inferior to the Demons who gave them their being there 2. As the soule of the Rams and lesser Sheepe is in the Ram above all small Cattle and the soules of Oxen Horse Cows were in the Bull above of maidens and women in Virgo above and of men in Gemini and Sagittary Aquary 3. Hence in the Zodiac the twelve signes divided into twelve equall parts containing thirty degrees make the foure quarters of the yeare by its triplicity of which some are beastial human double bodyed c. Of the nature of fire fiery of the nature of water watery airy earthly Some are moveable others fixt then common c. but to come to the doctrine 1. Aries the Ram by Demon doctrine came thus to Heaven an Indian wanting water a Ram rose out of the Sand brought him where water was for which the man askt of Jove he might be placed among the Starres which to this day is called Aries aequinoctialis 2. By the Demon doctrine men borne under the signe of this Ram are of the nature of a Ram beastly rash lascivious unconstant of a hot and dry constitution it being the Demons Mars house and he there it makes him worse 3. An Eclipse in Aries in the 8 house or 6. brings a rot on the lesser Cattle Aries afflicted as if the soule of these below suffered in the soule of the Ram above but if it fall in Taurus then it falls on great Cattle and why because it happens in Taurus the Bull carried Europa into Creet and placed by Jupiter in Heaven now in its affliction proves the affliction of all the cattle called greater on earth 4. No man can shew any reason why in these divisions of Heaven the greater or lesser Cattle should suffer in Ecclipses more then in other but by the tradition onely taken up upon the aforesaid doctrine and fables of seduced men as all lyes doe come from the Devill 5. Nor can any reason be given why that Asterism should be placed in that part of Heaven and not in the place of the Asterisme of Leo onely it is the Doctrine