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A86498	Dæmonologie, and theologie The first, the malady, demonstrating the diabolicall arts, and devillish hearts of men. The second, the remedy: demonstrating, God a rich supply of all good. By Doctor Nathanael Homes, [sic]	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2562; Thomason E1341_2; ESTC R209143	95,747	222

to curse and seduce the people of Israel So they make merchandise of Professors selling their soules to sin and Hell for the gaine they receive by teaching such Doctrines And on the other side if people will maintaine such Impostors for teaching such their Doctrines there must be something in those Doctrines that must exceedingly please that people Now the two ingredients mentioned in this Chapter and Preached in this Age by these Varlets please unsound hearted Professors exceeding wel namely Doctrines of adultery of lusts of the flesh and of much wantonnesse and Doctrines of heresie that there is no need of a Christ no need to labour or trouble themselves with faith and repentance and the rules of the Gospell Though they were once carryed on in a way of reformation in and through the knowledge of Christ yet now they may lay aside Christ and t is their LIBERTY so to doe and their corruption of practice is their perfection as they openly professe it in these evill dayes and though in the judgement of the Scriptures and of good men they are as BRUTE BEASTS and SPOTS and BLEMISHES to the beauty of the Church yet they count it pleasure to ryot in the day time of the Gospel and if need be of the naturall day and sporting themselves in their lascivious ways though good men count them deceivings But that nor our eares nor this place wil beare it many horrid particulars might be here recited of the practises of these times They speak great swellings but are but WORDS and of vanity Though they seeme to be Wells yet not to hold the waters of life Doctrines of godlinesse but onely pitts to catch mens soules in And though they seem to be high they are but Clouds and not set to raine and drop downe the Doctrines of truth but empty Clouds carryed up and downe with the tempests of temptations of motions of their lusts and admiration of a fresh auditory to adore them for their licentious and flesh-pleasing Doctrines Sixteenthly T is prophesied in 2 Pet. 3.3 4. That in the last dayes there shall be Scoffers walking after their owne lusts and saying Where is the promise of his comming for since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation Most exactly fulfilled in these dayes thousands of people alleadging the Scriptures as these doe for their licentiousnesse but refuse them where they are against them They settle themselves in a way of walking after their owne lusts and then turne Scoffers and despisers of the Doctrine of Heaven and Hell and the immortality of the soule as mine and others eares in part can witnesse Seventeethly and lastly T is prophesied in Jude Vers 18 19. That those scoffers in the last times walking after their owne ungodly lusts should separate themselves but are sensuall not having the spirit A most high impudence yet fulfilled in these times upon many These scoffers openly making local Heaven and Hell and the reunion of soule and body after death a meer fiction they utterly make voyd the whole frame and System of the Scriptures wherein we are taught the spirit and doe receive the spirit 2 Cor. 3. and yet wil pretend the spirit They are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meer vegetable or animals in comparison of the spirit of grace yea live most sensually and contrarily to the operation of the spirit where it dwels and yet pretend to have the spirit They 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they separate segregate or put a notion of distinction on themselves in their owne opinion that they have the spirit that they are better then others that are more strict and yet the Apostle wil allow them to be but animals at the best yea Bruit beasts as yee heard 2 Pet. 2. as their lives testifie against them in that they walke after their owne lusts and not after the rules and ruleings of the spirit as it acts in them that have indeed the holy spirit Thus yee have a short survey of the mighty masse of evils of the last dayes yee have had also a parallel of those sinnes and these present times we now live in And not onely here in these Nations we live in but of other Nations beyond the Seas especially where peace and liberty have abounded after great troubles Their rotten hearted men their hellish Books and Writings and so their damnable opinions and wayes of practice have been transmitted hither so that the whole Earth the whole Christian World is corrupted before the Lord. What therefore can we expect but that the Lord should take up some such resolutions as he did Gen. 6. immediately afore the Flood to bring an universal destruction or desolation upon the generality of them that are called Professors or Christians called there the Sons of God And surely a thing to be trembled at God hath not been silent to tel as wel what shal be the judgement upon the sins of the last times as the sins of the last times And therefore if the sins of the last times be ours the judgements of the last times wil be ours unlesse some effectual course be taken For Gods threatnings are conditional in the meaning however expressed as we see in the story of Nineveh Though judgements are threatned in the same places of Scripture where we had the sins fore-prophesied 2 Tim. 3.1 Those last impious times shal be perilous times And 2 Pet. 2. Vers 1. 8. they shal bring upon themselves swift destruction whose judgement now of along time lingereth not and their damation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 3.10 The day of the Lord will come as a theefe in the night in the which the Heavens shal passe away with a great noyse and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up Yet in the same Scriptures are directions for escape to them that repent and beleeve and pray For the Apostle there tels us Vers 11. Seeing all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy Conversation and Godlinesse And what then What shall this availe against an epidemical disease of sin and a general ruine upon the Earth The Apostle answers both there and Chap. 2. That the destruction shal be to the wicked not to the godly his words there in 2 Pet. 3. Vers 13. are Neverthelesse we according to his promise expect new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwells righteousnesse And in 2 Pet. 2.4 5. c. to Ver. 10. his words and comforts are That God kept the obedient Angels though the sinning Angels he cast downe to Hell And though he spared not the old World yet he saved Noah the Preacher of righteousnesse c. And albeit hee turned the Cities of Sodom and Gomorah into ashes yet he delivered just Lot c. And upon or from all the Apostle draws an universal close of comfort that the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations though he punish the ungodly You see then it shal not be in vaine for the little flock of the godly to humble and pray when an universal storme is comming If there had been but ten righteous in Sodom it had been spared One wise Woman in Abel delivered the City And Jer. 5.1 to the same purpose So Ezek. 9.4 Mal. 3.16 17. And the Prophet speaks in general Isa 3.10 Say to the righteous it shall be well with them Therefore whereas the prophane Hereticks adulterous swearers blasphemers Atheists Papists debosht men have been eaten up by the late Warrs by thousands and a kinde of religi●●s irreligious swarme and spawne of Hereticks adulterers swearers blasphemers Atheists and all sinning miscreants are risen up in their stead whose sins are worse because sinned upor pretended principles so to doe and may so doe and therefore the cry of their sins greater let us that feare the Lord indeed cry mightily to the Lord that through the blood of Christ that cryes better things then the blood of Abel we may outcry their sins Their sins are stil extant and insolent new Warrs threatned t is no time for true Christians to be secure So shal the Catastrophe be to us as to the Israelites going to Warr with Canaan if the Achans be punished and the godly Israelites humbled Canaanites though once their Brethren yet worshipping God according to the inventions of men and not accepting Peace according to Gods rule when offered are overthrowne and the Israelites possesse their Land This is more considerable because Joshua is made a type of Christ and called Jesus and the rest in Canaan a type of our rest in a glorious estate on Earth Hebr. 4. weigh the Chapter and the Original they that can and they shall finde it so And what is sayd in that first of Joshua and in a particular case of that Warr Vers 5. Is by the same Epistle to the Hebrews Chap. 13. applyed to all beleevers in all cases And that which is spoken in that first of Joshua that all the ground ●he Israelites shall tread on should be theirs is promised to all beleevers according to Dan. 2. Dan. 7. c. in Revel 20. Amen

neither named nor knowne Yea thirdly thousands of Starrs cannot be so much as seen a minuit together as the Philosophers confesse in their discourse of Via lactea the Milky way in the Heavens to be seen in a most starry night especially in Winter Fourthly Because all the Starrs doe shine upon the earth at once joyntly and promiscuously so that they that are under them cannot by any rule from nature know what influences shall be predominant in their effects Fifthly They have more time to alter the Complexions of young people from the Cradle to manhood carryed and walking abroad I say to alter their complexion by radiation and influence then to stampe upon them an unchangable impression upon them in the secret Chamber of their birth as we see many natural men and Women not differenced by grace much altered from Melancholly to Cheerfulnesse c. So that if some Starrs in one position in an instant at birth have a power to imprint other Starrs and perhaps more prevalent have likewise a power to blot out that in many yeares and to instill a new one Sixthly There are many causes below between us and the Starrs to alter the influence of the Starrs or interrupt their native operation as the various complexion of the ayre diversity of windes the different postures and situations of men as somtimes under a direct sometimes under an oblique radation c. Seventhly Astrologers depend on Clocks and Dyals to know the posture of the Heavens at the houre of their prognosticating which Dyals and Clocks oft are false which may make a wide difference in a minuit in which as we heard some motions of the Heavens run sixty Miles Eightly The Astrologer cannot be able to allow exactly for the exaltation in the Apoge and descension in the Perige of the Planets with their swifter motion in the one then in the other so as to determine justly how much power of prevalence there may be in their influences at such changes Ninthly A man can never certainely conclude of a particular event from a cause that is most universal most remote and so but a partial cause of the thing predicted But the Starrs are no other but such a kinde of cause of mens complexions and actions and therefore are no sure grounds of prediction concerning the future afaires of men The Parents complexion Divine dispensations occasions and opportunities among men and a mans owne obedience or disobedience to God have farre more influence into man to dispose him to be or doe this or that then all the myriads of Starrs Tenthly Astrology contending for such a power of Starrs over the soule of man which is the principle of all actions inferrs as if the soule of man were ex traduce generated by the Parents First Contrary to many Scriptures Psalm 102.18 The people that shall be Created shall praise the Lord. Eccles 12.7 The spirit returnes to God that gave it whiles the body returnes to the Earth Heb. 12.9 We have had Fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits Secondly Contrary to the rules of art reason and experience Calum non agit in animam c. The Heavens cannot act directly upon the soule nor can a mans body complexionate alter or master his naturall spirit So that the To intelligere and To Velle the Acts of reason and wil doe not depend on sense For in sleep wee have strong actings of reason And when awake in the time of deepest rationall meditations the senses are uselesse and their acts suspended as if we did neither see nor heare The fourth and last Argument against Astrologie that I shal urge passing by innumerable others is That a maine part of the ba●s and bottom on which Astrologers build the structure of their Art of Prediction is but meer imagination for there is no such thing as the tenth or ninth Sphere And therefore the Zodiack placed by Astrologers in them is but a dreamed fiction yea and one of the Quondam great Astrologers M. P. will dare to say that the twelve Signes bounded as they suppose within the demensions of such a thing as a Zodiack namely the Signes of Aries Taurus Gemini c. that is a Ramme a Bull c. feigned to have power over the twelve parts of mans body are onely twelve imaginary Signes For in the HEAVENS saith he there is no such matter as a Ram a Bull c. And how saith he can it stand with reason that in a firmament FEIGNED by Poets and Philosophers a FORGED Signe which indeed is NOTHING should have any power or operation in the bodies of men Againe the very order of Government of these signes in mans body is fond and without shew of reason For according to this platforme when the Moon commeth into the first Signe Aries shee ruleth in the head and when shee commeth into the second Signe Taurus shee ruleth in the neck and so descends downe from part to part ruling two insome three dayes c. Where observe saith hee that the Moon is made to rule in the cold and moyst parts when shee is in the hot and dry Signes whereas in reason a more consonant order were this that when the Moon were-in hott and dry Signes as in Aries Leo and Sagittarius shee should rule in hott and dry parts of the body and when shee is in cold and moyst Signes she should rule in the cold and moyst parts of the body and so still governe those parts which in temperature come neerest to the Signes wherein the Moone is Beside this some learned Physitians have upon experience confessed that THE OBSERVATION OF THE SIGNE IS NOTHING MATERIALL and that there is no danger in it for guelding of Cattell or letting of blood And the vanity of the old conceit and imagination of them that have put much in the Signes appeares in the common practice of men who commonly upon Stevens day use to let blood be the Signe where it will The truth is saith he the Signe in its owne nature is neither way available being but a phantasie grounded upon supposed premises and therefore ought to be rejected as meer VANITY Thus farr he Now let me add some particulars suiting to what he hath sayd to illustrate the same and so I shall not onely confirme him but also what I affirmed my selfe in the beginning of this Argument First Touching those feigned Firmaments or Heavens called the ninth and tenth Heavens besides that the ancient famous Astronomers Plato Aristotle Hipparchus and many others knew no such thing sense also doth evince that we can be sure of no more but eight For wee see distinctly the seven Planets Sun Moon c. and their severall motions in twenty four hours c. And we can perceive the eighth Heaven of fixed Starrs knowne by their twinckling to move in one motion round the Earth in twenty foure houres

and consult with them These wise men came to Christ by the guidance of a Starr which may Justly blame the unwise who ascribe their not coming to Christ to fatal necessity or the influences of Starrs as Tertullian hath it Deonerant seipsos et malae mentis impetus vel fato vel astris imputant As Austin hath to the same purpose Falso de stellarū influxu conquerūtur mortales quod peccatū adeo voluntarium est quod si non voluntariū non est peccatū that is mortal men falsly complaine of the influence of the stars that sin is so voluntary for if it be not voluntary it is not sin Did we resist by grace our corruptions we should deceive the Astrologers by ruling over the Stars The highest God can and doth oft crosse the course of nature and often produceth that which could not be foretold by the observation of the Stars And therefore men should 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to think beyond that wee may wisely think to be wise to sobriety Certainely to foretell contingencies is the property of God himselfe Thus farre for answer to the Orators for Astrology Next wee will give a short reply to them that are more Logicall Obj. God made the starres to be signes Gen. 1. 14. therefore the knowledge of the signification of those signes is lawfull Answ God made them to be signes of naturall effects or events not of arbitrary and morall that depend on mans will on which the Starrs have no power Corpus non agit in animam A body cannot act upon the spirit of a man no more then a materiall Sword can wound an Angell Againe the Starres are not signes to us of all naturall events as to wit not of naturall contingencies to us contingent as the lighting of a Crow neere us or c. but of naturall necessaries knowne by apparent common experience As that of Solomon when they cause a north wind it drives away raine c. And that of our Saviour Mat. 16.3 speaking according to the common experience men had When the skie is red in the evening ye say it will be faire weather But when the skie is red and lowring in the morning it will be foule weather Further The Starres may be signes in regard of their motions belonging meerly to pure Astronomie as when there wil be an ecclipse though they should never be signs of any events in regard of their influences or qualitative Vertues Obj. The Starres are causes of many things here below But it cannot be unlawfull to observe causes how they produce their effects Scire est per causas scire All true knowledge is by the causes And therefore Felix qui poterit rerum eognoscere causas he is happy that knows the causes of things Ans 1. Wee sayd but now the motions of the Starrs cause ecclipses somtimes of the Moon by the interposition of the earth exactly between it and the Sun somtimes of the Sun by the direct interposition of the Moone between us and the body of the Sunne which the Astronomer though he never knew the least of the inward influentiall qualities of any of the Stars can predict And therefore all this doth add nothing at all to countenance Astrologie Secondly wee demand what causes are the Starres Not particular causes of particular events but generall common causes that work in common and alike upon all things Now no man can divine of a particular event by a generall cause unlesse he know the particular causes subordinate and their particular vertues Some give this instance that a man cannot by setting many sorts of egges under a Hen foretell what will be hatcht by the meer sitting of the Hen in common upon them all unlesse also he know the particular qualityes of those egges so from the Starres being common causes no man can foretell events unlesse he knew the kinds and qualities of causes and things subordinate to them Obj. Experience shews that Astrologers somtimes hit right Answ To this Master Perkins and other pious Learned men and with appeale to many others and of those of as great antiquity as the times of the Apostles gives this answer and with great confidence that in this there is a secret Magick at least if not an open covenant with the Devill he making supply what is wanting in the vertue of Starres and rules of Astrologie And say they this is the judgment of those that have known this Art So farre they Consonant to which wee referr the Reader to what before was confest by Mastor Brigges Saint Austin and others he makes mention of Which is the more confirmed because if the Astrologers client comes tempting him and not confiding in him that is in his skill he can do nothing but if he can admire the Artist and rely upon his skill then he can answer his desires And this is confest by them that have been great Astrologers but now repenting have left it whom if need be I can name Obj. Moses and Daniel were greatly skild in this Art For of Moses t is sayd Act. 7.22 That he was learned in all the WISDOME OF THE EGYPLIANS And of Daniel Chap. 1.17.20 That he had skill in all Learning and wisdome of the CHALDAEANS Ans If they had practised it in their younger yeeres it doth neither follow nor appeare in the Bible that they continued to practise it For wee are sure at mans estate they were precious Godly men Secondly It is sayd they had skill not that they practised it They might have skill and to use it as Saint Austin Master Perkins and Master Brigges c. to abhor and testifie against the evill of it Thirdly It is plaine that Moses was opposite to the Egyptian Magicians c and by his skill conquered and shamed them and convinced them that the finger of God was in what Moses did And of Daniel it is said that he was in skill ten times BETTER then all the Astrologers or Magicians that were in all Nebuchadnezzars Realme Dan. 1.20 Therefore his skill must needs be divine and above Astrologie Obj. Wee see and feele that the Sun and Moon and other Srarres have great power on the ayre and so by it on the bodies of men as appeares even by this that in some weathers wee are more cheerfull in some more Melancholy in some more healthy in others more sickly Answ All this is nothing at all to Astrologicall prediction of naturall contingents much lesse of voluntary moralls Nor can wee tell so much in many naturall things as to which Starre to attribute which effect seeing they all at once co-operate As a man in a juice extracted mixtly out of severall hearbs pounded together and strayned cannot by all his sences distinguish the vertues of these acuratly much lesse foretell which being medicinably applyed shal operate most what peculiar effect it shal produce least of all if this compound juice must be mingled with some other liquors as the operative qualities