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A16293	A pronostication for diuers yeares ryght vtyle and profytable to al sortes of people, wherin is declared what persons hath mooste and leaste dominacions ouer the starres and elementes, whereby the iudgementes of the astrologiens be scarsely true, geuynge together great consolation to those who muche fear the constellations. Also of the fourth and laste monarchie, the whiche Charles the. v. ryghte victorious Emperoure of the Romaynes, and Edwarde the. vi. mooste noble Emperoure of great Bryttayne, by the grace of God, gouerneth, comprehendynge also brieflye some words of the last age of the world, gathered together by Master Arnold Bogarde doctour in medecyne, resident in Bruxels and translated into Englysh oute of Frenche by Iohn Coke, clarcke of the Recognysances, or vulgerly called clark of the Statutes.; Prognostication pour plusieurs années. English	Bogaert, Arnould.; Coke, John, clarke of the Kynges recognysaunce.	1553 (1553)	STC 3204; ESTC S120622	13,978	56

y e birth of Chryste vnto his passion and resurrection whiche cometh to xxxiij yeares and certayne dayes whose nomber is vnknowen And for euerye yeare of Iesus Christe they accompte so manye great yeares Mosaiques y t is to say Iubilaires and make euery yeare fyfty yeares the which iubiles semeth ryght wel to accord together for .xxxiij. Iubiles be of our Ciuile yeares M cccccc and. L. wherevnto adde certayne fewe yeares for the portion and rest of the dayes y t Chryst lyued amongest vs more thenne the sayde .xxxiii. yeares It shulde be more euident yf euerye one of the sayd yeares of the life of Iesu Christe we shulde make comparison and similitude to euery iubile of the churche then begynnynge And if the symilitude of thynges make so many yeres of Christ as of the Iubilaires of the churche it shulde be the more to accoumpte of the ende of the world but forsomuch that these thynges deuines oughte to be more subtyly and at length treated and that it pertaineth more vnto Theologiens then to medecynes we wyll make here no further mention There is other thynges that would a litle serue to this purpose as thaccomplishment parfytte of the escriptures and Prophecies insomuche that one iote is not wrytten in the holy scrypture that shall not be ▪ accomplysshed before thende of the worlde By these wordes we maye certaynelye perswade that the worlde is nowe lame and very aūcient and in maners and fashions falleth and greatly halteth Nowe lette vs pray the eternall father of oure Lorde Iesu Christ maker of thumayne gendre that to this tyme so euil and daungerous by whom merueylous sygnes sheweth vs greate calamyties for the loue of hys sayde sonne ▪ oure sauiour whom he woulde to be offered for oure synnes that he kepe his church and so by the vertue of the grace of his holye spirite he confyrme and conforte in suche wyse oure couraiges that we feare not any daungers or peryls nor alsoo the death Here we haue finished our pronostication yf the reader had not attended some thyng of the warres peace fruites of the earth and suche lyke thynges as men were accustomed to put in pronostications Our pronostication forsomuche as it is vtile and continuall of dyuers yeres maketh of suche thinges no mentiō addynge neuerthelesse that the warres whiche hathe happened in the churche in the laste dayes of the worlde that is to say discentions sectes dyuers factions and lyke thynges be more to be had in horreur then the discordes of Emperours and kynges and what is worse they be more hurtefull then shoulde be warre turquoyse Let vs praye to god that it wyl please him to be peace and accorde in his churche and as he is the selfe same veritie so to declare and manyfest the only verite and in suche wyse to accorde the hearts of prynces that they maye with one minde resist the cruell beast whiche alwayes is thursty of the Christen bloud The Lorde shall geue largelye the fruites of the earth yf we folowe the counsayle of Moyses Deutero .xi. Chap. and Leuitic .xxvi. The Lorde sayth yf you walke in my ordinaunces and kepe my commaundements and do them I wyll geue you the rayne in his tyme the earth shall geue fruyte the thresshynge shall reache vnto the vyne harueste and the vyne haruest shall reache vnto the sowynge tyme you shall eate your meate in plenteousnes and dwell in your landepeaceably and I wyllsende peace in the earth and you shall slepe without any man to make you afeard These thynges we must daylye remember to thend that GOD turne not his wrathe vpon vs and shette the heauen But lette euery man walke so in his vocacion that he asmuche as he may kepe hymselfe from offendynge God and lette vs at his hande attende his greate munificence the whiche to his owne he neuer denyed ¶ Conclusion ¶ Gentle Reader seynge that pronostications comonlye be not welcome and that men call them the bokes of lyes we wil asmuch as i vs is possible preserue ours from that vyce and haue fortified it by holy scripture and with the sayinges of the good philosophers more then by the doubteous opinions of thastrologiens this maner hath not ben longe vsed but when it shalbe in vsaige it shall haue the moore swetenes and grace for euerye tyme hath his guyse and vse of his methode or practike what he wyll we haue folowed oures semynge to vs mooste conformable and nereste the trueth And to thende that those whiche haue almooste loste theyr corage and be ouermoche fearefull we maye delyuer from theyr feare and that they shulde not fall as dyuers dyd the year past into desperation Fynallye this calamitie and myserye the whiche was wonte to come by pronostications toke his begynnyng of the phisicions for leuing the counterpois they meddled thynges agaynste the deuoir of Phisicke Reade and geue no more fayth to pronostications then they meryte and confyrme your harte in such sorte agaynst al thinges that you may lyue ioyousely and in the ende dye in the fayth of Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ Imprynted at London in Paules churcheyarde by Myllyam Awen

A Pronostication for diuers yeares ryght vtyle and profytable to al sortes of people wherin is declared what persons hath mooste and leaste dominacions ouer the starres and elementes whereby the iudgementes of the Astrologiens be scarsely true geuynge together great consolation to those who muche fear the constellations Also of the fourth and laste Monarchie the whiche Charles the .v. ryghte victorious Emperoure of the Romaynes and Edwarde the .vi. mooste noble Emperoure of great Bryttayne by the grace of God gouerneth comprehendynge also brieflye some words of the last age of the world gathered together by Master Arnold Bogarde doctour in medecyne resident in Bruxels And translated into Englysh oute of Frenche by Iohn Coke clarcke of the Recognysances or vulgerly called clark of the Statutes The yeare of oure Lorde God M. D. LIII Iohn Cooke to the Reader IN semblable manner as people beynge free of infirmities customably are not desyrous of Phisicke so those as lyue prosperously seke scarcely remedies in tribulation But if it be discretion among worldly people in peace tyme to be in a redines for the battayle and to exercyse armours before the daunger approche it is no lesse necessary for all Christians beyng borne to haue no peace but a dayly conflycte whyles they abi●● in this fleshe to preuent in prosperitie 〈…〉 suffre afflictions and to put in a redines w●●pon agaynst aduersitie considerynge we be subiecte to aduersitie troubles persecutions miseries in firmities and death And albeit in holy scripture haboundaunce is left to vs of such furniture yet our slouth and negligence is suche that we reste peaceably as if we were in assuraunce we take no sorow as thoughe we were cleare withoute daunger and not mynded to searche and prouyde municions of warre for vs defensible whiche causeth vs in tyme of affliction or death sodenly approchynge for the more parte to be founde slomberynge naked and out of a redines thus withoute resistence constrayned shamefullye to yelde our selues vnto dispayre Agaynst the whiche stormes let vs fortifye our selues with holy scripture and walke in the commaundementes of God that by the grace of his holy spirite we may he conforted in suche wyse in our couraiges that we may feare no daungers perylles nor yet death Although thende of the worlde approche at hande as by this moost necessarye and godlye pronostication set forth by the worshypful clark maister Arnolde Bogarde doctour of Phisicke resident in Bruxelles maye appeare which pronostication beyng in Latyn Frenche Dutche was delyuered vnto me by a louynge frende of myne to be translated out of Frenche into Englysh whiche I haue gladlye done Desyringe the gentle reader to accepte my good wyll And in the translation though I haue not curiously folowed the letter I haue very litle or nothynge varied from the mynde of the aucthour Fare you well LOnge tyme amiable reader I thought howe I myght not onely heale the cōmon people half blid but also those which haue knowlege to take away theyr errors desyrynge that it may profyte al men pryncipally to witnes and shewe my good wyll towarde● the magistrates and Senate of Bruxelles seynge then that in these present tumultes destructions of townes robbyng of villages and euyll reportes on all sydes all persons excepte suche as be madde gladly trust of better tyme the which thing the cōmon people were wont to looke for in the yerely pronostications as of y e Oracles of Apollo whervnto dyuers gaue more fayth then in tymes past to y e sayinges of the Sibelles Neuertheles of tentymes they varied farre frō the truth as they maye knowe whiche wyll take payne to rede our opinion herein the fartilitie of the yere is desired by the paysant or husband man Dyuers be curious to knowe yf the yeare shalbe subiect to many maladies or not and principally the phisitions and Apotecaries the man of warre enquyreth whether the confederation of the peace shalbe kept or not Of the succes of townes and gouernemente of the same enquyreth the Citezyn and handycraftman Fynally by the pronosticatours y e fortunes and encombraunces of Emperours and kynges be loked for but therin they speake soberlye for by experyence princes desyre no euyll tydynges All this is treated diuersly of many that coldly and doubteously wytnes the yere precedent M. D .lij. for of the great fluddes there chaūsed two or thre tymes not without great damage of Selande Brabant no man declared Neuerthelesse it had ben profytable to haue knowen it for thynges foresene receaueth not so muche hurte as thinges not foresene Of the warres not loked for so secretelye wroughte by the Frenche kynge agaynst themperour who aduertised his maiestie Of y e tumult of y e Iarmanes who pronosticated Of the laste weat rayny wether beyng som what damageable no man made brute If in these litle things as dayly rayne and tempestes men fayle then by a more stronger reason in thinges more secrete Thastrologiens fayle Cardanus sayth how no man can pronostike of thynges secret whiche knoweth not the daylye disposicions of the ayre We conlesse Astronomye as thother artes to be a gyfte of God amongest whom Astronomye occupyeth not the least place for sondry vtilities that they haue necessary to the life humayne She disposeth the measures ordre nombre of dayes monethes and yeares by the circuyte and mouing of the Sonne and the Mone by the whiche we knowe that the worlde lasteth not alwayes for if this good ordre of yeares were not knowen thentendement rauyshed from thyngs of time past shulde fall into innumerable errours and darckenesse And shoulde not awayt after certayn yeares thend of the generation humayne nor also of the deade retourned to lyfe shalbe of God seperated nor his holye churche from other and adourned with the rewardes perpetual There is further in the hystories dayly businesses ryght great vtilite of the whiche he that maketh no compte disprayseth the common welth and lykewyse that whych to the lyfe of man is moost excellent In the same Astrologie we haue aboundantly proposed certayne great and true signes signyfyinge many thynges yet neuerthelesse they be not to be feared nor credited as goddes but to thende that by deuyne signes we be admonyshed to know our selues and from euyll threteninges to kepe oure selues Y et alwayes trustynge in the goodnes of god we slepe in pleasures and delites which therby prouoketh his wrath towardes vs yet he chastiseth vs from our excessiue euils by some discipline as warres sterilitie inuudation sicknes burninges takyng our riches goodes and by these meanes as by men of warre as sayth Theo philacte distresseth vs of our puissances to thende that recognisyng our euyls we shuld not perysh by the which chastisemente he wyll correcte vs. Dyuers by tharte of Astronomy wold make certaine aduertisementes albeit that they know not the pleasure of God Ecclesiasticus sayth I regarde all the worke of god seyng that man cannot fynde anye reason of that which is done vnder