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A65576	The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.; Rothmann, Johann. Chiromancia. English.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1538; ESTC R15152	333,516	700

the Names Genus Species efficient and final Causes of all Comets c. from p. 140. to p. 184. 11. A Discourse teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus from p. 184. to p. 189. 12. The Cabal of the Twelve Houses Astrological from Morinus from p. 189. to p. 208. 13. An Astrological Judgment upon his Majesties March began from Oxford May the Seventh One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Five from p. 208. to p. 222. 14. Bellum Hybernicale Or Irelands War Astrologically Demonstrated from the late Celestial Congress of the two Malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars in Taurus the Ascendant of that Kingdom c. from p. 222. to p. 272. 15. Merlini Anglici Errata from p. 272. to p. 311. 16. Multiplicatio effectus Siderum secreta ex Cardano from p. 312. to p. 321. 17. A brief Account of the Causes of Earth-quakes from p. 322. to p. 324. 18. Sundry excellent Rules shewing by what Laws the Weather is governed and how to discover the various Alterations of the same from p. 325. to p. 331. 19. A Collection of sundry of the Authors most Excellent Poems as Printed in several of his Loyal Works from p. 331. to p. 415. 20. Gesta Britannorum Or a succinct Chronology of the Actions and Exploits Battels Sieges Conflicts and other signal and remarkable Passages which have happened in these Dominions from the Year of Christ 1600. unto the Year 1667. from p. 416. to p. 514. 21. XEIPOMANTIA Or the Art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the Hand of Man by the Hand of Nature c. Together with a learned Philosophical Discourse of the Soul of the World and the Vniversal Spirit thereof from p. 514. to the End of the Book A SHORT ACCOUNT Of the FASTS and FESTIVALS As well of the JEWS as CHRISTIANS With the Original and End Of their INSTITUTION IT will not I hope be denyed but that as God by his Extraordinary Presence hath Hallowed and Sanctified certain places so they are his Extraordinary Works that have worthily advanced certain times for which cause they ought to be with all men that Honour God more Holy than other Days The Times so advanced are The Festivals and Fasts of the Jews Christians Of the Jewish Festivals and Fasts Some were Instituted by Divine Authority The appointment of Men. The Jewish Festivals Instituted by God are First The Sabbath or Seventh-day in every Week so called from the Hebrew Scabath which signifies a day of rest or a time set apart for Holy rest which day God consecrated to his Worship because He thereon rested from his Work of Creation The end whereof was I. Civil and Oeconomical for the ease and refreshment of their Bodies whose strength had been Exhausted by Labour Sex diebus facies Opera tua septimo autem die quiescēs ut quiescat bos tuus asinus tuns ut respiret filius ancillae tuae peregrinus Exod. 23. 2. Ecclesiastical for the worship of God and meditation upon his Divine works 3. Spiritual 1. As being a Type of that Spiritual Rest whereby we should cease from the works of the World and the Flesh that God might work in us by his word and Spirit And 2. as shadowing unto us that endless rest which all of us hope to enjoy with God in the World to come II. The Neomeniae or Feasts of New-Moons Celebrated the First day of every Month initiating with the New-Moons which was Instituted in memory of the Light Created by God to the end 1. That by this means his People might be alienated from the Superstitions and Idolatry of the Ethnicks who subjected the Months to the Planets Stars and Signs Caelestial and know that God is the only Lord Governour and Moderator of the Stars and Signs themselves and consequently of the Months and Years and Time in general And therefore give unto God the greater thanks who ordained all these things for the use and benefit of mankind 2. To Typifie mans Renovation by the Illumination of the Holy Spirit which is still required of all the faithful Nisi enim homo per Spiritum Dei renatus fuerit regnum Dei videre non poterit III. The Third ordained by God is the Pasch or Passover so called from the Hebrew Pasach or as others read it Phase which signifies to leap or to passover or beyond This was Instituted Anno Mundi 2447. and celebrated from the Fifteenth day of the First Month Abib called afterwards Nisan to the Twenty First day of the same inclusively that is for Seven days together Yet so as that the First and Last thereof viz. the Fifteenth and Twenty First were held more Festivous and sacred than the rest These Seven days were likewise called the Feast of Azymes and the First of them the Pasch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because that thereon the Paschal Lamb was eaten 1. To c●ll to mind and as it were consecrate to Eternity Gods miraculous deliverance of the Israelites from their Bondage in Egypt 2. For a sure testimony of the perpetual Mercy and Power he would shew to his People 3. To Typifie Christ Jesus and our deliverance perfected by him IV. The next Solemn Feast instituted by God is that of Pentecost so called from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but termed by the Hebrews Schesuothe that is the Feast of weeks because celebrated after the Seventh week from the former Feast of the Passover as may be seen in Exod. 34. Levit. 23. and Deut. 16. But it truly signifies the Fiftieth Solemn and Festival day from the Second of the Azymes in which sense St. Luke takes it Acts 2. where he saith Cum autem compleretur dies Pentecostes and Chap. 20. Speaking of St. Paul festinabit saith he ut si quomodo posset Pentecosten ageret Hierosolymis By this name also are meant all those Fifty days betwixt the Second of Azymes and the Fiftieth Festival day And so the Author of the Vulgar Edition understood it who renders these words of Acts 2. in the Plural Number viz. Cum complerentur dies Pentecostes c. It is also called Festum Primitiarum from the First-Fruits or the Bread Offer'd which was made of the new Fruits Exod. 23. This Feast was Instituted 1. In memory of the Law given by God on Mount Sinai the Fiftieth day after the Israelites departed out of Egypt 2. That by the Ceremonial Oblation of two Loaves made of the New-Fruits to the Lord men might be admonished they received all Fruits and so all things else for preservation of Life from the bountiful hands of God and be also excited to beseech God not only for a blessing thereupon but also to make a sanctified use thereof 3. To Typifie that Pentecost wherein Christ after he had ascended proclaimed the Law not that which was written in Tables of Stone but in the Heart and mind the Law of the New Covenant that happy day on which the First-Fruits of the Holy Spirit

thereof Otherwise we can hardly explain this matter because of his Inscrutable Majesty That therefore the Celestial Bodies are Animate is hence rightly concluded For it were absurd to deny a Life and Soul to be in Heaven and the Stars the which Inspire both Life and Soul even in the vilest of these Inferiour Bodies They give Life unto Plants which grow without Natural Seed as we see in the Mountains and Places untill'd So likewise to the Earth For if a Lump be taken out of the Bowels thereof and for some time exposed to the Rays of the Sun it yieldeth Grass or some Herbs oftentimes the twiggs of little Trees The Stars also bestow Life upon Animals not generated by Copulation Nor can we be so stupid as to imagine that Plants Trees c. are of a Nobler Condition than the Celestial Bodies This manifest perpetual Operation cannot come but from a Pure and Cleansed Body These things I suppose are sufficient to prove the World hath a Soul placed in Heaven as in the most Noble Part thereof But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved that these Celestial Souls are Rational and participate of the Divine Mind The Matter is not obscure For if the World as Plato saith be the best effect that could be of goodness it self That is of GOD for we Germans so express it because Got sounds nothing else with us than Gut if we rightly enquire the Reason of the Idiom it must certainly participate not only of Life Sense and Reason but also of Intelligence The Soul is the Perfection of the Body And that Body most Perfect which hath the Perfectest Soul Wherefore if the Celestial Bodies be most Perfect they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect Souls The Heavens therefore do Participate of the Intellect and Mind Which very thing the Platonicks plainly approve by Musical Concords For seeing that Musical Concord is as it were Living Rational and Effica●ious what Resemblance hath it unto Life it self how Pleasing is it to the Mind and even Ravisheth the whole Man And which is more the Mind and all things else are made by the Soul By her they are preserved by her they are moved And therefore Plato did not amiss when he Described the Soul to be she that made preserved and moved all Natural things especially by Musical Numbers and Proportion constituted I say by Numbers not Mathematical as some Calumniate but by Ideal and Metaphysical Proportions of Numbers This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion because that by an Aërial Nature posited in Motion it moveth the Body By a Purified Air it stirs up the Aërial Spirit the Chain of Soul and Body By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection By signification it Operates upon the Mind Lastly through this Motion of the subtil Air it penetrates vehemently It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation And by its conform Quality poureth out it self with a wonderful Pleasure By its Nature as well Spiritual as Material it at once Ravisheth and Claimeth all that is Man Wherefore let us seriously consider how the Sounds of most sweet Musick elevate and as it were double and treble our Minds And in like sort judge the Melody of the Celestial Bodies who now by a slower but anon by a swifter Motion produce a tone that is Grave or Acute Whereunto agree in these Sublunaries Gravity and Levity Cold and Heat Moisture and Dryness of Elements So likewise Matter and Form in the G●neration of things Meekness and Magnanimity Temperance and Fortitude in Humane Affairs Seeing therefore that Motion is ●very where Free in its own Nature it might easily prevaricate and wander unless it were Ruled by the Intellect and Mind The which we cannot further enquire of in this Place according to the Exigence of the Matter Besides it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own works For the Celestial Souls and so the Soul of the Universe have no Reasons of theirs of whose Spirit even we our selves are generated and live continually If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent Soul such also enjoys the Greater But we will cease to prosecute this any further concluding that the World is a System of Cel●stial and Terrestrial Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectual Whence we safely gather that the Soul of the World is a certain singular Life filling all things vivifying all things producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish and preserve one Fabrick of the whole World and be as a Monochord sounding out by the three-fold kinds of Creatures Intellectual Celestial and Corruptible at one Blast one only Life The Mystery of Unity is but known of a few Now can we here pass by the Authority both of the Holy Scriptures and also of the most approved Philosophers Deut. 4.19 Thou shalt not Worship the Sun Moon and Stars which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven Deut. 28.12 God shall open unto thee his good Treasure the Heaven c. Deut. 33.13 Concerning Joseph Thy Blessing shall be of the Precious things of the Sun and of the Precious things of the Moon But above all let us consider those thing● which are in Levit. 26.19 I will make saith God your Heaven as Iron and your Earth as Brass The same is repeated Deut. 28.23 And also in Hosea 2.21 And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel Therefore we hereby see that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the Soul of the Universe so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven as the Beginning of Motion from our Soul which are of themselves perspicuous enough To this also belongs that in Job 38.33 Knowest thou the Course of Heaven or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth The Rule of Heaven proceeds through Terrestrial and all Inferiour things as the Rule of an Emperour or King throughout his Empire and Kingdom As therefore a King is the Soul of his Kingdom so the Heaven and the Stars are the Soul of the World Likewise that of Job 26.13 His spirit hath garnished the Heavens Psal. 33.16 By the Word of the Lord the Heavens were made and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth that Body without doubt shall be Animate and Intellectual Psal. 19. God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun One Day telleth another and one Night teacheth another knowledge There is no Speech nor Language in those Heavens yet understandeth he their Voice Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth and their words unto the ends of the World in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun Psal. 89.5 O Lord even the H●avens shall confess thy wonderful Works John 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus I have told you

the Diseased Body Nevertheless these Men make too huge a Progress in Philosophy they shall often dispute against Astronomy it self not knowing indeed that they can nothing say or Dispute without that Syderial Spirit communicated to them as also to every Man yet more or less from above by the Heavens and the Stars Truly the Lote which shutteth its Leaves before Sun Rise but when he Ascendeth openeth them by degrees will be accounted more Just and Charitable towards the Celestial Princes then these so Rational Men. And so we believe shall the Cock who applauds the Rising Sun as it were with a Hymn from his Inferiour Rousts But these are from the matter We formerly told you There can nothing be found in this Lower World that wants a vivifying Spark of this Spirit but yet to know under what Star and in which Sign of the Zodiaque every thing Perceiveth its Spirit This is the Work here the Labour is Nevertheless there hath so much of this nature been Manifested to us by sedulous and skilfull Men as is sufficient for Humane Ingenuity and Pains to find out greater things Gold hath in it the Spirit of the Sun and therefore is in value the most precious of all Metals It also nourisheth every Spirit of all things Growing So that the Sun possesseth the vertues of all the Stars No marvel then the Spirit of Gold skilfully extracted or separated from the elementated or Metallique Body should extirpate all Diseases of the Body The reason is manifest by Astronomy it self But that there is Gold of the Solar Spirit to omit other Reasons the purifyed sign thereof sufficiently testifies where you shall find Incense Burning with perpetual Fire which thing true Alchymists know very well and there yet remains such a thing to be found in some Sepulchres that hath continued its Ardour and Fire for more then 100 years Even as the Sun enjoys Perpetual Light The same Metall is not unfitly called the Terrene Chaos because if the Spirit of the Universe residing in it should at a set time be reduced to a competent Form with the Body plainly produces the same or even greater things then that Essence of the Sun so earnestly sought for by Covetous Persons So also to other Metalls there in a Proper and Perpetual Seed plot in Heaven The like for Trees Plants Stones c. If therefore any thing growing nourisheth in it an Astral Spirit we account the Incensive matter of the Generative and Seminary vertue much more such and indeed more Perfect in Man himself Those Philosophers who know not any such thing in Man can pronounce nothing certain as touching the Ingenuity of Man his Inclinations Antipathy Sympathy of the Magnetique vertue and operation and such other things as are hitherto appertaining Whence it is they so Foolishly and Filthily heap up Reasons of Philosophizing which are no better then Volatile Air. We must not forget that there is a twofold Spirit in Man One infused from the Heavens and Stars at the time of Generation the other Inspired by GOD This was the breathing-hole of Life in Adam and that indeed Perfect but afterwards Lost. The First Man was made of the Slime of the Earth that is of the Greater World of the Sydereal Creatures and Elements whence he received a certain Astral Soul resembling the Soul of the World The Object whereof is The Universal World and the things contained therein that is Worldly Wisdom generally comprehending all manner of Arts and Sciences within it self some such thing was Anciently called in Man the Proper Genius or Demon of every one He is not wholly Ignorant of the Natural Law that is of the Divine Will commanding and approving the Good but Abominating and Condemning the Evil done unto us because the World was the First Image of God and Man himself the next Example of any thing Possessing the Reason of the Word And although Man have Free-will yet so it is in him that what an one soever the Predestination of the Mundane Soul made him such an one also every Man would and desireth to Die by a natural instinct Thus we more plainly conceive how Man is subject to the Stars Hence likewise we will not deny but that very many Diseases and consequently the term of Life proceed especially in a flourishing Age from the Stars touching which we have elsewhere produced manifest Reasons and a manifest Experience in Examples Hereunto belongs the whole Genethliaque Part of Astrology Theophrastus Paracelsus hath most Plentifully and Learnedly explained the Foundations of this very Matter in his Volume of Wise Philosophy There was another Breathing Hole Placed by God in Adam beyond this Rational Spirit and operating Soul deducing its Original and Branches from the Stars which was the Breathing Hole of Life in which regard he was said to be the Image of GOD. The Beauty of this Image was lost by the Fall of our First Parents a very small spark thereof surviving in us But may be reduced to its pristine Condition by a Regeneration in Christ. This Spark Christ being Mediator shall grow into a Flame of Celestial Wisdom It is the proper spirit of those that Believe in Christ Joh. 7. Rejecting Despising Deriding all those Worldly things not as that they are the Works of GOD for they testifie of GOD what he is but in that they are Corruptible unstable and draw a Man from the presence of GOD and from Eternal Joy in him This Wisdom is that sorrow with the Flesh and its Concupiscences at last overcoming Christ being Conquerour Of this is that vulgar saying Sapiens Dominabitur Astris A wise Man shall Rule the Stars By this very Rule we are led from the Love of Corruptible things and brought into the Love of Eternal By this we take the Cross of Christ upon our Shoulders and Follow him that is we shall hereby Purge out the Old Leaven crucifying our Flesh with Evil Affections and Concupiscences studying to learn abundantly the Fruits of a Christian Spirit without Hypocrisy as Charity Faith Peace Joy Liberality Meekness Temperance Gal. 5. In a word This Celestical Spirit is no other thing then Faith triumphing through Charity without which none shall Prevail before GOD although as it is in 1 Cor. 13. He should speak with the Tongues of Angels and had all Faith so that he could Remove Mountains out of their Places although he had all Sciences and knew all Mysteries though he should give his Body to be Burnt and were full of Prophesie GOD is CHARITY we were Created and Redeemed of Charity in Charity and by Charity Charity Preserves in us the Command of GOD. Charity is the Bond of Perfection Col. 3. Charity is Long suffering and Bountiful she Envieth not she maketh no Tumults she is not puft up she doth nothing whereof she is ashamed she seeketh not her own she Provoketh not she thinketh no Evil she rejoyceth not at Iniquity but the Truth she beareth all things she believeth all