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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42943	Astrologia reformata a reformation of the prognostical part of astronomy, vulgarly termed astrology : being an experimental detection and clear demonstration of the hitherto greatly mistaken, and dubiously by Robert Godson.	Godson, Robert.	1696 (1696)	Wing G965; ESTC R21783	19,677	50

the enquiries proper thereto and possible thereby for what one Man can be sufficient for these things who found the Science so defective and corrupt as I did yet I shall I undertake to disclose and unfold so many great Truths and excellent Mysteries therein hitherto utterly concealed and unknown and many others heretofore but darkly and dubiously understood as shall be abundantly pleasing and acceptable to all who impartially examine and make use of them and which shall be at least as conducive to advance both the Truth and Credit of the prognostical part of Astronomy as even the very best of the many late observers and discussers of coelestial motions have contributed to the present improvements of the Mathematical and shall abundantly prove to all who are endued with Reason Judgment and Modesty that the great pains and expences employ'd by many in making such observations and correcting and perfecting the Doctrine of the said motions are useful and serviceable not only to the mean and shallow arts and purposes of Geography Navigation and the civil distinction of Years Months and Days all which low and inconsiderable ends which wholly or mostly tend rather to the gratification of Luxury and a needless-curiosity than to promote any of the genuine ends of true knowledge may be sufficiently serv'd without any such great exactness but to other ends as great and excellent as the Heavens are high their face illustrious their greatness stupendious their courses and motions constant and harmonious and Mens endeavours to discover them expensive and laborious and that the excellent Mysteries contained in and discoverable by this unparallell'd Science even though we should wholly lay aside all prognostical use thereof which yet may be very great and beneficial but using it only as an ingenious speculation as is all or most of that kind of Philosophy now in chief repute displaying that exact and wonderful harmony which Almighty God has ordained between the motions and positions of the Heavenly Bodies and the actions and events of all sublunary creatures is a thousand times more valuable and worthy to be prized and affected by all who delight to consider the handy works of God than that fanciful Foolosophy now so much in vogue of making blind guesses at the secret undiscoverable reasons and causes of both the ordinary and extraordinary effects and appearances in nature such as Comets Magnetism Winds c. and at the meaning and design of old defaced Inscriptions and new found Relicks of Antiquity and many other such trivial and useless matters which many now-a-days make a great noise and stir with or I may rather say it doth as much exceed them as the Heavens surmount the Earth and the Wisdom of God transcendeth that of Men. Neither do I doubt but strongly and reasonably hope and with God's Assistance fully purpose by the use and help of due means and endeavours to raise it to that degree of claritude and perfection that all who apply themselves hereafter thereunto with honest and sincere affections and intentions and a desire to be thereby serviceable to their generation and who by certain and never failing rules which shall fully and faithfully be given for that purpose do find themselves duly qualified and capacitated for this Study shall by their own experience and endeavours be speedily able to supply what is wanting from mine and by their honest and ingenious practice and exercise thereof and daily demonstration of its excellent use and of the great good that may be done thereby declare it as fit and necessary for the Courts and Dominions of Christian Prinoes as it was and still is reputed to be though but very dimly and imperfectly understood in these of Heathens and Mahometans This said Mantical or Prognostical part of Astronomy commonly though less properly termed by another name being a Science wholly consisting of real wonders as great as ever the power of God did expose to the sight of Mankind who may thereby daily behold the Tragedies and Comedies of secular affairs pre-acted by the Planets on the Stage of Heaven in a far more exact and elegant manner than they are usually re-acted in Earthly Theatres and thence may attain to a competent Assimilation of his Maker's Omniscience in the Knowledge of whatsoever his Mind or Spirit can desire concerning any thing past present or to come And this by Means far more sure and infallible than the ordinary ones of History Report and Conjecture As a Testimony of my Successes and Improvements in this Science and an Earnest of what I promise and purpose further to perform therein I here offer to Your Sagacious Worthinesses whose several distinguishing Titles and Dignities I shall not now insist on the following Observations and Experiments not by craving Your Patronage and by the Prefixure of Your Name to concile unto them any greater Favour or Esteem abroad in the World than what their proper Merit shall be able selfly to procure them a Shift which though now very usual with many others yet am I as far from desiring as I hope these are from needing it But rather to recommend to your Favour and Esteem this ancient and venerable Science which as I am sorry to have been hitherto neglected by You so I am in hope that by means of the ensuing Illustrations it will henceforth appear at least as worthy as any thing else whatsoever to be enrolled amongst the Subjects of Your generous Disquisitions And therefore hoping and desiring Your zealous Co-operation herein so far as the Mattter shall be found meritorions thereof which for the future I do not doubt but it will I shall here with all due Respectfulness conclude and always humbly remain an unfeigned Well-wisher to the prosperous Success of all Your ingenious Travails and Endeavours R. G. Vranomantia Reformata The First ESSAY Shewing how to rectifie the Genitures of deceased Persons by the two principal and most common Accidents of Humane Life namely Marriage and Natural Death And thereby preparing a plain and easie Way to discover the true Method of performing the same by all others And consequently affording a never failing Key to unlock the whole Treasury of Genethliacal Mysteries Which has hitherto lain hid from Ages and Generations but is now here partly and shall shortly be more fully laid open to the Sight of all Men. FOrasmuch as that I now undertake and intend to unfold the sublime and sacred Mysteries of the Heavenly Science and to declare how and in what manner are represented and portended thereby the Actions and Events of all Earthly Creatures whether whole Nations in general or single Persons in particular It seems most convenient to begin with that part of the said Science which concerns the Genitures of Mankind and shews how by the Positures of Heaven at the Moment of a Person 's Birth or first Entrance into the World to fore-see the sundry Actions Undertakings Changes Dispositions and all other Circumstances and Occurrences of his Life and