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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92179	Astrologia accusata pariter & condemnata. Or The diabolical art of judicial astrologie, receiving the definitive sentence of final condemnation: being delivered in this following discourse, where the said art is briefly and manifestly opened, justly arraigned, diligently examined, and experimentally condemned by him, who was a student in the same. / By John Raunce, sometime a practitioner of astrologie, and student in the magick art.	Raunce, John, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing R317; Thomason E618_11; ESTC R206349	30,300	42

principall causes are Mock-stars changing of the Absis of the Planets Eclipses and the like so likewise the Genitures of Kings Geniturae validae regna mutant Segment 7. Aph. 166. Strong Genitures do change Kingdoms Causes Adjutant are Revolutions the progressions of the greater Orb of great Conjunctions before Noah's Flood the Birth of Christ Mahomet and the like which things being rightly considered may not only enable us to foretell the end of the world but perhaps the time also and a little after the same Author saith again viz Spineus in Catastrophe That seeing therfore the great Conjunctions of the weightier Planets are wont to produce great effects as the changes of Monarchies and Kingdoms the coming of Prophets c. by them also shall the dead be changed and all things shall be renewed and again he saith viz for like as the Causes are so shall the effects be for good Conjunctions are wont to bestow goodness and good Magistrates but evill Conjunctions produce the contrary Thus Spineus who is so much applauded by many Astrologers doth one while say one thing and another while he saith the very contrary to what he said afore as it is to be seen from his own books for one while he saith that the principall causes of that Catastrophe are the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the superiour Planets c. and not long after he saith viz that as well the great conjunctions of the Planets as Mock-stars Comets Eclipses c. ought not to be called the causes of future events what shall I say of such an Art as is Astrologie and of such Artists as are Astrologers As for the Art of Astrologie it is as I have elsewhere said viz a foolish and lying Art But as for the Artists of this Art of Astrologie they are Astrologers of them I say thus much that for as much as some of them would needs be taken for to be Prophets I deny that these Astrologers are any of Gods Prophets But that they are the Devils Prophets I grant for if in their Astrologicall predictions of the particular events of things belonging to Man they at any time do predict or foretell such an event which at the time limited by the Astrologer doth come to pass accordingly yet I say that the said particular event could not before seen by the Astrologer in it's cause without the help of a Spirit That this Position is according to your Art Centiloqui Ptol. Aph. 1. I prove by your own Authors for your great Master in Astrologie Ptolomie saith Soli autem numine afflati praedicunt particularia that is none but those inspired with a Daemon foretell particulars Marcilius Eicinus in li. 3. here also I will bring another great Artist who speaking of Astrologicall Predictions saith thus of them viz That such predictions stand not by Learning but by some instinct Wherefore it is apparent from what these two great Astrologers have said that he who doth foretell the particular events of things in Astrologicall predictions doth not foretell those events from the Positians and Qualities of the Stars But by being inspired with a Daemon or by having familiarity with some Spirit Again here I bring another great Astrologicall Author Cor Agrippa who saith Agrippade occulta Philosophia lib. 3. Astrologomania that Magick and Astrologie cannot be separated for saith Agrippa there is such affinity and agreement between these two Arts viz Astrologie and Magick That as Magick cannot be performed without Astrologie so Astrologie cannot have it's end and perfection without Magick So then the differences is not much whether we call these predictions Magicall or Astrologicall predictions Now here it is objected viz Objection Solution that the Astrologer may stay himself in his Figure and proceed no further To this I answer That for as much as the Knowledge of a particular event cannot be known without the help of a Spirit therefore I say that the difference is not great in whatsoever degree he proceedeth so he proceedeth at all with the devill in his illusions So that if he come to the knowledge of a particular event whether it be by conference or by some other means then he doth proceed with the devil in his illusions for we are herein certified that this thing cannot be done by any lawfull Art and Learning but by the help of a Spirit take that help which way you will it is diabolicall For that judiciall Astrologie either hath been or may be altogether separated from Magick this the Astrolegers can never prove if they can then let us see them do it But it is again objected by the Astrologers as followeth viz The great Objection of Astrologers That those events which the Astrologers do Predict and foretell many of those events do fall out to be as the Astrologer fore-told therefore the Art of Astrologie is usefull and profitable in the life of man To this I answer thus That to come to the knowledge of any thing by unlawfull means Answer Vide Epist de T. Vicars Deut. 13.1 does not make the practise warrantable For suppose that their predictions fall out to be as they foretold yet this makes the Astrologer never a whit the more to be believed nor his Art to be ever a jot the more lawfull as it is plain in the 13. Chap. of Deut. verse 1. If there arise amongst you a Prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a signe or a wonder And the signe or wonder come to passe yet shalt thou not hearken unto him for the Lord your God proveth you c. Again the devill in Samuels shape 1 Sam. 28.11 being conjured up by the Witch did foretell unto Saul those things which were true and as the devill had predicted the prediction proved true by the event which fell out to be as the devill had said as you may see for said the divell 1 Sam. 28.19 unto Saul 1 Sam. 28.19 Chap. 31.6 And to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me and the Lord shall give the host of Israel into the hands of the Philistines 1 Sam. 31.6 Which thing was according to the devils prediction for in the 1 Sam. 31.6 you shall finde these words viz So Saul died and his three sons and his armour-bearer and all his men that same day together Moreover we find in the Acts of the Apostles that the Pythoniss there did give a true testimony of the Apostles of Jesus Christ thus we may see that the devill telleth truth sometimes and yet he is still the father of lyes Now here you may plainly see that the devils can foretell what shall be the events of some things so then it being so that God is sometimes pleased to permit unto the devils the foreknowledge of some things and that the said devils do many times declare the future events of things as is aforesaid Therefore I say for this cause we are not to think