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A96163	Astrologie theologized: wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius.	Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1255; Thomason E562_14; ESTC R204068	39,144	50

Astrologie of the Microcosme to be Theologized in all of us that are willing to use them piously But how and wherefore ought the Astrologie of Saturn to be Theologized in Man If thou askest me wherefore and how all the naturall Sciences appertaining to the Astrologie of Saturn together with all the kinds of the Saturnine life ought and may be Theologized I again ask thee that thou tell me the cause Wherefore according to that great precept of God we ought to labour and finish our work in six daies but the seventh day to sanctifie the Sabbath or Wherefore we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God and possesse beatitude in eternall life unlesse we shall be converted and be made as infants For these have one and the same reason and cause tend to one will one belong to one The answer therefore is therefore we ought to Theologize Astrologie therefore we ought to labour six daies and sanctifie the seventh therefore we ought to be converted and become as infants because nothing at all but the New Creature the new Man from Heaven he that is regenerate from above he that is born again of immortall seed is required to the possession or acquisition of the Kingdom of Heaven not the old Man from the Earth seeking earthly things gaping after earthly things rejoycing in earthly things occupied delighted in earthly things loving possessing savouring earthly things I say not such but as we have now said the man born again from above seeking those things which are above and not those things which are below not arising from the will of the flesh and not of the will of man but of God But to the end that we may be the better understood of the ruder sort first we will handle a few things in generall What is the Theologization of Astrologie afterwards we will set upon our Saturn with his professions and faculties where we shall demonstrate to the eye That in the sole Theologization of Astrologie is to be sought and found the gate of Paradise to eat of the tree or word of life which is in the midst of Paradise c. Also what is that strait gate that leads to life which few find and that the broad way which leads to hell which many walk Also what is that Babilonish Whore with whom all the people of the world commit fornication c. and many and those the greatest Theologicall misteries are here shewn to the intelligent which otherwise are and abide hidden from the eyes of all mortalls Therefore to Theologize Astrologie is nothing els then to labour six daies and to sanctifie the seventh that is to rest and desist from labour and to keep holy day in God with the spirit soul and body VVhich God the Father seriously commanded to his people by the Law in the old Testament in these words Exod 20. Remember the Sabbath day that ye may sanctifie it six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day shall be a Sabbath to the Lord thy God thou shalt not do any work neither thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant nor thy maid nor thy beast nor the stranger which is in thy gates for in six daies the Lord made heaven and earth the Sea and whatsoever is in them and rested the seventh day therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it Also Exod. 23. in six daies thou shalt do thy works but the seventh day thou shalt rest that thy Oxe and thy Asse may rest together and the son of thy hand maid and the stranger may be refreshed or take breath And in all that I have said to you you shall be wary to wit because of the Serpent Dent. 5. Also observe the Sabbath day that ye may sanctifie it even as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but on the seventh day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God But although the divine Commandement amongst the vulgar hath seemed and yet doth seem to be spoken only touching the corporall and externall labour and rest for reparing the strength of the body yet those to whom it is given as well amongst the Jews as Christians to know and understand the misteries of the mind of God and of his Kingdome they I say have known a far more profound and better cause and reason of this precept of sanctifying the Sabbath In the new Testament to Theologize Astrologie is according to the doctrine of Christ and the Apostles To receive the Kingdom of God as a child or infant to be born again from above having renounced and left all things to deny himself and seek the Kingdom of God which lyeth hidden in us as a Treasure in a field The labours of the six daies are all the actions operations studies offices businesses and occupations of all men in the whole earth and in all Islands and in every Sea amongst all orders states and kinds of life whatsoever all men every where every time act study handle operate this they do by the Light of Nature according to their divers Sciences Now the seventh part of those labours studies and actions of men are referred unto Saturn the severall kinds whereof we have before recited Moreover the sanctification of the Sabbath divinely ordained and commanded to man on the seventh day is to cease once in a week from all labour and handling of naturall things and actuall studies to desist from the Astrologicall life that is to lay aside every motion and action as well of the mind as of the body by an absolute abnegation and oblivion of the whole creature and of himself as well within as without to give and offer himself wholly to God with all that we are within the six daies we have known studied gotten and gained by our labors as well in the internall gifts of wisdom as in the getting of externall things Hither hither and to this Centre tends that divine Commandement touching the sanctifying of the Sabbath as by the following things will most pleasantly be laid open CHAP. IX A specificall Declaration how the Astrologie of Saturn in Man ought and may be Theologized FOr as much as hitherto we have heard that all the sciences actions studies states of life of all men by a certain inevitable necessity ought to be Theologized or by the exercise or sanctification of the mental Sabbath be laid aside denyed put off accounted for nothing now we would particularly see how the Astrologic of Saturn is to be Theologized in us For because infinite is the multitude of men only handling and exercising this Saturnine Astrologie And we do set down first of all in a certain Paradoxicall sence that is above the common intellect of the Vulgar That no husbandman Countryman Farmer Gardner Herbeseller Vinedresser Steward Builder Mettleman Potter Weaver Cobler Shomaker c. can ever enter into the Kingdom of God or come to

throughout the whole body In the Blood doth exist the essence nature and propriety of all mineralls and mettalls bred of water dispersed throughout the whole region of the blood In the Respiration whose seat is in the Lungs the Bowells and the Veins and all pores mirscles c. is the essence nature and propriety of all the airy creatures dispersed through the whole body In the Heat dwells the essence nature force operation and propriety of all the Starrs and constellations of Starrs dispersed-through the whole body Moreover as to the concordance of either Light as well in the Major as in the Minor world thus it is Whatsoever things man living on earth hath found out first the oretically by speculating meditating searching and inquiring excogitating from within in his heart and after by his free will or desire produceth endeavours attempts institutes handles operates and transferrs to practice in whatsoever kind of Sciences Arts Faculties Theologie excepted which is not a humane invention studies handyworks labours and negotiations whether they be referred to good or evill Or also the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill which is evident only to Magies all these comprehended under one name are called the Light of Nature or Astrologie or naturall Wisdome arising from the naturall heaven or Firmament and Starrs That wisdom and that light is in the soul of Man dwelling and working in the heart which if it be exalted in its power given to it and created in it can do the same and more then the soul of nature in the Macrocosme whose seat is in the Sun because Man the Microcosme is the quintessence extracted from the Macrocosme But seeing all and singular Sciences Arts Faculties Orders States kinds of life and studies flourishing amongst men on the earth arise and proceed from an internall invisible Heaven Firmament Starr and Light of Nature in the Microcosme which is extracted from the Light Heaven Firmament and Starr of the Macrocosme and hath his singular anatomy distribution and conveniencie to the offices and operations of the seven Governours of the world without We as the order of those Governours extant in the Firmament of Heaven is exposed to our eyes will first of all handle Saturn occupying the Supreme sphear to wit what is the Theorie and practise of his Heaven Starr or Constellation with his adjunct Starrs in the Macrocosme that is what is his condition nature propriety vertue and inclination what Science what Art and Industry what Order what Study what fortune what good and what evill men draw and handle from him on the earth Whereby it will appear that Saturn is not only without a man in the Major world but also in man with all the legion and inclination of their adjunct Starrs Then how the whole Astrologie that is the nature propriety and operation of this Planet ought to be Theologized by the exercise of the Sabbath CHAP. VIII Touching the Astrologie of Saturn of what kind it is and how it ought to be Theologized SAturn as to the description of his substance and nature in the Macrocosme is one of the chief of those seven Starrs which we call Planets or Governours of the world walking next of all in the aiery Region under the Firmament or Zodiac and ordained in a certain Sphear or Circle or Mansion the circuit of circle he finisheth he passeth over once in the space of thirty years time through the twelve celestiall Signs extant in the Zodiac His body arising from the Element of Fire and illuminating that is cherishing and governing the earth and what are in and on the earth his body is fiery and globous his Astralic force which is the firmamentall or syderean Spirit is invisible Now Saturn is conditioned with that nature propriety from the first creation that he may send forth exercise the vertue operation of his splend or light in his subjects existing here and there in the foure Elements as are vegetables mineralls animalls properly and in specie pertaining to him wherein he effects and frameth such a nature and vertue as he hath in himself Now Saturn hath his subjects appropriate to himself in every kind of creature amongst Vegetables he hath his young twigs his herbs his plants his flowers his trees in which he operates by his influence after his manner So amongst mineralls and mettalls also amongst animalls creeping going creatures cattell beasts watery and volatill creatures For the whole university of the creatures of this world with us men is divided into seven kinds or assemblies and dispersed into every region which answer to these seven Governours in their naturall vertues and proprieties as well internall as externall But touching the Astronomicall condition of Saturn and the rest of the Planets to wit what kind of motion position course quantity distance opposition conjunction and other dimensions of this kind they have amongst themselves also touching the difference of their weights in mettalls c. it is not our purpose here to handle them concerning such kind of things consult Astronomicall books and Chimicall books and the like publiquely extant abroad but we rather handle and shew this How all the studies and offices and kinds of life of all men have their originall from the Starrs and to which Planet every thing is to be referred Then how the whole Astrologie ought to be Theologized that is how every one of us ought to know discern hate put off say aside and deny the old man made of Astrologie with all his Wisdom Science Knowledge Prudence Industry Art and whatsoever a man hath occupies and possesseth of the gifts of Nature and in the denial of himself and all that he hath as well within as without altogether to grow a child again to be made an infant yea a fool and to put on the new Man which is created according to God to walk in newnesse of life to die to sin and to live to justice to know that Babilonian Whore and her Beast c. and to preserve himself from her c. to know the forbidden Tree and to eat of the Tree of Life and to passe over from nature into grace to be made a new creature to be born again to transplant himself from the terrene Paradise into the Heavenly to labour six daies and rightly to sanctifie the seventh and the like This is the intention end and scope of this our work Therefore Saturnists or the worshippers of Saturn whose minds desires wills inclinations affections concupiscences pleasures cogitations speculations inventions actions and labours are ascribed to Saturn as to their study and kind of life are men in whom is and flourisheth all kind of science and industry 1. Cain was a husbandman Abell a keeper of sheep Of all Agriculture as are Husbandmen Countreymen Farmers Tyllers of the ground also Mowers Threshers Heardsmen Swineheards Pastors of cattell Purveyors of corne or those which exercise merchandise with corn and pulse also

have within themselves in their soul in which the light of Nature the wisdom industry art and understanding rightly to instute handle perform their works which soul and which light are nothing els then the Astralic Heaven and Firmament in the Microcosm where every science art work hath his peculiar starr with the ascendants convenient to it self Therefore this science and operation is once a week to be laid aside and put off and we must sabathize in God that God may act and operate his work in us to wit the work of our conversion repentance amendment newbirth and of the new Creation that we may be made fit to enter into his Kingdom after death and the resurrection Furthermore also for this cause none of the aforesaid can see enter possesse the Kingdom of Heaven because such a workman is only born of flesh and blood is the old Creature of the earth of this world and is the son of the Firmament the off-spring of Nature and although he excells in the knowledge of naturall things yet all his science and knowledge is to take an end with the life of time He that would be capable of heaven ought to be the new Man born again of God regenerate the new Creature For nothing that is earthly can take or possesse heaven therefore none of those which we have hitherto recited and shall recite in the following things shall come thither unlesse ye be converted and become as an infant who knows none of these things There shall be a new Heaven and a new earth old things are passed away saith he which doth it all things are made new A new heaven therefore requires new inhabitants fit for it and capable of it for as man at first was created of the old heaven and of the old earth and was born of mortall seed in which earth he now temporally dwelleth So it also behoveth him to be created of that new heaven and of that new birth and to be born again to be regenerated of the immortall seed in which earth he would be and inhabit eternally The third reason is because the Light of Nature with all kinds of their Sciences is given to man for this life only to till the earth for the labour of his hands to eat his bread in the sweat of his countenance c. and belongs only to the sustentation of the naturall and temporall life living in the mortall body and the body being dead and the world blotted out no such thing remaineth therefore we have no need of corn vines buildings tents houses garments meat c. therefore neither knowledge nor desire of getting or labouring for such things the cause ceasing the effect ceaseth The fourth reason is because man was not made of God finally for this world or for those things which are in this world but chiefly for the Kingdom of God where none of these things is found or is in use which in this life are every where agitated and handled with men throughout the divers shops of the light of Nature The fifth is because man was therefore constituted for a time only in this world that he might ascend from the inferiour things and seek after the superiour things that is that by naturall light and wisdome as it were from a looking glasse or shadow he might learn to know and apprehend the heavenly light and wisdom at whose Majesty and Glory all naturall things although glorious might plainly vanish and be annihilated and so leaving the inferiour and lesser light he should suddenly betake himself to and follow the greater and superiour light and departing from this transitory world forsaking and accompting all things for nothing which he receiveth hath and possesseth in this time from the world and having denied himself as a naked and new-born infant depart into that eternall mansion and region of the eternall Country and so come thither fasting and empty from the possession of all naturall science as if he had never at all been in this world or had not known any the least state of this world But these things are not propounded and written to that end that they should happen in contempt of Philosophy or of naturall sciences arts and faculties which are and flourish amongst men and which in this life cannot but be but rather that we being fraught with the sagacity of the Light of Nature may be led further may go forward and be excited to the knowledge of the greater light which may confer upon us a new birth eternall life and salvation For to all that covet and desire the Kingdom of God is the old man made of nature to be put off and laid down yea to be buried in an absolute abnegation and oblivion as well of himself as of all those things which he hath possesseth studieth knoweth learneth and the new Man is to be put on which is created according to God where there is neither Jew nor Greek neither male nor female neither bond nor free but the new Creature I say the new Creature is required to possesse the Kingdom of God wherein there is nothing left of the old leven The old leven is the knowledge of good and evill beginning to spring in man from the forbidden tree and is the prudence or subtilty of the serpent But the new heaven is the heavenly wisdom the simplicity of the dove from whom alone true life and beatitude flowes and which also only shall bear rule in the elect heirs of the Kingdom of God the naturall and terrene wisdom being then utterly together and at once swallowed up blotted out and extinct For the Kingdom of God is of such only who are converted from the old Creature into the new and become as children who never knew neither good nor evill Matth. 18. John 3. FINIS PAge 5. line 22. read some p. 6. l. 25. and in divers other places for Arthens r. Archcus p. 20. l. 11. r l was formed as p. 22. l. 31. r. premise p. 25. l. 10. r. creatures p. 30. l. 25. r. cure l. 26. r. brings p. 40. l. 15. r. wood Imprimatur Theodore Jennings