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A50289	Karolou trismegistou epiphania the most glorious star, or celestial constellation of the Pleiades, or Charles Waine, appearing, and shining most brightly in a miraculous manner in the face of the sun at noonday at the nativity of our sacred soveraign King Charles 2d, presaging His Majesties exaltation to future honour and greatness transcending not only the most potent Christian princes in Europe but by divine designment ordained to be the most mighty monarch in the universe : never any star having appeared before at the birth of any (the highest humane hero) except our Saviour / by Edw. Matthew ...	Matthew, Edward.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1309; ESTC R19177	46,201	175

called Charles wain seven Stars called the Pleiades seven Planets according to seven dayes constituting weeks Why may not the principal and most prosperous powers of those seven Planets by the Influence of the seven Stars of the Artick pole Charles wain and the Pleiades be signified to have their influences and operations upon the actions and proceedings of our great Septentrional Star who for his prudence valour and piety which is the best policy may be truly termed the Lyon of the North or great Northern Monarch It is also applyed to Saturn Planetarum primus deorum antiquissimus which ascending from the lower is the 7th Planet which be tokens rest to which the seventh day is ascribed on which our Charlemain was born as before is shewed presaging rest to these Nations during his Majesties Reign which signifies the seven thousandth Wherein as St. John in the Revelation witnesseth the Dragon which is the Divell and Satan being bound men shall be quiet and lead a peaceable Life Why may not this be applyed to the time of the Reign of our Charlemain the Second The seventh day the Creatour rested from his work wherefore this day was by Moses called the Sabboth i.e. The day of rest hence it was that Christ rested the seventh day in the Grave This number hath also a great Communion with the Crosse as also with Christ in whom is all our blessednesse rest and felicity The Pythagorians call it the number of Virginity and therefore they dedicated it to Pallas the seigned Goddess of Chastity It hath also in Religion most potent signes of its Esteem and is called the number of an Oath Hence among the Hebrews to swear is called Septenary i.e. to protest by 7 so Abraham when he made a Covenant with Abimelech appointed seven Ewe Lambs for a Testimony It is also called the number of blessedness whence that O terque quaterque Beatus O thrice and fourtimes blessed Hence the Pleiades a celestial sign coacted and compounded of seven Stars may be said to presage a seven-fold blessednesse to our Soveraign King Charles upon whose Birth it appeared those 7 beatitudes in the 5th of St. Matthew to be conferr'd upon his Majesty Some Roman Authors seem to affirm that the Star appearing upon the Birth of our Saviour was not a singular but an heap of Stars deducing their opinion from one Albumuzar an Arabian Phisitian Astrologer averring it to be that sign in the Zodiak calld virgo the wich virgin is composed of so many Stars as may aptly pourtray Virginem gestantem inter brachia filium a Virgin bearing an infant in her Armes and so have thought that to be this Star perhaps from the Prophecy of our Sybilla Tiburtina who when Augustus boasted of his super-human Majesty shewed him Virginem in caelo infantem portantem A Virgin in heaven bearing a young Child in her Arms in these words hic puer Major est te ipsum adora Yonder infant is greater then thou art O Caesar worship him to this St. Chrysostom is produced as a witness who says thus this Star appeared to them descending upon that victorial Mountain having in it th● form of a little Child and above him the similitude of a Crosse What credit may be given to those opinions I dispu●e not the Morall and Divine applications thereof may be profitable for the spiritual health of the Soul touching Faith in Christ our Saviour but t is most probable that by this heap of Stars at his Majesties Nativity appearing heaps of happiness accumulation of comforts are surely presaged to his Majesty and all his faithful liedge people in through his blessed Government and by plurality of Stars Celestiall plurality of prosperity to the State terrestriall under his Majesties Dominion That those Observations touching the Numbers of 3 and 7. in the Pleiades seven Stars or Charls wain and other numbers whereof mention before is or may be hereafter made may not be thought tedious or impertinent It will not be unworthy our taking notice that as amongst the Celestiall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Stars of Heaven are reckoned among the most excellent Characters of the Divinity Power wisdome and Glory of the Creator in that they are written and engraven with the finger of God himselfe the Father of Lights Quibus invisibilia Dei intelliguntur ac providentur ipsaque aeterna ejus potentia quibus gloria Dei enarratur So not onely the most eminent Philosophers do unanimously teach but also many Catholique Divine Doctors especially Hierom Austin Origen Ambrose Gregory Nazianzen Atha●asius Bede and many more confirm That there lies wonderfull Efficacy and rare Vertue in Numbers Severinus Boethius saith that all things which were first made by the nature of things in the first Age seem to be formed by proportion of Numbers for this was the principall pattern in the mind of the Creator Hence is borrowed the number of Elements hence the courses of Times hence the motion of the Stars and the revolution of the Heaven and the state of all things subsist by the uniting together of Numbers which are therefore endowed with great and sublime vertues All species of natural and supernatural things are joined together by certaine Numbers which made Pythagoras say that Number is that by which all things consist c. If there be so many great and occu● vertues in natural things of manifest operations It is no wonder that there should be in Numbers much Greater and more occult and also more wonderfull and efficacious Forasmuch as they are more formall more perfect and naturally in the celestials not mixt with separated substances but having the greatest and most simple commixion with the Idaea's in the mind of God from which they receive their proper and most efficacious vertues and so are of most force and conduce most to the obtaining of spiritual and divine Gifts Proclus saith that number hath alwaies a being yet there is several sorts of Natures of Numbers there is one in voice another in the proportion of them another in the Soul and Reason and another in Divine things Themistius Boethius and Averrois the Babylonian together with Plato do so extol numbers that they think no man can be a true Philosopher without them But they speak of a rationall and formall number not of a materiall sensible or vocall the number of Merchants buying and selling of which the Pythagorians Platonists and Austin make no reckoning but apply it to the proportion resulting from it which number they call natural rationall formall from which great mysteries flow as well as in natural as divine heavenly things By this say these and other profound Philosophers is there a way made for the searching out and understanding of all things knowable By it the next accesse to naturall prophecying is had and the Abbot Joachim proceeded no other ways in his prophecies but by forma●● numbers This Digession is made on purpose if it may be to prevent those