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A09431	Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to the countri-man, prouing is vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly prognostications. Written by W.P.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1585 (1585)	STC 19721.7; ESTC S113859	31,826	108

wade ouer deepe riuers In the yeares of our Lord. 1476. 1460. 1469. 1486. 1502. 1518. And many yeares after there were both great coniunctions straunge Eclipses which tooke their effectes presently not one or two or three yeares after as our heauengazers beare thee in hand All these examples whiche I bring agaynst them I haue not fayned but taken forth of those bookes which they haue in greatest estimation and could if neede should serue bring an hundred more all to shew their lyes when as they cōmonly say thus there shalbe an Eclipse this yeare mary I will not here determine his effectes but reserue them to be declared in my Prognostication one yeare or two yeares hence when it will take place To know where the effectes of the starres shall take place they haue appointed vnto euery signe certaine countreys as ouer Europe they haue set the fiery Triplicitie ouer the Orientall and North partes of the Asia the ayrie Triplicitie the waterie Triplicitie ouer Aphrica ouer y e South partes of the Asia the earthie Triplicitie so euery peculiar signe hath his dominion ouer some partes of those Now therefore when a coniunction or Eclipse is in any of these signes the Cities and countreys subiect vnto them feele the force of that constellation especially This is a most manifest vntruth and may bee confuted by many reasons 1. The nature of the signes is not the same now as it was in tymes past and by the confession of the 〈◊〉 learned haue other effectes now then they had in the dayes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet we see the nature of Countreys and people to remayne the same still as may bee seene by readyng Tacitus Plinie Caesar Strabo 2. America whiche is halfe the worlde hath no signes appointed ouer it why it was founde out of late True it is but this is an argument that y e rules of Astrologie are absurde and were the bare inuentions and imaginations of idle braynes For there is no doubt but that America his partes and Ilandes as Br●silea Peru Pari Terra Florida Iaua Maior Iaua Minor Puloana Pauilonga Subath Massana Mattan Iuuacana Cozumella Iamaica c. Haue felt the force of those Constellations whiche they attribute to some partes of the olde world Because these Countreys bee about the middle Zone and haue both Planetes and signes full ouer them and therfore if the starres threaten any straunge thynge to come they must especially feele it 3. Experience the cause of all actes is agaynst them as is manifest in these examples 47. yeares before the Natiuitie of our Sauiour Christ there was a coniunction of the higher Planets in Scorpius And then was ciuill warre betwene Caesar and Pompey And the chaunge of the Empire was in Europe But according vnto the institution of Astrologers all these troubles should haue bene in Aphrike because Scorpius hath his dominion there In the yeare of our Lord. 34. there was a great coniunction of Planets in Leo and then sayth one very prophanely was the Gospell preached through the worlde But if hee make this coniunction to be a signe of the preachyng of the Gospell then it should more haue bene preached in the partes of Europe then Asia which is not true In the yeares of our Lord. 331. and 1137. There were great cōiunctions in Virgo and yet the Countreys subiect to this signe felt no harme but Italy was troubled with the Popes superstitions and Arrius his heresie was broched There was a meetyng of Planetes in Sagittarius 73. yeares after Christ when as Otho Galba Vitellius and Vespasian troubled the Romaine Empire yet there was no where more gre●uous warres then in Palestine and no greater slaughter then of the Iewes who are subiect vnto Scorpius and not vnto Sagittarius In the yeare .1464 a coniunction of higher Planets was in Pisces vnder whose dominion although Europe be not placed yet it most felt the smart by troubles and ciuill warres So 1576. and 1577. Two Eclipses of the Sunne the one in Leo the other in Capricorne tooke their effectes in Germanie when as Leo and Capricorne doe not rule that Countrey It is vayne to shewe the absurditie of this rule by moe examples these shalbe sufficient This shall suffice to haue spoken of their generall Predictions now follow their speciall determinations of the state and temperature of the weather wherein I will set forth first of all a most manifest and absurde contradiction whiche most of them make that is this They vse as I haue sayd to set downe their iudgementes of the whole quarter that it should be either moyst hote cold or drye afterward iudging particularly they disproue by particular dayes that whiche they sayd before In the yeare of our Lord. 1581. one sayd that in y e Autumne quarter should be a great drought yet I perusing his particular iudgements vpon the dayes of the quarter I finde it should haue plētie of rayne In the yeare last past an other sayd the s●mmer should be so hote drye that euen Welles riuers should be dryed vp and fishes be scarce and Cattell drye for want of water yea the same partie in his particular iudgement of the weather maketh 20. dayes of the same quarter at the least rayne and misling and 30. other either temperate or very cold In one worde the iudgementes whiche are set downe of the weather they are more tolerable then the rest yet as long as the world endureth no man shalbe able to Prognosticate truely what weather shalbe in euery day of the yeare The causes of this I haue set downe before and neede not now to repeate UUherefore they might leaue of anie longer to busie themselues in this kind And it shalbe sufficient for thee leading a christian lyfe to know the generall and ordinarie estate of the partes and seasons of the yeare The third reason impieties Besides all this the impious speeches and vngodly practises whiche these men vse might moue a christian man to loath their predictions First yeerely some of them doe foretel whether men shall study and imbrace or forget and neglecte true Religion UUhat a filthie and diuelish thinge is this not to bee suffered in a common wealth where the Gospell of Christ is preached Euery man naturally is the childe of wrathe the vnprof●table seruant dead in all kinde of sinne hys vnderstanding it is enmitie agaynst God his affections are rebellious against his will none doth good no not one not one hath anie facultie to receaue or keep true religion we are as sawes in the hands of God as the prophet Esay speaketh howe then become wee religious by the onely worke of God No man can come to me saith Christ except the father draw him And as God draweth vs first vnto true religion so he also maketh vs continue in the professing of the same as S. Paul saith hee whiche hath begon a good worke in you wil finish the same c. By what meanes doth God do this

therof If thou wilt not heare folow this which I say see what will ensue Thou seest that the greatest matters which these Diuinours and Prognosticaters foretell fall out flat otherwise then they say to to their perpetual shame Truely I am perswaded that it is the iudgement of God vpon them although they cannot see it who maketh them when they thinke they are moste wise to be most fooles For so the Lorde vsed the wise men and Astrologers of Chaldea as he speaketh by his Prophet Esay I am the Lord that made al things that spred out the heauens alone stretch out the earth by my self I destroy the tokens of soothsaiers make thē that coniecture fooles and turn their wise men backward make their knowledge foolishnes Doest thou then O carelesse and miserable man thinke to escape the same or greater punishment being a cause of this fault for if none desired to know what is to come none would busie themselues in that vanity Wherefore read the worde of God in the 18. of Deut. When thou shalt come sayth the spirite of God into the land which the Lorde thy God geueth thee thou shalt not learne to doe after the abhominations of those nations In the wordes following Moses numbreth 9. abhominations As 1 To make his child go throgh the fire 2 To vse witchcraft 3 To regard tims this is thy falt 4 To mark the flying of foules 5 To be a sorcerer 6 To be a charmer 7 To counsell with spirites 8 To be a soothsayer 9 To aske counsell at the dead Al these horrible abhominations being rehearsed marke what followeth For al that do such things are an abhomination vnto the Lord because of their abhominations the Lorde thy God doth cast thē out before thee now seing most of these abhominations especially the 3. is vsed of vs why should we not fear y e like iudgments vpon vs vnlesse we will repent and that with speede 1 The reasons which concerne the Prognosticatour and maye auayle to the perswading of thee not to buy any more of their vnprofitable bookes as these which follow first their vnhability in Prognosticating secondly their manifest vntruthes thirdly their impieties fourthly their tricks of deceit What can they not foretel that which is to come can they not make coniectures of that whiche is like to ensue No surely And I will vse argumentes to confirme it vnto thee The first reason of the vse and end of the Heauens THe true vse of the heauens consisteth in many pointes 1. To declare the glory of God The Heauens saith Dauid declare the glori of god the firmament sheweth the worke of his hands It is an Alphabet written in great letters in which is described the maiestie of God and that by these foure speciall poyntes First the maiestie of the worke it selfe 2. the infinite multitude of Starres 3. by the wonderfull varietie of Starres 4. by the greatnesse of the Starres Secondly it maketh sinners and wicked menne inexcusable before the iudgement seate of God For the inuisible things of him saith Paule that is his eternall power and Godhead are seen by the creation of the world being considered in his workes to the intent that they should be without excuse Thirdly they serue to the appointing of times as day night moneth yeare which are both measured and described by the course of the sonne and moone and other Starres And so the feast of the Israelites and the computation of the yeare in our Church dependeth thereupon and without them there would be great confusion both in the common wealth and Church Fourthly they serue to be signes that is to foretell things to come And they are signes either of extraordinary thinges or thinges which be ordinary Whē they are signes of extraordinary thinges then there is and appeareth in them some extraordinary work of God as appeareth in these examples which follow At the suffering of Christ not onely the vayle of the temple rent and the dead rose foorth of their graues but also the sunne was wholly eclipsed the Moone being in y e full At whiche sight Dyonisius Areopagita a good Astronomer spake these words either the frame of this world is destroied or the God of nature suffereth The Prophet Ezechiel being commaunded of God to prophecie the destruction of Egypt he first putteth downe extraordinary signes And when I wil put thee out I wil couer the heauen and make the starres therof darke I will couer the sun with a cloud and the Moone shall not giue her light All the lights of heauen wil I make darke for thee and bring darkenesse vpon the land saith the Lord. Before the second cōming of our sauiour Christ there shall be signes in the sunne and moone and in the starres Lastly the extraordinary going backe of the sunne signified the lengthning of the life of king Ezekias Secondly the starres or signes of generall things which happen ordinarily euery yeare in nature among vs. As of 1 approching and dedeclining of 1. The spring 2. Sommer 3. Haruest 4. VVinter 2 Ordinary weather in these quarters 3 Ebbing and flowing of the sea 4 Seasons of 5 Plowing 6 Sowing 7 Setting 8 Planting 9 Cutting 10 Felling 11 Reaping I say generall because the perticuler estate and affayres of menne can in no wise before signified by the stars I saye ordinary because the thinges which fall out seldome and are besides the common course of nature as plentie of all things famyne plague war euersions of kingdomes c. Doe not depende vppon the Starres For the confirming of this I haue three reasons first in the 1. of Genesis God saith that he made the lights to be signes and yet the same God in the 47. of Esay sayth he will destroy the signes of them which diuine flatly forbidding vs to vse Starres as meanes to iudge of any thing to come sauing onelie of those of which they are expresely made signes of God in the creation al which are put downe before Secondly this is manifest by the order of the creation the third day God created vpon the earth hearbs trees the earth brought forth fruites and was fertile the fourth day God commaunded lights to be made in the firmament of heauen to seperate the dai and the night and to be for signes for seasons and dayes and monethes and then it was so and then God sawe it was good Out of which I gather that it cannot be a signe causing famyne or plenty and fertilnes because fertilitie went before the creation of the host of heauen Also of wars and plagues and the particular estates of men they can bee no signes because man was not yet created and yet euen then they were signes Some will saie they were no signes of those matters in the creation but nowe they may be and are No for the woorkes which God created he now preserueth