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The Conilnon Errors of that Art are Moclefily Expoled and Rejected.

With an E S S A Y/- towards the. Reviving the True and Ancient Method laid down for-our Direftion by the G REA T PT 0 L_() MY; and more agree· able to the Principles of Motion and Nature, than that commonly Pratiifed and Taught .

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By j(;~ N PA R T s r D G E, Phyfician to Her Prefent I

- ._ Majcfly, and Student in Allrology •

. Poft Ntlbila Phcebus.

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GnNTLBME.N,

THO I have here detel1ed4nJ di{covf!red divers Errors in the Study ana Pr.t1ice 0/ Aftrology, efpeciallJ in that P art- of it that concerns N ativiries ; and alfo /poke Jligbtly of fome A#thors who sr« mIlch vailled, ana in grelltd/eem a_mong divers Pra-aitioners; and likewi/e condemned their 1-Fritings, It$ heing flied wiih little ct{e hut Errors ANd idle InnovAtions , which are indeed bllt the [ame thing,- if rightly conjidtred. . Tet I ,vollid not be mi{underftood in ,vhat I _ have here done j ,md thought (bec aufe I charge [0 man)

with },liftakes) that 1 tllin" my [elf free from FatJts, Errors, ana OverJights, either ill my Pramee or UTriting]; or that I intend to direc1 and teach the SftidUiU if} this Art to endeavour after filch 4 Perfemon: No; I know too weli ; that Over.ji_~hfs ,,,,a deceptio Ienfus, istoot-TIle, -and too vifible a Ch.aCfer of Hteman Nature; tina to Err, is the known tlnd common Calamity that 1I1altkina is /lIbje,;1 to; for bejides the Infirmities of our Conflitlltiom, the Depravity of our Wi!/s/lnd Affections, the Obfc"rity of Oltr-Vnde1:ftal1dil~r.!.' and the J'Ve~kmfs 0/ our 'J-udgments; The Cm[e on our Original Parents for their TrlJnfgre/Jion at th~ beginning {emu Jlitl to lye heavy 011 our Sholl/dcrs, and telJs 1IS pllli"l" Ths: Sorrom Mid Sweat,

J' A 2 . Thorns

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To the Readers.

Thorns and ThijUes, Life and Error, ardn{eperab!e. Bllt yet there-is Ii difference between the Errors of Nature, contra voluntatern, and the Errors of Prniiice, introduced by Crtjlom and Di/eiplinf. 4l!d t.1xfr are th~y IhM I contend agai;jt, (/nd t;;deavo'itr '-0 r1'or,,/;'tho the other idfo ought not to be forf!.otten.

Nor wdidd I have anyone t hi;;k,' that I intend to defiroy the Art of A ftrology by what I lieu« here done; no, j do aJJi/Ye JOt, t/ldt this is the lcaft of my rbougbt s ; nor Irould 1 impair am r=! of it I hat I judge llfefltl and ferv;eellble, either for its SHp/ort at Reput st ion . Bat my real Int.cnt and Deflgn is to excite the Lovers of this Contemptible Science; to refine it, lind 1)).1ke it more coherent in its Principles,' a.!Jd . more certain zn if S vie and Prsiiice , tl;anit if at prefent; and al(o to lay by thole Idle Notions .md Pramces ft/ed therein, which have drall'n the Objeflions of Learned Pens upo» tIS. For t lro 1 am not willing to /ivallolV' dOlV7J thole (ill/om Errors with tvhich it is clog'd and loaded; it dotli 170t therefore joflmv, that I Am an Enemy to its Trutl: and Excellence, and mltjl he debArred my Inqlliry towards its Perfe{hon, and not permitted to approacb the Spring of its Ori'f,inal Truth. I doubt not bllt )'011 may find [ome Errors in this Tr_eati/e, 1v/Jicb _JOlt m,1J' Impute either to n;y Over-

fight, or Ivant of Skill, Irhic})"" yorl plea/e; Jet I hope the} m.1J deferve }our EXCflJe and Psrdon , efpeci'1lly svbe» YOtl conjidEr, that 1 have <lJndert,1ken to t qr» the Torrent of a mighty Stream, and that wit]: [uch little A//ift.1nce aJ 1 have received: I beiNg ii;debted to no Man for IIny Jer'Vice or belp therein, bitt to mJ Honoured Friesd and Late Deccafed j'rlaJlcr, Dr. Francis Wright, by ll'hoJe [njlm{lions only, Ion", my !elf enabled to perform tbis, and what I have elfe at pre/el)t ander my COJljideration for the FrejJ.BIII f.;r my Errors (if any [hall think them

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[o ) laid. down in Pramee, Dy way of Rule, I defir'i no excllfe for them, but refer them to J'llr Confide ration, and [orelmt very pttrpofe I hav~ printed them here ; lind ttl/o hope', that thofe Gentlemen that thiNk them fa, will br: plea/d'fo inform 'my Vnderflanding,' and give me better Notions inpyint, trith better.Proofs for their DoHY;ne, tlu» I have given for mine; and 1 do affiete them, I lvill rc_ .lily frebmit lind crj Peccavi. And /0 I' come to {perlk p.-trtiete/ArI),.· . -

Firll, To the Book it {elf. 1~ which thOle haft the whole Myflery of Aftrology relating to Nativities) according eaI IInderJland it; bllt it is di/per/ed here 'an~ there throlll);ollt the whole Book and Matter a/fo, and n'dl take' thee /ometime ,and psins too, to collea and digefl it into a method for Prac1ice, which is no hard matter, if tbo« .art b1ft willil1<Z to take a little pains; lind ll'ithoflt pains, I can a_ffflre thce; thoa wilt prove bllt a very ordi;Jlfry Artijl in thy Profeffion 1 hm»: there givfiJ thee the NativitJ of Oliver Crcmwell , with my Rc,t/ons for its CorreBio11, and a/fo his Difeafc, ~'Y whicb he expired ; wit h a 'fable of Direiiions from his Birth to his Dentb ; witl; e,tch Ark, its true Meaf,re, nne! the Tesr of our Lord 11'hcn it did begin to operst c , 1 have /lifo jbcJI'd the incohcrenee of thofe Rules laid dowss on /ever.11 OCCilJiOns, not' only in his Nativity, bu: in dioers. oshers ; arui the j"ft Caufe our Enemies have ,(rom thence to Cavil at, and ridiesle the Art snd its FrofeJJors, ·1 lrsve alJo throflf!,hof!t that Nati-vith on my Judgment thereon, wuo!('1 dijJefJted from the Common Method now prJm/ed; and where I h.we fo done, I /;.we Il/fo <~ivr:n )'00'1 the Text 0/ Ptolemy for my Jttfliji_c.1tion tl) prevent 7n_Y l'eil7,~ qrt~(lioiJ' d i,t pri;if; that thofe 11'/;0 think my filet/Jod 1Jell', ma_rex,linille tlmt. Aruhor) lind [cc whether I have done IJim lind tbe Art

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'-iv :T 0 rhe Readers ..

it [eL/Jlljlice or nor, I have aifo /hew'd you the t.x~ellcl1t - rlj'e·o.(tIJe Hilcs, and the:''Vanit! of.their cafling tIle Lord of

. the HI;,htb, the Anarera, and jlldgmg the R!t_ality of Death from his IVature and Bojition. And indeed, I have bee» pLain in e"..lcr} thin.e: elie rieiltl in.the Judgment of II Nativity I witl} my parfitul.1r Upinion and lvlahod. thllt 1 tlj"i

hi aL! Rsuolutiose! Fig/Ires, and a/f1 how to take thml. .An~ to tel! YO!I pl.~it;fJ, all,other l1fethods are rtally lnnovat 10m, and new l'roJeas I",thout ,my ground frO'll Authors

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In the S_cco.nd Psrt , ~ have. endeavollred to /hew /l01!, That the opmton,of C,ar,dm~lS~gn5 on ,Angle~, ,according to J.'Vr. Gadbury s Optinon m hIS Cardines Cceli is -usi» and ground/cis; andth~ Arguments and Aphdrifrns he . hrings to prove it, are l/lg'd in hy Head and Shoulders Imd of no Validity to tlult prtrpoIc; and that the. Nati:

-uit ies bro"ght to tkat end, are al/ojrc1itiof!s. In the Suppl~ment I IJave .f!.t-z:en JOTI fevera' N,ttivities alit of Hc~ rrunga, that he brt"..~s as Arguments againfl Alh'ology, bwm[e he could find no Resjo»: directional for their Deaths, Sicknejs; and other things in his way of Afrrology, which 1 ha7.!e endeavoured here to /hem was no hard thing to do; and in parti&fJlar, ;,1 that Nativity of Cardan'r SOI1, aboM which both he and Alexander de Anzelis do frdJicient/y ahllfe the Afrl'qlogel's) and the Art ~ he/afire tJ~ere was no pire[/ion fo~md for his Death, either by his Father, Maginus, or Naibod, three Great Me» in their Times. .Is IV.t! prj printed by Placidus de Titis, in his Prirnum Mobile , which may ~dmit of a Correction, as m.":J be. fen by that printed in this Book; and yet n'e botb keCj ex tt:7fy to Cardan'seflimate Time, as may- be. fee~ alfo hJ his own Fig~lre in his Ctfmmel1t on Ptolemy,

LU1. 3, Cap. 14. Aand mdeed, 1 could have git'(/) rO/~ divers

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virsmCrt 011)' of Herninga, were I »ot efT!";H flut ;"",ie of thn" tlrt fal/l, 4n~ I Nrc he t(Jokt/;em upo» f"mfl. In the whole thmg thtte IS milch Vdnety, both in the M,ffter And Mtthod, and thefefoflnded on very' good Principles, which I /hall delioer more methodically h('rea/ter, Mccording as I foal! find this isreceiuedi» the World. I do not pretend, that either the Maner or Method, is either of them new; hilt only the old ones revived; and to far the trUth, it is fo old, that 1 can/a/ely jay, it is forKot, and the whole of it will/tem flrangr to this Age. Wbicb I hl!mhlJ offer to the conjideratioll of the lngeniolls Students, and hltreat every ant to examine it feriolify and deliber!telJ before he gives a determinate .1ttdgment, either ill Approbatiol~ or E:tprobation of what I have here done.

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Secondly, To the Studiolls Lovers of Aflrology in GeNerAl. I hope Gentlemen, there will be no need to per[wade YOl6 with ArgilmMts, tither to bdieve, or aiJert the Truth of A{h~logy ; tfpecially JOlt ~hat have illroldy hAd" Irofpen of It from the Top of Pifgah; ll11d have

. al/o II better opinion of its Truth and Excellence, th.1.F1 ),O!t lire able to demonftrate to the '7:JnbelicveTJ, by F,xamples ({yo"r OIV11; fair Predidio»s (Imean) ~ft/;e Ff{e:ls of ItlJ)' Diretiion before the Accidents happened, for it is that 1Nflfl give YOIIT Art II. Reputa-tion; And Jet I jadge it ma_y 110t be wholly impropr to perj~vad-e 10ft to a greaW' diJif,enc6 and lahour in yoltr fivera!' Methods of Fr aiiice in that Art; not fo mllchfor the difcovuy of NeJV rVhims 4J1d Notions, without either Gronnd or Resfon, and lome of them not at allrmderftood bJ their Inventors .1mi Tcscbersi Bllt for iTII!rrw;ng thofe we have ,tire,dy ill 'osr PoJJ(Ifl~ en; aNd to'fry- whether they will jland the Tefl, 0/ Exam- 11(s And E:ca",;l1lltiollS in [euers! "'lttivitieJ; not to-ffend '

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.tjtJ?e i, ... 11Jakil1f!,' ~ ncife.· Abollt A. thing. 6ftt 'tUle 1:nolvn; .,wd perh.1pJ lej~. IwderjJood; ~!!I to fl.'ork,. alTd b)'the variety of E4<:lImples, to try tlnd. compare one .rlfitl; anQlher; ~JJd at Ittl} fee how.their RIdes will "{!Jee 'in the gene-. rsl ; for 1. can aJJflre YOll, one- hoterJfentthat wa>" fbalt

. ·tedcb YOIl tsore /«bjlamiAl /VtOlvledge In II-e/e things, thaN, ,4 whole dars prating. .dfJd to ibis end, it is 110t4 rt4/J. mstter ;r/;.1t yOftr Trinciplcstlrc.. W!'Ct/Ie;' ~e9centtick, .Heliscentrick, or Seleneccntrick ; nor Ivhet,ller the~y Dirciiions tire Direct. Convers , Rapt, or Secopdary, 1l1YOHght ii! Mundo or Zodiac<?, i» the Crepufculine 'Circles, or the Obfcurc Arks; fo yO/l. Ivill blft 'ftJake y(JtI'( . DOc/rine till of a piece; lIi1a let your Dire:Jl-ns do 'the fame Itt one time, tbat tl]f) d;; at «notbcr, alld not give lomething in one IVativi!J, and mi/s ill TJ11enty others, wbe» vo« try them again, And t atbis pIlTPO/e, I do advife 'JOlt not to rely onyour Authors ;l1or. 'take'''p -tbeir Rule, "iit Y(lltf P.r4aice., withol6~ ,examipJng their AU/ily "l,hi' Truth. For lcdllafJllre Y0f(, 7 h.uali tile Prineiptd Allthon of tbe 141 Centllry, and more (except two or three) h.we done very little for the A rt of. Attrology, tm/tfs it tvss to l'i'J.1I:e it RidiculOflSand COiifempt ib/e ; fa. that :thojc who are' di{po/ed to lalll .. h at, {\.·L1~ology, need »osrce« -Heminga , A lexander de Angelis, Chambers, and the rejl of thcm that have ridiml'd it i» Print; hlit have recour]« to our oJl1J'JAJt.thon, and, cOllfider /liid c(}11}pare them lPell, and they 'Pill find [ooleries fi!...f!icioJt/or their fretpoie and deftg;1 that W.1Y, he it what it will. Our ,Rules in Judgment are /0 defi~'ient, that they ar« gmerally 110t to be refy'd on; and what is 11I0.(e, one tbwsrt s anotJier, by tl1hich means the YOfmg ~tltdeizt s .: know »o: lr~i4) /0, lejie'lJC or fI/IOIv. Oftr 1JeIV-11J4de Aphorifins are [o f:!(.:.,' thst not one in tell of them will hold accordi'lg to, t!iC. Text given for OHr Direfiion and Gf~;de. In the Effic1s

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of Dirdliomth~, bav~f(}!lj;lWi Matchlvel', Rille (Throw / , dirt enough, and Iorne wil,l frick); 1Jam'd abllnd4nce of .Accidentsto attfIJd eab Dirdlion-,tffJd the Deuil', in't if [om« of, them do IJOt ""?pen to t4k! tjJdl .. Bllt in the Diretlions n/Jigned for '(11 kij7d of ,Accidents, Dellth, &c; there they beue out-done them/elves; and fo invoh/d tIS

into a L(6)rinth of C onfJJjion, . that we are no: ~b!e to fmderflaJld them if we lIIi!l'JMke Rea/on onr (3/1ide, dnd com-

pare one thiilg tvir]: suotber, Therefore, pray Gentlemen,

take it into JOIl?' Conjideration, and let /omething he done,

that the next A_1_,cmttJ he better ir.forn/d hy )'011, tbs» we

were bJ that Jl~hich went before fJS. Let res have Icfs f/o/ lumes , and more Trsth ; ferrier Rilles, .wd more t o the j){lfPO/e; plainer Direitioss boi» to work Ivith fewer C ontradh1io;JS; refine the Art, lind r.eje_? thofe Fooleries it is loat/eel Ivith; 4fat its Trmhs , !Znd declaim its Errors,

and tiJrtJ it wi!1 a/pear _t·) be Il,hat Ive fell the World it

is, and wOltld hA'V~ it thoflgM to he. NltJ, let lIS have

ali tbe New Inventions likewi/e t/lat Can he difoJvered, provided they are true, There is on« thing more, Genrlernen, thllt I would ,fay' to YON, i!nd that is, Do 1101 hflg Innovations foy nootber Reafon but becarlje thq arc nelv:;

That trick hath been too ofie» ptet ft/,OI1 as already, 4nd

I!ven ~J tho{e 100, thltt knew very little of tbe matter;

and htld If,! little s'kill, til thole thltt cndelZvofired to fo!-.

low their Dt'rtEli(JnJ; {,y which means and n'ays our Errone-

0114 Confoftons were not a little incrca/ed. Nor wOflld I

advi{e JOII to he afrAid of any thil1,_?; tbat is new, hecau{e

it is fo; bring it IQ, the TOltchjlone and trJ it; and thllt

iJ to he'done no otliirwap, b'lt by Labour 'and E~periencl;

fori[ the thiNg it {elf h!th a good Bottom, and {ums ra-

tional, it may prove wortl: yOllr 'whi!« to eJfaminl! it;

And lJ,J this way '1 intre4t JOIOO put I't'hat Iha7!e done tu

the !Yyat, 4Ndif irwillllOf hold, ana'i» the genera! ftttml

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vui To the Readers.

. the 1ef! '; I/baO be, ready to ruant and beg YOIJr better

Informatton. . , . _

Thirdly, To the Enemies of Aflrology to whom tha 1 am not ob!~~ed either by I(jndne/s or D~ty, yet I'have a [ew words to ray, tho 1 do not experf to make one C onvert by my fi). doi13.!,. It is tbe hard Fate of A tlrology Jlnd Aihologers to IlIJdergo the. fevere Cai/ure of you, Gentlemen , who never knew tfny thing of it, but its N ame ; 4nd I Am confident, fome of JOlt do not kl101V one. S/Jifi'it,{:~: from 4nol(1er, nor 4id )'Olt ever r srriue. lit t(~at .'Jkd tv erefl a &hem~ ,-of. f:le.1Vm~ wh!ch if Y0tl did, Jd they LIre 'JHry /mall Abilities to entitle any man to be J1/~f!,e of a thing he i;1o little acquainted with; as, I Am cert sin the ft1ajor part are, that pretend to ridicrele this S!udy. For wh"[e~er the COl'l1mon ProfefJor.s pretend to, either ,by falfe Notions; or worf« Prsdice, 1 own it, 4nd. firedy It no otherwa_y; than /I Bran:/, of Natural Philo[o-' ph)", an~ do think it is no h"ra matter to give it a fair

foundatIon on very rational Principles, ana thofe 1 tbin«, demonftrable too IV!thOllt Llny grc4t Difficulty and Trouble; ~nd they sre Morion , Rays, and Influence;' !lod the{e "' that ,P!lrt of A,firology thaI takes notic« of Nativities tn partICular; which Part of it I bave made mofl J!,enerafly ml St"1>';a~dforthe othe: P4rt.sofit,)ct tbofe who. ~.v: I~plo, d themfelvesthtrem ,_ take the fame CAre 10 ]1If/ify It both by EXAmples and Rules, .And I do belieue that. tliis of Nativities being done, wilt give fume Repu •. t aso» tO~/he other P4rtso{ A Ilrology likervle; And this a;· prefent IS [Allen. 'mder my Confideratdon, tho I believe there are /ome far more ~le tba» my felfto do it, if they Mre plcafed _to take, the. trouble of fll'-~ s Work t~pon

t"em.- . .

And wh:Jtever .Jour ..A/Jerfions are of its being jo;biddtn. in Sacred Writ, thu at:e retlily faife,.tn,d (/o..fJpt anym~re' prohibit .

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prohiMt that, than the Comm4n'd i,iv~n to the Prophet Holea

to Marry a Whore, did jfljlify U.'hor-edom; for 11'hat is [aid there again} it, doth o~~ reprove the Pretenders ahu/e of it,

and tbe Peoples[flperftltlo/IS depmdance tbereon ; which every honeft ArtiJllvdl diJorvn at this day) that belieu:s the Power

{)f all Eternal God'. . . '

Neither CMJ it be an E;nemy to ReligiorJ and Piety ; for by "0l1) much the more e'Very good ft1.!'!1J knows the Myjferies of NlttMe in- her -usrious 1-Vays ana Opmttiom, by [o much sh« more it win blin_~ him to, "dmircand contemplate that undmiable Power of the TrernendrJs Deity that firflgave it its, Being A,!a Order; and we fee d~iLy when the beft of thtng s fa/J tsto the Hands of III Men, n,hllt a S "mda!ollS Account they give of them, and perverttbeir ~aJVf"1 Vie. Hence there is no reafon'to believe, that the Abllfe of Virtue, or ail) other 1t/eft" thing, pleads its Prohibition; either by Law or Arguments; if fo, {tzrervell Food and

Phyjick.

.And bejides, if we foO:' id a!loJV (what fom"! of lOU fit))

that there is.no veritJ in it, yet that n.ither. doth not proc~aim it fmlaT1{fll, bllt j{lji~y reprehends lIS for [pending

. Jo milch time in a thing void of truth, and wO!lld drAW from good lV!erz rather Pity thAn Scorn; but we defire neither, hei»g able to Juftify its Truth, dnd that it is ~f more worth tl17d rtfe than fome Stt/aies that cII,ry a greater .AppL1l1fe anti. Repllte; cOJicer;Jin~ lVh;cl;, I hope fomething will be done

",ereafier. .

Brit YOltr great Objec1ion that makes it Ridiculous ana Scttndalotu, I muji Mknow/cdge is too true , That many of its Pretenders tell the World they can do things that are impoffiblc, and under the pretence of Aftrology aCl: abundance of Villanies : And thofe, perha,'Js, ~(mOr4nt of the Study, do' not know to the ,ontrary, bllt that luch things AU frefcribed by its Relcs and Rudiments. And feeing the,

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P4ve the ImpudN1Ct.to all Inch things, I hope it will Ix no Offence to !he IFor/d. to know rome of them, 110r to any hone_;~ 1rtilf /0 he4Y It told;· 4lJd therefore take thefe few, nn~ jflv.ge hy ilmn what they are that ufe {ttch Roguifb

Tricks. .

. There is a little Rllddy-fac'd Conjurer, who in my hear. tng had the Impudesc« (1 being "dwOlvn to him) to tell the Comp.my that he cO/lid do [euersl thilJf!.S out of his l!0lver; and ilt lafl f:id, That he could raife Spirits; and that if My of the Comp4l~Y Ivouid come to him ase At a time, he Ivoldd /hew them a Spirit IhM jhottld appear fairly OJJ the Tab/e. So I advifed them to f!.0, wlJich thq did, and allVilYs when they csme , be pitt them o/Jwith a Rogflijb Exchfe, till he h4d iirca tlJem, aNd fo the;' went no more.

The f4meMan baa a Woman came to him oia of Southwark to ask him 4 0lejlion; dnd rhat W.H, If her lvIisfor. tunes were /1/1 over; he told her, n_o, they were not; hut he haa an Art to make them go of! ff'lick!y, which {he dejired:

So havin,l, e.:ttorted 4 Fee for hi! F~f.flre,to!d her, {be mit) }it down and pare the Nails of her Fin;, er J and Toes, lind luv_e him {Ix Shillings more to hlly fix Ounces of Aquafortis : 'f1Jd by fetting them in a Sdnd-heat, tt4 her Nails, rcnjum.' d,. fo jhOfltd her Misfortflnes; .all whirh thr: Woman Jid. Then he bid her remove from'her HOflje to 4Il0thtr, lind he tvoNld ,gme and write fomething hehind the Door ·thAt fbo:~!d make her Jortllnate. .And It Month after, /he fent It. Fru»d to him, to Imow bow it went on ; /0 he R'ent down S1ms pretdJding to fee, lind tame lip IIgain, dndtold her it, Jlmt on ver) rvdl; hut the poor Womu» IJ fit/! tt4 {he tv.H, poor 4"d Imhap py.

Mrs. B. in 'Holbcurn took j l. of Il Maid, to mAke her Sw.eet-he4rt Love lINd .Marry_ her, who hlld the» got a' new Mijlre{s, alld left the former; the 'Maid ftnd;r;t~er /elf . chest ed;

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(helted, w~"t to.a Fellow a6olt~ White-Chappel, who fwi: 10 s. of ber to make the other Ch£at b;il1gthe ,1. again!

IOU may gflefs at the COflfeqlm;ce. , -

TIJer! is one !giJorajJt C onjident Fello», that gives a P,tper folded lip IIlld Je,d/, for which he Bl!bbles {ome of 5, 'and fome of 10 S. It piece for them; and this is to make Men and Women love one another in order to !Yfarriage, and to procure LI!Jcivlous Meeting J, {kc. aNd, to m.1ke jJ cop le fortunate. Thus he /erved .1, poor 11l~Jd in t/;eMinories, and cheated her l'I'it!J tk;m fo fOllg as fix n'Oltld find MOllfJ, and belieue

his Lies. .

Others, and I cO/lid name them too, ptetlfJd to [etch Peapie btltk that lire .ah/ott or re» tllr~y ,_ Imd this by force' of Magick as t!Je_y C4.lJ. it; to take oJ[ IVit,h-cr.1(t frol11 thoft th:y fay are Bell,itched; /llld alfo to promote or prevent Copulation, according to their Clicut s defire, either ost of Love or Ala/ice to thOle they hltCild it; 'Pith abllnd.:wce more of {ttch fluff; as 1 coald. relate, that is pra1ifed Ilnder the pretence of A flrology, ~y a Crew of SClfi1d.1/Ol!S Cbeu s, Yet I hope, Gentlemen, yo» wil! not call this A ftrology, but Clmlting, Rogf/ery, and .Almje, hot!; on the Art, and the People; ifl1d therefore I wodel intrcst JOil- to ~ol1jiden!'ha~ it is 10U w(uld condemn, hefore you f Ilke the Seat of Jft/lIce, and p.4/S the fevere Sentence agaillfl th~t nhicb I am jltrc H:t

prefent ]'011 do IJOt Imderft/l;jd. .. . '.

LalHy,Since thefe Sheets were prllJ!mg, there IS It Trea~ife come to my hand {rom Padua, written by one Antonius Francifcus de Bonatris, in which he gives Its II ne;v Method of Diredions, lJ11t n_ot by bim (he f~YJ! iJ1,,-:ent.ed, Imt by vis Mdjler Confalonerius ; and becau/e t ue thlng.!s wholly Neil', and as y(t jfrange to this N atioi1,therebeif~:!. no other 0/ tbofe Books in England hut mine, I bdie:vc, 4nd,wl p.ti1ly [sre ; therefore 1 will give YOII one Oper.z:ion in the Pr.otec/or Cromwell's N.1tivit}, ilCcording to bis met hod, and It jb'lf;

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.xu To,the Readers:

be fHtlas.plain as tlH!fe he hath given in his Book, witbollt t1I1J Diremon to underJland them. And it is of the Sun to the Bo~r of.Saturn at the time of his Dcath, in his Method And Operation, and to that 'end JO:J muft know that Crorn-

wen lived 59 Tears, 4 Months. and S Days. .

The Sern. NoCt. Ark of the Radix, is 4162• Ivhich gives the Suns tiijlance from the Fifth H:;i!/e 204)' The Sem. Noel. Ark of the Diredion, is 3417- hence it giv~s the dij1anee ot the Sun from the Fifth Haufe, 1679. or .2, 7 d. ~ 9 m, which added to the place of the Direflion, leaves the Cllfp of the Fifth Houfe in 7 degrees 19 minutes of Leo, as YOIi m.4y fee.by the fo/Lwing Figure and Direitio» fogel/Jer. For by a Figure he alwlIYs explains and demonjlrates his Direiiions; and indmi this Direc1ion agrees to the time of 59 Teays, 4 Months, ana odd days.

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Thus, Reader, I heue given thee, with this CflrioJity "/bart Account of the Book, and dejire thee to read it im~ partIally, and confid'r the Matter and Dtftgn of it to the end J have writ it. Correct the Errors that ha~e .flipt the Preis, lVuich are not man" yet perhilps there may be more than I have o£jerved; Deal bj me as Jot; would· hsue an~ther do Gy JOII in the. like Gafe ; I beg no Pity, Gltt 1f(fltce; ufc me genteelly, and it foall be a further Dbli·

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I SInH not enter into an Ar~um!:ntal Contcfl about the Art of AHro\ogy in general, but leave thatWllrk for the more florid Pens to difcufs. Neither will I at this timeundertake to dcmonHratc the Motion by which iJireCtions are made, nor the Principles of this Art; nor yet rhoic things.that we caU Cautes AHrological, they being, not only in-. tended, but al[o more proper foraDothcr Trtati[e; I having defigned here, to .Ihew rome of thofe viliblc (I had alrnotr lJid palpable) Abfurdities, [hIt Iorne of the gre:1telt Profdfors,' not only of our own Nation, but others alro, may jultly be accurcd of; Now, if DireCtions, thofe things tint we call Caufcs of Accident> in the Life of Man, do really produce an Elfctt at any time, then mutt they certainly at all times give fomething proportional to, their Natures, andihe Ad junas that do attend them; or elfe forne Rules of Exceptions hid down,. by which we may judge and diilinguilh when they WIll or will not aulwer the Rules given us by our Authors on the Etfe6l:s of Directions. I know ve,ry well, that the fame Direction fiLllnot have [he fame Elf,t\: at

one time that it hath at another; and I think 1 know the reafon why; bur yet there lhall be an Etfetl:, and fuch a one too, as ' Ihall be agreeable to its own nature, and part of Heaven. And to this purpolc, Guid.J B.m.1tll~ .fpe .• king "f things of this kind, fays, C.luJ.l elillnp,rfdi.l, rrfdillil1 indrfeit E.ffc[ium : Whidl is indeed really true; not only in this of All.ro\ogy, but <ilfo in all other Philofophick rnatrers in lilrure. For if we OWl'! a thillp, to be the real Caufe of ailY other rhing at'one time, when perhaps it Ihall pafs uy twenty times aftcIward without the lcatt fhow of an EffeCl:, is to tell the World in,phill~terms, That we neither know nOI undcrfiand what we'mcan ouri'clves ; or lire Ly realon of our Ignorance we arc not able to difiinguiili between a Caufe

B and

OptlrrJ?...eforma.tttm~

and an _Effdl:, according to our own Principlts in that Art whidi 'we pretend .to; which gives our Adverfaries jufi Caufe to fa y, A lit elli". A/lrologi lI?n IntelJigullt, aNt fi IntflligHnt gramer Err~l!!t.

For! am rerflladd, if the Allrologers • or {ilch as are fo clrtl1ll:], were asked, !-~a,v ~nany of ~b:-~c Dirccl ions, 'that they CJ!t , .... j..l'(J ones, have-in divers N,Jtlt".tws paired over withour givil1l~ Dcrth, or any Difeafe to the Injury of the Body; they wOlIIJ be :lpt [Q ccufcfs, As many of them have miffed as hit and

- ):et they JI~ very well Iatisried with t,heir method.and go 011 a; COIlridcnrl. ',1' If they had nev(~ found ei~her error or difappoinrmenr , :IS Y"ll Ihall lind That turrner examined and proved throughout this !reati(e; fo~ 1 hav~ made ch?ice of this :~_ubjecr, as the propcrctr I cou,ld pitch upon to ,bring '!Ie readily to the point in hand, that IS, to cxpole thefe Fooleries and AbfUldities which I find not in one, but matt of our Authors: Nay, our EneD)ies !OO a,re no: ~ithout their Ab{iudjtie~, as we may fee by Hemj~glll In the Nativity of Pope Paul the Thud) page J2. wherein among t~e rt~ of his, Objections , he teI1s us of tome reputed dangerous D!,::ccbons that the Pope had pafte~, and yet did no injury to his LIte; and one o( shofe he mentions, was the _Afcmdent to his own SqHilT2; ,A very learned Objetlioll! And I think no ways likely to give any thing good or bad, and therefore muchlefs Death; but 1 do nor-fo much blame Heminga, (tho a very Learned Man and well read in the Art of Afirok'gy) as I do Cere[aritU'of Man~ tu«, who wrote the Predid'ions that Hlminga carps at, In which h~ ~lt? theft: ~~rd~, D. V. R. ~raviter {e bsbebi: CIIm magn(} Vit.e di~cmm!le qu.e ~IU ml 4 uel 5 Mm, 1549., ex ~~f[liol~e Horofcopi ad tuum trmmn qUi pro quadrafo b"beI1lT, ro qUia fIlm figm1 breuium AfCflljiJnllm. I mutt needs fay, it is a very odd [art of Altrology to my e a rs , to hear .them talk of the A[cendant to its own Trine, ~nd this by fo eminent a Man as Pari1 CfTf[ariHJ was; and what IS y~t more firange, that h~ Ihould from hence prcdifr danger of Deat~, And befid,e~) we tin? the [arne thing printed ill Cardan about this Popes Nativity, where he takes Iome little notice about rhofe Diretti~ns, but f~ys not one word of that about the Afc~ndant to hIS own Trine, which makes me doubt whether he did not countenance that Opinion a1(o, Now, pray' let me ask any man what can be expeaed from Iuch like DiretTions as there:? and whether the ~e~liJet, Sqll(lr~ and Trines of the DrtagollJ Head

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o pUS fJ{_efor~atum:

and1.dl,are not 35 proper and effectual as there are? For tho I do allow (hat there are (uch points , as Srxtilf!, Sqasres , and 7.;'ilIr!to .the Arcent/.11lt, Midbeavm, &c. taken ;/1 Munda, ('.1' at, t\:attwife in their imaginary wav in the Zdi_ack,_; yd what is there to irradiate thofe points or parts of the Heavens? for the Afcendant and Tenth can emit no Rays, and therefore can give 11\1 Power to the other parts of Heaven to become ferviceable after this manner

. as they pretend to ; therefore I fay, if thefe Points were ever fit for the ufe here pretended, they rnuf be ever fo in lome meafure, more or lefs ; ,but in allrny Practice I could never find it; and I am [ure there is no ground nor reafon to believe it, let them fay, .wha t they will; yet by thefe and fiich-Iike ways, young Students

are Ieduced and led by the Note with rhefe Tongs of Authority, And therefore let this Ierve for an Inftance in general, That there are '~efhods ufed, which arc both Vain' and Improbable; for eve-

ry Caufe mutt have its EffeCt, or eire it is no Oaufe, -.

To theft I might add thofe Directions thatare fa often made

_ ufe of in all Nativities,and with as little fuccefs as rhefe are, as will appear by what tollows, fofar as it concerns this Nativity 1 am about to handle. For if we allow rhofe Re ifons there alledged - to be true, then we fhall-rind abundance of Nariviries to be a~ove the Order of Nature, and reach of the Stars, or elfe the Stars have done their duty negligently and by halves, when we {hall find to many people have efcaped the Afcendant to the Squares

, and Oppofitions of Salllrn and Mar!? and this pOOl! _qentl.emat:l fall by.it, which is indeed a pe,rred plece of Impol1iblhty~ If the Rulcs of the beft Mallers of It are true, and the EXPCflCllC;: of . rhote that have tried them, the fame. Now to fatistie you yet further, that their Dire6l:ionsfor Sicknels, Death, and other Acddents, are generally vain and impertinent, and tl~at th~re are very few, if any of them, that arc .really retied. 10 their o:VI1 judgment and opinion, how to determine thofe thmgs according to Rule and regular Method; do but carry a Nativity of any perf on that is dead, to any of them, _and del ire tire Rearoll of his Death AUrologically, they {hall iminediarely give you fom_e (ham Hory or other either of rlre Moon to the SqUlT_C or Oppotition of Jupiter and Venus Rulers of the Eighth Houfe, ~he MceI~dant to the Dr~onJ-Ta:l, or to the Artifcl'IIl of (orne illnamr'd Star; nay, they Ihal] alligll you fame Dire.trion tc? .the Atcendant to kill) when the Sun and Moon are both III Apbetlca! places; or ,

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elfe Diredions to tile Sun or Moon, placed in the Third, Fourth' or Fifth Houfts under the Earth, which are indeed neither agree: able 10, Hcafon, Nature, nor their own Rules publtlhed rrorn their ownhnde . For do they not tell you long ltories of the

- Su», M,wr> amI /ljcflidallt, (,and fome the Mldbeut'CII) being {!iz-crJ of I if,? And did you ever know, (hem keep to the ufe of t-hem, unlcts it was to Ierve a turn when nothing elfe would do? WLich is plrin to me,(hat they do not underHand their OWn R.ules or tile they do not believe them. To my knowledge there wa; ( ~s in the cafe of the Protector) a Figure of Cburlcl the Second's Birth g.:'llcra!ly agreed on, and believed by all thofe that pro[emd j\ilroIDgy, and by which a certain perfon did predict his Death ill iuS 5. and by which figure they all faid he would live to 70 years of Ag,:; but Iincc his Death, you may go to twenty of them, _arid -pcrhap3 evcr~ one of them Ihcw you a different Figure, and ajhi'~n dlfferent Caulesfor his Death; they being as much confounded about rhar Prince's Nativity and. Death, 'as ever they were about the ProteCTor's; Of rhefe and Iuch-Iike fioriesas thefe arc, I could give) ou a great number ,which will ferve for no other uCe but to thew you, rhar Ignorance becomes Puwerftd, when it grows Popufal' and Gcners}, at which time it is ufually guuded by ImpudE/lce and Error, and by their atlitlance it commonly takes Triah by the beard. I (hall therefore conclude there things with this Axiom,

'That eve~'Y Caft{e mlljlhttve It Certain EjJeCf; anclby tha! Rille, an} Dird/ion that hath POIPU to kil! at one time, hath' ,;/ another, -or elfe agood[flbJlantial Rille to /hew n:'I[on to the costrsry,

It hath been the common cullom of our Modern Pretenders to Afirology, to impole-on rhe world, and abufe the Art they pretend to, by ~!il1tillg the-Nativities of dead perfons for true ones' fo~ when they arc laid in their Gra vcs, it is prefurned that- no: t11lJ7g can hdPPCIl afterwards able tocontratlid: the Authority of thclr Rule" In the pretended Correction of the deceafed man's Genirurc ; -for now all Accidt:nts ceafe, and the common Profef; fors reU ~at"istied, that what was done was true, they not being able or wIllmg ro make any farther Enquiry after it, nor perhaps

ca 11

Op,d ~form~tum:

h retcnd to give reafons for all the

can they. Fro~ hen~e t O~'~ ! InlalTI"US Hl'alth, Sick nels, and

pall aCliolls of L1"fe, ~ ~mmakill" every thi'~?, appear as plain as the lafl of all, Death it ~~l' Ci cj"'lly to-thole that do not underftand Sun upon the Meri tn. ~ pe d~antag.ious notions 111CLlld Le loll, it. Anclle~ al~y 0 d tP~~i~led to inf\ruCt the \ rWlr;, ~roCJ ~I!d'\ they He .pnn~c /~ ,~ where tI cy may tind tilt N~t[\'it) PrJlHStudents In tlus (,cILnCt~(JC0t ar.ncxed , with choice Rules and ed , and thc_ Rea ons Iider d by thofe that are Eegl1:nc1s, that J\phori!ms ht to be con f ~leir way' and by jhe Old 'ones, that they may be led _ outdO, th1CLI"r Erro~s' For tnore Nativities that

b connrrne 111 ~ • - '1 f

they may e intcd adc by the AHrulo"ers; t lCY o ten

1 pIlute are m , r d r.

are wmmon Y , " 0 e tWO 01 three hours, all icmc-

" f the true time, 11, , Id I'

d,iffenng rO,m be did tbat promifed his Client III print; he ~)"tf /!'C

times more. So, , I and the poor Gentleman llCaJ dc.rd be:

d t)IrI'~J'farJ Ollgrr, J N "" b

one or hvO an I -; LiJhrd So that it is fafer to rake a a uvsry y,

fore tbe Bilok was PUi);, their Correction, and perhaps 11e~r(r the

guefs only" than) n f S' F H or Mr. P. with rna-

N nennon the norv 0 ir , . "" b ! d

truth: otto l> ' Iai 1 challenge a phcc 111 tim Itory, e 1 es

ny- others, that may! al,IlNY t" "Ity is the fubJ' cd: of this Trcatife,

. G I man W 10 e a IV h

this ent c , f 'I t: d by them as any man w atever,

h bas un air y uie , j" ~

and hat ecn r d - they let him have Pifces afcen _ l!lg, ana

For as long as he dVC , which they though was a Potirion very MJrJ in- his Afctll ant, d Courage and for one that was fu fuitable to his Glandeudr a}!~ afled ve'ry well among them fur

Hi " r An t us p~1I1 b I

great a ~v arrI?U • v di fi l\ of the truth of. it ,and y mat

iome vears; w~tl~t.l~~~~ a{l hfs Sicknefs, Honours, YiC1:ories-" &c. Figure they coul p d h am-Lement of the whole Society, Bu_t at lajt b! died"; ~~ont~~ ~11l hhn; which without doubt put Without any D"lTeT " C while till they had agreed upon

f tl nr rmes lor a ., " h b

them out 0 1~ " "t • for it was ill VJlI1 [or t ern to e·

mal{il,!!, him a New! N:~~IJ ~hil1k that to be his true one, wh~n lieve (hJt any ma 1 ot a Iharn one) to make the WOf d they had no Dirca:~on, b( 1l6r~~1' f~o~ the Stars; and- that was believe that he d)ed Yd-.o." at that time for they arc ftldom

I he hod 110 IrC'-'LlOn '" • " f

ftrangc~t rat t 1'y ~ Afcendant, to the Square or Oppofirion _0

unp~ovlde~ at t1~~; Afcendant to his own Sextift, Sql~m, or Trill':

Jupiter or 1 enut ; t SI Ar: t"IO"'" as occafion Ierves -; or (he

, f L g or tort icen 01,' h ik fl if

in Signs 0 on _" f the Dragol'll-'Iail, or Iirc -11 e II as

Sur: or Moon t? the .~ q"art'~ ufcous and fuliome, (0 hear fuch: this'ls ; and tho this may eC:l11 na fooleries

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6 OpM f'JV(ormatltm~

fooleries 3S there are, yet I do affine ou I d

thing" and worfe, if worfe call be y. t l~Y 0 mak~Llre of fidl

1 r , • " r " In DOlllt l)t rc.ilnn . B t t

t 1" urnc H teems they had not [uch Du: ':1:' . . u a. pr..bable ro pals a(llong the ref] f h C, 1?IlS ... s they ;h,;u,:hr

a new Nativity mutt befound our ~ j .e ~()C~~tybc; and ru.retore that prove- his Death tho it pr-ov-e' n h~t mUIr Iuch a 'one roo

A ,1 1 ,. not 111"<: H~ -:

• !Ill. (11; next they pitched u (J f the

tune of hi? Birth than the £ 0 pan, V:J; art erfrcm the true

A, s r: " ~ormcr was, lOr IlOW th . k I'

rtcs nlc(;nd1l1g, and the SUIJ in his Horof . ev rn. e nrn tum ~nd !I!Jj';'~Jl Oppotition from the c~?rcoiC-~1l Tauru), and SaHoules, and in S uare to his T ' .ps 0 t, e. hIll a!ld{ev~nth'

his Midheav~n, ~lld in Squar~e~~hhi:l'l%ltrpl~fI" In Opj:~lition to nuke but an untoward Nativie cetlu~nt) which would Rules and G db •. . y, (accordll1g, to their own

, a mys 10 parricula " db'

borrowed ), for a Perron of his 60~~~c , y hlmfelf, but all PN[ence of milld in his moll d,mge J 'd COlJd~a, Bra1!fry, and on the Afi:endant muft be allow d rou~ 11, e~takll,lgs: For Marr tion, and Temper by being in t~ tCo,\ et his Mannen, DifpofiNati!!. pag. 9 r. al;d chen his bei a ~ llt e; as rou rnrv fee, tu»: in Square to ]1If>itf1' mull: m k ng In dPPoilClon to SatHrn, and

p ,'~ r+-:» <I e a very 0 d temper'd m U'.I:

, e;v:(", Rajh, and Vn{lIccejiflil in his an, .. ~,)roJe,

withal Sicl./ .. · vide Card' C I' general Endeavours, and

"U.> ITl. IZ t pag 3+ § 8 . hi

words : To which I will add T' h • h • . 7_·. In IS own

Ih I' k hi -, at t e Oppuhtlon of 80,

ou a rna e rrn ttmorous and fear/III d bv aturn

Com1rdly, and of a Bafe[piril • burl' anld by con[eque~lce a littl«

charge any of there things in' tbe I ~u hn:ver hear his Enemies he was Brave BJId and"-:'. n tha °hn im , but they fay that

) , , \J e erOHl' t at ne ne h d .

Taror upon him, but always be~t th t .' v~ Ea anr Fear or when he took them ufed the a. inro IS nemres , and

than Prifoners ; bu; betides, t~~~~:Nke G~ntlemen at liberty, Tenth in Oppotition to Mars and b ow~ t at the Lord of the heaven, is a fatal Potirion to a' ~tt In Square to the Midand chen pray how Ihould fuch nr P ~~I~ S ?l1our when born to it ; Power as he advanced to if tI a. ~ It;on give fuch Grandeur and J?ag. ') 64. For it is ccrt~in . t~:~r u es are true? ,v~de P"Cir. lvJt. trom the f'irLt and Seventh' woul~'1tIlTl~ a~~ M,m In ?ppolltion - man, and Jubjecrto many Misfortun:~. ~ndl~ : vJry 1:)'n1tured' fame Pages alter this manner from rh .' ~ ee I could {pend di~cctl~ oppotite to this POhrion an err Own uthors and words, this which was then printed w~ n~t VtChrYpprob~lc. to prove,that

, " e rotector strue Nativi-

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ty; but I Ihall leave all thea: Arguments and Reafonings, becaufe I have better to infiH upon, which will better ferve, and more dcmonHrably prove the Falfity of that Figure, and the Llnskilfulnefs of him that made' it ;:al1d fo I come ro the matter more

nearly.

The Fit;urc of this, Grot Man's Nativity is owned by :1 very

worthy Gentleman, one J. GI,U1{i:Y by name. and by him printed ill his crowd of Errors, called Colid.1io Genimrsium. or a- Colb:!ior. of choice Nctivities, t111t is 1 of his own making , now this I could have paffed by, and look'd on it as the (ffeet and overfighr of his Juvenile years; but he prints the fame again in hi, Card. Cali, afrer'tive and twenty years, to {hew that he was Itill the fame man, and that hehad no more skin in his OWl] Profcflion in 1685, than he had in J659; and by doing that, he teems to me to juHitie al1 the Errors of his Collection, bccaufc he hath hitherto given us no Caution concerning any of thofe Errors in that book, of which thefe of the ProteClm's are Ierne of the ?,reateft; and to Cay the truth, this of his Cardillis Cali is as full of Foolcries and abfiudities,: as the other ;'. which I {hall endeavour more

fully !O evince, before I conclude this Treatife, .

The time he fets this Figure for, is the twentyfifth of April at alrnoft forty [even mill utes afcer three of theCl()ck in the Morning 1599' and upon that Pofition he [Fends a whole Page to [ell his Reader,that there are feveral things concur to prove it true.befides the Directions he after mentions; as the Oppofition of Saturn and Marl from.t.iriu IIlId Libra, the three Superiours in their own Dignities, and above all Cardinal Sign!, FcffdIing (he four AngleS of the Figure; which in the Nativity of Cbarles Gtl(bvtlfj as well as.in this of the ProteCtor's, was (15 Gadb. fays) fully verified. And from chefe two FiCtitious Nativities (fodueh ther both arc) he contidently forms this notion into au Alhological Aphorifm. and prints it in his Cboice CulJcfriOll, Aphor. IS. of which more hereafter; and after abundance of [OIr), -nuif betides, he coneludes with rhefe words. 'Prcfumipg that divers Artilh wiJl be , curious in [calilling this Geniture, I than for their alliLtancc, , and prevention of trouble. pItJent them with a, Catalogue of , feveral Accidents of his Life, and the OinGi:ions, &c. that were , (in an AllrologicaIJcnfe) the proper O:cafions of them, and ( (with no [maY painllo me) they are there following.

And

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. Qptt! (j{_eformatum:·

And here T defire the Reader, and all th t »

;1'. . Iidcr.hi ' a pretend to be A

1. C" to .. ou iacr his rcafons fur the Correcting thi N " r~

., IS .auvuy,

T. In the Yen 16+0. 'this Native's Grand

tl~Cll li.: W?~ tir ll olld il1t~ r;u~;lick bufinefs b (~ ,began, for J'ot! .. mocr uf arliarnent , to _lignitie which he h'.1/[ oCIIl,g ehO((;11 a 1115 :\ ltd -hca vcn to the DfJfT,'/l'J H"d . .' .. 5)- G. Iays J Ilk thing. that this NI)de lhould give' nO\t\' ISdl10t this a proba-

Mel T' gleJ er a valltag(; tb d

, • tl1 t ie nne of 5 nurn and Sextil f M an ie

of all, for this was the beginning.and ~r~llnd.J~~'a::alI the grcate~ Honors and Preferments both 1'[ til S d IC rett of hIS

'II b' 1 e tate an Army N if

you WI ur confider, this DUj!,onl H-.zd and 1 ' ~. o~ 1

but tl:c Intr:rrcCtions of the Ecliprickand Orbire ~1 'hre nothIng oppolitc POl11ts, and thofe two Circles are b r i t, e Moon at therefore the two Nodes cannot be otherwav ~ ~ma,glnarr' and of there Points fhould be a Fortune d I} s . I gil In, VV hy one is M r h I 1 an t ie at icr an Inforrui e

h' a,l Y ,crybt at t ie greater Mallei'S of this Science Hill r fI 1, '

t err own ofoms But to the~' r' - , I d c crve 111 the reafon that th~ M C ad r p~lltbtl°lndl11· 1.an . ; I Pray what is

'. ~,' 11. ou gIve [uc ef h

. nour, and lay the gl'ound-work for the future (1 pre cnt o~

~o the Tr.ne of S,lllml, and Sexrile of i .... Lirs ' ..; w lel~ the M: C._

~~(t~~JJ~)ve~othil1g at all, as we. know of:' andr~e: ;~:~e~tet\~:e

g Y iod and Nature to be {O great a .11 Ie'

vcd d I f vran as ie alter

St ' ar; / nt/oo, rom the nature and principles of thof ira-

ars, 01':)" ower and COllf.Jf!,e? And' indeed f would .e wo

'honcfl ]Ibn to prcfenr the "Vo ld ith {i T' Intrcat rrfolve and unfold thefefecret f1"T'(lWlt orne rkeatlfc that might

b I, . no! rum! not yet nown to th

c I;;vlng World as I fuppofe I 11 I e unerr part of the Nddon. But diJetcI~ VS ! ie gr~Hat, dif ~lot the great~

Ih III lIS f.Jf!,OIIi ,J gIve rhis ~ if i

JU ( rappen to prove rrue I tt ir i " I It

very; but I doubr this is thd tirftr~c It .15 a moll admirable Dlfco~

~he, laflroo of its kind; for whor:C~~:lI~~;~\ and )uflg;_it will be It III another Cafe of tl lik ave occalion to try wretchedly deceived and ~~ea'[e~ na~~re, I will htind thcmli.lves Collections he never tells you a -w·ord -0;' t lroug t~t his Choice by the !"1, C. ad.Q but of that ~1' ;I~ ,arlbY ?lle )emg -preftrrLd

• ' Lr. III/Jlfr S tllJ& el Ct d F II

PJ~. til. but to tell you the truth, it was not e! l b c. 'w .... Abndant to the bod y of Vel/It! as he ill. on rnat , ut the not tell you one word of the clf:cl: f rl Si;l~hlm(~; bm he ?orh . Sldrk.:y'S Nativity, However he ~ick~~d ~'If h,a{~.c~ I'dl Dr. c,corge

,) is r rren Mr.BIyIl-

man

_. ;

Oplt5 <i<...eformatnm.

111)11 with Impri[olImmt.I and Scandal.r_ upon theM. C. ad CiUtdam dr;l~(fllij; but to tell you plair.ly, rhofe ~ccidents " (if the FIgure, . is true) were' from. the 8m! ad oppoJitum- Saturni, who is the real Author of (uch things as rhofe, as the Cafe then flood; and he hath let Mr,Eaftwo?d,pa~.170' pals by.his M. C. ad &6 without 2ny

\ remarkable effcct , which IllCWS a kind of pia guy Ill-rnture in him, to let the young man at 20 years of Age pafs without {orne good effeCt of it; Iure he might have deferred fomething at that Age, as wen as (Iliuer; to have all at forty. In a word, I think he hath knocked two or three little Babes on the hcadbefides with the lJragolls T.1(I; which is as ufeful as th~ other in its place, and [erves fomerirncs. at a dead life. Bur let him provr.:: to meif L: (an, why the Head and tail'lhould not be both of one and the (arne nature, if they have any influence at all, or power to give gooJ IJ,t evil in direCtion; I confers I could never find it.

2. Secolldly, In the Year· 1642• he was preferred tothe Command of a Collonel of Harre; having before, like an honeft Gentleman, and true ElIglifhman, railed a Troop of Harre at hls own Charge, and ferved in his own PerCon to defend his-Country . again!l the then growing Popifh lntere(t,'which like a Deluge was like to overthrow all. -He had then, fays J.G. the Moon dire-, ded to the. Scorpinn'.r Herrt; but whether with, or without latitude, he hath not told us: but let it be which it ~ill, it is whol-

ly falfe; tor rhe Mooll's pole of potition in that place in his Figu~e is about 50; and her Oblique Afcention under that Pole in , the oppofite point is about 350 d. IS'. fa that the Ark of Direction with Latitude, iS3 7 d. 2 S' : a11<1 without Latitude it is 45 d,. 14'. 'which acsordlng to Naillod's meafure~ wiU give more than 45 years; and therefore neither of tbem can come up in the Y car 1642• as he pretends. But fUPFofe it dId corrre up then, why mull it give [uc:tt confiderable Preferment as a Collond of Horfe, which to him afthat time was very gTcat, both as to his Command and Trult repoied in' him? why fuould it not give trouble, or ficknefs to him; the death of his Wife, or Mother J,jf he had one living) as well, or rather than give honour and preferment? for ill the Nativiry of the Frencb King, pag.40• of his Collcction,

. he gives him a violent Fever on the direction of the .AJcmdall~ to the Scorpitlll'J He.l11, without any thing eIfe to a[fi(t it, except a Tranlit ofM.srJ on the MOOII'S Radical place. And in pag. +3' ill the Revolution of Gu(TavUf the Second, it is there brought in as .

C aa

9

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to OpUS rF\!!ormrtttml.

an Argum~t of Jeath ~ the SUII and Saltlr~l in Con' , .

the COT Ilt, IS there called violent bccauf f I < IUI,CllOn ncar the Nativity of the Prince of Or.JlIge pa; ~ t I.e .'/ll1~reJ·' And in of to kill his Mother, and to give'him 'a 4', It IS t ere made ufe but to affift it, he tells us that the M C gleat deal of trouble; Square of Saturn, which is notoriuun~ i ftme fi up then (0 the fuch direction at that time or near it aye, [lor there ~a5 no and Fvppery, when he comes'.o Dr Gnug' '5 Nct.a,tH all this Stuff

{i d }' •. "' anvity paf1107 h

en 5 1I~ ~o Cambridge upon no other Direction b '" ,e ch,e Scirpion J Hean, and nothing elfe to alIiC .' uTelthe Sun to

wnat an Excellent Afirologer Mr J G'- ~ If, lUS you fee

S' ' . . b ancr how b di

~Jrs arc to, thole who can skiHully cOill'~md rh ,0 e lent the kill one, give another trouble Ie d }: d em, make them k t ) en a t 11> to Can b 'J d

ma, e a ourth a Collonel of Horfe: But if all h ( . J ~I ge, all cd III the l'r't,c7ur's Cafe it ferves thi e J)S were allowaion, nor to prove the ti~ne of his F~o ,ng at al) to the Corre-

know any thing of Directions, knowl~~~~ ,~~t~f; tor 3)1 11-:01 t?at would have been nearJy the [arne h d \, . hat this Direct lOll or earlier: but I wonder \\ hy J G ili t 1J tunc ?ccn taken later weU for linking the Oatb of Aliegianc~U t (~c1~lm ag~infi Cromcalls him, when-that Killg had broke an~ fIlS, ov.(:wgn, as he Oath long before: and we all re b ink hIS Coronation

h did i fi' .ITIcm er vcry well wh .

t at I It II1GC alfo in the Year J 686 d 8 a It was

Nation's ,ruin, and deftruction of the p~a:~Ha~16 rZ' . t? almofl the

3, Tbirdly , In the Year 16+ he was t c:hglOl1•

t~ tl~e Earl of l'rLmcbeftel'-; at Jhich time ~ag~, Lhtilltellunt-GenerrJl

directed to the Trine of Marl; but this is al1i >.5 e had ~h~ Moon caule there is no fuch direction as I 0 cxtrearnly Ialfe, bewhich any one may fee by worki lctSrrctcnds to .at th.is time; the Atk, without Latitude, whicl~l~ th: ~n?p~~tlOl:S, III which knows III that WlY is 48 d 2 q' d h Y IreChol) that he almoll 41, both wl~ich arc ~ d' 'j;1l tft: Ark with Latitude is

rar utant rom 16+' d

come up at that time he mentions no .)' ~n canner cannot correct without [orne oth.' r ,npr It.: ?~t If it did, it gles, ' , er to agree wlth It to the An-

+ FourtlJIy, He tells us that h - I .

M.Jllchtjhr his General, anl pleferr~dq~i:;c Ifd£ with !he Enl. of him InParllarnent,and_managcd it Ii II ~s ,I; orma,ttoIl5,aga~nfl and came off with honour' the 0 we ~t ~t re earned hisf'oinr,

tHTfl being Oil his Mcendant' and ~au~:t t~15 was (he fays) Sa_ ) LC tea place of Mars in Op-

pofition

Opus (j{c!ormatmn.

pofit'roll to his own; and the Afceridant dircdedto the Terms of M,m, Certainly- this Man was infaruatcd when he wrote this Nonfcnfe; for I have more Charity for him, than to think hehad fo little Skill or Senfe to believe this, and not know better i but t:l1 us of ,::1 Trantit of SatUt'il by Mar '. his R:_dical place in oppofinon to !1I5 own: W ny, what was this to Cramn'fU ?whV did not ( if this.is truc ) S~lUr!1 do him a miCchef the la It year, when he gN his Lieutenant-General',,; Commillioll, for he was then Srational'Y on the Radi~3.1 place of Mers , and 110 harm obicrved.

_ Wen: but the P\{ccnJantwas alfo affiiClul. by liircctton ; howIo ? whyit carne to-the Terms of MoJr;; Ay, .this is fomethinglike to do the feat : did ever allY Soul hear an InfallibleSen of ~'1l11lfallible Church give [uch Ptc .. Ions as thcfe are? In the laft year he fays the Muon to rheTrine of M.,m glYC him Prefermenr: and is that DireCtion Jo Ioon over? will it not continue in force' one yeat ?and if it doth, pray why Ihould the T errns of !vIm be allcdgcd as an l!lim y to him, and he under a very good Martial Direction? Why fhould not the Trine of Mon's glv,C tho Contcli (if there was Iuch a Dirctlionat that tlme, as he Iays there was) more likely than the l.'erms qLM,m, it ending in his Ad vantage and Honour? which cannot be! allowed fuch an AiHidi0I1 as he fecms to, illfinuatc by the Traniit of SfiturJl,Butwhy mutl the Afcendaut to the Terms of Marl be brought in now as 3. caufe of difference? Doth it always give Q_uarrels and Contells? Did it alfo give: Qllatrcls, Contclls, and Difference, when the Afccndant .carne to the beginoing of Callcer, which .was'the·Terms of M:s;'s afro, whiL;hwas two or three yearsafterwatd? I doubt it; and I think it would be worth whiletoask the Gentleman, if it 'did not fall in pitted and fmoaky degrees- if Io, then it is beyond all quetlion and doubt; btl!: the truth of ~ij is, rherewas nothing -elfe to Iham in at this time" and therefore this mull: do; yct I do thillk there' is no man. will louk upon this as a good reafon'and

argument to prove the. Nat1vity true. I

). Fif,hly, In 1645 he fays Oli~el' CromwfU was made Lieure-

mint-General to Sir 'Ih 0 P21:Z1 Fairfax, and this under the Direction of the MODn,to the Sextile of SalKrn, Lord of the Tenth Houfe ; and indeed it was w~l he was Lord of the-Tenth, or elfe he had

, certainly lof] his Honour and Preferment at.that time ;' however, ihat is alfo falfe,there was no fuch Direction at that tirae, and that

(or the: Reafons beforc~mentiol1ed,' - ' \

C 2 6, Six'h~l)

II

11. OpUl l'1\e[ormattun: .

\

. 6. SiJt1!bly, 10 1 ~4S. for his -contending with the Parliamenr, and forne other things, he fays he had his-Sen (0 the Square of L~aI;itn, and the part of Fortune to the Oppofition of Venm: As for that of VenHI, I am fare 'tis fahe, for he is not able either to

..- take or direct the part of Fortune; and what is more, if the part of Fortune were truly placed in that Figure, it fhould Qe in about II or J 2 degrees of Leo, and he hath made it in one and twenty; and for that Direction of Saturn.if it fhould be true it doth net

at all help to the Correction. ..'.

7: Sever.~hly? J n J 649 he went over to Ireland to oppofe the Poplfh Rebels 111 that Nation, and defend the Proteflant Religion· an~ as Gad~JIry {a.ys, he had a Flux and Fe;). verthere , for there thln&, ~e glv,es hun the !\foon to her own Square, and the Contrantifcion of J~1~t£r; alas, poor man! he never knew yet how to take, an Anrucion or aZodiacal Parallel, which you pleafc; and I WIll venture an even Wager of what he will that he doth not k.l1~w how to direa the Moon either (0 an Al1tircion or, Con~rantlfclOn .oran}' Planet; fo great is his Confidence and Ignorance 111 pretending to a thing he underfrands not. And furthermore, had the Moon been [0 dlr¢led at that time, as h·(! fays (he was to thofe two directions, I am certain he wouhlhave had neither Flux J]~r F ea~cr at that time, if rIo/amy fays true; but you lIlufi - bear with his Iguorance, for if he knew better, he would do better.

8. EitbtIJly" II). J 650 and 16'5 l ,he b cat the Scots at DlUlb.ff a~d the, C.t'l!l1iierr a.t TPoreejlef' to jheir.hearts content; for this ~ gives him the Sun fQ his ownSextile, but how he doth make !f: do, J cannot tell, for tbeArk-of direction is 53,46, and ri\'~/ abo.ut 5.4 years, and he ~.a6 now b,ut 5 I and 52 years of aWL' which 15 a great-difference in point of time; but he doth not tell you. one word of the S~ to the Square of Utl'S and &turn, 11~' thclf·dTec.li; one of which happened at '48 ycar.s of Age, and the ot~er lit 51 ; and tho he could not telt:whar\h~y gave, yet he nught, ha.ve t?ld u.s what the .rcafon was that they d ill. not kill, or at leall~Jfe give Sicknels.as Vidl as the Moon to the Contraneifcion of JupIter and her own Square , ~r why, the Sun to the Square r;f SatHrn}l.»d Mm" f!so;lldnot give lofs of Honour , and damage to ~eputatloJ).·a_, well ~ the M .. C.,totoo DraglJns-bead, gave the .g:~atefi of HP1lQIJf; but thefe, 1 fuppofe-aee Nofhllli lodged in his own Cukafs, and are not to be made known till the publicati.-

on

,

OpU& . ~fo1'matum.

on of his body of Tautology, or a more convenient time : Now if this Nativity that he hath printed, were true, then the Sun is pofitivcly Giver of Life, which if [0, he hath. ( according to Pto[omy) not only the p.rincipal G?Vernment of Honour and Gra~dcur but of Health, Sicknefs, Life and Death ; and rhercfore It is the greaten wonder to me, that under two Iuch di~ectiul1s there Ihould be no effed attend him either of Sicknefs or Scandal;

..h!,lt thefe are fmall things with honea Jol}//. _ .. ' '

9. Nillthly, In 1653, in December, he was Proclaimed Proteaor of Ellgland; he had nOW the Sun directed, to the body of J".piter, Sextilc of the Moon, and the PaIt of Fortune to the Sextile of Venns ». thofe dirc~1ions, I confers, are.probable for Iuchan effect, ami the former comes roo at the time he fays it doth; but the laft of the three he knows nothing of it.

• 10, 'lfnt.My .. In 1654- he concluded a Peace with Fral1ce, and makes a Leagu~ with 8wcdw; _ end for that Gadb- fa1's he had the, part of Fortune to the T rinc ot Mars; but that cannot be all~wed.; for if he had lived twenty yens longer than he did, that dlrect,on would not have come up; {6 improbable a Diredion that is

t •• hi

to be .alkdged for this time; but alas, poor man. us IS want

of skill. ...

I 1. EleV8ll1hly. In 1656. he called a. Parliament, and they de-

fired him to take upon him the Title of King, which he refuled ; far this he had (as Gadb. fays) the part of Fortune to the Sextile of Sstnm Lord of the Tenth: I have little oecaGon to fay any thingm~re to this, hecaufe 1 told y.ou before, that he can

neither take nor direct that Point.

11..'Iwelftbly, In 1657. he [cnt Six tho~(and men over into

Elsndcrs, under the Command of Sir Jobll Rrynolds, by ~'hofe means he became MJikr of DUlikirk_, he had then tbe.S~n dl.red .. ed to the Sextilf.: of Mmury; and why [hould not this Sextile ~f, Mcrcu1Y, being il.S~lS of 10n~ Afcencioll,be e~ual [0 a Square? it fo, why {hould it ,give any good at all? But let It be the one or the -ocher this as wtll"s-the reCt can by no means Ierve to prove the

Figu:e true, which is the .1 hing he aims it. .'

.. 13. 1hirtf£litbly, In the year J'658, OIl Sfpl€mbc: t~c ThlId,thl~

great General and ~~tatefman died of an Intcm)lttUlg Feayer at nrH , but. afterward Continual; which _Gad~Uf'Y t~ll.s us ~a9 caufed hv the A[cendant (who is, fays he ~n this Natl~lty, GIver .Qf Life) di!cfud to the.Square of M,rl 10 Callcer, his faU ; ~~ ..

, ) 4- Opus rJ<.sformatum._

Sun to the Head of HmuleJ,1n""a the part of Fortune to the Square of the Moon, As for this latl of the EB to the Squareof the Moon, thJ! cannot be directed (0 the Afpects in the Zodiackbecaufe oftcl~tim~5 that doth not m~vt in it, nor he _knows no o;hcr way of dtfccbns. And for the Sun to the Head of HmtlcJ '[is a fmall StH of ~hc ::'ccoiJd Magnitude in ,S degrees of C1IJcer,' and alrnoft 7 degrees of North. Latitude s .but he <lirters it here without La-

. rirude : If tfJi. hath any torceto kill without Latitude, -why di.J not the Sun to that Star with Latitude kill, it corning up with the Square of S it ttvn; ar.d the ffi. to the Oppofition of VWI!!, in theYC3r j 6+S ? For it would be more able to kill when the Sun was atHic1ed by two violent Promittors, than by one; and the rather, if the SlIl1 Ihould prove Hihg, 'as 1 believe you will find it is in this Fi,'.urc of his making; And here by the way, I mult take the lib,rty to qucflion this trifling Gentleman' how he proves the Afcendant to be GiViY (1 Life] FQr in his borrowed Rules in the D)ftr f NJliv, ~e tells us that the Sun in the A[cendant is Hileg, an? I l:ope he. Will not make two Aph'£la's in one Nrrivi.y.: And alio O:If'.,~I/!!J III ImTodufJ. p.Jr, 3. C.1p. 2. preachcth the v"'-ry fame Dochine ; Io doth Argol, Peszelius ; Ram;'?I/, and all the rcft of our ~uthors; but above all, the Great Pto/amy, in his fl.:_udr;partimm, l~b. 3. C.lp. 1 I. and·op. 13. where he is particular and very potitl~e, wf_~en he ~ays, Cum alit em QI14!rimuJ ill I~if locis potcntij]ilmtm, pTlT1ITtJ em MedIum Cedi, deinde Hnyo[copUS,f-.N. So that you lee the Horofcope is one of the chiefefl prerogatory places; and yet this w.orthy Gentleman, contrary to the Hulesprinted by himfelf, and all our ancient Authors, rejeCts the Sun in 'the middle of the Afccndant, and confidently or ignorant Iy tells us, That the A[ccndant is Giver of Life, ,or Hlleg; and this for ' no other reafon, (as I can fee) but to give countenance and credit to his own erroneous·pradiccs ; and to lead (like Jack. with a Lmtbom) other men out of the \yay, into rheie bogs of t:rror. ill Ihorrs]. do affirm That th.e S.un :within five degrees above the Cufp of the A[cem!a~t: till ~ltphl11 tiv; degrees of .the Cu[p of the Second; or rather, to Ipeak In to/am_y s terms and rn_eaning, within the cornpafs of his double H.orary times there, ht:. IS to be acc~pted for Giver of Life j, provided the Moon IS not 111 an Apherical place above the Earth or 'th,c part-of ~ort.une, = qualified for Cthat .p.ower: BLlt in 'this Figure oehls; toe SUIlIS beyond all doubt Giver of Life, he being 'inrhe vr:r! middle of the Houfe, and having there no Competitor,

- Hence

..

Opus fJ\_efoimatttm.' I 5

Hence that w hkh Gadb. affcrts in ,this c~Ce,. is a F,alp~ble fJllhood,

which might have been excufed In a NOVIce, but 111 all old R~-

w<7ltbcr it ought to be reproved" and that ~3rply to_o: Bur let It

go how it will, it was a credit for Croillwe!l, that h,IS,F oes c?uld

rind norhing to kill him but th~ Head of Hercelcs ; }on1:d with a fiB:itiou5 Direction; and dULlS the Mcendant -t() t~le Square of

MJrf, which in reality could not come up before Ninety years of

age, or 'thereaboflts." .

, But the main DirecHon thou Mr. }J!,n lays at! the ~rer<; of th~

matter upon, is the Afcendant to the Squ~re of MJrf In the Zsdiack... which is, (, to ray the truth), nOh d~~e~~~l at fall; tpolr you may as well direct the Mcendant to t ~ ,~lltllCIO!l 0 a~ly ancr, 3S[0 an AfpcCl in the Z\)diack; they being b~tl: impollible to be 'done by anyone" ]aJm excepted But fuppo{e it were allowable, and that there was Iuch a Direction in ~ature, ~s_ he there tells us there is, yet that Direction could not kIll,; for It he pleaferh but to read Ptalomy, Lib. ,. Cap. 13. ~~drlp~r/~ h~ there tells us, That if the Rays of Jupiter or Venit! fall wlt~lIl ~Igbt or twe~ve degrees iftera Maleti.:k Direction, tl~lt DI.rect~on cannot kill :

Now in chis ca[~ here is but one Malefick plr~cbon to the A(Cendant, and that is the Square of Mm; Whl~h IS fi1Cc~ed~d by t~le A[,endant to the Sextile ot the Sun, the BJdJ' of JUPltCT,' Sextile of the Moon, and Sexrile of Mcrcltty, and theY,all nearly ,Ill Afpect to JHpiler,. and for that reafon partaker" of lys natur~ 11\ a grelt

fure : therefore how this body of Dtrccbonslhould (contra~et~all~ood and 8.ttthcntick Rules) 1m,l, fee~: to m:: a MyllcIY' and what is more, that he (hould dye of fuch a Dlfeafe as an int~rmittillg Feaver or ~?¥ton ; fCH it is not IrIJrs, but the SUIl and Jupitrr, .that do fpeCl.hcate the D!Ccafe; and how theY,two [hould kill, but cfpecially after that manncr_, ,I hope my Friend JU/;/I will explain in his twc:nty y.ears. p!om!Lar.B~dJ' vf Tillltofogy, when he thinks convenient to pfmt It; ~nd a~.o II: that B~oi!. to

" us full dircction tor the underfianding his-pitted AZlmun,

gl\e .,. h h d

and fmoaky D.grtcs; which, perhaps, may a,ve a &reat an

in killing this Gentlct~lan: tho he hath not mentioned It, nor do we undeIltand it, w hich J) WOlfe. .'.

But Ce:ing Alhology i"s. allowed an~ oWI_1ed by fi)~e of the molt Leamrd, to be a bunile of Expe~lence Improved Into Rul~s by continued nbfcrv,ltirms oi t,ho[e Acclden~s,and Effects tLlat did always attend different Dirccllons and poiluons; Hence It then

fonows,

J 6 Optt1 (]{eformawm,

. follows, 1h.l1 Iii{; c.m{es muir always bsve l;~ Ejfef1!, . or eire Rules of Exception Iaid down to know when they (hall, and WhM they thal! not give rhofe common Etfc.:rs that they all tell us of :

For ir the Afccndant, SIlIl or Moon to the body, SC • aare or Oppoiition of Ssiem and M.Jrs, fhall kill in two or tlneeCafes, and mifs in ten or ,twelve, it leaves Atlrology an idle, foolifh, and rcpIOJchful Study, ~eing uncertain and vain;- and therefore not to be 1111,dicd no~ defended by any but men of a Reputation equal to it Iclf: For It the Afcendanr to the Square of-M.2r.f, in this pretended Nativity of the Lord Prouc7or's, Ihould killwhen the Body of Jupiter, S,x/ileof the Sun and Moon, &:c. asc fo near, then Ldo affirm, 1/JJt Ilnthillg can binder it 1ft aIry time, but it muJr alwa)'i eert.ml/y kjll; which if true, then pray obferve what follows, taken our of that Larned Trdtife, called C,ylldii Genitura, a Book fun of Contr~dic1ions and Error, aHO the Principles and Truths of Alholo~y ;whi~? I lhall more 'fully detect hereafter,. but give . you aghmpfcof It now, to {hew you what a (ort ot man he is that. pretends to be the Leader and Top-rrian of rhe Society of i\itrologqs in EngUnd, and how he and his Notions ought to be

believed. '

J. Firjr then; In the NJtiv;ty of £!.!J,en M:Iry, pag. 11. the Afccndant to the Square of Mm did not kill, tho it wasaffiftcd by the.Bodies of Mawry and the_ SHill and they -both Maldick and Peregrin ; nor did the Square of SaWM afterward kill her.

2. 1n the Nativities of AnI! Queen of HUllgary, pag. %8. Lewu. the Xmth. K;ng of France, Pl£;' 3 +. and Clm/a GII(bvlI.1, King of Sweden, pag, 3)' he lets rhofe three out-live the Afccndant to the Body of Msrs, which mull be undoubtedly more violent than the Square; and ill two of the three it came up young.

, In the ~afe of Frederick."Kmf!, of DU;l1I.lrk.", pag. 37. it did not kill, tho it fell near the Lyons heart.

3. In the Nativity of the Ea)'! of Eff:~, rag. 4~· we have a . moli admirable Inttance , for there the Alcendanr (0 the Squares of the Sun, the Mqon, and Mar!, all together, had not Power and Strength enough to kill, and Y,r:t 110 allitlance from ]upi,dand Venus to help or Iave , when you ice in the Cafe of CrJmwBll, that the Iingte Square of M.m d~ rhe buiincfs, tho the Body of Jupiter, &c. were very near to the place. This' is Bric/tCoJtrl A;lro--

Ingy with a witnefs! IU!um,eneatif.. /

4. In

DptH. ·.'R..tformatNm. 1'1

4. In the Cafe of Cajimir King of PoltUfa, pag.+6. it did like· wifefail, tho Mal'S was there among the Pleiades, andforthat rea-

fon the more violent.

. ~.-In the Nativity of Charlel 'funenfon. the great SJIIlc/i(h Gent-

ral, pag.,48. where Mltl is inConjtmliiol} with the Sun, Lord of the Eighth, and in Square to Saturlf in the Eighth, yet this worthy Gentleman lets him out-Jive the Afcendant to the Square of Sa- 111m, Bodies of, Mars and the Sun, and fends him to the other world on the Afcendant to theOppofidon of Sat1l1'n. In this Nativity Honefl John hath fhown as much of his Ignorance (as to the Rules of Allrology) as in anyone Cafe throughout the whole Book betides; for here he gives the Afcendant the Power of Hileg. and yet both Sun and Moon in Aphlrtical places, the one in

the firll, and the other in the feventh. . ,

6. In theNa(ivi~y oftheDH'tbeJiDj S!ort;/I, page 64. the Square of Marl did not kill, but the Afcendallt to the OppofitioD of the Moon and the Sun to the Square of 'Yenlu did, -and yet neither of them Givers of Life; neither did the Afcendant to the Square of Mm kill ill the Nativity of DDn John of .J"jlria, ,ago 65·

. 7. In the Nativity of George DIIkG of Albemarle, pag. 10• neltherthe Square of S(ltthn or Mars to the. Afcendant could kiJI hlm, and yet Mars Lord of the Eighth Haufe.

8. In the Cafe of Pope PaId the 5th. the Afcendant to the SqUllC of Marl did Dot kill,,; and yet the Oppotition of MercllT'}' out of the Eighth Houfe fell near the fame place.

9. In the Gafe' of Pope Gregory 15. pag.81. the Ho{ofcope to the Square of Mart did not kill, and yet that Angle Giver-of Life; but the Square of Mercltry did it to the P""Fofe a while after. I fuppofe M.m was Popi!h!y inclined at that time, and therefore would not hwt his GhofUy Farher, but Mere"ry appeared tobe a downright Heretick, and had no refpea: either to his Age or In~

fallibility.· '

10. In the Nativity of C .. JinalPder Bmrlnls, pag. 85· the fam.

Afpea: did riot kill, lind yet Mars Lord of the Eighth. I really judge that he was a PlpilHnthofe times; what think you'Jobn, ,was he or no? You are the better Judg of the two, becsufe you

are of that Perfualion. '

II; .In the Cafe of M r, TbomM G,,'oJk..er, pag. 102. the Square of Mars, and Oppofition of the Sun out of the Eighth, wollld not do ; buttheOppofition of Sa'NTn did it afterwards.

'D n.ln

'l~ Opus"'~f()rn'dtut!l~

u. < In the t:'1ativity of.Jlldg ReeveJ,' pag. 12 I. the Square of . N!.m, Oppofition of the.M(u>n, and Body of Saturn could not

kill; )Jut after that, fomething elfe did it. • '

J 3- In the ~fe ~f Dr~'\1(;~lirdrll,af9rJ, p~g. 133: he out-lived the Al1:endant tel tho''Sliwre'Qf ·'Mrt and the S,m,· both . whi~h

Afpeats fell near the Ljon~; .' , . . '. .

14. In th~ GenitureofMr, SI#fhen Roger!, pag. 138. the Afcen.dant ,was.dJrcaed to the Square of Marl; and yet that could not kill him, although the'Square of the Moon gave her af-

fiflance.· , . ,

J 5. In that of MOfjor-GenfNl !amber', pa.g. J 67. he palfro the Arcendantto the Square of M~"J, and divers years after to (-h'c Square of S<lturltand the Moon, and lived many years aft;rward I~. In the Cafe of Dr. Geo/rty Ie Neue, pag, 178. be Ijltewif~

out-lived the Afceodant to the Square of Mm,and to the Sauare of S"'ltTn afrer,thatalfo.· ;;.. ;',". " ',~ ..

17. In the Nativtt~ of ~r,1}!Jli,Rno/l,§r, pag. lSi.·You WiiI the~e ti,nd that he out-lived the AfcQn4ant to tbe Square of MarJ', S9ua~e of. the Sun, ~uale of the Moon, and Square of Mer,"

aDd. lived mlllY years :ifterward. ' . , ,.-:,' . " ry,

I~; In the Geniture ~f' ~r. Will. Leyho.rn< Pas. 187; you will find. that he alfo hath oat-lived the Afc(!ndant to the 5qua.re1of MoIrJand Me~CHry, and.yet t?cfe Eell."lea,r the Cufp of thefourth

JHoufe, and 10 Cancer hkewlfe ; as It d. id in that Fi:glue HoneR

ohn gave u~_ for, the true one of. Oliver Cromwell. .

19. In his ,?wn Narivity,pag. 190, he out-lived the Afcendant

to the.Oppofition o~ Man; and-lives vet, as I fuppofe, - .

~o. In theNatkl~y:ofMr. John Mallery pag.18'o.he ou(~ived thc! Afcendant to the Square of. Mar!~ but unhappily dyed afletward on the Af,endant: co. the Square of Seuen-, as Honefi

Job" kJ.,!,$. : ... -. ' , .

- T~s: I tJ.~ve given 'y~li above Twenty Examples, of tha't AfPt~ and~ Direction .ou' of his own Book, where it did not kill's' ar,d ~ could have given you m()re oatof the fame alfo if I had ' ~Qughtth(~e 6V,~'" and above (ufficient to-prove the'Improbabi:~~; ? wh~t this tJlfl.~}g man puts upoI?us for truth; Now let an lmp~rll~l ~n fwoully ,c(.mfltler:too· Rli:afons that he gives' t~ prov~ his fIgure true, (~hlc" he fays cott him fo much pains) a1,ld efpemlly that fOl,hlS Death, and compare the Collection of

Examples

or« . fJ(jformat~m;

Ex~,t)1ple~ J have here made, with thole Re~ro1ts he bath given, and t~~n, tell me.. Wpethc,r -thr; A[eel1rJafl,t ~~ tl}i $qllJre of Mars is a Direction tit t9 be believed ami d(!pen~.ecl,on, foxthd}eath of Ql;wr CromwE1J: For you/ec1~er~is twenty to one againfi it , and if' Iike ¢a\-l(~s have not li~c:~EffeCl:s, (.widlOut R ulcs of Excepti- 01) ), ~hWI will certainly fp10unCe AitIOlogy, and believe it no more; A,nd' dare furthc~ affure you, That the AetIology which ~.g~I~~al1y pladc7)je of, Studied, and fra{jijfd, is rather fit.to be laugh'4 at, than believed; as you may. ca{ily fee by the lilly {hams of Gadbury, if you compate one-thing with another throughout . his whole Book, calledthe Collection, w hich ill a !horttime I

, !hilll alro~xpofe. '. ,-

, And for' me to believe that this Gentleman died on the AfcCHdJ'nt to thdiquueOf M.m, awr (0 plain a Conviction of the Error, when thercare'J'weflty Examples under his own hand to prove where and. when it hath miffed of that Ejfect, is to tell an In~lIkind,That I am an Ignorant, Credulous Fellow, void both of R.eafon and Skill, and fit to be illlpo(cd UPOll by 'l-Ily one that is willing to attempt it. And for my put, when.l confider that there are. a great number of Ingenious Fe~ron~ of aJI.QHalities 'and Degrees in this Kingdvffi, who uuderfland Mhplogyvcry well, an,d. have obferved the Shams and Che~ts of this lmpoflor, I wonder they were never called in queflion, and exploded before now; for they will ferve for no Qthcr ufe, but to lead the young Students out of their way, and bring an Oq\A.illl upon the Science it [elf, when it is read by Iuch men, who 1o\'he11 th~y obferve its incoherence, ale readily apt to make ufe of it, ox any thing elfe they can pick up to brand it with Infamy; for which end they need not trouble themfelves to read Books written againll it; for let them perufe but our own Authors, ~1}11 :they.wUl not fail to find Huff enough to make rhernfelves l1\e~ry at ~ . a lid yet forall this, there if is Tru« Ajl:rology in being: Little.Thanks to, our Modern

Authors. .

Obje8. But perhaps here. may rife an Objection, and I would 110t have any thin~left in the dark, that now O~~LUS to my memory ~ For perhaps ferne mly fay. Do yeu believe that·it 15 pofiiibl~ for the Afcendant to the Square of MJrJ', to kill at any tillld or do you think it call never ~il1?

02

se OpUs <1\.~f()rmatum.

' . .Anf~. Yes; That 1 can arref] upon experience, that it dothkill; and I can tell you feveral Nativities in honetl John·s Colledion, that have dyed on the Afcclldant, to the Square of MJrr, and Squ~r~ ,of SalIlTn, tho unknown to him; but it mull be in [ucn Nauvltl~s where the Horofcope is Giver of Life; for no Point can be dJr~tted for Death, but the Hilrg; and therefore whofoever p~attlfeth contrary to that Rule, erreth, and will never do any thing well; and you (ball fee more on that fubjeCl, That no ~ao ever yet made any famous Predittion of Death, but when he drretled and made ufe of the Giver of Life in his Operation and Judgment.

Thus have I made it as plain as poffible itcan be, to any Ardft, or other Pretender to AtlroJogy,That the Rules and fleafoll5 made ufe of to prove the truth of the Proted:or's Nativity, are falie and erroneous,. and b?i1t upon fuch Principles as are not true in themfelves, neither will they hold true in other Pofitions, to ef· fed what the~ ar~ brought here to prove. And alfo the major part of th~ Dlr~dl?ns that he there talks of, will ferve to any o.ther Pofirion within half an hour or an hour, with a linle varianon ; but for the firft, the fourth, the tenth, and the thirteenth, being thofe that do depend particularly on the truth of the Figure, they are fa ridkulouf1y falfe, that they need no other Arguments to, expcfe them, but their Non·effCCt: in other Genitures ; and therefore ~ do advife.all Ingenious, Laborious Afrills, to compare o~e thing with another after this manner, in thofe books !eDt fO.rlh into the ~orld by our Modern Authors; and at laf] try 111 their own Praci1ce, whether thoCe Rules will hoh! or not· and alfo let them confider, whether they are not impofed upon in divers other cafes, as well as in this Nativity.

~ftl.J, I, wouldad9~.Mr. John, feeing Mm hath played thefe Trlcks,alid cheated ~Im fo, to proceed agilinfi him by a Form of Law, as he knows. how, without doubt; and the Bookfellers of LJn~n fay he !tath. very good ,skill in Sc<zndalum M.lgnatumJ, for whl~h they dehre ~Im t~ remember [he Enl of P.

Firft t.hen, Let him bring a ~t7 Warranto ,againH him, and take

away his Charter, (he knows where to have JLldges for that purflO~ ), un~efs he can lhe~ good reafonwhv he hath done his du!y :(0 oegligenrly, pmially, and barely, killing aile part of ma?klnd. and lettmg Twenty efcape, that lay at his mercy; by .which means he.hath brought Catholick Jilhn~s Reputation into . doubt

Opu& <RJformatum.

doubt and quefiion, for which he can never make him fatjsfac~HOil unlefs he can help him to a greater fhare of . And in ~he next place have him before Father Perm, and Inquitition him, for I· doubt the Knave is nor found in the Faith, but harh a plaguy (bare of Herery and Difobedience. How! ferve honefl Johnfo! But it will be fo Iornetimes when Papifls deal with Here-

tical Stars. .-

And then let him draw up an humble Addrefs to Monlieur Titan, in the Name of him, and his Society, in fJIIo b'l11riltlfr MonfirtlUt"; that he hath for a long time drove on a T rade-of Lying. (but not a word of his Ignorance) being cheated and abufed by a fort of obflinate and dlfobedient Stars. And that if 110W at laft he pleafeth but to give his MandamM, that S.ltztrtl and M.lTr, &c. may henceforward obediently comply with all the Altrological Bules in falhion , that he Ihall be in duty bound to thew himfelf

f.tll as skilful as ever.

11.

And fo 1 come to prefent you with the true Nativity of this Great General, without Sham or Trick, and. the DiteCtiqns_lhall alfo havean equal'Effefrin other Nativities, according to the Hypbothejir before bid down.

THE

OpU4'~efomuitum.

)'1 r

THE

: i •

N AT'lVIT'y

o F

il91t\1~r "ronlmrll,

LordProteetor'of ENGL4ND.

, '

Fairly and faithfully handled, according to the true Principles of AA:rology.

THE time of this Great Man's birth, according as he gave it himfc1f, was on St. Marlts d:l.Y in the year 1599. Summa Mane, at HHrlrinj!,toll, whore Latitude is 52 deg, and; a few minutes; and this is the eflimate time given.

Now the main point is, how we mull underfland this {h;)!t Sentence, Summa Milne; and it can in my J udgcment have no other meaning than very early in the Mornin*:" that is, in the very top of.the Morning, or fuddenly afrer Twelve, for (0 the word feems to import; and indcd 1 can give it no other Interpretation but this; for the word. SumMO mul] be there taken Advtrbially, and derived from the Adj,llive S'lmmHI, which in that fence it is here Ipoken, lignifies the very higheft, extream, utmofi,_top, &c. of the 'Morning; tho I confefs the word Morning takes 111 all the whole

nrne

.: ,:Opl# /f\.if011J14tfIt11: ,):}

thndiomTwelye, .qr r.'Iidnight,tll1Twclve at Noon' ~ but lf he

11~~ been born ,after S Hn rifipg, I am very apt t9 believe he would

have ~fed another way of cllprelling it, as by Ame Mrrediem, &C.

but if before S!4n JifHlg ~ ~iuQ~e4 they all agree he was, 'then I

call take it in no other fence but this that I havealready given,The

top of the Morning, and t~ time pitchedupon, is at about 5 mi-

nutes after one of the Clock, and to that time the Planets places,

both in Longitude and Latitude, are calculated by the Caroline Tables, as followeth, "

.J;-ol1git. Pf"het'dr. { i Lat,' Plltl10 Par.Pl4n •
. deg, m, f.,c, ~.-.
Tt II 47 2 ~ 2 >4 No 2
If. 1, 4. .I~, Q5 ' 0-' '~f No-' 23 S
a '';2') •. l_ 19' "f r Gi~ 'So 3 9
10 I
~ 29 5 I 46 t5- 0 ~9 No 20 4°
~ 16 19 ' ~5' t5 0 }8' No I1J 3
0 13 ~) 10 tt 0 00 00 ·6 5
» If 35' 4Q, 1~:, " 2 3 r' So",', ,~ ¥>
Q 15 Sf 28 ..... 0 00 00 0 00
.w
': tS 'I) t1' ;:i8~ Q 0: €l0 (00 :'~ 0 Od
(' 5; ~
,
IC? .z.
~4 ' ill
31" )(
57 m. Now- ml~aill 'the Cufp'!I- of the Twelve Houfes I proceed ill the mdhod'foHl)wing'; uy'tllking'tne'iightAfccntion of the SUII, and-the: ~i\t' Aftent{onof 'Pime~ 'and' oidaihg them together, gives

,';4 OpU4 'fR..!format'um:

gives the right Af"ention of the Mid-Heaven; to which adding thilty Degrees.gives the ObliqueAfcention of the Eleventh HouCe; and (0 by the addition of thirty Degrees, we gain the other fix of

the Oriental Hou(~St as in the following Example. ' ,

Afomt. Rea .. Solis ' .. ; ~6
Afte;,ti ReEl, Ttmporu 196 J ..
A{cent. Rea. med. Ct1!lj 237 ... TIl. '2.9d S2.'
Aide 30
.Ajcm. Obli'l.DQm. 1 r, ~67 40 -l' IS ,
A!lde 30
Aften. Obli'l' Dom. r 1 297 40 VS S
Adde 30
,Aften. Obli']. Afom4m. 317 40 \IS ,16 I9
, 'Adtle 30
Aften. obl;f· D01II. 2 35740 1( 16 '
Adtk 30
Aft",.obli,]. D"". 3 ' 2.7 40 ts. 6 Many of our Modern Profdfors have made a great noiCe a: bout taking the Minutes and Seconds for the Cufpsof every Houfe, which I think are both ufelefsand impertinent; for what ufe do they make of them, when they have take.l~ them? none, as I know; however, I will give you a thort Example, and leave the

ref] for thofe that rhink them ufeful. ,:, , ' ,

For the MC. 1 take tile difference, betweeu [he two Arlt.!, greater and leffer; then (he R.ight Afcention of the M. C. and that is 62. Then I take the difference between the next Leff. and the R.ight Mcention, and that is 54 : then I cay by the Hule of proportion, If 62 gives 60, Sf (hall give S2 , which leaves the Cufp of the Tenth in'i9 deg. S2 minutes of Scorpio. -

And for the Cufp of the Af,endant, I alfo take the difference a,s before between the two Ark{ , greater .and leffer than the 01>lique Afcention of the A(,endant, and that is 44 Minutes; and alto between theleffer 4rk.. and the Oblique ACcmtion, which is .4 Minutes: rhen I (ay as'bdore,-By the aule of Proportion, if

44mi-

opus fJ{~for~atflm.

++ minutes gives 6'0 minute~, 14 minutes that! giv~ 19 minutes, which tells us, that t~eCu(p of ~~e ACcef!dant refieth in 2.6 degrees and 19 minutes of Capricorn, under the Pole S2. I omit totake notice of the Equation fo~. rhofe few 'mlnutes above 52, the Pole of Birth; and therefore the' figure without any further operation ,

is as followeth;

,A 2'7.40~ H.

Natus Die ~f.Aprilis, Horn 1.

Minut. 4. Second, 56.

- -Mane, 15-99. ' »rer0 ad *' 1/-6 ~.

LatitEde; iftin#tlg!.D1!'

THE

': 6

opus fl\!Jormatum.

A Table of the Directions in this Nativity, with the feveral Arks thereof, the meafhre of Time agreeing to each of them , and the year of our Lord when they began to take effeU.

Arcus Menfur.' Anni Direfti. Diredi, Dorn Gr, Mi AiLM~

- 0 nOli 1600

00 00 1600

SOL;' Terminos u ~~'-~ s.I .:ttl * 2f. in Zodinc« ----

Lunn ad * 2f. in Zodiac» cum . Latitudtn« - I 13 3 1600

Luna ad * i2 ill Zadi1ico cum Latitllii/le 51. 1 11 -160 I

Sol ".1 CfrPrif ~ -- 1 2 8 2 ,2 1601

Lunn ad Tt#'tlJil1Qr. l/. -...,...-- " 44 2 ,8 160 r

Luna ".1 Terminot cJ ...... --- 4 1 7 4 5 1603

LUria ad * 'If Za/iiac9 jlle Llltitudinl .. H 4 3 1603

Luna ,1.1 pnrIlU./nm 1f. "'U/JJ~ dd, ~,:--_"'-:----j 4 40 4 9 - 1603

Sol ad 0 2f. ill munti~ tid; 4 54 ~ I 1604

Lun« "d [) ~ Z~di"co /me' Llltifudi.e 5 17 5 '5 1604

sol 11.1 S,h.u'1"tJra:am_ Jl mU7do""", '65 '6 ,3 1605

Sol Jldparll/ltw"., !i! in ~~dillco- 6 23,~ 7 1605

uln'" lid taralltf!jo/)__ Tt i* ZOdi~D . 6 2)' 6 : 7 1605

ffi ad p-",."llelum 11 in: Zodii1cO - 6 1S6 7 1605

l1j'mlden! ad '* 0 - . 6 '.1.7 6 8 1605

LIma ad Semfrjllllf/ratum J.I. ,-AWUlo d.J. _ 6 lSI 6 10 1606

LUIIIZ ad l"raJ}drl~ r$ in.~od)lIco - "\ I~ 7·' 5 1606

Ee adp'f'nllelufn(J'in ~,diIlfO,_ 7. ',16'7 '51606

Sol (ld pleiades.run Llltitud{II~,'-:"-'__ _ ' 'l ,4i 7 '; I I 1607

LUlla lid 6,-1-i71 ZQdiaco cum LtStitudi'lt' 7 4'3'7 II 1607

Ell adpllrJlUelum a mund» dd 7 +B 8 00 1607

LUll" ".I Terminas n __ - 7 -49 8 00 1607

Lun» "d TemfinQs Tt' 7 56 8 ) 16<>7

Ell lid 0 0 mlmdo_dd, 7 ; 7 8 I (607

Lun» ad parlllltlum.proprirun - 8 5,8 3 1607

Ell ad parlllldum l) in Zodiaco- 8 ; 8 3 1607

Sol lid Termims Tt ------ ,_ 8 17 8 5 1607

, Luna ad 0 ~ in mumlo dd, 9 14 9 5 1608

J.'I1tdium Clltli ""~A 0 -- 9~ 30 9 8 1608

Sol ad Pleiadll jillt Latimdine 10 9 10 4 16<>9

MUi!llnClrliJla£:::.'J/. 10 :1.610 71609-

67 ad parlltle!.m n mundo old. _ 29 10 8 16091

- Lzmll lid Ternin6! ~ 10 4310 II 1610

EIl..d £:::. r3 inmundodd.- II·-B II ~ r610

fB "dCorpus JO'lJi! dd. II 37 II 10 161 J

ill",. lid 8 ,f! in ZorN,,, ,urn Llltilr«ipu n II (2 5 '1611

Nomilla

"

,

o f1# .(l{f{ottJZatM~tt~ -

, • p,~. . ~'Arcus ru~er, Anni

Nomina lIe~,'10num. . ()irea~: ~l1nor-. J;?9m

, r.M! An. M·

Med:1IIfJ CQ!I. ,JIlt * n -- --.-. n l~, n, l!'ill

Luna 11.1 -L. ~ in zom. 'aia -Ji1u 4.4#tudine - :I. P l!t . 7 IIi fJ

LIPUJ ad Corpal It' In Zodi~m Lnt~- , _' In 5l q I 161:1

SeJ ad Tilrmilll! 0---' ~.c-:' --'£-J 00"3 '3 r6u

Una Ifd Q 'JI. in.' Z.drtlcQ cl#M-Latitudine .. -,. '4,17 '4 11514

Lflna ad Ti!I'lJIi1WS 2/---- - -- - . t1j- )1 14 I 16"14

Sol lid C.rptl! ~ in Z,diac4 -- -- _ ,1"1- 4S r~, / r 1614

Sol Ad '[mni7lfS ~. 140 HI; 3 1614

LflIIJi,lItl '* 1f. in mundo JJ- - III' 13 r6 7 1615

i.lm4 "d Spic"", 11X "tnt biltit1tdine . . .---116 l4!1S 9 16r6

- sot d rpn1lliltm 2/- 1111AIdo.J4.-- - __ j16 2516 - 9 1616

Sol Ad p"""l/eilim !i! .;'zz.d<'aco 16~7 17 1 x616

A{cendcr.! ltd Se'fffJlladrlJllI'" 8" -- /7 P fa I 1617

LrmM lid 8 a·iff Zod1(!co-&_ Liltl~ ~ 17 48111 00 1617

LIJ"" "dTmllinos: ~. , «t f' 18 I 1(')17

L1JII,. "" CorpUS ft Z,diiU~ --fHH--- Llltifum- 18 -: 2 18 9 1618

Sol "" Pm'nl/elmll 2t -motH rllpr~ T9-:. "713 1619

-.-tj'qndt'll! ".I' SnniqlurdrM_ ~- '9 r619

Sol·tv! AkiEbJlr.m Ji'le l,iItitmline 19 1619

-, Ajmlriem nd semi~tlaJratU>N JI- :H) 16 I 9

LMn4 .rd 0 1f. ill Z.Ji_ (h,e Latifud;," lb 1 0 1619

.I1_fc,ndm! ad &::tilem!i!' _ ' --- ~ 0 3'8 10 1610

Sol tid£:::. ft in mUlldo iUi_ 20 3920 1620

Lull' ltd TertfljllOJ a' ---......;. 11 I 5 H 1152 1 .

un" "dTtrlfJinOs a _21 23 1I 1611

@lId quairlltum ¥. in mtItftI~· tid, 1I jy 11 1621

s,l lid Terminos 2/-, 11' 50 n_ ItS:ir

.Aj'&nfiens ,;d 8 »~- - H 2:>:1. 16u

,Medium Cali 111/ 0 l)_ , l1 '.1.1'- 16,,1

- Sot ad d cJ tflund, motu &1zw,';~ --- __ en I) 21 9 T6l~

LWJI ad Spjcllmnx fine Llft;tHdine ..... · _.:,;,:,J12 1212 10 t'6u

Sol ad Alrllb"r/ll1. cum Llfrihllli,,,-- " !11 4113, 2 161:1.

LmltJ ad'Itlinri/em 2t tmmdo tid.- -'23 H 14 5 Ili13

Sol lid '* 2t in nlalld, Ii", . -'24 914 8 1614

'L1mll ali Parlllltltml .~ m Zftiiaco - . - -----':1.4 4715 ' 4 '16!1+

Ell .d PllrlllltUmi ~ Hi Z6t/.ma-. ="-14 4-71;" -+ 1624-

S.l lid *' cJ in ZQII;~ ----'___::5 - 115 1~' . 9 r6'1;

ED Ad Se(qijiquPdrllttlm-cJ in mund» tid. --25 ,116 00 J6l~

Ullin "Ii T""noJQ! ~. , ~i6 IJ ~6 16:;

sol lId 6 h in Zodiac9 "- ':0 3 :G 1 1 16~6

I.IIII" lid Se(qtJi'fluulrlmm, O' mtmdQ, 'motu Conver! -:2~ 4-' 1'1 00 16iG

~ lid, PllrltllelNm 0 ad. - ''If-·S.8 1 16;'7

UmiJ ad T"'mintr' Q '::!'S" >f1 i'l! 1I16l8

LMnll ,ad Stmi'f'ltAA'atam -it mlfntio m~u Comierf:--l'S 41'19 00 16:18·

Mllii_Cltli"d£:::.0~·" !l9 1119 71t>'llf

E & • Nomina

Opm fRJfodnatum.

Arcus Numer.1 Anni Direai. Annor.! Dom Gr. Mi An. M. -_-

Sol ad *' ~ mund« motll C,nvf1'f ----,....; -- 29 2729' 9 1629

Sol ad 0 » in Zodi6Co 119 3329 10\ 1619

.Afimdms ad 6. 1/--.- . ---- --~'\29 3 19 .1 r 1629

Luna ad parnlklutJI ~ jll Zodiaco--- -- 19 45,0 I {629

ffi ad Parlllie/um ~ in Zodi"co - ~129 45)0 I 1019

SoL ad n,.,ni7l0s ~ --- _-129 54)0 3 . 1619

Lsn« ad 8 0 cum LAtitut!ille- --29 54,0 3 1629'

. Sol ad *' 0 mundo dd.--- . 129 ~9 ,0 4. 16.29

Lun» ad Sextilem, proprium cum Lntitudine 30 2030 .: ~ 1630

A[wldms ad Scmi'lHlldratltm¥.- _\,0 3730. II 16)0

MtdiumGadiad6/:2- ----130 3830 111630

Luna ad D. 1/- in Zodiaco trim L"titudine -- 30 3 8 30 r r 1630

o@ ad 60 mund« rid. -- . \30 47 Jl I 16,

EEl ad D. Q mund» rid.---' =131 631 16,~

LU'l" lid 8 Ii in ZodAico cum Lstitadtn« _-[,I 2 ) I 9 163 I

Lu,ulluiparallelllm h mot,. r .. pt~- ~]I 39 po °116JI

Lrm4adTlrminos1/--- . . -'-\33 633 2j1632

Sol ad S(lJli'lrllldrlltum 11 J71undo dd,-- -- 3 3 4433 IOi I6H

LrmlladTerminos 1/-......;..- --33 50 34' 00,1633

Sol adplirlillelum 1/- in ZodJlk. -- - 34 1) 34 6: 1633

Sol lid PrJrJI11eUnn 1/- mllndo dd.-- -- 35 635 2: 1614

LIm" ad 0 1/- in mundo.dd.-- -- 35 2.,35. 611634-

Luna trd Parallelum JI,:in.Z6IIillco- -- 35 .24,5 6) 1634

EEl ad PlOral/dum 1/- in Zo,(illco- --- 35 24 H 6\' 1'634

Sol ad Pllrallelum » motu rllp:D-- - 36 3336 7 1635

Lunaa" 8 OiIlZodillcofineLaIit"din~ -37 737 I 1636

LunlfadTcrminos n--. - . --37 2~J7 +11636

LII11>' Ifli *' »in Zodiac. fine Latitudin« - 31 34 3) °1 lit 36

Lan» !lfJ 6 J.I. in Zodiaco fi=LLIIlituill1e -- 37. S 437 [01 1637

AfomdcnsadGlYplI4 0,- .... - - ... -~3388 [638 211637

MJJil17nGwliaJ0 0 _ -- 1638 211637

Iun« IId.Parailtlum Q motrll'apta- 38 3038 5 1637

solad'luintilem ~ 1mtl~Cm1)trf.- -- -1,8 HI38 6' 1637

Lunll lid 8 ~ in Zodiacofl1le LPtitlldine. 311 4~ 38 S: 1637

E£l ad PIlra//eUnn ~ muud« dd. --)9 3939 8' 16J8

ffi /JdS/mitjlllldrlltum 1/-liil . --- +0 22 +0 3\1639

Sol ad Terminol It - . - 40 3J 40 51 1639

Luna ad 8 !i! in Z.dilm cum Llltittldi1l(- - +0 46140 8, 1640

Medium Celi lId 6. ~ -- -- '1.0 5 ~I'+O 91 16+0

Luna ad Tuminas 1;, - - +0 S 340 9 1640

Luna ad D. r:! ",undo motu CaNverf -- -- 40 5 ~ 140 10 j 1640

. A_(c~=denl ad 8 n '. _ • + 1 2I,41 2' 1~4°

Medillm Cali lid 0 It- - - 141 2Ij1" 211640

Lrmll ad parJlllelllm pro,rium motu COll'1Jerj- -\+1 47:'''' 8/1640

SollldpJlrlliJelum Jf. mundomotuCQIl'IJerf- -141 48'1'1 8 1640

Nomina

Nomina DireS:io~.

Opm rt\!formalum.

I Arcus Numer. Kruii :Direfri. Annor. Dorn ----__;----,------- iGr. Mi An. M

ffi tid Sehfliqll{ldraflmz ~ mundDdd.-.-- -41 2 41 I~ 1641

EB ad 6. 5' mundo di. '·42 5 +1 I I 1641

Sol Ad 0 » mund» dd.r__:_ __ .42 12+2 co 1641

EEl ltd Sej'!t1il,(",1,·.;tum 0 in muna» dd.- :42 1241 00 1641

ffi ad CorLtonistid.- --;+3 +1 +3 1042

Luno tid 6 J/..'11::mdo dd. 14+ 1644 16+3

'LlllIa ,,:1 * n mund» mowConver!- -'44 34r·+4 4 1641

Lrmtlad PMalfcl"m ~ 11IOtli rapto -.- 144 40 +4 5' 16,!- '3

Sol ad Semiq",,,{u,:,,m ~ mlmdo dd.--- ---145' II +4 I I 1644

So/ad*,0mll1ldomotuCm'Vcrf- - -;45 311+J 3.16+4

LUI'" lId Cot ll\. ill Zadi~co cum L"'itlldille _ -'45 36145. 4 1644

Salad Tmnillof cf _ i45 571-15 7 1644

Sol ad Pl1riJl/dllm <:J 1IIOtll "aptc--- i46 3 +S 8 1645

ill ad Pllrll/lellim 1/. 7JIOIUl'lIpto--'_:"'_ --~' 146 II J~ 9 1645

Sol ad *' Q in mlmdo dd.· 146 I I 1+5 9 1645

LIm" lId 8 ~ ZodiMO jive LPtitudmc_--- -.+8 )C·148 1 1647

Medillm Cadi a.1 R 1/.---. ---'is 4i!+S ~ 16+7

Afccr.dw! ad 0 l.f. _',__ _ __ ;+8' 441+3 4 16,+7

ffi ad* Jl, mundr dd. . ----j'+9 ~~"1,~90 6 16+8

Mrdimll GtI'1i ad 6,» ,0 - c 1649

Luu« ad 6, a i1lZodiaco.mmL.1titra/;m-- -:5'0 3950 - 1649

L~ma,!d*h ill ZodiacoCI"" Latitt/tlme '51 511,.~r 316\'0

{fl ad Corpul Lml£ dd, 51 5' \' I 5 16;' o-

Afcendms /ldCorpus 0 - --- j'2 9;r 6 1650

MediumCtI'lindOO 52 9;1 61650

Sol lid 0 ~ mUndOIllIfUC07Iver{.- _- P 17;r 8 1651

EI7 ad Scfqlli'fJurdratum ~ msndo dd - 52 ~<'; I S 16,1

Ajcmdms nd CorpllS 9. _ -- - ; 1 3C; 1 I I 165 I

Medium Cal! ad 0 ~ ':"""" -- -- \' l 3C; 1 /l I6p

L""" lid Cor SCDrpii (in. Latiwdi71e - 52 3 1 ,I' 1 I 1651

Lun"adTermltlo~~--. q 3c i2 II 1651.

VWiJad 6.1/- inmu71dodd. ,4 31153 II 1653

sol "d Tami",s ~ --'4 45/1'4 I r6;3

Lun« ad 0 p"cprium Zodi",o cum L.Jtitmliue (4 46;4 I 1653

Sol ad *' 9. ill mundo dd. --- -- --;5,6)f 9 1654

Llm,' ad /" din Zodincojill' L.1fitr,dltlc-- -- i7 16,6 6 165)

SoladOOlllZodiaco-:-- ;7 lSi6 31656

Sol lid Pnrellehnn If. in zodiac. - -157 5357 1656

LUIl.1 /1,1 ;[- n in Zodiaco fine Latitll"l7If ,8 29)7 8 1657

S~I lid O. h in Zodiitco ,8 56153_ ,1 1657

Sol "d quintilem l> mrmdo dd. . '9 13 < R 1657

Lqll""dP sr ,,/lclrmzo.lllilwlodd. --159 56~9 21658,

L'I1z .• ,,:/P,l'n/ldrtmO 1IIIi·Jdodd. --Go . 71~9 '4 1658

Salad 0 r3 in mUlldo dd.-- --'50 34 59 9 1659

Lu'M ad 0 1> in Zodiilco. fine LalJludme .. :61 ~ 60 3 1059

Nomina

Nomina Direllionum.

. I

I Arens Numer. Anni

Nomina DireHionU01: ·Direffi Armor. Dom

_____ ------------b,Mi.A~M --

___ i61 ,S 0 6 r659

. __ ,62 1861 6 1660.

,_', J663~ ~ I 6l 00 166l

\ ~ 862 6 1661

~\66 5666 oc i(6) _\69 1768 . 31661

si ad * prapriMl1 iii zudiim':-

L~I/{' If" P,Jraiidtnll n 111!<11:/' rid,:--l!m~ ,.,1 P.lrn!!ei"fn fl ,,,;mao rid.Sol ",J 0 fl in nJU'h!' dJ, -----

Luna "d 0 n lIJf!1ld~ ~"I>tfl (.U71'"Jt>iLUll" ad 0 a I/lundo metn Com:trf.·--

Having {inilh(d the Table o(.ri~U'!ttions, give meleave to fa,Y a word or two about the Directions of the Sun ; as It 1S delivered and, approved hy the bef] Authors in tbat way a~d method: The Dirediotls of the SHU under the Earth ate dIflcrent from thofe above theEll:th, and that two ways: Frill, By b'~ng

,in the Crepn[cJl[ine Circles : And fccondly, By being in the Ob{cure Ark,,; an] the caulc of this difference is from t~e Sun"s being nearer t~o, or further from our HOrizon or Hemlfph~rc, or rather (which is mote iproper ) according to the Intenfion of his Light toward our H~mifpbert; -for when 11e is i,n th~ Crepuft:Hline Circler he doth much more ,affect us, .and hIS DlIecl:ions are more for,ible than when he.is in the ObfcHre A"r~ Now, in the Operation for the Directions in' the Objcure Ariz, the !llain thing is, the Part proportional for the occurrent place. 'But In that for' the Crr?lt{Cltline Circles afc-ending, or de(cending, the chiefel] thing to be obtained, is the Oitive differmee, and both thefe are to beapplied, as directed to compleat and perfcd thofe Dirediol'ls in the ZodiJck,i And there things will appear the "more plain, If we confider a few ihings about Directions, with the real and D.atu-, ral Motion thereof. The Pl;orogatory Virtue of rhe SKII or M~oll remains immovable' in Mundo, movable in the Z:IJio1ck", which is plain ,- becaufe the N')chlTlul Ark is either extended or contracted; according as they by their directional Motion fuall ch1nge and alter their Dcclinarion ; and by the C.nDe rcalon make their diflances !Srelter or leis from the two next AngleS"; from whence arifeth "ch it divcrfity arl'.:! variety of Operation in working the SIIIIS. direct-ions true, which is. ~1 Myltcry not known to many.

But yet further to [lluflratc rhistfuth; Suppole the 1 sth De-

gree of Aries iA'JlIld afcend under the Elevation of 52., at which, time, aboutlix degrees of Cancer Will be on the Imum Cali ; the

. . , Seminocturnal

! .

/ Opru fi\eformatum. 31

Seminodurnal Ark of the end of Ariu in Horary Trines is 75 d.

30'. of T, ~jfltS, 6', d., 6 I. and of the end of G_emini 57 d. 30!.

by which you fee the difference between the.Seminodumal Ark of

the 30th degree of Aries, and the ~o~h degree o,f Gm;illi, ,is ~8 degrees, which is the z oth part of the whole CIrcle, which 111

one Quadrant rnult of necellity form another Oblique Ark of diffe-

renee in the dil1:ance 'between the 30th degree of Aries (where

we will fuppoie the SUI!. to be) and the end of Gemini, the place

of a Promitror, either Body or Afpect; and that the Nocturnal

Circle of the 30rh degree of Aries, from which the Sun moves by dhecHon, is greater by 18 degrees, than the 30th degree of Ge-

mini to whidr Point the SU/l mutt come to meet the Prcmittor t

Ani this is fuch a difference, that neither the Circles of Poiition, ,

nor the Horary Times will, or can regulate, becaufe they ale both. formed from the {arne Principle s and the realon of it really is

that which I [poke of before ,That the prorogatory,virtue re·

mains fixed in l'r/Hlldq, but'moveable ill Zodiaco: And. by reafon

of that mobility, it makes a variation jn its Circle by reafon of irs Declination s. for at that time befoIc~melHiol1ed of i 5 degrees of

Aries afcending, the SUIi betng in 50 of the fame Sign under .rhe

Pole ·si. the ditlance of the S(tl! from the Afcencia'nt will be 64e· grees,3 ~ minutes ; but when the Direction is rinifhed to the 30th degree of Gmlini, the SUJI will be difrant from the i\C.:cndant but-

S degrees, 3 minutes; [0 that your own Reafon will tell you, if

his ditb~e gr.ows IdS, his Pole mull Wow gteater ; and then where is the. t{uth of rOOt direction?' An4l.et this fuffice to have. fpoken of the gwund of direction which ltatrl fallen iu by a~ci~ent.

it not being intended 3.t hill; perhaps I mly take-a tune to dl(COUI{c

it larget and plainer. " - ','

The Sun (as it is agreed .011· by all ) when he is above the

Earth, exerts his power more, and his lnflllen~e . is-greater ) and more effeCtua.l to us ~n all Ca(es, whether he be Signifil:ator or :

Pr-omittor, than when he is under the Earth , if Io, rhea when he is unoerthe Earth, by how miich nearer he is £0 the Horizon, by fo muchtbe more (efpecially in theCrcpu[culineArk) thePoW,(J! and Influx-oHis Light and Verrue affe.cts out Meridian; and according to the intenflOl1of his Light. fo is his vital and Proro-

gatory Power.' -

But now in this Nativity ,though the Sttn is under the Earth, ye[

his h;cidcilts are {uch char will not admit him (01lD1 ~nera.l

. • {tule

.:

OplurRsformatum.

Rule that I have feen in order to dire8ion ; for at the time: of his birth we lind the Sun in the third Houle diflant from the A!~ cendanC-52 degrees, 9 minutes; and in that point of the Zodiack his Obfcure Ark is one hour 44 minutes, and his Crepulculine Ark

is two hours and 49 minutes ~ which toget~et make up his No- , cturnal ArK foUl hours 33 minues. Hence you Ice at the-t-ime of birth we find the Sltn within the Limits of his Obfcure Ark, and by that he ought to be directed [0 long as he hath any, which terminates in the beginning of Gemini; whe~ he is lncreafed in h~s North Dec:lination about 4 degrees and 8 mlnutes;fo that then 1:115 Nocturnal Ark -is abdicated, -and he within the Crepufculme Ark, where he ought to be directed alfo, diffe~ent from the former method: but at-that time alfo the metltod _ mentioned is obttructed for the Nodurnal Ark is but one cl)ntinued Crepu[pulum, - and 'admits of no operation; becaule the Ortiv~ difference is not to be gained as in other Nativities. T~at is, in other Nativities of different Pofirions, or different Elevatlons, or at other Sea[~ns of the year; (or all Nativities of the fame pofition and. Elevation are liable to the very fame Circumf\:ance, when the SJIIl IS near the Soltlitial Tropkk, and under the EaJth, as here in this now under"

confideration. -

. Now the whole curiofitr and difficulty (as I faid before) ill

working Directions of this fOIt and nature, is to gainthe true O~five difference that is proportionably allowable for each Ark of .dlfiance, and to apply it according ~s it ?ug~t to the Ark of DI~ection, by which means the true Dlf~cho~ 15 p~o~uced and obtained. But this cannot be petformed In this Natlvlty, and therefore

I will propound another way, which to me feem~ rational in this Cafe and that is to dired' the Sun, as if he were In the Crepufcu- . line Circles without the Orljv~ 4ifference ; For though we cannot direct the Sun as he ought to be , yet we ou~t~? purfue t~e tract and method of Truth- as far t- and as near as It IS poffible, In order to obtain what we expeCl from the diftance and Ark of Direction: which if it be done (for all the preceditlg Directions of the Sun in the Zoc:lial:k are performed, according to ,Ptolomy, tty the Oblique Afcention, taken under the true Pole of pofition; And thofe Directions in Mundo ate performed by the ulual way of Pro. portion, &c. without the Obfcure Ar~) ,,:e {hall fin~ a confi~erable difference when we compare the DUeChons following, which are wrought afterthit method-with thofe pcrfor1Ued after the

- , u[ual

OpiU <Jtefor»l<1tnm.

ufual manner, and Inferred in the Table of Directions preceding. For indeed the Directions of the SUII there wrought have 110 great matter to do: in the publick_Tran(acti0ns and Mutations of this Native's lite';, urilefs we do allow (as a certain Bounce among us hath done) '1'b.:tI bad Direli;ons in Viillen, and Eminellt Na,n,ittu, gi~e glorious and eminent Effil1s; and that ,hey do IIPf (hew 'heir Effel1s by injllringtbe Narivt, bitt 'bofe who are bh Enemies, and ,.,itb whom he dJth contend ~ which is a pretty fort of Cant, that the Effects of the Starg Ihall in one Nativity from the [arne R.ay and Direction, give Sick.mfJ,Lofs of HOllour, Imprijimmrnt; and, perhaps, Death in the concluiioll, t-othe Native; and in another Nativity to his Enemies only: a very likely Story, and jult fuch fiuff as the reft of his is, who hath impo[ed this upon the World.

But as to the SUII, he is the principal Slgnifica,tor of an Honour,- Grandeur andR.eputation, as wen by Direction as by Pofition ; for as the -Moon is fignificator of all common and general AtHons of human Life, fo the Sun is iigniticator principally of thole of Honour, &c. Hence we may very well expect the Sun to give fomething con£iderabl6 in t~isGreat Man·s. Nativ~ty: for I think every one allows the ACCidents and Conttngel1clc;s of human Life are brought to pa{S, and 'produced by directions, as the only eff,a: of Motion; and theref~rc a~ this Native hath bad g~eat and prodigious Effects) fo the DlrectlOnS ought to be fomethmg in proportion to what was pIOdu.ced ; for from poor weak DIrections there can be but fmall and lIlconGderable-Effects produced. However, I do nollay this down as abfolutely nece{fary to be followed; I only propound it, as being an unufual Cafe, that you, whoever you are that underHand it, may judge which is the moft probable; though I am fatisfied that th~ Directions of the SHIZ in

.. the Crepufculine Chc1es are true , but 1R this Cafe we have no Rule, and therefore this method is ofleredas a fupply to that defect: that is, whither the Sun directed after the method and manner when he is in the Crepufculine Circles without the Or/roe difference (when it cannot be had, as here) willnot nearly correfpond to Truth, as in other parts of the Zodiack where it can be taketh In which thing I [ubmit my felf to thofe skilful in that way and method, and only enterit-down as an Effay to a better di[covery; for I am well affured, th~t the bef] method of directions yct difcovered, may admit of con;eCl:ion and emendation, if the ProfefIors of this Study would be pleafed to take pains and labour in it ;

F ' but

33

34

O~t.~ ~/oqnatmn~

but one part of them arc ignof.;lnt, and tile other idle,and.. fo· th~ work lies by: but for the common way, as it is a '1ery eafie one I fo it is a very falre one; and he that p:etends to A~rol~gy, ,a~ hath not found himfelf cheated by his own Rules 111 Dl(eCtLon~, &c. Iome hUlidreds of times, I think he hath taken-but very little pains in rhofe Operations; 01 elfe by the help of a bad memory he hath forgot. them: but it ferves the: tum; and fo long as none knows better, ever.y ODe is contented, ami, I fuppofe, rnof of them are [0 far from mending of ir, that were, there a better, pr~ duced, they are fo fond of their Errors, that they wi!! not part with their old one, and therefore let them go on .and fee what tIley can make oUt; and whether this I have here done pleaferh or not 1 care not; under which confideratien, I come now (as , prorniled you) to give half a (cote Directions to fpend,your Judgment 011; and to confider w.ha~ profpeCl: they have to.Truth : yet I do not expect everyone to be capable of judging whether' it be true or falfe, and therefore would not have every ll~tJe Capricil1 think l,hat ~ ~an fO,r his Opinion, or would have him buMy concerned 10 gIVing hiS JU;dgmc:nt ~~out th~ matter, before he apprehends it: And yet Without fetting a Figure, 1 can tell you.l mutt expeCl: fuch ufage , and that from fuch People-too, who I call afi'Ule you (tome of them) are no fmallFools.

Arcus jNumer,\ Ann~
Nomina Direllionwn, DireEti, Armor. ~om
'. ; Gr, Mi .
SOL lid *' (] in ZoJI"o . 11 43 [8- co 1617
Sfl lid Triu« h inZodillco. _118.-5119 I 161&:
sQ) lid 0 LUll" in Zodil1Go-.--.. _21 1621 7 16'10
Sol ad 0 Mart" ill Zed""o 148 ~747 Io 16'47,

Sol"" ptlr/J/lelstm 11-. ;71 Zodiaco 148 55 4R 4 16'47
Sol Iti 0 Sa,.....m i1z Zodiaco "";"_:_:50 8149 8 J6'4S.
Salad *propri_ ilf Zodwo . ..:-- __ p 49P 3 1651
Sol I1J *' LUIf.e jlJ Zodiaco. ;51 41 53 J 16p
, IS 53 81160
sol' ad CtrpUS JI. i1l Z61iiMO 54
S,lad *' Mmurji in r,odiMo - --:55 52 H ~ 1654 Thefe things being thus performed, and do~e, L~t us now examine the whole Work, and fee how the Dlredions do agree with his Accidents from the Year 1640' to his death; for we

, .

have none particular- and fignifican~ before he was 40, or 41.,years of

fJpusfJ{eformafum:

of Age, 'the former part of his Life being to me unknown ;neither is there anyfolid Account of any of note by thofe that have written his Life, and therefore I (hall make ufe only of thofe Accidents that are certainly true, and generat:y known to all Mankind, and they are thofe that do generally relate to the Publick.

Anno 1640. He was by his Countrychofen a Member in that Parliament that King C. I. called to fit in Novembflf', and this was the Ilrft fiep he made into the Publick; but ~ cannot own this to be fu great a preferment as {orne do, becaufe it is attended with labour, trouble and charge ; yet I rnuft acknowledge that this laid the ground"work of his future Rife and Grandcur : He had then the Moon directed to the'Oppofition ofVentn ;'1 Zodi:lco; Moon ail TrilHt'm d in mtlndodd. and the Mid-heaven ad f:::, ~ and 0 ii, and in hi~R.~v()lution for that year Jupiter was in exaCt Sexriie to hi's R.adkal Mid~heaven; thus you fee he had both goocl and, bad Diredion~ in this year; andtherefure 1 do not doubt but he had fomefirugUng and conteft ill his E.letlion,as well as in his other Affairs ...

ilMO' ~ 641, Like a True El1g1ifof?zali he faifeda ttbOI\of »0,& a1 his OWI1 Charge to affifi the Patl1amel)~, and defel\dhls Gou'rttry a.gainft Popery, which was then coming in like a flood: he had then the $ ad Se[qlliqu:ldrat of .~ dJ. and to the 6. ~ de!- the SUII to the fquare of the Maol1 , 'and the $ ad Se[quiq~a?fat. of. th~

~",i 'air~h~itll there herad alfo an uillacky RevbhitfOli. 'r'.

,.. " '. ..' .

')thlld I64~' He had; aCotrirhit1it)n fora Regimeht .of Rom; which l\.egittlent he r\aifed~11 his own Country Of ~ieehol~ers, a,nd FteehtMcrs Sons, who did reaHy go out In poInt of Corucienc~ td fetvethei't Cotmti~ .hl,th3't !i,me of,?angct: .he .~ld now the ~ ad Goff'L," o1t1d 01 \f~tl g~Od R~V"olutldn to al1m him.

,4nm 1643~ He w~s very active it,l t~e NO,rt~, ,where h~ oppofed the Earl of MdcaJlle, and to that FutpofCjolOed wlt~ the Lord MUo"g~~y, ~fld J id the Padiattltiit and Wh~leNatibl1 ,~lIaht ,Ser~ice •. It{tbis Summer he al[o took Sta»J!oriJfrbm t_he Khtg s Fl)rcesi. ~r1d this ~s the firll yeat th~t he Was' t:tkeli t'lotict bf ~iip\,l~1tc~;atlil efleemed by the Parlnment, becaufe tliey found him faithful; be had now·the Moon ad D JI. in mllndo dd. Moon ad *' It in munJo lid. aad MOOTJ alfo ad pilraVe1.m !i! in mundo MOlu Raptl1; with thefe

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-fie had alfo a moll admirable'Revolution, for the Moan was on his Radical Mid-heaven in Trine to Venus, and both M.m and Venu» in Trine to his Mid- heaven, with other advantageous Pofirions, I remember H:me11: Johll exclaims .asaillil him in this year for his whining and ditfirnulatiou in Religion, which I confers, if true was a \~e_ry ill thing; but ~rithce Johl! tell me one thing, Was chi; Hypocritic at White-b:1ll, III the Year 1643, grc:attr than that at Bred« in 165~- when none but the good men mull beg a bleffing on the good Creatures? &c. And when one of thole good Parfons asked a certain Gentleman ho:v t?ey fp~nr the Sah.bath-day; why, r .. ys he, we {pend the MO[llll1g 111 reading, and Private Devotion - but in the Afternoon -they always met together, and every rna; took a portion or part of Scripture, and {poke from that· and when they had all done, then His Ma;clly took up every man's Notions delivered.Ipoke to them dillincHy, giving his own Opini- 0':' of the ~hole matter ; and after .(ome Exhortations to a good Life, he himfelf concluded the day 10 Prayer; which made thofe good men fay, that they had a ~ ing in Covenant with God. I think this enough without mentioning any thing of the Scoub Covenant, t~ inform honeft J. G. that he might have forbore that Reflection on Cromwell; for you fee it is an eatie matter to give him a. Rowland for his Oliver.

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Anno 1644. He differed with the Ead of M.1ncbefter, one of the Parliament Generals, a~ou~ the Conduct of a Baud, I think that of Mar(fon-Maor, about which they accufcd each other' but Cram- . __ !1I (arne aff VidoI;and Ilill Ilood fair with·thcParliam;nt,making his own Cafe good. He had now the S",l ad Semiquadr,n of !j! in "",ndo dd. the Sun to his own Sexule in m,mdo dd. 'and the Maall to the q"" ~ with latitude. In his Revolurion he -had the Sun in ConJUnctl?n w}th JlIp~ler, the Moon inConjuncHon with Sat,",:,

and Marl 1Il Trine to hIS Radical Mid-heaven. -'

Anno 1645.: Cromwell was made Lieutenant-General to Sir 'fholIS .. Fairfa:t, and did the Parliament and Nadon admirable Servke in the Well of Elfglan~ in O"ford{hirt, and at Nafeby: He had now the SHJ' IMi pIZTIZOei1lll1l d in mundo molu r.1p'O, the ~ ad par ].I. mot" ,apt", and the SIIIJ ad * ~ in mu"do d~

Opu& -fl<!formatum •. '

Anll~ 1647. was a year of trouble and much labour to him abeut the Differences of the Army; -his Enemies appear'd openly againll: him and endeavour to out him by divers Afperfions; but at lat{ be g~tanlmpeachment againn t~em in Parliarnens, and w!th much flrugling he at laf] got c1e~t Wlt~l Honour. and Reputatlon. He had nOW the Muon ad 8 ~ In Zodlaco S. L. the M. C, ad 8 1/. and the Afcendant co the Square of Jupiter; and in the Second Table he had the Sun ad Square of MarJ) and parallel of y:,piter, which·

'are indeed all of them 'very apt and proper Directions for-Inch Troubles and Vexations as he then um!crwent. The Revolution for that Year Wil~ but indifferent, more of bad than good in it; for the SHII, Moon and Saturn was in Conjunction.

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Anna 164~twas a Year of much Labour and Toil to. him; for then was he imployed to reduce the WelJh R.ebels, which he did e{fta:ually; after rhar he went ag~nllDuk.! Hamilton a~d the Scatl then in Lancajhire, where he beat and took the Dilks PriJaller ; and ;oward the end of the Year he was chofen by the Parliament to go Gelleral for Ireland f he bad now the part of ~ortun~ to the '*" of 1/. ; in his R.evolution for that Year he had his !doon l~ &:1(" tilt to his Radical Mid-heaven, and Satkrn in Oppofitlon to it, !j! on the radical place of MJr/, and in Trine to his Mid-heaven,

which 1 judge gave 'his Arms fuccefs,

Anno 1649. he went General for .IreliUtdto refcue that poor Kingdom out' of t~e hllnds of the Paplft9, ,,,:,ho had fO,~arbarou(ly: murthered 2000'00 of the Protefiant Engl,(h before In the Year 1640. and on July the loth ~e fet forward on his Jou~ny, which God was p1eafed to profper with fuccefs, and that glorlouf].y too,' as you may fee by the Hill:ory of that War; and eCpe~lally hls firft Undertaking, which was at Progedah, where he fionn d that .(lrong

. Garifon, and put them to the Sword; and by that means fnghtea the whole Country, and made other Towns eafier to be taken. But during \lis continuance in this J\h_1gdom, they Cay he had the FluX, yet by the bleffing of God he did very :-ven:. He had now his Mid-heaven.aJ b: }); the Moon ad c: d III Zo~tll:O C •• L. two very great Dirdl:ioll:, and fit for fuch an Ul1~ertakl11g: his ~c.v<?"" lUI ion was but mdlfferent, but what was In it, was good. His Maan was in his Radical Horofcope in Trine to the SUIl, and in * to ~ on the I\adical place of his d.

lS

o p~ fl\.eff)l'~nflht~" \', '.

Anm t 6 )0 •. he wits made Lhrd Gefl£,al of all the Forces.in the Commonwe .. ltb of Eng/III/d, and was then rent into Scotlalld to reduce them to obedience. And 011 July the 22d he.entred that Kingdom with a powcrful,Armr; and on Stpl~mber the 3dfollowing, he Challifed the Scorl in that memorable and famous Batrel of Dxnbsr.; where he flew 3 coo and took I cooo !?ri(oners. and with them Lieurenant-Geueral Lrymfden, Ad jutant.Gcncml 'Bick.,erton, Three Collonels, Eleven Lieutenanr-Collonels, Nine Majors,Forty (even Captains, Seven Captain-Lieutenants, Twelve Cornets, Seventy t;ight Entigns , Thi{IY, GUhli;fiftecn thoufand Arms, and 'Two hundred Oolours: . fie had now the MOOll ad * It in Zodiaco C. L. the El1 ad Corpus Lun», and the Atcendant to the body of the SHn with the Directions of the lail Year, which are not yet over.' In his Revolution for that year; there is nl)t any thing remarkable; . a_11' t~at is, we tint! (he Sun in. Conjut1Cl:ion with !i! and Marl.

: ..

Anno J 6] r, th'~ VallantCro;"wel/beat the Scotl at TfI'~tf{fer, where he tookDuke Hmfiltoll and Twelve Earls, Lords, and Knights; be": fiq:es ~ Three Mlljor·Genelaisl ,and Four other, Generals, Twelve Collonels, J;i.lttttil LiClJtCl1.dnt·Collonels, Twenty one Majors, a-Hundred and ten OaptiiD5, Q HQfldred and thirry fix Lieutenants, Seventy fiX:£cKOtt5,Twr'nt1 one. Enfigns, Ni~ty Qlarrermallers ; N IN EPA R SON S, Nine .Chyrurgeons. Thirty of the Killg's Domeftlck Servants, Eight rhoufand Priioners, Two thoufand Ilaitl, ~nd,~ Hundeed, anei :fifty. Q>IQurs: uke_n, with all thelf Baggage, Arnmunitkm ,and' A.til.le~1:~ .togerher with the Plunder of the Town. ,H!l h~,nOw,tht::Su"to the Square Of !i!"""H ConverJo.i ~ aJSejqu;qlloldriillum ~ in _ndo ad. theAfcendanr to-the Se:(tile of Mf'(rury, and the Moon to the Cor. Ill. S. L. In the Revclution

there is littl¢ or :ndthing ~nlicietable. . ,

• . • .' - .>"1 r;' '.1 .. ~ , • ," • i }':.

, Ann(l 1~5 2rf wclwvt but little ;ac~ount. pf his Pub)ick Aaiol~~ and' Alfa!r~.in (hi, Y f'Zr;. neirherhave We any Direction, except i!!lhc Second !able .. , the Srln ,ad *' .J)~ btu.a very good I\evolu .. non, (he SHII In 1_'nne to'Jltpturt the M~Q" In Trinetothe Mid. heaven; 3ud-aJ[o 10 Squili:e to Ii!".in *' ~, *. a and 6to Jt..

-lAl1w ~65" ;i'n,'thr:'b;ginnibg of ',be y~arbe di1fulved the p~' ....

!iamcn't, and all the yearafferward he was bufie about the Affalr$ of the Nation, and in Dlcember be was mlch: Plotc~or. He had

now

OpUd (J{eformatum.

now the Moon -ad.6 ¥ in munda dd. Sun ad Term £ the Moon to berown Square in the Z7Jd. C. L .. and in the Second Table the S,m to the body of Jupitr; his Rerolurion for that Year was but in-

differenf. t ' ,- - "

Anno 1654. he made Peace with the Dllter" fent a Fle:t to the Wtit buJ.je} under the Command of Pen, made a League WIth Swetim &c. he had now the Sun to the Si«til, of Venin in mundo dd. bu;in the Second Table rhe OaJ *' ~1aild indeed either of them

ma:y be allowed fuch an effect.' '

/' .

Anno ,655, His Army in the Wf!t-IlldieJ was d,ellroyed by, the ovcriight of the Commander; the ~le~~ took ],Jmarca ;, he received Addre-Ires from divers parts of-the Nation, and he appomrs a Committee ro.provide relief for the poor ~rotellat1ts'in, Pietl",?nt. He had now his M1nn clireded to-the Trine of Man tn Zodlaco S. L. but a very ill Hevolution , Mar} on his AC,endant in Square to

the Moon.

Anno 1656. there W3S a PJ~t againlr his'Life' by Iorne of hig Guard; and altO co fet Wb'te·h:zll on fire; but, it was dlfcovered, and Si~dert:om apprehended, and .alfo condemned for it, but died. in the1owrr; and as it was Cuppofed, he poiloned himfelf. The PYokllor alfo called a. Parliament, or fomething like it, who confirmed him in his Title and Power that he iud' before: He had now his Sim ad 0 d in Zodi(1cn~ andto. thepaTallel of ]up;,,, in Z"odi.icoaHo; which are very like theEff<?tts of this Year, In~i5 R.evolutionhe had his SHn inConjunchon-with Jupitc-'(' and Trine of SatllT", and' the M10n ill Trine to the 'Sun and Jupiter, and in GOl1jtin~ion wirh,Sahtrn. '

.Ann~ 1057- He fent Forces into Flandert'to:frght the'~pilnii1r_r11, he took Dunkj,k.., &c. He ·had, now the MMn ad '*' ft 10 ZOdlllCO S; L. and the Sun ad 0 b in Zodiac» likewife. I1r the Revolulution he had hls Moon on the Radical Afcendant ill Trine to &turn.

But in Anno 1658. afrer die great SUCCe[S of hisArmy i~l FUnders, the Confirmation of his Title, and many other Publick Afhits of State being dHpatched by him; as the Relief of the perfe-

. cuted

40 'OPtH r'Jteformatilm.

cuted Proteflants in Poland and Bobmlia, his preferving thofe in ,P.i~dmonf from the Frtncb Perfecution, &c. 011 SeptembEr the 3d. he died of an Intermitting Fever, havingbeen fick about-a Month, and was taken at HJmpton-Court, to which place he retorted once a week. 1 know fome pretend he was poifoned,and alfo fay they knew the man, which was one of his PhyGcians: and fo let him be for me, for that doth not concern my bufinefs here ill hand: If his Doctor did poifon Rim, and then brag of it, I think he was a veIy 11I man; for whatever Oliv(r was, either as to his Power, Principles or Religion, if very bad in all, was no authority for him to commit a private murther, nor any way extenuate his Crimes of Marther and Blood; but aggravated and made more hainous, as being dpne ~Y his Phjfician , which would be of ill confcquence, fhould Iuch things grow 1I1to cuftom and approbation; and whoever !bould el~coufage fuch a thing, would be very un willing to fuffcr by the lame way themfelves ; therefore in a word, if the Phyfician did do it, I think he was the worll of men. About JUlie this Year, the Moon, who is giver of Life, came to the parallel of Mdr! in Mundo M,tu ConverJo; and about the latter end of AlI{,l4jl following, he had the Moon to the parallel of Marl in mundo mrJtu direlio: and this followed by the Moon to her own Square in Zodiaco Sine Lat. the Moon to the parallel of Saturn in nmndo motu dirello &' mn« ConverJo; the Moon to the Square of Saturn in mundlTmotu ConverJo, alfo to the Square of Mar I in mllndo motu Converfo. Thus you fee he had [even Directions violent and ma1cfick (and not one good Directlon between) to kiII him: which not only ill this, but in any other Cafe to the Giver of Life, (hall do the fame without fhamming in the ~fcendant to the Square of Mar!, as our Pupijh Conjurer you fee hath done; and yet at the fame time take the confidence to tell the World the Harofcope was Giver of Life, when the Sun is but eleven degrees 33 minutes diflanr from the Afcendam , which according to all the Afirological Au· rhors that I have read, is, and ought to be Giver of Life. As you may fee in Ptalomy's ~/adriparti, Lib.3. cap. 13. CampaneUd, Lib. 4. cap. 4. Artie. 2. withmany others that I would defire the worthy Gentleman to look over, and examine them well, and after he hath done that, to refolve us what he means by that Exprellion in his Dolirine of Nativitiu, plg. 2),8. where he fays, The Sun cannot be Giver of Liff, if be were ill all Aphetical place, becaufe the Birth is Nollurnal. Methinks it founds a little odd.

But

OJiu1 't1{,efirlnatiin. ~+l

Butyet:furthd'to dear ~h~ po.i~ :tbdur'the Hiieg; !bediufe'\

have mentioned my AuthorIty for It, I will alfo prove. itphiiuly

from my Author's words ,w'ith _the. Book .'and Chapter, lett ll'~

may reaflinne hisaccu(\.olUe4 gtf't ofl~~em:e,'and'·de~ 'my Qgotarions, as he drdill his-'ttlJilylomy}!JllIt;1~t~ tlf'1'687, w~eh

rhofe Q!otadons were rea:nytrllc,as.-fh~e1lrci· 'fIle Trmtl.mol'l

that I life is that of Me/anlibim, \1hlth IS rhe beft Tranflarion of Ptolomy iI~ being, and hath I think gi~~n the 'tl:tle~ meaning df Pto/I/my's words j and if you plea;fe -but to. look InCO the f I ~h Chapter of that ~adriPartite, and the Third Book" youwdl

there tind [helt: words •. ,Cum atlti:m qu£timfl1in bis 10m ptlltllriJTr-

mum, frimuf €Tit U.Jillm C£li.;lrillde Horo]C,ipU!, pofiea !lRdecimadurr.tli [uccedenr Mt!dia Cali , drillde OCC.ljiU/,· po/teol Nonu! dornllS AIl,eceriltr! Medium Celi, In this Chapter he is laboufingto prove, and air<>

lay Jown by Rule the place of the Prorogaror, and after hehat~ fpcnt(olllt:time to Ihew the Prorogarory rla~e 'in 'gcneul ; :ht

comes in the words beforernentioned to the'pamr.u1ats, i.nd which

of them do precede in Power and Order; and therddre fays he,

Wbm we inquire who if molt powerful ill thefe places, 'the fir(t inorder

if tbe Midheaven; next after tbat the Ajcefidallt, .,hen, t~e ,E{('tI,·~TtfJ HJufi, then tbe SiVflltb, alld laft of aU the Niljtb. ';Anil' die 'l'e~\on

why he is fo, particular in this~!lfe~ 'isbecaule the Stili a'n~'rU;o;, maybe fornettmes both in I'rciiogatory Places, and bo~"~rif)tehd

for priority; therefore in fucha Cafe thefe'Rules areto be confidered and compared with. thofe of the j ~ th Chapter, -of th~

fame Book; by which it rn~y be tiecided:whi'ch'nf the 't\;"nhav.e

the !'cal Power of Hneg ; or. giver of .Life, aenc(;c\'rta~l_ly our Author ~y : taking ru,h pains 'and careto tay'downpaitlc;_\Lr Rules how to eled: the giver of Life, did intend a gfl'at't' .1Ie to be made of it~ than any of our late Pretenders, I per:elv,: ',. ate a'Vare of; which feems mo~e,p!~in from the ~l!i P,Halw"ph ('I ,dle ~4th' Chapter. where he difeouIfeth ,wh.0Hy of the ·\11~r~rl/"..I1 Point, and who or what' he judgcth to be "ilf!1I'efJry:et t)e "l:o ."5 none to be di.red:e<;l to that point. but tr-eHJf,lg,o\, gWo?f "I Li~e; and therefore he begins that Chapter with rnefe words, Iruano

PrOl"fJgalore, duo modi Jumelldi funt, &c. . . , , - .' .

Now, if this Doll:.rille be true, andth.ltt~e; Pr<lfelFj;?,nf'(h!~ Science will be pl~a\ed to allow the 'Great Ptolamy ~'lM\'t: .111 thpr good, O~inions; th~lj tlli? Lying O~~c~e:~f:~9t~ is:'q'llte, ;m' T)f doors arid bciides -the" Mai:k in ,his owp 1d8e, 'when he tells

, , C;' tMe

4 t Opus fR.!Jormatum.

the W orld , That"be SU!l caf1nol be giVf1' ef Life, if he rperl m an AphelicaJ place; as in the page before-quoted. For when be allows the Afcendant in CromrpeU's Nativity, the power of Hileg, and the Sun at the fame time within 12 degrees of the CHIp, and locally in it, feems to me a (ubilantiaJ piece of Nonfence , quite contradictory to the moll approved Authors in being, , who allow all of them, that the Afcendant is the Iecond place -in ' power to entertain the PrOl'ogatOf'; and that the Sun there is alfo certainly Hiltg, if the Moon is not above the Earth. So that fhould I infift on no other reafon but this, it would be fufficienr to prove the Figure and Time of his Nativity falfes and this becaufe he makes that imaginary Direction of ' the Afcendant to the Square of Marl, the onty one to prove the truth of the whole Calculation. For if we Ihould allow, fuch a Direction in that Figure, as theSun to the Sq.are of M4r.r/ (which indeed there is none before 'he fhould be Ninety-one years of Age) yet it is wholly mifapplled, and a power given to it quite difiind from the Order of Nature, and the Authority of AUFhDrs; the Afcendant not having power

. to kill when the Sun is in the Horo{cope, or any other place, giver "<:If Life. I have been the plainer and fuller in this point, bccaufe it is the Principal Foundation' of Nativities, and the o.nly thing 6rft to he known in, the Diredions and Predictions about Life and Sicknefs, and tile only thing neg1ettedand forgotten at this rime among the Profel1'ors, both old and young; they having only the Name of it, but nothing of irs, Powerand Ufe; but I have fpokeq enough if underllood ;' and rnorewill be to.no purpofe if not under1l:ood.. . , ",

But again: In this Na(ivity that he hath publifhed and aifert-" ed for truth, there is another NolDfioU! Error, andthat is, he lets the Sun pafsby the Square of Marl, the Square of Satum, and body of JHpiler, Lord of the eighth Houfe in the fourth, that fatal place as they call it? and kills him with 'the Afcendant to one fingle Diredion only. Now, if we Ihould allow tHat the Afcen.,. dant had power, and did kill by Direction to theSquil'e of MIJrI; Why fhould not the SM, to thok three fatal Directions beforementioned, give the Native the fame effect of Death long before; as they did now? I koowno rca'm to the contrary, according to that fort.cf AfirologI which is common among molt of the Profeffors, but efPecially ufed by this our Famous and rnoft Renowned M#ivil~MiI"tf';, as may appear bt thofe .Ingenious and

, '_'. . 'Learned .

<,

OplM fJ{eformatum: 4 J

Learned Treatifes that he hath befriended the'World with, being

filled with abundance of Errors and Contradictions. But to re-

turn to our Bufinefs again; at the time of this great Hero's death,

betides the Direaions mentioned as the true Natural Caufes thereof; there were' other things worth our confideration that

did concur as',Concomitants to the fame; and the firll was his Revolutio~ for that year, and indeed a very remarkable one it

was if we conlider it well and fully. And feeing I have menti-

oned fomething of Revol,utions, I wit), alfo [peak a word or two

of their ufi: and abufe. The Profelfors of this Age make a great

" buflle about the exa& time of a Revolution, that is; to find the exact Minute and Second when (he Sun comes to his Radical Place' for which purpofe they have invented '3 great many Fooleries, ~nd to little purpofe; but whenrhis exact and critical Time Is obtained, and 3 Figure fet, they gravely tell us of Ilrange and prodigious Effects that, the Planets have by being in particular

'Houfes therein; that the Horo{cape and Midbe1vCIl of a Revolutional Figure,is of a great lignification both to the Native'sU~e a~d Reputation. Nay, they are. now grown to that perfect lOll In their Trade df this kind; that they w,ork DireCl:ions in that Figure like as they do in the Radix; te which purpofe alfo they have made us a meafuIe of Time, with other kinds of Tables to compleat their Folly, and render their Art ridiculous. When indeed the Ancient and more' Authentick Authors.have taken no notice of fuch things as thefe s and Ptol~ himfelf hath not above , four Lines in his four Books that have any relatlon to the Revolutions in Nativities; and therefore how they came by all thefe whims, it would be worth while to conlidcr , (for we have not one word about them in FirmicU1, one of the oldeft Afirologers we have that came after Ptolomry), and perhaps may find afpare fheet in my next Trearife, to unriddle the Juggles that they havejurnbled together to cheat themfelves, and the reft of Mankind. For

1 do alflJre you, There is nothing in their mel hod of Revolutio!l. 'neither can they fetch their Authority further back than OriganuI, Argol, Schoner, Hifpalenfil', JUIll1ine, and two or three moreQf 'them that have taken it up upon very flende.r Authottty, and they that nill follow, do every one endeavour to improve the Errors of him that went before. For I will now foberly ask one quefii~ on and that,is, to' tell me what they have found in the RevollJti- 6n~1 Direl!tions, that was not as. plainly difcovcred by the Tranfi~s

G2-' In

/

OpIU fl\!fol~mat·mn.·

in the Revolution, and the Returns ~ If; [0, wbarfhould we go to make abundance. of €onfulion when it may be done with lefs trouble? And, to be plain with you; The truth and my(lery o{ Revolutions doth realJyconfii1 in nothingc1fe but-the Tra:nurs and R.eturns of the Planets to the Radical Points- and Parts of the Nativity, and to the places of Dire6tion. And to this end there is no ,need of abundance of labour to gain the exad rime of the Sun$ return to his Radical place; if you mifs ten Minutes of it in time; it will be no great matter of Error in your Judgement, if you underfland your Bufinefs, And to fay the truth, the Radical Fi-: gure may very well Ierve for evcry R.evolution throughout the Native's whole Lite, placing the Planets in the degrees of thofe Signs that they fhall be found in at the time of the Sun! return to his Radical place, or .near-It. And after this manner I will give . the Figure of this great Native's final Revolution; and it is as followeth,

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b ~SPifa~ rr Il49~

Latitud. Planitm n '2 46 No 2{. 0-... 14 No c:J - 1 24 No ~ 0 40 So, !;!. 0 52. So 1) 0 38 ·No

Op~ fR.!form4tum•

grees of S'.tgiti1ry, the exact Square to her own ltadical Place, and at the time of 'the SUIT! return" going to the oppofite point of t:hat· place; and to the Square of her own place ill the Radix; SaNrrn !lnd' Jupitf'l' are both return'dto rheir own R.adical Places; amI [0 is Marland the Moon to the Square of theirs , Mercury and Venlll are in '1autUl, where. they were in the Radix, and not far from -their own Radlcal Places. So that you fee all the Planets are returned C<1 their own places, except M.m arid the M10n, andthey are in Square to them. Now, the ufe I {hail make of the Revolution is this; The Moon, ,M.rr, and Satm-n. are all of them Promiteors by direction; Mar! is ill Square to Ssturn ; Lord of the Radical Horofcope , who is return'd to his Radical Place; and the MOOIl, tho Hihg, yet fhe is here a Prornitror alfo, and is going to the dire~ Oppofition of thep'lacc of. Direction, and to the Square of her own place; and. betides tins, M.:rr is .golng to the Mundane Parallel of the Su», And to [urn up all, we rind both the Mooll and 'Mar! in violent Conftellations , the

. Mooll being with the Aldebaraltof the Nature of Mar!; and ~J

is with ehofe Stars in the b.eginning of Cancer, called Caftor & Pollitx, of the nature of Saturll. So that we may from the SUl1J "turn, and the then Configurations compared with the Dircdi- _ 005, conclude, That according to fecond Caufes, it-could be 110· lefs then mortal. When I liave done this, I always confider Secondary DjreCtions, and P(ogrdlions, and, alfo oblerve if they help-on the Work; for if all concur, we may certainly jll~ge that nothing but a Miracle can fave;. and therefore. uncleI, this Rcv?lucian, we find that the Afcendant by Secondary Motion was di-. reded to the Oppofaioll of Jltpit~r, the SUII under theSqu.re of 8atlt1'l1, and had been fo.about Iix Months, and the MJoll to the OppO{rtiOIl of MJrr, and thatjlllt roucherh about the time of his Sicknefs, all which are ill, and thew a bad year. TheProgreffi.,., ?Il began ].mu.Jry the ad , about ii~ of the Clock ill the MOrl~- 109, Alina 16 c~. and was but an indifferent onc_; you may If you pleafe, call it bad; for .the Mool1. was. all .the ~unl Hadical.

'. place, S.ltHfn and Jttpiter 011 the pl~ce of Dl~efriOn,. 111 Square to the M},m's Radical place, and Mar! 111 Oppnjillon to hls own place j, but Vmus is on the R.adical Afcendant ill ConjlmCiioll with the Sun, and that is aU that may be called good in this ProgreJ1ive' Lunation. But above all, the lllgre§es and TralljifS of the. Planets at the time of the beginning of his Sicknefs , and of. his

. Death

Having con6dered the Directions, and alfo. the Point or Part of the Ecliptick the Moun! who is giver of Life), is arrived at in this year by direct Direction in Zudipco ; and that is. about 14 d~-, gtees

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b I" /'0 'Y.

Luna ad· 6 n. OJ

Latitudo LQndini. / .

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. O"J'~

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. Revolutio Solis & Loci IP1aneramm ad tempus Re. \diti, quod -fuit die 24'

:Aprilis circa horam fextam. :Mane 1658.

OpIM. fJ{eformatum.

Death, are very remarkable; for about the time that he was taken Sick, which was Aug"fl the :2 6th, there was a Tranfit and Ingre[s of the Sun. on the Moon's Radical Place in S~uare to the place of DireCtion; and a little before that 'there was a COIIjzl/lClion of the liIgol1, Murl, and Mere",y, on, or ~ear the fame I'legree, and fo configurated as before J and the very day of his Death, th~ MOOll di~ Tranfit the !tadical Place of MarJ's Body, and Satu~n 5 Oppofition , and alfo l_n Oppofition to Sat1ll'n that very day of 1115 Death , and the Sun In an exaCt Zodiacal Parallel with Satltrn, and going to the Zodiacal Parallel of M,m and to his ConjHnllion alfo. Thus I have endeavoured to Ih~w YOLl how ~ underfland . th~ method and manner of judging Death by PrImary and Convert DirfClionl, Revolutio!1f, SecondalY DireCli- 011/, Progrrgionl, Tranfils, and Ingrejferf which if rightly under- 1100d an~ pr~cHfed, would give the Students in this Science more fatlsfacbon than all thofe Whims publilhed by our Modern Authors, and flollen from them by our Popifh Oracle. And I hope by this time, I have given the ProfelTors and Students in this Art fu~ fatisfacHon ~ in. proving t~af the Natlyity which Ga;Jb~ry prlllted_, was notorloufly falre, and grounded upon PrInclpl~_ next to nolle; and that the Rcafons and Rules given to a~ert ~ts Tr,~th" are no ways becoming a Mln of Skill or Ingenuity, cfpemUy one that pretends to be the Maller and Head of the whole Tribe, and endued with the advantage of Twenty five years Experience, and more; _when he wrote and publilhed Cromwell's N,ativi~y laf] in the year 1685. And fo I come in the !l~xtplace to .gwe you my General Judgement 011 the whole FIgure, after the manner that the ref] of our Profetlion do on the Twelve Houfes; and perhaps too, I may follow the fame Order In my J udgmcn t , but not in their Rules and Principles of

. Judgment. . .

.A Judg_

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A Jt4dgment Oil the precedirlg Nati1';iy, after tbe-md'l~ ner of the 1i"ellJe HouJes.

THE 6rft thing 1 lhali'conCidex,. is the length or rhortnef5 ofh the Native's Life; and from the Pofirlons in general, what t;'bt Df time may be probably alligned for the number of his years; yet ~.

I know very well there can be no pofitlve Judgment given on

that poiur ,becaufe the number of his years depends on the di-

fiance between [he giver of Life, and the Anarctick point, as to

the certainty of their number ". and the time of Expiration; but

yet give me leave to tell you there mutt.be.Arguments of a long

Life in the Polition , or.elfe I {hall be very fparing in his number

of years; and to be yet more plain. with you, the Arguments of. Longlrlfe are .fuch good Rays and Pofitlons , that roborate and

fOItify the. Giver of Life, and this the more when the Hileg is na-

turally ftrong, and.well-placed in the Figure.' , -

. And in this Nativity we find the Hileg Angular, in 'trine to the Tht Moon SUIl and Mercury, in Seiiile to Jupite!', and allo in Receptlon with is Hileg, ~lercury; and betides rhefe, we find the S,m and Mereur] in Sexule ,

to the Afcendant, and in Sextile to Jupiter likewife , and he in his Exaltation in Canar ; and no ill Rays of Satltrn and MJr! any

ways affiiCtingeithcr Sun, Moon, or .Afcendant; fo that we may rationally conclude the Native was dcfigned by Nature for a con-

fiderable long Life; and not only long, but alfo a. healthy one.

I know there. are forne according to the ufual Cant,. would tell'

you, That ,the Square of the three Superiors from thofe Cardinal

Signs Ihould give him bad Lungr, with pains in.his Head, the

Vertigl)}, Lethargy, &c. impErfeCtions in-his Beins , Gravel, Stone,

and abundance rnoi e of tbefe things, had they feen his Nativity

before he had been grown to years of Ripenefs. But I dare venture

tofay, That he had none of thefe, tbe.Gravel excepted; but they

that would know. more of thefe things, let them read carefully the

Ijth Chapter of the 3d Book ofPtolomy's ~adripa.rtite., De L£-·

jiunibll1 & morbi! Corporum. ' ,

The Native's Underfianding, Judgment, with all the other UlItle ...

Faculties of the Soul, depending an the Pofition and Configura- fianding nons OfMerCHry, as one well fays, ~ali'gtC1l1nim.e, qfu £ropri.e alld J.dg-·

_ !UII' mml, &c.

Opll! rJteformatum~

jimt mem», &- rdtlJci1li11ionu, [umuntllf in flllf!.ulu ex Mmltrii conditione. Which jf true, thenhath our Native a molt exccllentPotition fOT intelledua.! Abilities, for his MI'Tmry- is as thong as ~11 allY Figure I have fcen, For here is MerCl!ry juil raft. the COlljltl1C1i1J1J of the-5l1l1, and in his Orienta! Occidentali,y, incrcaling in light and Motion, in Reception with the Moon ; but that which is the greatell:, and. moll: to be obferved ~ is, that the MoO/! beholds him with a '[rine, and Jupittr with a- Scaile., and. what is more, Jupiur alfo beholds him by a Mundane Square, fo that they arc.rc. ally conhgu"rated,both in Zrldiaco & Mundo; and betides we find him in a fixed Sign, the Houle of VWUf, and in a z'odiacal ParalLI with Venus , in Sexti!« to the A[c£llMllt. Thelc I'oiirions mut] be allowed to give all the great and excellent Qgaliticarions that

. arc requilite to make a Counfellor, a Sratcs-rnari, and a Soldier; here is no Ratbncfs, but Refolution upon deliberate Confidersdon; here is no Timidity, -nor yet unftedinefs in Judgmcnr; here is no Dulnefs nor Stolidity, but a Natural and Native Sharpnels of- Fancy at all times, tit either for Inquiry or Council. In a word, The MJon in Virgo in Trine to Mercury in Tmll"1u, is without doul:t the moll agreeable Pofition to give a good, quick appreheritivc Fancy and Judgment. Nh,ltrtm mim ad anim» propriet ates figll.l conjerum , in qUihru Mercurit« & Luna verfa7itur) mzlttum & Jlrl'ar/im adfPetftu ad falem & ad Cardines ; & l1i1tttracujufltbet plann« COIlf!.ruml certis ]llclinat;onibM f1nim.e. Q!;Iad~PJItite Pto/omn,

Lib. 3. Cap. I 8. .

Of hi; I Ihall confider his Riches from the part of Fortune, as the Richel,&c. general Signiricator of Wealth; but yet before I begin my Judgrnenr thereon, give me leave to premife a word or two: I would not have you think ~ becaufe that he arrived to the Government of a Nation.and had the ufe and command of the Kingdoms Money and Trcafure, that I call him Richfor I look OIT that to be but the common Attendant of his Honour and Gran+eur, and not the excellence ~f his Fortune to Riches. For a Klllg may have vall:

Sums of Money, and yd be no rich Man" a; we have Ieen in K. C. 2. and a King may have far leffer Sums than ever he had, and yet be a very-rich Man,_and lay b.y him a great Treafure for his OW~l Ufe and Pofleriry, difiinct hOIl1 the lntcrefr of the Nltlon and People, as was K. H.' 7. Therefore I would .not . be thought to build hisHonour upon his Riches, which is Indeed no fuchrhing, but that kind of his Wealth was really founded 011 his

. Honour

0PtM- f1{efo~matnm. "

,Honour and. Grandeur; - for the Sword was the Anvil upon which he wrote out his Fortune, his Honour, &c. And as that always brings a certain Charge ,.foit I.l(ually brings ~.Supply of ~o!tul1e to defray it. And therefore I thaI! confider his Fortcne ddhncUy and fcparately, from that which :ame ~Y his Hono~r, ~Ild wl~at it might have been, had he continued 10 that Scatlon It1 which he was Born and Bred. Ad rem v(ro, the part of fortune (as I faid before) is the only Signiricaror allowed ~Y. Ptolomy, for Riches and Fonunein the World; and that we hnd about 2 degrees diilant (rom the Cu[p of the Sixth Haufe in ~aIlCfr, in S:". tile to Venus , and difpofed of by the Moan and JupIter, all which are {lrong and potent,and do certainly p~omife (whoever hath fuch

a Pofition) Riches and Plenty of the things of. ~ortune; ~nd t.his by various ways and means. And I. am of OP~101l, that It being in Cancer ; a Tropical Sign, doth not ad,*.a litrle t~ the Adv3':tage. Ptolomy fays, Lib. 4. Caput de fac"/~a',b~/,' J~plter per fideltla,nn, pr.t!e111tr.1f, &c .. That ~hen JupIter gl~es his Allillance to the Natives Fortune, he doth It by Places and Offices of Trull, Command and Rul>: in the Government, &e. And tho he-doth not fay it, yet Ij~dge the M~on in '(ri~e. to the Sun and Mercury, gives the fame ~lllng5. as relate to-D~mlnlon; and therefore f~om thefe and fuch like rhings , we may Jud~dhould grow Rich, and illcreafe his Eflare. But then we find. the parr fortun~ is in an exact Zodiacal Parallel with Mdrl, and is alfogoing to his Mundane' Para11d; this gives damage and I?fs t~ his, Efiat.e, and why mly not this be the Expence and Wafhngl of hIS Efi;i.te and Fortune in Military Service at the beglnning;oftheWars, and afterward too 1 believe? And indeed it is in r,olomy's. ~wn words, •

. Marl ex MIlitia &Gulmllatione Exercituum. Arid tho I think he did increafe his Fortune, as he did advance, ill Honour; yet I think fome men would haw got more, for I could :never heat that he left any large' Sums at his Death, unlefs theywere"Deb~s. I do therefore conclude that the Parallels of Marl had their Effects a1[0 as well as the 'other Rays; but betides thefe, we rind M<JrI in the Second thong, and ilfo Lord of the St~nd)btlt in O~po~~ .ion to ,s.turn, andSqlllrf_e to.Jupittr; .this Ihewed he wo~ld gam much, andadvance' mightily, but It would be. by~101ence , Force, and withOppo.fition too, ,B~t whereeveryoufind Mars {\rong in the Secontt~"cthat"Native.alwayS"~ets much rper fM ~"t

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50 Opu~· ~formatum~

nrf.14; he cares not which, and feldom parts with it again as long

as he lives. .

oft!,d"~- The old way and cullom is-to judge there thing> from the flV/sKIII- Third Houle •. -But P,olgTl£!teach.eth us another Docbine, and that ~",d, Ere-_ j, to 'judgeof Brothers and, Sitters by the Te?th and Elev.enth .h,;" nnd Houfes with VeIlU! by Day, and the Moon by NIl:jbt; and this he

StJler! &c.' . 1 d fi' 1 ' h d .

, dut:' not do dogmatlca ly an po inve 'f Wit out ren rIng you

a real on [or it, Lib.,. C<lp. 5. from which Pril1c~rlcs and Method l do here form 'and collr.Ct my Judgment. The Sign SdgltJ1ry doth . poflefs both the Tenth and Eleventh Houfes, and JHpiur Lord of it. is in Cancer, a fruitful Sign, and in Setaile to the SUIl and

Muon, but in' Square to Satllrn and MolYI) and both Salttrll ami

.. ·f.,f.lr.f an: in Oppofifion, and calling their·Squares, to the Cufp of the Eleventh Ho.ufe. Thefe Pofitions (cern plainly to Ihew he had Brothers; but not above one Siller, it al\),; but not many, if any ot both Sexes, -Ihuuld live to years of Gifcretion an~ riper Age i and do think the SfxtiJe of the Sun and}tlplter-lhould give one that

might live to fame coniiderable Age,. , -

But the Square of J.piter to MJ7'.f and Saturn, and their Squares a\fo to the Eleventh Houle, fhould alfo thew, that rheir Agree- . ment was but indifferent. and: that the reft of his Confanguilleil Relations (Children excepted) ana he, Ihould not· have an extraordinary Intimacy and Kindnefs the one for the other, l1~ther indeed Ibould they very well agree-in reality, tho i~ his Poll, and Qtality his Power commanded it; and therefore his more inferlor RelationS. durfi do no lefs than thew him the Rcfpect dde . to his Quality, andforwb'l;h_reafo~ I O1all om,it aU ~nllCr difcoUl'fe thereof. But:befbre 1 make an end of this Paragraph, lell Illiould be qudlioncd, becaufe I havcoverturn'dthe.old cullom of the Third Houfe , it will not be amifs if I give you Pto/amy's own words,. and perhaps that may Hop a m?le violentltlquiry from the O1orttjgh~e.d Capntin, that thinks himlelf able to call me to an account; and his words are rhefe, De fralribll6 uero, jiquif general; lnvt(li~M;ont contmtlM (l'it, n« {upra q~am poffibiZt rfl.' -1J~merum, ¢ parl;CU/aria Ex.zBr q!4lre'~ PhyJiciI rauone de Germani!, C:J eX raQ """rt natil [_, ]udiclJPn,_ ex figno M. C. & materna loco ~ E:Jtcjpiente VUII1'f11f In/ad;" cY NlIlIH Lwu"n.. CJU1l enimia fign~ & f.xrdenl h,ni{itml ~t""", & fjUf Liberol, er;tidem ·frtnrum Lacu«, .ABd at Jaft he co~udes thUs, C.cI""", flll"is partinlJiN'ia Icuriofill#

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[enaori valet ,D.Jtricrm (leila", collocet in Horr{copa, {alto themate , ttt in GCIle{t. Lib, 3· Cap. 5·

The ufual way of judging there matters .among the Profeflbrs Of sbe Nnof this Science in gerferal, is from the Fourth and Tenth Houfes, tioe': FIJas they do Brothers, Silters , and Relations, from _ the Third rbcr and Houfe.: But the Great Ptl1Zumy takes 'his Judgment from the SUIl Mother. and S:zttlrll for the Father, and the Moon and Vent« for the Mo-

ther. And according to their Polirions, Slreiigth,'Weaknef., and

, Configurations to the other Stars, with refpeel to the Psrrsof Heaven, -where they arc-all placed.; fo he judgeth of their .Condition , Original, Health, RLhes, Length OI Shorrnefs of Life, o», YCt 1 think "it is not altog.;thtl amifs to take notkt! of thofe Houfes, as well as the other Bodies that he mentions; .and this the rather, becaufeLrind he calls the Tenth Houte, Lo.cll! Matt'l'n)u·, iri another place, and .,htleiore Hhall confider them .

together. . '.

In this Native's R.adid Figure, we fin<;\ both the Su,! and MJOIIIDoll excellently fortitied by the ~ood Realm .of the benefick JI!pite71; and betides, they al(o in Trine [0 each other from'1,uriff and V.i('~.o; the M71n is the Hronger of the two, as being ~ngular , increafing in Light, and in Parallel 35 well as S['xti/~ with Jl1piter, who is in Cancer; his Exaltation, direct. and increafing in Motion. But the Sun is in '£,urUf, among violent Stars Cadent, flow in Motion, and only inSt'xtile to JHpiter in the Zndi, ack I but in Square in Munda. And if we add to rhefe Significators , the Lords of the Fourth dud Tenth HeuCes ,whichare . Jupit" and Mercury, we '{hall not find any thing coofiderable to _ alter the Judgment [rem the former Determination ot the MOlin,

VenlM, and JupitEr, being far fironger ~ha)l the Sun; Mrrcti~v, and SatH'fn: from whence it is naturalro judge, ·that the Natives p,arents were moderately healthy, and long li~'d, and that tlley might live till the Native was arrived to a perfed: Age, andro a confiderab1e number ofyears , yct Hha_lIjudge the Father to be the mOl'ehealrhy, but the Mother the more durable and longer Liver; that fbewas fubjed: to the §plml and Vapor!. becaufe ,he Moon is in Parallel with M:lT!, and ]1I~ittr' in Square to S u urn and MJr.t; that (he was fubjed tc)'Dbltructions of her Lu.;,r!,s Hypqchn"d~rs and StomiJck.., becaufe of the former Square of .~a,urr/ .ard Jupiter And tho'. have been fo favourable to their old MlImp(i",m'-of the Third and Fourth Houfcs,asnot tb condemn it;yet 1 do - 11 2 - I fay,

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(ay, That this Doctrine of the Great Pt%my is moll rational and confenraneous to Nature; and what I can.experimentally jullify in

fome hundreds of Nativities.' _

of t!Je M.-. .Sceing all, People are fubjed: to ferne Diflemper of Body or other, tl'W I vi]- It IS not arnifsro fay Iomerhing to this polutalfo. And before I t..jn, '&c. begin it ~ I will ask J. G. what Difea£e or Difeafes the Protel1or

hadthar wen: fixed, chronick and.rlurable , becaufe he hath placed S_atHrII(in the Nativity he harh made him) -on the Cufp of the Seventh ,a liull: towards the Sixth Houfe in Oppoftlion to M:m on the Curp of the AfcPldant, rhe only tWD points in the whole. Scheme to give broken Bones, dillocated Joynts, and ~brOnlck Difeafes , and yet I do not remember that .ir was ever laid he was Jubje~ to either of them, [perb;lpl now and sben « W:!uud, tbe honou,..,hle Mur~ of a So/die,] but a Brave, tully, Jolly Gentleman, as I my felf can teHify, having feen-hlm Iome [cores of times. And ro this purpote , t-wiII give you Ptolomy's own words in (he Cafe, as you will rind it, Lib. 3- Cap. 17.Dt Leftonibsu & morbi« Corporum And he begins With thefe words following, when he comes to inquire inro the Hurt? and Difeafes of the Body. V,lillerfalll uero rW,uJa h.ec tft.. Dn« Cardines Horizomis Injpicianlur, v,del~cet ii, qui eit in orlU, & alter fjlli ell in occilfu. Pre"pu.J 'IIetO cOl,jidrrttllT H, qui elf in ncc1u,& 'Loctu. Antecedenl, qui yrorfm non efi CO~HlalM A[cendenti. Et'objrrvetJlT' quomodo maNici PI"," ?et.e.~a Loc« adfpicil#l1t. - S;,fJlim gradibm qui A[cmdUnt ill ditl~/1.ocis, JllIIlu funt Curpore, aHl adfpic,uns eOI q'ztJdratl! adfpitlu,. vel ex oppoJito; jfualtfrplanera wu/ejicUl, fm Hmque: L~finnfl, &morbinatil accident, Thus you fee in the Nativity that J- G. made for the Pwtdlor" this very Rule. of Prolom) takes place polirively , for there we find SlituTn upon the Cufp of the Seventh, in direct Oppofitian to Mars on the Cufp (Jf the A(,endanr. And you {i.e alio both the A?gJes vf the Horizon in that Figure are ~ffij(~t,~d, which by Plolomy_s Rule [whi'h I fuppnfethey do not dare deny J ought to giVe Hurts and Dileaies to his Body: Bur on the contrary, he was a Brave, Bold, Healthy, Fortunate Man, and none more free from Wounds, Hurts, or Difeafes of Body rban himlelf. . So that _ this is ~nother Ihong Argument to prove that Figure falre, and that the F;f,"r~·DllZk,gf did not know any thing of the matter ~t pretended to give _the World an accour of, t-nd yet to add more, neither J. G. nor any Man elfe can thew me a true Narivi-: fy where the two lD!ortuncs were in Oppofitionfrom the Tenth

and

Opl~ fR.!fonnatum.-

and Fourth, or Firft and Seventh, and that Native prove a Fortunate Manor Woman through9ut their whole Life, as did this Genrlcrnan. j\nd -fo I came to conlider the Figure- of his Nativity, [which I 'ill! the true one] and to fee what Difeafe Qr Injuries to his Body are predichble, according to the Dodrine.and Principles

of the forementioned Author. . ,

Both the Angles of the Eafi and W qt, are free from the Malefick Beams o(Saturn and Mars,tYc.and the Sixth Hcufe, which is his L;CNS AnticeJenl is pofi'ell by the benign Planet Jupiter, and there Is no ill Ray call to th-e Cufp of the Firffand Seventh Houres,bu~ theSquare ot Vmm from the Cufp of the Fourrh , and betides, the Muon who - is Ladyof the Seventh, -is in Scaile to Jupiter in the Sixth Houfe, and the Sun in Sext#e to him allo. Which Potirlons are no ways likely to give anyChsobick Difeafe or Hurts, and Accidents--'of detriment to his Hody; neither indeed had he any that. was remarkable and vifible; and for thofe that are not [o, 1 tkink they are incontidcrable, efpecially, if we confider that- all Men are fobjed to forne little defects in Nature, which may be: Impediments, but nor Difeafes in PtololJlY's fence and meaning; for in the.Chapter beforemenrioncd , he doth thus diltinguilh between Hurts and Dueafes, Difforunt enim bee inter[e,- L.tfiafemel,corrumpit membrum aliquod, nrc ad!fT' pojrea Cruclatul Intel1fionem: marbus vera, aut affidHi, alit per Imvnull« cnmplOl fXCTHc;at.

liut to confider what hefi)ight be (ubject io, let us confider M.Jrl and Sa/um in (Jppojirion, and both in Square to Jupiter; ihefe might give him fornething of the Gravel in the Kidniel , with. a / hear in _ or aboutrhofe p1ltS; he might allo be fubjet} to theHor/'a,h, or fome little diforder there, coming from the Slomack" and Spleen; for we find both the Maleficks in Square to Jupiter in Csncer ; and betides this, he might" alfo be liable to fome Obllru- - ,bOllS of his Lungs, . either by Coif/I, &c. but none of thele.continual, bur ac~idemal,a_nd only happening UpOD bad Directions,

T unlits, He urns, &1:. -

The Sun and Moon both in Scxtile to Jupiter, and in' Trine to of the N.,.. each other from 'IaIlYUi and VIrgo, .and the M~iJ'l and Jupiter apply- tl'IJe'sM",'ing to a 'Jifnda,le_ Parallel; the SIIII is in Srxtife 1O tbe Af~endant , riagt, &c. and Vffi~ in (':quare to i[~ and Saturn no w ay~ alfliCling the Signi-

ficator of MaTI iage, are indubitable Signs rha: the Native Ihould

Man)'. Ttie M,on in Vlrf,o; a barren Sign aod a .sign of one

_ Ihape, and in Afpect to 110 Oriental Planet) and but to one Occi-

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dental, hefides the Su1land Mewl1)', which in this care are all one, (hould allow him but one WIle, nor is there any Rule here that allows two; the; time of his Marriage Ihould neither be early nor late, but between both; and therefore, I judge, he might Marry about the Twenty tifth or Twenty fixrh year of his Age; -for

, in Mens Marriages, I cfteern Eighteen yeJrs of Age early, and Thirty vcars of Age late; but in Women, I count Fifteen early; and Twenty rive late, And as to the Defcription of his Wife, I Ihall take a method quite oppofite and COI1£r}ry to the common way in Practice ; and therefore I do fay pofitivcly, That the Sun

\ and Jllpi:a' arc Significators of this Gentleman's Wife, with a little mixture of Mirtu,y, but that concerns her Intellect more than her Body, Tbefe Pofitious defcribes her to bea Woman well defcelided, of a middle Stature, fldhy Body'd, and when in years Fat,. her Hair brown, or rather brtghti!h, a Woman of a high Splrit,a gcnerousTemper,a healthy Conltitution,Ambitious,Lcing-

liv'd, and one of much Inge~uity and Sence, '

But if honelt J. G's Figure were. true, . fhe Ihould be one of the' worfi humoured WQmen hi the World for Paflion and Pride; f~r they defcribe the Wife always by the Seventh Houte, and the Planets therein placed, and there we fhall find Saturn in 0p/,r(it;ol, to M,m, and Square to ]upitPJ'; and betides, according to their own Rules, Saturn on her Afc.ndant in Oppnfitionto Marl, Ihouldgive the Native a Wife, hutfhort-Iiv'd , .tho I confefs., I know no reafon why rhofetwo Stars [0 placed and contigurated, Ihould give the Woman a Ihorrer Life than the Man. But I contefs th~y are not to be asked Rca{(ms, (01 if anyone doth ~ive them that trouble, it ~i1I be without fatisfa8:ion to him fu; l-is pains, for ~heb Notio\lSare Apod.icti~al, and their Rules withcur

Reafoll.:' ,

OJtbe NJ!- In confidering the Native's Children, and their Q!aliticarion, livt's Chi!- we mull have rccourle to the Tenth and Eleventh Houfes and the Jren,&c. Planets placed therein. or in the Houfes oppohte to tb~t~; out in

this Figure we find none in either but Ventu , and rheretore Jet us -, confider her with the Lord of the Tenth and Elevenrh , :it,d (Ie Maim; and we find JHpiter Lord of thofe Houfes in Csncer, a Prolitick Si~n,. and his own Dignities, in Soaile to the S111l iil the Houfe ot Vms«, and in Srxtile to the Moon in the Seventh arid alfo in ~arallel with her applying. Thefe Petitions {hew,' that the Native Ihould have many Children , and as Venus was on the

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CUIP of.the Fourth, and the 'Moon alfo Angular, I fhould condud~,'

that the major p:nt of them were F emalcs: and bccaule V.1II1S is

f~ce fr~1l1 all manner of Affiiction,' al~t.I Jupiter Cadent III the

SIxth, Ill, Square bot h to S .. turn and M,IrJ, fo I judge'there: were

fome ~f rile Males ~1ed~ b~fore (h~y came to R.ipends of years, or Maturity. That hIS .Children IhoLlld- advance to a' coniiderable ~ality o~ ?tation, i~ vilible , ,beca~le Jupit,-r, who is their Sigmncator, IS III C.1l1Cff hisExalrarion, III Seaile to the Sill! and Moon

th~ Fountains of Prolll?titlll and Honour; but perhaps Iome ma;

object and fay, Y.ou m~ght have [pJle~ your labour in thatpoint, Ob'el'f., and nOI pretended to give a reafon for It by the Stars, feeing their '1 Father was advanced to a :degree to make-his Children as Great

as himfelf,_ and leave them in Pofl'cffiod of fuch a Power, as to

be able to defend rhemfelves when he was galle. To this I an- A ifi Iwer, That,tliere is no Man rifeth to any great and remarkable II w._ Pofi or Statton,., but he mull have great and illuttrlous Pofirions '

for [0 doing, and ~a:in&; and ie is very probable, that fome of thote

Sta~s that give hIm, hIS Honour,. may be alfo Signiticators of his Children, and fo gIVes an llluihious IJTue, as well as' an honour-

able Parent. Bur befides , we filld;_Jup;,er in Square both to

~ars and Saturn, as well as in Stxtile, to the Sun aoctMoon, which

did alfo lbew Rubs and Misfortunes in their Lives, which llb.l{

leave to the Reader to judge, whether it was verified or not.

And obferve, that a poor Man as well as a rich Man may have famous and eminent Child ren; and a rich Man .a~ well as a:

poor Man , m~y have: poor, dejca~d ,and infamous Children

and this fr?m Principles ~.N_ature,and Rules in Ath:ology, with~

put any ~llJury to true Divinity, or the Great Being. But to con"

elude th~s ~ara&raph, 'I ~~fire ~11 thole who are Angry with my Me~hod m Judging on thiS SubJeCt, as well as the-whole Figure

beiides , that they would forbear Q.:lurqUing with' me, and 1~llupon PtoIOIlI); but luft let me. advife them' to underlland

him.

By long Journies, we commonly underlland thofe of the Sea Of' h' -

• -, h K" , t e NII- 111 gOIng Into at e~, ingdoms or Nations, which our common five'! L~ng

Trade Altrok'sers Judge fromthe Ninth Houfe , and his Lord ~ 1'IlT'Tleyt, ' ~U[ I, paf~ by that, and fay. that the Signiticator of long Journey; &c.

In this ~gure, IS the Moofl, [IH ,he ,thaf p/ea/ab.' may read 711IJTe tit

large" LrD',4.CaP' 9l QHadrJpar.] and-as the is in Trine to the

SIIll, 10 1rlne to MerC1ll'Y" her DifpolitOI, and, in S~tile to JHpiter ;,

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fa ~is !oumeysfuould be about great and eminent Adions and Bulinets , and the lflue of them Ihould be Great, Famous, and. Fortun~te;. for yo~ fee the M'}Jn is no ways affii::reo, neither were his Undertakings beyond Sea in his own Perf all wirh. -ut Succeis ~n~,Glory, he always cC'miJ~g home Victor and Co.iqueror. ,BJt.t W~ Ihould ac€ept and Judge by J. G's Fi6ure, and ~ake e'th~r Jttpltcr (11' Ssttan, they having both ot them Dominion 10 the Ninth Haufe, but Jupitfr the moil Power, his long Juurneys would have been [b,Y that PolitionJ full of Labour ,Toil, ~rouble, and. generally 1\ ithoutSuccefs ~ but if rhat Ihould have given [ucc(;fs,lt would. have been attended with much difhculry and

doubrfulnefs '

oftfeN.s- How v and to what degree of Greatnefs this Gentleman dld

tlve J Ho- ' is k h

'lour II1IiI -arnve, JS. ~10wn to! e w~ole World, and therefore I thall di-

GrimdiuT. n:Cl:ly ex~mJ~e·the Cau_C(s of it Afirologkally, -wiihour any fur-

o ,ther Inq~IfY II1tot~e MndlM Acquirendi; feeing he was really poiI'd! of the ~re4teft Power tharthe Dominion of England Was able to

give him. .

In hi~ ~adical Fig~re we tindSixof the -Seven Planets eflenti~lIy fo~t1hed, according to the Dignities allowed them by Ptol» ~ " Lb. I. for Saturn and Jupiter are in their Exaltations'; Mars In his o,wn H?ufe> VenUf in .ht:r own Houfe ; Mtreury in Tiltlrus in Receptloll__~lth the Moon III Virgo; and what is yet more the ~oon, who,,5 the Lumm Crmditionarium, is Oriental from the'Sull IS Angular I.n Seail« to J1tpiter, and, in Trine to-the Sun and 'Mer~ CflTy, her ~pofitoq and what is yet more ,the Pofirion of Satem, J*p'ter:, and ~arr, are perhaps the molt confidersble of all, they all calling their Benefick Beams to the Tenth Houfe, the An-

" gle . of Honour and. Preferment, an~ they. alfo in thole Signs w~lCh we call Card mal , and are in the Zodiack, equal [0 thofe pomts that ~e call Angles in the Figure •. And- thefe are the reafans that I give for, this Nat!ve'sR.iling and Advancement; and as thef, ~~ree Superlors are ID the Cardinal SIgns, in Square and Oppo.~tlon one,.to another, fa you fee he attained his Granth'" b~ a kind of VIOJence,Force, and Labour ,. joyned and affifled ":tth. Power : andby that means and method he maintained it all

his time. -

.The 'Birth is NOCturnal, and the Moon is Light of thl: Time in an Angle) and her SoJte1Jit~s or. StipJtm/) according to Pl%my, _ are the~) MerctR"h Jupiter, and VenrlJ"tbe being in 1rine and Sexlile

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Spxtiletothcmalt; 'nay, and we may reckon Satnrn, and Mart too \ for Ihe is in a Zodiacal PJraUd with them alfo applying; and

the Three Superiors, according to his Rule, are, two of thein in

Trine, and one in Sexule to the Mid-heaven, and all of them ap-

plying lisewife ,and Jupiter Lord of the Tenth, the Angle of

Honour. To which 1 will- add this Obfervation, That neither

Sun nor Moon is in any il.l AfpeC1: with any of the Planets, nor lIny

of the Planets placed to hi; difadvanta~c.in the, Figure. The

Sun who is always the Signiticator of Honour, Glory, and Re-

putation, is likewife free from ali ill Circumfiances, and in'frine

to -the M'5o]1, 8<xtile of Jltpiter, and COlljunDion with Mercury, and

Msrs juft riling before him. Which if compared and confider-

ed with the. following Chapter of Ptolomy, Ihews , That Arms

and Armies - would be the Practice of his Life, the Delight

of his Soul, and by thele things he would raife his Honour and

.Fortunes-

The great Conjun.Dion of Sat1lr1l and Jupiter; in the Year 1623.

in the 7th degree of Leo, {lear the Culp of his Seventh Houfe, in Trine to M.zr.r in his Second, and in Sexu!« to Saturn ill his Eighth, was none of the fmalleil Caufesof his Greatnefs and Promotion; neither was that COlljullUioll in the Year 1643' which wason the Cufp of his Se~olld, in exact Trine to his Tenth Houfe, and in

Sextile to ,VenIM.

But perhaps it may fcem Itrange to fame, why he was (0 Old why fo lD'lg

before he began to appear upon the Stage. of Mundane Affairs; before he

. which thing is not indeed very Hrange, becau[e all the Planets befIt l~ are in Occidental parts of Helven,]upiter and VenUf excepted; and ;::a~n J;; none Angular but Vent« and the MJon, all the ref being either in Ca- World. dent or Sllcc~dent Houfes, which alw,ays give what they promife

in the latter part of the Life; and this is the more contirmed too,

if we obferve , that all but the Moon and SatHrIl are under the

Earth. So that if the politions are but really perpended, it will

Ieem no Hrange thing that thjs Native did not Advance and Rife

fooncr, But. if J, G's Figure fhould be allowed, all the Planets

are Angular but the MoolI;, which mull without doubt give the

Native his Honour and Prefejrnent early, even in his younger

Y cars, which 'tis plain he-had not, 1 confefs, 1 have no Autho-

'rity from Ptolomy for this Judgment of the Time and Age, when

the Native [11311 receive thole things of Honour promifcd him in

his Radix; he only fpcak~pg tothe thing in general,S; dignilatem,vel. _ 'I - nan

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non,h,,~at. Bu~ my Experience in many Nativities, and the method by which we Judge e~ly and late Marriages, which is much after the [arne ~almer" wHh fom~ other things t~at I have formerly remarke~ 111 th~ fame Cafe, IS fufficicllt for me to believe that this method IS not Improper to be followed and pra6Hced in J' dai - this, and things of this-Nature. u glllg

of t!lC Na- Ptol,amy makes a ~iflinCl:ion between Friends and Friends, and

rives Enemies and Enemies ~ for he calls nothing Friendlhip but h

Priendt Is durable and intirely real; and all the reft of it he calis Familia-

ond E&,Je. rity , and the effeCt of Converfation and Society By Enem!a. 111111, c. ·dE ' h . Ie:S

an nrrutj, e underflands a perfect Radical and perperualHar

All the othe,r things of i?ifference, Debate, and Conrroverfy, he~ ]?ok~ upon It to ~e nothing more than little: Accidents or CafualtICS 1Il Coovcrfation, And to confider and judge of rhefe h dot~ not make ufe of the Eleventh Houfe as the manner is;' bu~ conhde~s the 8111/, Moon, Part of For/rim, and HoroJcope· and h's reafon !S, becaufe he, judgeth Friendfhip and' Amity amo~g Men-ro be either for Council, Pleafure, or Profit; and indeed upon fom~ or a~l of rhefe Principles, Men do generally love 'and fuppert or dllfer and dellroy one another, and therefore hif Jud, .' founded upon 1I:af0l1. gment 15

In the ,Radical Figure we find the Sun, Mooll and Afcendant well bef~le~lded by the Rays of the other Stars', but the Part of Fortune IS In Par.an~ both to Saturn and Marl both in Z d'

d M d nd At I ,-,0 Il1eO,

~n. ~n 0, a ato/, who comes very near Pt%my's Rule who

IS In hIS own H?u(e, and not much above '7 degrees diftan'tfrom t?e SUIl (afcendl~g) ~y the Oblique Afcel1tion, is in Sqllareto Jup!ter, andOppofrtton With Slfturn; the Moon is in Reception with Mert1l1'], and all the r~~ o.f the Planets in their own Dignities, except the Sun. Hence at IS reafonable to julge, That this Native 1hould have both many Friends, and many Enemies" and ~s the part.of FOIt~ne is ~ffiicted moil o,f the four, (0 I jud~e the hatred of his Enemies was real, and the caufe of it was -bccauf~ of his Profit and Advantage he received with his Pow;r and Honou~ B.efides~ Venltl is, in Squar~ to the Afcendanr , which might raif; him .fom,e Enemies that did envy him for the Pleafure and Eafe of hIS LIfe, a~d other things that were the advanraglous GirWm,llal1ces of ~1S Station he was in, at the latter end of his days,

Me he ~as In the Army he had many Enemies, and they ndne l)f the Ordinary People , 'but the Parliament was his Friend at aJl times,

'OpUl fJ\.tformallltti~19 times. Whtu he came to be J'l'9teCtor. he -had Eqeinifs always plotting ag~nfi hill) i but at the fame time all Ndions were

his Friends, either for· Love or Feu ;alld-what is more, it was

his own Prudellte. Courage, COHflCil, and COlld¥lJ. that carried him through and above all thefe thillgS; ~nd this is aptly ligniti,cd

by Plol~'s owu Rule and Words, WhiCh are rhefe, Cum f4mun4 eungruunt, eril amiNt;.1 adjunUa confilio opJi",a &- luJijJim.s. WhKh

in this Figilre - and Nativity takes place, f~r the Lights- a!e in

- 1rine to each other; the one ill ConjunaiO}l,_ and the other in Trine and Recepnon with MI~ur) , ,and all thefe ~ilIfic:d - by the Beams -of Jupiter. who!s in 'CaIICfT, and'!D rrin~ t~ the Mid.he.av~n.; ~Y which means he IS doubly concern din glvmg and fuppoftlng his BonOIlI. and Friendfhip, which werdndeed really infeparable- In a word therefore, this Valian; and Fortunate: Native had OJ!lY Enemies, and thole great and confiderable in their O1!ality, and this judgeable by this Pofition s b~t he had more. Fr,iends, and tholi more powerful to fupport hIS Inrereft r which IS {he ufual and natural Effe8: of fo good and fortunate a Politlon, as he was blel] with. Thus you fee the heft and molt ~dent Afuologers, had other ways to judge of Friends sud Friendfhip, Enemies and Injuries oy them, without making ufe of the Seventh Houle, the Elevcn.th,and. Twel&h, with their Lords and Governors, and Planeliplac.ed therein.which method is indeed abfurd andrid~cu~ous, if compared with Ptolomy'~, which is founded on bett~r Principles of Phih:lophy and Reafon, Bllt more of .thofe Fooleries you Ihall

have in my Difellio GenitNarurn, now re~y for the I'lefS..' •

It is not very material to OUJ work 10 hand to take 'nonce of of the N~~ this part of Judgme!_1t ill this Nativity, becaufe he was not liable ti'llt'f SU''to the Fate and Accidents of private Men; for Princes fcldom vJl1lff. know their Servant&, [fome few excepted J. and by that means

avenet liable to any DUferencesand Difcord with them, nor are

their Servants admi.tt.:;cl.to auy intimate F amiIiari~y with their Ma-

Hers; forwhevthey are put into.an Employment, the Service ex~

peered .ti:(lm_ th£m io ebat.Iroplov, is Dillgence and Faithfulne:fs

in their Duty to their _MaHer, But we may certainly conclude, That

all Princes have Servants .of both fort',good and bad; for according

as :thofc Mini(1ers of State are affeCted, ,thatput'in,_ and imploy the

Inferior -Servants, fo mull that Prince expect to 'be ferved or be betrayed; and I Sould wifh~ had no Examples of thisl5.ind in

Englaud. -

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But for the Readers [atisfJction, I will al[o give the Judgment of this matter with the reft, Ptal9my doth allow the Twelfth Houfe ~nd Planets placed therein, to Iignify the Native's Servants; 'bu; If there are none ill that Houfe, to take thofe placed in the Sixth. but moll chiefly to obferve how the Lord of the Twelfth Houfe doth agree, or dirigree with the chief and moll principal parts of the Figure, .and from thence make your Judgment of the matter in hand. In the Nativity now under confiderarion , we find Saturn Lord of the Twelfth Houle in Librd, his Exaltation, but in no Afpect, either good or bad, to the Mid-heaven, A(cendam, Sun, MJon, or part of Fortune, only in Parallel with the Ian of them which Ihould indeed {hew the Native's Servants. to be none of th~ bell; . but if w~ confider that Jupiter is in the Sixth Houfe, and there ma Zodlafal Square, but a Mundane Stxtile to Satu)'n I fbou·ld. judge that his Servants were Moderate, Truftv and J~fi; an,d this the rather.becaufe Vente beholds the Cutp of the TWelfth, with. an exact T. rine« but this laft I Ipcak of my felf, there being nothlll~ of t~at 111. the Rule. Upon the whole matter, I do judge,. had,thls Native been of the Common ~ality, and liable to thofe ACCIdents that Subjeds mufi meet with in fuch Affairs, that his Servants would have been jull in the if Duty, but llubborn and head-flrong, and that the Native and they wculd have agreed rnoderately well; fome Iirtle differences there would have happened

but yct true and trufly in the main. - . . '

t;!f the N.t- I am (lOW come to the Iat] part of Judgment that is to be given

tlve', h N .. f '

D 'l "on,t e atlv1.ty 0 any Perf on , Nam ultra mortem nibil; but tho

tth'';'~h;;' moll ~onfu(ed part of the whole' Art, as it is now undertlood and thilldepmd pradffed by all thofe that pretend to underfiand the Language of :h<:,OR,.. the Stars, an~ have juf] skill enough in hard Words, to make the tam caufo left of Mankll1d believe that they are really what (hey conri-

and fil.!.,afr- d I -II h f I h'

t1 dflm.. ent y ca t em eves, t. at IS, AJlrologm. And therefore I thall

/Pgical. be ~ Ittt!e the larger on this Paragraph. Firft, To Ihew the World

their. Millakes. And Secondly, To give a few Directions in order to fet them right-, but in this l Ihall be very fhorrand concife, and that for feveral Reafons) which perhaps you may find elfewhere. menti.o~ed· in this Treatife; For I am now handling a Nativity, not gIVIng Gener~1 Rul~ fo to do; which perhaps I may perform at a more convernent time; for l really believe I have taken as much pains in that part of Allrology that concerns Sickncls and Death; as any Man i: and for that reafon, Lthink I ought to under-

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ftand it as well. However,' when time than ferve, I will give the World what I have prepared' and intended, and let them

that are-more skilful and knowing Coned it, for which I will

give them thanks, if I am convinced that they have done it. But

1 Ihall divide my Dilcourfe on this matter into Three Parts, and

bring all under threediftind Heads. .

Fir{l, The Caufe of Death.

Secol1dlJl, The Q!!ality of Death. I mean of a natural' Death, I not intending here to run into a Difcourfe.of Violent _ones, becJufe it would be too long, and alfo not fuirable to my pre ..

fent purpofe: .

7'birdly, To compare the Caufe with the Qgality. And, i: contra; from whence will arife [orne ~eries.

The Caufe of Death is varioufly aflerted v fome laying the The Ca14fe· .Caufe of it on a bad Revolution. So one fervedmy FriendJ\1r. of Deatb. l{' B. whom they Iaid layunder a bad Revolution four years fuc.·

ceilive, and kill'd him at latl , for Which they could never give

any other reafou , and yet had his Nativity to confider in the

thing.' SDm.:: lay the firefs on Eclipfes of the Luminaries, and

thefe they tell you do mighty things, eipecially in Death. Nay,

many of them ,ro my knowlcdg have no other Caufe .ro alledg

(or the late Abdication, but a poor fmall Eclipfe of the SUI', Oil

.tbc Stm's Radical Place, and day of his Birth ,Oaoher ) 4, 1688.

Mme: Wliich if they pleate roconfider, there was an Eclipfe of

the MO.7/1, April 15. 1660. near that place, and that 'a very great

Eclipfe, and yet did· him no harm. Alfo in [669· 0{1vber-[4· at

which time the Suo on his Radical Place was Eclipfed in 2. de-

grees of Scorpio, the very place of the Dragon! 1ail; and yet I 00

not remember that it did him any harm, .nor yet kill'd him i .

but any thing ferves when better Reafons are not in their Power, Sometimes they tell us, that great COl1jHllliiOllJ kill, and yet that·

Ihall not .happen in divers Years after the ConjulllJiun is over and

pafl. And this I have often heard alledged as the ~allfe of Death,

whcn fuch a COlljunlJion hath happene~ ~n t.he M,.d. heaven, Af-

cendant Sun ot .Moon ; &c. of a Natlvlty,JIl which they could

find ou: no ~ther reafon mo~e (ubllantial. They Iikewife fay,

That Comets oftentimes kill when they begin, or expire on the

chief Points andParts of the Nativity. But this as well as all the

. Reafons

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Reafons beforemenrioned, are falee and groundlefs, and I do polith'ely fOlY, cannot Kill, nor.ever did, per fe, atauy time. Howfar .: fuch things as there are concerned in Death, I am fenfible,and may iDmetime Dr other give a more particula~. account thereof , but to &y thell: Kill, is nothing elfe but a.Refuge for Ign9ra~ce,ill~d ter them bring me one. Example where there_,or any of j~el~ h~ve,ki!led, and I will bring them twenty where they have 'not ~ it, and yet attended with as much violence as the other.'

But notwithftandiug they have thefe Back-doors to let in Excufes and Shams, to cheat and delude rhemfelves and others; and alfo to Baltle and Banter a more ferious Inquiry after Truth, which. they pretend is their Standard; I fay, rhefe very Men doallo own, and allow, that violent Directions to the Hilpgiack"points,

- give Sick/.lefi, Death, and other MiJ!ortunf.. In which I do agree with them, and do alfert that rhefe are the only, real, and prillcip,zl CIlltj<.J of-Death, and that all the others are butS:JJ]fqHmtland Collateral!.· And ~he(e Directions are nothing.elfe but Bodies and Ra}'s,c<lrried and conveyed from one pal t of Heaven to another by the perpetual Flux of Motion. And about rhefe Directions there hath been a great.and a long Conreu, one being of this Perfuafion, lind another of that, how to contrive their Operations, to bring the Sign iricator and Promittor together.according to the true defign and intent of Nature; in which point I find. they are not yet well agreed, neither if it certaiu when they wi11; tho in the Angles it is certain there can be no miflake , nor indeed any where elk" if they would but obferve , and purfuc Truth in that Traer that Nature hath made. But in this point we do all agree, that Directions of 1" violen; Nature give Death; and in this I do agree with them, and ·th~t it WaS Directions that was the caufe of this Native's (the Protcdor's ) Death; and yet I am pot unfenlible, that he had i,n that year an ill Rev:olution, 'and an Eclipfe of the S IUl in M.ly 1658. in exa6l: Square. to the Mo~n, in the R(1di;c. who is Giver of Life. And that the Comet of Hlp. had its beginnH1g in or about tile roth degree .of Geminl • In.Square to the Moon's Radical Place, and the Muon in his laH RC!,1'olution OIl that lICTY place ill Gemini, or near it; with fome other things, which iJ do no waysaJlow to be thecaufe of his Death, but rhofe Direr.celiolli only iii the prfC(dutg Table, and .they arc, as I remember,

Seven in number, .

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, Thls being granted, That DireCtions are the Mrological Th ffl.!. tCau[cs of Death i the next thing is to inquire into the Quality ty if d;:ti; of it, and how to judge this according Co the Method and Dire-

ttions of our Authors, would puzzle a far fironger Brain than I

ha ve to imploy in it; as I believe you will conclude, and readi-

Iy judge,~hen you have heard the Caufe opened , and the Mat-

ter faJily Ilated,> according to the ufual Method and Pra~ice now

in u!Camong thofe Men called Aftrologers, or' Iach as pretend

to it.

. In any Nativity, when they come to confider Dearh , they tell U5, That the Native's Death will be by fuch Means, Ways, or Dif.. eafe, as is 3gTceable to the Lord of the Eighth Houfe, his !'lature, Pofition ,and Configuration, And to colour the Foolery of this Delution , they tell us, That the Lord of the Eighth Haufe is the Anareta. or killing Planet, when there is not one in Twenty, "or Thirty that dye by the Direction of the Giver of Life , to the Lord of the Eighth Houfe, If [0, then there is norhing more plain than the Contradidions-in their very Rules, laid down to intlrud: thofe that are more Ignorant thanthemfelves, ifany fuch are to be found. For is it not a' plain piece of Nonfence to fay, That this Or that Diredion-is the caufe of Death; and at the fame time tell us Iikewiie, that the Difeafe by which he mull ex-. pire, wiH be of the Nature of the Lord of the Eighth Houf~, &c. when perhaps Vef1U! may be Lady of the Eighth, in Trine to the

. Moon, or Srxlil~ to JHp;,er; but perhaps the Direction may be rhe Sun or Mlon, Giyer of Life, to the SqltiJrf.J o~ OppafitiM! of SatHrn . and Mlr!, and one of them Lord of the HoroJcope, And it is im- . poffible roreconcile rhefe two Rules together, to make them either . agree, or (erye far a Cloak to hide their Errors, for there cannot : be two Caufes to Ipecificate one and the fame Difeafe, and rhofe Caufes.Io Antithetically oppofite, and yet the Difeafe thallpartake bur of one of .rhern when all is done, and that is the Direction or Directions, that the Giver of Life is then directed to; and . according to the Nature of that Star or Stars, [0 thall the Djftem~ per or, Difcafe be. And Indeed.this is the on!y rational method.and .• the other altogether improbable; fer it is the occafion of the Directions touching atthar time, that gives the: Sicknefs , which if fo, it is reafonable to think that fhould give the QJality of the . Difeafe allo , and not the Lord of the Eighth. But I will end all in a word or.two about this matter, and ifl can, put it out

~ of .

OpH~ (]u:farmatum~

of doubt; let Jupiter be Lord of the Eighth, and in it, in Pi[cu,

or where you pleat(:, ill Trine or Sextile to the Sun or Moon, and the Giver of Life be directed- to the Bodies of Saturn, Vente, and Mercury, in Arier, Scorpio, Capricorn, or Aquary; elpecially near any violent fixed Stars-, or to the Body of Saturtl or Marl, and,' the Squares of the other two; and that Native Ihall either be poyfoned , or intoxicated with poyfonous Phyficlv, and this in defiance-to Jupiter, Lord of the Eighth', whoI am fure gives no fuch thing. And fo 1 come to the third thing, and that is to .. compare the Caufe with the <:maUry or Effect , which is the Dif- -

eafe, &c.

Tb~ C~n- ,The way to compare thefe things" is to examine, fuch Nativities

pari{oll .of as the chiefeft of rheProfeffors have, publifhed to rhe World, and both, WIth to fee how they make their Rules, and the Death of the Patient

tln !fl!!.erm' if h O·fc·r. b f 1 M.' , - F

thmce ari- agree; I tel ~ale .e. r?m t re Sun or . ~rJ j It IS a. ever, a

JllIg. Hel1ick." or fuch hke; If It 15 from Sawrn, It IS a Cold Diflemper,

as Cough!, Dift.PtmS~ Aguf1, &c, if from Jupiter, Apop~exieJ, Impojlhumu, difeafes of the LUngl, &c. if from Ven~f, Dyfentfrie1, di~eafes of the Slomac~ and Liver, Fiftu/a'l, and d,feafes of Repleti-

, 'on; if from Mfrcury, Deliriums, Madnc!l, ConvHljionl, CoUg/;l, and difeafes of the Breali, with all thofe Infirmities that rife from' an excefs of Thine!r; if ~£rom' the Moon, Diarrlm1f,' and other Fluxes of the Bowell, Convulji~;IJ, ObJlruliianJ in young Women, d ifeafes of the Womb, and fuch like. , Then agaIn" they give variety of Dlfcafes, according to the Mixture and Complica~ion of their R.ays, which is no, very hard thing to examine, if you are but willinS to take a little pairls. And the reafon why I advife you to compare the D jfeafe and its Quality, with that which you call. the Caufe of it, is for you ,to' obferve how they do agree one with another, and how all of them together do agree and corrclpond, to the Rules laid down for that purpofe DoUr. of Nasi», page 142• flU. I. page 261. [eCi. 8. And .tc confider when any Native or Patient is dead, whofe Nativity is known to be nue and certain ,

whether had you been to have given your Judgment thereon before Death, you would have predid:ed that Difeafe of which he died, or fome one vcry like it in Nature and C!!:!ality, [for 1 know there are none can be abfolutely particubr J by the Polition of the Lord of the Eighth Houfe , having re(pctt to that Angle it: [elf, the Planets in it) and thofe Coiltigurations with which the Lord - of it is affected. I fay, a fcW' Trials of this Nature, in a little time

will

, OpUS (j{_eJormatnm. , '_ 65

will Coon !hew you, to which fide Truth caLletll a favourable Afped: ;- whether to the power of thofe Dired:ions at Death, or to -the' Power ana: Pofition of the Lord of the Eighth at Birth. To which purpofc Jet us make a Iearch and inquiry into feme Nativi-

ties that areknown and allowed. '

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I,

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~ery 1. Who would~ have judged by the Pofitionof the Lord of the Eighth, that.King James I. [hould have beeapoyfoned ; for Jupiter Lord of it, was ,inSextile to the Moon, and in Square to the Sun and Mercury, which Ihould rather have given a COl/gh, difrernper of the LUlIgl, and a Bf[JiCk., Eeter , than an flgu, and PQJ{on. But the Directions thatkill'd him do naturally give Poyfon, for it was the SUIf, Hi{eg, to the Body of Mar!, Square 9£ V':IiHf, and Bo-

dy of Saturn. _. "

, ff2!!<ry 2. What Artifi skill'd in that Learned Doctrine of the Lord

, of the Eighth" would have judged Cbarlelff, Ihould have died by Violence, when Marl Lord of the Eighth was in Scxtil« to the SUlly and Lord of the AlCendant, and in no ill R.ay with any, but the' Square of the Moon? And yet the Dired:ions thatkill'd him were Violent, and might give Death by a fort of Vil?lellce, among

which, that he died by was one kind. . - '-

~uery 3. Who would have judged that the Earl of Effe'X fhould . have been Beheaded, when Jupiter Lord of the Eighth was ill Libra, and free from all Malefick Rays? CJUrc. Gmi. p. 45·.

, ~try 4, The Cafe of Duke Hamilton; why he fhould dye ill that manner, when JIt}itrr and M#,l were no ways afRid:ed, rhe.former being in Sextile [0 Saturn; and ill Trine to the Smi; and the latterin no Mpcctwith any,buttheOppafition to V(nUf 1 CnUee.Genit. P·67·

~~'J 5. Why George Duke of Albnn.1rle Ihould dye of a Dropfy, when M.J1'I, Lord of the Eighth, - was in Sqflare to the Sun, -and in Sexttle to Velllff; which 'cannot be-allowed to give a'Dtop[y in my

Opinion. CoU~e. Genii, p 7.0· . _, ,,'

~,ry6. Why Sir Robert Hilburn did not dye a violent Death, feeing lI!.zr1 and the SUI! is ill C~lIju_nG1ion in the Eighth, among violent rixed Stars., and'S.Jturll going to the SqHare of Jupifer, Lord of thsr Houfe, from Cardinal Signs; which is indeed a very violent

Polition. Collec. Genis, p. 124., ' •

, ~ery 7. ,Why Mr. M.1jJra/JieUa fhould not expire by_a Nat~~" Death, feeing that the Moall, Lady ofthe Eighth, was no ways afllld:" ed, but going to the Trine of Mm) Trine of Soll~rn ~ and Trine of

. ", K the

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66 Opus rJ\.tformatunr ..

the Stili, Collee. Genit. p. I S5. But I Iappofe this i~ one of Mr. Juhn's made Nativiries, and therefore ought not to queftioned. -

9&<ryS. Why Sir Frech, Hollu Ihould dy~by fo vi?Ient a Death, as being Ihot to pieces, when the M~on, Lady of the Eighth, ",a~ feperating from the Trine of VCII.IH, Lady of th~ Te~lth, and gomg to the Body of Jupiter, Lord of the Afcendaot 10 Pi!m; for the Moon was not full 16 degrees i'.l Pifces by her Latitude; a~d Jupil€r was almoll19 degrees by his ~ol1ei1, Genit, p, 159, This IS the Ge~tleman that was to live lome decades of Years, (by J. Gild. s PrrdiCl:ion.) but was kill'd within fix Months after he had print-

ed it.

ff2mry 9. In that Nativity printed for OliVEr Cromwell's, ColMi.

Gellit. P.145. Why Jupiter in Square to Mm ~d Saturn Ihould give an Ague and Fever, and as they fay, Po)fon; when 3.£ the fame time, Jupiter is in . Sex/ite to. the Moon, in Sexti}_e t? the SUII, t,o Mercury, and VtJlHf, which Pofitions .do not ufe to give fuch ACCidents, but rather aConJllmptioll, or (orne other Difcafe of the hulgs. But betides .thar , even in this Figure here before us , and by me nOW corrected, Why Ihould Merc~y rhar governs the Cufp of the Eighth, and is in Sextile to Jupiter, and T~ille ~o the,MlOJl; or ~£nIH who gov~rns the retl of that Houfe, being III 110111 Afpefr ".:Ith any of them, but in her own Houle, and free as well from Beneh~k, as Malefick Beams, give allY Diieafe of the Nature of that he died of? Whence it is plain, that none of thefe Rays, either of Mercury or Vmu«, canbe allowed by any Rule I h~ve read in that ~e[hod of Judgment, from the Lord of the. Eighth Houfe , to.Slve either a Fever, Agile, or Poyfon. lXc. And indeed ro exarnme It rationally, it will appear a very lame, empty fort oi a R.ul.e, that the Lord of a Houfe Ihould give (0 confiderable arr ACCident to Man's Life, as the Qgality of the Difeafe of which he muft dye, and that Houfe but an imaginary Point or Part of Heaven, rhathe is called the Lord of; and becaufe he is Lord of that Houfe.he rnufi kill and dellroy; nay, and give Death by fucha kind, of Difeafe 3S is not ufual to his Nature, PoLltioo', or any other ~a1ificati~ on; which if they would but confider, rend:rs' their Art [by their

_ own Rules] a very UDcc:rt~n, falacious In,qulry, as ~oth appear by their Authors compared With th?fl: Qlencs pr,ecedlllg •. ,~nd fa I come to give the true ~aufc.of his-Death, that In alI Nativiries Ihall hold Good and .Amhentkk, the Rule being well underfiood, and then well obfersed. .

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l..4/fly, He that.will come t,~ rhe-wie knowledg of Allrolcigy In this thillg of Death, he roua In t~e firfi p,lacethrow b~' all there Shams and Fooleries, fn-at art kept In ufe Without my A pprobation of truth or any other Authority but that whk~ Iome call Antiquity. And I have been [omewhat the IOI)geton this matter, to {hew how idle a thing it is hi It (clf, and yet ho:n, much magnified by ~hoJe that preteed to Ailrology. Not a NatiVity done Without the uCe of this Rule; and not one Nativity in forty, where the Rule takes place' unlefs it is by chance; for till they. can prate to me) that [hey hate a better. f6undation for their Houfei;,~ha!l any ~ can yet learn, I rnuft b¢g their pardon, for my not believing this, and a

_ I great many Fooleries more in the Art of Nativities. <?f which I will give a fuller Account th6rtly in my Difdl.Gtn.There 15 no other thing can flute in the Caufe of Dea.th, ,and the ~att~re and QQa-, Iificacion of the DiCea(e; but the Duechon or DlreCllolls tint are then in force and operation; by Direction to .the _Giver.of Life. I do acknowledg, that RroiJlNtiont; Secondary Dirrl1uJn!, wl~h TI'dl{llf, ReturnS', EclipfeJ, &C. may lncreafe the Arg~ment5 of the <:er.t~lIlty of Death, but all of them together cannot gIVe Death, or Ipecificarc the Difeafe that leads to it ~ bur the Directions only: As J could thew' you in (orne of-thole Nativities mentioned in the fOff!1er Queries, where the Difeafes did exacUy correfpond to the Diredions, that gave them, Sen!u A,ftro{og;co, And to thi6p~rpo(e, there. may fometimes be three or four ~lanets concerned III ~he

- matter,' Iometirncs but one, but' rarely lefs then two ferve,t~ give the Difeafe and Death. To this purpofe, in the Nativity of Charla II. it was the MJOTl that gave the Difeafe, but it was M.zrs that kill'd him, altho there were divers Diredions , I am, Iiire fix or feven ill force and operation when he-died, and help'd to

compleat the Work of Mortality. Likewife in this Cafe of the ' ..

Protector Crnmwell, it was not Mercury or Venm I Lord or Lad y of

the Eighth Houfe , that. g.a.ve:hiw-e~mAtlft, F-ttItr, or·P.1){TJtt,

no nor. Ssmrn , Lord of the A[cendant in the Eighth, in Oppofi- '

tion to M,;rs; but it was the _ Directions of Samrn , and, the MOOII

her (elf, that gave his Difeafe, but that o~ Marl kill'd Him. And

that I do affert to be the true Caufe of his Death, and {ball have

a proportional Effect in a1+ other Nativit~es,. where t?C .MooII is

Hileg, and in that part of Heavenj that, IS, It thall, give Death,

but perhaps it may not be by the lame Dlfeafc, but It [hall be of

the fame Nature, violent and quick, as indeed are molt of rhofe

. K 2 _ Directions

OpHS fR...eforr1?atum.

Directions where MrrJ and the Moon are concerned, but efpecially where they fway and gpvern. And that you may be the more fatisfied, do but examine rhe.Nature of the Promittors in Diredion, ,1IlJ compare thc:m with the Nature and Circum fiances of his Difedfe by which he expired. Both whichbcing.throughly confidered, in the next place confiilt the Text of Pt%my iu his Fourth Book, Chap. 10. 1Jl genere M'JftM, and 'you will (1 believe) be Coon fatisfied about the truth of that matter. And fo [ . will conclude my Difcourfe on the Nativity of this Great General, StateJman, and PoJiticiaQ'; whom M!_. Dreydell in his Panegyrick on his Death , commends for his great Labour, Toil, and Indul1ry, by endeavouring to the urrnof] to Ihorren the Kingdoms Mifc:ries. and put an end to the War, which other Men made their Trade and Profit, and made it their bufinefs alfo to protract it. His

words are rhefe, .

Our former ChiefJ, Ji~e i,ic"-!ers o/the 'War; Fir{l [ought ,'en flame 'he P snies, tben tq PIJi{e; The ~arrt/ lov'd, bu, did the Caufe -abhor,

And did Ilot Pri~ to hm" but mJ~ a naife.

War, om Conf1lmption, 1J!M their gainful1radt; We inward Bled, 1J!hi/e 'bey prolonld 0It'/' Pain.

He fought 'IJtl1d 0JI'f fighting, and eJJ.;y'd _ 10 ftanch 'he Blood hy,breathing of a Vein.

68.

~THE

Op~ 1<!formatum «,

THE

SECONDPAR T.

The Arg;;mefJt !h,tt indllced me to it.

I- Having finifh~d this Great Man's Nativ:ity, corrected the Fi-

. gun:', and refuted thofe 'ab:ind Errors, which others have built thereon, under the Notions of Rules and Directions' for the Young Students to Steer by; I am directly led to examine

a Book not lees nll'd.wirh Errors, than CromwelJ's Nativity [print-

ed by the Gcn tleman you have heard mentioned in this T reatife ] was. with falfhood and fhams, A Book written toIntroduce a - new and imaginary Whim, that J. G. did believe the Po~ver of his then Interefl, was able to put upon the World. A Book, that the

, Arguments which are brought to prove the thing there propounded, and his Principle aflerted, are either faHe,mifapplied,or elte lugg'd in by head and fhoulders, A Book, not written to do the Artills of England any Service, but rather an opportunity made ufe of, to Ihew how plaguely he was abufed, and his Reputation curtailed, by being called and'efleerneda Papin, from {he Popifh-Plot to that time; and yet .at the fame time, with a tide-long, skewwhiff .\rgument, to ridicule the Objections againH .the Cheats, Fooleries, and Abfurdiries in his Popifh Religion, as I l1u11 have occafion to (hew anon more at luge. A Book, written to jufiify and maintain the. Errors of his Youth, [I had alrnoll (aid, the Sins too] which were great enough then ,-and might have fav'd him this labour of Painting and Hanging up a Sign, to have;~ the eaiier remand difcQvered; audro (hew you. he had no.more skill in A Ihology at. Sixty years of Age, than he had at Thirty. For in the Year of our Lord, J 660; and 166 I, he made a Collection of Nativities , and molt of them f~lrc ones, as Ihall ere

. long

Opifs fJ?.eformatttrn,'

long appear. From thefe Nativities ,thus made, ~e'for~'~.a hundred Aphorifms, and moll of thcm as falfe ashis Nativities, I' fay f~om thefe (alre Nariviries, ~e form'd t~ofe choice Aphorifm,5,

a quarter of which, I am confident, to t~lI.s ,day he_ never prov d to be true. And from two of rhcfe Nativities, [. and I am certain they are both f.l.lfe, fOI r have made one appear [0 already, and will do' Co by the other before I conclude this T reatife ] namely Clmlt! GIt!~avus, KIng of Sweden.' and O/~er CTo~wfll" he form'd the Eighteenth Aphorifm, which was this, CauJI/IJl SIJ?'~I poJfcffing the Angle! of a Nativity, mr1~eI tbe ~ati~e ~ of all,Y Condit,'- , on or Capacity) mvjf-Em1lWnt lInd F I1mI1tlJ I1r hif &mrrar_fOfl, <lII~ til do Jncb Art! ,if Ajtfr-az,fI jh,lli admire him.' An? from this Aphonfm made in the Y tit .r 66 I. he wntes ;I Book 10 the Year 168+ ", to jl.lllify and promo_te the t!ling.wl~ich he calls, Cardin~1 Cadi, which is my prefent bulinefs to,lllquIre urro.

An l;lquiry' into J. G' s C~rdinal Error~.

THm~re a fort of Men nl the World, .that ~hciher they write or talk, do pretend it is for nothing elfc, but T~uth; of this Stamp al.ld Noue, is t~e Author of. oar CardlJJH Celi ; as you may fee ill hIS 6Wlllllg EpiiHe to the Learned Sir E. D: who, as he there confelTeth, -Cav'd him from the Gallows. And lndc~d the whole Treatife is nothing elfe but a heap pi-Words and Jmgle; nothing at all relating eit~er. to Truth In gClle~al, or t~:lt ~f Afirology in particular: It IS like the common, DialeCt of ,hIS 01-, fcourfe Ehttveand Treacherous. And for the firtl Eighteen Paragraphs in his, Book, there is nO,t 'a word to the purpole, .and matter of the Trearife. J\lld therefore I Ihall pafs by all, till I come to that part of it, ..... here he difcourfeth about Cardmal SCf!,I!S 011 Al1gler, &c. which is the only thlllg 1 have undertaken to refute, according as he hath aflerted it; for whatcve~ the myttel'1 of Cardinal Signs is, 1 am Iure he ~a!~ a wron& Notl_on about the matter, and that not only the Nativiricshc builds his Aphorifms upon, but alto th6fehe brings to prove. hIS ,ThtOry ~ arc ~al[c. But before I beain to examine tha; Book, It Will not beamifs for me

o , to

./

/

OpUJ rJ?.tfornla~um. '/ I

to lay down my Opinipn, as an Axiom concerning the Power of

Cardinal Signs. _. '

.'

C;~rdinal Signs fr!.ilif'y IIIlthing 011 the Allgler of any Nath'il), &c;

- But Cardinal Siglls on tlie Anf!)u of a NJtivity, and [ome of 'he Sup-eriors pla"d tberein, do crrlaill!y m:1kt Men F amot« and Prod;, gioM in t~eir Generation. And fa thry do in tbofe Sigll/) tho 110' ill IIR Allgles.

Whoever he is that pretends to All:rology, . anti denies the Power of Cardir: .. 1 Signs, not only in Nariviries, but in other gene .. al Affairs of the World, makes too much nall:e to difcover his Ignorance and Folly; and whoever he be that placeth more Power in them, than Authors and Experience allows and [ullifies , makes too much hafle' to diCcover his Confidence; which indeed hath been in divers other things in this Arc, the Pradice of roo many Profeflors of Afiroloty; by which mean~ we ale at this day in fuch

a Labyrinth of Errors and Confufion. For moll of the Modern Authors [I call them Mod_ern that have been within One or Two hundred years] have difperfed Errors, and according to their In- - tereft ,: fo they were believed and promoted. Take-an Inflance in one; and that is the Learned Trearife of Naibod all Aleahit;I/,!, which hath made Cuch noifeamong forne very Learned and Judicious Men. Concerning which Book, if 1 were to Ipeak my plain Opinion, perhaps it might not be convenient in this place; for

I have a veryoedinary Opinion of the Book, altho Learnedly done , and this for fome reafons of my own, dilHnCl from the Opinion of others •. And betides, I could point out' their Errors, and fome of their Authors ron , but that it is not -my bufinets in this place to meddle with thofe things; but all ill good. time,

Why Cardinal Signs fhould give thofe ftupendious and amazing, ElftCh in Nativities, o». that this Gentleman fpeaks of, and yet pot. known to the -Ancient5, is a thing I cannot cafily believe; neither is it at this day aflerted by any but himfelf, and thofe of our Nation, 'who w.ere deluded into the belief of ~his idle Af;. Ierrion, For the Cardinal Signs without Planers in them, arc but emFty Spaces in Heaven ; and whatreaColl,thcre is, that thofe emptySprees Ihouldbe allowed Co great and mi!!,htya Power;

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72. Opus fJ\!f~rmatum:

if they have any fuch thing, mull in my Opinion depend on one. of thefe three Reafons, according to their Alfertion. Fir(i, It mJft 'either relide in the Nrme , [lower, -and Virtue of the Sign. Or, Secondly, In the Nature and Power of the fixed Stars that are in thole parts 9t Heaven. Or, 1hirdly, As being the Medium, and tv.:0 exrrcarns of the, Ecliptick. As to ihe firtl, I dilown it wholly, not allnwingaoy Myltick Power to the Name of A"riu, Cancer, Libr«, or Catric1f1t, nor any more Power and Virtue to that part of Heaven (0 caned, than to any of the parts of the 7,6- diack bendes , for we all know, that the Names of the Twelve Signs, are bu~ wfiat the I1rH "Inventers imagined thofe Contiellations to be like, and-have rherefore called.ehem by thefe Names. And what ,is more, thofe CoriHellationnnd Parts of Heaven that did poffefs tbofe points at the rime when rhefe Signs were fo named, are either by the Precellion of the tixedStars,or Retroceffion of the Equinox~divolvcd from rhofe Points,near a whole Sign-;

. as in the Sign Aries,. which takes its Name from the Ram, the Figure of .which c.reature is defcribed in that part of Heaven; and

, I judge at thattime.was in" or near-the Point of rheEquinox ; but nowthe tirl1 Star in that Conflellation , and known by I_he name ohbe lirll Stu inIhe R.am's Horn, is in .z8 degrees of Arles, and about 301 or 40 minutes. So that if the Fj:~ure of this Creature gave a name to the Sign, and a pOwer to the Part .of.Heaven; then the Preceffion ot the fixed Stars hath quite altered the Care, and it is flipped away into that part and fp~ce then cal~' led '1attrM, and fo of the reft ;"niether do I care by what Names you call the Signs, fo I can but tell what you intend by them, and that we may by thole Names know how, and where to find the Seven Planets by their motions difperfedthroughouc the Zodiack, But betides, the empty Spaces of Heaven were never yet pretended by any Man, to have any the Icafl POWC( in13ginable,· without the prefcnce of ihc Planets or fixed StlIS to lllutlrate them; and Io far .

Ida allow them; and 110 further, . '

._ Secondly, As to the power of the fixed Stars in ·thofe Signs, I think no Man will lay the firers thcre., becaufe rhere are no fuch thing in two or three of (hem, unlefs they will make fuch Stars a; hsve greJt Norlh or Sou,IJ-Latirude ufeful in this Cafe, .which J am very unwilling to allow in Nati-vities; for the tixed Stars that have great Latitude, CIIl have but little force in the Angles of a NJtlvity; andI hope 110 Manwill deny, that the point .they

call

. II'I!I

Qp,m,.~ fl(efortJtat,~~ ,

c~IU\l~· .c.urp Qf the Hdu{e ,..mllft be. ill _thcEcliptick·, whether in the Horoicope,or Mia-heaVel); or 'the opp6fite Points. -':rn the

S.i8!14c .. rif.!f: ttwrc, Js no~.a ~~a. r; o ... ~ the 6.rn .Ma.,!Jn •.... ~.tUdC~. 110. r ~nx: of .thClJe~qnd ,: but the Ilwja)lJ, Q,rjJle of Antfrqf1ffJoJ, .and they iu,~

,ing NmhrJ,.atitutk, ',abOut 26 degrees; howe,'cr/if' they were nearer, I Ihould not look 4pon thole StaiS' able'~o itllifhate a Space of Heaven, fuflicient to give' it. fucl1 aPdwer , feeing there are, Star, far more cOll1~<;rablcLto t,~at"purpofe~n the Zodiack, tho nor, in C~;dinat Signs. I riCpncer' wF .fin~ no~c of !he, firft Magni,~' (wIe, bHt§)rilli,. or the GrfI!W.Pqg •. and that.Star IS about 4o·de.; grees from the Ecliprlck with Soinb-Latitudc, whiCh Isa.Iietle too far to have this ppwer herepreterided. The reil: are all of the fecond Magnitqd,e, an({. they are the. Brlgh,- Foot of the. 't windn· the begin~li~lg9f 9an_clf', with 6 degrees 50 minutes . ofS01Itb· Lati-: tude , and the Star 'ca11ed HercHl,~.f ,w!tlt the-'tlJfir ·Dc;", having: abo~f 16 degrees of SOIdb-tatitud~; there. ate'oth~rs ~Ifo, but;··( think lefs ferviceable to their pLirpofe than thefe are, jfl they de';' pend on the Power of fixed Stars. 10 Librath'ere are two of the' 6rft Magnitude, the Jrug;nl Spi/lt and ArllilrM; yet none but the Yirginr Spik,.e_re~vi"able. in tpis WOlk, "as bcingn~ar t he Ecl~ptkk~' and hath but little Larirude s bur Arll,.,.lIIbath ilbov,e 3 c degrees' of Nurth· Latitude; and doth tife wi~l1. the middle of J1irgo.· Aild when the hcginning of Libra afcends , that Staris a confiderable dif}lpce. above the J:iorizoo,~nd not robe £aid in the Afcendanl ; af¥l,befides,)~ cu)minat~s ~ith the,begil1l,ling of SCIirpi_iJ,·-tnd. for thOre; . rea(O!lS no~ways ferviceable, '. In Capricorn there IS alfo but one Stu pf the firft Mat;nitude, the bright Star in the Harp, cal-led, Lyra,. which hath above 60 degrees of North-Latitude; and tho ip C4jriClI'f'fI, yet it dfeth with the latter -part of Libra; there are. divers ,Stars more in that Sign, but all of the third Magnitude , and )efs~except that 'in the V"l~"",, called the BI'i!.'" Slar, , w~i,?~a~!\almo~ lO degrees of North~LatitUde. Th~ youree. there 'IS b,ut one Sign of the four, that hath an eminent fixed .$t31: 'near .. the Ecliptick , . which is the J1irginl sp;~ Ip;Librjl§ an'ftho,it rifethwiththe ;2 1ft degree of that Sign, W. it lets. wi~h,the very~eginnjng. Hence, -rhefe things have ~R.(~a. 'y widi~met~ bt:Jifr~e lhilt the fixed Btars are able to make thefe'Signs fo. famous and: powerful ~ as' my Virtuous AdveJfary dothatfert, aqd endeavour to make us believe •. For it iSpl~~ That other Sl'gns 'arc endowed with· famous and emi-

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nent fixed Stars near the Ecllptick, and yet not taken notice of in this cafe.

1hirdly, If they wili fay., That their Eminence and Power lieth in being the Medhim and Extreams of the Ediptick, it ispellible I may have (orne faith to be1ievt that reafon, and upon very good grounds too; hut yet I wholly deny, That this reafon can be allowed to prove the empty Ypaces of Heaven to have any Power when 011 the Angles of a Nativity; as, perhaps, I may fhew by , example before I conclude this dlfcourfe. Bur the true R.eafon is, becJulewhen the Planets arrive at the twoTropical Points, they then reach to their utmoft bounds Northward or Southward, and this is made the more remarkable if they happen to have great Latitude, North in Cancer ; and SOHth in C.JpriMn; by which means they exceed, the Ecliptick , and obtain a greater degree of Declination; and fOf that reafon , mull have a larger courfe to run in our fight, if in Canetr, becaufe they have a greater' Diurnal Ark; it in .,Capricorn, the.fame to our Antipodes; and therefore a truly Regular Pofirion in this Nature, is a Figure wherein the beginning of CaTietr is.on the Tenth, and the beginning ,of Libr" atccnding, othcrwife it is but an Oblique Pofition , for if Ctllletr happen to ~fcel1ci, it,rircth Nor,h· Ea)l almoil; arid Ca~l'icorn its oppofite Point, lets almoll: SI1IIIh-1I"e/l. But the other Figure is nocLo'imgu,far nor confufed, but hath the four Angles with Cardinal Signs, the A(ccndant direltly E4ft, and the Seventh djre~Iy Weft, as. the other two Angles are Nor,h and SOllth;and yet all this is but an empty Bubble and Ritde ... without the Planets are in rhofe Signs to animate and illullrare the Figure. Nay, I will allow any Man to have thofe Signs On the Angles, and let but the Planets be in abjed: Signs and Houfes, and fcc what (ort of Fi~urc: that Man will make in the World, and how famous he will be in his Generation, The Equator, or the two Signs Ariel and Li/W", for no other ,part of it is or can be concernedin our Afire)" logkk-way in the Ecliptick,' but rhofe two POInts, beeautC'there the Ecliptick cuts th~t Line at oppofite Parts; and thtre 'are none but thofe two Points of Heaven where the Planets can be, and yet at the (am,e time be vifibJeto die whole Eatth· for the 8l1li in the. &iuator is viGble to thofe [if any fuc,h are, j thR, In~' ~a.bit within the Art;t~ and Ant4rI;c~qTcler, and have the Pof~ In their Zenith; and (0 of the reft of the Planets, which Itb othrt pall of Heaven can perform) but thofe only, which doth' intitl~

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thofl!ltolnts to fbmerhlng more Eminent-and Remarkable in their Po.frtl,tln ahd.,~eiJ\S, thtn the, ref] of the Twelve, Signs. With thl~ Itk,cwi(ewe may confide~~, ~hatevc:n by God's appointment, Arm, ~r Ab~b, Was thl~egll1n.1Og ?f: 'the Year, in the 'ftIPJ Ecc1elialhcal Alcou~t. But In their CIVIl A"oW1t, they began the Y e,ar in Al/tUllfll III the Month Ti{ri or Etb.nim; fo tHat both thole POints of Heaven were made then the Standards for Timcvand the Mea-Cures oftheit Years, before the ·Afuollomers 'were !~ble to tell-the Worl~, that their Year did contain ,65 days, ~. htilirs, an.d about 5.0 mmures. There 'might be many more Arguments raifed.of this nature,. to prove, that rhefe Signs and Points of the Equ:rtor are both Ett'lIncnt and Remarkable; as that of their prim:lry Power. and Preced~n,e in. Men (uration .and T rigonoinerrical Pro~le":ls J~ t~e; Do&ine?f the Sphe[~. Their Primacy and Authority 10 glV1ogthar'motioll that is the meafore of Time in Dire~ions. Their Primacy and Supererninence in admitting no Parallel, an~ being the only Standards of Equity to the whole World as being .the peculiar 'Points that gives equal Day and Night to all '.the Inh~b.n'ints .. of; the Earthly Globe. Likewife their. F ertiliryand prolifick Endowments to all thofe Places that are Situate under that. Line, andba~e 'thofe two Points in their Zeni,h; yet I dO'not ~ttr.l~ute that. fertile' Power to rhofe Signs of Heaven, and thofe individual POints. of the Ecliptick and Equator, but to the Rays of the 8"11 who IS the Author of all Generation and Produdiorl and al~ays broodinJ1;in, or ncar. their Zenith; from whofe hea: rby which t~e Terrene Menlhuum is fermented] the fertile Earth fends forth Its Emergent Product, and alfo hrnens their Maturity ; and not only the Parts of the Earth that ties near or under this Line , but all the World over, even to thePolc; alfo~ for when th.!: 8i1;, returns from Capricorn, and approacheth the Equator, It puts 'I Generative Ferment Inroall tbe Seeds of Ni· ture ~ exciting Animals to Procreation , and the Earth to ProductIon, as ~ercdanf'l well obferves, LaJlIy, That which is as remarkable as anything I have yet mentioned - is that u there Points ~te the Standards of Time.fo they are of'dill~ncealfo; for all ZodIacal Parallels are rtiea(ured hom the Equ'ltor, and {rom no other point nor parr of Heaven ~'blltof what ufe'they are In ~firo~ogy, few und~rfiand , either their Nature or the Operanon III the Mccham,al part; therefore I Ihall fay no more thereof

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·T~i:t~ yo~ fcc our Anc:efiors had fomc"reafon for believing the , Cardinal SIgns, fo c:onfiderablein their.Afirological Obfi:.tya(ions andJudgments on Nativities; ~C': when'iliey found Planets. herein

- p~a,ed,. which according to tbeir.!Pofitions did, and always will give things remarkable according to their Nature. As for exam. ple, In the Inclinations and <l!:!aiifications of the Mind, which is t~e Ruddel to fieer the Body with. ,Pto/omy tells us, That the Signs add much to the Temperature of the: Mind; bur how? Why they are thofe Signs wherein M-w", and the Mao,! are placed. And then he tells you of Tropical, Fixed, Bicorporeal, &c, Lib.a, Cap. 18. And the fame things are preached alfo by Campanella, L'~. ~ . G_ap. 7. Arlic. 1&2. So fays JunI1in~ likewife, Pro qlUlilalt a1llm, 'gItNr, cOlljidera LOCHm Mercuri; & Lun,e qu.t fi;.nr: o~cupen'. S~ccul.. Allr. fol. 50, Col. 4 •. Neither is CarJall hl~nt altogether in this thing, but fpeaking alrnofl the fame words, DII~de Ex~m. Genit'"' in tertia, in OllarJiJ, in' Nona & aliu .N.~tivit .. tiblll. Secondly,. In. Dlfeafes, if. thofe that fignify their .lnfirmities are In Cardinal Signs, they certainly give the more vjplent fort d Djfo. cafes, and filch as are har~ to;be Cured', as the Lrprll!j, and. other Leprous al~d Cut,aneous Diteafes rnat fpread the whole Bodyover, and fometlmes Cancerous Accident~ .. But allahefe mutt be either when the Luminaries, or Significator of the Di(eafe are in thofe Signs and Parts of Heaven, Vide. Ptoiomeuni in Lib. 3. Cap. l7. And of the ,rame Opinion is AJbub~ter, That it.is theprefeneeof th~ Planets '? the Signs, n~t .. the Signs themfelves,that give the Dlfeafe or DI(eafes, De NatlVlIa, Cap. 63.' . But Tbirdlyand Laftly., :rhat which Is more to my Bulinefs, and will point to the Matter - In hand, is that thing of Dignity and Prefermeru , in whichCafe 110 Man ever laid' the' Caure al)~·Groundof it yetin the Signs of }leaven, b~tthe Planets; and their P?litjons, till my Worthy Friend J. G. be~uo -foCer It OI1'£o9t. Neuher jlll1l1inr,oor Omar,nor P,ok'"}, nor C4t1lpaneUa, nor Cllrt/an, nor A/bobali, nor Guido BsnallU,or any other of t~e~ that have come to my hand,have gi~en any countenan~e to fuc;h a kind of }r;ldgment as this is beforemenrioned, And to. give one Text {oa' .aU, frOID' one of tocir oldef] Authors that they fo much adlIir¢{; (I having {poken cO(mghofP,oJllm..l before, one whom he. ta\ks:of, but knows. nothi.ng -of the Man nor ~Is ~;uterJ a~rha~ is A/bobal;, De Judi. Nativir. Cap. 30~ de d,g~Jtate, Afptc.e de~ C! dominllm ejrw& partem Reglli ~"rN {HQ .aDmIIIlJ, & fl/em In N"MliII~1II thNmH, LHnam in No{fllrn¥; G"

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{ci« qltH tit rir habul pflll'll tligni''',u,.pna jiftm'it brtw iTJmi.. qui pZ",t1 dignilattl balJlleriJ, d. thmim"" AJi:enitnlH Alil1iflll, tid Crmz;. '1fi#di1J 4'" Coafigll'flltio, erit Natu, bomlJ R.,gilll, rjo e:t regno di,efoet &fu"J»1*"'. bonortnl cI1nfoqHttur. Obferve '(fay.s 'he) 't~e Sign of !he Tenth and his Lord, and the Part of· Dlgntty and his lord, With the Sun in Diurnal Nativities, but the_Moon in NoCturnal; for if there were Commixtion or Configuration between that' Planet that hath moll Dignities, and the~E{)l'd of the Mcendant; he that is then born lh:iU advance to fome Power in Government, and (hall grow Rich thereby. And to tell you the truth, this Author doth [peak the fame Language that they all generally give out for Doctnne in th~ Cafe;· tho fome mly make little Additions of their own, -yet none ever denied this, neither do I believe that Mr; J. G.will dIrectly oFpOfeit,fho I judge he thinks this lIifoovery of his more excellent than that, but-not fa generally ufefut:; (or the former is to be confidered in all Nativities, efpecially in Mens; but this of his in none but thofe havi.,g Cardinal Signs on all the Angles, which may amount to one or two in Twenty .. However that is nothing againfi it, neither doth it impair the Invention, were the Aphorifmit felf true 5 which is plain ro-me, thaf it is not. But let every one believe ashe likes. And fo I come to his Arguments. and Heafons , by which he endeavours to prove and enforce the belief of that idle Opinion about Cardinal Signs. &c. to be of rhernfelves able (0 make aoy Native great and fa ... mous in his Generation. Thefirf] Eighteen Paragraphs of the Book being fpent only in Words and Noife , without any Rela"{ tlon 'to the matter in hand, ';he comes at lall to lay his Principle and Thetis in the Nineteenth Paragraph; he tells us there in plaiR words, that it is [0 famous and remarkable, tharrit wantsilothin·t but Befit! and Pronf. Pray;,! ·what do the .mof] abfurd· Etrois want befides ,or fiand more.ln: need; of than thofe 'two things ;.nay, let Errors be but believed, ~ndlali,ile proofwilW!rvetur'namongt

. thofe Converts. And to fay the truth; he doth aslgood as telb us in thofe words , That Antiqqity~dqthn()dn4helea(t own 01: protedit; and.whetherrba Modem Afirologcrs~«>uld own -and< believe it, or not, he .was iq:f~ doubt. l FOldtris ~taln:,~ thaowhkh.wants the 41tr{fa!ilJn. of )Jtzliquity,andt,*Eon[tnt1of ·ltfJd",. A!irologm, is a perfect Innovation, and wh~llyftraJlge to thofb oti tha.t Profdfton. And the very words of; this Pangraph puts the:

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Neither is the twentieth any ways to the purpofe, for the Moveult F,a(l.r of the ChllJlrcb, the Ji'lPi/h-PaJ{(flIfr, Fea/lr of Tabtrlfaclti, and VltieaVtntd BrellJ, that he there talks of, are no more. to hisCardintll Sil."r, than the Mill before Adam tha~ went up from the Emh, was to the lill wet SHmnur, or the Childrell of lfraeJ's going through the Red-Su, to the moll Renowned Sa/iJburyHace in 1688. But when he talks of OUf Bleffed Saviour's coming into the W-OJld, and alk:> futfering under Cardinal Signs, 'tis a fOit of Cant thii I do not wellundertland. If he means by that, a Conjunction of the Superiors, .,b,t iI [a1fe; for the Conjunction that preceded the Birth of our Saviour, was in Gemmi, A/lira. 1'befo". Clxo«. Cap. 54. If he means .that he had Cardinal Signs on the Angle5 of his Na_(ivity, at Birth, tbat I drny; for C.Jr4an and Mo~1H have no more fway on illY Faith in that thing, than John's ~gumenfs have for Cardinal Signs ; and belides,a Learned Divine of OUI' own Nation. did once believe that Pofitioo of Caraan's having Libra aCcending; but he altered his Opinion. afterward, and made it S4gifary. How.ver , it is my Opinion, That jf thc Angels in ~eaven do not know when he will come, poor Mortals on Earth do not know when he did come; and 'tis a thing better let .alone than medled with. For let any man burconlider how we are put to it Iomerimes 10 gain the true time of a Birth of a Man or Woman, born in the fame Parifh where we live, and per. haps not forty years before I nay, and it may be not find it neither in the.Conclufion, tho the rime: may be given as certain [anel perhaps more. too] as tbat of our Saviour, Alexander the Great, Ntrr1, J"UIH C.tfar, and abundance of the old Popes, that they pre. tend to have by them, but molt of them falfe; for the dhlance in time, the faults in Chronology,the obfcurity of their Births,and the impollibilityofhaving them tranfmitted [if they were then known] down to ':'5 true at this dillance,. are Arguments fufficicmdy ratio-nal to believe all thofe, or at leall moil of them are falfe and fid:i. tious, And by the fame Rule, his Confident Adventure [in his :alit Para gr.] that he tells·you of, illullrated more.fully on the Ge. -nieure of hill.lmmortal Arch,bithop of ever Pious Memory, &C. was'but, a 'Ddl1fion,and Falfity put upoo- M.mkind, and thofe in paniQ1l:i:r that ate Studious in that Science; and that brings me to

his Reafons grounded on Authority. -

And the 6rft he gives us, is from Cudan, Seg. s. Aphorif J 29.

Ab{u joJij) ab Antle ad Qllnmmz,Inbilhil~bilem reddil.Allftrinam p"rlem.

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1lurl41e", "Utnn babitlf7't faeit. .A C.incro 4d lilmtm ,_ kne h.1bitabitUl' Burf_iil &- Auftrali duminabitrrr. .4 'LiUra ad Caprili1l1lum, .4uftrina habi,abitUT, flJburea!i pm; minime ;mp[r.zhit. ACttp'rico7'no ad Arie· 'em, imper.Jb"n,· AUJlraler. BarralibtH quJji dr[olatp. ~ 'In E!:J!.lijh thus, When the SUH'S Afog.ton moves from ArfU to Cancer, It depopulates the South part of the World, and renders the North habitable. From Cancer to Libra, the Nurtb thall be well-peopled, and govern the 80mb. From Libra t~ Capricorn, the Soutb Ihall be well.peopled, but not gov~rn or command the NliTth. Fr~m C~pricurn to Aria, the Inhabitants of the SOH'~ thall.have the Dominion over the Northern Counuys, they being as It were defolare, I think I thaI! have no great need to fay any great matter to this reafon in his twenty fecond Paragraph;ncither would any Man but he have brought this to prove Cardinal Signs on the Angles as he ~ndeavours. And all that any Man can pretend from this Aphorifin is that Cardan did believe the Cardinal Signs to have II great lhar~ In'the Affairs of the World in general, and of the dividing and ditlinguillling the Parts of the World, to the times of their Rife and Ruin in particular. But that.it hath any relation to Nativities, he that hath but half an Eye, may fee the conlrary ; and he may as well afTert from the fame Aphotifm, rhatevery time the S,m palTeth any of thefe Cardinal Points, there mull be fome great Aaion done in the World, and alfo Men born tel do great thlngs lor the Foundations or over,throwof _Government; and Indeed the Aphorifm feerns to favour thefe, rather than the other of his; but. to be plain, it .con:cerns'helther-?f t~ei1! .: But fupp.ofe 1 ilioulddc:ny the Authom, of the Aphorlfm,as being a thwg grounded on Suppoljt~on, the~~l? b~ing as yet too fhorr-U:·d to prove one quarter. of It ; .: 1 believe It Will much weaken JQbn~ depepdance on i,t; and to t~is purpofe, pray confider. whe~hel the. .AphelionJ are fixt pr moveable, for our Authors are ata difference about rhat point, which is the.main thing th:i(Cardom hath grounded it 011. Now, if the Aphelionr aremovable, then that oftheSrm cornpleats its Periodical Revolution in al~ofi ~ 3000 yeats; but if thr~ are 1ixt, the~l it ~.ath"no oth~ motlont~an !he PreceBion of t~eh~~inox, which wdl co~pleat 1~~~~VO~~tl:O(l11) alm(lfi~50oo i,e~~-L~nd th~ WorJd'l~~ -[;hI5 tim~,: acc!JJ~m~to .. ttie ~ell ~ceount ft6ril FldvicU( and AlfledllM, &c. !lath hot (cen yel the number of 60~ ... Io that we have above 190qo ~ears t,~ run throUgh, before we: '&all be able [or others for us] to fet thell hands to the truth..

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of this Aphorifm. A fine large T rad: of ti~e to compleat and prove: the truth of an Aphorifm,wh.en we [I CuppofeJ - (hall have nooccafion to quote or ufe it i And Ihews Card,1n as well imploy'd at the writing of i~)'. as J. G. was, when h.e brought it to pr.ov,e Carcli:nal Signs on l11e, Angles of a Nativity, &c. and I rhlnk no Man that hath his Seuces intire, will conclude the' Arguments thence derived to hav~ ;uty fway to make impartial Men believe it. And for his,djrcour~ there of Baking and Brewing.it feerns to inc more: remote from the matter, than what he fald before; it doth indeed thew the power and force of Fermentation at the time of the V~r~ nil Equinox; and yet I dare fay John did, never try the Experi·ment in the ufe of an Eleetion to that purpofe, tho he commend, it to others. Nor did ever any Man yet fay, That the Beer brewed. at the 811fll entrance into the Signs Cancer, Libr4, and Ci1pricorn~ obtained any fingular Approbation fOI Strength and Virtue1before -rhat brewed at other times, in the year. -'

The Text he hath quoted from Ludav;'ll$ de R egii1 in his T wenty fourth Paragraph,' is no more to his defigned matter, than the Text of C"rda_n. And now I fee, whereever he finds al~ Aphorifm with the words Eqllino.fJi,zl and Tropick,. in it, he prcCerit,ly takesit by the Lugs, and prdfeth it into his Service right or wrong; and for thofe two words fake only, hath he brought that Aphorifm to prove the fooleryof his owa imagination, when there is not one ':Vord in rhe Texr toencourageit. And therefore I Ihallnot dwell on diefe. t~ing5 that are fo obvious and' plain,butp,<?,ee-d to, thofe things chat are more idle, and more r~dkuloU5.: .. ; , .. ' , . ' , I ~i11 put his 26th and 27th 1'.uagraphstogcther;for the proof

of which, pray obferve what Aphorifms he u(eth, and confider

_ wi.th your felf, what force there is in them to hisend and purpo(e. ~dl) 81J111111Ui in Libra¢" JH/Jiter in Cancru luer;t, 'line "'fgni in MllniU M",at~onel contingent. 'That ~~-ere, lhall h~ppen great Mu'cations in the' Wodd_~. when S~ur(! Ihall'be iJi. .. ubra ,and Jup;,tr ill Cancer, Card. Seg.'1~, .4phor. 6:' An'd is not this a very Cwaying Te~t to ,prove Cardinal Signs on AngleS, to do thoCe mighty things th~t my dear JC!y,Mr. Jobn pretends to. " Is thereanY,~n~ word in the Text, that can 'pe, fuppofcd to ,oul')~enance fUclf a ' ,thing? None, as I .can ,ditcenf, ,but thofe two words, L~/":i~t)4 (;Jncer. And th~ with 'a~ gocid-~eafon'an~ fuccefs, ijeJugs'il:l Diap;. POdilll, Aph. 79. Sign. &Jr!in~iali~' fen'~I111'''' domiml,!,.b~f f.~

• a,,'UM ugum, &c. That Equmotltal SISns ate perceived to have:

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Power and Dominion over Laws, Rc:ligion"Rights, and Ceremonies. And becaufe they have fo, then both they and- the Troplcks mufi per {e on the Angles of a Nativity, do great .and firangethings, fays ,1. G. Why truly he might a~ well ~aye, pltcht.' on, ~hefe two ' Texts to prclVe the Birth of the little. Prll1~e, 9f.Jfa/e.r:,J1l.s.M~~er~ or his ollln Marriage at Wildholl/e. 'For the Wl;)rd:EqumDa,alpu~ to Larl'l and Ctre1HOllie!, do in my Opinion point, diredly at thofe things, rather than Nltlviti~ in~1s Senfe, Butbecaufe we ~o a!. low the Equinol1W and 'tropICal Signs to have great Power Iii divers Cafes when the Planets arc ill them"m,uH: we therefore ai-

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low them to do every-thing, and have a fharein every Caufe III

Nature. -purely by their own Power without theprefense of the Planets? "Ts a DoCtrlne that I can neither learn or allow. And [ dare be confident, that J. G. himfelf doth not believe tbe thing that he hath hue endeavoured to Jl?t upon.the World;he did, it only to Ihew his Parts, and how he was .arm'd with Arguments, ~d the, Art of Perfuafion, on which you may fee he did depend 11l this attempt. Bu~ of all the marks. of Confidence thro~hQut his whole Book, rec-ommend nte to his 28th Paragraph; In .which he hath reaU, out-done himfelf, .and not oDlylhewed the World the Authority of his grOllndlc,fs Foundat~on? 'bl,\t ~is .unskilful~ers " in Gramm,;r, and his Confidence- [I had _hke to have fald fomething elfe] in affirming a thing without the leaft pretence .and fhew of Authority in the, very Apbrrrilin it felf. Nay, I will go furtherl and challenge himfelf,6r any, man in the WorM to prove,thatthere IS one Letter OJ Tittle in the whole Aphor~fiD, that hath the leafi pretence Imaginable to. prove any thing about Cardinal Signs, or any other of the Signs on the Angles,or the Cufps of any of the other Houfes i which is a piece of unheard.of Confidence" for a Man to put- upon the world at [iich a rate, and make Authors Cpeak what they never thought orintended, nor will the words in the leafi favour what

he defigns, ' , , -

He quotes, only four words of the AphoriCm, i. e. Comere in CardillibUs, Regum mortes, &c. Comets (Cays he) whenwer. 'bey -r pe_ in Cardinal Sig/lI, 'bey beroRtn ,ht D,urb uf Emperors) PrlnceI, Pa'en!alet, &c. C"rdinal Sign! YOII fee', do ~ilfcarrya Signal of Wonder and Ama_:wnent it, ,hem. By which you may fee he lays thefueCs of thewhol~Aphorifm on the word Cardinibur, which he ren~ers for Cardind Signs, and therefore pray take the whole AphOflfm to • 'gerber, that you may fee the Impertinence and Ignorance of the:

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1\fan.Seg.3 .Aph. r 17 .Card(llf.Comete ;mmobilu Seditione/,mobiles a!ltem Bela indicant ab.Externif. In CardillibM Regltm Morte!;n nono loco Religioni! Jal1l1raltl, in Ol1avo vel DNrJJec;mo loco Pe/lilentiam, aut J<lCtmtmJ fege"nn, in fUldeciml? Nobi!;"", Mortel: Which is thus in Enf,Ii/h: Immoveable Comets give Sed itions ; but moveable Comets Ihew Wars between Nations; in the Angles, death of Kings.; in the Ninth Houfe, injury to Religion ;in the Eighth and Twelfth Houfes, pc. flilence and damage to the fianding Corn , in the Eleventh Houfe,. the death of Noblemen. And now where, and by what word of .all thefe we fhall gerpower and room enough to lug inC<lrsiniJl Sigl1!, I vow it feems -eo me impoffible, unlefs we were animated with.fuch Souls as hone~ 1, G. was, when he, wrote it. Oh mr dearjoy r that ever thou !houldfi tranl1ate CarJiniblH for Cardinal Signs, and rnhtake Cardinih1i4 for CardinrtlibUf.. For it is plain. that Ctddan means nothing C1fd,yCardintbJH;but'tht Angles of the Figure or Scheme of Heaven' delineated in plllno,· becaufe he mentions there alfo the other fonr Hbufeg above the Earth, i; e. the Ninm, the Eleventh, the Twelfth"and Eighth Houfes, Now, if 'lob? .~n but ten us? by. wbat~ule in Gram",a" by what Figure in Wrlt~ng. o~ ConH~d:10tll1h.l~~ord 1~~~O: be~hl15' underftood in faV'o,llt ot ~ Dew-it1~~ntc" ~tniC1~~~ al!M, whim of Ca,dinol Signs orr ')Ingle}, I Otall be ~a~y t9 'reesnr what-I have 'written, and to give him not only ~he {tight ,hana, but alfo the SCI vice of my Pen once again to fuLHf, him: But Lam fure he will fave me the tabour of both, and plead guiley to t~e'Charge J bave here laid before him. This Crime 'had been pardonable iFt a young Suckling, marls wantontyptayingabout the fOot' ofJ PmtafflH, and ne'er had time to ctigefi hislrifiruetions and Rules laid down, and given him by hls Nur{jng-Mother: But for an old Ben-weather that boalls his being fuatcht from the Breafr of Miuerva at tell years of Age; And yet for all tbat,fiIJ1,hek"nOflllltloff J;'tlTdsmTboma1iu5 alld Rider; and that he hatb Mars, LQf'd of his Afcfndant, and Saturn and JupIfer, Almutens (if hil FigKrt, which rPM fa #tll-k.,lfoJtln to hi! Adver[a'fits, tbat Jik! Snails they pull in thrir HOrns at the leaf] touch of hi1 Pen, aIld dm(i not peep om in their "WII Vindication. Say'lt thou fo ~ JohnlWhy then perhaps ppon that Prefumption you undertook this

mighty Work, to unhinge the Principles of Afirology withyoor CarJines Cadi, and throw Heaven out at Windows, by help of a New Invention from Bric1eCourt; 9f perhaps,he hath got the Cir:: ~atIIltI majl« P"rIKelji, which thl")' fay diffolvcs all Metals, and

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Iy dHrolve~heAngle! of a F.itJlre .Intotheir firft Matter, an,d 'from

thence to make ,C~4inal Signl ~t plea,fure. " Perhaps you will not believe this; why, thefe are no, hard things in Jobn's Religion

and I believe the Priefi with his Hoc eft Corp~, can do one as wen ,

as the other; Ay by, my (Imll can h,. Thus you fee Mpon what Au;.

thodty John'Gad. :hath raifed this, mighty Structure of his Cardii/e:r

CQ!/,i ; and tofapQc trl;lth,. ~he etherparts of his nook ale full as

falfe as this-is, tho not Ioobviousand 'notorieus, For to t .. antl~tc

in ClITdiniblH, to be meant inCaTr'in.al s#g~, tells as in plain terms, idhews him to be Egregioufiy Ignorant, or Audacioufiy Confi-

dent,' in offering Io boldly to alTere a thins without any Authority;

that he muft needs. believe was ·underfioodl;ly fome bodj elle 3.$

well as himfe1f ~ for otherwife he had been fafe. And·fo 1 will

lea~e QlyoldFriend Mr.,Carainibtl/, only dcfiringhim to ,takegQt:Xi

'notice of two Lines in·MIlTcel. Palinge. ,

Indollum rara eJ[e prebN'" cORligil, &atr;r

Errorum in tenebl'tH mentem Ig(lOf'anlia 'THai'.

In his 29th Paragraph, he fetcheth .an Apho~ifm framCdrdiIRt as he fays, if he doth not mifiake ; which tells us, That He, who;1 burn at NOOIl, when 'he Sun Inters the VerllalEquinox].mU be grllll'and

_ {amOII1, Jt'ilhOHtother '1efllItlMitl. And, this AphQrifm J"bn'Cays, is di-' red:ly intended by Cardanfortl1at very encl that.he here br~IJgskj and that thisputs the' matter Out of all COlltroverfy,and fways the Balance on his fide, becaufe at that time the. Cardinal Signs po1fds the four Angles of the Celefiilll Figure ,and make the thing as plain as a Pike-fiaff. . Now obferv.e, this is as notorious as. the other, and th~ thing alledged by him direaly falft:; by which he hath J?ewed his accullornedConfidcncc.toahair again.F or ifCardan had intended Iiich a DoClriue, 'as-my Fliend here brings it .to prove, then he would have laid thus, Who[oever is PlYln on tim Jide

tbe Latitlldeof 54 degr. 'he Jay tb« Sun' tiller! Arics,~iU be Gr~, &c. And_ to make it mere-plain-to-the Engllj1:l,hc-.doth ckduacBtr#id(, anp all Places beyound it out Of his il1t6nt:; ch:u,is, .he hath '¥VJit an Unlve~fal Aphorifm, and.'.yet,l\ath excepted all' S",I<lnJipaitof Itt~ncl,. moll· part of 8wetkn a¢ "Dinmar~,· and diVCf5J athel; King.:

. doms and Dorntolonsnur of it. which is hldeed a fort of Nonfeocc in it .felf, and norto be charged,. UpOIl CMJ.r.t, blAtaotber Ma~

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that better deferves it; For Cardan lays down his Aphorifm in plain words, and makes it both pofitive and general, which it cannot be in GiltlbUry'S fenfe that he here ufeth it for; and this is plain, becaufe in the Latitude of 55 degr, when the firft Scruple of A,'ia is on the Cufp of the] oth Houfe,theRrfl degree of Leo afcends on the Afccndant, which puts the Aphorifm quite out of doors, to a1l them People in that Latitude, and beyond it, if]. G. is to be believed; when Cardan's Apbori{m [if there is fuch a one] . intends nothing elfe but the SUII in the EqltlnoX and Mid· heaven together. So that the thing is plain to everyone that will' but confider, That whatfoever he here brings in under the notion of Authority .is all of it firain'd and forced beyond the intent of the Authors; as you may lee more plainly In his following 30th and 3] ft Paragraph.

And here he comes to a clofe Proof of the Argument, and this he fays, is from his noble Firmicu/,in the Nativities of Pillriar, .ArchilocUl,and Archimedu,Fol.17 3 & 174, And thefe three famous Men are but in two Nativities, and thofe two 110 ways brought to prove Cardinal Signs, but that the Conjunllion of Mau, Venus, and Mercury in Libra,ln the Afcendaot, in Oppofition to Jllpiter in Ariel in the Seventh, in the Nativities of Pinaar and ArcbiJoc,"; and the ConjHnllim of Mall, Yenul, and Mercury in Ariu, in Oppofition to Marl In Libra, in that of Archimedel, do produce great Men, and thofe of excellent Parts; but this was not from the Cardinal Signs [tho I do allow the Pofitions to be the better for being in thofe Signs] but from the Planets in thofe Houfes ana Parts of Heaven; and on that and that only, doth FirmicHI lay the £ffects of the Petition, as you may fee, p. 173. But it was pretty odd, .that they two Ihould have both one Nativity, i, e. Pindar and Arcb;l~c,", and happen to be born in one anr! the fame Minute,which if true, is a mighty Confirmation to Afirology ; and that too confirmed by another example of Demo}ibenel and H!J'ltIodoruJ,who were alfo born together.as FirmiCliI fays. But if 10bn hath no better Arguments and Authority to prove his Hypotheiis by, than thefe, he had as good give up the Caufe ; for I believe Firmieul knew the Nativities of Vemo{lhenel, H:rmodortll, .Ircbimidtl, PinJar and ArcbilOCNJ, much about Cowell as ]. G. did Judge Hales'S, Sir Frech. Holies's, Oliver CrDmweU's, Charlel GH}ia- 2l1U's,King of SwedtR, and the French King's, in his Colleaion of Genitures, with forty more that I could 'name, If occafion fen"d. And in his 33d Paragraph; after allthefe Affettiol1s, he (ays, He ~OWI no rtllfon "by his Apbori{mj1mutl not R'eolr t~ Livery and Cpara-

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l1er o/Truth ~ unlefsit canbe proved, that Perfons have been born with Cardinal Signs on the Angles of their Genirures, and lived to years of Maturity, and have not been famous in one kind or other, i. e. for Honour or DHhonour, Vice or, Virtue, Wealth or Poverty, Learning or Ignorance, Courage or Cowardice; and, if fo, then the complaint brought againfi him is unjufl,

To this I anfwer, The Propolition is very unfair, for there is no Man born into the W orld [or at leaf] ways very few] that keeps the exad Medium of his Birth, but either falls below it, or rifeth above it, and fo hath more of Honour.or Difhonour in his Generation; and for Learning or Ignorance, I wonder he Ihould talk of that in this Difco~rfe, when he knows that depends wholly on the Moon and MercKrY. And I utterly deny rand he knows it to be true] that any man had ever more of Cowardice or Courage, . for his Angles being po1feffed by Cardinal Signs; for the aile depends on the Rays of 8nurn,alld the other on the Beams and Power of M.m. And that of Honour and Difhonour.Poveny and Riches, depends on their peculiar Caufes, and no ways concerned with the Cardinal Signs on the Arigles; yet I grant that the Caufers of thefe things being in thofe Signs [no matter what Houfe they are in 1 may make their Effeas more remarkable and famous. And ro my _Friend John leaves his Authorities, and falls in with his Antagonifis about other

. things, which I Ihall over-hale, becaufe there are fome thIngs that will yield matter that is worth reading, efpeciaUy about that of his own Nativity, and the reafon of his Irnprifonment ; as you have it ill his 34th Paragraph.

Where he tells, us, That he did forefee his being in the Popilh Plot in 1679. twenty years before it fell out, and that by his own Nativlry. Why really Jobn this was a mighty Argument of your Skill; but Iuppofe I Ihould 'not be able to believe it? Why, then I judg he will rebuke me Iharply for it, becaufe he printed it ill his Doctrine. of Nativities, more than Twenty years before, and thereby it appears to be certainl y true , it falling. ollt exad:ly according to the time there mentioned in the Table of Dired:ions, which was the Medium CGrli ad quadratum Solis; faIling on the 12 th Houfe of his Figure at Birth, which !hewed Imprlfonment, and the Frowns of Great Perfons. Ay, that is to the purpofe, falling on the Cufpoi the Twelfth,' which is a plaguy corner of Heaven. And yet tor all this, I do 110t believe one tittle of it; and I will tell you why,in a. vety few words; I cannot believe it, becaufe every Square 01 ~,,-

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drat' in any Circle, o~ght to I;onfifl of 90 degr. and no more, whether in Mundo or Zodiaco; but this worthy Gentleman makes this of his to confif of 123 degr. and a few minutes, which Ieerns tome an odd fort of a Square; and indeed I wonder how many fuch Squares he, Or any other of thofe Phllofophers Will make in a Circleof 360 degr.For the proof of rhfs.do but obferve.They all allow that there are but 90 de~. between the Midheaven and the Afcendant, .which makes up the Square, QQadrature, or 10th Part of the Circle; (0 that the Stm mull come to the Afcendant, before the Midheavencolllesto his Square; but atthat time, when my old Friendjays tht;M. C. came to the 0 of 0 ; the Sun was 33 degr: and more from the Ho~ rofcopej and to fay the truth, the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun in J G's Nativity will not come up till abont Syor 86 years of Age by his Figure, which is [to be plain with you] falfe, 2 diy, I cannot believe it , becaufe the M. C. to tr·:;O of ~ fhould have been as Malefiek, and of as ill Import as the 0 of the 0, becaufe he is in d with the 0, and his Square falls alfo on the curp of the J 2 th Houfe,and ret no trouble of the Nature and Qpality of that in 1679. when he was in the PIotto Murder Cbsrles 11. Nor did his M.-C. to [he 0 of ~ iii f 685. ever give him any thing of the Nature of the Dir.cction at that time. And betides, why fhould notthe Mid-heav~n to the 0 of 1/-, at about 24 or 25)'ears of Age give Irnprifonment, and the Frowns of Great Men, Bifhops, and Lawyers, by the [arne Rule [hat the 0 did it afterwards •. I know he ha;l IlO other Sham to cxcufe it with, but by flying, it did not fan on the Cufp of the 1 arhHoufe , a plaguy kind of an Argument, and one wcul-! think ir is [ufficient to convince any man. But 3dly and La}ilJ, I cannot believe it, becaule he lets the Midheavcn ·pa[s by the Body of ft, which is a real and vitible Direaion, and a moft fatal one too in all Nativities.either to Life.Llberry, or Reputation; and trumps up an imaginary 'Direcrion , which there- is no (uch thing in nature. I know Hhall have Enemies in this cafe, and. therefore I will put it fairly tothem all. Pray, Gentlemen, which do you think is the moll: proper Direction to throw a man into Prifonfor 'betraying the Nation, endeavouring to bring in Popery (this is plain upon him. for he tum'd Papill afterwards] to Murder the

-King, andfuch like Grimes; tlfe Mid·heavEn to tbe Body (1["h, or to ,o,b'e' 0 of ,be 0 ~ If the Oofthe0, then what did h give? if h, what did the 0 of the 0 give? For you have not Accidents for both Dlreetions, and at that time, when he makes the M. C. to the Body

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of ft· to be in force, was he top and top-gallant; then it was evtrYOllt p.U'd in /;is Horns at the dajh of his Pen, not daring to appear irHbcir()wn

. Vindication, Prog. to his Almsn, 1669. Where it is plain to me.thar one of.thefe two Directions is falfe,they being both expired.and but·

one Accident, zJIy, That his own Nativity is (alre,and clue he never knew yet how to correct it. And 3dry,that he did not underfland one word of the truth of Afirology more at the writing of his Cardines Ca!Ji,than at the printing his Doctrine of Nativities. And for the 0- ther part of this 44th Paragraph, that I have nor touched on, 'tis all (alfe,and a lye.and I will intiance in one thing.H;: f"YJ' be doth cfteemit tt1J mens Dllt)' to be Obedient to ,be Lawful Eftablijbed Goverllmrnl,botb in Church alld State. Here he hath plainly given himfelf the lye; for in ! 690. he was catcht at the Pofl-Orlice in fend.ioga Treafonable Letter, in which was a Popifh Declaration, and a Scandalous Copy of Verfes all the King and Qt!een, which he promifed in his Letter Ihould. be printed fpeedily : Infhorr, there wasenough to have - hang'd twenty men in the two late Bloody Reigns, and yet this Gentleman efcaped , and how many of fuch Letters he did fend, that were not catcht.he will not tell us.I [uppore; and was this obedience to the lawful Government? Yes, withoue doubt; and do but call at Jobn's Office of S;dition, and there youIhall find a Popilh Ca[uilt fhall make it as plain as the Nore on YOUI Face. But, I fuppofe, John meant, tbat it _was all mens Duty to he obedient to the Eflablijhed Government 'hal would fet up Popery. A very bonefr, confciencious Fellow, and a true Subjed: to a Proteflanr Prince s ha! Mars John, is that true? VixCredo. But by this you may eafity guefs, whether what he fays is to be believed, or not, let him fawn and ditfemble with the Government in what Language he pleafeth, Nay, I dare be pofitive he will not take the Oaths to Their Majeilies, as appointed by Parliament, he is Co good an Engli{hman. But talli about Charles the Marty", and his immortal Arch,bifhop, and there you hit him; if you would know the rcafon, 'tis becaufe 'rheir Religion is all of a . piece. And yet further, let him but obferve his OWIl words ill the 56th Paragraph, Where is our Love toCbri/fianity, (fays he) or the bierfed Alltbor of it, who b~th taught 110 bt'tter LtjJiJllJ, ,lJall to illjure tile ffdgif'

of another, iI'1' to C,1{t fiery BombJ at the Innocent, and ,vit wit/}ozt1 {ir/f ,u~. illg a rr.JjiJII of the Diffirmce,or fairly proclaiming Irar land fa on in the following Paragrah, It fcems it was an Injury at that time to fall upon Hon , without giving either waming, or fhewing Caufe why. Bnt he had forgot that in .1687. when. he did be-rebel and

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Villan me in print. when [I folemnlyprotefl] I gave no Caufe nor Oeeaiion; only his Zeal for Popery and the Holy Caufe, prompted him on to abufe me without a Caufe, and to {hew himfelf a malicious, envious Fellow. Ar.d in that humour I leave him quarrelling

• with GaJfendlH, and trifling with his Reader, and come down to his Beth Paragraph, where I find him very angry with his Kdverfary for thinking he wasa Papifl:; which doth indeed thew the fl:rength - and excellence of that Gentleman's Judgment; for Gad. did really

turn Papifi afterward. '

And here let me beg my Readers pardon for my departing from rhe-Texr , tho indeed it is not my fault, for I am Itill purfuing his matter; by which you may fee what {bift he makes to leave the Cardinal Signs, and lug in an Argument to {hew his Cardinal Errors, his Religion I mean .. And for above a dozen Paragraphs roge·ther,he doth merrilv Ridicule the Enemies to Popery, and thofe that believe the Ilory of Pope Joan. Concerning all which, IIh:!lI only make tbefe Remarks following, not being willing to fpend Paper and Time upon fo idle and foolHh a thing, as J. G's Religion. J .Then.Let us obferve how peeviihhe is in the Sid Paragraph,and how unwilling to be counted a Papifl, and what Shrugs,Shams, and ~ibbles he ufes to evade the Story: Aild at lart,to convince us that

_ be is no Papitt , he: tells the World they may fee him at die AbbyChurch very often at Divine Service [not a word of the Sermon] which without doubt is a fpecial way to prove a man a Proteftant ; as if no Papifis came thither; but who hath feen him there in the Iaf] four or five years, ever fince he ufed to go to Ma.fs, and was Father Petrrs's Convert; ever fince he told Cap. c. that Popery was the only true Religion; and to fum up all, finee he was Married bya Popifh Priefl at WildhOHfo. 2dry,ln all the Paragraphs, where he hath complained of his hard ufage , under that report, ridicul'd Popery after a tham fort of a way, his laughing at the fiory of Pope Joan; how Danf.erfitldand Care had be- papifled him; how Coley had fent him to his Beads; and how he was burnt twice in Effigy with the Pope;yet this is remarkable,in alI that ridiculous Stutf)he doth not fay, He ;., no PIIJ7i/l; only endeavours to Iham a belief upon us.as he would do this of his Cardinal S;gw/.,dry,lf hewas no Papifl, . why 'dld he always forget to put in the Filth of November, by the name of GHnpo'IPde,.;-Trtafon-day, which he did many years together; a~d yet I have heard him fwear he forgot it; but I know what he; hlsOaths, and hisPromifes are, eCpecially ill all thofe things, when

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an'a where the P~pi{h Caufe is conceru'd-: - If .he was n? Papifi, or a Well-wilIeritHt, why did he'alway~herd! with the ~rlell~of ~hat Faetioll and"'yithot hers pub1icl\ly kn~wn I?api~,and ",n:thttrIComl pany talk imp~~eri~ly in dcfe,n~e o~the~ an?thelt Ch~reh, as ;~,m, - felfhave heard? lfhewere;no Paplfi, whyd~d he endeavour tOlmake fo many Converts to that Perfuafion?, B,u~. if 1 do ~otnatne who,;1 know his faculty of fwearing,ByHea,vens_ ns a IY~\~llI be the anfwer. 1. Then he eIIdeavouted_tOConvenM_r •. B. a !Jlvl~e of the Chur~h of England to the Popifh per~wa{j?n~ ;whlch hls~puny Parts ~~s not able to do' 'then he wmt"wlth hlmto aLeamed Gentleman 10 the City of th;t Perfuafioll, who did his encleavour.to c<?nvillce and convert him.but it would not do; then he went With him to that learned Gent1eman,Dr.G.who did· [faid Mr. B.] far ~s much for that falfe lying Religion,as any Cafuifl of th~m all could do;and after they ba~ . exchanged fome Sheets of Paper mControverfy, th~ Doctor. let hIS expeeted Convert ref] in his own Peifuafion, At this my Friend J~ G. was very angry, and with taunting Language tOI.d Mr.' B. that he did believe he muG at laftof ali be forced to have him to Father.Pesre; and Father ElM, two Notorious and Arch~ Traytors, a.t ~hat time very famous andinduftrious tcrdefiroy the Protettant Relli?to~, and" fubvert the L~ws of the Land. Andther;Gent~emalt, wa~.on~ -Sit 8.. P. whom he alfo ~i? perfuade to t.urn Paplfi, and told him It was the; only riling Rehgton; and he did forefee by the-Stars from the 0 of It and lI- in fL, that it would root. out the Nortblrn.Hmf}:, a~d be the Univerfal Faith overall E",.ope; and thereforeduladvlfehlql;ta turn berimes; and be an early Convtrt,; which was the bell way ~~ Prefcrtrient ~hen the Govenimcnt' camc- into Catholick Hands ~ ~y whic? you may fee 011 what Topick this worthyGenli~loJn.bullds his Rl:ligion, amI what 'made him at )Q[\ turn profefi PaplH; .upo~ the whole it admits of a feafonabteQ!ery, Whether orno this were not d~wn-right Treafon,accordi~g,to thClAn~ientLaws of the Kingdom of Eng/ana? 4thiy,·po but confider;: what a_ busfle.he hath made in nine Paragraphs about Pope Joan,· the Petticoat-Prelate. In which I do obferve two things; I.-What a 'pretty fo:t of endeavour he uferh to put the whole Story into doubt and qudhor~ how many Ihams hath he lug'd in byh~ad ~ndfbould.ers, to • .ilOlll1f.. the Reader about it? How many ObJeCtIOns. are there r.aICe<\--fo

_ make the thing feem improbable? Ho,w many Doubts pro~o.ullded in reference to her Qg.11ity of State, and herpregllant'Condmon, to render it impollible? How many People hath-he there re.fl.eCled on

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asNoI1COJlformi&, ,IUld <;>thus, to.abufe them with his Language and U! hy the if11PofJ~~t) of;tt!s A,rguments?Haw 'a)~y. St:tppofidon: hath he put lIt way\ofJpr~!t~'what he illtelld,~) ~ijenJndeol'hc hlhrnQ proof- fb, the r~al;t ~~l«;?f his ()bjeCtion ,to. i~h~ ~~y.. but. tbe Z,aal of hIS S~ijl (Or, t,~e:I>~pijh Qau(e, and hiS Ma:hce to PretefiactS" he a. ~hat time ~li!:"iJlg as the Church bel!~~ed.l confers, the Wily he hath taken, IU. fiqe Sham-argument" tho not to con.intethet1'l,Ty'ef,~$llaggeI P"'8li, ~~ld, m.akc them bfilleveJt,wasan abufeuponHdly<Uhutf:hL "J\fld, ,by:'thii: way: of;1,rg~me~t~ J Ida1le:tQ fW1:ar, 1 cClI.1}dperfeGtl)'.~~!}~" clear, Mid jufiify a aert~n Simler withftl.a mile of CulJedge'Jhetl; For example,fuppofe a man hath ~ ~od)jlIjsk, comely, g()n~il~ WO~llto his Wife, what need hath he t(j go a 'Whoring?, Or, \vhQcal~bclitvc hewould ~empt~ilOthcf tIi"h~ Wife to leave he~ rHuli~aJ14p,l1et,~lldcoha,bit- with h,im?, Who Call Imagine-he iliould b,ia" _ W{lPlie iI!W hi~ HoufC u~de~ hisWive"s N'ofe)aild get her 'Whh Chlld,and ~hen have her out to Mrs. Wrighi's mlyein? Who will believe thatwhell the Woman was up again; he lbould reek to delhoy her] Who would judge a man that came to

~ Pt.YdlS 'co cher~Y1 3$ a Proteflant I Ihould ever Plot to Murder a ~~,1I5gobd n i?rbtefifbta5 ,himfdH An, ~ can any, man belerfua~~dl tmt he-who hath made fo much !N01(e about Out)· an Allegr~e to Kmgs,.llibuI4.bc cattbl in a Plot about two yeango,to deflroy ~e of. the ·btfl Kinp in the World, only he is a P,.otf/tmzr, and that Jtlhn'hafl:s.Gertainly l1'O Dl31lWilJ beJinc,app,rehend,m Imagine one WOrd:bi tbis:oo be tfllC;,l,betllufe it ~ not feem nc:~flll, ~(quifit~ ffl ~t'(tlfacY., ' Thus Lthiuk: J lu v,t.~lea,~, that Gentle'11all from his Sfhg,a~ wtlris be'bath confl;)tN:thll $t{)ry of Pope Jg~", only in fewer lVcit'd's. And idly, to JhcWtbe Papifi$, that what he did now by a ftd~lol'lg . gland: as a, PlGkllllbt) wa~, to let them know" he would andertllk!¢ any' thing ~e.hc~di IIS,a Papitl, whenth~y Ihould have tdl1flge tiloughtoletlip-Popcty by a Law , and to let them know, Thllt, be W01ll1d Be·bnetick the Proteflants, and Church of En~/and the'n, as he had heretofore Be·rtbe~·J the Ncnconformifls, And if yoj read fiis Reply, p. 8. and divers other places in that Book, you wil1litid his Arguments for fo dl>ing; where he doth- as good as

- feU us, Thsn all tIldfc who were agllir1l1 fert~ng up Popery, and thwarting that Kings defigns, were dowMightRwelJ, '[rgytor" and Hertt;tI4[iand fitfornothing but Jaylt/, Faggot, Gibbet, and AX,' Thes hath 1dlM,lndicated thef'ope and Chair of Rom" from thole Afpcr60ns Of TabpOra.l Whoredom, which WQS'a good Emblem of , . , , her

9'7, .' .. o~·'fR...~f~f'matu1~. ..

thing remarka?le, . and that is, he tells the Readers thofe Aphorifm;, can~d the Centtlaqutum of Ptalamy, are really owned to be Ptalamy's • whu;~ I politively deilY" and ~i11 do my endeavour tomake m; Affertlon good; and this for two"Reafons~ I. To (hew the young Students how they may Ihun t~ecommon groCs Enors.And 2dly,tiJ teethe World know I do not dtlfent from the common Prad:ice and Method, without good Reafon and Authority.

~very TextuarY,Author, that writes upon any Science, Art, or SubJe~ whatfocver, doth genel:alty, take Care that his Matter. be all ~.ra PI;C~, and not One place or-T ext to thwart another, one Principle ?Ired:ly 0PP91ite to another ,~~ld a general inc?Jlercnce throughout hIS whole matter; for if (0, then no man will be able either to u,nderftand him, or .receive any Benefit 'or Information by his wrl!Jngs. And whofoever'!ead,sthe'£_uadripartite of Ptolomy, will foon Judge that h~w~s nor a ma~likely to' be guilty offuchatiAbfilri:lity, or weak~efs 10 his Judgment andl}eafun~And therefore for theberter clearing ,of the '~atter, I will take the pains to compare fome of thoCe AphOrI!IJlS,. WIth .. fame of the Texts in his ~dripartite. 'And before I begin, let me take the liberty to make this Obfervation up.on tha~ &;eat man, and t,h6feAp~Qrifrn?faid to be his_; In thofe 100 AphonHits; we fiqd 161:hat do In particular reter to, and concern Eledlons, diversHorary~'et1fons) and fome Decnmbitures &c. yet [notwithfiariding the Apfiorifms Ieem to be written with ~ fort of Authority] Ptolomy hath not written one word of any of thofe part~ of ~~rology, :f!0r 'siv;~.t'be .Jean countenance to th~ in any of hIS Wrltlng_s;, w~Jcb .. ~~~. ~e[Ijs've,ry flrange, that he hath not th~oughout hiS ~iJritl.lzltti~e,. 'hi~de the leafr mention of any fuch thing, nor anp~fetencet,o.any' fuch Book, whichwe mayfuppoCe a man fo we~1 skill d.3S he was,';V0uld have done,~f he had de~,gned 'to h~ve, \_Vro!~ ~ny thmgo.fth,e like nature; an~, ~herefore to.~ve fome ;brokeh ~ unperfc,:t;t Sentences about .anySqence~ that we .know he ,vi$, Maltetof, is to' tell the Wo~ld, thatei'ther he knew'no moreo'r 'at leafiwifeif he did, was rilalicioufly refolved to hide it from P~fiedty; which uncharitable Opinion Icanndt be induced to believe 110 more th~n that they are hls Aphorif~s, and by hiin penn'd ; which I dare be boldtpfay,.they. w~rc n?tj,Buf perhaps fomemay fay, That ~e. ~ay have wlltte~ ~6~thmg of that'nature, which might be loft, tis true, fuch a tbmg. mlghs b~,c but then there would have been fome Refercmce,to ~tlnfome'of his W,ritings, ashe hath in Chap. 6. of Book II. 10 his fj(_udriparti,e, De ger.m Eventuum, where

.hc

Opu& fJ{efOl'matum.

. he hath made m~ntion of a Book that is Jolt, i, e. Liber Magn.e Cilmpo[itionu; but not a word of any elfe, as I could meet with. And fo I come to confider the Aphcirifms themftlves.

In the 37th Aphorifm,'tis (aid; 'ThaI they who ha'IJe 'V' or ~ afcend;nr,,fh.J1l be the caufe of their awn Dn,h. Which is direCtly repugnant ro the Doctrine delivered in the Chapter,De gwere Mrrti!, Book 4th,of his ~Niripartilf,whcre he makes no ufe of any ot the Houfes in his Judgment about Death, but the Midheavw; neither doth he take notice of the 8th Haufe, in any thing that relates to Death; 3J1d it is upon the myllick Power of that H,oufe,the 37th Aphorifm is founded. Now, if he had thought the obfcure Houles had any powel in that thingof Death w hoi he wrote his Aphorifmr ,he would have certainly made fome difcovery of hi; Opinion, whenhe was writing that Chapter,De Morte. But neither in that.nor the other of Difeafes.doth he take any notice of It in the lealt.But the reafon of thisAphorifm is, Becaufe, when 'V' afceuds.rhen t1 is Lord both of the Afcendant and Eighth Houfes; and when ~ afcerrds, then ~ is Lady of both thofe Houfes ; . fo that the Lord of the Afcendant, being Lord of the Sth Houle, makes the Native feme way or other, the Caufe and Author of his OWI1 Death, which is an abfilid .thing to believe, and that the Houfes fhouldgive a power to the Stars, becaufe the Signs [a ppoint ... edthern for their HoufesJ happen to be upon thofe empty Spaces in the Heavcns,which they call Houfes, the whole Scheam being divid- . ed into twelve equal parts; and do you think this is not a very likely flory, and that Ptolomy doth agree with Ptolomy vcry well? What fay you) I Ihould alfo have obferved, rhatin the fame Apherifm, it is faid, He that bath TW or){ a{cmding nil the Harofcape, fhaD be tbe caufe and atdhor of his oDIn Preferment and Advantage; and the reti/on is, becaufe the (arne Star is lord of the Firf] and Tenth Houfes,which is directly oppofite to Ptolomy's Doctrine In the Chapter, De Dignitate, And fo is the 46th Aphorifm.

The 76th Aphorifm difcourfeth about violent Deaths.and lays the caufe of the violence to the charge of h in the Tcnth; and yet the Native [forfooth ] mull dye of fuch a Death,as the Sign on the Cufp of the Fourth lignities, If it be an Earthly Sign,he (haY be i<,nocktJon 'he He.Jd by ,he faU of a HJu[e. If a Watery Sign,he [hall be droDlned. But if a Hamsne Sign, befha11 be H.mgrd, And at ian tells us in the end of the Aphorifm, That if a F.ortltne fhall be in the Eighth Haufe. he fhall be ne(lr !hpfe dangers, .hut /haY not 4ye by them. Which overthrows the wholc Doctrine of rtolom) concerningvlolenr Deaths, and natural

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too. For he lays no Ilrefs on any of the Houies for violent DeathS.jbut the Polirion of the Luminaries, &c. and for the Eighth Houfe, na doth not fo much as take notice of it throughout hlswhole Book as I remember; but for the Midhcaven,hc mentions ittwice in th~ Chapter of Death, and no more; and then TiO ways favcuring this Aphorifm, if you underfland I'tolOl1!yand his Principles, Whence it is plain,. that the Aphorifm is directly repugnant to the DoCtrine of

Ptolo"6' m his [f(uadriparlite. . -

III the )8th and 66th Aphorifms,. you find the word Profection ufed, both in the ElIglifh and Latin, not only in the Tranilatioo of '1,.ap,zftlltiIM,but in that of JovitJl/J4f POiltalllM,al[o; but Trilpe~lllillf's Commencing on the C&1tiloqlli_, gi.ves us a:ttrallgc Explication of the 58th Aphorifm; and tells us of a confufed motion, which he fathers on this Aphori[m,and endeavours to prove it by his own Nativity, which hecalls an 4pbetical Pl'o/elJion, (of which mare anon] and I believe thinks it is a coafufed motion him(e1f, becaufe he u[es· terms in his Difcourfe, that are r.eally doubtful and fufpicious ill rhemfelves , as, '{alliin pr~ptr),v,Jriol Circulorllm mult;plice!fJIU allfr.£iIM, & jlelJ,mtm loca, 11611 ita pucife tlobi4 Cq~lfita ", rei /l~;tat. But when he comes t9 Comment on the 61Pth,he inverts this '\Yord Pl'.ofedioo, and makes it lig-nify ancther tort <lfDoGl:rioe,of which P'~l",~hatb Ipoken mote tully in Chap. ,6. of Book"1J1~ about Addition and SubfiracHon in a kit1i~ Direr;tWll; a' thing ,kflown rovery few (Df our Age, either Tbeorically Cn'Pra6bcaU y. I· fay he inverts this word ProftEiirm (0 quiteanot~ thing, wholly remote from the former.and yet the word in the liext is the-fame in ,both, i.e, netS • .,.9- and wbythey Ihouldhavc t-w,oCuch dHftl'(nt figoilioations, t know not. 'However, that I will pafs by, it beingnorto my prefent purpofe. Now, if we do ,allow this. word Profe¢iion, as TJ':tpf:r.wJ1iMl hath tranflaeed Ir ,: and given the meaning of it in the hIll: Aphorifm , we (ball not find one tittle in the four-Books of Pt/llmty, to give any colour orfhcweo fach a Notion ; no, aor iothelafi Chapter of hisFeurrhBeok, where [hey would infinute a ground for that.and rome other Innova.tions.And as he hath given us the meaning ofthe word il' the oilier Aphorifm, the Text is much darker, lind far more ~bitru[c than that Text ill Book III. and Chap, J 4, where P,olomy doth-lay down that Rule plaln ;and eafy .• Whence it is viii hie, thar theCentiJetplillm, and the !!2..lIaJrip~rlite, were the products of two Heads, and beipcakuhem ·alfo men of different Parts and Abilitit.s. But betides, this word P1'ofdl;on, or

n,eI1IIJ7@-,

DpM rJ{eformatum.

n.elIl'U7@, doth refer-tO Motion,. and that too- of the' Hiiegi~als, as they all own; andI do not remember, That I ever found that word' ·in-dther·of his two laft Books) where he difcourfeth of Nativities alone; but when he makes mention of the HilegicB\ Points he always ufcth thefe words,A~~o'TI~9- 761r@-. Per omnes c,lfmveri,,;a' As yoa may fee.in his I rth, [3 th, & I 4Lh Chapters of his 3d Book: and in the I rrh of his Fourth. Alid to tell you the truth, I reaDy think that word 'fI~o;rd.T@- is ill rranflated , for it truly fignifies, Art;bulal'ir\~ld via in qua aliquil i1t1Ibulill. And therefore is referable to Diretthin. Lafily, As to this thing of PcoCe8:ions, as now under- - Hood) I look on it as a coofufed groundlefs thing, and inconlenta- 11COUS both to Nature and its Moric30s; for the Order of Nature is regular, bu] fhis is ~holh{ irregular: For Example, Tuey make each Houfc to move a whole Sign every Year; and if you have tbe hrll :degree of ;; afi:enGlmg at Birth~ the next 'year you mull have the firtt degree of *- there; when you know by Oblique Afcc.ltion there is* intercepted.and you will then find yourwhole Figure per- - fealy in difordcl', and no ways agreeing to any Figure in our Table

of Houus. For when you come to have I degr, of * afcending, you ought by rile and order to have 19 de gr. of ,t on the Tenth, but in the profcdional Figure you rr.ull have :a degr, of VS culminating, and fo forward ev~ry Year; by whkhway you will have no regular Figure again, till ;;: comes to be on the Af,endant, as

at Birth. Hence yo~ may fee, if you pleafe, what a confufion we are brought ,to by following Authors without Authority, and «>hat pretty Inventions hive been found out to kick Truth out of doors. And after all this, They render n,etlltC7'@-in the 77th Aphorifm.

to lignify Diredions, as TrapezuTlIiIM_ allows ill his Commentary thereon, and yet with it, becaufe he will not loie his Opinion, jumbles in a tame DiiCourfe of Profedions likewife, but to as little purpole as the former. And I do declare, I know no ufe of the thmg, nor any Authority for the name , .if they inlinuate any other Moti-

on by that name, than the real and natural Motion of the Significater in Direction ,-.of which let every man judge as he finds himfelf infonn'd by his R.eading, inflrutt"ed by his Reafon, and inclin'd in his Pradice. But there arc divers other things that I could take notice of under this confideration, were it wholly needful, as the 78th. and 88th Aphorifms, which do not want a deticiency fufficient for Obje6lions of this na.turc; but I judge this enough to {hew what ought.co be: eonfidered, and to excire abler Pens to ex-

patiate

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OpIM rJ?sformatum~

patiate thereon for the benefit of thofe that may come after us ; and to let them know, all is not truth that is Printed and Publifhed to t.ie World under the name and notion of Afuology; and alfo, that

1 care not a rulh whether they believe me or no. . ,

I hope no man that hath common fence, and hath alfo read the ~iJdripartile, will ever believe the 95th Aphorifm was penn'd by Ptolomy,where it is faid, 'that ,he Images andforms afthin~J,&c.,bat rife with rVery di/fin{f decanate in tbe Afcendan, if Natruuies , {haUJhtw what Trade, Art, or ImplO)ment Ike Native will ebufe to live by. Which,if you pleafe to compare with t~e Doctrine delivered in the 4th Chapterof the 4th Book,where he difcourfeth at large, De M.Jg;jierio; you will find, that two things were never writ more oppotite and contrary than they two are. For Pta/amy makes no ufe either .of the Afcendant, or the Faccsofthe Signs, or the Images and Forms of men or things therein riling; which is fa abfurd a Dod-rine to father upon Pt%my,if but compared with his own words in his~adripartite,that no man can alfert it to be his, without blulhing the [arne moment. His word, are thefe, MJgi{l.r;i dommzu fum;,ur ex duobnr modis; a fole & fif.no Medi; Cali. Which in my Opinion have no Relation, Proportion, or Likenefs to the words in the Aphorillical Text. and yet both believed to be our Authors words, when there is nothing more unlike in the very ground and principle it felf; and for that reafon I cannot believe it to be the Dot.trille of the Great Ptolomy.

Ladly, And to mention no more, pray look into the 56th Aphoriflll, in which you find a lame account of the Moon's nature in her feveral diflauces from the Sun; where he tells you from the New to the Full [for [0 I undertland it] the Humidity and Humour of Natural Bodies doth increafe, but from the Full to the New it decrealeth ; which in general terms I believe may be true enough. But then, to what purpofe Ihould flolomy give us an Aphorifm here abcut a thing of this nature, and leave it fo imperfeCt as he hath in the Cemiloquium, [if his] when he had long before given it us in plainer words, and more intelligible terms to be underliood [for I Iuppolc rhefe Aphorifms were writ lall] in the 6th Chapter of his I fi Book, where he plainl y tells us, LUI/a enim a COlljunfJione, donee appard dimidiata, mag;; FJt riglJtrix. Inde ufqlle ad plCllitullium calefac;t. A plchi/uni), donee iteruTlt dimidiatiJ apparel, deficcat. Ab el?.tempor~~ dene« occultaiur, fr~ifilcil. Whi.:h is in plain words and terms,cafy to be apprehended. Then what need had Pl%my after this, togive us another Aphorifm impclfdl and lame, unlefs he lived to forget

what

op~ fJ{eformatnni~

what he had writ himfe1f, and Io inhis dosting, fumbling days, did that-which was next to nothing; which I juag this.and a great many more of rhofe Aphorifms in theCentiloquirun to be; nay, there are feme of them Ieem to me to be very idle or imperfectly given to us, as the 16, 50,65,78,87, and divers others of them, that may' be jullly called in quetlion. Thus I have given' you my Opinion, why I think the 8undred Aphorifml, called.. the Centi/oquium of Ptalo",},/areind'eed and in truth. not his. ,t\,~d thus far have I gone alfo to inform Mr.]. C!' al1<1.I],s Ant .. goni/l, f~ the 1 o8th ~augraph, That thofe Aphorifms are mltlaken asro their Author,alld that they were not his whom·they believe, and affirm them to be; and thereforc,if'they will hlvethem to be his, and. that ,they can ,Prove if too, they will very much impair the Authotl~y of Pt.1iIlfllY In my Judg. 'ment and:Opioiol1; -and the only reafon IS, becaufe the Text 111 the ~ldriPJrli't is never to bereconcilt:d.t() th~fe ill.th: Apnorifins, tinlers .forne witty Moderator can umte their PrinCiples by the MyAcryofLlngulge ina Learn~d Comment upon bo~h of them, 1n a 'word this is not the only time that 1- G. hath affirmed thofe

,Aphorifin; to be P,olamy's; and thtreforc; Lam of opiniou.that either he never read the ~ar1riJkt"'ile; or if he hath, he.never underHood it beyond the bare WOlds, knowingnothlog 01 the principles, nor deftgn of thc·'Author, as to the Phylofophick ,-,..;\1trolol?ica\ p,actice thereof; bur if thtfe't~o fhould happen to he true [whlch ( am fure rIley are not 1, I am c9'l,fidcmt he never. did compare one Principle with 3notber,and to be .Flain With. y~~l ~m partly fure he cal~nqt;

~ but I hope he wil~ ende,woo~,t~ lear~'Lb~l~lg a ~,al1 of. r~ch mlghty P~rt~ and: Ingenuity, as he hlmfelfTn divers of his Wn~lI1gs tells us he is], if t he Holy Hatlot of Kom~ hath 'not made him as perfe~ and infallible as her letf, which accomplilhrili:nt moll: of her Babes reach to.and arrive at 1 aad feeing he hath ,been of that Sacred Perrua~on fo many years, it ~ould be H!~ng,~ If he [hould'not have, attame~ fomethingof her mighty C2!!ailhcal.lOns and Virtues, both ,In ,Mora:lityand Religion, and £0 have arrived at the unerdng Principle of politive Pert'cction.. Which ifhe be, thenfarewel all hopes of Reformation in my old Friend, for where that fort of truth hath once prevailed, there is.feldorn any admittanc<! or entrance for Hmlic~l Pelfuafiol1s and Inthuttions, either to reform his Errors in Science, or his Hobby.horfe Religion. Un'd! tbJt ever a fellolf' foou/Il utrn, fapift,after baving gOllt twenty ycarl to St, Peter» Wc:fiminficr; iff II Pro-

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. Having run over that part of his proof that depends on Authori.ties 3?d ~ea(ons; I am "?w come to the Sec~lld p,art of his proof,and that l~ h.ls Tram of ~~pe_rtrnce, ~s he hath e,llt.l:led It, and propounded to do It In Ten Natlvltles,.whlLh Lfhall dllhn,Ctly examine by them[elves, and prove the major part-of them fa I Ie, as well ;AS the P"Qtrl1tJI' Cromwfl!'s was. And for thofe few that are true, I will Ihew (hat they depended upon other and more probable Caules, than rhar of Cardinal Signs on Angles; and ill the examining of them I (hall confider the poffibilirj' of their Truth, by the probability ~{ their Accidents that did attend them both in their Lives, and at the times of Death. For J'will no~ take them upon (run from him, as he hath from orhers.and fa tlke It for granted,becau(e he fays it; and whoreever thall examine his Collcetionof Genirures.lhall cerrainly find rhe major number of them to be falfe,qecaufe taken upon truft as he hath done the reLl he hath publithed, for the moll part, by whIch means 'the Readers arc abufed.And the firft Nativity he begins withfs that of Cbarlu Gujt.nlllf, King of Sweden,whom he tells us was ~rn at the time Infcribed in the Figure following, fet P,olem~;ca£'y.

TIe l\ing of Swedeland,

Carolus Saecie Rex, Natus die 7. Novembris Hor.I1-. Minur. zS. P. M 1622.

Luna a vatu ad 8 b.

Sub Polo 59.

Laitud. Planitar. Tt 0 ~l M. 1f, 0 16 M. ~ 0 32. S. ~ r ~5 S. ~ ~ 40 M. » 1 16 S.

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,OPtu rI\.e/ormatultz:

It would have been very convenient,' if my worthy good Friend would have been fo kind as to have given us the etlimate time of this Great Prince's Birth; but feeing we have it not,1 rnuf] make the bef] u!C of that ?c_luth here ~ffo[ded us; and this N.l.tiviry) he f~ystin hIS Collection he correded by the M. C. adCo,puJ 21, at whichtime Q!eenCbrijf;na furrendred, and he was erowned, being then about 32 years of Age,and at 37 'he dyed ,which without further trouble to t!te Readex.,!-wi1l acceptfortruth, a.l!d ask him if he doth really beheve that t)ic,¥.C~ ad d fl kill'd him, .. which he affirms did do it in his Colled:l,cW,o(Genitures i, and if he Lli11 fays he, doth, I would have him tell us by what Rule it rnufi do it here, and mifs in 20 or 30 betides. Fodlay this down as an Axiom,thatthe M. C, adC()f'/,11& fl ,rna y pUn and dellroy the HIJI]MR', Ejtiltt, and Reputation of the Native , but never kill him, if the 0 or II happen to be in any Aphetical-Place.whkh in this Nativity you fee the» is int and therefore I· queiUon the flIhDlt Figure; for the», who Is Hileg, could come at that time to no ill DireCtlon of the Lord of the 4th,6th,8 rh.or 12th; but on the contrary, was very near the Zodia,al Ciof ~ without Latitl:'de, and free fromall i~ Rays. , But if the Body ofTt had fuch a mighty inBuence [as he fays] at that time' to kill, being directed to the Midheaveo J why did not the Afcendant to the Body of rJ in his detrlmentrand the Midheaven to hisSquare kill him when he was young,betwc:en the Age of 12 and] s; fe-r I dare be certain

, that two Directions have more force than one, whether good or bad. 1 But I will.defcend ro Examples in other Nativities, and the firfi !hall be his own, which if true, as hehath printed it in his Dollr;ne of Na,ivi,uJ, and owned it twenty 'five year~ after in his ClIl'riinel Girl;, that his M. C. ad 0 0 came up in the yeu 1679. which if fo, rhen the Midheaven to the Body of It came up in the year 1670, 0\: beginning of 167 I. and was [efar from killing him, or deftroying his R.eputation, that, he was then in the top of his Grllndt'fr, growing in his R.ejmtatioll, rufRing anyone whom he pleafed, and no ways Sick, o~ in danger of Death. The fecond is the Nativity of GuJfolVUf AdolpbUf, printed by roy Friend likewife, Vide CaUe(ii. Gen.p. 3 I. where he Jets him pars the Midheavcn to the Body of Marl, and Square of $ai4r1l, flam violent parts of ijeaven, as fmoothlyas could be; and kills him about three years after, with the SIUl to the SqMare of M.JTJ, and Oppnjitian of Saturn. But then, fay I, why did not thofe two other Directions .kill him three years before, as well as one kill this man? ,Perhaps

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he will Cay, becaufe the ,S1tn is Hi/eg, and in the A[ceJtflanl; why, then by the fame Rule, is not the Moon Hileg here in the Ninth Houfe, and fo of the fame force with the other? But Ifuppofe, if he had not found the Sun complying with his skill readily, it had been but altering the Midhcilven and Afcendant two or three degrees, and then th~ other {houl£l ha ve done the (cat as 'currently as in this man'~. ~ith this alfo, confider the Nativity of N()ffri!da11lIu, where the S,tn IS placed on the Cufp of the Midheavcn" and yet he outlived the MidheiIVfn, and Sun to the Body.of Mrcuj:J'.;:Oppojition of Msrs ; OppPjition ot SiltUrIl, and Oppo{ttian of .1uPi'b~ Lard of (he ~l;,bth f!aufe, and the three latter all in ConjHnCliollln Csnar, Now, I~ nO,r this ~ very Change Ilory,that the Stars Ihould be fo plaguy partial In their Influence, to kill Cbar/u GufiavUf, becaufe he was a lighting King; and let No(iraJamlH live, becaufehe was a PopUh Prophet? 'Tis very flrangel one fingle Direction kill'd Charlel GrcjlavM, two would not kill Gu~avlU Adolpblii, nor four Noftradamur, and yet all to the fame point and part of the Figure, the Midheavrn. Nay,. in his own Nativity, it did not (0 much as make him Sick, nor gIve the leaf f)'mptomcfdanger to his Life, altho the.Mcen-

dant was Giver of Life! . . . . . . .

,?oth this w?rthy Friend of mine. believe,that any-man can t!link or Judge thefe irreconcileable Stories can ever be ranked among the truths of Atlrology, or that any man {hall be [0 void of R.eafon and ]udg.mcnt to believe his Notion in the one, and make his undertta~ldmg fio~p to a lye, and give confent to the truth of the other; ~e~lIg oppolire one to another, 'as to the Notion and Practice. For .rr IS moll certain, if the Body of Saturn [or OppnjitioneitherJ to the Cufp of .the Tenth, did or doth ever kill, I think it mull always ~o It without R~les of Exception; but here he forceth a Nonon upon us, which ~e oI;'enty contradicts by permitting the contrary ,to, pars ~o~ Doctrine In other Nativities, as you may fee in M~. &cpkrnJ 5 Nativiry for one,. where Sattern is in S!1f!.itary in Oppofoion to the Sun, and yet the Mid-heaven to the Oppofirion of one) and the Body of the ot,her would not kill. In the Nativity of Mr, Stephen Rogrrr, the Mldhcaven to the Body of Marl did not kill,fi. J ,8. M~. Gatak!r 'paffe~ the ~;d.heaven t,o the Body o£Saturil and Marl) Without doing him any Injury to hIS Health; and fo did Dr. Mur.~n) P: 92. pafs ~nd out-live the M. C. to the Body of Saturn; and yet this great Prince mufi fall by a Direction that either would or

could not kill any Body elfe, ~ very h!R'a Fa~!' .

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. I cannot deny the Midheaven to the Body of Jupiter, to bea Direction fuitable enough to fignify that of his Coronation; yet do not believe it was that which gave him that Promotion. But for the Bodyof S.1tllrn forhis, Death, I do declare it is a rhiug impofliblc, and never to be allowed by any man that pretends to underftand Allrology; unlefs it is for a 1ham to ferve a turn when nothing clfe will do, the-Rule being directly againfi it; and you fee here are Ieveral mens Nativirieswhere it.did not kill; nay, in his own too; and. for t~at very reafen, J think he ought to tell the Wolld why it did not kill, And I am fure thofe Examples that do, and mull prove a new Notion [as this of his is] ought to be unquefllonable , and thefe of his are not.and upon very good Authority too. And I do dare him to thew me an Example in a true-taken Nativity, where the Sun or Moon were givers of Life,and the Directions to the Midheaven kill'd and ,the Apb~ta ay the fame time free from all ~h~efick Rays by Dj: rection, as III this of Clu'f/el GujtavlU 5, the llluftrious King of Sweden. 1 fay, If he can thew me a true-taken Nativity [that I can be farisfied is true, and no trick or fham upon roe] where fueh a Direction kill'd under the circumtlantial Q:lalitications beforementioned \ I ~iI1 dif~w(J my Diana,theG_reatPt%my)for 1 do think I partly undertland him.and am partly fure he.nor no manelfe can thew fuch : one, if the Doctrine of Ptolomy L wl.I!c.h of all is the molt rational J IS true;and I can alfo aif~re you.mat It IS not everyone (hat fays he knows and underflands ~Im,that fpeaks ~r~th. And to convince you, Lcould, If need were, give Example'fufficient. Now, to fum up all ~~ere (5 but one Direction to prove rhis Nativity to be true, accord: mg t? JOim Gad: '5 Corred:ion, and (h.at is the M. C. tid CorPIU JlJvis for hIS Coronation , and for this ACCIdent by altering the Figure a l-ittle, I can. giv7 _you three or four DiIf(:H~lls, that arc as probable as that he gives.it nor more; and the firfl is, the Midhcaven to the '*" of d; The.fecond 'is~the M. C. to the 6 of ~; The third is)the Midheaveu to the *' oftht », and £::. of the 8; But the fourth and the moll probable, was the» to the' Mundanc Parrallel of 1/0' and [his fuddenly followed with the () to the like Mundane Par~ ralle1 of u ; and then the 8 and » will come to the Mundane Parallel of n fDr his Death direa and convers , and alfo to the Zodi •.

.. ~cal Parallel of t.l; y-.d\( confefs this hll Direction is fomething an nnproper one, becaute they arc, when the DireCtion is rinifhed . both out of rhe Ecliptick , and for that reafon, I' do not look on tbat as ~ Cill\{t:, but a Concomitant, The 0 and ~.ill the Re\'olution

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in d and 8 to the l>'s R.adical place, and the l> ill direet 0 to rJ. his R.adical place,and the}) by fecondary moti?n in ~ to the 0;and this is the mott proper. Pofition th~t I can th~nk tat1~nal to feled for this great Man's Birth, not having the ellimate time; and the Figure agreeing to this time, will be about fix degrees of Gemini 011 the Tenth, and about the middle of Virgo afcending, which doth precede his time above an hour. And 1 know no reafon, but that he may be as far out in this, as he wa~ in the .Fre~~b King's, that 1If: printed at the fame time, and would fhll have Ju!hhed it [no doubt] had not Miir;nlH long ago convinced him. And to ~.ondude, I a~ not Cure this Figure that I have fuppofi:d for the Kmg of Sweden s Birth is true; but I am confident his is not, and therefore it will but meanly plead for tbe Hallour and Pawer of Cardinal Signs on the

Angles of a Nativity.

The next he makes ufe-of to prove his wild Notion, is the Na- - tivity of the Duke of Guife, and it is the Pofition following; the Planets places hom Origanus.

The Duke of -G~ife.

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D 0 lJ So_
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Upon this _Pofidon,~ Jobn would alCo build his imaginary Wbim of Cdrd!ll~l St'{,lI', which he hath here, by what Authority I know not, placed 011 the four Allglt's. He neither tells us his efrimate time how, orby what rneanshe came byjr, nor by what Dircctiollsand Accidents he hath cOIIeded it; bur witha [art of Confident Im- ' polirion puts it upon us, as if we were bound to believe it becaufe he fays it. And for that very realon, I do mill:rdH the truth of it well-knowing t~at ~1I he ever did in Nativities, was fur the 1I10ti par~ attended with little tlfe lut hi;norance and Error to an extra. ordinary degree; and for thofe things that he hath befriended the World with, they were all eil!lCl borro:vcd or fiolen [as I (hall _ prove hereafter] the method being only hIS. But as for this Nativity, it may be true as to irs Effects, and not have.Cardinal Signs on the four Angles, as you may oblerve by making it a little Iooner and yet the Pofition cvery way as forcible with ,1' on the loth and * on the ~(cendant, as by ~avin.g thefe Signs that he hath placed there; or It may have Cardinal SIgns on the four Angles and not a: ruth the better for {hat, excepting the four Planets tha; "f and ~ carr~es along .~ith them. . For it is the Planets, riot the.Signs that do" in-the Opinion ofrhemof] Sober Afirologers, th<1t were Mafiers of what they proftffed, influence theAlfairs of Mor.tals, and give the variety 01 Fortune, good or bad, to the Sons of Men. For whenever Ptolamy makes ufe of the Signs in his Judgment on Dlfeafl1 MiJrriiJge, ~alit;esof'he Mind, Dig"i,y" Riche/, and D~:lIh; Ie isf~ no other reafon, but becaufe the Planets are thereasI canIllufhate ill.all thofe things beforernentioned, if it were ;eally necclfary to this my prefent bufinefs, and that it would not (well this Treatife too big. But I fuppofe the <l1totation is fumcient and therefore let thofe that are willing to know more of the matter read the Text an~ fee w~ether I f~eak trut~ or !lot. Be£ore~y worthy good Friend J.ll' had arrived at th.ls mighty My fiery ofC.11'dil1lJl Sign!, !her~ were ~thcr Cau~es. t?at did do as well as rhefe, as you may fce

ill ~I~ DJU.,,,,e of NatlvJtles, p. 163. where he hath given you the Pofirions as Arguments for Kingly Genimrei, in all which the Planets o~~y areconfidered ;.and .fometimes with them, their Domal Digmues, but never that, WIthout the Planet, but often the Planet without that. Whythould not the Lord of the Tcntb, in '0 with the

o in the A[cmd.JIlt in' his EX.ilt.JtiDII, give conliderable Preferment andraife a Mall above the degree of his Birth ~ Why Ihould no: four Planets ill the two Equinoctial Signs, givea man a Fame and

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R.eputation in the World, and make him popular in his Generation? Why thould rot the l> [who is Light of the Time] in *"10 the Midheaven,~nd in 6. to l/. in the 7th, with the Virgins Spik!, give a man the Favour of his Prince, and the 'Love of the People, and'theCe for [orne remarkable Ad-ions and Services to his Country? Why Ihould not ~ ill exact 6. to the Midheaven, applying in t5 her own Houfe, be allowed to give Hmeur, Prifrrmenl, ReIIDWn, and RepHtation in his Generation? I Cay, Why Ihould not all rhefe ·po. pular Pofitionsand Configurations, give the Duke of Glli}? that Homaur, Prefermen" and Pnpuldrity, that he enjoyed in hi, time, without crowding in the Cardinal Signs to give that, which the other were fully able to perform. And to this purport, pray obferve but my Friends own R.ules in his Dodrine of Nativities, [that-take place in this PofitionJ P.46. 'lIlt 0 in rheAfcendant in hi! F-xalwl· on; He #ilJ RNlt fTl)fr olhert; Hi #ill atquire Authl1f'ity, HMOU1'; anti Dignity from Princes; He will hoJIte great Increafo of Riclm; He will be of Long-lifo, and P01l'!rful. Andin p.55· he fays, Jupiter in the 7th detf 11m tbe Native to bt ViaorilJUf 0Vi'l' hil tHhlicb,. E,ltmiu, &C. In p. 164. he fays, IY:lJenthe Lord if 'he I.oth jhalJ be JlI{r"d in 'he Afcen· dant, it giver /{reat Au,IJorit_y to the Native (ltJer Vuf!!,,,,,, l'tr{/)/I! ; -He will be Belotud and HmoU1'ed of Grea Perfonl, 4i1d (hoJIJ be imp1'!J'ed in OffiCe! ofConcermlltnt, Adminijlrations, &c. and the !ltllt thinf,1 and bufmefs of tbe Kin!!,dom; He a/fo receiue: H~nollf ,wi Profit from fJi.f Employment and Profeffion. Now, if there Rules [all which take place in this Figure that he hath printedl were ever true; why Ihould they not be fo niH? And if they are (0 AOw,we have Afirological Reafons 1:no:1gh to prove the probability of his Grandeur and Fortune, without fiyingto this tilly fham of Cardinal Signs, invented for no othe' reaCon, but to thew his Skill in the managing a bad Caufe, and to try hisInterell among the Afhological Students, how far they would dance after his Pipe, in complying with thole Errors that he thought fit [0 impofe on the World. Or elfe it was to out-brave hi, then Ad verfary with a canting Notion that he had never heard of', nor re id in any Aftrological Author, before this Learned Anfwer that he was pleafed to give him, called CardineJ Celi,

But after all this noife and talk, Let us compare this Pofirion with fome other Aphorifms of ]4m's, in hls Dodrine of Natlvitics, and you Ihall fee how he doth beflave him, and by his RHlu, what a Knave he makes him.to be. And tidt, in p. 46. he {Jys,fPhrll SaturnjbJIJ be in ,he AJcendant, be gives m,my Troublfl v.d D~ffic"lI;u,

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md,tilcholly Ptrltlrbationr, botb of Mind i:l11d Body; his tifejhall he full of Dolours, Griefs" and 'Iroubles ; and it will be a Terror for him to live. In p. 106. he tells us, Tbs: wben she Lord ~f the AfcClldant fila!! be in tbe Tn·clftb, it gi.'u-1be Native m.lIry Enemies, t11l~much Evil, and ma'!Y Oppo(jtioJl! from them; be trill be in danger of much Imprifonment, and tJI.Jlly ft-Nrjr,zlionf and Il1jil'l'tllll.lcies from Maliaious PcrJofJ.!. Pray let me dclire the Reader nor to be furprifed at rhefe Contradictions, when he compares thefe Aphorifms with them jul1 now mentioned.for you fee (according to},,Jm's Principles and Practice in Aftrology) we do 3S Garneflers in their Patlirne at Nine-pins, fer up a whole Family by the power of the Stars, 'and immediately kick them down again. Bur to proceed, in p. 95. Doa,·. Nativ. he f~s, Saturn SigllificJtor If Msnners , and ill di.[T,lIificd, [,If in this Nativity J it 1J1Jl!.s·1 bin: Emuous, COVao1lf,''IimfrOIlJ,.a Lyar, and a perffa H),pocrite. And a little atrerhe fays, The Sun Sig7llficatorof M.JIJ11CrJ,Ils herr, mak:'!

a Proud, Rljl/eis, turbulent, Domimcring'Fcllon'; am whofePromfes 'jhall end in Jinaal<: In the Collect. Genic. Aph~ 12. Tbe Sun ill tbe Afcm •. ' il.JfJl mJ~s tmiucnt BOIt/hr J, and ~!'Y proud l'crJGIJJ ; and by tbe {ame rille ,bat Mars there m.lp{f Iy.1rs, Saturn there witb bim nlll/f ma~e very deceitful, p,;tftd~Jui Men and Hypocritcs. And there.is one A phorifm more among rhofe ill .his Colkction, which [if true] overthrows this whole Figure it fclf;and w!! know A phorifms ought to be undeniable R.ules,and next to infallible; lor their very Name -tells us.That theyare Rules Ieparated from the reft, to be obferved as Maxims of truth. And that is the 25th Aphmifiu, where he fays, That the Lord of the A!ccndJnt Jirolll!,er tban the Lord pftbe SeVl'IIl/;, the Nstiue aln'ay! owrcolII,s his Encnuet ; and the cOllrrary. But in the Figurt of this great Duke, werind Jf. in the Seventh in 6. to the JJ; and Ii! Lady of the Sevenrh ill t5 her own, Houle, So thatthe Seventh Houfe.. and his Lord, arc far ftrouger than the Afcendant and his Lord,by which Rule he lhould be al ways overcome by his Enemies that is, he (hould be unfortunate, But on the contrary, he al way; overcame his Enemies, and was very Fortunate, and did great things in his time, as mry be Ieen by thofe that pleafe to read that Book called his MCIH~irs. For I do not intend to give the Hillory of his

Life, and fiippofe you do not expeCt it. .

But the great and, principal Objection that I have againll the truth of the Figure, faid to be his Nativity, if tb.u of bi1 Dwb in the year 1664. for which Lam confident, my good FriclldJ.G. can give no rcafon, nor affign no caufe direcrio!lal from that Figure and Po-

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don. I fay again, They cannot give any Direction for his Death let !hem make ~'~Jt poi~H they pleafe Giver of Lifi,or Hilfg i and I hope If my good F riend wIll allow the Carduu! Sif,nJ to have filch rower [with the good Petitions here prcCent] (0 f,ive Iuch Ilupendious Eftn.'ts in the Affairs and ACl:io~lS of. his Ute, he will U1_Jdoubtedly give us forne accour alfo of (he Dmchon, or other mytlick Caufe of his ~e,ath,For. ifOl~vcrCromwtU,CharleJGu~.:ll!ur,andWilliamLalld,had fignlficanrCaufes In ~1ature to forefhew theirfreatbs, I hope he will hot deny_rhat Au(hor.lty~n? Aflrological Demonflrarion in the Nativity of this great and ,tllul1nous Duke of GliiJe; and therefore, if there is 110 ca~Ce to be atl1gned for hIS Dea!h by I?Y Fri~nd Jobn,or any of his:

Admirers, the argument refolves It (elf Into this Dil.mnm, i e. Either A{trvl'11!.) if dtj7cimt,and not able to givnln account nf tbe molller; or d(( tbe Fig/ire gh'm by my Friend is Jollfe and ftEiiliouf, and indu1irii;l/(lv made to Jerve a turn ,If occ~fioll (!i1 rfq~ire~ as I {hall mak~appe~r by what follows. The 8, who IS 111 this FIgure Iet to the time inlcribed the true Giver of Life, and is directed to no bad or malefick Rays at the time of the Duke's death, for he pia the 8 to the 0 of cf, at almofi 34 years of Age, Ar~ 33 deg. and to the 6 of the}) at 40 years of Age, Ark...39d• 33 rn, and to th~ ~ of.1/. at 4:7 years of Age,Ark...46d.ll m. nor were there any Antifcion 111 their way, to be pretended to in ma?yy~ar~ before nor aft~r., T,he Afceudanr, which according to their Principles maya!fo kill,l~ duected to ill Rays,for all the 8 is in the fame Hou~e, [as he hath given ~s an Ex-ample in Oliver Cromwell} but that alfo IS tree from all Malehck Beams by direction; for the Hor of cope paffed t~e 0 of rJ [modo Communi] at3 6 years 'of Age; Ark.. 35 d. 41 Ill, and the 6 of the» at 42, Ark...41 d. Bm. and the £::, of 1/.. at 49· 1rk.. 48 d. 3 r rn, which was in full force and power ar the time of his Death. The l) was under no ill Rays at that time neither: for Ihe h~d about a year and a haif before paired by the body of ~ withoutLatitude, and the doth not govern 'either +th,6th,8th, or 12 rh Houies, [a thing of mighty ufe amon~ them all] 'therefore {he cannot do any.mifchief. But the Midheaven paffed the 0 of ~ much about ~h .. t tlrne;yet I can hardly believe they will lay any Itrefs upon tl:at neither, and that for the rcafons befarementioned. And ~et (he IS an odd f~rt of ~ Gentlewoman, and being among violent ~xed Stars, (he might give him a plaguy 11ft at that time,by the fame rule t,hat the M.e. to the Body of Tz kill'd Cberles GlIJfavur; perhaps he might dye at a Love-lick fit,bccaufe!he is Lady of theSeventh'or cllC for want of Money., becaufe fhe is Lady of the Second. Ha,ba';xi

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Now, under thefe confiderarlons.I will refer the whole matter to any impartial Artiit for Judgment[provided he doth not change Ills Religion too ofecn] whether he really thinks this to be the true Nativityof the Duke of Guif~,and that he had the Carditlal Sign! on the Jour Allf!,lu, which IS the only thing I have undertaken to refute which I ~hi!lk naturally follows, if the Nativity is falfe, And lafily: whether It IS not far more probable, that he had ~ afcending about 8 or -10 degrees; and then there is caufe enough for his Death and. for his Grandeur too; the» and rJ in the Afcelldant ; the 0 h·' and !(. in 6, and 1,C. in. '*' tothe Midheaven, H?wever this is b~t guelS, let I dare aver It IS as near the mark as his; for you 'may be fure , .of fome hours of Error in the time; and 'tis well, if there are not [orne days alfo, for they are fmall faults in his Practice.

The next Cardinal Example is that of WiUiam Laud, who he compares to Jefur Cbrijt, and fays, He was murdered tho he died in a ~ilrliamcnta.ry way; but I believe he wiII noto~11 that expieffion In the futfermgs of the late good People, who were Martyrs indeed for oppofing of Popery. The Scheam is as followeth, fays J, G.

William Laud.

Latitude, ReRd,ng.

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1f, - I 24 Merid. cf 0 35 Sep.

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?t I 10 Merid. l) 4 30 Merid.

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This B1lh~ps Nativity is brought alfo by my Friend.to prove \~hat he hath a mind the World Ihould believe, but it is as falle as any of the other before going,as to the time and truth of his Birth as I (ball make appear before I leave it/and th~s with as much plaincfs'as pOlli-' hIe 1 can, As to the Planets places.it matters not whether they arc true.o,r falfe, tho the place of ~ here differs from his place, given by Leuv",~ about 7 degr. but it is not the exact manner of Operation I quettion, but the rnifapplying the Hules for-Practice, laid down by ~u~ approved Au~hor5,and rh<:.bringing in of Innovations.

his man, ~ am informed, was born ot mean Parentage in theTown?f Rcadmj!" and ,from thence brought up at the Hofpiral rirfor the Llniverfiry, to which he was rent, and [pent his time for divers years among thofe men of Learning.after which he was preferred in the Church, ~here he ad vanced by degrees, till he came to be BiJhop of Ca,:terlmry, and ~s J remember, h~ was 40 years of Age before he grew ~l1to anx pubhck fame and. repute, Now.it is fomething Hrange that Ills Nativity and Time of Birth fhould be known to any man becaufe he was born o~ 6bfcu~e P~rel~ts, then brought up amoni

\ Strangers t~at never mind or inquire Into rhefc Curiofiries, having (o mlny Children under rheir Tuition.. which would be an endlefs work, If they,!hould make that their Stud y, which is very rare, Butblir.dc~~ the-Blahs of men are fcltkltnminded, till they begin to advance 10 preferme?t; no, nor then neither.till rhev come to a degree _o~co,nfider~ble h~Jght above the Horizon of their Birth; anJ"tis well kn~~n; th'at'~e was, to~ards 50 years of Age before he made any cotttiikrabte Figure 111 hIS Imployrnent. All which conlidercd rogerher, m~kes ~e m~ch doubt an,d milhu,n, the truth of the Figure, . ~hen I rind It fo dlfficult to gam a NatiVity in the Parifh where.I live, rho born not above 24 or 25 years before,'

2d1)" If you plea_fe to cOrnP4re this Figure and Nativity, with that of the famous SI~,1lmdore M:J)'erne following, you will find the Horofcopes bot~ the lame in 4degr. of q_, the Planets pI .ccs being

,nearly the (arne I,n ?oth, the principal difference being in the 0 and )).; tne 0 ~ere IS In 23_.degr, anda half in ~, and there 14 degr. ~nd a half.w the fame SIgn; the 11 here is 3 de gr. in ){, but there 1I1 7 d~gr. ,In Ill,; all the refl-of the Planets are not confiderably diff~e~fin eXher, The 0,is Give,r of Life in both Figures, as being in t e cen ant, and yet 0 [whom my Friend Cays] is Ailareta in the one, dO,tll not fall o~t to be [0 in the other, of which My!tery J

~ know nothing, norIbelieve he neither) if he were to be asked about

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the buli~cfs. But ill J/nltar}, , in the yeJl' I 6i3- he was Beheaded at Wf{iminjifr; and this my Friend tells us was begun by the Midheaven, directed to the Body of 13 in 11 degr. of nx on the Cufp of the

r ath Houle ["fhich no doubt is Iorrierhiog the wo!fe for that ]which gave'his Impn[onment, Anno 1641, and about four years atter the Afccndant to the body OHI with Latitude, put an end to his Life. Now, if this Ihouldhappen to be true, why did not Sir Tbeo, Mayrrm fuffer Impri[ollment five or iix years before him.iand alfo dye a year fooner; becaufe a in his Nativity was but '5 degr, and a half in nx. and 11 but ;J '5 ~c::gr, in Ill; add this lal] was the more violeu] Nativity of the: two, becaufe 1/. who is widP"the Atdrbaran, is in- exact o to 0, and the» and ~ are in the Via Combujt.z, going to the body of h in 111, and g. Lady of the 8th Haufe, an Argumen( of much violence with John; but inflead of dying fooner than the Bilhop; thefe plaguy partial Stars let him Jive longer by ten years; and befides, when he did dye, it was a natural Deat-h, and he ofa great Age. N ow I do confc[s,itfeems a Paradox to me, why the Afccndanc to the body of hfhould not kill the Dof1oras well as the Bi(hop, and the Midhcavcn to the Bod Y of 0 give I mprifonment to the one as . well as to the other; for a and 11 have as good a title to theirpower in Doctor Mawne'S Nativity, ;1S they have in the Bifhop of C.JlltErhury's, nay, and I think more too; for they fay, and indeed it is commonly believed, Thatgl}?d and holy Meillil'e above the Power and Influence of the Stars; and if the Clergy-men [the Shepherds J are not good and holy, the Lord be merciful to the ref] of the Flock, Therefore, if this be true, and drat the Influence of-the Stars carries fo ablolute a fate in its power to [pare neither good nor bad, I hope it may fcrve for an Argument to convince our Enemies of that Profeflion ; or at leattwife take off the heat of thdr PalUon againfi that, which but few of them unr' ~rlhnd,how pertly Ioever they talk of it.

But isit not very ftrangc, That the AlCendant to the Body of lz fhould prove (0 cruelin the one, and fa favourable in the other ,and what is more (hangcJeeing he died ;1 violent Death,why {huulJ not the Midheaven to the Bogy of 0 kill him, as \'jell-as the M, <« CorpU! 11 ,did the Kingof Sweden, (beforemcntioncd] pm[ulnt to the 92d Aphori(m in his ColleCl:ion of Genitures. Nor do I know, Tint there is any Reafon to be giWl, why the Mid heaven [in the Bi~!hops] to the 0 of h·fhould not be as remarkably fatal to him, as ~h~ Body of o' W:.l5; nor why the 0 to .rhc Body of 11 j and 0 of (5 [he being H/fg] finu\dnot kill in both, as well as the Afcendant

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to the Body of Tt in rhe.one, and to the 0 of rJ in the other .. r fay, there things being well contidered, carry with them a vllible ContwiiCl:ioll one to another, and will without doubt at the rirf] I:ght only, convince an)' rational, thinking man, that thofe Nativities are IClily tiCwi, 'us, and nor the true Natural ones a's pretended; fur it is certain, if they were true, there would without doubt have been {;lrnc rHed in the D.ctors, like that of the Bifhop.on the Midheaven t') the Bcdy of a 1 and as fure had the DCct(1I died as the Bilhop, 011

_ the Afccndant to the Body of h. But feeing it was not fa, I do de{ice rhar worthy Pcrfon, the Author of thole Fooleries, to give us the reatou why it hit in the one, and miH in the other; whicu I am confident would be a great Service to all, but efpecially to me his molt humble Servant, And alfo.That he would be pleafed to permit that Trcatife promifed in hisCollerr. Genis, p. 90, to be prinrcd.whers he fays, he will give usa Treatife at large to dcmornlare the CorreCtion and Truth of the Nativity of this his Immortal B,fhop and }'1~rtJr._

La/fly, The very fame Arguments Iie gives to prove.That the Bi-: fhop Ihould Afirologically dye a violent Death, are the fame in the Dodor's, the II excepted, who is not in 8 to a l but in rhe Cornbuft

. way going to the Body of Tt [and-if he undcrftood it J in a MU'ldane Square with r:J, tho not exact, And therefore I would now ask anyman that underflands thefe things, and hath contidered and compared them together, Whether thefe two Nativities are not hard to be believed by anyone that is not ufed [0 believe Lies, Nonfence, and Contradictions; for it is mofi certain they cannot be both true, if either of them is; and to tell you the truth, I think neither of thcm_is._and Ihall retl in that Opinion, till I fee my Friend hath in Print made it plainer to me and the whole World, than he hath already donee.or I believe is able to do. And when that is done,

I will tell him my furl her Opinion and Judgment in the thing, and atlure him, that this Ipeaks but very little to the purpofe for Cardinal Sigll! on Angk_§, according JO his Notion and 1\phorifm. But there is one thing more ~s remarkable as any of the ret] to prove the Figure notorioufly falfe, which I forgot before ; and that is in the year 1626. when he was coming into Favour at Court, . and learning to be an lnflrumeut for their ufe , in order to be BiIhop of Canterbury, [good, Bilhop AbblJt being then to be turn'd ~ut, becaufe he wou!d not Licenfe KnJviih Books] a Privy. Counteller, and a Judge In the Star-Chamber Affairs, he had then his

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Midheaven direCTed to the Square of Saltlrn in Leo; and (he S'H to the Square of M:uI in Sagitaty.; two a$ violent, and d;lIl~e.rou,,· Directions as any in the whole Figure; not only 111 my OP~11l011 , but allowed to be to py all the Ancient and Famous Authors and Modern. Profcflors, By the firft of thefe , in the Nativity of the Duke of blt1'jmor:zncy, he was beheaded, cs faith M,rinilf, Alirol. Gali. p. 401. And ill P: 4.?2. the (~me Author kills Duke Albert, the Emperors General, with the .Mldheaven to the ~qlt:zre o~ M.1rJ. And my Friend Jo1m, himfelf, kills Judge Ruvu wl_rh I~othlllg but the SUIl to the Squire of Saturn, Col/err. p. J'2. J. which IS lefs able than the Body in my Opinion. And h-e fends Dr. Gouge out of the World.upon the Still (0 the Stptm of Mm'; but I ~ui1 needs fay,there was [omething more, an~ chat was .tl~e A{ccnd.mt to the Dr.1gDlII Tail, a plaguy kind of a thing, P: I o~. And ~e hath lct, the Great French Officer dye' 011 the SUI! to his own Square, w~thout any thing elic to affilt it. As al[u on-j udge Reeve's, the £Ingle Square did 'the like. Now, what man of Senfe can believe this to be WiOialll LauJ.'s Nativity, and at the fame time believe there is ,an,Y Credit to be given to the Art of Afirology, when the Contradicti(\115 in it are 10 vitible , nay, I may fay palpable, as my Adverfary

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The next Eminent Nativity that my Worthy Friend makes ufe of, as an Example to prove his Projed by, is that of mv: ~o!d 'ihom4r Clijfurd, [ometime Lord Trcafurer of England, ~nd It IS as followeth. He hath not told us, what was the r:levatlOn of the Pole; but I chink he hath fet his Figure for the- Latitude of 5,. and, a halt, or thereabouts.

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1) 4 46 S. This Gentleman being not .one 1)£ the greaten mrths iri_'t~is Narion, Was advanced to one of the greaten places 'that a Subject can enjoy, which was Lord Treafurer, to which he was preferred the 28th of Novemb!r, in the year 1671 ... and did not continue in it a full year,but religned his Staff.retired into the Country, and died. Hence we arc to inquire what Alhological Caufes there were, 1ft. For his Advancement to that great and eminent Poll. 2d!y. What gave the lofs of his Honour. And Ldjlly, The Caufeof his Death. For if the Art of Atlrology is true, wernul] expefl from a true Nativity, fome rational and probable Caufe for each of thefe.

1ft, As to his preferment there is not one thing to fignify it, for none of the Hilegiack -Poinrs are direfled to any remarkable Body or Afpect ~t that time , efpedally, that is any way adequate to his Honour. the 0 was within a degree and a half of the Bod y of 0 at that ti~e, which I am fure could not give either Honour or Content of Mind. The Midheaven was then got into 4 degr. of nx,whercthe * of!i! falls; and lJuppofe 'tis thatDireCliol1 that he

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hath eorreded this figure by for his Advancement. But let him not cheat himfelf With that Notion, for I do affure him. That the M. C, to the *' of ~ comes .not up in this Figure till 58 or6 l:ears of Age; however, I guefs 'cis that which he depends on at th~ time, notwithflanding rhe » is in Square to her both in Z d'

d M J I' d . . ..,' 0 1IIe0,

an U/lao app ymg, an IS very unhkely 111 that Condition to give

~uch ~onour,~ut fuppofc I Ihould allow this as moll of them will do III their Praebce, there is nothing elfe to affill it, for the n is then ~ery near th~ Body of f!, and the Square of !;1, therefore 'tis firange·

,It ,thou,ld do It when the two Luminaries were fo near ill Rays by Direcrlou, and that of the * of !i! fo weak a Ra y) and in nx her fall, near the oppofite point to 2(..

2dly, The lofs of his Honcur can be attributed to no Direction but t~~t which. gave his D:ath, and that was at leal] a degree fro~ _ jouch 109., ~hl'h· mull give at leaft a year; but this will appear more plain III the lafl of the three.

3dly, For his Death, which was about Au;,tt/f or September in

. the year 1673, and they have no Direction to pretend to in ~hat Cafe, . but theO to the Bod-y of c!; and therefore let us fee how that Will agree t,o t~c time of his Death.he being then jufi 43 years of Age., The 8 IS dlf~~nt from the loth, about k6 degrees, which glve.s hIS Pole of Polition z 4 degrees and a few minutes. The 0s Obh~ue Afcention under that Pole, is 133 d. 50 m, The Afccntion of O!S 177~. 5 m. from whence the Ark of Direcelon is 43 deg._ 15 mill. ~h"h' turn'd into time according to Naibods Mea!ure ill th~ I?aCfrme of Nstiunies; gives 43 years, and 322 days, that is, WIthin a Month and a few days of 44 years; but this Native died when he was 43.' almofl a whole year before the direction of d touchr, ,And h<:w he will or can reconcile rhis , I Ihould be glad to (ec, wltho~t his old CUllom of !hamming and iliifting.

T,he t,ruth IS, The 0 to the ~ody of 0, did kill this Gentleman, and It did touch e,xafll.y at the time of Death, or a little before; but he ,had ~ot Cardinal Signs on the Angles, as he foolilhly and fondly umgmes , and I dare venture a Wager with him if his word could be believed or trufled, tha! the efl:imate time,if carefully taken, was after II ~ Clock that Morn1l1g, Q on the I oth Houfe ana the Ark of Directi~n. that kill'd hi~, .was 39 degr, 10 m. And a Figure fet according to that Projection, will £hew his Honour and its Greatncf:,. its Ihort Duration, .and the thorrnefscf His L'ife, &c. For the firll of which) he had the 0 to the Mundane Parallel of U,

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which is a great and a glorious Direfrion,he being in his own Dig~ nities in Trine and Rc(;eption with ~ , and alfo in exact <trine to the A(andant. For its {hOlt continuance, he had the <:) in the 1 orh, in an exa4 Mundane Square to It; and -for his Death, the Direction before alled ged, which is far more like his Nativity, than that he hath here given him; and I dare almoft be pofitive, that he hath the .

Sign fl.-on the loth. .

But if this, which he hath given for his Nativity was true, let

him but (ell us why. according to the Rule:' of his Practice~ the Afcendant to the Bod y ot II, Lord of the 4th Houfe, that fatal Corner .of Heaven [as they tii)] and to the Sqaure of 'i', who is Lord of the

J 2 th, and hath Dignities in the Srh Houle, did not kill this Native, as well as it did his Bllhop Lrud, who had by his Calculation nothing but the lingle Body of ft . without any thing to all1H it, and yet the O Giver of Lite, a" here. And Ann ~een of Hungary, who died upon no other direction but the Afccndant to the Body of h 1 and with that the * of Ii ; or Mr. Gllt41!£r that he fays died ori the ACcendant to the 8 of It, only the BuUI Eye toalIiIl it. Or fftfr Bonbtes upon the.Iame AfpeCt, and nothing clfe with it, which he fays there, is naturally a killing diretl:ion. Or the Lord Francis 'fIiUiers . to the body of a ; and yet the}) in the loth Giver of Life. Or in Henry the 'third of France, the ACcendant to the 8 of- h , and the J) Ijkewj(e Hi/rg. Or in Cbl'illietJlilJ King of Dcnmark._, where the body of It kill'd of it felf, with a little al1iltallCC from an unlucky Clirnacterical Year. And [to 'name no more,kH it lhoula be burrhenfom and naufeous to the Reader] TInt ExceUwt young Prince Edward tbe 6th, King if England, who alfo died on thc A(ccendant to the bodyof It , and ye~ the Trine of 11- falls ~11 after it in lJX. 1 could menticn rniny more in his Learned ColicCiioll, that would be [erviccablc to make good wlrat I pretend ro.and give the Lye fairly to his own Inartificial Calculation of rhis Nativity, which be fays he lud the honour to perform, lind I (uPF ole by that Lord's Command ; but the Lord knows what it wall, for we n ul] only take his own account of it, which without doubt will be fparillgly givcn. Now pray confider, Is it not very i1ral'ge, tlut all rhefe Great, Excellent and Learned men lhould die on thcle directions, arid yet this hOIlOl1flble Native Ihould Io be fivour'd by the Stars to out-live and furvive thofe two Directions, when a fingle one hath done it to others.whom YOll fee here narned,and all of them printed by hirnfelf in his Collection, to thew the 'IlH,b of Ajlrol0f'o'; but tbtfo Ntflh';licJ

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printed in his Ctt~dineJ Cell were not for that End ;- but tv thew the wonderful power of Cardinal Sigll! on Allf!,ln ; and yct when it comes ro the Conclufion, I dare fay you will not find one true Fi. gttre among all the Tell that this WJttby Gemlonm hath prinrcd to that purpofe. For you fee by comparing them one with the other thc_y carry with them plai~l Contradictions; thwarts the ddigl~ fie Intends them for, and fauly tells the Author to his face, thathe is either a'very I~noral1l mall; or a Confident ImprJror; for no man will deny [ J. G. excepted ]Jhat Like Caufes ought to have Like Effccrs, or eire Rules ot Exception hid down to let us know when they will, and when they will not give thole Effdh they talk of feeing they rnifs [0 oft co, which I am fure he will not undertake t~ do, the inlideof his Crsnium being not lin'd with matter fufficimt for tlnt great WOlk. And yet what his fo long promifed Body of T autology may bring forth, 1 know 110t ;, and I believe a Blind man would be glad to fcc it; T judge it may be full of words, and -, to as little p~rpofe as the ref] of the things he hath wrote; he hath, T conlefs, the Form, but not the Power; the Words and Jingle, but not the M,lttfl'; that we wants, We have been ferved up long enough with abundance ofemptinefs,miilaken Examples, and unprofitable Rules in the Art of Nativities. But 1 will take your Authors of the befi Authority into my confideration, dilTee'hheir Dochine, and fairly Jay before your eyes their palpable ContradiCtions; fo that everyone that is not blind, nay,wilfully blind,!hall and' mul] confers, that the Afirology now in ufe is nothing eire but Sham and Noife; for if one Direction in 40 or 50 hits, it is more than they fomctimes find; and if one Aftrologer in an Age happens to make a fair and a famous Prediction before-hand that is anCwer'd by the Effect, it ferves the next Age to boafi of: F orif they had not f aris of Man'") about Cardinal F arnr{tu.r, afterward Pope Paul III. SixtH! ab Hemingll,who predifred theDeathof D"II John of Auf tria to a few days, and Luci,u Belan,itl1, about the Death of !r1irandurt by him predicted, with feme few others , they would be hard put to it to give the World Examples of their Skill, and Proofs of the truth of their Art.

The rifrh he brings for an Example among the refl, is the Learned and Famous Mr. 'Iboms: HJbbl of Mllmsbury, one that hath given fufficient proofs of his Abilities by his rmuy Learned Treatifes that he hath befriended the world with; alld tho' defcended of mean Parentage, was' qualified with natural and acquir'd Parts fit for the greaten Employments Learning can plead . Q2 for;

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for; and therefore I do not blame John for bringing fa famous a Man's B!rth to. pr?ve his Alfertion, if he is. able to jufiify the Truth of rr, which is my next bufinefs ro inquire.

Mr. HoMs.

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T~at this learned Man had a time to be born, I do not in the leafl quelhon; but that this is the true time of his Birth I do reall doub~ and quellion,and that for thefe three reaCons. J (i,The lengt~ ~f Time,. a h~odred years almotl before my Friend John did print ~" a.t which time there were few or none could remember the thing particularly; and he himfelf, if he ever knew it, he was then old enough to have forgot it; and I am of the opinion, that Mr. Hobbl hlmfeJf never gave him his Nativity; fo that at the belt it is but

. b~ar-fay, and indeed I am apt to believe this is the real ground of his knowledg In the ~tter. And upon the fame Authority of hearfay, he conridenrly printed Judge HO!Iu's Nativity, and gave the World as much alTurance of it, as if he had been by his Mothers Bed-fide w.hen fhe was delivered. of him; when there was nothing m.ore certainly a Lye, than the nme he printed (or that good mans Birth; and to convmce you of the truth of this marrer.rhe very fame

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Gentleman, upon whofe report only.he printed it, and correa~d it likewife told me above a Twelve-month afterward, That the trme :

he had given to Mr. Gadbury tor Sir !d.ltt{)£f~ Hales's N~tivity, w~s .

a miftake of twelve hours, and yet It happily agreed wah the Am-

modor of Pt%my, p.2b. of the Ju(1 and Piaus Scoriol1i/~. And to pro~e

this Figure he printed,true,he tells you the Afirologlcal Caule of his

Death, was the ACcenclant to the Square of ~ , in digni:aliblt~ Saturni,

one of the moft nontenfical reafons for the Death ot a man that ever

, was given; Ven1l5 kJll! and ye_r at the fam~ time, ~e owns (~e Sun

giver of Ufe,p.16. Nay,there IS not a page In tha~ httl.e Treatife.bur abounds with Errors or Noife,all which (0 name 10 this place would be too tedious; but I will give you fome, to Ihew I do not charge him without a Caufe. The Epifrle is nothing £Ife but a great many noify words, to Ihew us how able.he was to manage a fal[~ and lying argument; firil to aITert that Sir MJlthe'll' ~lad _ltt afcendingj and then to vindicate that which was not [0, as If he had a Patent to impofe upon, and abufe Mankind as he pleafes. ~. 6. he fays, Th~' HonoHrable Native bad Q fortunate in (arnell.,. tbo tn -? And yet 111 his eollell. of Genit, Aphorifm 36• he tells us,. Q in)( or -?, ",~~s'a man confident witbout reafon , and pretend! to tl;In$! he underlfan~s no~. But this is a fmall matter, only a Contradidion , and I think it implies, that one of them mull be a lye. P. 8. The 0 [Cays he] in the Afcendant jhe'll'l ,be Natiue to be of excellent Prudenee, Judgment, and Honour v+-r- an ob{emr of hif Promife/, and a '!atEr of all furdid,bafo and di{honourjble tbing!. All which Exeelleneie: did fhine in tbi1 our Pi- 0111 Scurpioniji. It was well-he. was a Sco:pioniji, OJ" eIfe the 12th Aphorifm in his Collet.l:ion had fell to his Ihare , where he fays, ThaI the 0 in 'he A{cwda;t mak[s eminent Boajfm, and VeT}1 prolld ~er[ens, But becaufe 111. is a eha~', VertrlOUf, M~deft,>a~1d an Humble Sign, therefore the ,0 in that (pace of Heaven gives mighty good People. P. I 8.he tells us, That c! i1 Lord of ,be Alchocoden, and gives IJjs great€(l years which Ptolomy tells III are Sixty fix. This is a plain lye fathered' upon Flo/amy by my Friend Jobn; for in the whole ~adripJrtite, no, not in his la~ Chapter, Ve.Vivljivne Tcmperum , he never ufeth . any ExprelIion like that, nor gives any countenan~e to their Alchocoden in any thing 1 have read >If his; and my F riend would have clone well, jf he had quoted the Chapter and Book where he had found it, and fo have faved-rne the labour of inquiry. In p. 19. he talks of an (1bfif{ur vi'", and that is. [forCooth] 1/., becaufe he happens to be II) (hat Angle and Space of Heaven) caned

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the SthHoufe; and yet theSqtlarcbf ~ kills, being-djrectedro the AC:endant; n~w, pr~y confider ~llar ufc rhey make' of their Hikg and Aliareta; tor he fays, The O IS giver of Life, 0 f!,iVi'r ~f Tesrs ; J.P is tllc,detlroycr of Life, 311d yet the A[cendJl/t to the Squ.m of ~ kill d this Learned NltlllC. Pray, why Ihould not the 0, who is Hilig to the Square of !t in difJ._nill1tibiU SatHrlli, kill as well as the Afcendant,to that point; this is Nonfence with a witnefs, if 1 uuderHand him, and the greater, becaufe it carne from him, But Iiippofe all thefc things that he fays were true in a mall, that had Iuch a Figure as he hath printed for the Birth-time of Sir M,mbew, yet here it i~ a~l Foll~ and Impertinence [I had almolt faid Impud cnce ] becaufe It IS publickly owned, that he was born 12 hOUIS dillance from that time; and for ought he and 1 know. it m{y be 12 days, Such is his.Con~denl'e in taking Nativities on rrufl, and by hear-fay, and then impoling them on the World for truth, v.~hkh he hath been often catcht il1;but how often they have palfed '!-Uldftefted,is to.me yet.unknown. And upon this very Authority of btiJr-[ay, I cert~mly ~heve, he h,ath t~umptupthis Narivity of Mr. H1bbs to prove hIS norton of C~rdlt1al S!gns to be tr~e, as he did that of J udg su«; to prove 111. a Virtuous Sign, and without doubt both a like true,

2dly. The meanefs of his Parentage, confidcred with the part of England where he-was, born, msy r~nder it dubious, th,ere being very few ROJl' of the meaner and middle fort of People In the remote parts from London, that take any notice.or keep in memory the time when their Children were born; and much lefs then when A(hology was fo little known in thillJour Nation of England; nay, fcarcc at all known, unlcfs among fome Learned Men, who were able to rc~d other Languages ~lidE~ their own, there being atthat time but ll~tle of Afirology printed Ii1 the Enf!.lijb Tongue, and that linle very Imperfectly known, handled, and underllood. Betides the lownefs of his Birth obliged him to be abroad betimes from his Parcn~; a~d as I hear~ he went to the Llniverfiry at 13 years of age,· which did prevent him of thofe f;equcnt -opportunities to hear the time of his Birthfrom his Parents, if they did remember it.

3dly, I never heard that he was ever Iludioufly inclined to this ~elelliar"l1q~iry; and fa~ th~t reafou.might neglect the taking notice of his Birth, and think It not worth his Memory and Animadverfion, by which means,if he did ever know the day when he was young, I dare be pofitive he did not know, or at leaftwife remember the time of the day, in which you know there is 24 hours, and.

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ev~ry one ofthofe will make a great alteration in a Nativity, cepedally in one that hath Signs of Ihort Afcentions in the Afcendant; and indeed mmy_aged. People do re.m~!flbcr the Year and Day of their Birth, but ..,cry few of them can give you the abfolute time of the day when it was. Whence 1 conclude, when he had got the day - and year, he made him fu'ch a Nativity as he thought agreeable to the Life, Actions, and Learning of the Gentleman. And tho I ~6 conclude it poffiblc for him to get the day, let 1 do not allow the Figure to be true; but perhaps he harii made this Potirion toabufe him, as youmay fee by the r z th and 86th Aphorifms in his ColleCtion, where he gives all fuch Perfons as have the 0 and rj in the Afcendant,a very bad Characrer , making them Ly,zrJ, Boajfm,ProwJ, Perjured, COlltriver s of Mi[chirj, and Inventer! of F' ables; and more firchlike ill Names he bellows upon them; how well rheydeferve them, I know not. However, rhofe Names do not at all agree with the Character he gives him in his Csrdines Cell, which thews my Friend Juhll can make the Stars give and ad: '\Vhat he pleafeth , cool his Broth, and warm his Fingers, and all with the Came Breath.

But to put all out of doubt, let us come nearer and clofer to the matter; for feeing they do allow that Directions arc the Caufcrs of Death; or at [eatlwife, that few or none dye without them; Let us fee\\'hat they can affign for his death, either to the 0, 2J, or A(cendant, for they are all alike to them, tho I do affirm the Ili here to be Giver of Life, according to the Pofirion printed. This Gentleman died in Dreembcr, in the year 1679. being then 91 years and 10 months old; and the Ark of Direct-ion to give that number of ~ears, accord ing to their rncafiire of time, is 90 degr. ,1 min. NowoHerve, The Direction that he concludes kill'd him, was-the A'rccndant to the Square of 0, and the 8 to the Body of 11-, Lord of the Srh Hou[~,which to me (ecms very nrmbc"h~t the 0lhould paC, the Square of 0, and he out-live it almolt three years, and at blrd),e on the Afccndant to a Gum Direction, called the Square of c3 lfor the true one did not come up till about 22 years after.ward J and at tuch a time too, when the 8 was by Direction within a very littlcof the Body of 11-, the great and only B,J/f.lml~k.::Stur in the Heavens, whofe ill P,aj's always {aves, ;wd certainly much more his Body in the afl:cnding part of Heaven; but is it Eat very tlrange that he ihould conlidcntly take the Direction> to the Horofcope to give Death, when the.O is II) near it; for (11C A!Cwoant cannot be _GiVCI ot Life, nor can it kill w ith bad DireCtions!O it, when the 0

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is fo near, as in this Example. But isit not more tlrange [how hisCatholick Soul judgeth in the cafe, I cannot tell] that the Square of a lhould _kill, and the Afccndant to the Square of the 0 Ihould not atabout 82 years of Age; and indeed, by John's good leave [if Pl%my is allowed to be true] the Square of 0 cannot kill, becaufe he is under the S,IJl-beams; but any Tooth good Barber, [0 we can but make Cardinal Signnm the .Ang/u of this, or any other Nativity. In Ihorr, I judge he will find but few of his OWn party [I mean as to the Principles of AltrologyJ that will believe the Afcendant to .the Square of the Sun Ihould pars by and give nothing; and a few years after, the Square of Mm kill; and this at fitch a time too, when the Sun in the Afcendant was directed to the Body of Jupiter,- but indeed he was Lord of the Eighth. - Oh!that alters the cafe mightily -Ha, ha,b;l.

But to tell you the truth, the Moon is Hileg, or Giver of Life in his Figure, and for that reafon, neither Sun nor Afcendant can kill by Diredion s and at the time of his Death, the was directed to no ill AfpeCl or Rays.· The firll thing the meets,' is the * of !t in *, which would touch at or about 95 years of Age. -And fo I leave it, till he [hall think fit toaffign fame other Caufefor his Death, and tell

us what Authority he hath for the time of Birth, and by what Authority he will prove this figure, or any other true; .afluring you, that this is not Mr. Hobbs's true Nativity; I will not fay it is not the day, but 1 am fure it is not the hour, only a time pitcht upon, and cholen by his unerring Judgment, to prove one flllity by inventing of another , Of to fpeak more to the purpofe, he calls for help to Saddle his Hobby-horfe- I could put divers other things to him, - which I am fure would puzzle his fertile Brain to find fecuriry for their truth; as, who he will conclude to be Hileg, and (hen the Lord of the Alcbacoden, whom they chufe from the former? and whether the Native lived that number of years defigned by that Star, and no more; and whether cJ [who mufl be Lord of the Alcbocoden, according to their notions} being Combllil in his detriment, and affliCled by It, can give any more than his mean years, which are Forty, tho this Nltive lived Twenty five years beyond his greareft y'ears, which are Sixty fix. With more of this Nature, that I pafs by, fuppofing there is enough mentioned to convince any rational man, that the Figure of Birth by him affertcd , is all Sham and Trick.

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The next be lfrillgs, is that of the Famous Mr. B"rtan, Author of ".the Analomy of MeJanchoVy, to prove- his-fiaitious Notion.

.Mr. !Bt4rt{)n.

'It 0 42 ' Nortk 11 I 37 North cJ 0 18 South ~ [ ... So~ ~ I -41 South » I 38 Soudl

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I do believe he hath taken this Figure of ~r. Bmon, as near rht Ac~ount he himfe1f gave, of it, as can Q~; and do therefore judge, if this knot true, it is not Mr. John'S fault, - but the Learned Native himfdf, who gave -it t~ t?e World ~in rcattered .Sentenc~s in his' Anatomy rif Me/ancboVy,; a~d.. as .~ am Il!formed, d!4 a\[o gIve ord~r when Living; for the Infcribieg it-on IllS Tomhftone 111 01Cford, ~fter his Death; which did not only thew the Gentlem~ Ingenul!y, but - alfo hiS Integrity h~ letting th~ ~ orld _ underftand how f;uh~ ~as acquainted wm1 his own N"uvlty, lell fome Ingenious NatlVlty. maker or other, Ihould furreptitioufly have trampr-up a fpurio~·s one after his Death ; which is a thing very common, -DOt only In our NationbLit in others likewife; and bythat means wecome to have.fo ma~y Great 'mens Births that are really fal~e and hnagi~ary. andY-llt impofed upon us for abfolute :ruth, which the unsktlful, ingenuous men run away with, and b~h.eve them to be as.r~port~a _ to them, And to convince you that thins true, take an Example In

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one man, and t~atiJ the:f~~ck:King" whofe Nativity was printed by Mr. G~Jln 1661_~ IJ\ which Figure he makes 22 degr. of 1l\ afcending, and the time l7 min, after Eleven; and this he affirms to be true by the Probatioll,l?f ,three Di~ettions,and their Concurrent Accidents, as may be feen in: his Gollettibn. MIT;IlM, he prints his Nativity in: hiS Aftrolugia Gallica, p. 555, in which he makes almolt J 5 degr. of II\. afcend, and the Time 15 minut. after Eleven of the Clock,'Mam, the fame day and yeJr, and proves his al[o'by twa..or three Diretlio'ns; to which he adderh another Argumen~ of-truth, that the time of the day was known, pa' dltiludintnl Soli« -.4/froJabilJ rlllPl/"a", aJiudfanllunI GermiJrntm; and this a man would think were very' exatl, coming from a Learned Pen, and he alfo a Lover of the AWl, as well as a Profelfor thereof. And, yet after all this,' I have had an account from Adriano, the great Mdt/mn,lI;ciall at Par;!, that the Frmcb King was-botn at J; minutes after Four of the Clock the fame day in the Morning; whlchis fufficient to acquaint us, that there 'is a mifiakc, ora little Knavery in this Account give!)' fo varioufly s and is not only in this man, but others likewife; of which

more in my Defilli~ Genitllr.mun;

But as to Mr. Burtoll'sNativity, I am not willing to make a Iearch

into the truth of i~,and that for two Heafons. The Ilt is" The Refpea: I have ro that Learned Gentleman, being unwilling to call his Skill in quefiion, hecaufe I think he gave it us to the beft of his knowledg, without_:.I.DY deUgn of Trick or Interefl, either to bubble U$, or put a faHhood ~P?Jl the World. under the Notion of AHrology. And the 2d is" Be.c~ufe 1 have no Accidents that are confiderable hi the Courfe 'of his tlfe,', to try the verity of the Figure by. either of Slc~neft, frif.etm£1I;~ ot IJealb, which are the oilty grounds to try ~nd prove a Nativity, whether true orfalfe, And yet; if this is his true FIgure, I. fhould look upon it to be very difficult for him to pars the » to the.Body of 11, with 31)d without Latitude in Zodiaco; and this the rather, becsufe ft hath there almoft I degree of NortbLatitude; but for the r~a{ons bcforementioned) I !hall omit all

things of that nature. . , , '

- But fuppofc We ihoutd allow this Nativity to be true arid that Cardinal Signs on Angles fhould do thofe wonders that he fays, they do; yet I cannot'fee what groL\I1d there 15 for his bringing this Figute to prove k by. ~or here Is almofl29 degrees of "l' on the Afcendant, and that a Sign of Ihort Afcention, according to bi> own Notigo) and ever.y ones eIfe; and the moil he can make

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it;. is not above 36 minutes below the Cl.lfp of the AtCcOdant) that rhe'Sign "l' hath to rife; ~nd inbuFfgJlrt, there is the wholeSi~ t5, and 6 degrees of II, J1lthat pare, called the Afucndint mHorofcope: Hence it follows , that he" Jays the whole firefs of the matrer on the very Cufp of the Angle, or Line of the Horizon, to prove-the Myflery of Cardinal Signs,wl\ich if true,1 think he put~ it u,P0n a very ~u?i,!us proof, both ion t\lis"Figure, and alfo in that of CI~arJel Gr4lil1Jl~ bcforcmentioned; for If we make thinwery few rmnutes later, and that i,yery few minutes Ioonee, you will find t5.arcc~din? iti'(~e one, all,d ~ in the other; ami in my Opinion, ":111 mightily fluke, if not wholly confound the vc'ry Principle of his dcfign; for I do not believe every FiguIe of a Nativity to be true, that he fays is [til; and therefore, ifthefdbould be corrected, what will become of his Norion! And for tbac of the King of Sweam, I 3?l fure i.t is not true, and that for the Heafons jhere .nedged. ~ut betides all thefe things, he may have his It in the ;olh, and J!.in his 61h Houfe; ilay, andd' in 0 with his ,4fcendant, arid fOl' all that have t5 a[cending; and indeed, to my apprehenfion:it feerns more pr~able ~u'be 9, be~l1[e~f: that Expretlion.fi{ Mt( Burlon's ~uoted by Mr. G.sJhuty, AI/it rJ prillcipal SignificalBt uf my 'Mdlll!m, In p.:rtile dwi_W,myA[cenddlll •. &c. And by that, word partilc d, 1 underftand exad:ly_.on the Afcendanr. and if fo, t5 mutt be atc.nding, for d is-,a\lnoll 1 degree in :that Sign', as Gild. wclt.knows ; an_d thc_n pray~w h~t will' hed(;>;ior ~ (}fift to tick"; th~.J2ar~ ,?f h.is Admirers mtQ.fue belief of Cardinal Sign'S, and their powe{ In this Na~ivity? Nay, dQiol.ltobfuve how he .ihuffles, and how he is put to It tomake aNativity [nay, driven to the lail: degree of "l'J to impofe an Error on the World, and to cheat us and hirnfelf alfo into

the belief of a lye. ' , '

, Bu~ there isone th~ngmote 1 ob(ene ill th~126th Partguph,and

that (5, he went to Dr. FIJk}to know what the: meaning of J. in the 6th Houfe was.and this in the year J 650. of whom he fays ,he learnt that little of Afirology that he hath. Utterly di[owning his betl Mailer, Mr. LiUy, bywhofe Aihftance [he fays in tbeEpi!tle ~o hj~ 1),/Ctrillc of NativitieJ] an4Favours, he was enabled to compleat that Book, which wasprint,c'a in the ycat' ,657· 'Now .do you think that Mr,Lif!y's !\cquaintanfe had done him no Selvice, befi3e; «hi ufe of Books in that' Seven years? Or do you believe his askint Dr. FiJ~thatonequeftion, bad fer him ina Station above the want of other Inthuctions? IHo, he was thc<1ptcft Scholar toone, and

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the _molt ungreatful to the other of any man1iving. But I !hall (orbea~ any further Aggravation of that Ingratitude, becaufe the whole Nation is fo well acquainted with the thing.

Hls Seventh Nativity he brings to prove his dreaming Notion,

Is that of Michlkl Noftrad4mH6', as followerh, -

The time of this Gentlernans Nativity, Mr. Gadbury had from that Ihort Account of his Life, printed by Monfieur Gmnc;ereJ in Englifh, at the beginning of that Treatifecalled Mjtradamus's Prophecies, where it is faid, he was born at St. R.emy, a Town in Prl1lltllce, the 14th of December, on a <[hurfJay about Noon, I 5Q3~ and that he died of a Gout and Drop» ai Salan, a_City in Provenct, 01 near it, on JlIly s, Anno 1566. being then Sixty two years of Age, and Six Months. The Latitude of the Place is about 43 degrees; and how ous worthy Author wtll make 2 degrees of VS on the l_Oth Houfe, and r r degrees of .t:t on the Afccndant in that Elevation, is to me a myfier.y; for if he makes two of VS on the Midhcaven,there will be about four of l' afccndlngs but that Error l.wllt f-ilS by, it being not to my bufinefs pow ill hand, be it true

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- or f~lfe' nor will it deface or confound his de1ign that-the thing is brought to prove; rho the ten of. the Houfes arc likewife Erro-

neous, and rherefore l {hall.proceed 10 another method. •

I perceive by the Authors Exprc:ffion ab_orlt N~on, t~atthe Native did not leave a particular Account,. at what tune 10 that day hewas born' for that Ilbout NlJI)n, might be about an hour or more before or ~fter it, or dfc the .Stars in this mans Nativity had not the ufual force and effect, that Mr. Gadbury allows, and afferts they have ill other Mens Gcnitures, - of which more anon, when I come to thofe Obiea-jons, The Sign l' is well- k~OWll to be b~t I hour and 5 minutes sfcending on- the H~ro~cope III that Elevationv.and therefore the error of halfan hour III time fooner, and $ 6 mill utes in lime later than this Figure, will very .much-al~er the Caf:, andextreamly {hake the Atllhority bot~ of ~IS Aphonfm ~r:d Skill, ~o far as they afe both concerned,in ~hls Figure a~d ~atlvltv ; ar.d If I miflake not his Dear- Vrllnia Will Cuffer a dehqulUm alfo , by the Confidence a'rid Credulity of her over-forward and bouncing Se .. - cretary; but it -is noftran~e ~hing t~ fee honell Mailers abufed by:

theknaw:ry of theirfawomg; glavcIlIlg Scrvan,ts ". - .

. However- if this Figurdhould be true [~hICh.lS very uncertainand dubious J it is far ferche, and-at the belt glve~ III a general t~lmabl1H' Noon, which no man ought to rely- on Without Corection; by as many Accidents-as the Cale requires, or can be gotten; and to affirm this his true Nativity" without fuch Reafonsand Authority, iCpedaNy in f\lch a Cafe as this is.. w here it is made aprind~al ' Pillar toCupport fo great a StJuct~re) ~ he here endeavours to build - upon it) is to me a gr~at !trgu~t, ~I~h~r of the mans W eakn~r~,. or his Confidence, believing hIS lp{e dIxit 17 over and above. fuffi~ent toItem the Torrent of all other Authonty; and therefore Iwill bring it to the Touchfto~e, as the real telt of its u~tl~ or falll:0od :.. and in that trial 1 Ihall rell my felf very well fltlstied of tither, without trouhlin~ YOll-with many ATgume~lts, which at the beft . ferves but to [poil Paper, and tire your Patience. Yet, let me tell. yo'u,this is as notorious apiece of Falfhood and 1 mpof tiOn.,as-aIlY

he- hath brought..to this purpofe andpr.?of. . .'

. Buebefore I begin to cKami.ne therlguIe 10 general, It WIll be I

very neeeffary to fettle _the Figure to ro~c p~lIcul_a_r dc.grer. on the! Midhcaveil and A(cendant; fl r las I [aId be~oIe 11t 'j"e allow 2 de-glees of vs-on the Tenth, there will be but 4 degrees of l' Ol~ the:

Mcendant. and if we ilwuld allow 11 degrees of l' 3[cendmg~.

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there will be about 5 degreessc minutesof'V$ on the Tenth. Andbccaufe I will gh'e him all the [air play imaginable, I will take that which flands fairefi for his ad~antagf'J) (cho he did not Ierve me Co when I was in Hullo1nd] and .l think that is ,1 degrtcs-of T on the Afcendant;for I do fuppofe out of the Abltnd.Jnce of his Ignor4tlct, he doth -conclude the Afcrndant to the 80f the 0 was the Direction upon which this Native did expire; now, - if fo , 1 would fain be refolved, whether the Arcel~aut (0 the. 8-of the 0, is likely to give the GJJltt and VroPD'; which Difeafes he fathers on. h in his D~[/TiJJe cf l-ia1iviricl. p. lU. And ,tells us therealfo, That the 0 gives Srt'o(J1ling/, Injlllmt1lionIOf the E;el, Palpitatioll of the Hem, and Wringing! at the Stom.sck,,; which Difeafcs are not the ufual Attendants of Drqpfiu and GOld!.

I cannot find any other Direction he-an pretend to, that may

be allowed to give Death. 'but that of the AK:endant {Q the 8 of 0; for the» by DireCtion, is at that time intheirwiy come to the ninth degree of vs, having pan the Body of the 0, and her own *; lind not come to the Body of ~, and 8 of 11-. Lord of the Sth Houfe, that pernicious part of Heaven ; and the 0 is at that age in 2 degrees of )( by Dirc6tion, being come to the place of his own *, and within ,£tal's of the l>'5~. which is tilt! next.Dirc- /' dion; and therefore we muft conclude [feeing none of thefe can. be lug'd in to do the buline(s] that the 8 of the 0 to the Mcendant, was the fatal'Point that kill'd him, notwithftanding the J::,. Qf the » was very nearafter, Thusyoa fee a forryfhift is better than none; and for ought we know, -haduot this unlucky DireCtion fell in fo untowardly, he might have lived till this time, unlefs J?, Lord of the 8th, had happened co have birded him off; for d being Lord of the Afcendant, would without doubt not hurt his own; and It durf] as well have cat his Fingers, being under the power of (j in his Triplicity [lnd betides very weak in his detrimentJ as molelt or kill him; iuch a pretty (ort of Altrology he

pretemls to be Mafier of. ' '

In this Nativity we find both the 0 and l> in Aphetical

Places , and it is certain one of them mull be- Hilf~,or Giver of, Ufe; and yet the Afcendant to the 8 of the 0 kill'd the Native; which if (0, I am fure it can do it always, . and rhatwlth much more cafe and certainty, when the Afcendant is Giver of:Lit!: .. But Itt-us have recourfe to his Collection of Genitures, and there YOil will find abundance of Nativities, where the Af~nd.nt-to,heO

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and [j of ,the 0 did not .kill, as ill Pope Pt1ul V. t- 8 o. Or. Morloff,

P.92• Bifhop VI1JtT, p.,96. Mr. Gata~""l1)"J 02. Mi:Child,t,; 'f'.

114- Mr. Vaugb.m, p. 117. who had h15 0 in (he Eighth in dirdt

8 roche J) ~ and yet die ACceildant to the Body of the one and

~ of the orher did not klll r what think you now, are thefe ~artial -

Stars or not ~ Sir Robrrt HJtbllrn, p. J 24. Sir Fm·h. Bllk" p. J 59.·

that WJS to live Iorne Decades of years, he alfo out-lived the 8 of

the O. 1 Major~Generat I.~ti~brr', p. 166. VillCf1l1 Wing, p. I Sa, an .

even half (core that our- liv d the Afcendane to the 8 of the 0'

and (orne of them u.1l~~rwent it~ll)fluence at a confidcrable Ag~

roo. And. I Cfl_.llld fiul1lth Y(lU with more likewi[e under his own

hand, ~n_Jy 1 think ~hcfc fuflicimt to prove that Direction falfe

and hCfmolls :IS to his Death, and the Caufe of it; and to (hew

this Learned Artin's Skill, is as little as his Mo~cily and good Nt·

wre. -. . .

~llt be.tides .at,' this, there ;I);C fever~l Nativities in being, in which our Nallvuy-makcr allowsthe ~Idheavento the Bodies or Oppofitiol1s of ft and 0 to kill; fometimcs by violence, and fernetimes other ways, and this done only by a tingle Direction of eithere, as ill the Cafe of' CbarleJ GlIfla~t/~, and Wt1!;.mt Laud the Midhcavcn to th~ Body of Ttin the one, and to the Body of'er in the Ot]1C~; but in this Nativity the 0, who is Giver of Life, and the Mldheavtn, were ootl~ at once dircded to the Body of ~, and

8 of~, Lord 01 the 8,h 111 the 41h; and then to the ~ of fl and d from the 4th likewi{e ~ all which had not power enough to kill him til~the Afcendant came to the 8 of the G ;,Hl, ".1, hJ, a pretty fort, -of Stars, and as prertily managed by rho[c that pretend an acquaintance with the~. Il1d~ed I cannot blame People, when I near them cry out againtt the l' oolerlcs and Cheats of .\!lrology • for accordiug to this kind of Dodrine,l1o 111:10 would trouble hi; head with the Study of a thing' fo contrad;8my and 'uncertain . t~at .coul~ find an)! thing elfe to exercife his T~oughts and Me~ dirarions m. I know the Anfwer {orne of them will make me, a~d fay, 'Ibe MidbrAT.'fft nr';?;r iiI/I ~1't' in vidi!lt Deflhr, Collect, Gemrur, Aph. 92. To that I anfwer, The'j know· nothing of the. Caufe ot a violent Death, till it, is over and pan; and thereforethat is but a lham,and a lilly one too ; for:if it hath power to kill at one time, it hath at another; and rho a man may not dye by

,an Ax, or a Hahn, yet he may. d,e violently in his Bed, or forne other way, £01 the Stars are not beend to a pa-rticulu "";l.y. and.

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and method. And 1 do atferi it for truth, that if it did ever kill, it mUll do fo always [witho,ut Rules of Exception] and I know

. no rear on [nor he neither J why all thofe DircClions to the Sun and MiJheavm {bould not have kill'd this Native. And befides, he talks without knowledge' about the violence. of Nativities; for what violent Pofiticus are there more in GtI~at'lH Adolpbuls Nativity, than in this of Noflrildamu; lAnd alfo, what is there of violence more in Charles GuJfavM, than, in the Duke of Albeml11'le's? ColJell.Genit. p. 70. and yet two.of them died violent Deaths, and the orhe r two, N atural ones s but befides ,', before the People are 'dead, he knows not a word which isa violent one for Death, and which not; but when they are dead, and that by violence, he can -PICfently find the Caufe, What Nativity in his Collection carr!~; more violence with it: than that ofCbllf'iel 'toTtenJon the Swedi/h General,where the 0 and ~ are in d in 'IS in the ACcendant, and both in 0 to ft in his own' Dignities; the 11 is in d with 11, Lord of the r ath in 20, with violent Stars, in dired 0 to 'Ii, and in 8. to r:!, and the 0 Lord of the Srb, and alfo to ~, .who hath Dignities mere likewife. New; is it not flrange, that this Narlve under fo violent a Pofition Ihould dye a quiet Natural Death, whenthole two Kings of Swet'en, efpeciaUy G,,(lat'ltl Adolphul, under a vC!~y moderate Poficion Ihould dye violently t Which things Mr. John would very much oblige the World with, to let us know the RcaIons of them, and to acquaint U9 with thofe curious No",um's, br which we may be able to underfland thefe [hitherto improbable]

Nativities as well as he. ,

To conclude, This Nativity was about Noon, that is, alitt1e before 1 I a Clock, .at which time he will nnt have "j' afcendlng, but the latter part of ~, and the Sign../' on the Teruh., And under this Pofirion and its Effeels, he will at the time of his Death 13· bour under the Influence of the 0, Giver of Life, to the Mundane Parallel of rJ andh , Direct 'and COllVClS; which are proper DireCtions to give the Gout arid Drop{y. A.nd therefore, if Mr. Johll doth not think this a reafon fuffident, • would defire-one from him more Authentick.

The next he brings to exerc;1t: his Talent in, is that of Gregory Lop.z, a Spani(h Hermit, one?f his own Religion, and t~lcretore. he ought to know the exatt-tune when hewas brought mtp the"

Wolld. The Figure follows,. .

. Grfgo"]

Gre_goryLope,.·

Latitud. Planetat'_
b :z. 3S No
11 I :1~ No
r:J :z. 0 So
~ ~ 57 So
!i! I :2.1 No
j) 3, IS Nt) I wonder Mr. GJd. Ihould have [0 much confidence on I~is Rcpuration as to think to be believed in this, and [uch like Cales, when he fay; the thing is fo , feeing we have f~u~~ him tdfdy fa often i~ his befueuding Mankind with fuch Cunohtles as thefe are.' ~~uviries lmcan, and not one in forty of them true, as may be juflified by his Learned Collection, and the Opinion of ever 'lone a bou t that Book; for it is not only my [elf, but divers ot~ers alfo, ,that are of the fame Perfualion with me about the Falfities, and vifible Contradictions fo openly [ufliricd and afferted by the Author in that Trearife, and not only there, but in molt of thofe B,!oks.h~ hath publifhed, to inform the unlearned W~)fld. Do y~u think I~ IS re~Ionable to believe that he Ihould obtain the true time of rhls man s Birth" who was born at fo great a diHante,as M_atirid In Spaill, and perhaps unknown to all his Friends and Acquamta,nce [andpr?,;bably himfelf too] till after his Death? When we tmay be certam he could not give us the true Nativities of rhofe born ~t home I!, our own Nation, and near him, and had the opportumty of th.elr

S Acquain-

,:y.O.

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Acquaintance be fides • asSi~'Fre~'h: H~Uer,Nic CHlpeppe'l', Mr. LiDy. Nay, he hath given us hiJ 01l'1I falfe, and printed it three or four times over; betides rhofe of OtiV€r Cromw,U, Two Kings of Sweden, Judge HJlfI, and abundance more, too many here to relate. I fay for rhofe very reafons he ought [fince he hath crackt his Credit to] to endeavour always to prove thole Nativities he gives us, that when they Ihall happen to be queftioncd by any in mine, or other mens Company, we may have fornethiug to fay in his Vindication, which now we have not, relying only upon his

~fo - -

, To give us an old Lotr[y PopifhHermit, born 150 years ago, to prove an Innovation of his own, that !lands in. need of better Authority and Security than he is able to produce. A Fellow born ill S/,;Jill, and not a Soul living now that ever knew him, which at the ben tells us, i~ can be known no orherways , but by report and hear (ay; and for ought we know [or he either] it may be ferne days, but I am Iurefome hours dittance from this time, or elfc the Rules of Allrology that I am MaHer olf, are not true. I admire he hath not imide a Nativity for Pope Joan, his Brother JudJS I{c,l1'iot, St. Pat7;ick,_, Monfieur St. Ruth, and the Golden Far~ mer; for wirnout doubt, they had all of them Cardinal Signs on their Angles, and would mightily conduce to the Probation of that Aphorirm, if he would but take the pains to let us know the~ according to his beft and molt approved Rules of Nativitymaking.

Do but confider how many People he hath told us died on the Midheaven -and Sun to the Square of Saturn and Mllrl; how many he tells us died on the A(cendant to the Square of the Sun, Body of S.Jturn, and Body of M.Jfl; how mmy he hath affirmed went to th.c lilenr Shades on the Mgo~ ~o the Square of the Sun, the Op~ pofirion of Saturn, the Oppofirion of Msrs, the Midheaven and Sun t? th~ AlHi~d?ns of Mil" and Bunrn ; all which have pafled over III this NitlV:IY, and none of them had po\'Vcr to kill. Neither do I know when he died, yet am partly Cure they went off without Death, becaufe Gadbury fays, he was about Twenty one years of Age before he grew thus Religious; and he mutt continue feme years in Ihis method of PidY , or clfe he would 110t have obtained fo great lin Etleem and Reputation to be counted 3 Hermit. But thcfe Directions came up, ferne at Twenty, others at FOUl or Five aQd twenty, fome at Thirty; and they that. came up

Iateit,

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lateft, were ,at Thirty fix OJ' (even by this Pofirion , and yet I am of opinion he out-lived that Age, if. ever there were fuch a man, and that he .did not itarve hirnfelf to be counted Holy.

Befides all this, I fcc no reafon why a Conjunction of Marl and StUHrn in ScorpiD, the Square of the MJOII and Sun '. and Moo,,- and Mercury, the Square of Jupiter and Vema, and alto the Mundane ~3.tJ.lkl of Jupiur, Smum , and MJrl, [hould make amau Io extr~amly Pious and RelIgious, as our Friend J. Gad. tells us he was. I have heard. him often fay, it was a very hard thing tor him to be good and honell, who had' a Conjunction of Saturn and M.m at the time of his Birth; and if fo, I am fure 'tis [he worfe for being in Scorpio. I do really judge, if this Figure is nearly true, or within an hour and a half of it, he did not turn Hermit for the f:ike of Religion. but for the lets of a Mi1hds, or elfe a Difobligation by fome Debauchery of hers. For at the A'J,c of twenty years, he had his Sen to the Sextile of Venus, and Squsre of MMs by Direction, which is very likely to give fuch an Elfefr;. and if Io, he only grew furly aud four on that Affront; by the continuance of which, and his-own forgetfulnefs.it became a cullom to be thus Religious; to lignify which, he labour'd under the ,Moon to the Oppofition of Saturn with and without Latitude, about four years together, from Twenty three 9r Twenty four forwards.

And tho I have not fo good a proof for the fi!1(lty of this Figure, as I have of feveral of the former, yet I am partly fure it is hlfe, becaufe he out-lived rhe 811n, who is Hi/ef!, to the Square of Sa,,,rn and Mlrle And fo I come to his Ninth Example of Truth in the Cafe of Cardinal Signs 011 the Angles. The Figure follows, fct

Pt%m.zica/ly, .

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, Sir Theodore Mayerne.

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Latitud. Planetar
It I 49 North
J/. I n South
0 o 30 North
!t o 36 North
~ " S6 South
i> 355 NOl'th
. I a~ certain [feeing my good Friend J. G. make~JP;Uiam LJltd, and .S1£ TheQdOT~, Mayerne, to have alrnolt the fame Pofitions or with very little difference, fcarce conliderableJ that they ca~not be both true, if either ~f them ?t: fo; for we fee here, that they ~ave ?oth 4 dc~n:c~?f - afcendmg,. and ~ Lady of the Afcendant 10 In to both Nativities, and the O In both their Afccndants and l/. in [:, to the dcgrc~ afcending exactly, the J) in a Watcry.dgn in both alfo, Hel~ce, fee.lOg they, ale ~o ~uch a like in their Birthxwhy Ihould not their Bodies and Contlitutions alfo have been fomewhar proportional.in reference to the,if Statures, Corpulency, Pallions, general Fate In Fortunes and Mlsforcunes; In alJ which there two n;en were nothing. alike , the Bifhop being a Iietle man: Spare bodied, RaUl and f urlo~s; the Doctor a full-grown) large Body, extream Corpulent? w~{h a gentle, eary Temper. The Bithop had the latter .parr of hl~ Llre full of Trouble, Difquiet , and Confufi, on, and to conclurion attended with a violent Death. The Dottor had the latter part of his Life ~iet, Ea[y, and Compared, and at Cbelfy where he lived, died of good old Age. And the

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difference in their Births is not any ways remarkable; what is, you may obferve in the places of the}) and ~. In the Doctors, the » is in the beginning of III in d with!i!, and both goin,g to the * of O. In the Bifhop's, the}) is in *' in 0 (0 ¥ and 8to if, applying to both. But why thefe (bould caufe fuch vall difference and ditproportion in their Bodies, I confefs ,' I know not, nor do 1 believe my Friend is able (0 reconcile the one to the other, or either of them to his Stars. Indeed I will allow the Bifhops Intellectuals to be wholly different from the Doctors, as his» in 0 to ¥, (the Patron of Religion) in 8 to 0, !t with It in, ITt, and ~ Retrograde with the Virgins Spi~, do very well Ihew. And I could tell you, what they promife in fuch Pofitions too, if I thought I might efcape the revere Cenfure of being maliciouily inc1in'd ; but this I do fay, the POlltions are naturally like the man, as to his Ternperature and Humour, in the way and order of Nature.

As to the Soul, that Divine and Eternal part of Man, I can by 110 means allow to be affected, governed, or Iwayed by the power of the Srars, any further than it is informed, or milled by its Natural Organs, the Senfcs I mean; for without doubt, by how much the more bruitilh a man is, the more vicious and depraved is his Mind and Thoughts, thofe Preliminaries to the Soul, by which medium iris always converfant with, and exalted to thole glorious Manliolls above, or confufedly hurried among thofe Corruptions of Nature, which are not only a Clog to the volatile Soul, but a Sink of Ruin and Dcfhuction, in which [it is to be leared] too many.have perifhed, both Body and Soul.

But to return to our Starrv-butinets again; There arc mJIl}' more things to prove rhefe two Nativities do not agree in, betides rhefe mentioned. The Bifhop he, lived all his days tingle or unmarried. The Doctor had both Wife and Children, [one of which married to a Frel!cb Muquc(s] and the Lord of the Seventh,the {arne Star, and in the fame place in both the Figures; and l hope my Friend John will not. ~ake the :D in .8 to 0" an AII~ull!ent of a tingle Life; that Polition, I confers, IS often Judged to be a wanton (Inc, but never forbids Marriage. Nor I cannot believe he will lay any' weight or Iircfs on the 1) '$ Separation from the 0 of 11, they being now at 7 degrees diflance, and the :D in Arpect both to ¥ and 0' applying'in the Zodiack, and to a Mundane Afpett of !i' alfc ... Well, but how !hall we reduce all this, into a way for Practice, and to be fcrviceable another time) when we meet with fuch

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cra~bec1 fluff aglin~ ~Vhy, really I cannot tell you which way to begin lha; work , It IS beyond ,all .the .Rules of AHro[ogy that ( 1~.lVC 1'~H,nrd and ~cad::lJ!d do thulk It will prove a knotty, puzllog prcce ot \\ ork , tor which reafcn We mutt be forced to iorrear our, worthy good Friend, to, fa,,:our us with this Information, and let the ~odd know, why SIr Tb,od?rf M.1J'f'I'Jle fhould marry, 'and why 11'ir:1III1J LlIId thould not; and indeed he is the only man able to ~o it, baing fu~nUheQ withal~ the curious, delicate, tine-Ipuu Nonons, and thole lofty Nu{1rull1!, tilt! ~illte1TLnce of the whole Art lod~cJ, only ill his ~aP':ciou5 He~, tlut'iJlighty MJgniuc, or ra: thcr Kittle- drum of Allfolt:'gy. . '

But betides this, it will not be improper to confider the Directions in this Figure and Nativity; for it is certain, that Planes which was Anarnn in the Bifhop's, mutt of neceffity do the fame Ollice in the Doctor's, bccaufc the Figures are both the fame, and the fame Hil1g alfo , and the Planets of a Malctick Influence are in elle (arne parts of Hea ven, and Lords of the fame Houfes in the one Figure as well as in th~ other; ~~ld .If the L~rds of the' 8th and 4th had power to Imprifon and Kill 111 the Bifhop's Nativity, I know noreafon to the contrary, why they fhould be debarred of that force and abilitv in the Doctor's, purfuanr to their Domiaion in thofc two fal~l Houtes bcf~re~entic~n~d, w,h~ch .my Friend Jays a mighty weight upon. For If their Dominion 13 fo confiderable by being Lords o~ [~1ufe Houlcs, as our Friend 101m, and fome other Authors tells us ,Ii: IS; then beyond all doubt, we may rationally judge that ~hc Malign Influence-that A:Hhors ray is lodged in' h and 0, which renders them perfect Eicrnics to our Nature and Beluz and alro Authors of Death and Sicknefs, mull mightily add co t[~eir Power and ~bility in point of Death, efpecially in the Doctor's Nativity; And yet our ~earned Author kills the Bithop Oil the Afi:codant to, thc,Bodyot h j and lets the Doctor live ten y':ars beyond that Dircdion, and dye on the Afcendanr to the 0 of 0, and 8 of It, w~i~h to me feerns a mighty Mylte.ry, thad, lhould have power to K_111, and yet not have power to kill; when J am Cure there is no rea,lon to be aHign,cd, that c:w reconcile the Contradiction to any 13C!~nahIlan. But ~ Mr. J. G. C~1l thew me,or any one, by what Diredicn, Configuration, or Pofition, &c. h is more enabled to kiU in t,he ~thop's.,th~ he is in the ~~OI'S~OI by what way or means hIe IS ~l{ilhlcd ,10 ru: pow~ of kIllul!; in the Doctor's Figure more tlla~ In the _Biih.Jp S, L will ceaCe my fw:ther .mq_uiry bitQ the reft

of

. .' ,(JpUJ"'fJ{tf~hndtum,

ofhls Errors, and not only aeknowledgmy Ignorance, but do him Tight in Print; nav, Eri« mibi M.1gnlll ApoVo. For he tel!s!us in plain terms, That the Bifhop was taken up and imprifoncd on the Midheaven to the Bodyof (1; -where he continued about four years, and was then Beheaded on the A (celldant to ·the Body 'of h; and yet the DoCtor had both thefe Dlrections, and, neither of them kill'd him, tho at that time he was vr:ry Infirm and extrearnl y Corpulent, therefore, if thefe things £hould be true, or believed Io to be, how {hall we reconcile this Doctrine to his 92d Apborifin, where he Iays , 'Ib« Diretiiuns of the M,dbr((lJm never k,jll!-, bIlt wbm a violin» 'D(atb if tInea/ned. Which Aphorifin was made from the King of Sfl'eJen's, to ferve a turn at that time. In whichNa.iviry, how Ihall we believe that his M. C. to the Body of h did kill him, when we fee plainlythefe two Gentlemen out-lived their M, C. to the Bod)' of o. and Joim himfe1fhis M,C. to the Body of h.

But bcfides all this, my Friend hath mightily difcovered his Tgnorance in the Direction atligned for the Doctor's death, which tells us plainly, That tho he doth make a noife with Pt%my's Name, yet he doth not underfimd one word of Pt{l/amis Matter and 00- chine. ' For he fays [CoT/eCc. Gen. P: I26.J that he died on the Afcendant diredcd to the 0 of a neat the Antares, Now ,if you pleafe but to obferve , 2f. is 5 degr. 20 m. in ]I, and a is 5 degr. 27m. in 1W. which is a very [mall difference in -l', where the Oppofition ' of the one falls on the Square of the other cxaCl:ly, and borh Directions mutt be allowed to tome up at the fame time, and this in the, Houfe and Terms of It. Therefore, if he or anyone elfe pleafe but to look into the J 4th Chapter of the Third Book of Pto!omy's ~ilJtipaTtite, they may find theft; words, he there difcourting of thofe things that do prevcnt Death ill dangerous and killing Directionsj . his words are thefe, Impediulltur enim, cum in filles bweficarum Incurrunt, altt ell", benefiea adJprxfrit qHadr"to Afpetiu, aUl1rif!,ollo, aut 0PpojiJO gradu IIJter!dlorcm. The Mortal Effects [fays he] is hindred, when the Direction happens in the Terms of the Bcneticks, or when, a Bendick beholds the Interfedor by a Q!!adrate, Trine, or oppo. Iite Degree. So, that by Ptolllmy's own Rule, this Direction of the Afcendant to the 0 of a could not kill, becaufe 2f. beholds his Ra.,

- 'dicaJ Place, and the place of Direction to a minute'; and becaufe the 0I'Pofi1ion is a male perfect AfpeCithan the Square, it mutt without doubt have ever-powered it, taken away the Sting of its Nature, and prevented the Mcrtal Effect, had this Learned PhyfiJap's Na-

tivity

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tivity been true and exact. Nay, you fce PtolomJ/makcs two difiind:

R ulcs of them; the R,ryJ of JUfiler,.and the Ternu of Jupiter, which are, [due be confident, fufficicntly able to over- ballancc both the f? of C:, and the Antam. Ana rherefore I Ulall reft my (elf IarisI;cd [t1~1 dW.W(ll,thy GelHlt!llan!pall better inform my JudgmuuJ .mat lec.mi?, Sir 11mdare M.Jyerne did our-live the Midheaven to the Body ol d ~ and the A(,cndant to the Body of fJ, when there was not a~y thing to !i!pport, aflifl, or fave him; it is highly improbahle till; fuppofed IJlrdl:ion [for indeed it is no more J of the Afccndant to the. 0 of d ncar the AJJt.JreJ, Ihould fend him to his ~rJve. when it was (0 much over-f~~ycd by a Benefick R.ay, and ~n the Terms of l/. belides: All ~l~lc? ccntidered , fpeaks aloud !11 my Ears, ~IHt the "()retendc~ Na~lVIry of this Learned Phyfieian IS moll notorioufly talk, and el~hcr Ignorantly or knavi!hly obtruded lIP~1l u~, to prove one of his fuppofed Mylleries, as vain as his new b.el:glOlJ he was ((J fond of in the year J 687, eN. which now he fecms to be afham'd of; for he denies that ever he was a Papid .

bur, Op"rtct mendaccm effe mtmorcm, ' "

And ret to .be more plain with my Reader, in purfuing the Rules d Anwlo~y In t.he track of Truth] give me leave to make there fu;ther~bre:'\"a[Jon~ on .the fallity of his Figure in improving tittle f_3,re N"tlllllS ;;~J Dlrdhons with a great deal of Hounfh, and aC- 1111g by· rhofc of 11 ore weighr and moment in pertcct Iilcuce rs if they were no: worth I~CtiJlg, or tit to be obferved by the Iiudious Reader. AIl~ the tirfl is, Tilt: SUIl in the Af,cnd_nr,which is allow~d by all Arldls [1~''''lIr Author tooJ 10 be Hihf!" or giver 01 Life· and .~or to cbu_fc a £IVt r (If Li~e, and never intelld ;II:}' turihcr ule .J If,. rs l.ut t(I give a mll1?r thing J Nick-name to caufe it to be adn.ircd without allY peculiar ~fe or .~dVal1tdgc, unlcts it is by chance to ftrvc 3 tum, and. then Its Power and Virtue is proclaimed in ~or1s at large ;. as 111 Jdmf! I. King of Great Britaill; in Dr. Le ]\.rTcS, P. 119' In the Duke ofGlocfjrc- p 17 c·I!'·rr G·' d

'Ii'" " . .",. f),II. an

:10111 {hl.t of Oln~rCr(/mnrll, where our Author makes ufi: ot that

rt~11l to inforce his Argument with the grcatLf pewer and probabilliry of Death. And to be j.lain with you, .1 know no realon we have t? o~ferv~ a Hil.g, if w:e do not I11Jke it the only and principal point III 1),rcttlOlls of Life and Death; and I am fure Ptolom w(Jl~l~ not have. gl\'cn f~ many c.uricus Ruks for the more cxag l,nd.lIg of ~h: Giver of Life,. had It not been of more than ordinary ur~ III Nstiviries, and efpecially inthofe Predictions of Life and

Death.

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Death. Nay,the word it felfbefpeaks its Powerand Office,which by the Latin Authors is rend red, PrlJ'for,otor Vite, Ii verbo prorogare, which is to prolong or continue; and nothing cando that, but what hath the full and fole Power and Command a£ it. And pray obferve, That all the five Hylegilck points) are not called Prorogators at the fame time, but that Point or Star only, that is Giver of Life, By the Greek[, it is called, X!lel~,f ~",lif, aut 'A~i7ll~, that is, the Lord of Life, or a Mclfengcr fent out 011 a particular Bufinefs ; and it Isderived from the Verb, 'J\'{!fll(.tl, Demuro. But by the ArabJorCb.1/dm, who feem to be the firti Authors of the word, it lc; called Hileg or Hilccb, derived from the Radical Hebrew word, :r:!~, AmbIlJ.Jvit; which lignifies one that W alks forward, as in a Journey, making a regular Progrefs from the Ii qlo to the ad quem; and befides, a very Eminent Author tells us it is, Planeta vel LoeM Cal}, ex cujllf digrfjJiol/e [(It dircliiollc de (latu vit.;: Judic.wt AJfralogi.

Now, if this lhou1d happen to be true, That from this Point, and from this only, we ought to judge of the length of Life, and alfo the time of Death by the dangerous and mortal Dircctions , Jet us fee what ufe our profound Author makes of the Hilfg in this Nativity, as well as in (hat of the Biihop, in both which the SUfi is certainly Giv.r of Life, by the Rules given by Origalllff, P~zeliM, and Pt%my; nay, we m,3Y add Argol, Campanella. and the Learned Author, -6~c. of the D~lirillc if Nativitifl, P.90. all which agree, That the Sun in the Afccndant [the Moon being under the Earth Jis certainly Giver of Life, as in the Nativity of this Learned Gentleman. Therefore, if you direct the Oto the Body of h , with and without Latitude, you will lind it comes up at or near the Age of 51. cum Lat. and at the Age of almoft 53; fine Lat. and this in TTt, the Dignities of ~, Lord of the Srh Haufe, and not far from his Square; what the Effect of this Direction was.I know nor.but this you may be certain, that he did not dye of it. The next is .the Direction of the 0 to the 0 of <3.ncar the Seorpionr H,llrt,wirh the 8 of 2.', Lord of the 6th, at or about the Age of 66 years, an Age that generally brings Death; but. efpecially when the Giver of Life is directed to the Malefick Rays of d ,DJmiiJIu dam/If Marlif,and to the beams of 2.' Lord of the 6rh,and thefe among violent fixed Stars of both their Natures; and I'cr this furlyold Man would not dye upon rhefe neither, burlives, expecting further orders for his remove. What! not dye on the Giver of

~ Life, being directed to <3, Lord of the 8th Houfe, their true and only Ana1'flQ l This is a wonder with a witnefs; Tsee, lace, it is fo~

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tivity been true and ex~a, Nay, you fee Ptolomy makes two difiinCl:

Rules of them; th~RaJI of.l11J'iter, and the Tirm: vf Jupiter, which are, I due be confident, fQ,fticicntty able, to over- b .. llance both the ~ of ~ ,and the Antarel. ,Ana therefore I null rctt my fdf faIisned [11~ I that, worthy Gentle ~an1fall better il)(o~m myJ ~dgm~iU J :that lee.mg Sir 1htodoreltL:tJerne did .out-live the Midheavell to the Body of cJ ~ and the AC,enda."lt to the Body of h ,whenthere was not a~y thing to ruppart, allirt, or fave him; it is highly improbable tim Iuppofed Direction [for indeed it is nomore] of the Af(end ant to the. 0 of cJ near the Allt-:lreJ, fhould fend, him to his 9rave, when It was fo much over-Iwayed bya Benefick R.ay~al1d ,~n the Terms of 2/. be fides : All which ccntidercd , fpeaks aloud ~n my Earsl~hatthe pretended Nativity of thisLearned Ph ~cian IS mort notorloufly tal((!, and ei~her ignorantly or kllavilhly obtruded llpon u~, to prove one of hIS fuppo(ed Mytleries, as vain as his new B..ellgloll he was ,fofond of in the .year 1637 ,:&c. which now he fecrns co be afham d of; for he denies chat ever he was a Pap)!l .

but, 0piJrtet mendacem effi numorem. ' ,

And yetto.be. more plain with my Reader, in purfuing the Hules of ~o\nwlogy III t,he track of Truth, give me leave to make thefe further ~bfervatlon~ on .the fal~ty of his Figure in improving tittle ~31rc Norions and DlICCh?l1s with a great deal of flourifh, and pafbug by· thofc of IT ore weIght and moment in perted lilence as if they were nor worth noting, or tic to be obferved by the Iludi Reader. An~ (he tirf] is, The SUJ1 in the Afcendcnr.which is all~~~ I:d b~ all Artllls, [r~1, "ur '').~Iho~ tooJ to be Hileg, or giver of Life' ~nd .'or to cbu.fe a glvtr of Life, and never intend any iurihcr ofe of I~,.)~ bu~ to give a mll1?r thing a Nick-name to caufe ic to be ad~ll~d ,w Ith,auc allY peculiar ~fe or Ad vantage, unlefs it is by chance to _tpC a tum, and. then Its Pow_~r and Virtue is proclaimed in w_,or?s H large;. 'IS III Jumu I. King of Great Britain; in Dr. Le An,.s, p. 119. "' the Duke ofG/ocfjie7'-, p.l7. CGUdi. Go.u, dlld ~Ifo In tlu,r of Ollv!rCramn(U, where our Author makes ufe of that ~C~11I tC1l11fo~ce hIS Argumwt~ith .the grcaurpcwer and prob;. hll~~ty of Death. And to .be I--Ialll with you, .1 know no reafon we hl. e t? o~rcr,v~ a ~dlg, If w_e do not make it the only and principal pomr HI, 'Dir~lOns of ~Ife and Death : and 1 am fure Ptolom wf)l~ld not have, glHll f~ rna,HY curious Rules {or the mere exag tllld.IPg of !h~ ~lverefL!fc, .had i,t not been of more than ordinar uf .. III Nanvlries, and efpemlly 1O_ thofe Predictions of Life anX

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Death. Nay,the word it fe1fhefpeaks its Power and Office,which by the Latin Authors, is rendred, Prorof,atar Vit.e,a verbo prorogare, which is to prolong or continue; and nothing can-do that, but what hath the full and (ole Power and Command of it. And pray obferve, That all the five Hylegiack points, are-not called Prorogators at the famedmc, butthat Point or Star only, that is Giver of Life. By the Greek!, itis called. XPel@-.f ~"';;r, aut "A~£lII', that is, the Lord of Life, or a Metfenger fenr out on a particular Bufinefs ;' and it Isderived fromrhe Verb, , A~rJl[oU, Demitro. But by the Arab! or Cb.ildeel, who feem to be the firll Authois of the word, it is called Hileg or

_ Hilfeb, derived from the R.adical Hfbrew word, '11":', Amfml,jvitj 'which lignifies one that walks forward, as in a Journey, making a regular, ProgrcCs from the a qua to the: ad qreem; and betides, a very Eminent Au~hor tells us it is, P/aneta vel Loc," Cali, ex cujll' digrefJione fiJI dirc{Jianc de~alu vit,£ ]udicant. AJlrolagi.

Now, if this Ihould happen to be true, That from this Point,and from this only, we ought to judge of the. length of Life, and alto the time of Death by the dangerous and mortal Directions; let us fee wharufe our profound'Author makes of 'the Hileg in this Nativity, as well as in that of the Bifhop, in both which the Sun is certainly Giver of Life, by. the Hules given by Origalllu, F~ze1iM, and Pta/om]; n~y, we m~y add Argal, Campanella. and the Learned Author, -&c. of the VuCirine of Nalivitier, P.90' all which agree, That the SHU in

_ theAfcendant [the Mooll being under the Earth lis certainly Giver of Life, as in the Nativity of this Learned Gentleman; Therefore, if you dlred the Oto the Body of 'Ii, with and without Latitude, you will find it comesup at or near the Age of 51. CHm Lat. and at the Age of almoft 53; fine Lat. and this in 11\., the Dignities of c$, Lord of the Sth Haufe, and not far from his Square; what the Effect .of this Direction was, I know not.but this you may be certain, that

he did not dye of it. The next is.the Direction of the 0 to the 0,0£ cJ ,near the Scorpion! H,art,with the 8 of 1,t,Lord of the erh, at or about the Age of 66 years, all Age that generally brings Death; but, efpecially when the Giver of Life, is directed to the Malefick R.ays of r:J ,DJmil1ll5 domu« Mortff,and to the beams of 1,t Lord of the 6rh,and rhcfe among violent fixed Stars of both their Natures; and yet thill furlyold Man would not dye upon thefe neither,' butlives, expecting further orders (or his remove. What! not dye on the Giver of

~ Life, being dired:ed to cJ, Lord of the 8th Houle, their true and only Animla j',This is a wonder with a witners; 'lace, 'ace, it is fo:,

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and roo true to make a Jel\of it; he did" out-live that DircClion, or elfe the Nativity my honeil old Friend hath printed for his Birth, is falfe; and indeed I would advifeMt. John to knock under; and fay it is falfe, or elfe he breaks two of the main Hinges of Altrology at once, i, e, the Power of Hi/eg, and their Allard", Well, well; but what needs all this triumph and noife about a thing of nothing, or nothing worth at leall? For tho the SNn to the Lord of the 8tb Houle did not kill him, yet the Afcendant did his bulinefs [and verified the true Rules 'Of Art, every whit as well as the SUIl] upon its Direction to the Squa,.e of Mm, which you will find came up at 8 I . years of Age, aNI circum circa, and' therefore the' AI/arrla is not to be blamed. And for your Hil.g, it may be all nonfcnce for ought I know, neither amI bound to believe a pack of old mully Authors; and I know no reafon to the contrary, but the Horofcope.ought to be a Ilanding Hileg in all Nativities, and at all times of the day.

Soft and fair my good Friendvnot fo hot and paflionate, I pray; methinks you talk a little out of the way.when you' would have the Afccndant to be a fianding Hi/eg,- which you will not fuffer to be fo; but you dance it backwards and forwards, as they do the Puppets in the Shows, and make it ferve any turn, and do any fervice you have occafion for, as Marriage, Death, Preferment, Death of a Wife or Husband, Sicknefs, Sorrow, Change of Religion, Lofs of Efiatc, Getting of Riches and Children; arid twenty things more of this nature, you make the Direction of the AfceBd'1llt lignify in y_pur Corred:ion of Nativities. And I doubt not, but if you could dance the S.n andMIJM too and fro, from one Degree or Sign to another, as you do the Afcendant, there would be-nothing difficult 'in the Art of Afirology\ but there would be a plain reafon for every

thing, and al(o a forcible Diredlon for every Accident. Oh, the wonderful Horofcope, and the excellent ufe of it! But my delign and defire is, that this Ingenious Author would be (0 kind to us, as to let us know when the, ill Directions to the Hiler, will nor kill, and when the Directions to the Horofcope [hall do ir , that the young Students and Praditloncrs may not bccheated and deluded with expcd:ations of a thing that will never fuccced the Operations. And indeed, the Direction he here builds UpOIl, of the Afcendant to the Sqllareof Um for his Death, was over almoft twenty years before 'his Death; (0 that in truth there could be no Caufe affigned fodt,but the Oppofi,ion of Jupiter, and the Scorpions Hearl to the.Afcendant.And tho I bave here not mentioned the Bifhop's Na-

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~iyitfl yet the fam~ Errors here al1,:~ged in ~he ~o40r'.s, do Jtl()Q ~f

them alfo claim the fame ltl!miir~S 11;1 the Bithop $, ",hu;h for brevi-

ty's ra~e. I here o~it,havingal,e!1dy obfer;ved f~veral thingsth,ere,

that are not mentioned here, ~hich I would advife y?~ ~o compa .. e

in the reading, and then conhder, whether thef~ Nat)vltlf~ aKt,rue

or falfe, an4 what credit and repute they can bnng to Car:d'!lal S",ns

on Anglet, according as he ~!lth Ha.tedth!! matter, I bavmgalrc~dy. granted, 'that Planets i,l1 Cardinal Signs on Angles, .. dp and wUl gl~e Glorious Effc6l:s and Eminent Men; and fo wll,l the Planets 10 Cardillal Siglll out .of the AI/g}el, or in their own D~gnitics inAlIglf~t .

tho not in CartliRal Sign!. And fo l conclude tbjs Examen of his

Ten Genltures, with rhe Errors ob(erved. • .

)lut yet, before J conclude with my old wor.thy Friend, I WIll fhew you a vifible J)emonfira~~o,n of his Ignorance ~nd-; an, alCo what Credit is to be given to hisCa)culatlODS AUronomical, as well as Afitolo~U;al. He having a great Opinlon of his own Abilities in Afiroriomy, and o! his being capable to Judge between the truUlof the Carll/me 1 ahle~. and the refi Extane, took an <l~cafionil1 'Ttig~s Almanack [wh~ch is written,bv:him J(O fall foul \l,pon thofe Tables, and thofe that !l(e them alfo, JIl the year I 69~. upon the occalion of the 0'5 ,entl,in g into "('; and t~ebetterto faciIirate hisdetign , and make it p1!lin and dear to his Reader , that the Caro/..1ablel areCill(e ;beC;dculates the O's,p4ce [or at lelft:~ wife fays fo J hy the 4,lfr~l1omia 4I1gl;cana, written br Mr., Nicholill Grecllwopd,; by which Operatio,n Mr. J. G. tells us, That the 0 e~ters the firft point of "(' on March I O. at 53 mill paO: 6 a Clock In the Morning, according to which time he ought t~ make 0 degr, of 'd afcendiogin the Vernal Figure, but he makes 2 degr• of t5; yet that miO:ake I will allow him, tho'tisf.Me. And rheu he be- , gin:; to blcfter, andtell 1,15, how ,rome Almallack;makt.r,llo~e to.pe fingular ,to oppofe manifeCt ,verity; that they are 10 love ,WIt? flllhood, and believe lies: On, bJ:a~e John! .!,!um nuVa menda,,,, fide fuerUlJtill nrrva wa 1 But at.laft he IS. v~ry ~lVl1, and tells them, ,theyinaynug their own Conceits, ~nd. ride their OVID Hobby: horles, and.welcome. Now, after all this Impuden,t CQrt of daring, let any impartial Man but look into ~. GreenB'Ooa.5 Almanack for-that

. year, and the Calculation of the 05 entrance mto "(' .'. done from his own Tables:, by which J. G.'~lfo pretends to do his ; a~1d .yoll will there find, that the 0 enters "('on M1f'ch 10. at -51 mln.;plfi 7 a Olock in the Morning, differing from the Learned Mr. J. q-.

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58 min., near an hour. In which Cafe we mull: certainly allow Mr~ GmflwrI?d ro' underlland his own Tables well; .and therefore the other mufi be in the Error, and not he; . which if fo, then whatneed J. G. make fuch a noife about the truth and exadnefs of any Tables, when he thus deals in Error by Whole-flle, to tellus, that the Caroline '[able! are falfe; when for 'oughr he knows, it is nothing elfe burhis weaknefs and inal5ility in the Operation. For here 'tis plain ,That he hath made an Error of 58 min. and this done too in a Conrroverf] for the truth, as he fays; a very pretty way to fupport and build the Structure of Truth upon Pillars of Error; jult as the Priefls of his Religion ha ve done. plunged the People into fo many Errors, and there keep them, that now they themfelves know not <me fiep in the way to truth. Thus I have fairly givenmy Reader an Account of the Errors in rhofe Nativities printed in the Csrdines Cali, and that they have not Cardinal Signs 0)1 An;,leJ, as he pretends; nor are there any of his Calculations to be credited, efpecially in Narivities, moll of them being made to fervea rurn,and not founded on the true Bafis. And if the Reader will read with care, the Examination of the Errors in this Book about Genitures, he may foon difcover which point he ought to Srccr,to come up with Truth, orat leallways in fight of her, a profpect always giving fome h~es of the fruition of what they purfue, And fo I take my leave of jobn at this time .. and promlfe my Reader to prefent him with my Dtfellio GenitllrarNm, in which I {hall examine the Nativities in Gad-

, bury's Colledioll, in Argul's De DiebHJ Critici!, and in Morinus's A{lrolog~a GallicrI, it being already in a good forwardnefs.

- In the former part of this Treatife, Ipromifed to {hew you, That there was never .any Eminent and-Famous Prediction made of any ones Death, but when the Afirologers made ufe of the Hilef, in Di .. redion, and did iJirect that to [orne of the Malefick Rays of II and d,. &c. And y?U may. fee throughout this Book, that ~y Dethine there delivered IS wholly purfuant to this Principle, for I al~ow no Promitror to any Significator to kill, but to {he Giver of Life only; and how te take or c1ctlthat, I refer you to Book UI.

Chap. '3. of Ptolumy's f!2!!ardrip:zrtite. .

And the firfl Example ~c have (that occurs to my Memory) is that of DOli Jobll of AHftr;a in SixfllfabHeminga, P: 49. whore Death . the faid Heming" predided feven years before and tha t almofi to a day, from the DiIeClion of the» to the 8 df It; (or the 1). WJS in the.

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the 7th,and beyond all doubt Giver of Life. Amtwefincl there,

that the .A.fcendant to the S of the» , Lady of the 8th Houfe did not

kill, nor did that to the 0 of the 0and !(. elTed it; nor could the

o to the Oof Tt kill, tho the Direction fell in the 4th Haufe,

that fatal part of Heaven, as fo~e .e~leem it; and ~he rea[on. of

this was, becaule none of ~h0[e Slgnthcators were GIvers of LIfe,

but the 1> onlv; and therefore, when Ihe was directed to the 8. of

f!, this Princ~ly Native was-made a SacrilicetD~Death; as '. you may

fee by his Nativity, printed in theheforementlOlled TreatIfe. And

here give me leave to obferve one thing j it is plain from Hemillga's

own words, That this was done by chance too, he not-knowing the

reafon of the thing, nor could he ever do fa again; and therefore

brings this Example in (0 refute Afirology. and tells us at lafl, Vn;c/# . hirHndQ non effie;, ver; and iris indeed no wonder, that he could not

do [0 again, when he (lid not know the true rea[on why this had

fueh all effect as it had; which is the fault of too many betide He-

min"a, who could never arrive yet at a true Rule, to judge of the

Effects of Directions in Death and Skkne(s.. .

The Iecond Example, is that of Lucu« &UJntiuf, in the Nativity of Pieur Mirandula, where you may obferve, that the» to the O'of the 0 did not kill, nor the M.C. to the 8. .of h , nor the Afcendant to the 0 of JI. in the 4th; but the A[cendant, who is the true Hiltg, or Giver of Life, to the Square of h , and Body of cJ did do it effedually; (0 that it is-plain, the Giver of Life is to be principally and only taken notice of in : )irecriolls of Death.

The third Example, isthat of EdIP,ldVr. King of EII,giand,who died JI'1y 16. /1;1110 1553. bc~ng almoH Sixteen ,{ears of Age ~ ahd as it is reported,it was.predichd before ,by Cardall,altho he had hi), Nativity imperfect, as to the exact time; yet did fay,That the Afcendant to the Boay of h would kill him, and indeed [0 it proved, and that hecaufe the Afcendant was Giver of Life by Ptolom'ls Rule; a COJJjull[iiollpreceaing, and both the Luminaries, 311d part of Fortunc under the Earth; and neither 1/. nor ~ ,who are ill Aphcrical, Places, do behold che Points of Heaven that are mentioned 'by him in the like-cafe after an Oppt>fitftm; and therefore I do affirm, That the Afcendam was the real and true Hil.g; and the EtTeCl: confirms it to be fo,

The fourth Example, is tillt of the Nativity of Vincmt1f'il1g,

where we fhall find Up00 inquirv, that neither the Afcendant to the 8 of the 0, nor.the )) to the oof the 0, was able to kill this Native ..

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Native; no, nor the Midheaven to the 0 of It neither, that fa~~l DireCtion (as fome think) roLife. But the 8 to the. Body of h kill'd him with the Mundane-Square of cJ ; and the rcafou was, becaufe the 8 is certainlyGiver of Life, and this beyond all dilpute; fa that you fiill fee the Hileg is always concern'dvand but Ieldorn mifleth, and when It doth, there are (as indeed there oughr) very good Reafons to be given for it, by any that undcrlland Directions in their.true Morion; and from thofe thai do Ilot\mde.fland them,

it is not-expected, .

The fifth Example, is from the Nativity and Death of Cbsrle) Il, which was predicted by a certain Perfon fome years before.It happened; and it is well- known too, to Ieveral inand about the City of Londen ; to be true, what l here [ay; and that Perfon to my knowledg made u[e of no other Sigoincaror, but the-true Giver of Life; and in that Nativity you may obferverwo or 'three things that are very remarkable. Jjt, The AlCcndant to rhe Body of h did not kill him, neither did the Midheaven to I he 0 of h kill him, nor the J) to the Body of the 8; my, and what is more, the 8 Hilel, to the 0 of It, did not kill neirher , which admits of a queIlion, and that ~ very rational one roo , But why did it not kill him? BecaufeIt was not Lord of the 8 th ; : is not that a very go-od reafon; HI, btl, ba ! Or elfe , becaufe .he was thong, a.nd like a noble Enemy, fcorn'd to hurt him; by which Rule the Stars arc always,either (00 firong,Qr too weak, according as Mr. Atlrglogcr plcafeth to turn the Scales with his Finger; or perhaps the Direction falling in the Honfe of Hope, a fortunate Corner of Heaven, and [0 it could not kill him; or elfe, becaufe rhe» , who difpofeth of the place of Direction is ill Trine to the Afccndant, which for ought wc know might {ave; and if not tingly, yet certainly, alrogher may be allowed to do it, I)otwitblranding. the place of Direction was in pitted and deep d'%,)'teJ; a plaguy kind ot an UIlhapplnefs to a man under an ill fate! But to tell you the plain truth of the matter, thcfc are all Shams and Fooleries. And as a Learned Divine once [aid of the Pictures in Church-windows, That they ferve only til k..eep out ,the Ligbt, and (0 dothcfe in {heir places. And for the true Reafon why it did (Jot kill, YOll have it in Book Il], Chap. 14, of Pto.!om/s ~adrip.trlife, where you rruy, find .it if yOll pleafe. And fo I come to tell you, That when the o came to be about 9 or 10 degrees in Q byDirection , he met there with Ieven Ma!efick Directions, without an y at1.1Hal}(c ·tore-

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lieve or [ave 'the Native, which I (ay,· MoJo AJlroloJ!.ico, was_ the real and true Caufe of his Death. Thus I nave performed,· what I promifcd ~nPage 20 .. and I th.ink ~poke enoug,h to the purpofe I intended It for., but If any think I [ not fuffic;lent, or at leaftwife: ufelefs,: -they have the liberty, either to improve it, or re-

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By way of Supplement, J will add a few N,iti.Viti.es, to !hew fur.. - rher how we ought to proceed in the difcovery of truth, th~ only thing I intend by publifhing this and other Treatifes, that Ihall come forth ill their due 'tirne r and alfo how miftakes do arife in the Afirologick Practice in N ativities, which being printed and ob-

, truded on the World, they are received as truths by the younger Students, becaufe not detected by rhofe of more Ye.lrs and Experience. And this I Ihall endeavour to prove from fame Nativities already printed, that the mifrakes of fome People have been as a Hinge to the prefent Errors that we labour under at this time; rhote Errors I mean, that this Age is fo in love with, and I believe it will be a very_ hard matter to. Ieparate the one from the other; However I will do my part, and let the Multitude believe, and the leffer Number ad: as they fee convenient. Neither fhull I be arigry with any man, that will not believe he is in an Error , but as he hath lived hitherto, [0 let him go onand proceed to the end.

1 have had a Nativity of a young Min in my hand thefe Dozen or Thirteen years;' and I hear he is dead of a COIl[umptiol', at the ArYe of Nineteen years and a half; or thereabouts. It was given tob me for a remarkable and prodigious Binh; one that was to be

- of long Life, great Repute, and Fame , _and alfo Rich; and this was becaufe all the Planets were in their own Dignities, and no ill DirtCtions in a long time, - The Figure is as followeth, (COt to the efliruateTime of his Birth, as it was given me without any Corrcctionauhat time,orfin,e, till now.

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_ This is the ellimate Time of this Gentleman's Birth, and hedied of aConfltmplian'at almoIlTwentyyc3rso(Age. Now, the main thing to inquire, is, what was the Direction that kill'J. this Man, and why it Ihould be a COllfumptionl I have told you-already, That the Hileg, or Giver of Life mull he directed for Death; for .if all the other points are afflicted by l.iredion, and the Hileg ,free and befriended by a good Ray, the Natlve {hall not dye at ihat time; therefore we mull tiril r ndcavuur to find cut who is Giver of Life, before I proceed co determinll the Caufe and Time of -hls Death: Firll then, The 0 cannot be tii/.,f'" becaufe in the third Houfe; nor can the», .hecaufe {he iSI~ot ill 311 Aphctical Place, .unlefs we fhouldalrer the figure, and make it later about Nine 01 Ten Minutes in time; but iflbe had been Apbet.z,fhc could come to no violent Direction before the 0 of rt in Zodiac» at about Twentynine years; and SefqlliqlltJdrale of cf in M:l1Ido at Thir ty Iix.or thereabouts; the Mundane Parallel of the Sun excepted, which comes -up Cooner or later, according as you alter the figure in the roth and lfi HouCes.

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, Thereforerhat Dominion will fall on JII/Jitn-, or the 'part of Fortune in the Tenth H~~fe; if we accept of this. Figure,. being the' eflirnate Time of Birth, or if w~ make it Iooner, as'it is molt ge.nerally. The part of.Fortuue cannot, becaute]ltpitedsJtrong in the Tenth, ill Sexlileto the Moon, Light of.the Time; and betides there are no Directions to that Point, nor near ir, that are very confiderab1e; neither can Jupiter-oe hngty Giver of Life, becaufe the part of Fortune is in the Tenth: Therefore I will. alter the time given about I I minutes later, and make 25 degrees offi[cu on the Tenth Houfe, at which time the Moon,will be HiJeg,'and yet Jllpit" bear a Ihare alfo in the Natives Death, as you {hall fee by the Dlredions following: The R. A. of the M. C. to that time, is- 355 d. ~ 5 m, and the dUlance of the MJon from that point of Heaven,' is 53 d. 6 m. her Oblique A(cention under her own Pole of

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jJi1d 0 rtin·Zudiac9.fine Laritudine--"-' -'25 :,,6 • .-. ~g; 1) 1&2 ... :

» ad Par"f/rlrlmll. 'fnZodaico:' . - .,' t~6' 19 J . !t. ~8 rol,69}

Thus you fee here are Eleven Dired:ions, and Nine of them to the M?On, who is Giver of Life, the other two to 1upiter:: .I h.a..ve

. not deviated far from the eftimate Time, becaufe 'it.thQI,ddnot be obiefredto me, that I had made. a Figure for my owopurpofe,' and yet I dare not [wear this to'~ true; but, lam [Ilre it isas likely to be true, as any time that can be felcd:ed within an hour or two of the eflimate.. I confef], I did not know theGendeman~ and therefore I do leave the DileCl:ions here wrought, (0 be .ap.plied ,-and judged by thofe that did. know him" :8LU.as to his.-

. laft tix years, I will give my Opil'lion on the:Dired:iQPs·~ about the Age of Thirteen years; he had two dangerous Directiolls, after whi,h I jlldgehe was never perfeCtly healthy; nor do I believe . - - II he

14' '0/'11' ,fRJfoimattim~

h~ appeared Confum-ptive till about his Fightecnth year; ami for his Death, he had the MNfI Convers torhe PU;llIcI of tbe tUII . and ~o to. the ·Oppo/rtiurr o~ lr~arl; and rhefe .followed by three 'other Duethons that were _VIOl¢nt. As for allowing the Diredions of ]rtp;tt"l ro the Sq"ilili of 811111r;,,1 do oqrbring.t~( ill asan Ar'gument of Death, but a Confuroptiol1 ; An Obfervation that I have made in divers Nativities of thofe that died (:on{'umpt1ve. And tho I do ~t juit mention it here, and (0 leave it to the Cenfirre of the Candid or Sceptical R.eader, t~ give his Opinion as he thinks ric; yet I thallende;rvour to prove It when, I print thofe Nativities I have promifed? amon~which you.will find Ieveral of Cllnfumpt;onJ. But befides, If there IS fuch a thing as the Planets g.overning particular Parts of the ~ody [which 1 believe they do] then why Ihould not .hofe Planets dir(d~~ to the Maleti<;k Beams-of Sallrm,M,;u ,&c.give a wcakllfK ahddebthty tathofe Parts they gm'cJu? For I fuppote We a~1 own b~d _Directions to be an AfH~ion ; and all Authors do gIve the prll~:lpal Parts of the Body to .Jupiter'S Government : Prolomy allo.wsJilm the LfUlgI, Arter;er,an~ ~eed; and Carden the Lung/, BI~d>..~lvn:, and F/f{1T_; forfnt, take which you will, 'tis pl:iin,they al~.w him ro govern thofe very Parts of the Body, that always fuffe~ I~ Pmf"'!,ionl; and _-tJiot]l_cfe "[Jj~ections do give [uch Difeafcs; ye£,u ~b0:-CJI do .not~lIow them t~ kill,but when they are tollowed wirh Violent D~etllon5 to the Giver of Life. Therefore you fce fome PeopIf fall mto a Conftmtptirnr, and dye of it, and all in the fp~cc: or 6~ ~onth,5 .. and_yef"otnerS-lii1ger under ·it Ten or a Dozea yean before dieyayes _~n!I}"et fall by that lingle Difeafe at laft; wath .t~~fe. A'~~Il~~s.tba.t.21~yS bear it company. _Therefore,. I fay, ns _my OPII~tOI?' he fell Into that Confumptive habit of Body uflder ~t Dinction of J"pittrto the Sqllzre of Saturn and h~ ~b Balfanuck ~ncl Healing Diretlioll came up afterward ;0 re-

pairthacgreach, flUtbeHikg time to thofeViolene and Malefick lkamg, ;thit pto~cd his 4'1'D~r., 15 youriJay fee above.

,8utl patti,J f~cfte wbanhe C.rpritilJ's uuy object to this Corsethoh,. and DJftdions; . and tell ,"ou, that they can give a good fLlOftanfi~ll\ufonfOt his Death, without, this trouble ami labour, and that l~ tht Af~anr t~che;s~~ Mlrr, which cernes up exaCl:ly by thi\; vb)! FIgure that I 8J.vcfut - hu; true one. To this I anf wer The D~iM W'hkh they call the' SI/'U'B of Milt! i doth come u ' then. ccy!amly by thrirMeantrt of Time. Now, if t hat Direa:io~ (whICh IS but a an~1e 'One Jean kill, . when the Stu1 or MaOlJ is Gi-

ver

OplMa{ifOTmat#1~

Giver of Life, then I am fare it will killat any time : For if that fingle Dired-ion can kill when the Afcendantis not Hileg " it muf] certainly do it when it is; and if Co, then , why did it not kill in Na./fr.tdamlU's Nativity, when beth h and a was in c5 ; and in Sir Ft'lCb. H,~es's Cafel. C~Ueti.Gp]it·f· 159· and in Don Jobn of Atljlria, p. 65. and in that alfo of the Ear of Effix. Ejllfdmi Libr;,

p.45·

Perhaps, likewife, I may be queftloncd, why the Moon, Hileg to

the Squart: and Parall€1~f the Sun in Mlfndo, did not kill him at the Age of Thirteen or Fousteen years, as.well as rhe ConveJ~ParaJlel at Nineteen? to that lanf w-eT,He ha:!'thcn with rhofe Dire8.ions,the M;oll to the Mundane Tnne of Mercury, who was in Parallel with Jupiter; 'lrillt with the Moon and Sa~"ril alfo in his R.adix; an~ betides, that Mundane.Squa.re W<lS:llOt Indeed ~ Sliuuelll the Zodlack, for the ~1»on was th('nby'Dir~ctionill_.9;d~reC6 of Gemi!li~ with Latitude. . .. ..

. Thus 1 have end(avouredto givc an Account of the Caufe of this Gentleman's death, by the belt of that- htt.Je 6kill I have in Attrology; but if it (hould happen not to be true in Iorne mens Judgment or Opinion, I fhall take it as a greuFavolU: t<>:be corrected by any man thar doth really underftand it, and will allow his ow.o Rules to be General, and not confined to one Nativity only, as molt of their Rules and Aphorifms-arc; and llhall be fofar frqm taking it ill.or being angry at it,thad do i.nviti! an)'.lilnl" ,andwlll tb1.nk him for his pains, that truth mayrectt.,e the adv.f1u.gc Io rn;.-ny Gi. us talk of, alid pretend to. And one thing llliall delire of my Aritagoniil:, wh?rlleve~ he is, that {ball un~ertak.e t~ correttme; .That ifhe (hlllatlign any other C~ure for rhlsNatlve s death, than what .I have done, I do intreat him to tell the World why it lhould be a COl1jumption ; and e[peciaUy, if any man thinks fit :to rely on the .Afcendant to the Squue of Marl for his D_eafh,that lheywould be plcafed to give us a Rule or rwo, how we nnU know ~efore- hasd when that Dire.tliongives a Frver, when-a COIlfUWp,iJll, and when a Dj[.ntery, M.Jdlle_fi, S11ZiIlJ-piJX., &c." For of all the Aut hors I have ever y'et read, I hive not yet met with any one (0 bold, as to af· {ert .,hat Direction to give Confumptiolll; nor indeed is there ~ny .rea(on it (hould be though,t .to do it; fQtthe'Nat~lre oflhe DireCh~ll is upia and furious, and kills Citmi",; .but this di(eafe, Lan» pede, makes.no fueh haH. but kills Grad",im.

14?

. U 2

The

'J 48' Op,""(lvformattmi~

The Second Nativity is that of myoId Friend, Mr.]., 8's Son who died of the Stone, Fever, and other -Illnefs, at the Age of Se~ vcn years, and a-little more, and the ellimate time of his Birth wJs_almoft tht~e qua~t~rs of an hour arter Ten at Night, .o-. 14:

J 67 3. All~ (0 It Was given to me by his Father above Ten or Ele-

ven years tince, '

Latirud, Planetar,
It 2- 34 . So
J.f. 3 No
r:J 0 9 No " I
~ I II No
~ I 18 So
II I 4'0 No Th.is Figure, as I told you before, is fet ro the eftimare Time fir.fi given; but Upon filict enquiry of his Father, he did confefs it ~Ight be allowe~ a quarter later in the Evening, and I Ihall Ilrain !t about 7 or 8 mln~tes later than tha t time he allows, and fo make It come, to 5 or 6 minutes after r r P, M. To which time the M. C. is almoll 2~ degree~ofGfmini,who(e R. A. is 80 d. 47 m. and the Afcendant IS 23 degre~s a~d a half in Virgo 1 the O. A. of it 170 d. 47 rn, And from .thls Figure, I {hall endeavour to give a Rational !ccount of the Dheafes and Death of this Child he having lain unh:r that to,rmenting dift:afe of the Stone abou't two' years before

IS Death. And I hope '1 may be excufed for my altering the Afcendant three degrees from' the ellimate Time and the Midheaven almofi fix; and elpecially by thofe that alter their correct time CQ many hours from the ettlmare,

Optij'fJ{ffbr)lz4iil1h~ >. f4~ ,

And the litH thing I Ihall fall upon by way of Enquiry, is, why this Child Ihould be Qf fo {hort a Life, feeing the Muon, who is Hi/rg, wasin Trine to Jui-ifrr...J(i_ h_er ~wl1 Houfe; .and Angular? Why,' truly thi~ is. nO:~eI.y.fuaQgc;: thi!1g,;,iftight1y;con1iqercd; for tho (be hath: been ill iTl'ine to -Jupiter, .yetJhe, is iii direct Oppofition to 'Mercury app1ying, and in a Mundane.square to SJtRrII, and all this from Cardinal Sigi1s; to which we may add likewife, that the was very near the Selquiquadrate of M.m;1I Mu~do, and no lefs than three of tne Hylegiack points afflicted by Directions ncar at hand, as I fhill- p'refently make appear, and thofe of the Moon in the Terms, of-an Iqfortuile; which Pofitions of themfelves [had the Giver ofLife been free from the ill Rays of the hifortunes] were fnflicient 'to have given great Weaknefs und Ditlernpers to the Body, not only withdanger, but continuance too; and therefore it need not remain a wonder, that he fhould live 110 longer,

nor be more heiltHy while he li\~ed.. . '

S£i:andly, Why the Stone? liliall not enter into a long DifcourCe about the Opinion of Authors concerning the Stone, 'and its ge· neration ; Whether it proceeds from a Lapidifick fpirir, according to the Opinion of River;u!; ora fiollY Difpofition, according to Ftrnditu: or whether a petrifying' Ferment be the original anti efficient Caufe, as it is defined by lUTman'; but I Ihall confider it Afirological1y, which perhaps may be allowed to take its ,beginning before theirCaufes, and likewife be noflranger to the reconciling them in peace. For I look upon the Stony Spirit, the Cal-

, culous Di(polition; and pet'rifying ferment, to be but the effect of aprecedent":Caufe; and thoogh they ditfer in their Terms, yet they all do defignthe Came thing,; and therefore that which is the caufe of them, is certainly the caMe of the Difcafe . And I do not undertland that the Child had it from its birth.and therefore it had

a· tlme-to begin; , . .

I have generally obferved in many Nativities,- that whese-evee

the Stone was produced and caufed in the Bladder, .both Saturn ' and Mm had' a linger in it both by polition and Direction; as jf S"turn afforded matter for the Terrene ferment, and Mars for the petrification; fo likewife .in this Nativity we !hall lind them both - concerned ill rhe Caufe and quality of his Death, as you may ob", '

ferve by the Directions following. '

,,_0

D_ M.Y. M.

» ad 8 ~ crm: Llltittll{me + 4014 00\r677

8;,a 0 It in :Zodillco . c, 5 ,0 4' "9 16'7~

}) lid st('JI,iruliJr"tum rJ fn 11:,",40 ....;,_ '5 ' lill" 'ro 1~1g,

® lId .curpr'; ft . -- 6 44';· 8;16'79

J) "i PJ11'IIU4~ r:f in mU1J4o di: . 7 4<1 69;l61'0,

o ad 0 ft 'ill mlind. 44.--, 8 56, 7 II )68 [

,To which we may add the ;Sun (~ql1dary to the Square of Ss-. tutl! at S ye!lt~ and th<;M~M ,~y(e,ondary motion to the Opt'ofi, tion of.Sfluiru ~114 Square OftM 3'unat fix .years .of age, which did not a little add to the Effects of tAe other Dil'c6tions; and on the dav of his lafi Revolution) Sa,"rn was to a.degree on the Pladi".l place of the,lv1~Qn, and Mm on the Radic,,1 A[ccndant.'

Hence l.cOl,lcliadc there Dir~~ioils to have been rhe natural Caufc; of this Child's Di[ea[<:,and Death : Efpl.!cially, if~mpared with the Radical Politiolls of-the iY!JOII in Square to S"Ulr~ iJI munda,andwithin Rays of the Parallel and Sefquiquadrare ·of Mom .So that I judge this Difeafe begun at or .. bout '; years of Age, on the Sun ad 0 Ft ill Zodiacu, and the MQIJ/I, ad SLfqlurpwlT:ltttm M:mi.Jill Mundo: :~nd that ,Ebep..nt of FOnUlIC to the EDdy of Sauan , the MaOIl to the Parallel of Mst:l, and theSu~ to ;Ibe Square of Saturn ijz MJllII:Jn, wore out his Life by a-continued fuccetlionof pain. And letno man object, that the Jiafs ofVmllJ tucceed the Parallel of M;I)'l', which according to Ptn/amy'S Qothine ought to fave and fupport Life: I confefs it is his !)o6hine, and my. Rule; but in this Cafe, where three 01 the Hilegiack Points .a.~e IIffiicreq. by djrecrioll, and tlre iourlh vcry ncar it, the Ra):s of V~IlHJ could by no weans fave:

She might indeed pIOWa, and perhaps Ipccificatc the Difeafe ; and therefore the might adq ncar his ExpirationlGmc flux of the Bowels, dittemper of the Liver, and by accident, as :bwlg,in con- ' ;una ion with Aim,: a Fever" or il1i~ry, byPhytick. ,'~ .'

The llext.is of 3 clliJd that diedwuhln the year at the age offix.

Months, or before it, and was given me by anaccident , he ,tha.t gave it, and they that f<:l)[ it, deligning a Trick upo~. me, which proved in the concluiion one upon themfelves : The t Jg~re of the Etlimarc is as followeth, and Drought, to me jufi after hs death.

It

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'NJtUs die' 2. 'Augulli Hor. 4. Min. 10., 'M;m( [684. '

1> ill d fl.

Lu:in.de, . z..owr.;.i.· .

" (

Latitnd, P1anetr ft, ~. ·0 Nort~ 2/.1:' I'j N~~ a 0 14 Ncrth ~ 4 +'3 SoutH '!t :1 16 North

: '»:4 ~ North

.. '.,

n. "

• - - *

It is no great ~atte'r for th,e dad- tY~~:of~liis Nativity' [thOUgll' I do ind ced believe it was a few r;ninutes foonerJ becaufe thofe that: dye within the year., do for rhe mot]. pl~~dye by polition~ as yO!! may fee. Book the Tbh·d,~u:zdr.ip.#.t.: cGaf· 9.' .fe~dOl~,by,,~ ... e~OIl, and Co did this Child; the-Pojitio~so;£.themrelve~ pems,(ufijc;lcatly.

able to kill'ir',if well 'onlid~d:",'·,: ;.: ',":;' " '- .. ,- . ;

Brit before 1 proceed, it may .lot be amifs' t?: te.n you rne Stoiy

I hinted at above, and it was this. About the middle of J"mmy 16i'~. one that kept a Coffee-11ou[e,an~wa~a Pr~enderto Allro~ gy, cal1'd on me one Mtern?on,anq t~ldme I ":~s defired tQCO~ to his Houfet~lf;'[h~rrda)'followitlg in t.he Evening to meet four o,r: five very great Afirologm that had a mm~ [Q (pend ~n hour or two with me and alfo told me their Names; fo I prom,[ed to be there [Deo ~er;"jJunte 1 at his hour, an~ di~ accordingly pert~rm my Promife . but what the matter was, 1 Know not; he nor his CO[Jjpany wc:e n~Hhere ; and. ..yhen I hid Itaid about two hours, and was preparing to ~e gone, in comes. he, and cx'~fed the matter as well as hecould, telling me he was very Corry tne Company had diCappointeCl roe" but ~eiirc:d me.to liay and fmoak a Pipe ~~tlL

. " ~m~

- Op'" :fJVformatUm:

him, which I did: And while we were talking, he pullsour a Pa·

per outofhis Peeker, which was this Nativity, anddcfired me to give mY Qpiniop o(th_~ Child's Affairs in general: as length of Life, Riches, Preferment, .Marriage, -Imployment and Trade,&,. 'aU 'which he named, ana rnoIe)ik6Vife, So after I had felioullr coofidered the Figure [without asking him any queltlon ] I told him Illiould make a Ihort Judgment on- it, without the confide,t.ation'of Marriage, Riches, or Preferment, forI, did, judge the &~dwas eith~r diIJd, or ,dyilIg, which he readily: confef] to be true, that 'it was -dead, and died about a month before ~ and dclired I 'would tell him my Rea[ol1s for it, which I refufed. For, Cays he, .Mr. C. [aid it would live till 60 years of age, and Mr. S. bid ie would live to 58, a,\da third told him it would live till all his Friends were weary of him. SQ that after,;they Caw rhernfelves befool1. in their Judgmen~, in hopestl.laU..would have made a Humble alfo, de fired lilY Opinion, that I might have taken my place on the fame form with then). And I doubt notybut if-any thing here afferted :is nor true,") Jhall hear of it on both fides mt'. Head, for fome,Of them areIlill living ~And fo I come to the point inhand. -'_ -- -,-" , ' ,,,:, __ ,~_W'_" , :',

.Tbe Reafons therefore of this Child's death were, the Sun in ;Leo in parallel with M;r!arid Me"Hry illtonjlm~fion in the Twelf

, !l0ufej and t.he SU_/1 Hileg. the S~ i~ wit~l t1~c Lyons Hm!> and the Moo~ mConJunchon wlth S~tlJrn'm VlI'ga ,~othpe~eg~lll; for al .• ,though, t~~ MaoiT is Ilot 'A.ph.tt~i y~ every Affiidioll' of anA pheti> 'dt ptace)dds to the weak!1'efS'Of, the Body ';~ndev"ry Difeafe or ,Weaknefs helps death in at the door; therefore this af1{i6tiop of.the MOOfds no [mall caufein the Child's death, but I allow the other 'iq'be the caufafim qua non. Again, thtSun, M.rsand Mercury are 'a!l in a violent Zod~acal Pa,raUel, and ought to be conlidered in

, :particular,- becau\e the part of Heaven, where they'~re,ccituate,

doth much influence tHeir good or ill Effects': Ahd bfily: The : 'Moon i~ applying to the Zodiacal parallel of Saturn, and neither of , the Fortunes helped nor hindred -in all thiS, ,Affair; neither can 114. pifer-or Von,u kill bydireCl:ion, let them govern what Houfes ihey "will, Thc{e,l fay,ardhe rruefteafons of this Child's death according 'to the Doctrine here delivered. in this Trcatife of Nativities, and fhall in all CafeS' hold, whether there arc Diredions or'not , asin many Nativities you will find no diredions for Chlldrens dying -wirhin the year: -And betides, if a Diredion is able to 'kill four

months

- .

opus f!{efor.m~trlJ"J ,I S J

ths after birth that pofitioncertainly affcch the Chlld 311 the ~~~ of its Life, fur the Child'$ Life is but a continued cffc~ ?f_ • • fuch a Pofitiol1of D'iTi:Cti6h, -if you have _()(1e: And thetlefor~ I Will c. rnup all with that Text of P,olumy, Vrvet Natu,! tanto fpacto qlllUl· ;~! _eff 11umerHJ gradirum ;l1tfrpror;'g~"ort'" & ~o~imtfm. maleficanl, tot

·1/' t rnen'(;cs dies 't'fl hor, (11 pry mvdo &- vmbus CtZlIfarum nocen-

VIae tee ~", \.." h

,illm ; and here you fee the Chil~ (ned wdhen the SIJUl cfiambe to t e

Squar~ of Satlftll, - and theJ.c isfiK,teen e~rees a rno ctween theirtwo Bodies, and' thai lived Ioimany weeksp.~ake the belt ufe you can of this lofii',udion. Thefe three Natlvmes have been

all printed in EITglifo already.

The next is that of j.1/Janl1eS B.1ptifla Card"nul; the Son of the Great Cardan which hath been printed by his Father already, by Sixtlu 4b.H,minga who brings it as an Argument againlt Allrology, becaufe there wa; no reafon given by him, 110r Naibad,. nor MJgintis (who hadthefuIveying of it, and were, 1 reallybeheve, three

of the gteate" Men, and ~all~rs of ilftrol0,Sy, t~at. have appeared

in the lafl Cc:,ptur,.y) for hIS violent death: And It IS alfo b~ollght, againfl us tOColl(lIte and confound the _ Art, a~ its .Pro.df?rs, by AlexiJJI4. de Angrlu, pag_ ~Ol. in his Trearife agamfi Ai.ro~

logThe ~tory is thus: ,This Bapti~aCarJa~~J wa~ the ~ldeft ~on of his Father, brought up to Learning, and 1Il\ploye~ himfelf 1I1 t~e_ tludy of Phyfi<:k, _w~kh \lfteI\:var~ he profeft and .lIved b~: But 10 the 24th year of hisagf, be [~ltho.ut the A~vlCe of his Father

or other Friends] marned a~Wlfewlth a fmall Fortu?e, and le[s Mildelty; and being. incurnbred, and ovcn;har~ed with her Re· lations and his Practice being fmlli, they fen UltQ neceffity, ana thence'into dilfarencewhich difference belng aggravated by Dif. - content on the One tide, and increaled by gt'~ater provocations on -, the other, they at lallcame to down-right hat~ of each other; and under this Perturbatiollof Mind he contrived how [0 defiroy her; and the method he pltch'd upon, was Poyfon, This p~yron he -P?t' into a Cake and Cent i~ to her by_a Servant, fhe being then III t.hild,bea" :'~ndil1'~fm:&time afret-Ihehad~~at It; dyed. , The_ I next day he was tilkeliu~ by the OlHdcrs ofJulhce,and esamlneds , but was'to far from denYIn~ the~F~~,that h: confelf~d he had been two months contriving now to do It; and In that time had made

, . two Attempts at it; but mifiofhi$ defign. For thisCrinie he

X was

Op"S ~1or1hatum~

was Beheaded [which is the common 'Yay of Execution in thofe parts, of thofe guilty of Blood] on April 7' AmID IS 60. belng almoti Twenty fix years of Age; and tQIS ;.vlthout;any Aceoune of its Caufe Afiroiogically, which llIade ~t1Iing" and Alex. ~ Angeiif laugh at us, and all th~feaKo, that prctencLw Afirology. I have therefore made ufe of this opportunity to let the World know my Opinion, as well as that Learned Monk's, who hath already diC-

. courfed of it. The. Figurd(hall give, is the fame witl~ his Facher's; the efiitllateTime 9£ Birth,. for, I am (iire it cannot be far from truth; becaufe his Father was fo Ingenious a Man,. and I prefume careful in taking the tlrne'of it. The Figure follows, with the Planets places calculated from the Caroline 'Tables, both in Lon. gitude ~n_d Lati~uQe. . _,

,

TheMut. is beyond all dOlJbtGiver ofUfein this.Nativity, a" mull be dbea:ec for Death, and thcrefolc ~~bOQ.taJtcring oranining any thing in the Fisu,e, we Olall find Ca.ufe fufficient at that time it d.id, fO put a period to his Life, and the principal Direction which ddboycd 1t, was the M40n, Hikg to the Zodaical·ParaUel of

. the

,QRJ~ .JJtifq~,If1tJ" _ .1 J ,

the Sun, which !he; me~ts ill 14degreC;5 ofCjJlJcrr, whofe AJk of Dlrection is 26 d. 26 rp.which give~;n time 2 5yearsapd 10 (qcmths. at which time he .~U iil~Q that. ~b<lppy ~iS(~ft_~~, ~ you have befqr.e .heard; ami. thatw30~ at~~p<le4, wl~I1JQu,rot~~~pited:ioJU. - which helped}o ~o,mpka.t W:J.t f~tat!aQ~cl~WLiji ~~~~e,· ~. y~

~ay fee py theJol~9~illg{}'~k.'_ ' -: _. . .. ' ". ._,. : ...

, _

M.A.C .. 10lH,

8 IS s6

I;:~~~:

.• '.,64 8'1)6$

D:'·M.Y. . 0 IIIl pll1''''tlumr!.ni"n~# --...;.....-:'19 ;f'r8

l> II,b.fr4IJtlt}in'ft. ",*,ul~ ae. l'if' J411'

D IIIi PPllllelrmli(j f!I'ZO;/ja, \i6 ~ 'a.41r

. » ildP/l1'lI'tl4flt J:"ilJ7laQ ie. IJ9 l 1$'

J) "" PIl1'IIIi1t-: 11 i" Z"tiillco 130 S 6' 3 ~

D . .Ii COrt"i b -' ----.14 1,4 H

.. And ~ltho. th.efc.~r~{Wl?den(tf> kill:i~any.~itivity; yet you Jllly obi~~I!~!1-fhe~~V:~¥ltloof~tIlthat y~a,r).(.,e. ~y 14· 1559- rhat S(4l1lT4: was _inC~njJUzl1io~ .with ~he Srm, ~dll direct Oppa..

. (Ilion to thj: MOfln~s tt~ical_place, and ]flpitf1' in SqulII'eto it; aotJ -ro add to all, the ,lrfoon was in Virgo, ami there (ep~ratil1g from the$qup,re of.the S"". and SaI"rn, ~.nd :soi~g to the S,pt:11e of M~!, al}~ her .own RaAA:al p~~cl;.,and SaI,.,n in ~hl; ~~d of 1,urlJf ~n the (;unePaulJel of~linationwi~h them aU in the ~IJd.;;c, .and the SIP' not far feom the Oppofitjorz of 14MJ applying. I fay, thefe conJitlcred with the .D.irea:ion~,· are ;lZmodo IIl1tlltlJli; more than pro-

bably able to &iveD~ath,· - . -. .

8IJt pc:,rAap~ ,~t ~ay be askl=d, Why, a. viol~t, p~ath? And why

by the ha»4. Q( ~ru~_?: Filii" rhe<l?tre~\o(Il.f~ in t;;~~er ,~1l4 there too .whqe~he .,poualMs ,Of the Sun, Milo»:,· 811,.,-n, M;.rl,and JlIPiu1', do. aU Center, and in the Terms 9f Mrcll!Y jllfo;the SfIJJ a.nd M(J()/l are wid;l violent fixed Stars; and the MJon at Birth afflit-tedby_ theP,U'auels-of -t~e SIIII, and rhe Info~~.nes., ,w:qo_;l~~jlikewifePIQlTIi~tQrsin P~tb. ; ¥d ,th~~ lY~r:y, ~~l~s JOI,l ~;ly ,(if y~~ pleafe) find drawnoutfor 'YOI,lt ufe, 'by ,f.tQ'o~".ln ~h.a,t·Ghaptt:l', where he clif,ourfetJ! about :o~tural al1~ violent P~ths:;as in tbefe 'words, ErunJ, ''"(~ morIes 'Iliount.e,& infignu, q/lanao aIIlaplba M,_,':' JiJici VlJl1lin4lltJR'. ~ 11llsrfeliori, feu CoI1'!!1l1i, [cur>e 1uC!~a!1J f~ -4pieiemes a14l opp;'fiti fe,rmdum Long~tt~ne",-,-&c. Now, it is YOllfwQlk to inquire how they g9vern in the Anaretick point, and how they behold one another. And I dare -alfurcyoll) it is- worth yo~u while,

if YOIl ate a Lover of--Allrology. -. .. . ,

X 2 Second!;"

()pM'f1{tro~mtittJ.Ji~

• Steontlly,lt is as plain by theha~d of Jufiite too; if you will obferve Ptolomy's Rules, which in rhefe vety words he exprefleth it. HI c~m Jupiter at/fpidl marte,m adjlil1u!, erunt neees InJigniom ex Judiciil ."" Ira ducum tnIi RegHM.Ancl how examine the Figure, and fee whetherppiter is nor afflicted, and whether he doth not behold Marf, or not; and ~lUy. whether hls' 'Rays are not intermixed with the Maleficks in the CauCe of Death;" and when you have done that, read the Paragraph that next follows, which I quoted before. , Thefe things, 1 confeCSl-,~le_9I,lt of the co~monR~ad; and fOr that Reafon I expect to.be.xeafiired for an IJ)novator·,hut God be thanked, there are rio PenalLews in- the,eafe. lexp~ctal[o to be' cenfured. for a 'H.ertrick, Ifo~you know that the greater Number are always 10 the rIght; but rIght or wrong they will be fo. And therefore, if I fhould happen in this my humble offer to the World, to be out of the way, or mitled by an Opinion without, Authority, that J, G. orfome orher, as 6reat, Good, and Charitable, as himfelf, . would do me and all Mankind· the fervice, ro put me into the right way, and pick out tboleNativieies that our Enemies have mocked at, give fubfhntial R,eafons for their Deaths, &c. fuch Reafons as may be all of a piece, and not only Ierve.once and no more, ~ut in all others where the like Pofirions happen, for I intend mille {hall be fuch. And the fooner they take this courfe the f6om!r they will flop my Pen; for I intend to call moll of thei; Authors to the Bar, and fee what Defence they can make for rhrufling fo many Errors upon us, and deluding the People from the Truth, ~hld. ~~th be~n a Trade too long ufed. But before I conclude this NatiVity, gIve me leave for a word or rwomore,

.What I have here done, is by the Figure of the eflimate Time, wltho~t any Corr~!0!ll and the Directions agree very-well ; nay, to a Mlrac}e t but If It were to be corrected, a nd the Figure fet to the true Time, which would be about 10 minutes fooner.than the time here ufed , then Ihould We have all the Dircdions<fall exaCt'· -asrhe SUn~d p.if Mar! tIUIntW dd. the ~aan ad pJr Saturn mitlJdo Mol. C_on. and with thefe the Midhea~nito the 'frine of Vtnm- for his Marriage at almof] Twenty fuutyears of Age, with divers other things that might be ~bfer."cd; but I will leave that to the ingenious R.ea~er to exercife hIS Thoughts on wbenhe thinks it convenient.

The next f !hall- cenfider , is that of Lwit King of Bohemia and HMngzrJ, -whicb I perceive Het;ung~ hath taken from LeovI,im, and

. p~in.ted

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. " OPm lfJ{!fonitatum.<,> "

printed that v,:ry Figure, which he mak~s to be ha!f an hour be. tore Noon; and for that Reafon, H .. ",mga fays, It cannot be true becaufe the Chronicies(I( his Life fay hewas born at Noon; but ~hat Alteration 1 could have excufed, hid they with it rendred

a good ana (ufficient R:eaf,on fo~~his-D~at~,~kut~h~J on,~~e, one fide, and theObjed-ion ohthe otQf}r,. are ~uch alike; neLthe! .of them becoming Iuch learned Men as they twowere, for L{)vlltUl [;;s fays HemingaJ tells u,~' it was fhe Maon to the SqH.Jre of ¥iJfl

[hJtkill'd him; A veJy unlikely (lot\y t: '. ~:;!c" .', ,

, The Hiftory of himisthusshe wa?J?cx,n,~~F ;qrn'!#June at Noon, in the year 1506. and in the Montl1qfAugujl, irirhe yean,526 •. he was put to Fligllt in a Baaelagaint\ the 'f1tr'<!, and by the weight of his Armour, p.rlftnga River, he was drowned; but others fay, That his HoIfe threw him [in the. FHghtl in<l!wet; muddy Place) where he was fuffocated; and this whcll·he:\Ya5 but Twenty~ear9 and a Month old. Co",minifoetHr [fays .Heming:"] Atlrologl" ·,itcidellti4 hujlH Cau[am, Direliionem Corpol'u Lunaru ad JinifiiHm quadrat"", Mar. two But if any A.llrologa {hould imagine fuch,a,Cau\eohhis Acci. dent ,in my Opinion he would Ihew himfeIf but a very:weak man in his Profelli6n, becaufe the'Moon is not Giver of Life, nei- ' ther did that Direction killin.thofe two .preceding Gmitutes . of Sir 'fbLQdori M,J}'frne, and Mr. Hobb!; yet I will not difowri, but zhat this Directlon of the Moon to the,Sq~re of Marl, mig~t add to the Violence of the other, but in rio wife kill without

them. ' .

As to thetime_-OfhisBirtn., which Ht'milig_a:\aysfomuch,llrefs

on, and quarretsbccaure itwas not kept t6~xacHy, tho hehim-felf dothnot affeit the time to be cxatlly at Noon, but uferh thefe words, Sub Meridiem, about Noon; Ihope then, in make a lltrle Alteration'from the exact' time of Twelve, 1 maybe pardoned by the Candid" if root by the Sceptical ReaMrs ;. and l,a1fure' you. whoever_ke'ep~ fo near :tohis ellimate TlnlC: ~s 'I do here, fhall never be blamed by me; for I have alter'd'the figure bun 2 mi .. nutcs from Noon, the Time he afferts';aiid dbb'etieve I can giv'e

a better,Acco'unt of his Death" then the--Maoll to theSqu.are of Mm,., which Heming~< frtijle~ at,;- afl~.:~,e.1l ,he. mi&9t .. 1'~~,!ig~re fol- , .

, lQw.s." , .. - , ' , . <,'. .

R.'U3·

0PUI, ,fJ\.efornlf9.uttJ." ,\ ~113~:o.A.

Lntltud. Planerar, h J $:r\<J J) 4 56 So

I have given you the Planets'places accor(iing to Heminga in all' .except S.""n and the S#n, which are wrought from the Carolin; 'fable/; and 1 do really believe, if the Eftimate were- true in the gener~, this o,rthecorreCt Time i)s very exaCl::. and this the rather. ~ecau,e the DlreCtIQlls are; fa caturally psoperto give Death by fuch means,aud ways, as be du:d.' '

TIle S"n is certainly HiJeg,being Co near the Cufp of the roth Houfe .and S",,,,.n Is Anareta. tho he is not Lord of the Srh H0uCe' but perhaps you will (ay of one as bad, that is, the 4th; ;l1idiudced you..ma~beUe,..e,it if y.ol1 plc:afe,lt being the common Opinion no~ 10 pracbce~ And, he died 011 the S~n to 'the Mundane Pai:aJle1 of Sa-

tem dd. with £oW others, as YOIl may fee. "

D. M. v. .M. A.C}), M ~.a,."trnn rJ litre r..titflliil!l-I:l.O : :1.119 1~\IP6 o ~ p"r"lltium 'ft Munu dd . 10 '17 20, ~ Jpl)

J) lid !il....uadrlltmJ rJ z,tliiUD cum LAtllluim- i I 52 21 8 1 518

8 lid P"r"Ue!rnn It in mundg de, ' 22 2+ 22 3 I p.8

8"dPAr"'"IU11l'ftinZDiWrD---~+ 16'l.4 J,JnO

.0 i1dCwprlllt ' 27 38 z7 61 H

, ,ThLlS

, ;

,Opm , (J{e!ormatu,ia:

Thus you fee the s~ was d.iretled to ~he Parane" of Sall/,n by direct Direction at Twenty years of Age ; and at the fame time by the GonVqs-M,otioii;"thc' Sun'wa!: ':a1(optIt into thePanUel ,Qf him dc. and thefe.attended witH tWI> ot~r :violent Dire8ionS to the Slm' Iikewife, and all in C"nCri",:' a W:itery~6g,ri. and no Benefick Beams to affift arid' [upP0It Life. Now ,,,hat think you ~ Are not thefeDiIetl:ions of Saturn to the Sfln.~o~c:.proper to kill. than that of the Moon to th~SqHa;e'i:i(Ma~s ~ndeI the E¥\h.? Whid;l' I dare undert:ikr to proy,.e, ~~ve~,J~~_~lf.\,any '8Ian 'nee ,the 1\$ of Afirology was know.il,bu~j5lftetiretves for a Snam, w~cn ri_othll1l; elfeis to be found todo it. Now,if any O"ltleman;&t. (hall thi~~ theCeDiretlions alligntd inthis Cafe, either to be no Diic~1o~,

-or not to have (he f~cethat I allow them, [foi~ I ex~& tC> meet with J that they will be pleaCed to give aIiy ot~r R.~ton~" rhatfeems toth~m lDQri:proper tha,othc(e:lc~~;alfo p~in~,.tb!in, . 1 do, for the beriefit of our Bretbren_;and not only.in there; butt ' take othersalread Y printed, or fome of then own cot\ed'ing, ani· be fo" kindalfo to print the eftimate 'Qme.of,acl). of ~eiIOW"-, and by that means ~~y will excite: otneJs,Uluy.theirSklU, anil

make OhfervatiOll!. ,.;, -," .: ~. _ ,'\ 1

But pray ob[erve" AlthoVmru is I,.ady of theEigthh Hour~, ~ pernicious place; yet. we do not-tind, th~tthc: Afcendant to her Square h~ pOwer to kill. nor do we find tbeCSun in Sq"are to the ltadical Hotofcope could do it e1ther;"and tho the Stplm'fJf Mtmtry

, in the Zodiack~,~me;up~hen to the 'Af~dant, Tet.it a~dednotblill

,w the time nOImanner Of his Death. ' '

.. -.

The next is the NativitY'of Gem",. Frifilll, which 15 Infcttu1by Heming .... (f.rom.w~om I take it] with agre1t many pretty COf'Q~ ments:t ObjediOn'f, and ObfervatiOn5 maCon i the chkfeft ~f which I wiUAnfwer, and .make ufe of the' Pbncts placcs:ashe:hatb .

printed them. ' '. " ' .

This Native, G,emm" Frifilll, was born the Bthof ,Drumbet, d;., 10 h.B m. P.M. 'lo;OS. he was a Learned, Ingenioll5 Man, and, both an able Phyfi~in arld ,Mathematician, wdl skilled in Mu~k, a~diveuorhercuriousStudiJ!s;,butin't'heyear J555· MIIJ 2'. he died of the S,DJie, bdn8 thencompleatly Forty fix years an4 'tift _ months old. The Elevation of his phct. of Birth, Renting" hath ~( told us; but 1 judg ~y the ferting of the Fj~ is is-about 5~Cgrees, O~ Ilear jt; and Co I have Iet thdollowing,Schcmc.

•• 70.;"

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,;OPIU rJ?Jfonnatum., 1\,70. ); A ..

I have ventured roalter.the Figu.re abou~ 3 degrees in the MiJhoaven, and two in the Afce~dant,whi"h amounts to about 15 rni.putes in -dme, fooner than HeItIiilg~'s.E'igiir~ ~~s, which is no great . (auk ofdiff'erence in tfie method Hi;';ing!l ufed' ;:llldfol: his Death, he couls! find nothing that he thought the Aflrologers would al.ledg, but .the Moon to the L)IGru Heart, which he doth a .litrle laugh at, and fa do J ;: but with this difference, I willtell you the rea-

',(Oil, ~hy 1 do-very litt~e c{le~m that D,iieaion" Jild M <;Ibth not: 'The MODII pafferhthat -5tatwhh 4 degreES and. 3 o,[.l)in~'~es of SouthLatltude , and the Star .ir felf liathhalf a de~re~ of i!vrib; fo that .their dlflance is, at leaf] ) 'degrees when (be pafleth theStar, and' .for rhatreafon can have very little Effect in point of Death; and indeed that Dit.eaion came up Fiye yea,rs before his Death, .ss you- may fee by the folliiwingJa~Ic, The Mool) is. here ~e,~fainly #lift" or Giver of l,ife, and w-as direCtt'd t~ the' .P'aia\lelof (he ,Sun ;/1 Mllndo, Dired- and Conyers at the Time of Death,' the Moon h\ying before pa{fca the Lyolls Heart,and Parallel of MJrI ill MIII,-

da motH rapo. .' . -

':! . . II ad

, )

. 0 pUS t1{efo!matnm~

D. }) (la C~r LtOPlis' =145

l) Mi Pllrllllehnn 0 mund. de. --:--- 149

l) Illi I':. 0;n z.d;Jlc~. . ' 149

11 ad PllralJdum 0 ","ndD ad -150

Afctlldens .i 0 0 , -153 II ad PlJI'afieium It ZgdiiJ(g SC'luit ----

Th~fe Dired:ions I_ judge more proper an~ natural to give Death,

) than th~ Lyoni Hearl; .but as to. iu,Qyalityand Morbitick ~aufe. ~ that takes its Origination from other Principles, as well as Directi!)IlS)~S the Mlon.ln up.in Oppofltion to the Sun, and both in SquiUe to Salurn, in an Earthly Sign in the Afcendant. But, perhaps 1 maYlbe queflioned , why I'bring the Direction of the Moon t~ the 7'rine of the Sun, as an Argument of Death, whkh was ever ~udged otherways. I do l1?t fay, Th.cM~on to the <{rille of the SHn kips; but Ida affirm. That to be a Concurrent Caufe of Death; and IS fo far from faving', that itfireng'thensrhe Violence of the other Directions, as I 'can (hew in divers Examples by me, in obferved and carefully taken Nitivitifs. But befides, that 1rinewas indeed a SifquiqHadrate, if you confider it well, and.hath naturaUy Violence with it. But I lay

noftrefs thereon to in force theArgumentofDeat~. '.

But Heming4 is plea fed to ask·two Learned ~_ihons: The I1Ill IS. why the Moonadoppofi1umMartif, did I:ot kilt? .Ar)d,'l~ly. Why the Sun afterward to the Body of Mars did not kill? TIS flrange, a' man of his Reading in that 'undertaking Ihould ask two fuch (orry, filly QtefHons. The firfi could not kill according to ~Io~amy's Rule in that Cafe, becaufe the <{rim of JHpiter fo~low:ed wI;h!11 a degree and a half; nay. it could fcarce give any Sicknefs, Nor the latter could not kill, becaufe the Sun was not giver of Life ; it might give Trouble and Sicknefs, but by no means Death. With ~hefean~ fame more idle Objed:iolls doth Heminga {hew the Excellence: of hlS Parts in bantring an Art and Study ~hat he ~ever u?der~ood;alla after he hathmagnitiedthe notHifed of rhefe two DircCtiQtlS' [bequ(e

. the Native di~ not dye upon them] . he gravely tells us, the ~hoJe."-rt is a Lye and Deceit; his words are thefe, Argflit itaqlU fe/pram be« Dolirina falflllJ,if& mmtlacii. But indeed it was his Ignormce. /

not the Art thatwas accufsble-

, Another Nativity i hive taken from H,emillg", ~hlch to m~ Ieems the mof\: plain of any tilat'ever I have judged or f<:~n, 'and. yet .h~ raifeth many Doubts and Objections)th~t do indeed etther thew him

y to

M. Y. \ M.A.C: 8lHo 61553 0,,54

5 'H5 91H7

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.~OplU fJ{jformaeum., 11\. 70 •. 5,' A.·

]I. 0 +5 North fJ 2 0 North J) I 41 Sourh

Sub. Latit. S ....

GemmA Fri{tl!l, Natus die 8 Decembfr.

Horv ro, Min. 53. P. M.

lS08. .

I have ventured toalter.the Figure abOUt; degrees in the Mldheaver], and two in the Afcendanr, which amounts to about 15 minutes intlme, fooncr than Hm#'1g~'S Figur,e W~$, which, is no grea t caufe ofdifference in the method lI~";il1ga ufcd, and fOI his Death, ' he could find nothing mat he thought the Afirofogers would 111- 'ledg, but the Muon Co the L)lolu Heart, which he doth a little laugh at, and fa do I ;: but with this difference, I will tellyou the rea-

',fan, why I do-very little efleem that Direction and p~ doth not:

The Mooll pafletlrthat Star with 4 degrees and;g !}Jill~(es of SaluhLatirude , and the Star 'it felf hath half a degree of J:lJrib, fo that their dlflance is at leaft 5 -degrees when {he paffeth the Stu, and for rhatreafon can have very little Effect in point of Death; and indeed that '[~i[.eajon came up Five years before his Death , as you, may fee by the following Table. The M~oll is here certainly #ill!" or Giver of Life, and was directed to the Parallel of the Sun ill Mflndo, Diretl and Conyers at the Time of Death, the Mllon h\ving before pafled the Lyolls Heart,and Parallel of Msrs in MUII- '

do molu r"pto. .

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. 0 pm 1\,e[o!11Jatnm.'

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M.A.C .. 81550 61H1 01;'54 5 1555 91557

D. M.Y. » ad C~r Lmlu·---,-----145 l> ad Para/Mum 0 mundo de. 149 D "a /:). 0 in ZQd;ac~49

D l1a PMl1l1dum 0 mund» dd 150

.djcendwl.d 0 0 , 1'53

~ I1d Par""elu1n ft Zodil1co Sc'1t1it

Thefe Dlredions I judge more proper and natural to give Death, than the Lyoni Heart; but as to its Qga.lity and Morbitick Caufe ~ that taltes its Origination from other Principles, as well as Dircctions.as tbe Mo.Jllln I.eo.in.Oppojitioll to the SUII, and both inSqudI"e to Saturll, in an Earthly Sign in the Afcendant. But, perhaps) may!be queflioned , why I bring the Direction of the Moon to the Trine of the Sun, as an Argument of Death, which was ever ~udged otherways. I do not fay, The M?oll to the Trine of the Sun kips; but I do affirm, That to be a Concurrent Caufe of Death; and IS [0 far from faving', that it flrengthens the Violence of the other Directions, as I can Ihew in divers Examples by me, in obferved and careful! y taken Narivlties, But befides, that 1rinewas indeed a Sejqlliqlfadrate, if you confider it well, and.hath naturally Violence with it. But llity 110 firefs thereon to inforce the Argument of Death.

But Heminga is pleafed to ask-two Learned ~,l1ions: The firfi is. why the Moon ad oppoJitum Ml1rlif, did not kill? And ?dly, Why the Sun afterward to the Body of MaTS did nor kill ? 'Tis flrange, a man of his Reading in thati.mdertaking Ihould ask two fuch forry, filly Qgefiions. The firft could not kill according to ~'o~omy's Rule in that Cafe, becaufe the 'trine of JHpiter followed within a degree and a half; nay, it could fcarce give any Sicknefs, Nor the latter could not kill, becaufe the SUIl was not giver of Life ; it might give Trouble and Sicknefs, but by no means Death. With thefean~ fame more idle Objections doth Heminga Ihew the Excellence of his Parts in bantringanArt and Study that he never u?der~ood;ana after he hath magnifie~ the non~effetl of thefe two Directions [becau(e the Native did not dye upon them J he gravely tells us, the ~hole Art is .a Lye and Deceit; his words are thefe, Argllit it,zqlU Jf!lpf,,", beo VoGir;"" falfitatH &- menJacii. But indeed it was his Ignorance, not the Art that wa!! accufable-

11

Another Nativity I have taken from Heminga, which to me feems the moil plain of any that ever I have judged or fe~n,and yet .hlf raifeth many Doubts and Objectionslthat do indeed eIther {hew him

y to

Opus .a{eforma{um~

to be very Capricious, or elfe very Ignorant in ALlrology; yet fome of his Objettion~ are rationalenou.gh. as you !hall fee anon. I have chofen this Genirure, hec~ufe he·was Heming.'S Acquaintance and Nei-ghbout in We(ifrdfland,and Govemeur of ufNf'din, for which - reafon, I fuppore the efiimate Time was true, end the Diredion of the Afcendant to the Dppajiti.11! ofMarJ wasalfo true for his Death; a~d yct.mlllY Doubts remain, rhar Hemil1ga hath not offered at. The. FIgure IS as followeth, with the Planets places as he hath given them' but I have altered theTime 24 minutes later than his, and yet w; borhagree upon the [arne Dire6Honfor Death; we only differ in-our Mca(ure of Time, whkh is the caufe of our:dilferencc: in the Figure,

Laticud. Pbnetar~ .

It I 32. So 11- 0 58 So d· 0 7 50 2 0 56 So

~ J 58 $0

» 3 56 s.

. ThisGent'kman died of an~onthe7thof ]Ml1IA'J,157z• being then athlbft'F()rty clght:yeils of Age. Having drunk plentifully the Night bcfore,which waS '1 If',/fJ'I,3nd the Diredianwhich gave it, was the Afccndant to the Oppofi1itJn of 1rUr/,ArII.. 44 d. 2"S m, which tumed-lmo Time, gives Forty feven yeas:s, and about Eleveil months. And tho-Heming" allows this Diredlon, yei he askerh, why he did not dye on the, Afcendant ro.the Dppofttion of the Srln, _,d aft;er that,to thcl'rlgOns '!."iI~ l' An'd w hythe.s~ in his younger

,CUS

Op,u rtte[orn,atum:

years to the Bodies of Marl and Saturn did not kill, Saiunz being Lord of the 8th, arid in it,which in the old way hath a mighty fway. I will give you an Anfwer to thefe things, before we leave them. I', The Afc'eodant to-the 0ppo[lI;on of the Sun could 110t kill, beaufe the Oppo./ition of VenM did fo foon fuceeed it; and for the DragooltJ TaiJe, I know no. reafon why that Ihould kill, nor cannot be perfuaded that It ever kill'd anyone yet, or ever will, for it is an empty void place in the Heavens ,being but the Interfedions of two imaginaryCirc1es, and can have no Influence of its own, becaufe it is no body, nor is it vifible, and therefore veIY improbable to give any Effect, efpecially Death. And for the Sun to the; Body of Msr«' and Saturn,could not kill, becaufe the Sun is not Giver of Life; bur

I judge the 6rft pf thofe might give the Small-pox; and the fecond, fome little kind ofmoefs, but neither of them any thing. very Remarkable or Eminent, as to the Native's Health.

But it might be very rationally asked, why the Afcendant to the Oppofition of Marl fhould give an Apoplf'o/ f Whkh Heminga takes no .: notice of in his Ohjediolls,:md is far more proper to be asked in my Opinion, than all thofe things that he enquires after. In this Cafe we are to take the Time of Death from Mm and his Direllion, but not the Q!!alityof it; for that is taken from the other Direaions that do operate with, and are next fucceedinli, in direction:;.1 Motion to the Giver of Life. And in this Cafe, Jupiter doth govern the place of Death, both by Dignity and Prefence; and for that reafon fpecificates it, who you tint! in Conjllnl1im with Satll1'n, . and in Sextile to the Moan. and the Moon in the Terms or Jupit"; and both M~rr, Jupiter, and Satflr1l in the Terms of VtJJM, aU whi,b add to the Difeafes of-Redundance; and Repletion of Humours; and befides, Jupiter doth naturally give an ilpoplexy, and Diteafes of the Stomack, by fuch a Pofition as this is; as you mayfee, if you confider that Chapter in Ptdlom,'s De Genere Mort;t. But by the:

. common and general Opinion of Dirtaions, this of MiJrt Ihould

rather have given a Flux of the Bowels, a: Feve-r; or fome Difcafc: that is attended with Inflamarion 01 Hat, continual or intermit-

dog.

2dly, If the Eighth Houfe is the Houfe dfOeath, and that every

Planet accOIding to his Dominion mufi do his Office; why did not the Afcendal1t to the OppojiUOIJ of VenM kill, file being affiieted,and a1liftecl by the Beams of the Sun alldllfar" and Lady of the fo-fam'd

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3 dly, Thefe things confidercd, may help to inform their underIlanding better. who believe that the SUlJ ought to be always Giver of Life, but eCpecially whenbe is above the Earth in afjY part of Hi:aven; when they obferve, that the Sun [Q the Body of Msrr; and Body of Jupiter anclSalurn, did not kill; but the Af,endan[ to ·thofe Rays did do it, 3I1d (hat becaule it was Hi/q!" or Giver of Life. ,.

LajUy, That the Sun Ihould not kill, is plain frulll the old Notion, he being Lord of the Afcendaur, and will by 110 means hurt his own. A moll abfurd Opinion! but, why MarJ by that Rule fhoul.i kill, I wonder, he being Lord of no ill Houle, and yet he [urns Murderer; which muft certainly proceed from his falling into bad Company t~ere; he happening to aflociare himfelf with the Lords of the EIghth, and by that means grcw as barbarous as they. Vt focilH fie

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Thus I have given you four Nativities out of Heming,l, that he brings to affront and ridicule AHrology wid}, which you fee are not guilty of what he alledgeth, nor is Allrology blamable in thofe things he obtrudes upon the World. He w .. .s, I confets , a very Learned Man, and indeed a far better Gramarian than an Allrologer , for in this he was Mafier of no more than what was common to all. I could, I confers, have given you divers Nativities more of his in the fame Treatife, but I am fearful of medling with bad Tools; divers of his Nativities there mentioned, being to my knowledge falfe, and yet ferves him to make a noife about that wb,i,h he was but little acquainted with, as to Its Truth and Operanon, He .tells us, Henry Vlll, was born the z Sth of JUlie; and yet Stow fays, he was born the z ad of t~ar.Monch, Aiary Qucm of England [he fays] was born the 8th of September, Allno 15'15. but ~tow tells us, it WQS the I I th of Febmary, 1516. and J, G, a{ferts It to be the 17th of February, eadem AmIQ. And tho he is right in the day of ~eell Elizabetb's Birth, yet he is out in the Time if Stow may be believed. From whence I conclude that moaoe his far-fetch'd Nativities are falfe; if [0, then it is no' wonder that t~ey f~iled his ~xp~datio~ of Effeds; and pray, who can b~lieve hIS mighry Objections raifed from falfe Nativities? Or, what call be ~~Fecfl:ed betides wranglLng, where fallhood Is made the Foundation? And [0 I take my leave of him.

I have this year 1692, feen a Nativity printed in an Alman3ck, and brought as a proof of a panicular Direction there all edged to

to give the Smali-pox at almof] Five years bf~ge; ahci"a1Jthe Pre- , 'ellam 'u Aftro1ogy in 'hit Natiol/. are chaUenge4 to produce any other Direction , proper W give_ .tha~ ~i~l_{n~$ at that'Ag!!., betides the Eatthdjre.de~. to-the Heliocentrick-place of Marl, And I being one ,oftOOfe Pjerenders, think myfeJfi~crned to . offer .Iome thing of my thoughts in that._Matter,-:and humblycaft in my Mite to that Treafury of Truth, that this curious new Invention is thought to increafe. It. is without doubt a thing mofi ingeniOus.~.and w~nhyof every curious man's ~mark and Notice; an4:iUnviH hold. in all N~.tivities to the end 'and purpofe it is here tmade ufe of, it will be of admirable Service ill. the further difcoveryof Celeftial Truths, and give its Inventor that Repute. which the Worm of Time than .never deface, nor the endeavour of Enemies ddl!oy, but .nife to his Fajne an Everla~illg Pillar ofHonour , that 3.11 who collle. afte! _Lhall pay a Gratitude to his Merticiry, The Figure follows, fet;acc9rding.to my w'ay r. and hj~

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The DifeliCe YOIl :blve httid, ,.u the Sfftall-Pdx at F our ycars antl Tti\ tnOlit~sbld; artli the Direttion that gave that Difeafc: {. Jicit] 'Wa~ the Earth'to the Helioderrttwk place of MaJ'J!;<".aSldh. u mota'y ftm, tit> rt\itl (ttl iglve, 'nOt ·affigfl8ttY othe~ Dirc8iod proper in' 'that Ca{C',.t thttcfime· w opera'te ~ whit.h:if .ftue!pthm that mull ~e atlowroto'be"tbe calffe'of it, whim ~ilI' bCctez~. pear updtl the fliMrtr enquiry into the matter it' fe~ ", "

J wonder, That:i Mati Ofhis·vafi Parts,and Abllltlts,· ,ih6uld ~ canfidehtiy ~ff"tn~ !That 1tit!te w.asno ¢t'11~r 8iTed:ibri to befound at rhat din!! ruitili1etOllil!'tffifl, but ~heEarth to theltcli6Gerit;kk plide 6f_MJrJ. WOO1811Y t#.itHn;lttlrtdeWfttJds the ducction.1 Mo. titSi1,i tttay l1ltntift b'J 111fpeaitm fee,t"b~n the Sitn to the Zodiacal P'r~l1elbf Mthi~upat·fhHlime tlmt~ whore Ark is 4 {J, 1+ m. in.! ti~~it\ t~ F6~te3rs lln~Elt;Ht ttJontrrs ~ : lild tills by hig d\Vn F~e, ~ artt~ll'l'g ~ 2 ~l~~ie:, And theref6re',If~pt>tt •

. when Mlfu dune to the place-of ~t1effi(m about the midd le of '''~ nuary, J68~. then the Fermentaion began that gave the Diftaft~ Now, this is no falCe, but a real Motion, and a Direction of that force, that it often times kUls;- trot·hi this cafe, I judg, it could not becaufe it is a vit!ll~~tiyi~1:.. And.belides, if he will allow me bu~

, 'S ·il\iilutilsbf ei:~or in the: Time [and ll"eally belieretbere ari:l,ery few Dials [p eltaa, or ,the Obfervers of-Nativities fo pofitive as to deny it). t.'witt produce ~otber Di~edi011 [as 'forcible as thisis'] of lvLws re t~e. Afcend:mt, and that 15 the SelqrUljWdr4,e, which in djter5 NadvIUcs. I have by me, hath .provecl Mortal; but then it ttlIlfl be where the A(cenda~t is Giver of Life; which here is riPt; and th~efere~ not, tti mennon theftlaoll Conyers to the Sqltartof Sj,urn IT! Ml4lido. rlle,Afcehdant to the SqfU~e OfVellUi, the Moot :10 the Zodiacal Square of M~ CIU1J L,itudine, to the Zoai~tSquare of Me"lOury fine La,ih,,:line, &c. which came up all about,that time. I judie lbtfe two. fufficient to prove, That the Affc'rtioO ~ or the Affertbrdepated from the truth when he deliy«ed tbat Notion, And to be p~aitt with you,Jt was that vety))uectionof the Sun ad pat Marl,. that proved the Atrupor to Kiog Charles II.

But befides all thls, Why Ihould the Earth to the place of ltIirz.. give the SmalApox .... ftting the Moon and Satllrn are fa neat in Aq,ei!t to h~s Henocehtr~ pl~ce? Why Ihoul~ it not have J>uir~ plltrid contm,ual Fevtr~ ~lftIlC~fi'!,.a Fall, witha wound ii~in~Jt, or

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Again, Why lhoq1d \l~ ~ ~Jl"'"~tftc;d fP-t~F ;lhIio~tric:k - OppOfition oi.lt4Rr, be~v~~ ;w,~y .• ~eIj~~14s the ~f.iP· to tlI, Body of Marl [{~r the D~~~~ f){C:fslt-~J!f~~'lke¥.crr¥.f\hil1it only oppofire PQI~~~J. w.l!~lfj~t,b~;t~\l b~ b,td;,tW,9 Qir¢ti'i»~1i Jt the fame tim,: , whic~ i\.r!H'ql,J,btl~($,qfiDp~§Jwce ~b~n ·OI1(. Now, if there things are allowed, fh~1J ,w,e ~Wl ~~e~ to the &liocentrick Sextiles, Square~, and Trines of !loll tn.q ~l~n~~.j ~o~o which, we Jllllft hlvcH ~"",Thepryo.f Di1~,iQ51!i,Whi<il} ,'YQ, .. d~ be 0( excellent ufe to thole: that ~~Hl\!~iou,s ,j~ ~t:'V~y; ~n4) am Jure it would .puzzle rIle Wlto~41y, ",pJil)t!qut~: W~y tfo·4irctl: the ~",.,Afturd4l1f,. alldMidbtaflen" to the -ael~eo,riGk ~ies ~ljl Squatesof fome, Dr aU the PI.~n~, ,~ml~tmeJjI~ _'~OllW:e it to my R(afOn and Scnfes; .fPI if Ilho~Jsl M~ t1}j! IM~4~avefl to the 8c.dy of MP-/ltdjo.~nui~l~~l1dG~ce~{j~al, 'j1.Jl,l~\~e ~tt~ r. l.Q1uflgiv~ my E}\¢,~~-,l¥e', ,ke~.teJf,ej~ llaJf~~~me MeridIan .pQIJ:lt but OIlC!! •. &~~ .to b~lie~e !~'9,bq ds; I1RJ .. Ho :fran{rtbjt41lliat;on; yet I believe, . if ~JlY -miiln''I'{QU,~ gO~.l~O 'flw $.1Ht ,w.ith his Telefcope at his 13~k, I ~htrnQt, "blle·he wight fqeNw 11117 degrees of Jjbra.whep.V"1 file hitnjD~5 d~l::C~QfJ~J~ Sign, &c •. And I am (\1.( ~t~ill.f~\I~~ il. ~Fge1 ihitb C1}iItl,JI"~, to bdieve':[ill thi.Rigurc for.E~~fJlple'}thIHbdkl~M~-ff.;pJJ!§e ofVtll"l'in SAorpi6, lhow.~ ~nY,w~~ :affe&,. At be ;tjls~,Q~i'C:J)i,b¥ us Geocentrick~ks. ,Npr ,~Jl it concern U5, ~ball ~6 w~~iJlg$ubjech of E,lgIanJ, areobl~ed,to keep:tbe,L:tw.s.oCCQIlfl.,n1iMPf,e,; lor tbotbere .,e :fu,c.:b.u ws, :Yl:t C\te.yIlJar(.OO ml't IlPMllS,ht JW!-

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Many more things might be alledged in this Cafe, to inform the Ignorant.WoJ;.!!,~bQqt tWsMyffely,as·i\Yhw.~jt is H leg, and whar,Parts,of-Heaven are molt proper for that Power and Dominion; Let us Iuppofe the Moon in the Tenth". the Sun in the Afcendant, then the Earth mull be in the Seventh. Now the Q1ery Is. whlc:h of thefe thre~ mufi ~e allowed ro b~ Giver of Life, feeIng they are all in Apbeticalplaces. Again,"how we (ball know when the Dired:ions o£.the Ear.th have power to kill, and when not; and whether the ,~rth to the ,Heliocentrick place of Marl doth always give a Fmr, or ,the Smal1-pox. For.if ,it hath not always an adequate EffeCt,. or Bules-laid down tofhew when it will. and when it will not do it, I am fure no Man of rear on will believe that, nor' many other things in Afi.rology.

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, '14IJ, 'Tb,e ElrlhdireCt~(fto any'Bbdies ~r'Arpeds,doth' dellroy the JlrmCipks,of dircdionalMption, that is, it renders that Motinl) ufelefs,'bywhichall,Diredim;s ilrc'~de, and-therefore mUft,fet up a new one bf it's own ; ,,;,and whofoto ver afferts the Direaibns of the Earth, dillincHrom thefe Of theSlI/! in oppofite -poinrs 3-' Fam certain theyunderlland not the Motion by whieh all D!n:Cl:iolls are made, for they, are all made by one Morton, both Dir(ctand Converso And what 'I haveelfe to fay in this Cafe, llhall referve

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Perhaps this mlly' give [orne People a 'difgiIff, and' provoke them to an ill Opinioriof our felf, aria, think we have done this out of -a capricious Humour; but we doaflurerhem it is no fuch -thlng, and-that it was only two things engaged our Thoughts in this matter. Fi'Pt The Challenge, we our '[elf being an.e <?f the : Number thereiiloluded; and have done this purely ,in Vin~i~ti9n 'of our (elf; leaving all ether' Pretenders to actor faywh~t:they think convenient, or find rhemfelves able to do in the VindiCation of their felves. Secondly, Our refpea: to Truth, concerning whicf} -we have no mean thought, but a very mean and low Opiniou of our ow:n Parts and AbUides,;. and therefore, defire hU!Jlbly,~o:lay our poor weak Ende~vours before every ingenious Artift, defiring OUr felf may be candidly read and' underfiood ; 'and,we are moral'ly Cure, that no ingenious Man will deny his Conceffion to this our .Requefl, So withing all the true Sons of Science, a fuceefs auf werable, to their Endeavours and Withes, We Ihall take our leave or them at this time.

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