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A26161	An apology, or, Defence of the divine art of natural astrologie being an answer to a sermon preached in Cambridge, July 25, 1652. ... / written by the learned and ingenious mathematician, Mr. George Atwell ... ; and now published by a friend ... vvhose preface is hereunto annexed.	Atwell, George.	1660 (1660)	Wing A4162; ESTC R12316	23,708	69

AN APOLOGY Or Defence of the Divine Art of Natural Astrologie Being an answer to a Sermon preached in Cambridge July 25 1652. Wherein all the chief Objections against Astrology are fully answered and the validity of the Art in its purity held forth and maintain'd against Picus Chambers Geere Vicars Gattaker Holmes and others Written by the Learned and Ingenious Mathematician Mr. GEORGE ATWEL late Professor of the Ma●hematicks in the University of Cambridg and now published by a Friend for the publike benefit of his native Countrymen of England VVhose Preface is hereunto annexed Card. Seg. 1. Aph. 24. ●ulti negligunt contemnunt Astrologiam qui contradicit ambitiosus est qui maledicit fatuus London Printed for Samuel Speed at the sign of the Printing-press in Paul's Church-yard Anno 1660. TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Here present thee with a modest and learned Defence of Astrology written by Mr. George Atwel late Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge● which being communicated unto me by the Noble Authour and left at my dispose I thought meet upon serious consideration to make thee partaker thereof considering also with my self that at this time the noble Science of Astrology hath many Adversaries the most whereof I dare maintein are altogether ignorant in the Art and in the very principles thereof who never observed or took any notice of the Heavenly Influences and whether these men be competent Judges to determine matters of such great weight and importance wherein they have as little judgment as honesty let all indifferent men judg but I doe not much admire hereat when I see it apparent in all other Arts and Professions Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem How rashly doe the ignorant and common sort tax us for maintaining the truth and verity of the Copernican Systeme of the World Nay how do the generality of men unjustly asperse and revile us for that rare discovery of the truth now so cleerly proved by undeniable Demonstrations Geometrical In like manner I could instance in the tenet of Antipodes and shew how Lactantius St. Austin and others were of the contrary opinion but I need not trouble my self or the Reader to muster us Examples of mens ●●lly in this kind for it 's cleer enough that as there is no Art or Invention whatsoever though never so commodious in a Common-wealth but may have its Adversaries and opponents even so it is with Astrology which some of the Learned style Theologia naturalis shee cannot go shot-free or escape the malevolent rayes of the malecontented and yet is shee not the Mistriss of Arts yea the hand-maid to Divinity Universa enim vita nostra abundè testatur Astrologiam summe utitem esse quippe ad praecavendum quae obfutura assequendum quae profutura sunt maximam vim ob●ine● ut quae doceat praecognoscere mutationes quae in his inferioribus eventurae sunt item quae in corporibus nostris secundum sanitatem aegritudinem ac mores eveniunt ac tandem in its contingunt quibus ut alimentis ad vitam tuendam medicamentis ad sanitatem procurandam utimur Add● quod Astrologia in piis orationem pietatis studium excitet quandoquidem mala quae ab astris significantur 〈◊〉 edicta praetoria sed Vitari 〈…〉 precatione studio possunt Orig. 399. de effectibus I well know some there are that denie that the Stars have any influential operation on these elementary and sublunary things but these are a sort of men though perhaps otherwise learned enough that we may justly think are solely byassed to their own perverse and wilful opinions who doubtless deserve reproof for doth not the Word of God teach us the contrary are not the Stars there in many places called the signes of Heaven Gen. 1. 14. Sunto luminaria in firmamento Coeli c. And God said Let there be lights in the Firmament of Heaven to divide the Day from the Night and let them be for Signes and for seasons for dayes and years Upon which words Luther saith Simpliciter Lunam cum Sole Stellis in firmamento Coeli Moses dicit positas ut ●ssent signa futurorum eventuum sicut experientia de eclipsibus magnis conjunctionibus aliis quibusdam meteoris docet That is Moses plainly saith that the Moon with the Sun and Stars were placed in the firmament of Heaven that they 〈◊〉 be for signes of future events as experience teacheth us in Eclipses great Conjunctions Meteors and the like Again in Deut. 33. 14. you shall find that the influence of the Heavens upon all vegetables is attributed to the Sun and Moon where the Prohet blesseth the Lord for the precious hings of Heaven for the dew and ver. 14. or the precious things put forth by the un and for the precious things put forth y the Moon E coelis pugnârunt sydera ipsa suis agerribus pugnaverunt contra Siseram ●udg 5. 20. They fought from heaven the ●tars in their courses fought against Sisera And the Prophet Jeremy adds further that we should not be dismai'd at the signs of heaven Upon wch words the divine Melancthon in his praeface to Job Schonerus speaketh thus Non ●it Jeremias nihil esse signa coeli imò cum nominat signa portendi aliquid affirmat Jeremy saith not that the signes of heaven are nothing but when he cals them signes he affirmeth something to be portended So likewise the holy man Job 38. 31 32 33. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Ple●●●es Or loose the bands of Orion Canst thou bring forth Mazzareth in his season Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes Knowest thou the ordinances of Heaven or the Dominions thereof on the Earth Who is it now that dare denie the powerful operation and influence of the Stars when God by his messenger avers it and call them the hoast and ordinance of Heaven and tells us of their dominion in the earth And although many other place● of holy writ might be quoted in defence o● this noble Science yet for brevity fake these may suffice as being plain and evident demonstrations of the great power and influence of the Coelestial bodies And to thes● we may add the testimonies of many learned Divines and Scholars but the day woul● fail me to enumerate them all Corpor● coelestia agunt in haec inferior a tribus m●dis videl●l●mine influentiâ motu agunt no● {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ●o● {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is well worthy of our notice not to be doubted by any but that the coelestial bodies are under God the universal causes of all Mundane alterations having their singular influences upon the E●●ments Meteors Metels Stones Vegitables and Animals But what need I spend time to ●indicate the

If you love to keep such God send you enough of them When he was my servant you see he is pictur'd with wings If I sent him presently he would fly to heaven If I were casting a Nativity he would straight bring me word whether the Child would be a good Mathematician and whether he would prove ingenious or not and of this he never failed me if he had I would never have owned him but have blotted him out of the number of my servants for ever 27 Lastly is it not the constant tene● of all Divines that that doctrin● which makes most for the glory of God that is the truest doctrine that this is such appeareth thus what was the reason the Chaldeans and Egyptians worshipped the whole host of Heaven but this that generally they were Astrologians and that by their skill they found out their wonderful effects and operations and withall not knowing the Maker of them went as far as their knowledge led them to worship the creature in stead of the Creator And what can more move a Christian Astrologer to admire the wisedome the glory the bounty and goodnesse of God that knows there is a God that made them then this it will enforce him with David to say Lord When I consider the Sun Moon and Stars the works of thy hands especially in their uses what is mā thē that thou shouldst once remember him to make him little inferiour to the angels to crown him with glory in making so many glorious lights not onely to give him ●ight both day night to distinguish ●easons but infinitely more when he considers Gods mercy and goodness in sending such Heralds and Embas●adours to tell wife men of a plague a far of that they may hide themselves But as for the Christian Astrologer to whom God reveals this Magnalia Dei makes him in stead of a Prophet amongst the people I know not what to make of him if he should not cry out and say I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to me a Babe and a Suckling and me thinks I can but wonder that such a one shall not at one time or other in the consideration and meditation thereof be as it were ravisht in spirit and in some measure to think himself with Paul taken up into the third Heaven and to feele such joy as Salomon saith a stranger shal not meddle withal But this is the reason that the Divines are so mistaken your taking things upon trust one of another without examination I remember that this was the reason that M. Wilson beforenamed gave to one Ms. Hatley who desiring of him the reason why that doctrine of the return of the Jews to Jerusalem should lie hid and altogether unknown till Mr. Brightman found it out gave her as I say this the onely cause thereof never was there that Divine known to this day that can be prooved to have had any good knowledge in Astrology that ever wrote against it and therefore I conclude with that in Judges first consider then consult and last of all give sentence All that I have yet spoken with finding no use for divers Stars here especially Mercury are driven to this that there may be use for them in the world of the moon let us therefore essay to take that away also and to leave them no colour for it Si● probo Where Christ never redeemed any God never created any But Christ never redeemed any in the moon Ergo the Major thus God never created any reasonable creature viz. angels or men but he in his secret election created or at least permitted some to proove Vessels or Instruments to glorifie his mercies others to glorifie his Justice but such God created not in the moon Ergo where Christ redeemed no elect God created n●ne elect but Christ redeemed none there Ergo The Minor thus Christ redeemed none but the seed of Adam and such as were lost in his fall 1 Cor. 15. v. 21. 32. Or thus Christ redeemed none but in that world in which he was both born lived and did miracles and suffered but none of these he did in the moon for as it had been injustice in God to have cast off Adam for the fall of the angels in another world so neither shall the fall of angels nor of Adam be imputed to them to ther condemnation nor yet any actions of Christ here to their salvation As man sinned so Christ must be made man as man sinned in this world so Christ must become a man and suffer for man in this world not in heaven much lesse in the moon for us nor here for those in the moon Neither did Christ die anywhere else but here for he died but once Heb. 9. 28. and where is now the man in the moon But grant it yet Mercury is as seldome in the moon as here by reason of his proximity to the Sun But they say each star is a several world neither doth Mendeline content himself with 1022 but saith they are infinitely more now if Christ must suffer once for each Star how many times must he suffer in all He had better content himself with the redemption of one then be troubed with so many Suppose there be but 1022 of them and that each of them cost him but 33 years time in redeeming it will take him up 33726 years which in the judgment of most if he ●ad begun as soone as Adam had fell ●ould have took him up as much ●ime as the lasting of five worlds one ●fter another Heb. 1. 11. Look where the same reason o ●overnment holds there the sams ●dministration But the same reasone ●olds with them as with us Ergo If each world should have a seve●al government and there can be but ●ne best then God did not order all ●y the best But God did order all ●y the best Ergo Sun Moon Stars ●nd Earth are ordered all by the ●ame government But there is but ●ne faith one Christ one Baptisme ●nd thus Christ died but once and in he earth and for the seed of Adam onely Ergo THere is one Rowland who hath lately wrote against Astrology but all that he hath of his own is not worth the naming onely to make up his Book he comes at last to quote some arguments of Mr. Perkins against it where two especially are Mr. Perkins own the rest are common with others and answered before The first is that men have more trust to it then to Gods word and thereupon if the Astrologer tell them by a figure that Corne will be dear such a year they will hard it up till it rot I answer that though I ingenuosly confesse Mr. Perkins to have been a worthy Divine of his time and one whom I ever reverenced and further to be as I verily think the best skild in Astrology of all that ever wrote against