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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67813	Sidrophel vapulans, or, The quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket by the author of Medicaster medicatus ; in an epistle to W---m S---n [i.e. William Salmon] ; with a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of the blue book, by the same hand.	Yonge, James, 1647-1721.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y42A; ESTC R32944	55,470	76

richer than he went out Pray ask that Lying Astrologer who so often writes as if Conscience and Religion not Debt and Beggary drove him thither whether it was not he that raised so many Devils as during his abode there and since have possest the choicest Saints in New-England To conclude All that pack of Fools and Knaves who pretend by Judicial Astrology to foresee good and bad fortune to hit opportunities and nick lucky minutes for making things happy confute themselves being for the most part hated scandalous little needy fellows the very abjects of that fortune whose favours they pretend to foresee and manage 9. Astrology cannot be true because Men born at one time and in one Horoscope and Constellation meet divers often contrary Fates Kings and Slaves Lords and Beggars have been born in one minute Twins begotten at one Coition and yet of different * See many singular Instances of the different Fates and Dispositions of many famous Twins in Mr. Chambers p. 53. c. Dr. More 's Myst Iniq. p. 357. Heyden p. 252. Sexes Humours and Fortunes Of Seed thrown into the Ground in one moment some have taken root some been eaten by Birds and Worms and some proved fruitless A Man born at once by the Rules of Astrology should die all together But contrariwise some Men survive their Ears Noses Hands Feet Legs and Arms many Years Nor is it so in Genethliacs only but in Judicial and Horary Astrology also Ships commencing Voyages in one minute and Mens Journeys in one moment have had different success If two Men or more about to fight a Duel or run a Race come in one moment to enquire of the Astrologer their success by the Rules of that Art both must win or lose conquer or be conquered because they both put the Question together So if two or three Men ride or run a Race and in one moment start forth if Astrology were true they must both win or both lose which cannot be 10. The death of Multitudes of Men in one minute some in one moment in one place by one cause cannot happen by the Rules of Astrology Because the Stars never concur to such an Identical Fate in so many thousand Nativities Sir W. Raleigh p. 153. as theirs who fell in the Battel between Semiramis and Stourobates where Four Millions were slain on one side besides the many Thousands which fell on the other The Army of Xerxes when they pass'd the Hellespont consisted of Seventeen Hundred Thousand Men Idem l. 3. cap. 6. the greater part of which fell in the Battels of Platea and Mycale In the Scripture we read of 320000 slain at one time Joshua cap. 11. Chron. 2.16 on one side and 500000 at another beside the many who perished on the side of the Vanquishers 180000 Assyrians died by the hand of an Angel at one time in the days of Hezekiah Are these things accountable by the Rules of Genethliacal Astrology If the small distance that might be between their Fates be an Evasion What think you of vaster numbers who have perished together in a moment by one accident The Hundreds blown up with Opdam the Thousands swallowed by the Earth with Corah c. in the Wilderness and of late in Jamaica Sicilia c. or the Inundations of Deucalion Holland c. or the Flood of Noah Can their Fates be found Predicted by so long a Conspiracy of the Stars as must be in the many days in which those Multitudes of Nations were born Can the different Births of so many Myriads of Men have in the compass of an Hundred Years such conspiring Horoscopes as shall determine them all to one sort of Death and puncto of dying Can the Heaven for so many millions of minutes as these Multitudes were Born in have so constant and agreeable an Aspect Dr. More 's Myst p. 357. as there must be if Astrology be true to determine the Fate of such infinite Numbers to the same Numerical time and Identical manner of Death I call them infinite Numbers believing with Sir Tho. Brown Pseud Ep. l. 6. c 6. that the World was then as full of People as now 11. If the Stars Influence or Coelestial Constellations beget such Accidents as occur on Earth How comes it that when the like Horoscopes recurr as were at the Genesis of Alexander Caesar or Judas Men most famous for Piety Art Valour Poetry c. or infamous for Wickedness have not been again produced 12. If Human Actions be directed by the Stars Whence is it that National Customs of Food Cloathes Religion Marriages Diseases Languages Laws Tempers Colours Constitutions c. come to be peculiar and constant to each Kingdom when the Influence of Heaven on them is so various The Heavens change but the People do not The People of the greatest part of the Earth are black the Wind blows constantly one way for Eleven Months of the Year and the Weather during that time Serene without Rain or Storms And in that Month varieth with Tempests and great Showers or Floods from the Sky This cannot be from the Stars 13. The Astronomancers talk much of the untimely death of Picus and other Writers against their Art as if it were a Revenge the Stars took on such as derogated from their Dominion But have they not as much Power to Prevent as to Revenge such Injuries done their Sovereignties If all our Actions or those only of Importance be directed by the Stars Is it not absurd to suppose they should inspire so many great Fathers Philosophers Divines and the most Learned Men the World hath owned with Disposition or Ability to write against them and single out one or two of them to punish and suffer so many others who have as much or more affronted their Deities to escape and prosper 14. The Exclamations made by Men Great Learned and Good some of which have studied your Art to the bottom gives great reason to think it Fallacious and Wicked St. Augustin Calvin Perkins Briggs Heminga Dr. Humes Angelis and other Divines Picus Mirandula J. Scaliger C. Agrippa Mr. Freke and many Philosophers who were Famous Astrologers call it Fallacious Fabulous Ridiculous and Vain and its Professors Cheats Impious Factious and Dangerous in a Commonwealth Beside Multitudes of the most Famous Men of all Learned Professions who have decryed it as a Delusion and exposed the Vanity Falsity and Wickedness of such as pretend to Prognosticate by it Among the Fathers not one of them was for it but Origen Tertullian said that it was invented by the Devil and he banish'd Heaven for it St. Ambrose calls it wicked and vain St. Basil St. Jerom and Epiphanius call it foolish Madness invented by Satan So doth St. Cyprian St. Chrysostom Eusebius Lactantius St. Gregory and almost all the Fathers wrote against it Aquinas calls it a Devilish Art Luther Junius Melancton P. Martyr Gualterus Willit Causin B. Charlton M. Chambers Mr. Purchas Bishop Taylor