the Reader to consider but thus much with me that if as Sir Christopher Heydon hath said in his unparallell'd Treatise written in defence of Judicial Astrology against Mr. Chambers that Astrology is an Art which teacheth by the Motions Configurations and influences of the Signs Stars and Coelestial Planets to Prognosticate of the natural effects and mutations to come in the Elements and these inferiour and elementary bodies How I pray is it possible that this fellow can Prognosticate rightly of the natural effects and Mutations to come in the Elements and these inferiour and elementary bodies before he be able to Calculate exactly the true motions and configurations c. of the Signs Stars and Planets which you clearly see he is not And I marvel much that Lilly should be no more tender and cautelous of his credit then thus foolishly and frequently to divulge his unskilfulness for me thinks as he knows that he cannot Calculate the Houses exactly either by the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles or which is more ready and built upon the same foundation by the Tables of Directions in Regiomontanus to the degree and minute of each Cusp yet he should have held it a safer way if he purposed to palliate his defects to have set down the Cuspes only in whole degrees and not have published himself thus erroniously scrupulous which he might have done very easily by the Domifying tables without further help But I perceive him so impudent and shameless that he neither heeds nor cares what he does or otherwise he would have been more wary in supputating the places of the Planets For according to Eichstadius whom he endeavours to follow the Sun at the middle of the Eclipse should have been in 56 minutes of Aquarius and the Moon in 56 min. of the Opposite Sign Leo Venus in Capricorn 24 degr 29 min. and Mercury in Aquarius 3 degr 17. min. But this man's dscretion hath put the Sun in 53 min. of Aquarius iand the Moon in 53 min. of Leo Venus in 24. degr 39 min. of Capricorn and Mercury in the 3 degr 20 min. of Aquarius So that he hath erred 3 min. in the places of the Luminaries and Mercury and 10 min. in Venus as may appear to every man that will take the pains to Calculate the true places of these Planets by Eichstadius his Table to the Mean or Equal time of the said Eclipse And in like manner hath he playd the Botcher in his Figure at the Vernal ingress for according to the time therein posited the Cuspe of the tenth House ought to be 13 degr 44 min. of Taurus and the Ascendent 25 degr 48 min. of Leo yet he hath made the tenth House 14. degr 0 min. of Taurus and the Ascendent 26 degr 0 min. of Leo so that he hath committed 16 min. Error in the Cuspe of the tenth House and 12 min. in the Cuspe of the Ascendent nor is he less erronious in collocating of the Planets here than in the former Figure but especially in the Moon whom he hath placed in 27 degree 48 min. of Virgo whereas she ought to have been in 28 degr 14 min. of that Sign wherein he hath mistaken no less than 26 minutes And thus much I conceive sufficient to prove his ignorance in point of Art Now will I also unmask his Errors defects mistakes and mis-applications in matter of judgment I will not meddle with or question upon what grounds Prince Charles left his Native Country of England nor who were the original causes of this his so long absence It is sufficient that Wil. Lilly confesses him to be Enforc'd upon necessity exiled or banished for the honour of the English Parliament I will not enquire further then of the Scottish Papers whether the King be at present restrained from his Liberty as Lilly tells us he is Nor dare I interrogate by what Law of God or Man the King of Englands Person ought to be imprisoned or be disposed of by either or both of the two Kingdoms or by any or all of his Subjects Or whether His imprisonment c. be intended for the defence of his Majesties Royal Person c. and the Liberty of the Subject Or how it can consist with the Honour of the English Parliament to suffer his Majesties Honour thus to lye at the stake and his Sacred Name to be traduced by such Pamphlet-mongers as Lilly and Booker and that Pillory-man Walker without any restraint or punishment Neither do I care whether the Eclipse in Aug. 1645. pre-signified the P. of the Earl of Essex or whether he have merited so much Honour as to have a Statua in Crown Gold erected at the Charges of William Lilly and an Epitaph made and thereon engraven by Martin Parker or Mercer the Scot These things are all beside my Text my intention being only to examine Master Merlin's Astrological discourse and to shew him and all men wherein it is invalid and no more The judgment he hath given is generally deduced from the position of the Heavens at two distinct points of time viz. From the Lunar Eclipse the 10 of January 1647. Suns entrance into Aries March 10. 1647. The Eclipse he makes the first general subject of his Discourse the effects whereof as he tells us may be somewhat put forward by reason of a non-apparent Eclipse in the 15 th degree of Capricorn December 26. 1646. What the Simpleton meaneth by putting forward I know not 't is no term in Astrology but surely I have Put him out of doubt in my Prognostication 1647. that Eclipses are not hurtful at all to those Regions or Cities where they are not visible yet lest the Testimony of that Learned Author therein mentioned should not be enough to convince him of his Folly I shall further recommend unto him the words of Cardanus upon Ptolomy lib. 2. cap. 5. Text 26. if he can Translate them any better than he hath done the first fifty Aphorisms of the Centiloquie they sound thus Ut igitur locus à deliquio affici debeat in Luna duo sunt necessaria Unum quod Luna tunc temporis in hemisphaerio superiore illius loci sit cum Provincia illa concordet signo vel trigono saltem Secundo cum Civitate in solis loco vel Lunae vel Ascendent is vel cum medio Coeli illius qui regit Civitatem ipsam In sole verò necessarium est praeter id quod fit supra terram conveniat locus ejus Provinciae-vel Civitati Eclipsis ipsa appareat Whereby it is clear that unless in a Lunar Eclipse the Moon be above the Earth and likewise on the Sign or at least in the Triplicity of that Sign whereunto unto the Kingdom in whose Hemisphere the Defect happeneth is subject And unless that the Sun or Moon-place or the Sign Ascending or Culminating be also the Horoscopical Sign of the City or Town you live in or enquire after the Effects of such a Lunar Eclipse shall not any way
and last Particular laid down by Ptolemy and that is the time of these Events In due search whereof we are to consider the Habit of the Comet in respect of the Sun Cometa Orientalis effectum suum citius ostendit Occidentalis tardius An Oriental Comet doth quickly shew its Effects but an Occidental as this was more slowly And this in the general In Specie saith Cardan quantum temporis requiritur Prolemaeus non dixit Ptolemy hath left us no special Rule whereby to know the precise beginning of a Comets Effects Howbeit Cardan is of Opinion that the beginnings thereof are as in Eclipses deferred so many Months as there shall be inequal hours intercepted between the Comet and the Ascendant of the Figure erected to the middle time of its appearance Yet saith he Hoc unum interest quod semina corum quae pâ—r Cometam significantur diutius proferuntur This one thing is considerable that sometimes the Generation or Seeds of those things which are signified by a Comet are deferred longer And he gives the Example of our Saviour at whose Birth there appeared a Comet in the East which the Wise Men saw and came therefore to Worship him They called it a Star by a common name as well because Comets are called Stars as also for that it was most fair and beautiful and resembling those that usually shine by Night Which Star or Comet saith he pronounced the Seditions and Troubles that succeeded by the Promulgation of the Faith of Christ These many Exiles and Martyrs and afterwards the Kingdom of Peace and Salvation to be established The Author and King of which CHRIST was born in the very Glory of the Comet because it appeared in the East Nevertheless the Effects thereof that is to say the Preaching and Promulgation of his Law the Seditions and Tumults of the People the Persecutions Banishments Deaths Wars and Kingdoms erected in a Christian Name scarce had their Commencement Thirty Years after and persevere until this very day So on the contrary in 1264. there appeared an unhappy Comet in the East extending its Hairs or Rays if we Credit the Story to the Mid-heaven which Comet continued almost Nine Months together Nâ—ither sooner vanished it than Pope Urban dyed After whose death Charles with an Army of Frâ—nch marched against Manfrâ—dus and having Vanquished him possesses himself of the Kingdom of Naples Two Years after the Paeni or Carthaginians invaded Spain and there committed great Cruelty nevertheless they were afterwards repulsâ—d and slam At the same time there were great Tumults raised in Hetruria What followed In the third Year after the Comet Banducar or rather Bandoduchar King of Babylon and Assyria invaded Armenia with a mighty Army Conquered Antioch and committed most grievous slaughters upon the Christians In the fourth Year after the Comet Conradinus the Suevian being Vanquished and taken Captive by Charles Earl of Provence and Sicily and as Aemilius writes the declared King of Jerusalem was Beheaded In the fifth Year Lewis the Ninth King of France passing into Africa was taken at Carthage or as others say at Tunera and dyed of a Flux the greatest part of his Army being first destroyed by Famine and Pestilence Whose Death was no sooner heard of than the aforesaid Charles enforced the King of the Carthaginians to a Yearly Tribute In the Sixth Year the Scythians now called Tartars assisting the Armenians the Assyrians or Saracens being Vanquished and fled freed Asia and long kept it by the consent of the Christians So that the measure of time limiting the beginning and ending of a Comets Effects cannot be prefixed unless as Ptolemy describeth for so indeed they may be conjectured But to adventure on feigned proportions of time where none is in Nature were ridiculous Diuturni Cometae effectuum magnitudinem diuturnitatem stabilemque in perturbatione quam afferunt statum significant Effectus minores minus stabiles minus Diuturni Cometae afferunt Comets that continue long saith Origanus import the Magnitude and continuance of their Effects and a stedfast condition in the Trouble or Aâ—â—iction they bring But such as continue a shorter time lesser Effects and not so durable This Comet continued twenty three days or thereabouts and 't is probable the Effects may continue as many Years but I dare not conclude so For although that proportion should hold true where the Effects of Comets meeting with no obstruction terminate per se their virtue being extinguished like as it falls out in all other Natural Causes Yet when another Comet Eclipse or Great Conjunction supervenes which is of a contrary Nature it everts the Decrees of the former and so eludes us as to any certain proportion of time limiting their Effects Teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus viz. Johannes Baptista Morinus Doctor in Physick and Physician in Ordinary to the Duke of Luxemburgh after his Epistles to the South and North Astrologers for restoring of Astrology Printed at Paris Anno 1628. delivers these six following Articles c. as necessary for the Confirmation and Demonstration thereof by Principles which Articles c. I have faithfully Translated and here inserted in hope some Noble Spirits endued with Ability of Parts and Purse may timely attempt the Prosecution thereof 1. FIrst to Collect from the Histories of several Nations of the World the most Eminent and Notable Changes that have therein happened in respect of Sects Empires Kingdoms Wars Famines Deluges c. with the exact times of their Changes and the true postures of the Constellations and Planets preceding the same 2. To observe the Changes of the Air in respect of Heat Cold Moisture and Drought as also the Winds throughout the whole Latitude of the Earth And then the different places of Longitude in their Natures and Qualities at the same and at several times Erecting Coelestial Figures most congruous for that purpose and to mark well how from thence Plants Brutes and Men are affected and all these Observations to compare one with another 3. To erect the several Nativities of such as dyed not long after they were Born of those that be Sickly or any ways Hurt Blind Lame Ulcerated Wounded Burnt Mutilated c. diligently observing the Parts so affected the which may most conveniently be done in a spacious City such as Paris is where are many Hospitals and Poor People innumerable many Chirurgeons and every day various Casualties 4. By help of the Physicians to find out if possible the Beginnings Species Accidents and Solutions of all Acute and daily Diseases that every where abound Erecting Coelestial Schemes to those Beginnings And that especially at Paris where the exorbitant Practice of frequent Blood-letting does much disturb Natures Motions and Crises in Diseases and very often elude and frustrate the Astrological Predictions of the Ancients concerning them 5. What the Ancient Astrologers have delivered on every Subject the same to Collect and Observe in several by diligent reading thereof and to
THE WORKS OF That Late Most Excellent PHILOSOPHER AND ASTRONOMER Sir GEORGE WHARTON Bar. Collected into one Entire VOLUME By JOHN GADBVRY Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed by M. H for John Leigh at Stationers Hall and Aâ—â—â—sham Churchill at the Black Swan near Amen-Corner 1683. To all the Learned and Loyal SONS OF THE MUSES But chiefly such as are related either by Blood or Friendship to the late Learned Sir GEO. WHARTON Baronet IS THIS COLLECTION Of his Excellent LABOURS DEDICATED By J. GADBVRY The Unworthy Collector of them To the Impartial and Ingenious Readers of these Learned and Loyal Collections of the Works of Sir George Wharton Baronet Gentlemen THE Worthy Author of the ensuing Discourses was a Person of Exemplary Learning Loyalty Honour and Generosity and his Courage Adventures and Sufferings were so eminent and remarkable in the late times of Rebellion and Anarchy that to express them truly and equal to his Merit would require the Pen of a Plutarch or Suetonius or at least that of One of his more Learned Friends and Admirers whereby his happy Memory might be the more justly and punctually preserved from the consuming Rust of Time which by degrees devours all things whereas it may suffer much by reason of my Inability in Art and want of Materials for such a Performance though I must tell you it cannot for want of Candor and Respect The loss of his Person I esteemed very great as well to his King and Countrey as Relations and not easie to be repaired But that the Muses or Republick of Learning might not be deprived of so great a Son of Science without some Pillar or Monument remaining whereby he might in after Ages be remembred I have thought fit for Reasons hereafter mentioned to make this Collection of the most useful of his Learned Labours and do here transmit them to Posterity for their Advantage and Service Learning and Loyalty were the Twins of his Noble mind which though they were Vertues united in him I shall here speak alittle of them separately and as succinctly as I can First For his Loyalty in our late never-to-be-forgotten Intestine Divisions this our Author being then in the prime of his Years and in a full Possession of a good Estate descended upon him from his Ancestors but with other Loyal Persons discontented at the then growing Rebellion which like an Envious Cloud began to overspread and darken the Splendor of the Monarchy He as I heard himself to express it turns all his said Inheritance into Money and being a Son of Mars as well as of Hermes as his Allegiance and Honour bound him he espouses his Majesties Cause and Interest and raises a Gallant Troop of Horse therewith And as far as he was able opposed the Kings and Kingdoms Enemies endeavouring to settle his Soveraign in his Throne and restore Peace to his bleeding Country But God Almighty sure as a Punishment for our Sins both then and yet of too deep a Scarlet-dye to be quickly purged and rendred white as Wool was pleased to permit the Rebellious Party to prevail against his then most Sacred Majesty and his Arms And this worthy Man with many others became so much a Sharer in that dismal Calamity that after many Noble and Generous Hazards of his Person in Battel he was at the last the Rebel-Party being too powerful totally routed near Stow in Gloucester-shire where the Noble and Valiant Sir Jacob Ashley was unfortunately victor'd and taken Prisoner In which Battel his whole Troop was cut off and himself at the same time received several Scars of Honour which he carried to his Grave with him That good but unfortunate Prince King Charles the First of ever Blessed Memory in whose Cause our Author thus engaged being not alittle troubled as with the unhappy Loss in General so with this Loyal Persons Misfortunes in particular thus sustained in his Service was most graciously pleased in some little time after to confer upon him in Consideration of his just and faithful Services as well as his great Losses an Honourable Place in his Train of Artillery which he held during the Remainder of the Wars He served his Soveraign faithfully the King as bountifully requites his Services Few lose by just and Loyal Services perform'd for Pious and Royal Princes By this alone Example methinks the restless Plotting Non-conformist should learn to be obedient and know Allegiance to be non only his Duty but Advantage since of all Gratitude that which proceeds from Princes is the Greatest the most God-like and obliging But if our Dissenters a Title-Rebellious People pride themselves in and love to be distinguished by if they I say shall in stead of thus signalizing their Loyalty make it their main work to approve themselves such a Race of true Protestant-Christians as a late execrable Book call'd the Life of Julian most boldly but falsely affirms the Primitive Christians to have been I shall for ever cease to wonder at their constant and causeless Murmurings or their mutinous Tenets or Actions since their lost or Planet-struck Passive Obedience is always swelling them into a Malicious Hatred and Provocation against the Government and by degrees if let alone into an Active Rebellion And this their Hypocritical Zeal and pretended Piety we sadly remember was written by them in Horrid Dismal Characters and at large too in our late unnatural Wars and testified to be true with the Blood of many Thousands the Ruine of Multitudes of Families the most horrid and barbarous Murder of the best of Kings and sundry of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy the sad and lamentable Banishment of his present Gracious Majesty and together with him all the Royal Line These were but some of the Effects of the Dissenters Zeal in Anno 1641. began of which Year to do them right they do not delight yea may be ashamed to hear The wretched Consequences therefore of such a Piety all good People have reason to dread and also to be very watchful that they do not permit or encourage the like damnable Premisses to grow up among them For certainly even Turks themselves are more tolerable than such Christians But this Obitèr It having pleased God in his Anger who alone is the Setter up of Kings and the Disposer of Crowns and Scepters to suffer his late Majesty I say to be overcome by his own perjur'd Subjects for they had all sworn Allegiance to him in that most Bloody Rebellion this Loyal Gentleman is thereby depriv'd of that his Majesties said Bounty to him and with the King himself and all the Loyal Party put once more to his Shifts And what doth he now Turn to the strongest side like the Dog in the Apologue who had defended his Masters Goods and Interest as long as he could but when overcome comply and share in the Booty No! He had a Soul too Noble and Loyal for such base and degenerous Purposes But rather like the great Scripture-Philosopher would still
First God therein so ordained things that the Families of the Israelites should not be destroyed but more especially that Family out of which the Messiah was to come 2. To shew unto us what a special regard he hath of the Poor to put them in hope of a better condition for the Future and also lay down a way to Brotherly Communion so far forth as the condition of this Life will permit 3. And as the Olympiads were in use among the Greeks the Lustra among the Antient but the Indictions among the Later Romans whereby they supputated time so also that the Hebrews should be accustomed to Number their times by Jubile's so soon as possess'd of the Holy Land 4. To shadow unto them by this Publique Jubile and Solemn Joy the Lord Jesus and the whole business of their Salvation And this himself alluded unto Luke 14. Where he saith Se illum esse qui tempus illud acceptum annum beneplaciti aut gratiae Divinae indixerit Hitherto of the Jewish Festivals ordained by God himself and Commanded diligently to be observed by his People It followeth now that I give you the rest which were instituted by Men and received of the Church for the Honour of God and to commemorate His exceeding great Mercies and Benefits The Jewish Solemnities instituted by Men are I. THe Jejunia quatuor or Four Solemn Fasting-days whereof Mention is made by the Prophet Zachary Chap. 8. 1. The First of which is The Fast of Jerusalem besieged which notwithstanding it be the last according to the order of the Months yet it is the first in respect of the Order of the thing done This was celebrated the Tenth day of the Tenth Month Thebith on which day Nebuchadnezzar first Pitched his Tents before and besieged Jerusalem 2 Kings 25. 2. The Second is The Fast of Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadonozor celebrated the Ninth day of the Fourth Month Tamuz 3. The next is The Fast of the City forsaken or desolate celebrated the Ninth of the Fifth Month Ab because that on this day in this Month the City and Temple were set on Fire first by Nebuchadonozor King of Babylon and after that by Titus 4. The Fourth The Fast of Godolia or Gedalia who was left in Judea by Nabuzarda and slain by the treachery of Ismael celebrated the Third day of the Seventh Month Thisri II. To these Four Fasts during the Captivity of Babylon was annexed the Solemn Fast of Queen Hester instituted in Memory of the Three-days Fast she Commanded when about to apply her self to King Abasuerus on behalf of the Jews Hest. 4. and celebrated the third day of the twelfth Ecclesiastical Month Adar whereon all the Jews throughout the Kingdom of Persia should have been slain by perswasion of Haman as 't is in the same Book of Hest. Ch. 3. and 9. Afterwards this day became more Celebrious for the signal victory of Judas Machabaeus who overthrew the Army of Antiochus with Nicanor the Captain of it 2. Machabaeus Cap. ult III. The Jews likewise celebrated of Old the Fast of the Tables of rhe Law broken which Moses when descending from Mount Sinai dash't against the Ground and broke in Pieces as being offended at their Idolatry of worshipping the Calf the Seventeenth day of the Fourth Month Tamuz IV. The days of Purim or the Feast of Lots so called because Haman had cast the Life and Death as it were of the Jews upon the hazard of a Lot which Feast was first celebrated by Mordochaeus and Hester the Fourteenth and Fifteenth days of the last Month Adar in memory of the Lords most wonderful Protection when Haman had laid his inevitable Plot to Mans thinking for the utter-extirpation of the Jews even in One Day Hester Ch. 3. V. The Feast of Comportion of Wood mention'd by Josephus lib. 2. de Bell. Jud. Ch. 17. celebrated in the Fifth Ecclesiastical Month Ab in memory of the wood comported or brought for perpetual Nourishment of the Holy Fire in the Temple of Jerusalem according to the Law of God Nehem. 10. VI. The Encaenia or Feast of Dedication or Consecration and Renovation of the Temple instituted by Judas Machabaeus For when Antiochus Epiphanes came out of Egypt into the Holy Land and so to Jerusalem he reduced both the City and Temple everted the true worship of God carried away the vessels of the Temple and therein placed the Idol of Jupiter Olympius as you may read 1 Mac. 1. But Judas Machabaeus having undertaken a War against the Captains of Antiochus overthrown their Armies and recovered the City Purged the Temple threw down and burnt the Idol and again Dedicated both the Altar and Temple to the Worship of God in Memory of which this Feast was celebrated He also ordained that the dedication of the Temple which was made at the first in Eight days should be renewed and celebrated by Anniversary Holy-Days for Eight days together with Rejoycing and Gladness beginning from the Twentyfifth of Cisleu 1 Mac. 4. And this is the Feast whereof St. John the Evangelist maketh mention and whereat he writes our Saviour Christ himself was present VII The Solemnity of the expiation of the Tower of Jerusalem instituted by Simon Asmonaeus Brother to Judas Machabaeus on the Twenty third of Ijar For having by Famine taken the Tower of Jerusalem which a Garrison of Antiochus had until then defended and vexed the Citizens with continual excursions He cleansed the same as on this day by a Solemn Rite to the great Rejoycing of the whole City and Commanded it to be every year Celebrated by Posterity with Festival Joy and Gladness 1 Mac. 13. VIII Lastly The Marriage Festivities observed by the space of Seven days Gen. 29.22 and Judg. 14.10 which are Honourably mentioned by Christ in his Parables and vouchsafed his presence and first Miracle John 2. And these are the Feasts and solemnities celebrated by the Antient Jews whereof so frequent mention is made in Scripture For the rest instituted after their Destruction and Repudiation and observed by the Modern Jews in all places wheresoever they are dispersed as the Feast of the New-year The Feast of Reconciliation The Feast of Gladness or Joy of the Law The Feast-days of the Equinoxes and Solstices c. none of which are discerned in the Old Testament I shall forbear any mention of them putting here a period to the Festivals and Fasts of the Jews Of the Festivals and Fasts of the Christians whereby any of an Ordinary Capacity may quickly understand the main Body of our English Calendar NOw as touching the Solemnities of the Christians we find not any one certainly declared in all the New Testament neither any Man bound to the strict Observation of those which were used of Old by the Jews Yet because the exercise of Godliness may be oft times intâ—â—rupted through the infirmities of the flesh and cares of the world and that nothing is more convenient nothing more necessary to the confirmation
the Registers and publick Notaries those Letters were confusedly written as one word the first sillable whereof was the Dipthong AE and had a declination assign'd it It is likewise by some called Hera but very corruptly for so the Spanish Dictionary of Antonius Nebrissa wherein it is made to signifie a Monarchy So Hera Mundi Hera Christi Hera Ordinationis Julianae and generally any other time computed from the beginning or rise of an Eminent and Illustrious Nation Religion or Sect is called Hera Now forasmuch as the business and benefit of these Epochae or Aerae is that the times past may thereunto be compared and applied as to a term prefixed I have here accommodated the Reader with the most Illustrious Epochae observed at this Day when they Commence how they agree and may be reduced to that of our Saviour the most Famous of all amongst Christians in limiting and determining of their Affairs for that such as be rightly instructed in the principal Intervals of years do best understand the differences of times which are Various and reap far greater profit in the Histories they read A view of the more notable Epochae EPOCHAE Anni Period Julia. Mens Perioda Juliana 1 January 1 Mundi Creatio 765 January 1 Aera Olympiadum 393◠July 8 Urbs condita 3961 April 21 Epocha Nabonnassari 3967 February 26 Obitus Alexandri Magni 4390 November 12 Aera Chaldaeorum 4463 October 15 Aera Ordinationis Julianae 4668 January 1 Aera CHRISTI DEI 4713 Calend. January  EPOCHAE Anni Christi Mens Aera Martyrum Copcitar 284 August 29 Aera Turcica Hegirae 622 July 16 Aera Jesdagirdica 632 June 16 Aera Sultanica 1079 March 14 Aera Gregoriana 1582 October 5 The Julian Period albeit but feign'd and invented by Scaliger through a continued Multiplication of the three Cycles of the Sun Moon and Roman Indiction used in the Julian year is Registred among the most Famous Epochae as being the Vehiculum by which we are safely carried through a Series of years This Period commenceth 4713 compleat years before the Common Aera of Christ or in the 4714. inchoate before his Nativity Therefore the first of January in the year 1657. Old Stile begins the 6370. year of the Julian Period the First whereof is Bissextile The Epocha or Aera of the Worlds Creation falleth out in the 765. year of the Julian Period which was Bissextile 3949 compleat years before the Birth of Christ. juxta Historicam veritatem wherefore the year 1657 is the 5660. Current year of the Worlds Aera Sed haec tamen incerta juxta varias Chronologorum sententias immutata Besides The Greek Church numbereth from the Creation to Christs Aera 5508 compleat years and begins it in the 5509. Current from the Antecedent Calends of September Therefore the year 1657. Current of the Christian Aera beginneth the 7165. current year of the World according to the Grecian Account The Latin Church according to Eusebius doth reckon from the Creation to Christs Nativity 5199 years counting from the Julian Vernal Month of March. And therefore the year of Christ 1657 is the 6856. year from the Creation which must as I said be computed from March for that according to this Account the Months January and February belong to the year 6855. The Jews Hebrews and later Rabbins do number from the Creation to the Nativity 3761 years beginning their Account from the first day of the Month Tisri which then agreed to the seventh of October in the Julian year And therefore the year of Christ 1657 is the 5418. year from the Creation according to their Account The Aera of the Olympiads or the first year of the first Olympiad began in the Summer of the 3938. year of the Julian Period in the 3174. year of the Creation Therefore the first year of the Christian Aera agrees to the 766. Olympiad Current or the 4. year of the 194. Olympiad which began the Summer before Therefore the Summer of the year of Christ 1657. began the first year of the 609. Olympiad This Epocha of the Olympiads is so called from the plains of Olympus nigh to the Temple of Jupiter Olympicus in the Country of Elis not far from the City Pisa and the River Alpheus where the Certamina ludicra or the Olympique Games were first instituted by Hercules Alemenus Anno Mundi 2757. in honour of this Jupiter Quibus homines Ethnici saith my Author ad immortalium Deorum cultum ad vires exercendas excitati sunt The Judges therein being the Citizens of Elis. After Hercules his Death these Games were discontinued for more than 400 years and until Prince Iphitus renewed them Anno Mundi 3174. and caused them to be Celebrated every fifth year The Epocha of Romes Foundation agrees with the 3161. year of the Julian Period April 21. being Paliliorum Urbis Romae Natale Festum with the 3197. year from the Worlds Creation the 3. year of the 6. Olympiad and the 753. current year before Christ. Therefore the year 1657. April 21. old stile began the 2410. year from the Foundation of Rome The Epocha of Nabonnassar the most ancient and famous of all other Astronomical Epochae took beginning with the Death of the King in the 3967. year of the Julian Period the 3203. of the World the first of the 8. Olympiad the 6. of the City and the 747. before Christ. Therefore the year 1657. July 5. New Stile but June 25. Old Stile begins the 2406. current year of Nebonnassar This Nabonnassar is not the same whom the Arabians Hebrews and some late Mathematicians amongst which Andreas Argolus is One following Alphonsus do meerly I suppose for the similitude of the Names call Nebuchadonosor or Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon For by examining the Interval of the 423 Egyptian years between the Empire of Nabonnassar and Alexanders Death with some famous actions during that time amongst the Jews and other Nations according to the Sacred and Profane Histories we shall find that Nabuchadonosor was 140 years after Nabonnassar Besides Funccius Bucholcerus Buntingus Colmannus and others especially Reinholdus Tab. Prut believed him to be the same with Salmanassar King of the Assyrians But Scaliger Calvisius Christmannus and Origanus conclude him for either that King of Babylon which 2 Reg. 20.12 is called Baladan the Father of Berodach or Mardochempadi as Ptolemy calleth him or else that King which Scaliger by this name calleth the first in the Dynastie of the Babylonians which revolted from Artica King of the Medes and erected a New Kingdom wherein he reckoneth Twenty Kings until Cyrus King of the Persians The Radix or Epocha of Alexander the Great which the Arabians call Aera Philippi began the 4390. year of the Julian Period the 3626. of the Creation Nov. 12. the 425. of Nabonnassar and the 324. Current before Christ. This Epocha was used by Hipparchus Ptol. Theon Alexandrinus in Canonibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Albategnius The year 1657.
July 13. Old Stile the 23. New Stile began the 1982. year from the Death of Alexander Although it be not denied but that Alexander died at Babylon Anno aetatis suae 33. and in the 453. Olympiad Yet as touching the day of his Death all Authors are not of one Opinion For Paulus Crusius refers it to May 20. Buntingus to the 9. and Christmannus to the 23. of June Scaliger who would ever be singular to July 25. But howsoever it was Astronomers fix it to the 12. Nov. the first of the Egyptian Month Toth because Astronomers do not always like Historians record the Res gestae on the days they happen but for the most part refer their Epochae to the beginning of the years publickly used and follow the vulgar computation days for their greater ease in Calculation The Syrian Syro-graecian Alexandrean or Chaldâ—ean Aera which the Jews and the Writer of the History of the Machabees used in the Jewish affairs began in the 4402. year of the Julian Period the 3638. from the Creation the 436. of Nabonnassar the 12. of Alexander and the 311. before our Saviour The year 1657. was the 1968. current year of this Aera but from October began the 1969. This Epocha is reckon'd from Seleucus Nicanor a most potent Monarch who ruled with great fortitude in Syria Caldaea and other bordering Regions as far as the River Indus It is termed Alexandrean not that it commenceth either from the Empire or Exit of Alexander for his Death precedes it above twelve years but because that after the Death of Alexander the Eastern Empire became Bipartite or divided into Asia and Syria whence this Epocha is also called Diâ—lcarnain i. e. Two-horned from the two Horns or two Empires which sprang from that one Eastern Alexandrean Empire In 1 Machab. 1.11 it is called the Aera or beginning of the Kingdom of the Greeks It is also called Aera Contractuum The Julian Epocha or the year wherein Julius Caesar corrected the Calendar began in the year 45. before our Saviours Incarnation in the 4668. of the Julian Period the 3934. year of the World the 709. of the City and the 732. Olympiad or the 4. year of the 183. Olympiad Wherefore the year 1657 was the 1702. from the Julian Emendation Julius Caesar having observed the year instituted by Romulus to consist but of ten Months or 304 days which agree not with the 12 Conjunctions of the Luminaries in a year and the Custom of the People every where reckoning the year by Months Neither the year instituted by Numa Pompilius consisting of 12 Lunar Months with the motion of the Sun the only measure of the year that he might provide for and gratifie his Subjects in this respect also and perpetuate the memory of his name to Posterity by the help of Sosigines an Egyptian Mathematician whom he brought with him from Alexandria then corrected the year ever since from his name called Julian by ordaining it to consist of 365 days 6 hours JESUS CHRIST the Son of GOD and Saviour of the World was incarnated in the 4713. year of the Julian Period the 3949. of the Creation the 4. of the 194. Olympiad the 753. current year of Romes Foundation and in the 748. Current of Nabonnassar The Aera of the Ethiopians or Abyssins called Dioclesian the Aera of Martyrs or the Aera of the Cophti Martyrs for by all those Names it is so called used by the Alexandrians and Egyptians at this day began in the 4997. of the Julian Period the 4233. of the World the 4. year of the 265. Olympiad the 1033. of Nabonnassar the 18. day of the Month Athyr but with the 284. of Christ. And therefore the year 1657. is the 1373. compleat but the 1374 current year of the Dioclesian Aera beginning August 29. When Dioclesian the Emperour had gained a great name of Prudence and therewith so delighted and flatter'd himself that needs he must be Worshipped as a God he Commanded all the Subjects of his Empire to observe the beginning of his Reign and from thence to reckon their years whereby it came to pass that from the 284. year of Christ in which he came to the Empire this Aera called from his name Dioclesian took its beginning It is called The Aera of Martyrs because of the exceeding great Tyranny which he exercised in the time of his Government against the Christians The Aera of the Cophti Martyrs from the Country and City so called near to the River Nilus wherein were cruelly destroyed a multitude of Christians by sundry exquisite and unheard-of Torments True it is that this grievous persecution fell out in the 19. year of his Reign Nevertheless the Cophti in the Notations of their years do account the beginning of the Persecution from the first of Dioclesian's Reign So that the Dioclesian Aera is the same with that of Martyrs The Turkish Aera from Hegira or the Flight of Mahomet from Mecha began in the 622. current year of Christ July 16. The years are Lunar repeding towards the heads of the Julian years And the year 1657. commenceth the 1067. of Hegira But hte Turkâ— do reckon 11000. years till the present because 537. Arabian or Turkish years make scarce 527 Julian Or as Scaliger will 235 Arabique years but 228 Julian wanting a day This Mahomet or Mahumed is the Turks great Prophet or rather grand Impostor whose Law is the Alchocran Arabia was the Nest that bred and foster'd this unclean Bird Medina the place of his Birth Mecha of his Burial both which are therefore had in great Veneration The Persian Aera is twofold Jesdagirdick and Gelalaean The Jesdagirdick or the years from the death of Jesdagirda began the 632. year of our Saviour June 16. And the year of 1657. began the 1026. of that Aera This Jesdagird was the last King of the Persians whom Othoman the Sarazen Emperour overthrew and at once deprived him both of Life and Kingdom The Sultan or Gegalaean Aera began the 1079. current year of our Redeemer March the 14. in the 448. of the Jesdagirdick on the 18. day of the Month Pharavardim or Pheurdim And the year 1657. began the 579 of this Aera This Sultan Gelal so called by the Persians was Emperor of Chorosan and Mesopotamia who by the help of 8 Persian Mathematicians then corrected the Calendar of that Nation For having observed that the year Equally numbered from the Aera of Jesdagird after the manner of the Egyptians was lesser than requisit as not exactly Solar and that the Months by degrees did run backward That the Julian year agreed not to the Sun's Motion but was greater than it should be and by little and little yet with a slower Progress than in the Egyptian year crept forward they invented a peculiar quantity of the year somewhat lesser than the Julian and a little greater than the Gregorian but by much exceeding the Egyptian This year thus invented and fixed as aforesaid
rendring his Death no less Prodigious than was the course of his Life Or that of the Year 1572. in Cassiopâ—ia surpassing of the quantity of the Earth 500 times Or those of the Years 1604. and 1618. which were no less Miraculous than that the Sun should stand still as we read it did in the Days of Joshua or return ten Degrees backward as once upon the Dial of Abaz or be Eclipsed so near a Full Moon as at our Saviour's Passion being all of them alike â—strang'd from the accustomed Order of Nature In like manner the Eclipses of thâ— Luminaries are the Causes of many Changes that ensue in the World because their Effects are general pouring forth theâ—r Influence not only upon Cities but even whole Regions subject to the Quadrangle the Sign more especially wherein the Defect happens and no less on particular Persons who have any affinity in their Genitures with the Schemes of such Eclipses So likewise are the strong Genitures of Kings c. Geniturae validae Regna mutant Mighty Genitures change or translate Kingdoms Causes adjuvant are Revolutions of the World the Progression of the Great Orb of Great Conjunctions before the Flood the Birth of Christ Mahomet and the like I could much enlarge my self upon the Progressions of the Great Orb Great Conjunctions c. but shall forbear in regard the most of them concern Foreign Parts excepting that of the Great Conjunction before the Flood which in the Year 1653. was come to the Sign Cancer and did therefore afflict according to Albumazar Tract 4. Differ 4. the Countries of Scotland and Holland with many Changes and Conversions of things from one condition to another a Famine and Poverty proceeding from Siccity and Drought and a general Fear to possess the People of those places because of their Enemies Great Mortality and Slaughters amongst them with abundance of such Creatures as are destructive to the Earth Thus far have you seen the Superiour Natural Causes of the Mutations or Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Common-Wealths how far wherein and when they concern us and other Nations The Inferiour Natural Cause is either within or without Man That within is the Disposition of the Temperament of the Bodies both of Princes and Subjects aâ—d â—o both different Births and Deaths as well of them that Govern as those that be Governed in the Common-Wealth That without is a Mutation either of Fire or Water and of the Earth and place where the Common-wealth is constituted Unto which do belong House-burnings Earthquakes Change of Ports Barrenness Famine Pestilence and all other Natural damages by the which Common-wealths are changed The Moral Cause of Mutation is either Internal or External The Internal is either on the Prince's or Subject's part The Internal on the Prince's part admits this general Canon The beginnings of Princes are for the most part good but their Progress worse From which Change arise great Mutations in Publick Affairs and things The Internal Cause also of Changes in respect of the Prince is either Ethical or Political Touching Ethical Causes there are these Canons 1. Intemperance and Lust of Princes occasion change of the Common-wealth 2. The like when Princes are Effeminate and Cowardly For like as Empires are obtained maintained and kept by Warlike Fortitude so on the contrary are they lost or dangerously changed by softness and Pusillanimity Political Causes of Changes are either in respect of the Foundation of the Principality or of the Office and Care of the Prince As touching the Causes respecting the Foundation of the Principality there be these Canons 1. It is impossible any Common-wealth should long be safe where the Prince comes to Rule either by a violent Invasion or a crafty Subreption without any access to the Principality 2. The Perjuries of Princes that is when they keep not their Oaths made to their Subjects at the time they were called to Govern bring upon Kingdoms dangerous Changes and Conversions 3. The Authority of a Prince decreasing produceth Change and when the Periods of Empires are divolved the Authority of those that Govern faileth The Causes that respect the Care or Office of the Prince have these Canons 1. When the Prince listens not to Wise and Faithful Councellors Changes are imminent 2. When Publick Judgments are corrupted and hainous Impieties remain unpunished Changes are at hand 3. When the Prince affords not the Subject a Lawful and necessary Defence but suffers him to be vexed and trampled over by Incursions of Enemies Changes ensue 4. When the Revenues of a Kingdom decrease of necessity a Change must follow For Moneys are the Nerves of Empires 5. When the Prince doth too much Poll his Subjects with heavy Tributes and Exactions a Change succeedeth 6. When the Potency and Amplitude of Kingdoms arrive at an exceeding greatness a Change follows for the most part and the Empire falleth by its own weight 7. Foreigners rashly irritated or called into a Kingdom do introduce a Change thereof These are the Causes of the Prince his part there now remain the Causes on the Subjects part which are also either Ethical or Political Touching the Ethical Causes these be the Canons 1. When grievous Wickedness is committed amongst the Subjects and all Reverence of the Laws shaken off and that they Live Licentiously in Lust and Luxury Mutations follow 2. When Subjects degenerate from their Pristine Fortitude and become Unwarlike and Effeminate Kingdoms are Changed Political Causes have these Canons 1 When Subjects begin to have their Princes in hatred and grow weary of them Changes will assuredly follow 2. Pâ—nishments and Changes do ever succeed Infidelity of Subjects 3. Changes of things do always accompany the Disobedience and Contumacy of Subjects 4. Where neiâ—her the Laws nor Magistrates are had in Honour there the Common-wealth cannot be safe or durable An Excellent Discourse of the Names Genus Species Efficient and Final Causes of all Comets c. THE Order which Nature observeth in all things Created doth plainly enough teach us That whatsoever is Born passeth and hasteth towards Death And that all things which have a beginning necessarily and interchangably roul towards their End And as in Humane Bodies some are more strong vigorous and of better Constitution than others and therefore of longer continuance Even so in Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealths some preserve themselves longer for that either they are by Nature more strenuous and stable as having propitious Stars and they well Fortified at the time of their first Foundation Or because the Situation of them is Naturally stronger than others as we see at this day in the Signory of Venice The like holdeth in Cities and Towns in particular Families Laws Conclaves and Councils in Religions Heresies and Schisms The consideration whereof prevents my Wonder at the Vicissitudes and Changes here on Earth I account it no Miracle to see a Monarchy Eclipsed in its greatest Glory and the ruine of one the raising of another I stand not
silly Pamphlets by that profest Mountebank in Astrology John Booker to vindicate my self from the Calumnies Scandals and false accusations which his unsatiable Ambition and implacable malice hath most wickedly accused me of And thereby I shall discover how much his Envy to my Pen and Person hath transported him beyond the bound of modesty and rendered him incapable both of Reason and Knowledg in the Art whereof he professes himself to be a Master I have in part answered Mr. Lilly in my Prognostication for the ensuing year 1647. And here according to my promise I shall Catechise John Booker and both of them as occasion serves The subject or matter here intended is the notable Conjunction of the 2. Malevolent Planets in the Sign Taurus upon the 12 of June this year 1646. the effects whereof will be in great force untill the 21. day of October 1647. Which Conjunction hath lately been most ignorantly treated of by John Booker in a certain Pamphlet of his stiled A Bloody â—rish Almanack c. and many false observations hath he drawn thence and published not upon any 〈◊〉 grounds in Astrology but meerly out of his invâ—tâ—râ—t mâ—lice and hatred to the Kingdom of Ireland wherâ—by â—â—th that and this Kingdom hath been dâ—luded â—nd Astrology shamefully perverted and defumed In which respect as likewise upon this occasion to free my sâ—lf from his former Aspersions I have published the following discourse wherein the same Conjâ—nction of Saturn and Mâ—rs is more artificially handled and also their future Opposition with a touch concerning the next Conjunction which will happen in the Sign Gemini the Ascendant of London which will be far more terrible and of greater concernment to London and other parts of this Kingdom than the Conjunction in Taurus can be to Ireland I have palpably unmasked his malice discovered his ignorance divulged and corrected his Errors and misapplications of the Effects of this Coelestial meeting If his immodest Language hath any where incited me to too much freedom of speech I shall crave his excuse when he beggs my Pardon for his former Insolencies I hate not his or any mans person but his Sin The method is Rough cast like my self if the matter be better polished I care not I know I shall not please all neither would I some for want of Judgment and come for want of Love and others for lack of Loyalty will condemn me but none of these do I regard It is to the Impartial and juditious I appeal and to their judgment only will I submit And if they please to adventure but their Patience as I have done my Pains which is not a little I doubt not of the issue I have no ungodly ends in this or any other of my writings my Wishes are full as good as John Bookers I wish all happiness to the King and Queens Majesty and the Royal Progeny and an end to the Miseries of this languishing Kingdom I love and wish for the Book of Common-Prayer again that was Sealed with the Blood of so many Martyrs till which be I expect not to see Religion in its purity I delight not in War nor can I pray for an unjust or Dishonourable Peace From my Study in an honest Cavalierâ— houses in York-shire the 10 of Sept. 1646. So saith a true and free born English-man an abhorror of all manner of Treasons and Rebellions one that loveth all manner of Christians and is a great honourer of True and Lawful Parliamenis Geo. Wharton Bellum Hybernicale c. NOT many days before the famous and sometimes flourishing University and City of Oxford was sacrificed as a Peace-offering by some of the more Pacifical Lords and accordingly surrendered upon Articles otherwise honourable into the sacrilegious hands of the Sectaries and Schismaticks of this Kingdom viz. in this year 1646. which is from the Creation of the world 5595. to omit all other frivolous and fruitless computations and Chronologies wherein Booker hath foolishly stuffed and crammed up a malitious lying Pamphlet by him styled A Bloody Irish Almanack c. upon Friday the twelfth day of June there happened a notable Conjunction of the two malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars Which Conjunction notwithstanding it did not manifest it self with any storms thunder or lightning as John Booker prognosticated in his un-sainted state-lying-Kâ—lendar nor hath been the Prodromus of such loss ruin destruction and desolation to the Kingdom of Ireland as is mentioned in the said Pamphlet yet questionless the effects of that malicious meeting have already been notably shewed both in Ireland and in many other Kingdoms and Countries Cities and Towns and upon particular Persons who had any congruency therewith in the Radix or Revolution of their Nativities But to the intent that this barking mungrel may not delude the ignorant with his pedling trash nor detract from or otherwise abuse a whole Nation with his nauseous and menacing expressions I have assumed a liberty of publishing this following Discourse which is void of all Envy Malice or Partiality but freely modestly and sincerely relating whatsoever concerns this Coelestial Meeting according to the Rules of Art and the Judgment of the most approved Astrologers Ancient and Modern Wherein the judicious and indifferent Readers may plainly and orderly perceive the Ignorance and Malice of this trifling Parasite And rightly understand the Nature and Quality of the Effects of this Coelestial Congress when they shall begin to operate how long continue what Nations or Countries are therein principally concerned and how far the Kingdom of Ireland in particular concluding whether or no that so long oppressed Kingdom be ordained for the stage whereon such Bloody-minded Hell-hounds as himself are to perpetrate their Cruelty I will not trouble the Judicious Reader with any Examples of such Events as have formerly happened in England or elsewhere upon the like Conjunctions For that I acknowledge him to have Collected in part But I will first examine the Foundation whereupon he hath raised this so deformed a Structure and accordingly proceed either by adhering to him where he hath stumbled on any truth or in dissenting from and Correcting him where I meet with his Mistakes Ignorance and Malice And first I will Artificially erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus to the true or apparent time of this Conjunction and afterwards compare it with that which Booker hath published for I dare not take this or any other upon trust either from him or Mr. Lilly whereby I shall presume not only to discover his want of skill in this ordinary piece of Astronomy but likewise to benefit some others as Ignorant as himself if any such can be who desire to learn the exact manner of erecting the Figure of Heaven by this one Example for any moment of time out of the Tables of Directions First then we are to enquire at what time these two Planets are conjoyned I perceive that Booker hath endeavoured to follow Eichstadius and
one mind and cordially to unite in Obedience to God and Loyalty to him their Pious Soveraign I have set the Scheme here that in case John Booker have occasion to write of it he may have it exactly done ready to his hand for the Meridian of London and publish it without fear of further Correction Thaema Coelicum ex tabulis Directionum Regiomontani ad tempus Apparens ☌ ♄ ♂ die Mercurii Junii 28. 1648. 1. Hor. 58. Min. 7. Sec. P.M. Latitude 51.32 You see Sir the Regal Sign Leo culminates the Sun who is Lord thereof and Venus and Mercury are in the ninth House of the Figure and Jupiter possesseth the Mid-heaven The Conjunction happens in the eleventh deg and eighth min. of Gemini the Ascendant of London and in the eighth House which is the House of Death Labours Sadness and Heritage of Dead men And Mars is Lord of the Ascendant for the third deg and 29 min. of Scorpio ascends at the time of this Meeting And he likewise disposeth of the second House where the Dragons Tail also miserably afflicteth I shall leave the Judgment to John Booker only I shall tell him thus much that I think the Cavaliers will by this time challenge a better esteem from the City of London than now they dare and perhaps enjoy their own without Composition I shall say no more but conclude with an Application of that pertinent and Pious complaint of the Aquitains occasioned upon the Deposing of King Richard the Second to the present condition of this wretched Kingdom O good God! Where is the World become Saints are turned to Serpents and Doves into Devils The English Nation which hath been accounted fierce only against their Foes and always faithful to their Friends are now become both fierce and faithless against their Lawful and Loving Prince and have most Barbarously betrayed him Who would ever have thought that Christians that Civil People that any Men would thus have violated all Religion all Laws and all Honest and Civil demeanor And although the Heavens blush at the view and the Earth sweats at the burthen of so vile a Villany and all Men proclaim and exclaim upon shame and confusion against them yet they neither feel the horror nor shrink at the shame nor fear the revenge but stand upon terms some of Defence for the Lawfulness of their dealing and some of Excuse for the Necessity Well let them be able to blind the World and to resist Mans Revenge yet shall they never be able to escape either the sight or vengeance of Almighty God which we daily expect and earnestly desire to be poured upon them Alas good King Charles thy Nature was too gentle and thy Government too mild for so stiff and stubborn a People What King will ever repose any trust in such unnatural Subjects but fetter them with Laws as Thieves are with Irons What carriage hereafter can recover their Credit What time will be sufficient to blot out this Blemish What other Action could they have done more joyfull to their Enemies more woful to their Friends and more shameful to themselves O Corruption of Times O Conditions of Men Hor. lib. 1. Ode 35. Eheu cicatricum sceleris pudet Fratrumque Quid nos dura refugimus Aetas quid intactum nefasti Linquimus unde manus juventus Metu Deorum continuit quibus Pepercit aris FINIS MERLINI ANGLICI ERRATA OR The Errors Mistakes and Mis-applications of Mr. Lilly's New Ephemeris for the Year 1647. Discovered Refuted and Corrected By C. GEORGE WHARTON Student in Astronomy Printed in the Year 1647. To the Reader IT is a common Proverb Dogs bark more for Custom than Fierceness And had I not assuredly known this Whelp Lilly to be one of that bawling Litter I should not have suffered his perpetual snarling with that Patience and Temper I did but before this would have alighted from my Saddle to hurle him one stone at the least to gnaw on But as he is now grown bolder and blacker in the jaws I must begin to have an Eye over him and a care to keep him at a distance lest he bite me till I bleed and thereby I become maniaque or Brain-sick like himself and so be more desirous of his Liver than his Heart I shall scorn to take notice of his former Grinnings nor will I trouble my self or the Reader with any repetition of his by-past Fooleries frantick Expressions and but a few if any of his many Errors and Mistakes so grosly committed in every of his Lowzy-Pamphlets for them indeed I have tyed and twitch'd up together in a Pack-thread as thinking them fitter for his Quondam Hell than the meanest Shelf in my Study but I will content my self only with that dainty bit this sweet Brat of his own begetting Merlini Anglici Ephemeris the fourth and perhaps the last of that name And examine I shall and that strictly of what metal it is compounded or whether it be simple like the Dad of it and the truth you have freely as followeth The Errors Mistakes and Mis-applications of Mr. Lilly's New Epheemeris c. I Will not trouble my self or the Reader in taking notice of any thing in his Long-winded-Preface save only the reverend mention he hath made concerning him whom he is pleased to term an A. B. C. fellow viz. Naworth of Oxford by whom as he pretendeth he found himself intolerably abused in Print and could do no less than vindicate himself in point of Art As for the Name Naworth which William Lilly and John Booker to make their Worships merry have so often and as wisely as wittily inverted to No-worth and Worth-nothing it is well known to be the Letters of my name long since transposed purposely to avoid the Scandal and obloquy which both these Mounte-banks so greatly delight in and indeavour so much to assume For whereas I observed the Common people generally possessed of a confident beliefe or rather a foolish conceipt that such as could write Almanacks were esteemed with a Country-reverence Wise-men like Lilly and Booker or if I shall render it in their own Dialect Conjurers or such as can tell all things past present and to come And so were usually haunted by the silly people with a number of unlawful unnecessary and ridiculous questions by means whereof many ingenious and honest Artists have not only been branded with the titles of Conjurers Necromancers Wizards Sorcerers and Figure-Casters in the worst sense but have often been imprisoned and Indicted and proceeded against upon the Statute against Witchcraft c. and hardly escaped with their lives especially when they came before Judges that were ignorant in or disaffected to Astrology after they had suffered several years imprisonment and thereby wasted and consumed their estates I say that I having resolved to write yearly which was not usual without prefixing a name nor for the reasons above mentioned would I then publish any thing of that nature in my own name
proved Mars is the strongest save only the Moon and Jupiter the weakest but Mercury in all the Figure as will appear to any Man that will take the pains to collect the Dignities and Debilities of the Planets respectively in the Figure And therefore he hath good reason to doubt of himself and to suspect the Scottish Nation will become Converts which if they did not we Malignants should have questioned whether they had any Religion or Faith at all But to the matter Mars in the eleventh House presages something else than amicorum inimicitias if you had not abused Guido Bonatus Colum. 571. and in him the whole Kingdom whose words if he had not been interrupted by this unmannerly Clown had been thus Mars in 11 a domo significat paucitatem lucri seu profectus in rebus de quibus speratur utilitas quod cadent in inimicitias amicorum significat diminutionem substantiae desperabunt homines de rebus in quibus habebatur fiducia quibus sperabatur That is Mars in the eleventh House foretells but little profit or gain in those things by which profit was expected and that they shall fall at enmity with their Friends Also the diminution of their Substance and that men shall utterly despair of ever obtaining what they most trusted to and expected This Aphorism carries a great deal of Matter in it in relation it hath to the differences depending and impending betwixt the Scots and the Parliament And therefore it was not held fitting to be published or communicated by our Mysterious Merlin without a Fee The plain English of it is that according to Natural causes it is most evident that the Parliament c. shall be frustrated in their expectation that they shall be much deceived and deprived of the Profit and Commodity which might have accrued unto them by having the King at their own disposal And that for this cause they shall fall at difference with and incur the dislike and enmity of those that were formerly their Friends and Confederates who shall account them no otherwise than such as have forgot and neglected their Covenant with God and Man c. And hereupon they despair of the Scottish Religion because it is come nearer the Kings and of their Faith because they have not so much credulity as to interest them alone in the disposal of His Majesties Person And hence arise new Discords and Contentions and greater Taxes are imposed than ever upon the poor Kingdom whereby Mens Estates are exhausted and consumed and fresh Miseries daily approaching if not timously prevented What he cites out of Haly concerning Jupiter's positure in the eleventh House I have sufficiently Answered and explained before upon the words which he quoted from Bonatus for the same thing And thus far hath Mr. Lilly made his Progress in Preaching Peace and Tranquility to the People to what purpose I have sufficiently declared And now he comes to the Quality of the Year wherein I scorn to detract the least scruple from him of what 's his due but shall agree with him in every thing which he performs but any thing like an Artist though he stumble of it against his will his Quotation of Bonatus Pag. 55. by great Fortune is very true and pertinent whereby is proved a Year of scâ—rcity of Corn and other Provision for the use of Man But the application of his next Aphorism out of Haly is very illicite and ignorant for although he affirm it shall assuredly come to pass in those parts of this Kingdom which lye South-East and full South from London but nothing so violently as in the Kingdom of Ireland I shall prove him here an errand Botcher For if he had understood the Aphorism Saturn ought to be infortunate in alto loco and elevated above all the other Planets or otherwise it hath no signification which he is not in this Figure for although he be weak in his Essential Dignities yet considering his other Accidental Fortitudes he is indifferent strong and powerful so that the Aphorism will not serve for this Position And if you will know the principal ways by which a Planet may be said to be Elevated above another they are three viz. In respect of their Latitude from the Ecliptique Nearness to their Auges Position in the Figure A Planet is said to be Elevated above another according to Ganivetus cap. 1. differ 3. of his Book Entituled Amicus Medicorum who hath greatest Northern Latitude from the Ecliptique Now if we Calculate rightly we shall find Mars Elevated above all the rest of the Planets the Moon excepted for he hath 3 degrees of North Latitude and Saturn's Latitude is Meridional no less than 2 degrees 6 min. So Jupiter hath 0. degree 47 min. of North Latitude Venus 1 degree 10 min. and Mercury 2 degrees 5 min. both South and the Moon indeed hath 4 degrees 47 min. of North Latitude So that in respect of Latitude Saturn is the most depressed of all the Planets in the Figure and the Moon most Elevated next Mars and then Jupiter The next way is in respect of a Planets propinquity to his Auge according to Albohazen Haly in his Comment upon Ptolomy So that the Planet which is nearest the Summity of his Epicycle is Elevated above another which is further removed thence and if we consider here which of the Planets is most Elevated secundum Augem we shall find that Mercury is in Apog Epicicli 12 March Mars is in Apog Eccentr the 14 of March and Saturn is not in Apog Epicicli until the fourth of May following So that this way Mercury and Mars are both Elevated above Saturn And here by the way will I put Mr. Merlin in mind of one mistake in this kind committed in his England's Prophetical Merlin Pag. 78. Where he hath put Saturn transire Apog on 20 Martii Jupiter Epicicli sui superiorem partem 23 Martii whereas Saturn is in Apog Epicicli the 10 of March and Jupiter the 13. So but only ten days Error in each committed The third way by which a Planet may be said to be Elevated is in respect of their places in the Figure as he that is above the Earth is more Elevated than he that is under the Horizon he that is in the twelfth House is Elevated above another Planet in the Ascendant he that is in the eleventh above any in the twelfth and he that is in the tenth above any other in the Figure as indeed Saturn is now And if all the Planets were under the Horizon then that which is nearest to the Ascendant is said to be most Elevated but this is not so much considered by Astrologers as their Elevation in respect of Latitude and of their proximity to their Auges or if it were yet you see there is two to one against Wil. Lilly For Saturn is neither Elevated above all the other Planets in respect of Latitude nor in respect of his Auge and therefore that
Aphorism of Haly's hath no signification here Saturn being neither infortunatus in alto loco nec sublevatus super omnes alios Planetas as William Lilly supposes him So that the South and Southeast parts of this Kingdom need not fear this Positure at all Next I desire the Reader to observe that he hath cut off corrupted and mis-understood that Aphorism in Bonatus 574. viz. Significat naufragia repente c. For that Aphorism is not deduced from the Dominion of Mars in the fourth and ninth Houses of the Figure but as you may see in Guido from the Situation of Mars in Cancer and his Triplicity and the words of Bonatus are these Et si fuerit Mars in Revolutione anni in Cancro vel ejus triplicitate Et maxime in Cancro erit apparitio eorum quae significaverit in partibus Septentrionalibus And thus much of that Aphorism Master Merlin hath quite left our which is thus much in English If Mars in the Years Revolution shall be in Cancer or his Triplicity but especially in Cancer the visibility of his Effects shall be in the Northern parts of the Kingdom Further In Cancro significat naufragia repente vâ—nientia ex forti atque subito flatu ventorum significat rixam atque contentionem bellum c. Mars in Cancer hath signification of unexpected Ship-wracks happening by fierce and sudden gales of Wind he also portends Strife Contention and War c. Lilly Gaudebunt Reges habebunt laetitiam securitatem that our Principal Governours and Officers that have with such Industry these many Years steered the Affairs of our Kingdom shall in this Year rejoyce Wharton Indeed Lilly you steer by a false Chart for there is no such thing absolutely signified to the Governours you speak of from the Sun as he is Lord of the Ascendant for he that will look into Guido pag. 575. whence he takes this judgment shall find the words to carry another sence viz. Et si fuerit Sol Dominus Anni ac Dominus Ascendentis fueritque liber à malis dixit Albumazar gaudebunt Reges habebunt laetitiam securitatem so that if you expect to have benefit by this Aphorism the Sun must not only be Lord of the Ascendant and free from the Malevolents but he must also be Lord of the Year which he is not in this Revolution and how far soever this Aphorism may be in force the King will have the best share thereof if the Sun be the Natural Significator of Kings as all Authors accord Nor shall those Governours he talks of want their part of what the Sun 's accidental Position in the eighth House doth signifie viz. Depressionem Divitum Magnatum seu Nobilium atque potentum eorumque diminutionem mortem ac improperium Bonat 577. I 'le lay my Life this Aphorism belongs to the Round-heads What Venus portendeth in the ninth as she is Significatrix of His Majesty I have told you in my Prog. And what Mr. Lilly hath added out of Bonatus 579. is not amiss only his application is like all the rest as idle and foolish as may be in that it concerns all the Clergy in general and not the Prick-ear'd Divines only as every Artist can testifie Now for that William Lilly seems to be very much offended with one Mr. Geere who as he saith was sometimes a Priest of Tewksbury and hath lately writ a Pamphlet called Astrologo-mastix which indeed is as full of old idle Sophistry as Mr. Lilly is of Malice and Ignorance yet I hold it no sufficient Answer to tell him a story of a Weather-cock or a Cock and Bull in stead of denying and avoyding his Arguments by better Reason Nor is it Scholar-like or savours at all of Common Civility to fall upon scandalizing of a mans Reputation when he hath not wit enough to requite him otherwise I think Lilly you would scarce accept of it as a sufficient Answer from me if instead of Correcting your Errors I should tell the World that you were but a Taylors Boy in St. Clements Parish and that the summity of all your Honour was to be afterwards a Scriveners Man and that he dying your Mistress taught you first to write Secretary in which respect I account you not worthy of the just Revenge of my Pen. This though it be true were but mean Logick but the truth is you are lame of that Leg and therefore you may do well to borrow a Crutch of Mr. Thomas Challoner that precise Logician c. Nor does it grieve me at all that I suffer so much for the justness of the Cause which I have undertaken and sworn to as to be traduced by you with the terms of an obscure Foot-man ungown'd and unbooted c. the time was when I have been on Horse-back where neither Lilly nor Booker durst have shewn their Faces and 't is no matter whether I wear Boots or Shoes either shall content me I have both And if I want a Colledge-Gown I believe Sir you are not in so much Credit as to take up one for me till my next Years Almanack may defray your Engagemenâ— however you are not so much Mâ—ster of your Tradâ— as to make it for me for to say the truth I was told your Master was a Womans Tayloâ— I find nothing left now worthy my Notice save only the Quadrate Aspect of Saturn to Jupiter which happeneth this Year which Mr. Merlin saith only signifieth mutationes res multas in Negotiis Regis similiter in lege very great alterations and many things concerning His Majesties Affairs and the Law But you see Mr. Merlin dare not tell us his Author and indeed he either will not or dare not yet nevertheless I have trac'd him and found Haly to be the Author of those words and of some other proceedings which you may guess he was unwilling to publish by the tenor of them Haly pag. 391. they run thus Significat saith Haly quod existent Rebelles qui adversabuntur Regi qui querent regnum c. The plain English is this it signifieth there shall be Rebels and Traytors who shall rise and oppose themselves against the King who shall endeavour to deprive him of his Kingdom c. And this together with the former is the genuine signification of the Square of Saturn and Jupiter and these very words I had noted in my Almanack but the Printer maliciously expunged and altered them and divers more whereby he hath unworthily abused me and made my Almanack look Weather-beat like himself As for the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Taurus which Mr. Merlin saith hath been so Learnedly handled by John Booker I have sufficiently laid him open in that Discourse I formerly mentioned and no doubt but it will serve both their turns Yet I cannot pass by one gross Error above all the rest committed by this wooden Prick-ear John Booker in his New Almanack for 1647. which may be easily known
We had been all alike Good Christian-Men T is Birth and Education which doth make Religion that which Seals it is the Stake The Astronomers from Nabonassarus of Egyptian Years consisting each of 365 days 2401. They of all others can account the best Yet are accounted of but like the rest The snarling Priest who Numbers never knew More than to tythe his Pigs or whence they grew But like the Ale-wife chalks behind the door And sets even Christ and Moses on the score Gains more belief in striving how to bribe Our Reason than do all that Learned Tribe But know fond Men the Bible was not writ For you to draw Chronologies from it To prop up Faction warrant Breach of Laws Absolve from Oaths and Chain us to your Cause To teach Men Trades or Sciences or Arts 'T was made to rectifie and steer our Hearts Wretched those Souls who thus by you are fed With Tares and Husks instead of Heav'nly Bread From the Death of Alexander the Great 1976. He who Conquered all the spacious Earth Was Conquered himself for want of Breath He that whilst living could endure no Bound Rests now contented with six foot of Ground His Birth his Valour his Exploits and Glory All tumbled in a heap of Doubtful Story Even so at length Great Conqu'rours shall you be Or'e-come confin'd as close as low as he Ten Thousand Armies strength will not defend Your Conquests and your selves must have An End Nor can they yield you Comfort when you die Be'ng nothing but a splendid Robbery Since the Julian Institution 1698 Since the Gregorian Emendation 71 Our State have been Reforming twelve long Years The Church Court Country City Hair and Ears Should they the English Kalendar omit 'T will be forgot when they begun to sit Ages to come who thirst to Celebrate Their Famous Deeds shall find them without Date And know no more when CHARLES or Strafford dy'd Than some When Christ was Born or Crucify'd Perhaps mistake the Persons with the Times Finding so like their Suff'rings and their Crimes 2. Under the Feasts and Fasts What Changlings were the Presbyterian-Crew Who pull'd Old Crosses down to set up New And burnt Christs Picture whilst they did embrace Those Antick Draughts of Calamy and Case That durst adventure on such dangerous shelves As to un-Saint th' Evangelists themselves And leave us not a Festival beside What they so called and had Sanctifi'd But Heav'n is just For lo they 're forc'd to bow The Synod's down and stinking Elders too Only they bark at Moon-shine now and then To witness they are Dogs more like than Men. 3. Under the Kings c. I 've said y' are Gods Who dare you Tyrants call Since Good or Bad y' are his Vice-gerents all But you shall die like Men This I allow For Men must die So did our Saviour too When once the Rulers Priests and People cry Away with him Pilate must Crucifie 4. Under the Table of Terms Lawyers prefer the sharpest Laws as best To keep a Common-wealth in Peace and Rest If so why should those Gown-men Frown and Puff To see the Courts of Justice lin'd with Buff No Plea ere moved as a Sword can do For that or'e-ruleth Judge and Jury too 5. In January Welcom ye pregnant times whilst you shall be As cross to some as they were curs'd to me Welcom Prodigious Births wherein appear No fewer Monsters than are days i' th' year Thrice welcom are ye For y' are none of mine A Poets Issue is A Princely Line 6. In February Disturbed Heav'ns produce disturbed Pates Confused Councils more Confused States A Quarter-witted Clergy half undone Their Grand Impostures clear as is the Sun Whence Giddy Zelots take the Craft in hand And breath a Holy-madness through the Land 7. In the Month of May. Whither an Army now Well! I could say Who 't is will get or who shall lose the day Thrasillus-like inform you who shall prove Victorious in 's Ambition who in 's Love But I am silent Nay I must be dumb 'T is TREASON now to Pray Thy Kingdom come 8. In November The Nation mourns because of Monstrous Oaths Her Scarlet sins cause want of Bread and Cloaths Diseases rage and strongly multiply Our New-Republick's sick and like to die London bewails beshrews her lewd pretence Of begging for a Posture of Defence 9. Where speaking of the Mutations of Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealts he pithily Concludes Thus Changes come thus Changes will ensue Till these Corrupted Bodies change for new And put on Incorruption Men and Things Whole Countries Cities Beggars Princes Kings He who but lately wore a Crown of Gold Crown'd now with Thorns Exil'd or basely Sold He clad in Rags and fed with scraps before Now Thron'd in 's stead and surfeiting with store A Glorious Church and Kingdom but to day To Morrow both the Wolf and Foxes Prey The Learned Lawyer Orthodox Divine Once high esteem'd now rank'd with fi lt by Swine The Hospitable Lord erst fed the Poor And cloath'd the Naked nak'd turn'd out of Door His sorrowing Wife and helpless Children gone To try their Friends perhaps be frowned on And he in 's hoary-age Petition bare Those that his Grooms at best but lately were The Fool in 's Coat the Wise-man in his Chair Th' Indulgent Father and the Hopeful Heir The griping Land-lord and the greedy Clown The glittering Tissue and the gray-friz'd Gown The Rosy-Cheek and the unfurrowed Brow The Freckled Wainscot-Face that Milks the Cow The Flowry Bride girt with chaste thoughts about Will all once changed be their Lamps must out Nay Heav'n it self grows Old and will away It had a Birth and shall a Dying-day All all to Change and Dissolution tend Poor Almanacks ev'n they must have an end In Hemerosc 1654. this Ingenious Person wrote these following Heroick Verses 1. Of the Feasts c. GO ring the Bells let Priests and People Pray I know no Treason in a Holy-Day 2. Over the Table of Kings c. Here stands the Regal Table till it be Convict and Banish'd for Malignancy Under the Kings Call me no more Malignant since the Term Hath Hydra's Head I Hercules his Arm And though no God nor Worshipped at Tyre Remember yet great Jupiter's my Sire Let States and Kingdoms whirle mine shall not fall Except when time is done this Globe and all So Wolf and Lamb salute the first for blood The second to be offer'd for our good 3. Over the Terms Thus may the Terms begin thus may they end As yet we know not what we do intend Under the Terms Friends send your Sons no more to th' Inns of Court But breed them Souldiers Men of loud Report So need they fear no rude Return of words Or Writs nor yet Exception 'gainst their Swords So shall their Terms be never out of Date Nor liable to change but with the State So may they chuse the Trade most Profit brings Set up or Lawyers Priests or Petit Kings
't The Spirit 's in us why not we exhort Yet let 's beware before we farther boast And think who 't was receiv'd the Holy-Ghost 11. In September Let 's fell the Church and Colledge-Lands Away With Humane Learning that 's but for a day Down with the Steeple-Houses melt the Bells And own no Metal but what 's in our selves But stay first let us Learned Spelman read And then perhaps we may abhor the deed 12. In October Let 's tear our Ribbons burn our Richer Laces Wear Russet and contrive betwitched Faces With Thee and Thou let us go quack a while And cheat the World in Quakers garb and stile But do not trust 'em more than well befits Th' are Presbyterians run besides their Wits 13. In November Or were they not yet fool not over-fast For this Religion too shall flag at last Naylor himself will never for it burn Nor let us use 't but for our present turn On such sad Mummers grace will not be had Much longer than the Multitude are mad 14. In December But now th' Apostates are restor'd their Wits And Plots and Plotters crumbled all to bits A Blessed Reformation will I hope At last succeed in spite of Turk and Pope Till when and always let 's observe the Laws And truly Celebrate The Good Old Cause Which Good Old Cause England is now again by Gods especial Providence Blessed with to the great satisfaction and rejoycing of the Inhabitants thereof who by reason of their Sufferings in our late twenty Years Confusion cannot but give their joy the greater Latitude at this so happy and by many almost unexpected Revolution of Government viz. of turning from Anarchy to the most Natural of all other Governments MONARCHY In his Kalendarium Carolinum 1661. are found these Worthy Verses 1. Under the Table of Kings STand there Great Charles in your successive Might Our King by Miracle our King by Right The Number now is even and You are He Which must compose the Odds if any be Your Glorious Father by his Matchless Pen Made Jews turn Christians You make Beasts turn Men. 2. Under the Table of Terms 'T was Will not Law 't was Envy not Right Reason Condemn'd ev'n Majesty it self for Treason But now both Law and Reason taking place Who doubts the Issue of an Honest Case Yet with your Case bring Coyn and Cap in Hand Else Lawyers will it not well Understand 3. Explanation of his Kalendar Martyrs and Saints my Kalendar displays No private Fastings nor yet Lecture-days No nor such Martyrs pearch on Tow'rs and Gates To shew how truly High and Mighty States Triumphant Charles Blest Strafford Glorious Laud I Celebrate as Martyrs without Fraud These these and such as these deep-dye my Pages The Shame of this Wonder of After-Ages Nor do my Saints wear Buff or Bandaliers Or are they known by their Prodigious Ears Short Hair and Hatchet-Faces to delude A Monster-headed Giddy-Multitude No no th' are Saints rejoyceth Heav'n to see Yet would the rest were all such Saints for me 4. In January All hail Great King Thrice welcom to your own Your own good Subjects your Imperial Throne Renowned Charles whose Glory let it be Your blest approach hath set three Kingdoms free Whose powerful Influence whose chearful Rays Make all the Year consist of Halcyon-days 5. In February King Charles return'd What Heav'nly News is that Nay more Enthron'd where's Martyr'd Father sate Thanks Noble Monk whose gen'rous Vertue brought To pass this Miracle-transcending thought May all that 's Good requite you Let your Name Be Crown'd with Lawrels of Eternal Fame 6. In March King Charles restor'd how 't glads my wounded heart That Deathless Name breath's Life to every part Now now my Blood runs smoothly and my Meat And Drink 's Digested with more Active Heat My boyling Stomach rages craves full Mâ—als What surfeited before now Feeds and Heals 7. In April King Charles at Westminster How happy we Whom Heav'n reserv'd this Glorious Prince to see Whose greedy Eyes surcharg'd with fresh Delight Neglect all Mediums fix on that fair Light We Reverence both the Cassock and the Gown But Charles his Presence Consecrates the Town 8. In May. Holy silent are the Rumpers whilome steer'd Our Reeling Bark so furiously Carrier'd 'Gainst Truth Peace And trod down all before them Save the dull Rabble destin'd to adore them Observe the Good Old Cause how fast it sleeps See how Rebellion on the Belly creeps 9. In June Thus have we seen the modern Use of Saint What 't is to cozen with Religious Paint And Herod-like when you intend to Kill To offer Worship and profess no ill What fair Advantages the Devil affords To Frantick Garbs starch't Faces Canting Words 10. In July Thus have we seen what 't is t' insinuate And kindle Jealousies within a State To give Alarms of Dangers where are none And talk of Grievances were never known To hold forth Liberty and Freedom when Ye meant t' enslave your very Brethren 11. In August Thus have we seen what 't is to Preach and Pray 'Gainst Kings and Curse them in a Holy way T' incite the weak and wavering to Rebell Proclaiming To your Tents O Israel Absolve from Oaths and other Sacred Ties Suborning Scripture for the loudest Lies 12. In September Thus have we seen ye ' midst your Wickedness Exult and Prune your selves with wish'd Success Your Prosperous Mischiefs urged to invite Our troubled Reason to confess you Right Prevailing Sins dangerous Temptations prove Unless to him well Armed from Above 13. In October Thus have we seen ye Temporizing Slaves Act all things any thing like subtil Knaves Observe the Point whence came the fairest Gales Spread and receive them in your swelling Sails Abjure your God Religion all you know Might Skreen you from the Beams would make you grow 14. In November Thus have we seen what 't is to slight your King Stain the fair Model of his Governing Asperse his wisest Actions and pretend Gross Lapses which no Mortal yet could mend To dress him like a Tyrant and what 's worse Destroy him On your selves entail a Curse 15. In December And now I hope w'have seen enough to Pray God save the King And send him long to Sway Great Britain's Scepter That the grumbling Frie Will warning take and cease to cogg the Die For now their Cheats are so well known I fear Their Trading will not last another Year 16. After his Gesta Britannorum Thus ends the Chapter Here 's a Period To our Rebellion Charles that Earthly God Invested in his Throne The Traitrous brood Lurking in Corners gaul'd with Guilt and Blood They would have Built but Heav'n would no such And so confounded Language Tower and All. Wall His Dedication to the King Vouchsafe Dread Soveraign to accept this Mite This Pedlar's Trash this one Year's Over-sight I have not yet approach'd your Sacred Feet To beg one Boon Let that Great Sir be it I was none of the Crowd though now
Fra. Windebank Questioned Nov. 12. 100000 l. voted for the Scots 13. Sir George Ratcliff sent into Ireland 16. Bp. of Lincoln enlarged 19. Scotch Commissioners admitted Residence in London 21. Justice Howard assaulted aâ—d stabbed in Westminster-Hall 23. A Commis issued for treating with the Scots 28. Pryn and Burton Triumphantly into London Dr. Bastwick the like soon after Dec. 3. Pryn and Burton complain of their Prosecutors 4. Sir George Ratcliff committed 5. Secretary Windebank fled into France 7. Ship-mony Voted illegal The Judges questioned 8. E. Strafford committed to the Tower L. Ann dyed at Richm. D. Cosens committed 11. Lond. Petit. against Bishops 16. Canons Voted Illegal 18. Arch-Bish of Caâ—terbury sequestred committed to the Black Rod. 19. B. Wren accused of High Treason 21. L. Finch Voted a Traytor 22. He fled into Holland Jan. 23. Goodman a Priest reprieved Pryn Burton and Bastw Voted Innocent and satisfaction to be given them by their Judges 30. E. Strafford charged in the House of Lords Feb. 10. Match with the Prince of Orange propounded 11. Plots suggested 13. Judge Berkly Impeached committed 16. Bill for Triennial Parl. signed which occasioned Bonfires and ringing of Bells 24. E. Strafford made his Defence before the H. of Lords Remanded to the Tower 26. Arch-Bish accused of High Treason before the H. of Lords Ordered to the Tower Feb. Scots first styled Dear Brethren All Books Libels and Proclamat against them called in A Thanksgiving for the Peace with them March 1. Arch-Bishop committed to the Tower 10. Bishops Votes in Parliament null'd 22. E. Strafford's Tryal began Anno 1641. April Convocation H. Fined 15. E. Strafford's Tryal ended House of Commons voted him Guilty of High Treason which was Opposed by the L. G. Digby and others 20. Prince of Orange to London 21. E. Strafford voted the second time Guilty of High Treason by the Commons Bill of Attainder read in the House of Lords where many opposed it 29. Nevertheless the H. of Lords also vote him Guilty of High Treason May 1. King declared himself unsatisfied 2. Princess Mary Married to the Pr. of Orange 3. Thousands of the City came to Westminster crying for Justice against the Earl 5. Protestation taken by the Parliament 6. E. Strafford voted the second time Guilty of High Treason by the H. of Lords 8. Two Bills one for the Execution of the Earl the other for continuation of the Parliament tendred to the King 9. King consulted with the Judges and Bishops Some of the Bishops advised him to pass the Bills The Earl himself by his Letter to the King desired him to sign the Bill of Attainder May 10. Bill for the Execution of E. Strafford signed by the King So likewise that other for continuance of the Parliament which proved the Execution of himself 11. The King by his Letter to the Lords delivered by the Prince sollicited for his Life but in vain 12. E. Strafford Beheaded on Tower-hill 17. L. Goring resigned hâ—s place Master of the Wards L. Say succeeded him Bp. Juxton L. Treasurer resigned his Staff The Office committed to five Commissioners E. of Leicest made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Marquess Hertford Governour of the Prince in the room of the Earl 〈◊〉 Newcastle June 19. Voted thâ—â— the Scots should receiâ—â— 100000 pounds of theâ—â— 300000 l. at Midsummer 1642. the remainder at Midsummer 1644 July 2. Bill imposing the Tax of Pole-money 5. Bishop Wren Voteâ— against Two Bills passed for puâ—ting down the High Commission and Star-Chambeâ— Courts Sir Tho. Roe Ambassâ—dour into Germany Qu. Mother left England and dyed soon after a Cullein The five Judges who had formerly given their Opinions for Ship-money charged by the House oâ— Commons Aug. English and Scotch Armies disbanded 10. King began his Journey for Scotland An Order for taking away all scandalous Pictures out of Churches Sept. 8. Parliament adjourn'd till Octob. 20. A standing Committee consisting of fifty Members appointed during the Recess Octob. 22. Owen ô Conolly discovered the design of the Irish Rebellion Mac Mahon and the L. Macquire taken and secured 23. The Irish Rebellion first brake out the King being then in Scotland Nov. 5. 200000 l. voted to be raised for suppressing the Irish Rebellion The King referred the whole business to the Parliament Marquess Ormond by Commission from the Earl of Leicester and with the Kings approbation made Lieutenant General of all the Forces in Ireland King returned from Scotland Magnificently Feasted by the City King Feasted the Chiâ—f of the City at Hampton Court where divers Aldermen received the Honour of Knighthood Dec. 15. Remonstr of the state of the Kingdom presented to the King at Hampton Court 27. Tumults at Westminster threatning the Bishops 30. Twelve Bishops protest against Popery or any malignity against the State and against such Orders or Votes as had passed or which should pass in the Lords House during their enforced absence Dec. 31. Twelve Bishops accused by the Commons of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower the other two to the Black Rod. Jan. 1. The Irish Proclaimed Rebels 3. Articles exhibited against the five Members 4. King in Person demandeâ— them 5. Houâ—es adjourn'd into London 6. Proâ—lamation made for Apprehending the â—ive Members 7. H. of Commons declared the Kings Proclamation to be â—alâ—e scandalous and illegal Sir Edward Hâ—rbert the Kings Attorney General committed for preferring the Articles against the five Members 10. The King Queen Prince and Duke of York to Hampton Court 11. The five Members Guarded to Westminster by Water 27. House of Commons Petitioned the King for the Militia Feb. 14. Adventures for Irish Land 23. Queen with the Princes Mary her Daughter imbarqued at Dover for Holland King to Greenwich whence he sent for the Prince and Duke of York They removed to Theobalds March 9. Thence to Newmarket 15. Thence to Huntington May 3. Protestation taken by the Parliament 26. Thence to York Anno 1642. April 8. King proposed to go in Person into Ireland Disliked by the Parliament 9. An Order of Parliament enjoyning their Members to attendance 22. Duke of York and Pr. Elector to Hull 23. King denyed admittance into Hull Sir John Hotham Proclaimed Traytor 24. King complains of the Affront 25. Sir John Hotham justified by the Parliament The Lords began to desert the Parliament and go to the King May 12. Gentry of Yorkshire attended the King at York 20. Voted that the King intended to levy War against the Parliament 30. Nine Lords with the King summoned to Westminster June 2. An Order of Parliament requiring the Revolted Members to return by the sixteenth of June Nineteen Propositions sent to the King 10. An Order for bringing in Money and Plate 14. King writ to the City 15. Thirty seven Lords protested in behalf of the King The nine Lords Summoned to appear were for default thereof Impeached of High Treason L. Keeper Littleton conveyed the Great Seal and afterwards himself to the King at
same Jer. Ives Tho. Taylor and William Larner committed to Newgate for the like Dec. 24. Four Bills presented to the King 25. Scotch Com. declare their Dissent Jan. 10. Voted that no further Addresses should be made to the King 11. A Declaration from the General and his Councel signifying their Resolutions to adhere to the Houses for settling and securing the Parliament and Kingdom without the King and against him or any other that should hereafter partake with him Feb. 10. Capt. Burleigh Executed at Winchester 14. Judge Jenkins brought to the Chancery Bar. Anno 1648. April 9. An Insurrection of the London Prentices Some slain in the Streets 20. D. of York escaped from St. James's 30. Berwick surprized by Sir Marm. Langdale May. Carlisle taken by Sir Ph. Musgrave 12. An Insurrection at St. Edm. Bury 12 13. Sir John Stawel brought to the Kings-Bench Bar. Surrey Petitioners dispersed and some slain and wounded at Westminster 24. Kentish Insurrection 25. Chepstow surrendred Sir Nich. Kemish slain 27. Part of the Navy Revolted 31. Tenby surrendred June 2. Maidstone Fight Major Rolph accused for designing Mischief to the King 3. Pontfract Castle surprized by Major Morris and Capt. Bonivent 6. E. Norw at Bow and Stratford-langt with his Forces 30. Votes for No further Addresses to the King null'd July 7. Fra. L. Villars slain at Kingston Aug. 17. Scotch Army under Duke Hamilton defeated 28. Colchester surrend Sir Cha. Lucas shot to death Sir Geo. Lisle shot to death Sept. 15. Commissioners sent from the Parliament to Treat with the King arrived in the Isle of Wight 16. They waited on the King 18. Treaty began in the Isle of Wight Hor. 9. 30′ A. M. Octob. 8. Judge Jenkins removed from Newgate to Wallingford Castle 29. Col. Rainsborough slain in his Quarters at Doncaster by a party from Pontfract Nov. 4. Treaty in the Isle of Wight prolonged for fourteen days 13. Sir Marm. Langdale escaped from Nottingham Castle 14. Col. Rainsborough Buried at Wapping 16. Large Remonstr of the Army agreed on at Windsor 20. Large Remonstr of the Army presented to the House 27. Treaty in the Isle of Wight ended 30. Army advanced towards London Dec. 1. King taken away from the Isle of Wight and carried to Hurst Castle 4. Kings party commanded to depart from London 5. Kings Concession voted Satisfactory 6. L. Gen. Cromwel to London Members Imprison'd and Secluded 12. M. G. Brown Prisoner to St. James's 21. King taken from Hurst Castle and brought that Night to Winchester 22. Thence to Farnham 23. Thence to Windsor Gen. Counsel of War Voted that all Papists should have Liberty of Conscience and all Sequestrations as Papists only taken off 29. Major Pitcher shot to death in Paul's Church-yard Jan. 4. Supr Authority voted to be in the H. of Commons 5. Jews Petitioned for admittance into England having been Banished thence by King Edward the First Anno 1290. 6. Ordinance for Kings Tryal assented to 9. High Court of Justice Proclaimed Voted that Writs should no longer run in the Kings Name 10. High Court of Justice met in the Painted Chamber Scots Commissioners declare their dissent from the proceedings of the English 16. Hillary Term adjourn'd 18. M. G. Massey escaped from St. James's 19. Agreement of the People presented to the House M. G. Brown Prisoner to Windsor Castle K. brought from Windsor to St. James's 20. King brought the first time before the High Court of Justice Voted that the Bishop of London might attend the King 21. High Court of Justice Fasted at White-hall 22. Scotch Com. deliver in Papers and a Declarat from the Parl. of Scotland against the proceed of the Engl. Parl. and Army for Tryal of the King 26. Ambassadors from Holland 27. King Sentenced to Death He desired that B. Juxon might be admitted to him Granted It was declared High Treason for any one to Proclaim Charles Stuart his Son Heir to the Cr. after the King was dead 28. B. Juxon Preach'd before the King High Court of Justice Fasted and Prayed 26. An Act for alterations of the Pleadings in Courts A Scaffold erected before the Banqueting-house at White-hall 29. King removed to S. James's whither his Children came from Sion-house and took their leaves of him 30. K. Charles behead Hor. 1. 12′ P. M. Duke Hamilton escaped from Windsor Castle Sir Lewis Dives and M. Holder from White-hall 31. Duke Hamilton retaken in Southwark Feb. 1. Kings Body removed to St. James's L. Capel escaped from the Tower 2. But retaken in Lambeth and sent back to the Tower 3. An Act for Tryal of D. Hamilton E. Norwich E. Holland L. Capel and Sir J. Owen 5. A second High Court of Justice sate in the Painted Chamber and Elected their President Charles Stuart Son of the late King Proclaimed in Scotland 6. House of Lords voted useless and dangerous The Kingly Office unnecessary and burthensome 7. Kings Body removed to Windsor 8. The Parliaments Great Seal broken and another brought in and approved 9. K. Charles Inhum'd at Windsor Oâ—ths of Allegiance and Supremacy null'd 9. House of Commons declared to maintain the Fundamental Laws of the Nation 10. High Court of Justice sate at Westminster in Tryal of D. Hamilton c. 13. A new stamp order'd for Coyning new Money 14. A Council of State Erected 15. E. Holland sent for M. Beaumont a Minist Executed at Pontfract 16. Charles Stuart Proclaimed King in Ireland 17. A Committee of Estates appointed 18. The Crown Jewels Hangings and the rest of the Kings Goods ordered to be Sold. 21. Earl Warwick displaced 22. Hart-Frigot Revolted Enderness in Scotland surprized for the Scotch King March 6. D. Hamilton E. Norwich E. Holland L. Capel and Sir J. Owen Sentenced 8. E. Norwich and Sir John Owen Reprieved 9. D. Hamilton E. Holland and L. Capel Beheaded in the Palace Yard at Westminster 22. Pontfract Castle surrendred 25. M. Lilburn Walwin Overton and Prince Apprehended and carried to White-hall 30. L. G. Cromwel voted Commander in Chief of the Forces sent against Ireland Voted that Sir Thomas Fairfax should be General of all the Forces in England and Ireland April 2. Alderman Reynoldâ—on degraded his Majorality 3. Alderman Andrews Elected in his room and 5. Approved by the H. 7. An Act for the Assessement of 90000 l. per Mâ—nsem Voted that M.G. Brown and Sir John Clotworthy should be Tryed for their Lives 13. Form of a New Mace agreed on 16. E. Pembroke admitted a Commoner 21. Laughorn Powel and Poyer cast Lots for their Lives Lot sell on Poyer 23. An Act for nulling the Monthly Fast. 25. Col. Poyer shot to Death in Covent-garden A Mutiny in Bishops-gate-street Lady Elizabeth desired to go beyond Sea Denied her 27. M. Lockier a Leveller shot to Death in Paul's Church-yard Mâ—y 1. Col. Hewson's Regiment marched for Ireland 5. L. Howard of Estrick admitted a Commoner 6. Dr. Dorislaus slain in Holland 7. E. Norw Sir John Owen Col. Laughorn and Col. Powel Pardoned
Qu. Majesties went toward Tunbridge 27 Parliament Prorogued till the 16 of March next coming and soon after the E. of Bristol step't aside Aug. 11 His Majesty removed from Tunbridge to White-hall 15 His Majesty went back to Tunbridge 18 The King and Qu. Majesties both return'd from Tunbridge to White-hal 21 The Parliament of Scotland passed an Act for a National Synod the first that ever was in that Kingdom under the Government of Bishops 25 His Majesties Proclamation for discovery and apprehension of the Earl of Bristol 26 The King and Qu. began their progress toward Bath and lay that Night at thei Wddow Whitfields in Maydenhead 27 At that worthy Gentlemans Sr. Thomas Doleman of Shaw near Newbury 28 At the Right Honourable the L. Seymours 29 Arrived at the Bath Sept. 5 Most Nobly entertained at the City of Bristol whence after dinner they returned to Bath Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York went to Portsmouth 10 The King and Queen dined at that Loyal Gentlemans James Thynns The Lord Mont. Alexander Master General of His Majesties Ordinance in Ireland departed this Life 23 King and Queen Magnificently treated by the Right Honorable the Lord High Chancellor of England at Cornbury from whence they afterwards went to Oxford An Act of the Scotch Parliament whereby is offer'd 20000 Foot and 1000 Horse to be in readiness for His Majesties service whensoever they shall be called for by his Majesty to march to any part of his Dominions of Scotl. Engl. or Irel. for suppressing of any Forraign Invasion intestine trouble or insurrection or for any other service wherein His Majesties Honor Authority or Greatness may be concerned 25 His Maj. with His Royall Highn the Duke of York went to Cornbury where that night they Lodged and having view'd Woodstock-Park 26 Returned to Oxford 30 The Court removed from Oxf. to Wickh Octob. 1 To White-Hall 2 Sir Richard Fanshaw Kt. and Bt. Sworn on of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council 12 A general Commotion designed by the Fanaticks but timely prevented by the great Wisdom and Vigilancy of His Majesty and his most Honorable Privy Council 18 Dyed the Right Honor Sir Will Compton Kt. Mast. Gen. of His Maj. Ordinance in Engl. and one of His Maj. most Honor. Privy Council A Person of so much integrity true Valour and Affability the loss of him can never be sufficiently Lamented Nov. 4. One Blackburn a Clothier of Leeds and one of the precious Saints in the late Rebell being accused of High Treason cut his own Throat 10 A Proclamation for discovery and Apprehension of divers Traiterous Conspirators therein Named Dec. 6 Dyed that Eminent Loyal and renowned Patriot Judge Jenkins at his House at Cowbridge 24 Earl of Tiviot Embarked for Tangier The Jugdes and Justices of Oyer and Terminer began their Journey towards York for the Tryal of the late Conspirators Jan. 5 They arriv at Y. 8 Were arraigned and tryed 17 Conspirators whereof 15 Convicted of High Treason 9 Three more Convicted for the same Crime 12 Two more Convict 16 James Turner well known by the name of Col. Turner arraign'd and Cast at the Old-Bayley for Felony and Burglary Sixteen of the late Conspirators Executed at York whereof two of their Heads sent to Doncaster two more to North-Allerton and the rest pitch'd upon Poles and set on the City Gales in York 19. Three more of them Executed at Chappel-moor near Leedâ— whose Heads were afterwards set on the Tolbooth there 21 Sir Richard Fanshaw Lord Embassador to the Spanish King set out for Portsmouth Col. Turner Executed in Leaden-Hall Street 22. Sr. John Lawson arrived at Portsmouth 23 Sr. Richard Fanshaw came thither also 25 A Fire at Whitehal 31 Sir John Lawson with the L. Ambassador Fanshaw Embarqued for Spain Feb. 20 John Twin a Printer arraign'd and condemn'd at the Old Bayly for Printing a most execrable Libel against his Maj. and the Government 22 Executed in Smithfield Mar. 1 Tho. Brewster a Bookseller and Natha Brooks and a Bookbinder stood in the Pillory in Cornhil and the day following in Smithfield for Selling and Uttering Malicious Scandalous and Seditious books against the King the State and peace of the Kingdom 16 The Ls. and Commons of Parl. met at Westminster according to Prorogation July 27 1663. and adjourned till Munday following 18 Began the Assizes at Appleby where four more Conspirators were indicted for High-Treason whereof three found Guilty the other acquitted 21 Three more such indicted whereof One found Guilty the other two acquitted and Sentence pass'd upon the former Three and the Last found Guilty to be drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd An antient Gentleman a Portuguese lodging in Covent garden most cruelly Murther'd by one Peter Caesar his Servant 24 Three of the Condemned Rebels executed aâ— Appleby Anno 1664. 26 27 A Notorius tumult in Cheapside fomented by the Industry of the Phanatiques whose design was to improve a Ryot into a Rebellion April 3 Mr. Dodington removed from the Tower to Hull Samuel Moyer to Tinmouth 〈◊〉 Smith Overton Hevennigham Millington and Temple to Jersie 4 Count Conningseâ—k the Emperors Envoy had his audience April 5 Edward Bagshaw removed from the Tower to South-sea Castle House of Ls. adjourned till the 18 of April following 6 The House of Commons did the like Paul Hobson removed from the Tower to Chepstow 18 Mildmay Fleetwood and Garland to Tangier 27 Peter Caesar formerly mention'd executed for the horrible murther of his Master The two Houses concurred with the Vote of the Commissioner for the advance and improvement of Trade touching the depredations and Injuries done by the Dutch wherein it was resolv'd that they would with their lives and fortunes assist his Majesty against all opposition whatsoever May 3 The Earl of Tiviot and his party cut off by the Moors near the Jews River at Tangier 15 Col. Richard Nichols Sir Robert Carr and Col. Cartwright imbark'd for New England 17 Parliament Prorogued to the 20 of August following 30 A Proclamation for recalling and prohibiting English Seamen from the services of Forraign Princes and States 31 Sir George Downing arrived at London June 7 A Dreadful Tempest of Thunder and Lightning in and about London 10 His Grace the Du. of Ormond arrived at White-hal from Ireland The Heer Van Gocâ— Embassador Ordinary to his sacred Majesty from the States General at Gravesend 12 Col. Fitz-Gerald with Capt. Spraggs and Captain Victors Companies imbarqued at Portsmouth for Tangier 16. Earl of Argyles Head taken down from off the Tol-Booth in Edinburgh by order of his Majesty and his Son admitted of his Maj. most Honor Privy Council there 25 The Heer Van Goch the States Embassador after two private Audie a formal entry had publick Audience July 4. The King and Queens Majesties treated at Tilbury-hope by the right Honorable the Earl of Sandwich 15 A Proclamation for further Proroguing the Parlia from the 20. of August next the Term of Prorogation
thereof Otherwise we can hardly explain this matter because of his Inscrutable Majesty That therefore the Celestial Bodies are Animate is hence rightly concluded For it were absurd to deny a Life and Soul to be in Heaven and the Stars the which Inspire both Life and Soul even in the vilest of these Inferiour Bodies They give Life unto Plants which grow without Natural Seed as we see in the Mountains and Places untill'd So likewise to the Earth For if a Lump be taken out of the Bowels thereof and for some time exposed to the Rays of the Sun it yieldeth Grass or some Herbs oftentimes the twiggs of little Trees The Stars also bestow Life upon Animals not generated by Copulation Nor can we be so stupid as to imagine that Plants Trees c. are of a Nobler Condition than the Celestial Bodies This manifest perpetual Operation cannot come but from a Pure and Cleansed Body These things I suppose are sufficient to prove the World hath a Soul placed in Heaven as in the most Noble Part thereof But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved that these Celestial Souls are Rational and participate of the Divine Mind The Matter is not obscure For if the World as Plato saith be the best effect that could be of goodness it self That is of GOD for we Germans so express it because Got sounds nothing else with us than Gut if we rightly enquire the Reason of the Idiom it must certainly participate not only of Life Sense and Reason but also of Intelligence The Soul is the Perfection of the Body And that Body most Perfect which hath the Perfectest Soul Wherefore if the Celestial Bodies be most Perfect they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect Souls The Heavens therefore do Participate of the Intellect and Mind Which very thing the Platonicks plainly approve by Musical Concords For seeing that Musical Concord is as it were Living Rational and Efficaâ—ious what Resemblance hath it unto Life it self how Pleasing is it to the Mind and even Ravisheth the whole Man And which is more the Mind and all things else are made by the Soul By her they are preserved by her they are moved And therefore Plato did not amiss when he Described the Soul to be she that made preserved and moved all Natural things especially by Musical Numbers and Proportion constituted I say by Numbers not Mathematical as some Calumniate but by Ideal and Metaphysical Proportions of Numbers This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion because that by an Aërial Nature posited in Motion it moveth the Body By a Purified Air it stirs up the Aërial Spirit the Chain of Soul and Body By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection By signification it Operates upon the Mind Lastly through this Motion of the subtil Air it penetrates vehemently It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation And by its conform Quality poureth out it self with a wonderful Pleasure By its Nature as well Spiritual as Material it at once Ravisheth and Claimeth all that is Man Wherefore let us seriously consider how the Sounds of most sweet Musick elevate and as it were double and treble our Minds And in like sort judge the Melody of the Celestial Bodies who now by a slower but anon by a swifter Motion produce a tone that is Grave or Acute Whereunto agree in these Sublunaries Gravity and Levity Cold and Heat Moisture and Dryness of Elements So likewise Matter and Form in the Gâ—neration of things Meekness and Magnanimity Temperance and Fortitude in Humane Affairs Seeing therefore that Motion is â—very where Free in its own Nature it might easily prevaricate and wander unless it were Ruled by the Intellect and Mind The which we cannot further enquire of in this Place according to the Exigence of the Matter Besides it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own works For the Celestial Souls and so the Soul of the Universe have no Reasons of theirs of whose Spirit even we our selves are generated and live continually If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent Soul such also enjoys the Greater But we will cease to prosecute this any further concluding that the World is a System of Celâ—stial and Terrestrial Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectual Whence we safely gather that the Soul of the World is a certain singular Life filling all things vivifying all things producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish and preserve one Fabrick of the whole World and be as a Monochord sounding out by the three-fold kinds of Creatures Intellectual Celestial and Corruptible at one Blast one only Life The Mystery of Unity is but known of a few Now can we here pass by the Authority both of the Holy Scriptures and also of the most approved Philosophers Deut. 4.19 Thou shalt not Worship the Sun Moon and Stars which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven Deut. 28.12 God shall open unto thee his good Treasure the Heaven c. Deut. 33.13 Concerning Joseph Thy Blessing shall be of the Precious things of the Sun and of the Precious things of the Moon But above all let us consider those thingâ— which are in Levit. 26.19 I will make saith God your Heaven as Iron and your Earth as Brass The same is repeated Deut. 28.23 And also in Hosea 2.21 And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel Therefore we hereby see that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the Soul of the Universe so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven as the Beginning of Motion from our Soul which are of themselves perspicuous enough To this also belongs that in Job 38.33 Knowest thou the Course of Heaven or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth The Rule of Heaven proceeds through Terrestrial and all Inferiour things as the Rule of an Emperour or King throughout his Empire and Kingdom As therefore a King is the Soul of his Kingdom so the Heaven and the Stars are the Soul of the World Likewise that of Job 26.13 His spirit hath garnished the Heavens Psal. 33.16 By the Word of the Lord the Heavens were made and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth that Body without doubt shall be Animate and Intellectual Psal. 19. God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun One Day telleth another and one Night teacheth another knowledge There is no Speech nor Language in those Heavens yet understandeth he their Voice Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth and their words unto the ends of the World in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun Psal. 89.5 O Lord even the Hâ—avens shall confess thy wonderful Works John 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus I have told you