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A96163	Astrologie theologized: wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius.	Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1255; Thomason E562_14; ESTC R204068	39,144	50

Astrologie of the Microcosme to be Theologized in all of us that are willing to use them piously But how and wherefore ought the Astrologie of Saturn to be Theologized in Man If thou askest me wherefore and how all the naturall Sciences appertaining to the Astrologie of Saturn together with all the kinds of the Saturnine life ought and may be Theologized I again ask thee that thou tell me the cause Wherefore according to that great precept of God we ought to labour and finish our work in six daies but the seventh day to sanctifie the Sabbath or Wherefore we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God and possesse beatitude in eternall life unlesse we shall be converted and be made as infants For these have one and the same reason and cause tend to one will one belong to one The answer therefore is therefore we ought to Theologize Astrologie therefore we ought to labour six daies and sanctifie the seventh therefore we ought to be converted and become as infants because nothing at all but the New Creature the new Man from Heaven he that is regenerate from above he that is born again of immortall seed is required to the possession or acquisition of the Kingdom of Heaven not the old Man from the Earth seeking earthly things gaping after earthly things rejoycing in earthly things occupied delighted in earthly things loving possessing savouring earthly things I say not such but as we have now said the man born again from above seeking those things which are above and not those things which are below not arising from the will of the flesh and not of the will of man but of God But to the end that we may be the better understood of the ruder sort first we will handle a few things in generall What is the Theologization of Astrologie afterwards we will set upon our Saturn with his professions and faculties where we shall demonstrate to the eye That in the sole Theologization of Astrologie is to be sought and found the gate of Paradise to eat of the tree or word of life which is in the midst of Paradise c. Also what is that strait gate that leads to life which few find and that the broad way which leads to hell which many walk Also what is that Babilonish Whore with whom all the people of the world commit fornication c. and many and those the greatest Theologicall misteries are here shewn to the intelligent which otherwise are and abide hidden from the eyes of all mortalls Therefore to Theologize Astrologie is nothing els then to labour six daies and to sanctifie the seventh that is to rest and desist from labour and to keep holy day in God with the spirit soul and body VVhich God the Father seriously commanded to his people by the Law in the old Testament in these words Exod 20. Remember the Sabbath day that ye may sanctifie it six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day shall be a Sabbath to the Lord thy God thou shalt not do any work neither thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant nor thy maid nor thy beast nor the stranger which is in thy gates for in six daies the Lord made heaven and earth the Sea and whatsoever is in them and rested the seventh day therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it Also Exod. 23. in six daies thou shalt do thy works but the seventh day thou shalt rest that thy Oxe and thy Asse may rest together and the son of thy hand maid and the stranger may be refreshed or take breath And in all that I have said to you you shall be wary to wit because of the Serpent Dent. 5. Also observe the Sabbath day that ye may sanctifie it even as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but on the seventh day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God But although the divine Commandement amongst the vulgar hath seemed and yet doth seem to be spoken only touching the corporall and externall labour and rest for reparing the strength of the body yet those to whom it is given as well amongst the Jews as Christians to know and understand the misteries of the mind of God and of his Kingdome they I say have known a far more profound and better cause and reason of this precept of sanctifying the Sabbath In the new Testament to Theologize Astrologie is according to the doctrine of Christ and the Apostles To receive the Kingdom of God as a child or infant to be born again from above having renounced and left all things to deny himself and seek the Kingdom of God which lyeth hidden in us as a Treasure in a field The labours of the six daies are all the actions operations studies offices businesses and occupations of all men in the whole earth and in all Islands and in every Sea amongst all orders states and kinds of life whatsoever all men every where every time act study handle operate this they do by the Light of Nature according to their divers Sciences Now the seventh part of those labours studies and actions of men are referred unto Saturn the severall kinds whereof we have before recited Moreover the sanctification of the Sabbath divinely ordained and commanded to man on the seventh day is to cease once in a week from all labour and handling of naturall things and actuall studies to desist from the Astrologicall life that is to lay aside every motion and action as well of the mind as of the body by an absolute abnegation and oblivion of the whole creature and of himself as well within as without to give and offer himself wholly to God with all that we are within the six daies we have known studied gotten and gained by our labors as well in the internall gifts of wisdom as in the getting of externall things Hither hither and to this Centre tends that divine Commandement touching the sanctifying of the Sabbath as by the following things will most pleasantly be laid open CHAP. IX A specificall Declaration how the Astrologie of Saturn in Man ought and may be Theologized FOr as much as hitherto we have heard that all the sciences actions studies states of life of all men by a certain inevitable necessity ought to be Theologized or by the exercise or sanctification of the mental Sabbath be laid aside denyed put off accounted for nothing now we would particularly see how the Astrologic of Saturn is to be Theologized in us For because infinite is the multitude of men only handling and exercising this Saturnine Astrologie And we do set down first of all in a certain Paradoxicall sence that is above the common intellect of the Vulgar That no husbandman Countryman Farmer Gardner Herbeseller Vinedresser Steward Builder Mettleman Potter Weaver Cobler Shomaker c. can ever enter into the Kingdom of God or come to

throughout the whole body In the Blood doth exist the essence nature and propriety of all mineralls and mettalls bred of water dispersed throughout the whole region of the blood In the Respiration whose seat is in the Lungs the Bowells and the Veins and all pores mirscles c. is the essence nature and propriety of all the airy creatures dispersed through the whole body In the Heat dwells the essence nature force operation and propriety of all the Starrs and constellations of Starrs dispersed-through the whole body Moreover as to the concordance of either Light as well in the Major as in the Minor world thus it is Whatsoever things man living on earth hath found out first the oretically by speculating meditating searching and inquiring excogitating from within in his heart and after by his free will or desire produceth endeavours attempts institutes handles operates and transferrs to practice in whatsoever kind of Sciences Arts Faculties Theologie excepted which is not a humane invention studies handyworks labours and negotiations whether they be referred to good or evill Or also the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill which is evident only to Magies all these comprehended under one name are called the Light of Nature or Astrologie or naturall Wisdome arising from the naturall heaven or Firmament and Starrs That wisdom and that light is in the soul of Man dwelling and working in the heart which if it be exalted in its power given to it and created in it can do the same and more then the soul of nature in the Macrocosme whose seat is in the Sun because Man the Microcosme is the quintessence extracted from the Macrocosme But seeing all and singular Sciences Arts Faculties Orders States kinds of life and studies flourishing amongst men on the earth arise and proceed from an internall invisible Heaven Firmament Starr and Light of Nature in the Microcosme which is extracted from the Light Heaven Firmament and Starr of the Macrocosme and hath his singular anatomy distribution and conveniencie to the offices and operations of the seven Governours of the world without We as the order of those Governours extant in the Firmament of Heaven is exposed to our eyes will first of all handle Saturn occupying the Supreme sphear to wit what is the Theorie and practise of his Heaven Starr or Constellation with his adjunct Starrs in the Macrocosme that is what is his condition nature propriety vertue and inclination what Science what Art and Industry what Order what Study what fortune what good and what evill men draw and handle from him on the earth Whereby it will appear that Saturn is not only without a man in the Major world but also in man with all the legion and inclination of their adjunct Starrs Then how the whole Astrologie that is the nature propriety and operation of this Planet ought to be Theologized by the exercise of the Sabbath CHAP. VIII Touching the Astrologie of Saturn of what kind it is and how it ought to be Theologized SAturn as to the description of his substance and nature in the Macrocosme is one of the chief of those seven Starrs which we call Planets or Governours of the world walking next of all in the aiery Region under the Firmament or Zodiac and ordained in a certain Sphear or Circle or Mansion the circuit of circle he finisheth he passeth over once in the space of thirty years time through the twelve celestiall Signs extant in the Zodiac His body arising from the Element of Fire and illuminating that is cherishing and governing the earth and what are in and on the earth his body is fiery and globous his Astralic force which is the firmamentall or syderean Spirit is invisible Now Saturn is conditioned with that nature propriety from the first creation that he may send forth exercise the vertue operation of his splend or light in his subjects existing here and there in the foure Elements as are vegetables mineralls animalls properly and in specie pertaining to him wherein he effects and frameth such a nature and vertue as he hath in himself Now Saturn hath his subjects appropriate to himself in every kind of creature amongst Vegetables he hath his young twigs his herbs his plants his flowers his trees in which he operates by his influence after his manner So amongst mineralls and mettalls also amongst animalls creeping going creatures cattell beasts watery and volatill creatures For the whole university of the creatures of this world with us men is divided into seven kinds or assemblies and dispersed into every region which answer to these seven Governours in their naturall vertues and proprieties as well internall as externall But touching the Astronomicall condition of Saturn and the rest of the Planets to wit what kind of motion position course quantity distance opposition conjunction and other dimensions of this kind they have amongst themselves also touching the difference of their weights in mettalls c. it is not our purpose here to handle them concerning such kind of things consult Astronomicall books and Chimicall books and the like publiquely extant abroad but we rather handle and shew this How all the studies and offices and kinds of life of all men have their originall from the Starrs and to which Planet every thing is to be referred Then how the whole Astrologie ought to be Theologized that is how every one of us ought to know discern hate put off say aside and deny the old man made of Astrologie with all his Wisdom Science Knowledge Prudence Industry Art and whatsoever a man hath occupies and possesseth of the gifts of Nature and in the denial of himself and all that he hath as well within as without altogether to grow a child again to be made an infant yea a fool and to put on the new Man which is created according to God to walk in newnesse of life to die to sin and to live to justice to know that Babilonian Whore and her Beast c. and to preserve himself from her c. to know the forbidden Tree and to eat of the Tree of Life and to passe over from nature into grace to be made a new creature to be born again to transplant himself from the terrene Paradise into the Heavenly to labour six daies and rightly to sanctifie the seventh and the like This is the intention end and scope of this our work Therefore Saturnists or the worshippers of Saturn whose minds desires wills inclinations affections concupiscences pleasures cogitations speculations inventions actions and labours are ascribed to Saturn as to their study and kind of life are men in whom is and flourisheth all kind of science and industry 1. Cain was a husbandman Abell a keeper of sheep Of all Agriculture as are Husbandmen Countreymen Farmers Tyllers of the ground also Mowers Threshers Heardsmen Swineheards Pastors of cattell Purveyors of corne or those which exercise merchandise with corn and pulse also

ASTROLOGIE Theologized Wherein is set forth VVhat Astrologie and the light of Nature is What influence the Starres naturally have on Man and how the same may be diverted and avoided AS ALSO That the outward Man how eminent soever in all Naturall and Politicall Sciences is to bee denied and die in us AND That the Inward man by the light of Grace through profession and practice of a holy life is to be acknowledged and live in us Which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse and free from outward pollution By Valentine Weigelius Sapiens dominabitur Astris LONDON Printed for George Whittington at the blue Anchor in Cornhill neer the Royall Exchange 1649. Astrologie Theologized CHAP. I. What Astrologie is and what Theologie and how they have reference one to another AStrologie is Philosophie it self The Kingdom of Nature or it is the whole light of Nature from whence ariseth the universall naturall Wisdome or a solid sincere and exquisite knowledge of naturall things which light of Nature is twofold externall and internall Externall in the Macrocosm internall in the Microcosm Or Astrologie is the very knowledge of good and evill which is and bears rule in things subject to Nature which science flourishing in man unlesse it be ruled and governed by Theologie that is divine Wisdome as the handmaid by her mistresse it is vicious And by her specious appearance and concupiscible jucundity man seduceth himself and as it were by eating of the forbidden tree or by who reing with the creatures he maketh his soule the Babylonian Whore sitting upon the Beast having seven heads and ten hornes c. and being sweetly deceived of himself obtains eternall death to himself But Theologie is the whole light of grace The Kingdom of grace happening to man from the holy Spirit effused from above which is the universall wisdome of the Kingdom of Heaven and the saving knowledge of divine and supernaturall things making chast and purging the soul from every defilement of sin abiding in the mortall body in respect whereof that naturall Wisdome is but a shadow which when the world is blotted out and removed will together with it be blotted out and removed and then Theologie alone shall reigne Astrologie is so called because it ariseth from the Stars As Theologie because it flowes from God To live Astrologically is with a pleasing concupisence to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill and to bring death to himself To live Theologically is to eat of the wood and Tree of life by an intimate abnegation of ones self and thence to attain to ones self Life and Salvation The Light of Nature in Astrologie with his incitative fruits is the probatory instrument whereby Man placed in the midst that is between God and the Creature is proved which way he would direct or convert his free will desire love and appetite whether to God his Creatour by loving him above all things with his whole heart with his whole mind with his whole soul and with his whole strength which should be the Theologicall life Or whether casting God behind he would reflect to himself and to the Creature by love of himself and arrogating of good things received which was the Astrologicall life at the Babilonish fornication as will appear by that which followeth Astrologie possesseth our soul with the externall body wherein the Light of Nature dwells and shines forth in some more excellently in others lesse And it contains in it self two things 1. All kind of Sciences Arts Tongues Faculties and naturall Studies all the gifts as well of the mind as of the body and also all negotiations occupations actions and labours of men how many soever of them are found exercised and used in all times upon the whose earth every where amongst men aswell grosse as subtile aswell old as new serving aswell to good as to bad uses 2. Under Astrologie are referred all orders states and degrees of men distinctions of persons dignities gifts offices and every kind of life as well naturally ordained by God himself as thought of and invented by humane wit and found out in the whole world from the highest and most honourable to the lowest and most base All these are the fruits of the Starrs and have their originall from Astrologie and pertain to the body and soul and may be as well good as bad according to the divers pleasures of the users and abusers But Theologie possesseth our Spirit which we have from God which alone is Theologus that is the Speech of God the Breath of God the Word of God being and inhabiting in the Temple of our heart from which alone according to sacred Letters true Theologie is to be drawn forth That is the knowledge of God of things divine and celestiall and supernaturall arising from within from the illumination of the holy Spirit it self dwelling within us According to whose beck will and command we ought to institute direct and finish all our Sciences Arts Studies Actions Offices Vocations Industries Labors and kinds of of life invented drawn forth on earth from the Light of Nature so as whatsoever we think say or do in the world in all Arts Sciences and Labors it all proceeds from the Will of God and seems as it were to be done and governed by God himself in us as by his fit instruments For every Astrologicall gift comming from the Light of Nature ought to be ruled and subjected to the Divine will by the Theologicall Spirit dwelling in us that so the will of the Lord be done as in heaven so also in earth For all Wisdome both Naturall and Supernaturall is from the Lord. Astrologie is the science of tilling and perlustrating of the inferiour terrestiall earth ground garden Paradise from which Man was taken and made as to his body and his soul in the labor and culture whereof six daies were ordained and appointed But because this Science of it self confers not Salvation and eternall Beatitude but alone belongs to this present life it is necessary the Lady and Mistresse of all Sciences and Arts Theologie be added which seeing it is Wisdome from above it hath in it self the Science of tilling and perlustrating the celestiall earth ground garden paradise from whence also man was taken created according to the similitude and image of God which garden man also hath in himself to the culture whereof the seventh day alone which is the Sabbath day is appointed For so it was ordained between God and man from all eternity that Man should be God and God Man neither without the other that is as God himself is and will be the Paradise Garden Tabernacle Mansion House Temple and Jerusalem of Man So also was man created for the same end that he should be the Paradise Garden Tabernacle Mansion House Temple and Jerusalem of God that by this mutuall union and friendship of God with Man and of Man with God all

the wisdome power vertue and glory eternally hidden in God should be opened and multiplied For God once made all things for man but Man for himself CHAP. II. Concerning the subject of Astrologie THe study of Astrologie or Philosophie is conversant about the universall knowledge of all the wonderfull and secret things of God infused and put into naturall things from above in the first creation The exercise therefore of the light of Nature is the most sagacious perscrutation and enucleation of the abstruse internall and invisible vertues lying hid in externall corporall and visible things to wit What should be the first matter of this great world whereof it was made What the Elements should be and those things which are bred of the Elements and consist in them of what kind is their creation essence nature propriety and operation as well within as without What might be in the Stars of Heaven what their operation What in Volatiles what in Fishes Metalls Mineralls Gemms what in every species of Sprigs and Vegetables What in Animalls beasts creeping things and in the whole frame of the world Lastly what is in Man who was made and created of all these to wit What is that masse or slime or dust whereof the body of the first man was formed and whence he received his soule and what it is and whence he hath the Spirit and what he is And so the light of Nature or Astrologie comprehends in it self all the wisdome and knowledge of the whole Universe that is all these are had and learned in the Schoole of the light of Nature and are referred to Astrologie or are rather Astrologie it self to wit The subject of Astrologie therefore is double the Macrocosm and Microcosm the greater World and the lesser World The greater World is this very frame and great house or this huge tabernacle wherein we inhabit and live and it consists of the foure Elements Fire Aire Water and Earth and is twofold visible according to the body invisible according to the soule or spirit The lesser World is Man the off-spring or some of the greater world extracted and composed out of the whole greater World who also in himself is two fold visible and externall as to his body invisible and internall as to his soul And as Man is made of nothing els but the world so also is he placed and put no where els but within the world to wit that he might live dwell and walk therein yet so as that he should take heed of that subtill Serpent and should not eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill least he die that is that he serve not the soule of the world and creatures subject to vanity but as a wise man rule the Starrs and resist the divell tempting him by the concupiscence of the flesh of the eyes and pride of life and suppresse sinfull nature living and walking in wisdom and simplicity of the Divine God head inspired into him not in the subtilty of the Serpent by arrogancy and love of himselfe For it is most certain Of what any thing is born and procreated from thence also it seeks desires and receives it's nourishments convenient to it's essence and nature for the sustentation of it self Now Man was taken from and composed of the Macrocosme and placed in the same Therefore also necessarily he is nourished cherished receives his meat and drink is clothed and sustained according to that Gen. 3. v. 19. Thou art taken from the earth and thou shalt eat thereof in labour all the dayes of thy life and shalt eat the herbes of the field untill thou shalt return unto the earth for from it thou art taken Seeing therefore Man as to his body is composed of the Elements and as to his soul of the Starrs and each part is fed and sustained from that from which it was taken The food or aliment of the body wherby the body grows to a due stature comes to a man from the Elements the Earth the Water Ayre Fire not that Man should take to himself for food the crude bodies of the Elements but the fruit growing from the Elements they are for nutriment But the food of the soul inhabiting in the Microcosmicall body are all kinds of Sciences Arts Faculties and Industries with which she tincts and makes her self perfect Moreover All aliment passeth into the substance of the user and is made the same that he himself is that is whatsoever a man eats and drinks the same thing is essentially transmitted into the substance nature propriety and forme of Man by the digestion of Arthens in the ventricle I say the food passeth and is converted into the nature of the eater and drink into the substance of the drinker and is made one and the same with him And in the first place let these things be understood concerning the body without wonder because man is made of that which he eats and drinks So also whatsoever a man learns studies knowes in things that are placed without himself that knowledge and intelligence passeth into the very essence nature and propriety of a man and is made one with him The Light of Nature is made Man in Man and by a mans diligent searching Man is made Light both in light and by light and by the benefit of that light he finds out all things whatsoever he seeks and desires but one more and another lesse because all do not seek with the like study Every Knowledge Science Art Industry and Faculty passeth into the nature of Man penetrates him occupies him possesseth him tincts him is agglutinated to him united with him and perfected in him and he in it For Whatsoever kind of aliment man useth and whatsoever he endeavours to study inquire know and understand this is not strange or different from his essence and nature The reason is Because whatsoever is without a man the same is also within him for that man is made of all those things which are without him that is of the whole universe of things Therefore whatsoever Man takes from without from the Elements and Stars by meat drink knowledge study and intelligence this is the same that man is and is made the same with Man So man eating bread and drinking water wine c. from the Macrocosme he eats and drinks himself and Learning Arts Tongues Faculties and Sciences of externall things he learns and knows himself And as he tincts his body by meat and drink which passe into the substance of flesh and blood so also his soul is tincted with whatsoever kind of Sciences Arts c. eating and drinking he is united essentially with that which he eats and drinks And learning and knowing he is united essentially with that which he studies learns and knows Wherefore this is a most certain rule Whatsoever is without us is also within us Which in this place we philosophising of the soul and the body do thus declare This whole world visible as to

from without by the constitution of the externall Heaven And that saying A wise man will rule the Starrs a wise man shall rule the Starrs is not to be understood of the externall Starrs in the Heaven or Firmament of the great World but of the internall Starrs bearing sway and running up and down in man himself which will more and more appear by that which followeth But this we promise for the beginning to be noted That the externall Heaven with it's continuall revolution hath a most convenient correspondency with the inward Heaven in the Microcosme and this with that which you may thus understand Whatsoever the sigure of the externall Heaven is in the point of conception of any men which happens in the matrix of the woman by the Ens of seed even now sent forth from Man that Man which is born and grows from that seed receiveth from within such a constitution of his nature and life to be performed on earth Yet that constitution lies so long hid and unknown that is without act in a naked power untill a man born into the world and educated to the use of free-will and reason putting forth it self begins to be moved and incited For then and not before that constitution of his heaven begins by little and little to roll bring forth move and shew forth it self when the Ascendants of that sigure by the imagination and fantasie newly sprung up in the will and reason arise and proceed to the motion of the mind and operation of the body And so the internall Heaven in the Microcosme begins his motion and course that a man from within from the guidance of his own Nature begins to imagine think desire hear speak do the same thing which before was signified from the positure of the externall Heaven while he was conceived Therefore the externall heaven in the Macrocosme as it hath respect to Man is at least a looking glasse and perludium by which the Astrologer may look into search know and describe what and what kind of nature and propriety shall happen and rule in him from the beginning of his nativity to the end of his life as he shall live Astrologically and not Theologically what and what manner his imagination shall be what his affections what his cupidities what his desires what his manners what his study what his kind of life and death with what things he shall be most delighted and on the contrary with what he shall be adverse and all things whatsoever seem to belong to the condition of humane life This I say may from the position or erected sigure of the externall heaven be prognosticated foretold not that those things are so done by necessity or coactive force but only that those things are presignified and as it were preludiated and are indeed a certain picture of humane life as in like sort a certain living man is painted by a painter on the wall from which picture his species and proportion with all his habit is exhibited and declared to be known So also we men living according to the course of nature and not Theologizing our Astrologie are known described and discovered by an Astrologer from the Table sigure face and concordance of the superiour Firmament as by a looking glasse For living naturally we have from the figure of Heaven a naturall description of our life whether it be honest or dishonest whether vertuous or vicious Yet so as the impulsive or efficient cause of living thus or so may not be thought to proceed and be impressed on man from the externall Heaven but from within from our internall Heaven which is in our soul delighted with this or that manner of living For neither God nor the Macrocosme do compell or force man placed in the midst from without to this or that good or evill kind of life by a certain naturall necessity but that very thing which is put into us by God and by the Macrocosme that is it whereby we are led whereby we are constellated moved Rom. 6. Galat. 5. instigated stirred up invited governed and inclined The one is the Spirit of God the breath of God the deity and heavenly light the holy Spirit the mind of God The other is the Spirit of Nature the breath of the World the Light of Nature the affections of the flesh t●rrene Wisdom the animall Man the Syderean Spirit the reason of Man Both leads to their originall and sheweth what are theirs Our Nature instigates moves and leadeth to our naturalls But the Spirit of God which we have in us from God instigates moves urgeth and leads us to supernaturalls that is thither whence he himself is There are I say two Inspirers two Governours two Captains two Lords in us to whom none of us can equally serve The one tends to the straight way to inherit and possesse the Kingdom of Heaven by contempt of the world and deniall of our selves the other neglecting the Kingdom of God to enter into the broad way The one is of God which is the Theologicall Spirit propounding and perswading the Theologicall life to Man the other is from Nature from the World which is the Astrologicall Spirit propounding and perswading the Astrologicall life to Man The Theologicall Spirit being endued with supernaturall Light and Wisdom shews the Kingdom of God and eternall life But the Astrologicall Spirit endowed with naturall Wisdom and Light shews the shop of Nature and the glory of this world therefore those which are acted by the Spirit of God these are the Sons of God that is who live Theologically But they which are acted and led by the Spirit of Nature caring nothing for the Kingdom of God and the eternall Countrey these are the sons of Nature the sons of this world animall men not doing the will of God but the will of the flesh in which with all their glory and magnificence they whosoever they are how great soever they are and wheresoever they are must perish For without the Theologization of Astrologie no mortall man can attain eternall salvation and beatitude We must die once to flesh and bloud and to the whole animall Man and we must live to God which life is altogether contrary to the worldly life Of which more largely in the Epistles of Paul and other Apostles But the Starrs which a wise man is commanded to rule are not those celestiall Starrs extant in the Firmament of the Macrocosme which are set before the Creatour of the Elements that they might illuminate the earth and be for signs and seasons and rule over the day and the night those have their peculiar Regent Lord and Governour to wit the Spirit or soul of the world diffused into the seven Planets and the rest of the Stars of the whole Zodiac by which he exerciseth his rule hath his influx into inferiour things therefore there is no cause that any should through simplicity think the dominion which a wise man hath over the Starrs