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A42821	Dies novissimus, or, Dooms-day not so near as dreaded together with something touching the present invasion of the Turk into the German Empire and the probable success thereof / by John Gadbury ...	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1664 (1664)	Wing G82; ESTC R11481	35,221	60

Merlyn And how easie a matter it is to invert the Judgement of one Conjunction to another every Artist knows But I need not trouble my self so far since Mr. L. hath been pleased in his Epistle to the Prophetick Merlyn to acknowledge neerly as much himself in these words Let me with much thank fulness acknowledge that my ancient and learned Friend Mr. Nicholas Fiske hath freely lent me either his Manuscripts or any Books in his Library treating of this subject with much love and willingness from whom since my happy acquaintance with him I have received plentiful enlargement of my Judgement It is true his Arrogance would not permit him to name Mr. Gresham here yet the truth one way or other must out and so he acknowledgeth he received Manuscripts I assert I saw a Manuscript of the Conjunction abovesaid in the Doctors hands and that the Doctor told me it was written by Mr. Gresham in which Manuscript the times of many of the Conjunctions and the Positions of the Planets were noted as Mr. L. hath printed them Ergo Mr. L. hath made use of Mr. Greshams Manuscript whose Name he hath injuriously concealed Well but saith L. in the same Epistle notwithstanding this his Confession I have not perused any Mans Notes upon this subject or received assistance in Judgement from any How Mr. L Do you confess that you have received Manuscripts and assistance in Judgement c. and yet in the same Epistle deny it Can you with the Satyre in the Fable blow hot and cold in a breath so handsomely and yet complain unto all Astrologers of the unkind dealings of J. G. towards you I account it beneath me to complain of L's Nonsence or unworthiness or to tell the World he hath sine causa complained of me Yet I shall assume some of his boldness to state the matter in question from whence he pretends to ground his grievous complaint against me and it is thus My self saw and indeed so did many of L's best Friends if they would speak in Doctor Fiske's hands a Manuscript of a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter wrote by Mr. Gresham L. confesses to have borrowed Dr. Fiske's Manuscripts The question then in short is Whether Mr. Gresham or L. be the prime Author of that work Unto this L. replies That he is I deny it and urge L's own words against L. to strengthen my Negation as also Dr. Fisks acknowledgement L. pretends to prove himself the prime Author by his beforementioned Sophistry I reject such proof and so do all rational men that have read it as impertinent idle and vain L. must therefore either prove his claim better or else be content to loose his Title unto Englands Prophetick Merlyn as being the prime Author thereof Howbeit as I said before I deny not but L. hath added many things of his own unto that Work of Mr. Greshams As to instance in Page 30. he hath these words This Conjunction flndeth his Majesty Charles King of England engaged in an uncivil and unnatural War against his own subjects the English Nation and in particular against the Parliament the Representative body of the Kingdome against the most famous City of London the Kingdomes Metropolis and almost against the whole Commonalty and Yeomanry of England Here is such Astrologie that I believe Mr. Gresham never dreamt of He proceeds thus His Majesty in defence of his own rights and of the persons of several Delinquents and Malignant Counsellors so voted by both Houses the Parliament stand in opposition of those Malefactors and in defence of themselves Protestant Religion Liberties of the Parliament and Subject And in Page 103. he hath this passage The Wars we now groan under and the infinite pressures we suffer by his Majesties averseness from his Parliament and City of London the desertion of those many Lords and untrusty Members of the House of Commons do all make way and prepare matter for their own and Posterities confusion in the first place and next for the utter desolation of this Kingdome and his Majesties posterity And a little further he saith Let the undeserving Bishop and Clergy-man suffer they onely have stirred these Tumults with the assistance of the Jesuite And in Page 109. he saith Tyranny in Religion first broke the neck of an insulting Episcopacy These with many more of L's Predictions if so he will have them called I believe Mr. Gresham knew nothing of neither would any Man but a State-Parasite have so heightned and encouraged Rebellion under pretence of Astrologie And in Page 35. I finde also some Astrological Ignorance which I dare be confident was L's own and not Mr. Greshams There he gives us the motion in Longitude of the Comet in 1618. and gives us its dayly motion besides in a Column by it self most strangely different from its motion in Longitude which how he will reconcile for my part I understand not Cum multis aliis quae nunc perscribere longum est Thus have I fully proved what in my Collectio Geniturarum I asserted in the behalf of Truth and Honour of Mr. Gresham And to be quit with L. in every matter as near as I can for his Oportet Mendacem esse memorem I return him the Rule in the Civil Law Mendax semel mendax semper praesumitur For L. having once transgressed the bounds of Truth it behooves him he thinks now to grow impudent to purpose and rayle at large at those that shall publish his playing the Plagiary But why should Mr. L. be so extreamly angry at me for my taxing him with pilfering from Mr. Gresham and concealing his Name Since this is not the onely piece of Plagiarism that he hath been guilty of in his Writings As for instance In his Annus Tenebrosus Pag. 60. c. he prints Forty Astrological Aphorisms as his own but he hath stolen them out of Astrologia Aphoristica Fol. 295. and onward And for the greater part of his Christian Astrologie my self saw in Manuscript in the hands of the beforementioned Dr. Fiske which by the Doctor was translated from Haly de judiciis Astrorum as many of L's best Friends know also to be true and yet hath he been so impudent therein as to print in Pag. 830. of that his Book That he hath not advised with any man living in any thing comprehended in that Work What thinks Mr. L. now Doth not he better deserve to consult the Proverb Oportet Mendacem c. then J. G. against whom he falsly urgeth it and of whom he so causlesly complains Well but let Mr. L. play the Plagiarie still and pilfer from whom he can lisp and jabber say and unsay as fast and as oft as he pleases he judges it wisdome it seems and honour enough to himself to raile upon my Person and Education and that he thinks is satisfaction sufficient from him Howbeit me thinks he might readily conceive it is no hard matter for me to retort his Scomma's

cannot stray In all their wandrings from their Native way Or loose that Influence which first they got Consign'd unto them by their proper Lot This therefore shall serve for the explanation and signification of the meeting of all the Planets as is supposed in Sagittary Decemb. 1. 1662. and for the satisfaction or conviction of all those that would have any thing of Dooms-day thereby be pre-signified Sect. 2. Some Reflections upon the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagittarius October 10. 1663. IN my Ephemeris or Almanack for this present year 1663. I have delivered somewhat touching this subject and have I suppose fully evinced unto the Intelligent Reader not onely an improbability but impossibility for any man to predict the certain effects that shall succeed this so famous Conjunction Not that I believe or suppose such a Conjunction can or shall want Effects and those very splendid and therefore I say in my Octobers Observations against the time this eminent Conjunction happens thus Conjunctio magna Saturni Jovis It happens but once in seven or eight hundred years its Effects therefore cannot be discovered by the wisest of Mortals We may say they will be famous but what they shall be or when they shall appear Astrologie hath no tongue to declare Let us therefore warily eye the Providence of God in those Mutations whether good or evil that this eminent and unusual Congress is the precursor of That this eminent Coelestial meeting shall have very famous and glorious Effects is most Rational to be believed and that upon several eminent good grounds viz. 1. The Planets conjoyned are the two superiour Coelestial Movers 2. Their congress or meeting is in Sagittarius a Signe of the Fiery Trigon 3. It is a Coelestial meeting that Astrologers well know very seldome happens Now the more considerable the Planets are that meet the more famous will the Effects of that their meeting prove and the more worthy and eminent the place is in which they thus conjoyn the more admirable are or will be their significations and the more rarely and seldome such Bodies do unite the more significant and illustrious is the Embassy they have to deliver to the world For those Bodies that do not often meet when they do they joyn together for the greater and more famous purposes But although this be granted as indeed it must yet I hold it impossible for the wisest of men to predict or divine the particular effects or signification of this great Conjunction and that for these Reasons viz. 1. It is a Conjunction that seldome happens viz. but once in seven or eight hundred years no man therefore can have any particular experience of what Effects may probably succeed the same And if any shall presume to hope to be assisted by Chronologie I tell them that is uncertain and subject to errour 2. But should I grant that Chronologie could truly furnish an Artist with the exact and precise truth of what hath happened after the celebration of such Conjunctions which I deem somewhat improbable yet would he be to seek of a certain foundation whereon to build a Judgement for time to come it being impossible to obtain the true Position of Heaven when such a Conjunction ad punctum happens and without a Figure to pretend to give a Judgement is every whit as vain and idle as for a Pilot to steer or guide a ship without the assistance of his Compass 3. But should we allow a possibility of what is indeed impossible that a Figure thereof were attainable yet the Artist being a Man and so subject to errour may be apt to mistake in his Calculation of the Effects which allowing Chronologie likewise certain may have succeeded such a Conjunction formerly for he may easily assigne such and such matters or things to the Conjunction as the Effects thereof which very probably may be presumed to have been signified by Eclipses or other less Conjunctions or Transits or Vernal Ingresses c. This seriously preponderated I assert That this Great Conjunction affords no ground at all from which either our Astrological or Presbyterian Enthusiasts can any way rationally threaten the world with a destruction by sire or England in particular with Wars or other mischiefs no although it happen in the Fiery Trigon Before I close this Section give me leave to correct the gross errours and mistakes of some Astrologers among us committed in their Writings this present year 1663. because they somewhat relate to this great Conjunction and are occasioned by the same One there is among us who having made the world believe he hath had a great deal of skill in these matters calleth this Conjunction very often a Little Conjunction and a Minor Conjunction telling us that some able Artist such another probably as himself intends a particular Treatise thereof but lest this Artist boasted of should fail and we be deprived of some Astrological Ignorance and I was about to say Nonsence to be in Print fathered upon this Great Conjunction this Author gives us an account of the Conjunctions Effects in these words We conceive the genuine sence of this present Conjunction is that generally mens intentions or actions will wholly intend to settle or unsettle the Laws and Constitutions Customes Vsanees of whole Nations Governments Kingdomes and Common-wealths or the full establishing or utter disturbance of Families and their Estates Religion of several Judgements and its attendances Priviledges c. In which words if any man can finde either good Connection true Art or fair propriety of speech As great Apollo he Shall ever be to me Mens intentions intend to settle or unsettle c. and this is the genuine sence of the present Conjunction To pass over the apparent Tautologie hereof I suppose it will be a truth believed on all hands to carry the undeniable That if Men intend any thing at all about Laws Customes Constitutions c. it must be either to settle or unsettle them Let this intention proceed from the influence of such a Conjunction or other less considerable Coelestial Phaenomena And so likewise for Families Estates Religions c. if men intend any thing of for or concerning them must it not be for or in order to either their disturbance or establishing But when persons pretending to give Judgement under the specious colour or covert of Science upon Conjunctions and Aspects of the Stars they can have no proper or serious grounds for what wonder is it that they thus become Fugitives to Art and Learning and wander as led by the ignis fatuus of their ignorance or presumption or somewhat worse from the grounds of Science Sence and Right Reason Any Man without the knowledge of the Planets may be most reasonably supposed to be oraculous in such kinde of presages as these for how can he be mistaken in his Divination whose Predictions purely depent upon I or No It is impossible for any