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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85995	Animal cornutum, or The horn'd beast: wherein is contained, 1 a brief method of the grounds of astrology, 2 a description of each planet and sign, 3 the way to erect a figure of heaven, 4 a narrative of what visible eclipses (both of sun and moon) will appear in our horizon, for these 15 years yet to come, with the month, day, and hour when they happen. Whereunto is annexed, an examination of a spurious pamphlet (intituled, Astrology proved to be the doctrine of dæmons) laying open the antagonist's malice, and folly; with a refutation of his errors, by an astrological example, in figure, and judgement. / Composed for the benefit of all those that are desirous to exercise themselves herein, by J. Gadbury, a lover of the celestial sciences.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1654 (1654)	Wing G74; Thomason E1495_2; ESTC R208533	36,911	86

you must know Astrologers will not maintain any thing oraculous or positive for that were to robb God of his perfection Scorus 2 Sent. Dist 4. but what says Scotus Astra inclinant voluntatem in nullo tamen necessitatur accidit tamen frequenter Astrologos vera prognosticare de moribus hominum propter pronitatem eoorum ad sequendum appetitivum sensitivum i. e. The Stars saith he incline the will but in no wise necessitate it frequently it comes to pass that Astrologers fortell truths concerning the manner of men by reason of their pronesse to follow their sensitive appetite Nor are the words of divine * Dr. Gell Stella Nova Doctor Gell to be disrespected There is said he id Bruti in men that they live so much by sence that 't is almost a strange thing the Astrologer should predict false Here 's no enjoyning a spirit at all This is another of M. B's spurious brats which he would father upon Astrology an example in Astrology will prove this so silly an absurdity that 't will be a shame for a Priest to own which example you shall find annexed to the latter end of my Book The sixth part of his Reason examined THe Pamphleter keeps a hideous noise like the clattering of empty pitchers about the powers of the air he must and will have a distinction between the powers of the air and Gods powers although the powers of God be like him viz. Omni-present But admit of this nicety viz. that the Devil governs the powers of the air and that God and the Devil have their powers distinct and opposing one another are they so much out of man as in him no such thing but my Antagonist having studied the Macrocosm so much hath left the Microcosm unstudied so that he may well say I have done those things I ought not to have done and left undone those things I ought to have done I am perswaded God governs the world by harmony and not confusion but 't is the Element of air he carps at and saith God doth not but Satan doth direct * That 's the aiery powers them which cannot enter in my belief for I rest confident that that power which rules in heaven and earth rules in air also for if God be Omni-present his power must be so too else his power must be cut off and if you take away his power you may as well take away him for every thing both visible and invisible is supported by power but this being so orthodoxal a Tenet there is none but Madmen * My Antagonist is hood-wink'd Aristotle will not help him will deny it Why should any one limit Gods power and make it distinct from him when as 't is clear there is no place empty of God see Psal 139. Job saith God hangeth the Earth upon nothing I believe t is a truth to man generally because t is a paradox to him but really the earth as the Heavens is hanged upon the power of God this being as nothing in the esteem of some men But again This Earth as 't is hang'd upon nothing could not exist without the power of God in the other Elements for all the other are as correspondents with it the Water that refreshes its thirsty jawes the Fire that doth warm its benumm'd limbs and the Air doth gently breath upon it this Element of the Air is the surrounder of the Earth and one power governs both for as 't is impossible for Mr. B. to live without air so 't is impossible to make these Separatists Let Mr. B. but open his mouth 't will be full of air presently his head was full of nothing else when he writ against Astrology there 's no such jarring in the Elements as is among * Which made Mr. Erbury in his late Dispute in Lumbard-street conclude them Beasts from which conclusion I called my Book Animal Cornutum it being so infrequent a thing in England to see a Beast without Horns Clergy-men let Mr. B. say what he will of them I really believe Mr. B. wanted air when he urged this whimsey for reason he was almost smothered with Envy's soultry heat and the sweet air of Charity was absent What shall I say to this University Weather-cock even this Gods power is not to be rashly dealt withall neither is foolishly to be separated from God for To make God and his powers twain Bold person you attempt in vain The last part of his Reason examined AStrologies antiquity is questioned now by the Antagonist he is resolved now to cut it up by the roots affirming it to have beginning but in Nebuchadnezars days But Sir I would have you know Astrology is of a more longer and stronger growth and will not be so easily cut down That Astrology began but in Nebuchadnezzars days is false and all Writers that do write any thing of this Subject contradict it for * Though Mr. Gataker slanderously calls him counterfeit Hermes an antient Philosopher a man long before Moses therefore longer before Nebuchadnezzer was an admirable proficient in the Sciences of Astrology this is enough to refute his falacy but Josephus reports Josephus lib. 1. ch 3. de Antiq Jud. that Abraham the Father of the Faithful instructed the Aegyptians in this Science of the Stars that they became excellent therein The same Josephus reports how the Sons of Seth invented this Science of the Stars and that it might not be kept from succeeding ages they made two pillars one of Brasse and the other of brick to the end it might be preserved from the violent Waves of the Flood that was to come that this famous Art or Science of the Stars might not perish to which Divine Dubartus seems to allude when he sung Phalec and Heber as they wandred fand A huge high pillar which upright did stand And afterward another nigh as great But not so strong so stately nor so neat For on the flowry sield it lay all flat Built but of Brick of rusty Tiles or Slat Whereas the first was builded fair and strong Of Jasper smooth and Marble lasting long Any one may see now how this Gentleman hath launched into the lake of Lyars for Astrology is more honourable more antient than his envy could report it nay it was so honourable in old time none were created Priests without it none so honourable with their Kings as they while these Arts flourish'd the World was like a little Heaven Kings which of later years have become vicious were then virtuous by their sublimer studies in those days all adored the magnitude of their Creator and the God of Heaven was admired and worshipped in the Orders of the Heavens but since the Priests have ruled the rost there have as many ways been taught to Heaven as Taylors have found fashions to set forth Womens bodies Here you see now that in the old time no Art was in such esteem as this one was In the beginning of