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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>Indago A&s;trologica:
OR,
A brief and mode&s;t Enquiry into
&s;ome Principal Points
OF
ASTROLOGY,</P>
<P>As it was delivered
By the FATHERS of it,
And is now generally received
By the SONS of it.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> Jo&s;hua Childrey <HI>of</HI> Fever&s;ham <HI>in</HI> Kent.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI>
Printed for <HI>Edward Husband,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his
Shop at the Sign of the Golden Dragon in <HI>Fleet|&s;treet,</HI>
near the Inner-Temple Gate. 1652.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>The Preface.</HEAD>
<P>_LEt the Reader fir&s;t of all favor me &s;o
far, as to give me leave to deprecate
his &s;evere cen&s;ure for my laying down
that for a Foundation and Principle
demon&s;trable, which to him &s;eems to
need proof as much as any thing el&s;e I
&s;hall &s;ay: For though in former times
the motion of the Earth hath been exploded as ab&s;urd,
and in this la&s;t Age by Noble <HI>Verulam</HI> him&s;elf (who&s;e
profound Philo&s;ophy I no le&s;s admire, then I do at their
unworthy &s;lighting of it, who proud of their own high
&s;oaring Phanta&s;ies, contemn experiment as below them;
and though they demoli&s;h the airy Ca&s;tles of the Stagi|rite,
do it, but to make their own more &s;pectable) con|demned
as vain; yet it is by <HI>Galileo, Philolaus</HI> in his
<HI>De Sy&s;temate Mundi,</HI> and other accurate Ob&s;ervers and
Comparers of the <HI>Phaenomena</HI> of Heaven, &s;o plainly de|mon&s;trated
<HI>ad oculum,</HI> that it mu&s;t now no longer pa&s;s
for <HI>Opinio,</HI> but in the Language of the Schools under the
Notion of <HI>Scientia.</HI> Neither can I attribute the error of
the Ancients, and the Lord <HI>Verulam</HI> touching this point,
to any thing &s;o much as this, That they were not &s;uffi|ciently
ver&s;'d in A&s;tronomy: For the <HI>Phaenomena</HI> and
rea&s;ons whereon this piece of truth hangs, are for the
<PB N="4" REF="3">
mo&s;t part &s;uch, that be&s;ides tho&s;e who are well acquainted
with the <HI>Theoriques</HI> of the Planets <HI>(ab&s;it dicto invidia)</HI>
few or none, either know, mark, or can under&s;tand them,
as I might in&s;tance in Particulars: but that is no part of
my task. For that which follows, the moderate Reader
will finde it to be <HI>Sphaera plumbea,</HI> though dully penned,
yet of more weight then length: Had &s;ome <HI>Mercuries</HI>
had &s;o much News to have told the world, three or four
quire of Paper would have been too &s;trait a girdle for
their Tympany; which di&s;ea&s;e is grown &s;o much into
fa&s;hion, that the &s;malne&s;s of my Book tells me, I mu&s;t
expect no other welcome for it into the world but Tu&s;h,
and no other name but a Trifle.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="astrological treatise">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>Indago A&s;trologica.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 1.</HEAD>
<P>THe old <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> of the World according to
to <HI>Ptolomey</HI> is found to be fal&s;e, and that new
one of <HI>Copernicus</HI> (where the &Sun; is the immova|ble
Centre of the Univer&s;e, and the Earth moved in
the &s;aid Orb which <HI>Ptolomy</HI> gave the &Sun;) is evinced to be
the onely true one.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 2.</HEAD>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding this eviction in behalf of <HI>Coperni|cus,</HI>
the A&s;pects are by all A&s;tronomers yet calculated
according to the old <HI>Sy&s;teme</HI> of <HI>Ptolomy,</HI> as if the Earth
were the Center, which the motions of the Planets, and
by con&s;equence the A&s;pects did re&s;pect. So that though
A&s;tronomy be corrected, yet A&s;trology (which judges
mo&s;tly by A&s;pects) remains yet uncorrected. Ina&s;|much
as</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 3.</HEAD>
<P>The A&s;pects ought to be calculated (as the Schools
&s;peak) as they are, not <HI>quoad nos,</HI> but <HI>quoad naturam</HI> (A
di&s;tinction that &s;uits marvellou&s;ly well with our pre&s;ent
p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">po&s;e, better a great deal then with their priority and
notiority.) For</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4">
If a Line drawn from the Center of the Earth through
the Center of a Planet (this being &s;uppo&s;ed and grant|ed
that the Earth moves in an Orb above &Venus;) and &s;o
continued do inter&s;ect the <HI>Zodiack</HI> (for examples &s;ake)
in the 22 degree of &Cancer;; again, if a Line drawn from
the Center of the &Sun; through the Center of the &s;ame
Planet, and continued do inter&s;ect the <HI>Zodiack</HI> in the
29 degree of &Cancer;; certainly the place of that Planet is
rather to be accounted the 29 degree of &Cancer; then the 22,
&s;ince this determines but his apparent place and <HI>quoad
nos,</HI> that his true place and <HI>quoad naturam:</HI> And if &s;o,
then his point of &opposition; will be not the 22 but 29 of &Virgo;, his
&trine; of &Pisces; and &Scorp; his &quadrine; of &Aries; and &Libra;, and his &sextile; not the 22
but 29 of &Taurus; and &Virgo;. And if &s;o too,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 5.</HEAD>
<P>We &s;hall a&s;&s;ume the boldne&s;s to begin the correction
of the <HI>Arabian</HI> A&s;trology after this &s;ort. 1. Let the
motions of all the Planets and their places be calcula|ted,
as they relate to the &Sun; (an ea&s;ier and more expe|dible
piece of Arithmetick, then to relate them to the
Earth.) And when this is done,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 6.</HEAD>
<P>2. Let their A&s;pects be collected thence according to
the common cu&s;tom of our <HI>Ephemerides</HI> that are now
in reque&s;t: After which done, you will perceive this
wide difference between this and the old A&s;trology.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 7.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, In the 3 &s;uperior Planets &Saturn; &Jupit; and &Mars;, that which
in the <HI>Ephemerides</HI> is now called &conjunction; &Sun;, will be found to
<PB N="7" REF="4">
be &opposition; of the Earth (who&s;e Character for brevity and di|&s;tinctions
&s;ake may be this [&Moonnew;]) and their &opposition; &Sun; will be
found to be &conjunction; &Moonnew;, their &sextile; &Sun; to be a &trine; &Moonnew;, their &trine; &Sun; a &sextile;,
and their &quadrine; &Sun; and &quadrine; &Moonnew;, dexter for &s;ini&s;ter, and &s;ini&s;ter
for dexter.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 8.</HEAD>
<P>Further, not onely the &s;pecies of the A&s;pect will be
altered, but the time too: For onely the &conjunction; &Moonnew; and &opposition; &Moonnew;
will exactly agree with the times of &opposition; &Sun; and &conjunction; &Sun;; The
&sextile; and &trine; of &Sun; will differ &s;omewhat from the times of
the &trine; and &sextile; of &Moonnew;, and the &quadrine; &Sun; will differ mo&s;t from
the time of &quadrine; &Moonnew;.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 9.</HEAD>
<P>More then this, all their A&s;pects that they have each
to other, will be found different from the old ones (now
received) <HI>quoad tempus, non quoad &s;peciem,</HI> proportion|ably
to their di&s;tance from the &s;eeming place of the &Sun;.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 10.</HEAD>
<P>Secondly, The place of the &Moonnew; in the <HI>Zodiaque</HI> will be
found in the point oppo&s;ite to the place of the &Sun; in our
now <HI>Ephemerides.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 11.</HEAD>
<P>Thirdly, the &Moonfirst; onely (&s;eeing the Earth is the Center of
her Orb, and to it therefore her motion and place mu&s;t
be referred) mu&s;t keep her old place in the <HI>Zodiaque</HI> ac|cording
to our <HI>Ephemerides,</HI> without any alteration at
all. And yet this &s;omething improperly too, &s;eeing the
<HI>Zodiaque</HI> and her Orb have not a common center: for
the &Sun; is the center of the one, and the &Moonnew; of the other.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="section">
<PB N="8" REF="5">
<HEAD>Sect. 12.</HEAD>
<P>Fourthly, for &Venus; and &Merc; the two Inferiors, their &s;eeming
&conjunction; &Sun; in the middle of their direction will be found to be
a real &opposition; &Moonnew;&punc; and their &conjunction; &Sun; in the middle of their Retro|gradation
a real &conjunction; &Moonnew;, yet without any difference in the
time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 13.</HEAD>
<P>More then this, they will be found to have a &sextile; &quadrine; and
&trine; to the Earth, even as the three Superiors have, be|&s;ides
a &quadrine; &trine; and &opposition; each to other, all which A&s;pects our
<HI>Ephemerides</HI> would make them incapable of. Many
other particular deductions and differences I might
name; which becau&s;e the&s;e will light you to the corner
where they are, and I have circum&s;cribed my &s;elf into
a narrow room, I &s;hall omit. So that hence it will
plainly appear in all rea&s;on, That</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 14.</HEAD>
<P>This which we here propound to be calculated and
collected, although hitherto it hath not (I may &s;ay
through negligence) been put in practice, is the onely
true doctrine of A&s;pects, and the onely &s;ound founda|tion
of <HI>A&s;trology.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 15.</HEAD>
<P>I am the more inclined to believe this, that &s;o much
rea&s;on doth already dictate and confirm, when I con&s;i|der
the weakne&s;s and &s;hifts of the old A&s;trology.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 16.</HEAD>
<P>Weakne&s;s, in that all the Predictions (or at lea&s;t 99 in
a hundred) of the old A&s;trology, which notwith&s;tand|ing
<PB N="9" REF="5">
is &s;o cryed up in this Age, deduced from the <HI>Ptole|maick</HI>
A&s;pects, are &s;o con&s;ciou&s;ly doubtful, &s;o ob&s;cure|ly
delivered, and many of them &s;o fallible, that it hath
notoriou&s;ly proved the &s;candal of A&s;trology, and po&s;|&s;e&s;t
the grave and &s;ober brea&s;ts of the world with a con|ceit,
That A&s;trology is but a higher degree of <HI>Lieger
de main,</HI> and A&s;trologers but liberal Juglers. Nay &s;o
pur-blinde it is (I mean the old A&s;trology) that in the
very matter of the weather it &s;elf, it is fain to confe&s;s it
&s;elf unable to do any more then give a probable conje|cture
of it; and not without good cau&s;e, &s;ince it is of|tentimes
far enough from doing that too.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 17.</HEAD>
<P>Shifts; in that, when it hath found the weather fall
out different or contrary to the promi&s;es or threats of
their A&s;pects (which is no wonder, for many times
there is above a Moneths difference between the appa|rent
and true A&s;pects; as for example, the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Venus;, which
our Almanacks this year all &s;ay happens about the lat|ter
end of <HI>May,</HI> really falls about the Tenth day of
<HI>April,</HI> and was no doubt the cau&s;e of that cold, rainy
weather that then happened; to &s;ay nothing of the
&quadrine; &Moonnew; &Saturn;, that happened two or three days before, as they
&s;hall finde who will take the pains to calculate this ea&s;ier
way) and not onely the weather, but other accidents
too; it hath been forced to introduce a number of
whim&s;ical A&s;pects (as <HI>Semi&s;extiles, Tredeciles, Quin|tiles,
Biquintiles, Octiles, Vigintiles, Quincunces, Quin|dreiles,
Deciles, Semiquadrates, Se&s;quiquadrates,</HI> and
the like) not &s;o much to keep the other five old ones
company, as to furni&s;h it ready with a good and bad
<PB N="10" REF="6">
A&s;pect, that &s;o it may make either (as occa&s;ion &s;erves)
the Father of fair or foul weather.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 18.</HEAD>
<P>To the foregoing rea&s;ons we &s;hall adde another, al|though
but a weaker, That the truth of this doctrine of
A&s;pects is wonderfully confirmed by ob&s;ervation, which
&s;hould have been more particular and exact, had not
my profe&s;&s;ion &s;o &s;trictly engaged engaged me to a daily
and con&s;cientious attention upon it: For, having calcu|lated
the places of the Planets <HI>(Minerva aliquanto cra&s;|&s;iore,</HI>
I confe&s;s for want of time to altar my Tables) in
relation to the &Sun; as Center for &s;ome Moneths pa&s;t; I
found the events all the way very audibly to an&s;wer my
expectations, even at &s;uch time when they were dumb,
or gain&s;ayed the A&s;pects in the Almanacks. Let him
that li&s;ts, make tryal to &s;atisfie his minde by his own
ob&s;ervation; and he will (I dare confidently warrant
him) finde that this is truth which I tell him, be&s;ides an
additional recompen&s;e for his pains.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 19.</HEAD>
<P>If any one ask how it &s;hould come to pa&s;s that <HI>Haly,
Guido,</HI> and many A&s;trologers both before and &s;ince,
never lighted on this way. His an&s;wer mu&s;t be, That
they all received and were &s;incerely per&s;waded of the
old <HI>Sy&s;tem,</HI> and upon this per&s;wa&s;ion &s;ate down and
&s;ought no further; whereas this is a Con&s;ectary of the
new. And</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 20.</HEAD>
<P>If he ask again how the Ancients thus erring both in
the kinde and time of the true A&s;pects, could come to
<PB N="11" REF="6">
know &s;o well, not onely the nature of the Planets, that
&s;ome are benevolent, as &Jupit; and &Venus;; &s;ome malevolent, as
&Saturn; and &Mars;; and &s;ome of a middle nature, as the other
three, but al&s;o of the A&s;pects, that &s;ome are frowns, as
&quadrine; and &opposition;; &s;ome &s;miles, as &sextile; and &trine;, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> His an&s;wer is
ready for him, That it is mo&s;t probable they came to
this knowledge by tho&s;e A&s;pects which they had each
to other, when they were at or near &conjunction; or &opposition; of the &Sun;, as
al&s;o by their &conjunction; or &opposition; to the &Sun; him&s;elf; which A&s;pects (as
I told you) differ, &s;ome very little, and &s;ome nothing at
all in time from the true A&s;pects. As for example, it
might &s;o fortune that &Saturn; and &Venus; might be in &conjunction;, near about
the time (that is, within a day or two) of &Saturn; his conjun|ction
with the &Sun;, and at that conjunction they might
ob&s;erve cold, mi&s;&s;ing, rainy weather to happen. Hence
they gathered, that &conjunction; &Saturn; &Venus; <HI>(con&s;ideratis con&s;iderandis)</HI>
was the cau&s;e of a cold mi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing rain. And &s;o in others,
not that I think this uncertain guide (blinde on one eye,
and pur-blinde on the other) could lead them into a per|fect
and infallible knowledge of their influence; for I
am per&s;waded, that in &s;ome matters they will be found
very wide: And what tho&s;e matters are, this that I here
propo&s;e is the mo&s;t likely way to di&s;cover.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 21.</HEAD>
<P>This that I &s;peak touching the places and A&s;pects of
the Planets to be altered, I would have to be under|&s;tood
not onely to be altered in Almanacks for the wea|thers
&s;ake, but likewi&s;e in all figures, whether <HI>Horary,
Revolutional,</HI> or <HI>Genethliaque,</HI> and all other Judge|ments
what&s;oever depending upon A&s;pect or Direction.
For it is not to be doubted, but that it will at length ap|pear,
<PB N="12" REF="7">
That the greate&s;t part of that batch of e&s;&s;ential
and accidental Dignities and Debilities, as Hou&s;e, Ex|altation,
Triplicity, Term, Face, Detriment, Fall, Pe|regrinity,
Reception, Conformity of Hain and Quarter,
combu&s;tion, in centro &Sun;, and the like; together with part
of Fortune, life and death, and the divi&s;ions &s;everally
of the Hou&s;es and Signs, de&s;erve no other place but to
be ranked among tho&s;e Shifts which I &s;pake of before,
being invented for the &s;ame end, as is probable enough.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 22.</HEAD>
<P>And &s;ince I have been hitherto &s;o to bold to correct
that A&s;trology which hath been received by all Mathe|maticians
till now: I &s;hall venture a little further in the
pro&s;ecution of it, &s;eeing there are other things fit to be
con&s;idered in A&s;trology which are not, becau&s;e men
generally hold Authority to be rea&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 23.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t then let the A&s;pects of tho&s;e Planets who&s;e Orbs
are immediately contignate, be ranked in a degree of
more powerful, becau&s;e <HI>Vis unitior fortius agit:</HI> &s;uch
are the A&s;pects of &Saturn; and &Jupit;, &Jupit; and &Mars;, &Mars; and &Moonround;, &Mars; and
&Moonfirst;, when &s;he is oppo&s;ite to the &Sun;, &Moonnew; and &Venus;, &Venus; and the &Moonfirst;,
when &s;he is about the change; and &Venus; and &Merc;. And as the
Orbs of the configurated Planets are farther a&s;under or
nearer together, &s;o let their A&s;pects be accounted le&s;s or
more forcible.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 24.</HEAD>
<P>Secondly, Let the A&s;pects of the &Moonfirst; with the other
Planets be little reckoned upon (unle&s;s in the ca&s;es a|bovenamed)
&s;ince they move about divers centers, and
<PB N="13" REF="7">
their A&s;pects therefore are properly not A&s;pects, but
&s;eeming &s;o: The mo&s;t con&s;iderable thing in the motion
of the &Moonfirst; is her age, or relation to the &Sun;.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 25.</HEAD>
<P>Thirdly, Let no A&s;trologer henceforward di&s;parage
the fortune of his Native, becau&s;e his Almuten is &s;ta|tionary
or retrograde, nor flatter it any thing the more
becau&s;e he is direct; &s;eeing the&s;e pa&s;&s;ions are not real,
but (as they are fitly called) <HI>Phaenomena:</HI> But let him
rather judge by the Planets <HI>Apogaeo&s;is, Perigaeo&s;is, Hy|pergaeo&s;is,</HI>
and <HI>Hypogaeo&s;is</HI> his culmination, his ri&s;ing and
&s;etting, his Northern or Southern Declination and La|titude,
things not hitherto much regarded.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 26.</HEAD>
<P>Fourthly, (but herein I give but my judgement) where|as
our now-A&s;trology begins the year at the &Sun; his en|trance
into &Aries; on this &s;ide of the <HI>Equator,</HI> and erects its
figure of Revolution for that time; it &s;eems more con|gruous
to begin it in <HI>December,</HI> when the &Sun; enters &Virgo;;
and for this rea&s;on, becau&s;e at that point of time the
&Sun; hath ju&s;t fini&s;hed his furthe&s;t Southern progre&s;s, and
begins to come towards us again, from that time (to
u&s;e the common Argument) in&s;tilling life by degrees in|to
the Plants of the Earth by his approach; which,
though it be mo&s;t palpable in <HI>March,</HI> when he enters &Aries;,
yet hath it a being and mea&s;ure while he is in &Virgo;, and
though &Aries; be the birth of vegetables, yet is &Virgo; their con|ception.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 27.</HEAD>
<P>Fifthly, for the very &s;ame rea&s;on whereas A&s;trolo|gers
accommodate always their Scheme to the time of
<PB N="14" REF="8">
exclu&s;ion, and by that judge of the future lot of the
Native; it would better agree with rea&s;on (me thinks)
to apply it to the time of the conception (if it may be
known) becau&s;e that is mo&s;t properly the fir&s;t in&s;tant of
being: for &s;uch is in many things our &s;tupidity, that we
think a thing is not, becau&s;e we cannot &s;ee it be. And</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 28.</HEAD>
<P>La&s;tly, for the more full a&s;&s;urance and attaining to
perfection in Judgement of the weather, I could wi&s;h
that a cour&s;e might be contrived (if it were po&s;&s;ible) for
ob&s;erving the weather in &s;ome place under or near the
<HI>Equator,</HI> and in the &s;ame <HI>Longitude</HI> with <HI>London,</HI> where
there are the &s;ame noons, nights, mornings and even|ings
(&s;uch as are <HI>Axum, Mina</HI> or <HI>Biamba</HI> in <HI>Guinea,</HI> in
5 or 6 degrees of North Latitude) and that for half a
year or more (places near the <HI>Equator</HI> I chu&s;e, becau&s;e <HI>ob
propinquitatem a&s;trorum vim citius purius &amp; evidentius
&s;entiunt)</HI> while the like ob&s;ervations are made at <HI>Lon|don</HI>
at the &s;ame time and for by the &s;ame &s;pace; that by
the collation of the&s;e Ob&s;ervations (together with the
Principles here delivered) that dark Riddle of Nature
may be &s;olved. And</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 29.</HEAD>
<P>Here, by being &s;o near, I &s;hall take occa&s;ion to pre&s;ume
little farther, and tell &s;ome A&s;trologers who account it
their glory to have their hearers tremble at their Ora|cles,
that they betray both their own credit, and (as
in them lies) the truth of Gods Word, by telling the
world that this Eclip&s;e pa&s;t in <HI>March,</HI> and that other to
come in 1654. are certain Signs of the day of Judge|ment:
For (though it be true that Eclip&s;es of the &Sun;
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(as we call them) are more dreadful and effectual to us,
then tho&s;e of the &Moonfirst;; for this rea&s;on, becau&s;e the one
&s;ort are a privation of original Light, the of other a deri|vative
onely, yet) &s;eeing that every year there happen
&s;ometimes two, &s;ometimes three, &s;ometimes more, but
never fewer Eclip&s;es, vi&s;ible in one Horizon or other,
though our own be no witne&s;s of them; the World by
their Logick would have been by this time di&s;&s;olved a
hundred times over and over. And by this means too
we can expect no le&s;s, then that credulous and cavilling
heads, when they &s;hall have &s;urvived that other Eclip&s;e
as well as this, and &s;hall &s;ee the Univer&s;e <HI>in &s;tatu quo,</HI>
notwith&s;tanding the&s;e outragious fanta&s;ies had turned
all into a&s;hes, will be apt enough to think, <HI>That &s;acred
Prophecies are us empty Terrors,</HI> as tho&s;e bold Sooth-&s;aying;
and, <HI>That dooms-day is but a dream.</HI> A help
which in the&s;e days we need lea&s;t, &s;ince too many al|ready
have leap'd into Hell without this &s;taff. That the
end &s;hall be, is an Article of the Catholique Faith; but
when it &s;hall be (&s;ince the <HI>Ephemerides</HI> of Heaven &s;peaks
nothing of it; and not onely the Stars of the <HI>Caelum
Empiraeum</HI> know nothing of it, but the Son of Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s
him&s;elf confe&s;&s;es as much for them and him&s;elf
too) is more then curio&s;ity to ask, more then madne&s;s
to determine, and more then folly to believe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 30.</HEAD>
<P>A&s;trologers in general take it upon tru&s;t from the An|cients,
that Eclip&s;es operate not pre&s;ently, but after a
time, and content them&s;elves with their Authority:
But the thing is &s;o adver&s;e to rea&s;on, that it might ju&s;tly
be &s;u&s;pected to have been brought into A&s;trology upon
the &s;ame &s;core, and for the &s;ame rea&s;on that tho&s;e other
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ceits were mentioned before in the 17 and 21 Sections.
Indeed (let me not wrong any man) &s;ome of the Science
are doubtful, that this Maxim is not &s;o &s;ound as ancient.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sect. 31.</HEAD>
<P>Many particular things I have omitted, which might
have pertinently been &s;ummoned in, but di&s;mi&s;&s;ed they
are, becau&s;e (being con&s;equents of that which hath
been generally laid down) they are hard at hand, and
will quickly hear when&s;oever di&s;cour&s;e &s;hall call to them
to an&s;wer: And prolixity is vain, but then mo&s;t of all,
when it is not certain that the thing it &s;elf &s;imply is ac|cepted.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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