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<P><HI>A&s;trological</HI> and <HI>Theological</HI> OBSERVATIONS AND PREDICTIONS, For the Year of our LORD 1700.</P>
<P>WHEREIN Are briefly Shewn as well the Judgements and Opinions of &s;everal Wi&s;e Men concerning this pre&s;ent Year and other Years as his own Judgment with the Signification of the Eclip&s;es of this pre&s;ent Year.</P>
<P>WITH Monthly Ob&s;ervations for every Month of this pre&s;ent Year breifly containing the Mo&s;t Remarkable events that are likely to happen in <HI>England</HI> and other Places, and the mo&s;t likely days for Rain and Change of VVeather and other things worthy of Ob&s;ervaton.</P>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 19.1.</BIBL>
<L>The lofty Heavenes by their Whirling Motion</L>
<L>Over the Earth, deep Seas, and floting Ocian,</L>
<L>Dayly declare to &s;inful Fle&s;h and Blood,</L>
<L>The Glory of the great Omni&s;cient God,</L>
<L>The Firmament fill'd with amazing Lights,</L>
<L>Doth Shew his Handy-work to Earthly Sights:</L></Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 147.4</BIBL>
<L>He tells the number of Sidereal Flames,</L>
<L>And calls them by their own Cele&s;tial names,</L>
<L>Thei're happy who have carnal eyes to gaze,</L>
<L>Upon tho&s;e glorious lights, which us amaze:</L></Q>
<Q><BIBL>2. pet. 1.19.</BIBL>
<L>More happy they, who can with Spiritual eyes,</L>
<L>Behold the day Star in their Hearts to ri&s;e.</L></Q>
<P>By <HI>JOHN SILVESTER,</HI> Student in <HI>A&s;trology&punc;</HI></P>
<P>Living near the <HI>Market-hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>Alders Key</HI> in <HI>Bri&s;tol.</HI></P>
<P><HI>BRISTOL,</HI> Print<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> for the Author and are Sold by <HI>W. B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"></HI> near the <HI>Tol&s;ey.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>A&s;trological</HI> and <HI>Theological,</HI> OBSERVATIONS AND PREDICTIONS For the Year of our LORD, 1700.</HEAD>
<P>THIS is that great Year, which &s;everal Wi&s;e-men have pointed at, wherein or about which time, they have Conjectured that the World would &s;ee &s;ome great Unu&s;ual and Famous Changes.</P>
<P><HI>John Napeir</HI> L. of <HI>Marchi&s;ton,</HI> believed the day of Judg|ment would fall between the Years 1688. and 1700. for he believed the Abomination that made De&s;olate, was &s;et up in the Year of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> 365 by that Abominable <HI>Julian,</HI> when he made Decrees for De&s;olating and Devouring <HI>Gods</HI> Servants, therefore he &s;aid from the Year of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 365 we are Commanded to <HI>Reckon</HI> 1335 Years, which fal|leth in <HI>Anno.</HI> 1700 And then (&s;aith <HI>Daniel</HI> ver&s;e 6th.) &s;hall be the end of all Wonders, even the Wonderous and great Day of the Lord: Read the la&s;t Chapter of <HI>Daniel.</HI></P>
<P><HI>George Withers</HI> conceived that near unto this Year the Roman Empire, would be totally &s;ubverted and overthrown, for they made their Com|putations by the&s;e Numeral letters, MDCLXVI. which are the Nu|murals for 1666 which being added to 32 Years (about which Age <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;uffered) the Aggregate will amount to 1698 which is near unto 1700.</P>
<P>In a little book entituled Reverend <HI>M. Brightman's,</HI> Judgment or Pro|phe&s;ies, it is thus Written, but the Pope is to be quite and fully overthrown at the Year 1686 and that in the Year 1696 the great Turk al&s;o &s;hall be utterly overth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">own.</P>
<P><HI>T. B.</HI> In his little Book, Wrote that the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Power &s;hould come to his end, and that none &s;hould be able by any help what ever to prevent it, even at the Year 1697.</P>
<P><HI>I.H.</HI> In his Cata&s;trophe Mundi wrtho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the Year 1700 &s;aying,
<PB N="3" REF="2"> now is <HI>Rome</HI> De&s;troyed and the Downful of the Seat of <HI>Peter;</HI> the Con|ver&s;ion of the <HI>Turks,</HI> and <HI>Jews,</HI> &s;oon follow, and in his appendix Wrote that the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in &Sagitt; in 1722 will De&s;troy all the Opinions of of the Pagans, all over the whole World, and Reduce all to the Faith of our Saviour <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and that all Contrariety of Opinions will be laid Open. The Man was Ingenious, but I doubt his Judgment will fail him this Year.</P>
<P>In a certain Book (Entituled a <HI>Calender</HI> of Prophetick time drawn by an Expre&s;&s;e Scripture line) on the Title page, there is a prophe&s;y thus Demon&s;trated; But that the time of their Prophe&s;y in Sackcloth (mean|ing the two Witne&s;&s;es Slain) will not Expire till the Year 1697 And at the Year 1727 &s;hall begin the final De&s;truction of the Bea&s;t by the viols, accompli&s;hed at the Year 1772 in the new <HI>Jeu&s;alem</HI> briefly de&s;cribed After which time the Author concluded there would en&s;ue Ble&s;&s;ed times accord|ding to the&s;e words, in another place of the &s;aid Book by Calculation of time, this ble&s;&s;ed &s;tate will begin e're the Seventh thou&s;and of the World enters, but as near as within 240 Years I took the more notice of 1772 becau&s;e it holds a near congruency with the Year 1782 Expre&s;&s;ed in my following predictions concerning the Roman Empire A&s;trologically and Theologically Compo&s;ed which as great &s;ecret I bequeath unto the World</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire</HEAD>
<P>I find by our Trigonicall table Calculated by the great pains and In|du&s;try of <HI>I. H.</HI> which he Extracted from the Caroline tables of <HI>T. S.</HI> Publi&s;hed in 1663. That <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> was Born under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in that Pious Sign &Pisces; [one of the Hou&s;e of Pious &Jupit;] but he E&s;tabli&s;hed his mo&s;t pure Chri&s;tian Religion under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in that Pious Sign &Sagitt; <HI>Sagittarus,</HI> [the other Hou&s;e of Pious &Jupit;] and under the Sixth Trig|onicall Revolution of the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; &s;ince the Creation of the World And it came into my Heart that as the Lord made Mans and Fini&s;hed his work on the <HI>Sixth</HI> day of the Week, and re&s;ted on the Seventh day, even &s;o he was plea&s;ed to E&s;tabli&s;h the true Chri&s;tian Religion, and to Fini&s;h the Settlement thereof, by the Death of his Dear Son <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in that diurnall and Pious Signe &Sagitt; that happned under the <HI>Sixth</HI> Trigonical Revolution thereof &s;ince the Creation of the World (to bring all belevers into a &s;piritual way of Wor&s;hip and to purifie them) who &s;aid it is Fini&s;hed, and then gave up the Gho&s;t, <HI>John,</HI> the 19.30. And after his re&s;urrection he likewi&s;e entered into his Eternal Sabbath of Re&s;t, And whereas <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> made choice of Twelve <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> to convert Sinners to Rightouene&s;s, &s;o it is probable that the Lord will convert many of the greate&s;t infidels to the true <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Faith under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; that will hap|en after their Twelth ingre&s;s into that Piou Signe &s;ince the birth of <HI>Chi&s;t</HI> (in or near the Year 1782) to perfect a Reformation in the World [through the Spirit of Grace within] for this great Apo&s;tolick
<PB N="4" REF="3"> Number 12 is [by wi&s;e Men] called Divine, &s;o that it &s;eems very like|ly, that the Pope of <HI>Rome</HI> (if not al&s;o &s;ome other unconverted Monarchs) may under the conjunction of that great Apo&s;tolick numb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">her totally overthrown or el&s;e converted through &s;o me Judgmen, tto the true Chri&s;tian Faith, for the Lord Re&s;pects number, and order, and a very good Rea&s;on may be given, why <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> made Choice of the Number of Twelve Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P>The Number 1728 is by wi&s;e Men counted fatal, to which when any City, or Common Wealth hath attained; it &s;hall afterwards Decline: Now whereas the true Chri&s;tian Religion and Spiritual way of Wor&s;hip was not fully E&s;tabli&s;hed 'till the Death of Chri&s;t (<HI>who &s;aid if I go not away the Comforter will not Come unto you</HI> John 16.7.) therefore if we add 32. [the Number of <HI>Chri&s;t's</HI> Age when he died] to 1728, the totall will be 1760. which is the Year, wherein [by this Rule] the true Chri&s;tian Religion will by &s;ome means begin to decline in power, but whether by the &s;lothfullne&s;s of the Profe&s;&s;ors thereof or by &s;ome great per&s;ecution I am not &s;en&s;ible of&punc; But if it &s;hould &s;o happen I conjecture the Lord will vi&s;it his People again; and animate and quicken them by his Spirit within, and drop down &s;ome &s;weet Cele&s;tial influences from the &s;upernall &s;tellary powers under the afore&s;aid &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in that Pious Signe &Sagitt; that will hap|pen in or about the Year 1782. wherefore let them prai&s;e the Name of the Lord: for his Name alone is Excellent, his Glory is above the Earth, and Heaven. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 148.13.</P>
<P>And whereas the Roman Empire was E&s;tabli&s;hed about 45 Years be|fore the coming of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> therefore if we &s;ub&s;tract 45 from the afore&s;aid Number 1728. the Remainder will be 1683. about which Year [by this Rule] the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire &s;hould have begun to Decline in Power, And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ndeed I &s;uppo&s;e it was &s;orely &s;haken, and the inhabitants po&s;&s;e&s;ed with fears that very year when the <HI>Turki&s;h.</HI> Army Be&s;ieged <HI>Vienna,</HI> and I believe that Number would have been more Effectual upon that Empire if the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Empire had not been E&s;tabli&s;hed under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> which was the &s;igne Oppo&s;ite to the &s;igne &Leo; wherein the three Conjunctions of &Saturn; and &Jupit; happned <HI>in</HI> 1682 and 1683. which gave the <HI>Tuki&s;h</HI> Army a terrible Repul&s;e according to my En&s;uing Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Empire.</HEAD>
<P>THis pre&s;ent Empire of the <HI>Turks</HI> was cheifly E&s;tabli&s;hed by <HI>Othomarn</HI> in 1289 under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in the airy &s;igne &Aquar; And therefore after &Saturn; and &Jupit; in 1682 and 1683 had made their Conjunctions in that lofty Regal high Spirited &s;igne &Leo; [the &s;igne oppo&s;ite to &Aquar;] the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">my was Vanqui&s;hed and by a terrible Repul&s;e at the Siege of <HI>Vienna,</HI> were forced to fly away, and in or about the Year 1742. The two &s;uperiour Plan|ets &Saturn; &Jupit; will again be in &conjunction; in the fiery &s;igne &Leo; under which it is prob|able that the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Army, will again have a very terrible Repul&s;e; and that
<PB N="5" REF="3"> that Empire will then be more wofully &s;haken, becau&s;e that conjunction will be after they have made their third Enterance into &Leo; (the Number three being counted a mo&s;t powerful Number,) But if the <HI>Turk</HI> be not then driven out of his Empire, perhaps the Lord may be plea&s;ed to give him a Pietious Vi&s;itation of his Love under that famous &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in that pious &s;igne &Sagitt; that will happen in or about the Year 1782 [before mentioned] it being the Conjunction of the 12 ingre&s;&s;e of the two Superious into that pious &s;igne&punc; &s;ince the Birth of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and then if that pre&s;ent <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Emperour harden not his Heart, he may be Ble&s;&s;ed for ever|more; for it is written I will give thee for a light unto the Gentiles that that thou mai&s;t be my &s;alvation unto the end of the Earth <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 49.6. The&s;e <HI>Turks</HI> were at fir&s;t a &s;mall People, and were Driven out of &s;everal places but at length they &s;ettled and (by the permi&s;&s;ion of God) Wonderfully encrea&s;ed and pro&s;pered.</P>
<P><HI>I. M.</HI> In his Cata&s;ta&s;is <HI>Mundi</HI> wrote that <HI>Ottoman</HI> fir&s;t Founded the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Empire in the Year of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> 12<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">9 and that if <HI>Saturns</HI> greate&s;t Years [465] be added to 1289. it will make 1754 therefore &s;aid he, this Monarchy &s;eems to &s;tand Firm and Stable no longer than unto the Year of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> 1754 which indeed agrees with my afore&s;aid Computations; for 1754 is a Year which is under the &conjunction; &Saturn; &Jupit; in 1742.</P>
<P>The Number 666 is the great Tabuler Number of the Sun, the mo&s;t Renouned Planet of Maje&s;ty; which is as a King or an Emperour a|mong the Stars.</P>
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<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>35</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
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<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
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<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>23</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
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<CELL>36</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>This &s;oler Table is wi&s;ely Com|po&s;ed of 36 Figures placed &s;quarewi&s;e and all the Figures in every Row and overthwart, do &s;trangly amount, to 111 which multiplied by 6 the product will be the great Tabuler Number of the Sun and of his a&s;trall Emperial Maje&s;ty, Wi&s;e Men have accounted this Table and Number of great vertue and E|e&s;&s;uacy and have &s;aid that the mo&s;t high created all things by Number Weight and Mea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Behold this &s;trange Table and ad all the Numbers together and you will find the total to be 666.</P>
<P>This great &s;olar Number of Maje&s;ty 666 may be thus applyed to the Num|ber of the bea&s;t, 666 [mentioned in in <HI>Reve.</HI> 13.18.] and the Number of
<PB N="6" REF="4"> his Name. for this Terrible Bea&s;t aro&s;e out of the Turbulent &s;ea or un&s;table Element of water of the Nature of the Lowe&s;t Planet, the <HI>Moon,</HI> but he &s;oon became magnificent and entered into terre&s;trial Glory and Splendour [compareable to the Glory and Maje&s;ty of the Cele&s;tial Sun, which God hath Ordained to Rule as a King or an Emperour among the &s;tars] and therefore all the World wondered after the bea&s;t: and I &s;uppo&s;e <HI>John</HI> him&s;elf, did not beleive nor expect, that this cruel Imperial Seven-headed Bea&s;t, would ever Per&s;onally appear in &s;uch a Prodigious &s;hape to Rule over Men or Saints, as he &s;aw him in the vi&s;ion, but rather my&s;ti|cally in Man, therefore this Number of the Bea&s;t is al&s;o the Number of a cruel Imperial Man: And as this horne Crowned cruel Imperial Bea&s;t was My&s;tically to appear in a cruel Imperial Man, <HI>viz,</HI> in &s;ome Man of Sin, and to Reign in that unity, as a King of Kings in Earthly Glory and Splendour, Comparable to the admirable Glory and Maje&s;ty of the A&s;tral King or &s;ublime Cele&s;tial Sun &s;o by his terre&s;tial Glory and Magnificence he Merited the Like Regal and Imperial Name of <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> who&s;e Number is 666 And by his Imperial <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> and Dragoni&s;h fury he made War, with the Saints, and overcame them And therefore he al&s;o merited the Name of <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> which is agreable with the Name of Bla&s;phemy Written on his Heads: &s;o that his Name is according to his evil Nature is [and may not improperly be called] <HI>Antichri&s;tain Maje&s;ty</HI> or <HI>The great and mighty, Bla&s;phemer,</HI> who Metaphoritally, was a terre&s;trial Sun who&s;e number is 666. <HI>Note. this cruel Bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t may al&s;o Externally be under&s;tood, and the fir&s;t Bea&s;t as well as the Second may be called</HI> Antichri&s;t, <HI>though the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cond &s;eemes cheifly to merit the &s;aid Name</HI></P>
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<CELL>&lgr;</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
</ROW>
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<CELL>&agr;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&tgr;</CELL>
<CELL>300</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&egr;</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&igr;</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&ngr;</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&ogr;</CELL>
<CELL>70</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&sfgr;</CELL>
<CELL>200</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">666</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><HI>John Napier,</HI> L. of <HI>Marchi&s;ton,</HI> conceived this Num+ber of the Bea&s;t 666 to be the Greek Name &lgr;&agr;&tgr;&egr;&igr;&ngr;&ogr;&sfgr; (for the Grecians made their Letters Numurals) which being thus placed and the Numbers ca&s;t up, the total will be the afore&s;aid Num+ber 666 and he &s;aid &lgr;&agr;&tgr;&egr;&igr;&ngr;&ogr;&sfgr; is not only the Name of a Man but tha Name of the fir&s;t <HI>Bea&s;t</HI> The Man which he meaned was King <HI>Latinus,</HI> and and the Fir&s;t Bea&s;t he &s;aid was the Latin Empire.</P>
<P>Now it is very Ob&s;ervable that the Chri&s;tian Religion, began to &s;pring up about the 15th. Year of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and was E&s;tabli&s;hed under the great Conjunction of &Saturn; &amp; &Jupit; in that Pious Regal &amp; Fiery &s;ign &Sagitt; <HI>Sagitarius,</HI> the Hou&s;e of Pious &Jupit; under which Conjunction, it plea&s;ed the Lord to work Wonders and to bring to pa&s;s many Miraclonus and wonderful Changes.</P>
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<P>And it is al&s;o very Ob&s;ervable that in the Year, 1603. there happened another great Conjunction of &Saturn; and &Jupit; in the Fir&s;t face of the &s;ame Pious, Regal and fiery Signe &Sagitt;, near the Scorpious Heart [a &s;tar of the &s;econd magnitude] of the Nature of <HI>Mars</HI> and pious Jupiter, Under which (according to my be&s;t Computation) there &s;prung up <HI>a</HI> certain Religion and a precious people in the North of <HI>England,</HI> appearing with Wonderful Zeal, in who&s;e Hearts, the fear of God was placed and the Mighty Power of God was felt, working &s;piritual changes, condemning pride and &s;ecret-&s;inns, leading many into &s;tates of humility and into the true &s;piritual Wor&s;hip, which Religion did not much &s;pread it &s;elf for many Years.</P>
<P>And in the Year 1642 there happened a Conjunction of &Saturn; &Jupit; in that Pious and watery Signe &Pisces; [the other Hou&s;e of Pious &Jupit;] under which Pious Conjunction, the &s;aid Religion wonderfully pro&s;pered and the Zeal of the &s;aid People was quickned and much admired, and their Pious conver&s;a&s;ions were &s;ufficient tokens to demon&s;trate that their Teach|er was Divine and &s;piritual and the &s;aid Religion began to over&s;pread the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> to the Admiration of many People, and to make a powerful entrance into diver&s;e other Kingdoms and Nations.</P>
<P>Moreover it is very Ob&s;ervable that in the Year, 1663 there happened a|nother Famous Conjunction of &Saturn; and &Jupit; In that Pious Regal and Fiery Signe &Sagitt; <HI>Sagittarus,</HI> which may not improperly be called a great Con|junction, becau&s;e it pa&s;&s;ed out of a watery Signe, into a Fiery: under which Famous Conjunction, The &s;aid Religion, Flouri&s;hed and more and more, over&s;pread the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> and more Powerfully took place in diver&s;e other Nations, &s;o that as the &s;aid Religion Sprung up at fir&s;t under the &conjunction; &Saturn; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> in that Pious con&s;tellation: even &s;o it hath pro&s;pered and flouri&s;hed under this &s;ame.</P>
<P>But many Slighting the day of Gods pretious vi&s;itation to their Souls went out of their fir&s;t tenderne&s;s and departed from the Power of God line&s;s and became &s;lothful and &s;leepy Re&s;ting, only in forms and forma|lities endeavouring to comprehend Divine My&s;teries (which are Chiefly Reveled through divine and Spiritual Judgments) from whence differences and Di&s;tractions aro&s;e &s;o that in the Year 1677 and 1678 when &Saturn; was tran&s;|iting the Signe &Gemini; [the &s;igne oppo&s;ite to that pious &s;igine &Sagitt;] and in &opposition; and &conjunction; &Mars; therein, the di&s;cords about the &s;aid Religon were very Great and Publick to the World and aro&s;e into a very high &s;tation of contention, and great di&s;tractions appeared, to the grief of many &s;ouls and they became &s;ubject to the Contentious Planets, and a&s;pects cau&s;ing
<PB N="8" REF="5"> the &s;aid Religion to appear infamous (which at the Begining was beau|tified with Holine&s;s) to the Great di&s;honour of God, and the impro&s;|perity of the &s;aid people in Grace and &s;piritual things.</P>
<P>And in the Year 1682 and 1683 there happned to be no le&s;s then 3 Conjunctions of &Saturn; and &Jupit; in that lofty high &s;pirited Regal and Firey &s;igne &Leo; <HI>Leo,</HI> (there happening a great Commet in one of the &s;aid Years which al&s;o &s;ucceeded that terrible Commet in 1680) under which three Conjunctions in this Lofty and high &s;pirited &s;igne, the di&s;cords about the &s;aid Religion Strangly encrea&s;ed, and lofty Di&s;putes aro&s;e (according to the Nature of the con&s;tellation) and they went into Divi&s;ions and &s;eparations e&s;pecially about the Year 1692 and 1693 when contentions &Saturn; had took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of that pious Sign &Sagitt; and from thence had 3 times vexed Pious &Jupit; with his three Oppo&s;itions who was then very weak in &Gemini; and like one turned out of his own habitation into a Wilder|ne&s;s, weeping, whil&s;t his Malicious enemy po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the Hou&s;e of his joy and glory and Fought again&s;t him wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> his own Weapons, ah poor &Jupit; de&s;pi&s;ed, and Forlorne, many Pious &s;ouls here on earth have &s;orely greived (if not Mourned) becau&s;e of thy De&s;o|lation and exile, but wait a little patiently, for thy next happy Conjunction with &Saturn; in thy own Pious habitation (which will happen in or about the Year 1722) that thou Mai&s;t plead With thy Enemy for Dealing &s;o Malicou&s;ly with thee.</P>
<P>Moreover in or about the Year, 1702 the two &s;uperiour Planets &Saturn; and &Jupit; will make their conjunction, in that hot&s;pirited Fiery &s;ign &Aries; [the hou&s;e of furious and Fiery Mars and the a&s;cendant of <HI>England</HI>] under which Conjunction it is probable there will ari&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> many hot and Furious di&s;putes [according to the Nature of the con&s;tellation] about &s;ome Principles of the &s;aid Religion (for &Jupit; contends wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &Saturn; about Religion, in what &s;ign &s;oever he is in conjunction with him) &s;o that I fear, the lord will &s;uffer the Di&s;tractions to be greater in <HI>England,</HI> e&s;pcially about the Year, 1707 or 1708 when Contentions &Saturn; tran&s;its the &s;ign &Gemini; [the &s;ign oppo&s;ite to that pious &s;ign &Sagitt;] and that &s;ome &s;ecret controver&s;ies will again be made publick to the World, unle&s;s the Lord either by a miracle he plea&s;ed to put a &s;top to it or many that are lofty and contentions de&s;cend into the Antient &s;tation of Humility and therein abide waiting for the Spiritual appearance of Chri&s;t in whom are hid all the trea&s;ures of Wi&s;dom and knowledge <HI>Colo&s;&s;.</HI> 2.3. for the <HI>Wi&s;e-Virgins</HI> are u&s;ually contented with their Spiritual enjoyments till through their Experiences a Right under&s;tanding of divine M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;teries is given. <HI>Note, though the Wi&s;e Virgins (under <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">his Conjunction) may be batte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed</HI> by <HI>the Fooli&s;h with much force and &s;ubtility about the &s;aid Yrar</HI> 1707 <HI>or</HI> 1708 <HI>Yet</HI> I <HI>conjecture they will begin and End Victoriou&s;ly.</HI></P>
<P>Again it is Ob&s;erveable that in or about the Year 1722 or 1723 the two &s;uperiour Planet &Saturn; and &Jupit; will be again in conjunction in the &s;ame pious Regal and Fiery &s;ign &Sagitt; (under which the &s;aid Religion Cheifely aro&s;e) under which I believe and Conject|ure the Lord [the the great Governour of Nature and of all Cele&s;tial motions of the Sphears and planets] will prune his Vine and cut of many of the &s;uperfluous lofty Branches, which have not yet ca&s;t down their worldly Magnificence, nor &s;aid thou art worthy O Lord to Receive glory and Honour and power, <HI>Reve.</HI> 4, 11. and he, will dre&s;&s;e it and beautify it again in the &s;ight of other profe&s;&s;ors and make it
<PB N="9" REF="5"> more famous, and will Rai&s;e up a more ardent Zeal in and among the Wi&s;e Virgins, and work a Reformation through the Spirit of Grace within: Now &s;hall &Jupit; that was &s;o much Grieved, De&s;pi&s;ed and Forlorne, in or about the Year, 1692 or 1693, begin to Triumph over his Adver&s;ary, and to Recover his lo&s;t fame, and Renown and the Wi&s;e Virgins will begin to hold up their heads and appear again in beauty, this is the appointed time wherein the Lord will begin to con&s;olate the Afflicted and he hath determined to do mighty things before the Conjunctions of the two Superiour Planets, (which are as the Lords In&s;truments) have made their Departure out of the Fiery Trigon into the Earthy, for ever &s;ince the Creation of the World, it hath plea&s;ed the Almighty God, to effect the mo&s;t Re|markable and mo&s;t Eminent Changes here o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Earth, and gradually to bring to pa&s;s the greate&s;t wonders under the Conjunctions of the two Superiour Planets in the fiery trigon (we being now under the 8 trigonicall Revolution incompleat and imperfect &s;ince the Cre|ation of the World) and when their Conjunctions [an hundred Years hence] have made their departure out of the Fiery trigon into the Earthy, they will not make their Appearance in the fiery trigon againe 'till many hundered Years are Expired.</P>
<P>But under this Conjunction of the two Superiours, about the Year 1737 or 1738, when &Saturn; begins to make another tran&s;it through the airy Sign &Gemini; Gemini [which is the Signe oppo&s;ite to &Sagitt;] the Lord will &s;uffer the Fooli&s;h Virgins to contend again with the Wi&s;e, and one with another becau&s;e of their Darkne&s;s and Di&s;obedience, therefore let the Wi&s;e Virgins be armed with his power that they may then be pre&s;erved in peace for God hath ordained a time to E|very purpo&s;e under Heaven <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes.</HI> 3.1.</P>
<P>But that which is mo&s;t Remarkable is this, that in or about the year 1782 the two Superiour Planets &Saturn; and &Jupit; will make another Famous Conjunction in that Pious Regal and Fiery Signe &Sagitt; which will be the Conjunction of their Twelfth ingre&s;&s;e into that Pious Signe &s;ince the birth of Chri&s;t (the Number Twelve being by wi&s;e Men cal|led divine) under which Conjunction and great Apo&s;tolick Num|ber (I Conjecture) the Lord will do very great things and per|fect a Reformation in the World and gather his People into a more perfect unity and Confound the fooli&s;h Virgins, who are apt to give
<PB N="10" REF="6"> offences to the Wi&s;e by which they are lyable to that Wo which Chri&s;t Proclaimed when he &s;aid Wo to that Man by whom the offence Cometh <HI>Matth.</HI> 18.7.</P>
<P>I &s;hall now make a great leap over many yeares to come and &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l only mention one event more, which may be Remarkable to po&s;terity: about 300 years hence the Conjunction of the two Superi|our Planets &Saturn; and &Jupit; will make their ingre&s;s into the airy trigon &amp; into the Sign &Gemini; [which is oppo&s;ite to that Pious Signe &Sagitt; under which the &s;aid Religion aro&s;e] under who&s;e Conjunction &amp; Conjunctions in the Signe &Gemini; the Lord, who hath given Motions to the admirable wheels of Nature hath preordained by their circulations, to let in a very great flood of afflictions upon the Profe&s;&s;ors of this Religion, for a Tryal of Their Faith, and a Grievous per&s;ecution (I Conjecture) will ari&s;e to overthrow the &s;aid Religion or to drive the profe&s;&s;ors thereof in|to Ob&s;curity and De&s;olation, and the Induction of &s;trange heri&s;yes will be known (unle&s;s the great Governour of Cele&s;tial motions Miraculou&s;ly prevent it, Therefore all that profe&s;&s;e the &s;aid Re|ligion in the&s;e our Days ought to pri&s;e the day of Gods Vi&s;itation and love unto their Souls, while the &s;torms are not &s;o Great, and as Wi&s;e Virgins to make their progre&s;&s;e towards the Lord out of pride and Sins that they may appear as lights to many that are in Darknes, and let them prai&s;e the Lord for Di&s;covering that Ble&s;&s;ed principle of Light, to them in their Days, who al&s;o works by the con&s;tellations and heavenly Bodys, as well as by his Spirit in man.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part"><!-- removed @N 'religious differences' -->
<HEAD>Of the Four Principal cau&s;es of <HI>Religious</HI> Differences.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> cau&s;e is from Su&s;pition Without Knowledge, from whence fal&s;e Judgments are given and un&s;avoury offences; corupt|ing and &s;evering the Chri&s;tian unity.</P>
<P N="2">2. The <HI>Second</HI> cau&s;e proceedeth from di&s;obedience to the Word and Spirit of God, through which the loftine&s;s of the Heart continues and the Rich are Re&s;pected above the Poor, by which the ardency of affections may be cooled and di&s;unity take Place.</P>
<P N="3">3. The <HI>Third</HI> cau&s;e, is for want of Divine Manife&s;tations through which many Scripture expre&s;&s;ions cannot be Comprehen|ded nor under&s;tood, from whence Differences in Opinions may often ari&s;e.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="11" REF="6">4. The <HI>Fourth</HI> cau&s;e proceeds from a Contrariety in nature, for every ones Nature is not alike, &s;ome Natures being very much dif|ferent and Incongruent, from whence ari&s;e diver&s;e cro&s;&s;ings and offences: And the cheife cau&s;e of contrariety in Nature is from the Circumrotation of the admirable wheels of Nature (which move through the Preordination of the great and wi&s;e Creator) in which he hath Fixed many l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ght bright and Admirable bodys (through which the Heavens Declare his Glory p&s;al, 19, 1.) which being of Diver&s;e Natures, do through their Daily &amp; ince&s;&s;ant Motions and preordi|nate circulations, cau&s;e a mixture of influences in the Supernall Regi|ons of the air, from whence proceed the love and enmity in his crea|tures here below, who hold a congruency or incongruency of Natures among them&s;elves, for if the Planet that Governs the Oriental Angle at the Birth of any per&s;on be located in a place oppo&s;ite to the Place of any other Planet that governs the Orientall angle (at the time of anothers birth the two Per&s;ons through a contrariety in Nature, will (to Admiration) very often Di&s;agree e&s;pecially if the Planet be either &Saturn; or &Mars;.</P>
<P>Though many know not the Rea&s;on why this is written and Pub|li&s;hed, yet if they, Rightly apply it, it may do them much good.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>A Short Song of the true Chri&s;tians or wi&s;e Virgins.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>OUR Burning lamps were fill'd with pretious Oyle,</L>
<L>When we that Joyful midnight cry had heard:</L>
<L>Our lofty foes did make us weep and wail,</L>
<L>When we upon our Hevenly cour&s;e had &s;tear'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Once <HI>I&s;rael</HI> For an earthly Kingdom Fought,</L>
<L>And were Victorious through their Valiant King</L>
<L>But we an everla&s;ting Kingdome &s;ought,</L>
<L>And of our Spir'tuall Victories can &s;ing,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="predictions for 1700" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>I &s;hall &s;hall now proceed to give my A&s;trological Judgments for this pre&s;ent Year <HI>1700.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE po&s;itions of the Heavens at the time of the Suns, ingre&s;&s;e in|to the <HI>Fir&s;t Minute</HI> of the Vernall Equinoctial Signe &Aries; &s;eeme
<PB N="12" REF="7"> to be wholly for Peace, and that <HI>England,</HI> will not be Mole&s;ted, nor encumbered with warrs but will this Year be in a &s;tate of much felicity, yet from &s;ome other po&s;itions of the Planets I am &s;omewhat afraid of &s;ome E&s;tival di&s;turbances, e&s;pecially in Ireland, though the greate&s;t troubles in <HI>Ireland</HI> I doubt will be in 1705 <HI>But Ho'lland</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;eem to be pretty free from Martial di&s;turbances till 1710 or 1711 but perhaps <HI>France</HI> may next year be threatned by a Forreigne enemy.</P>
<P>The Clergy &s;eem to be much di&s;&s;atisfyed in their minds, and to &s;et them&s;elves in oppo&s;ition again&s;t &s;ome other profe&s;&s;ors: The Planet &Saturn; is now making his long Voyage through the watery Signe &Pisces; along with the &southnode; which either this year or the next may cau&s;e &s;ome per|turbations and di&s;tractions, Blood&s;hed and much Mi&s;chief in many places E&s;pecially in <HI>Cilicia, Galatia, Normandy,</HI> and in <HI>Egypt,</HI> the higher, and perhaps <HI>France,</HI> and Particularly <HI>Paris</HI> may in &s;ome mea&s;ure par|ticipate of their portended Mi&s;chief, and there may al&s;o much Con|trover&s;y and debates ari&s;e concerning &s;ects and the appearance of &s;ome new here&s;y may take place. In <HI>January,</HI> the Planet &Saturn; goes out of &Aquar; into &Pisces; and perhaps &s;ome unu&s;ual &s;ight may then appear in the air: I expect the apparition of &s;ome comet within three or four yeers.</P>
<P>About the year 1702. or 1703. (after &Jupit; hath made his next con|gre&s;&s;e with &Saturn; in the fiery Sign &Aries; [the a&s;cendant of <HI>England</HI>] and al&s;o after &Saturn; hath moved pretty far therein, we &s;hall be&s;t know whether there will be Wars or Peace in <HI>England,</HI> if we can but e&s;cape a bru&s;h then, we may be happy and long re&s;t under the enjoyment of Peace and Tranquility: <HI>Sed O Anglia timeo ne multi ho&s;tes tune Exi&s;terent in te aut Contra, te Ergo cavit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> vos incolae &amp; praecipu~e cum tempus ad veniat &s;ed utcunque quaedam magnae Mutationes tunc expectentur vel &s;ubito po&s;tea,</HI> and where|as the &southnode; is exalted above &Saturn; in the Ninth hou&s;e, it Signifies the Death of old Men and of Monks and of Religious Men: al&s;o &Saturn; applying to the &southnode; at the time of the Suns vernall ingre&s;&s;e portends &s;ome &s;carcity of the Fruits of the earth yet by &s;ome other po&s;itions wheat &s;eems to be indi|fferent Cheap, all the latter half of the year, But the Po&s;itions of our Summer ingre&s;&s;e very much threaten Mi&s;carryages to Women with Child.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="7">
<P>The Kings and Princes of <HI>Europe,</HI> will this quarter be meditating about the &s;ea Affiairs, and &s;ometimes about the Religion of their &s;ub|jects, but they appear in great Splendour during the vernal and e&s;tival quarter, yet &s;eem to be &s;ome way Di&s;plea&s;ed and di&s;turbed in the Autumnal Quarter.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section"><!-- removed @N 'eclipses' -->
<HEAD>Of the <HI>ECLIPSES,</HI> of this pre&s;ent <HI>YEAR, 1700.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THERE will happen but two <HI>Eclip&s;es</HI> this Year and they will be both of the <HI>Moon;</HI> the fir&s;t will be on the twenty third day of <HI>February,</HI> at 36 minutes pa&s;t Six of the Clock in the Morning, this <HI>Eclip&s;e</HI> will be total and the begining of it may be vi&s;ible to tho&s;e that are willing to ri&s;e before the Sun Ri&s;eth (if the air be clear.) It portends the De&s;truction of &s;ome of our Enemyes and al&s;o of &s;ome great Drinkers or Drunkards, and a Mortality to many Chil|dren or young Folks, and it al&s;o threatens &s;ickne&s;s or much evil to many Coun&s;ellors, and &s;cribes, and &s;ignifies unfortunate Navigations and turbulent and pernitious winds, and perhaps in &s;ome Countrys it may cau&s;e an Earthquake. This Ecip&s;e will cheifly operate in tho&s;e Countrys, and Places that are Subject to the &s;ignes &Virgo; &Pisces; and &Aquar; but it threatens much evil to all Per&s;ons in General, who&s;e Ac&s;endants were the 15th. degree of &Virgo; (or &s;ome degree near it) at the time of their Births.</P>
<P>The Second will be an <HI>Eclip&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Moon</HI> on the 18th. day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> about 27 Minutes pa&s;t 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon; this will be a great <HI>Eclip&s;e</HI> but invi&s;ible to us, the <HI>Moon</HI> being Lady of the 8th. Hou&s;e and po&s;ited on the Cu&s;p of the third, and Religious &Jupit; being both Lord of the a&s;cendant and Lord of the <HI>Eclip&s;e</HI> and po&s;i|ted in &Capri; It hath an ill &s;ignification concerning the Vulgar &s;ort of People, and denotes Death and Di&s;truction to many of them, and to many Travellers and to &s;ome &s;ort of Profe&s;&s;ors of Religion e&s;pecial|ly in tho&s;e Countrys and places under, &Pisces; &Sagitt; and &Capri;, and al&s;o to Fi&s;hes in the Waters, but &Mars; being Lord of Sub&s;equent Angle and applying to the Cu&s;p of the a&s;cendant I fear it hath Relation to &s;ome future Di&s;turbances among&s;t Men E&s;pcially in tho&s;e Countrys and
<PB N="14" REF="8"> places under the &s;ignes &Sagitt; and &Gemini; This <HI>Eclip&s;e,</HI> will begin to operate mo&s;t Manife&s;tly about the middle of May in 1701.</P>
<P>The great Omni&s;cient Omnipotent and mo&s;t wi&s;e Creator, did not make the Sun Moon and Stars for Lights only, but for Diver&s;e Effects and purpo&s;es; wherefore he was plea&s;ed to give them power over the Natures of all Creatures in the air and Water and of all An|minals Vegetables and Minerals here on Earth, yet he hath not given away all his power to them, but as he hath been ever &s;o he is now and ever will be, the Almighty which Commandeth the Sun, and it Ri&s;eth not, and Sealeth up the Starrs, which alone &s;preadeth out the Heavens, and treadeth upon the Waves of the Sea, which maketh Arcturus, <HI>Orion, Pleiades</HI> and the Chambers of the South, which doth great things pa&s;t finding out, yea and wonders without Number <HI>Job,</HI> 9.7, 8, 9, 10. May he not &s;ay unto Man that hath Humane Wi&s;dom? can&s;t thou do any of tho&s;e mighty things? or can&s;t thou bind the &s;weete&s;t influences of Pleiades? or loo&s;e the bands of <HI>Orion?</HI> can&s;t thou bring forth <HI>Mazzaroth</HI> in his &s;ea&s;on? or can&s;t thou guide <HI>Arcturus</HI> with his Sonns <HI>Joh.</HI> 38.31, 32.</P>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 148 3</HI></BIBL>
<L>Prai&s;e him ye Heav'nly <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon,</HI></L>
<L>Prai&s;e him all ye Starres of Light:</L>
<L>Your Ri&s;ing, moving, going Down,</L>
<L>Glorifies him Day and Night.</L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="monthly observations">
<HEAD>Monthly Ob&s;ervation for every Month, this pre&s;ent Year <HI>1700.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV4 N="January" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>January's</HI> Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>MANY Clande&s;tine Con&s;ultations by &s;ome great Council or Parliament &s;eem to have been either in the preceed|ing Month, or may be about the begining of this: many Princes of Europe are now very Magnanimous and &s;hew them&s;elves in great Splendour and are acting and contriving for the Con&s;olation and profit of their Subjects, the City of <HI>Oxf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">d,</HI> is now much
<PB N="15" REF="8"> E&s;teemed and favoured and many of the Clergy; and &s;ome other Learned Men will Re&s;ort thither: &s;ome Potentate in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;eems to be &s;omewhat enraged at the threatenings or &s;ome Exa&s;perating Speeches of &s;ome great Potentate who&s;e a&s;cendant is &Scorp; we may now expect the &s;afe arrival of many Ships to their &s;everal Ports: &s;ome change of weather may be expected before the middle of the Month.</P>
<L><HI>E're this cold &s;hiv'ring Month hath taken leave,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of us, who here our earthly Dwellings have,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chronos and Ericina too conjoine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Moi&s;t'ning the earth with &s;now or &s;howers of Rain.</HI></L>
<P>towards the latter end of the Month</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="February" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>February's</HI> Ob&s;ervation.</HEAD>
<P>THIS Month &s;eems to produce Weighty con&s;ultations in Coun|cills, concerning the Militia, about which &s;ome Di&s;cords ari&s;e The main body of the Commonalty are now very well united to their head and are earne&s;tly endeavouring to get Money at home and abroad by their employments; the Seas &s;eem to be perilous for Merchants &s;hips: &s;ome danger of Lo&s;&s;es by private Thieve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> on the Roads cau&s;ing grief and trouble to Travellers. Snow or Rain about the 9th. 13th. 22d. 27th, Days.</P>
<L><HI>Now Du&s;ky Phaenon doth with Clouds Ob&s;cure,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Geat Titans glory, and his &s;plendour pure:</HI></L>
<L><HI>The lofty Heavens weep, their falling Tears,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wa&s;h clean the Earth's green morning gown &s;he weares.</HI></L>
<P>E&s;pecially about the 12th. Day of the Month</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="March" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>March's</HI> Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THE Potentates and Nobles of &s;ome Nations, e&s;pecially of the Nations that are under &Aries; and 69 &s;eem now to blame their Subjects, and to act &s;ome thing which the Vulgar will not like Great Men have wi&s;e heads now, with a great ideal of policy in them, the Seas are now very Perillous by Rea&s;on of Pyrots, Travellers may now
<PB N="16" REF="9"> Expect many affronts on the Roads by Thieves and highway Men. Men and their Wives differ much about the latter end of the Month, but I mean tho&s;e that are Naturally apt to be pa&s;&s;ionate; a probability of Rain about the 7th. 21&s;t. 30th. Days, and indeed the latter end of the Month is likely to produce much Rain.</P>
<L><HI>When I the Rays of my judicious Eye,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Had cast upon the &s;plendid lights on high,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I &s;aw &s;ome wond'ring, &s;ome in di&s;content,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some great ones under clo&s;e impri&s;onment.</HI></L>
<P>and &s;mall ones too, or at lea&s;t threatned.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="April" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>April's</HI> Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THE Con&s;ultations of this Month, in Councils, &s;eems to be Chiefly about Marine affaires; but they differ in their opini|ons, Sickne&s;&s;es and Di&s;tempers will Naturally &s;urprize many of the Vulgar &s;ort, e&s;pecially in the City of <HI>London,</HI> let them beware of too much carnality, le&s;t they &s;uffer for it by the Venereal di&s;temper: many Mercurial per&s;ons e&s;pecially in <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> are now &s;ome way furiou&s;ly affronted &s;ome probability of pretty high winds about the 12th. and 27th. Days, and of Hail or Rain about the 4th. 13th. 28th. Days</P>
<L><HI>Gradivus doth with Furious rays afflict,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Bright Noble <HI>Phaebus,</HI> doth him Contradict:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some Engli&s;h Hero on the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Ground,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I Fear's in danger of a &s;ecret wound.</HI></L>
<P>about the latter end of the Month.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="May" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>May's</HI> Ob&s;ervations</HEAD>
<P>IMpri&s;onment &s;eems to be threatned to &s;ome great Potentates (e&s;pecially in tho&s;e Countrys under &Taurus;) but the benigne a&s;pects of this Month do much favour the Commonalty, and give them the enjoyment of much love content and felicity, and curb that Spirit in them, that may &s;ometimes be ready to appear in Wrath, but
<PB N="17" REF="9"> their &s;ucce&s;s in trading will be but Ordinary: Rain near the begin|ing and end of the Month.</P>
<L><HI>Though Valiant Mars looks furious in an Angle,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As if he had a &s;mall intent to wrangle,</HI></L>
<L><HI>mild Venus doth old Saturne kindly gree</HI>t,</L>
<L><HI>Making Mars mild by Salutations &s;weet.</HI></L>
<P>So that he is &s;carce hot &s;pirited enough to fight</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="June" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>June's</HI> Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THE Planet Mars, was per&s;waded the la&s;t month to keep his Sword in his &s;heath, but I am half a fraid he wil draw him this Month, but <HI>Ireland</HI> is the Place chiefely threatned <HI>(Ergo Caveat Hybernia quoniam nunc illa inerit periculo magis quam multa alia adjacen|tia Regna)</HI> and &Taurus; [the a&s;endant of <HI>Ireland</HI>] is now furiou&s;ly a&s;cen|ding upon the &s;tage of the world, and &Mars; the Planet of Mi&s;chiefe is now preparing to make <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">his tran&s;migration over the degree oppo&s;ite to the a&s;cendant, if the heat of &Mars; be not Extingui&s;hed, it may break out into a flame about the latter end of this Month or the begining of the next, but there will be &s;everal treatyes to pre&s;erve Peace and I wi&s;h the animo&s;ityes of &s;ome Martial Spirits may not be too much incen&s;ed but rather cooled, by moderation and Rationable complian|ces: the Seas are now well enough cleared from Pyrots, many Whore|domes are now di&s;covered and the Partyes concerned impri&s;oned, a probability of Rain the 4th and 22d. day, and of Rain and Thun|der on the 2d 9th 19th. 30th. Day.</P>
<L><HI>Come Phaenon,</HI> Phaebus, Hermes, <HI>u&s;e your Wits,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That fierce Gradivus make no bloody hits,</HI></L>
<L>Phaebus <HI>and</HI> Hermes <HI>&s;pread your arms embrace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Stout Aris, let him &s;heath his &s;word In Peace,</HI></L>
<P>For that is his be&s;t place I think we have known wars enough already.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="July" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>July's</HI> Ob&s;ervations</HEAD>
<P>THE Vulgar &s;ort of People are now pretty much Grieved and driven into perturbations of mind, partly about the &s;ea affairs
<PB N="18" REF="10"> and lo&s;&s;es thereby and partly about &s;ome Kind of Religion which many will now be Zealous for, and they often di&s;cour&s;e about tho&s;e that be|long to the Council hou&s;e: &s;ome Superiours I fear will be in danger of Impri&s;onment, The Seas &s;eem now to be very perillous for Merchants Ships and partly by Rea&s;on of Pyrots; the Highways are al&s;o alittle dan|gerous for Travellers, by rea&s;on of Thieves. A probability of &s;ome Thun|der and Lightning near the 3d. 8th. 13th. 23d. Day: and of Rain on or about the 8th. 16th. 22d. 29th. Days.</P>
<L><HI>I wonder why great Titan &s;hould abu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Our pious &s;tar and put him in a mu&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>The learned Clergy &s;udden Changes &s;ee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yielding &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to &s;ome high Decree.</HI></L>
<P>perhaps before the middle of the month.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="August" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>Augu&s;t's</HI> Ob&s;ervations</HEAD>
<P>THE Furious Planet mars is once again got into the Council hou&s;e a little nearer to the cu&s;p, being lord both of the 10th. and 11th., hou&s;es, the learned in A&s;trology know that in the &s;igne and hou&s;e where he is now po&s;ited he u&s;ually creates contentions in councils with a great deal of fury, and their unde&s;tandings are &s;o good that by directing their ocular Rays to the Southerne part of the Zodiack, they can tell you that the fury proceeds partly from thence he that can under&s;tand it him. The Clergy in <HI>Oxford,</HI> and el&s;e where &s;eem now to be in better con|tent then in the la&s;t Month: but Merchants are now &s;ubject to lo&s;&s;es through Montanous Waves on the perillous Seas: The Commonalty in General are now Subject to many lo&s;&s;es Diver&s;e ways, yet &s;eem to go on in their bu&s;ine&s;s and Trading with exhilarated Spirits: many di&s;cour&s;es are now about the burials of the Dead, and the Taxes laid thereon, the likelye&s;t Days for Rain are the 24th. 16th. 18th. 21&s;t. 22d. 23d. Days, Thunder about the 10th. 22d. 26th. Days.</P>
<L><HI>Slow Falcifer is in the water creeping,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Sullen looks on Sol and Venus peeping:</HI></L>
<L><HI>We &s;ee the Rain and hear the Roaring Thunder,</HI></L>
<L><HI>(Which makes us at the Works of Nature Wonder</HI></L>
<P>After the middle of the Month but I fear it will make the Farmer a little &s;ad</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="September" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>September's</HI> Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THE proceedings in the Council hou&s;e &s;eem pretty &s;mooth yet not without a mixture of &s;ome Ruggedne&s;s through &s;ome di&s;contented Spirits: The Clergy in General (if not al&s;o &s;ome other Per&s;ons profe&s;&s;|ing
<PB N="19" REF="10"> Religion) &s;eem to be much Grieved and Di&s;&s;atisfied at &s;omething acted in Councils and they frown at &s;ome of the Vulgar, about &s;ome Re|ligious orders, and for &s;omething &s;poken or acted again&s;t them: and in-; deed it may be admired if &s;ome of both &s;orts &s;uffer, not by Impri&s;onment I am half a fraid of a con&s;piracy again&s;t &s;ome of the higher Powers, but fears po&s;&s;e&s;s the promoters of the Mi&s;chiefe intended, which perhaps may either fru&s;trate or weaken their de&s;igner There is now plenty enough of Wi&s;dom and Policy, though indeed Wi&s;dom is not always the Con&s;er|vatix of Peace and Love: <HI>Omnibus temporibus Dominum [Deum] ma|gis quam viros timeant Cuncti,</HI> The Seas now are very perillous for Mer|chants Ships, &s;ome danger of mi&s;carryages to Women with Child: a pro|bability of Rain at the begining and about the middle and al&s;o at the end of the of the month.</P>
<L>Phaebus <HI>and</HI> Hermes <HI>kindly do &s;alute,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Bright</HI> Phaeton, <HI>and with him both di&s;pute,</HI></L>
<L><HI>through wi&s;e and Fair entreatyes to a&s;&s;wage,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some pious fury and Religious Rage.</HI></L>
<P>'Tis well there are &s;ome pious peace makers, for I think there is need enough of them now, or may be about <HI>November.</HI></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="October" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>October's</HI> Ob&s;ervation</HEAD>
<P>SUperiours now &s;eem to be in very great Unity and Benevolence among them&s;elves, and have al&s;o pretty good affections towards their &s;ub|jects, yet are a little di&s;plea&s;ed, to hear that their &s;ubjects are &s;omewhat unwilling to pay &s;ome kind of Tax. Religion is the thing now much di&s;|cour&s;ed of in Councils, together with the Sea affairs: Impri&s;onment &s;eems to be threatened to &s;ome &s;ort of profe&s;&s;ors of Religion, and al&s;o to &s;ome Seamen. A probability of Rain or Hail about the 2.12. and 25 days</P>
<L><HI>Fair Ericina's pretty wanton Eyes;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chronos doth with his cloudy ma&s;k di&s;gui&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They drop Down tears, do &s;adly weep and wail.</HI></L>
<L><HI>We &s;ee them fall like Show'res of Rain or Hail.</HI></L>
<P>Chiefely about the begining of the month.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="November" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>November's</HI> Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>IMpri&s;onment &s;eems &s;till to be threatened to &s;ome of the nobler &s;ort of the commonalty, for words &s;poken again&s;t &s;ome Superiours which I fear will enflame the anger of a great Potentate again&s;t them; <HI>Ergo linguam Regat Ratio:</HI> The Clergy (if not al&s;o &s;ome other profe&s;&s;ing party) have
<PB N="20" REF="11"> not only been lately troubled but enraged by &s;ome great Ruler. The Seas are now very perillous for ma&s;ters of Ships and mariners partly by rea&s;on of Pyrots and I fear many mi&s;carryages will happen to Wo|men with Child: Good news arrives unto us out of Flanders Norway the Higher, <HI>Bavaria</HI> and <HI>Barbary,</HI> &s;ome likelihood of Rain or Snow about the 8th. 13th. and 22d. Days</P>
<L>Gradivus <HI>lately did with</HI> Jove <HI>contend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who humbly did to</HI> Mars <HI>greatne&s;s bend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He &s;till looks with a troubled Countenance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e he can't his purpo&s;es advance.</HI></L>
<P>What a deal of cro&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e is here about Religion and like to be</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="December" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>December's</HI> Ob&s;evations</HEAD>
<P>I am now beholding a pretty turbulent Face of Heaven: &s;ome mi&s;chievous con|&s;piracyes I fear are now in action and &s;ome &s;ecret evill de&s;ignes at hand: I am &s;orry I &s;ee occa&s;ions io write &s;o often of Impri&s;onments though it &s;eems to be threatned to &s;ome of the Vulgar (e&s;pecially about the latter end of the Month) who now &s;eem to be di&s;plea&s;ed, at &s;omething acted by &s;uperiours about Religion and weigh|ty di&s;cour&s;es and con&s;ultation are now in Councils about the Comonalty and the Sould|iers: beware of Robbers on the Roads in <HI>January</HI> next&punc; probability of Snow or Rain about the 5th. 19th. and 29th. or 30th. Day.</P>
<L><HI>Gradivus now &s;ees louring</HI> Phaenon <HI>walk,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Comes to him and with angry tongues they talk,</HI></L>
<L><HI>One Stamps in fury; &s;peaks a frowning word,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The other wi&s;hes for his naked &s;word.</HI></L>
<P>about the latter end of the month. one of them looks like one of the Council.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Per Coacervationem propo&s;itionum Dialecticae.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Per cau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">as <HI>&amp;</HI> Effectus</HEAD>
<P>A&s;trology gives &s;ome the foreknowledge of the times of future events.</P>
<P>Therfore knowledge of the times of future events, makes &s;ome to be admirers of the Wi&s;dom of God.</P>
<P>When &s;ome are admirers of the Wi&s;dom of God, they are induced to fear God,</P>
<P>When &s;ome are brought into the fear of God, they enter into lowlines of mind,</P>
<P>When they are brought into lowline&s;s of mind their actions are lawful and plea&s;ing to God.</P>
<P>Therefore A&s;trology is lawful and plea&s;ing to God, and many have been bene|fitted by it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>per tertam &s;yllogi&s;mi figuram.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>da</CELL>
<CELL>m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>rap</CELL>
<CELL>min</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ti</CELL>
<CELL>med</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>All Starry motions are certain</P>
<P>All Starry motions are depended on by Wi&s;e A&s;trologers to make predictions.</P>
<P>Therefore &s;ome predictious made by wi&s;e A&s;trologers are certain <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> if not varied by a miracle, but you mu&s;t have Re&s;pect to the word wi&s;e or well learned.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Per Enthynema</HI> in the&s;e following Ver&s;es.</HEAD>
<L>Semper &s;idereos motusait e&s;&s;e <HI>Johannes</HI></L>
<L><HI>Silve&s;ter</HI> certos, igitur per eo&s;que futuri,</L>
<L>Eventus certe nunc praedicantur ab illo.</L>
</DIV3>
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