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<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<PB REF="1">
<HEAD>Correct the&s;e Errours following.</HEAD>
<P>PAge 3. line 14. for <HI>this</HI> read <HI>thus,</HI> l. 15. for &Leo; 25. r. &Leo; 28. p. 12. for <HI>decanale</HI> r. <HI>decanate,</HI> p. 16. l. 5. for <HI>&s;ignification</HI> r. <HI>Significator,</HI> p. 17. for <HI>Bonal.</HI> r. <HI>Bonat.</HI> p. 18. l. 12. for <HI>Hilea</HI> r. <HI>Hi|leg.</HI> l. 24. <HI>dele</HI> &quadrine;, p. 20. l. 5. r. <HI>Oppo&s;ition of</HI> Saturn <HI>and Square of</HI> Ju|piter, l. ult. r. <HI>Plato</HI>'s, p. 21. l. 1. &amp; 2. for <HI>communicated to &s;ome</HI> r. <HI>advanced by others,</HI> l. 5. r. <HI>uratur,</HI> p. 28. l. 30. dele <HI>&s;equel.</HI></P>
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<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>VOX LUNARIS, BEING <HI>A Philo&s;ophical</HI> &amp; <HI>A&s;trological Di&s;cour&s;e</HI> OF Two MOONS Which were &s;een at LONDON And the parts Adjacent, <HI>June</HI> the Eleventh 1679. a little before Midnight.</P>
<P>And what may in a Cour&s;e of Nature be ex|pected from this <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI> in <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
<P>With &s;ome particular Remarques upon the Conjuncti|ons of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and of the Eclip&s;es in <HI>Ge|mini,</HI> &amp;c. for 120 years la&s;t pa&s;t.</P>
<P>By <HI>John Partridge</HI> Student in Phy&s;ick and A&s;trology.</P>
<Q LANG="lat">Tunc erunt &s;igna in <HI>Sole</HI> in <HI>Luna</HI> &amp; Syderibus.</Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>William Bromwich</HI> at the <HI>Three Bibles,</HI> over again&s;t St. <HI>Martins</HI> Church within <HI>Ludgate,</HI> 1679.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To all the Learned and Loyal Sons of <HI>Urania,</HI> and to all other Inquiring and Ingenious Lovers of Truth.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I have no better Argument to court your Ap|probation, and win your good Nature, then by making you both Ma&s;ters and Judges at once, of my unworthy Labours; I well know|ing that Ingenious men cannot be unkind; but if they &s;hould chance to be &s;o, it is not their Na|ture, and therefore not dureable. However, I will adventure to pre&s;ent you with this <HI>Mani|pulus benevolentiae,</HI> in which you may &s;ee both the de&s;ire and endeavour of,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gentlemen your Servant and well wi&s;her <HI>John Partridge.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Hone&s;t, Ingenious and Chri&s;tian READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> do not here intend to per&s;wade thee to believe that the&s;e <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI>'s are the cau&s;es of any natural effect in the World; or that they do produce any thing by Sym|pathetical operation, either upon Men or Things, as other Configurations of the Heavens do; for tho&s;e things act and work by a natural impul&s;e, inclining the &s;en&s;itive part of a man to action; hence their effects are more or le&s;s vi&s;ible according as the Rational Soul, is either active or pa&s;&s;ive, for <HI>Agunt non Cogunt,</HI> and in this point man u&s;eth the freedom of his will, according as he is in&s;pired by a Natural Vertue or the Divine Grace (chu&s;e you by which name you will call it) for a mans fate is not bound to the Stars as &s;ome think, for they do but work upon the &s;en&s;es and incline, yet &s;o &s;trongly in &s;ome who are of depraved and vicious nature, that they are not able to re&s;i&s;t it; hence we may ob&s;erve, that he who hath his <HI>Moon</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> &s;trong, and in good <HI>A&s;pect</HI> with <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> hath a natural command of his will, which others have not; there|fore the contention of the Naturals with the Supernaturals, (or as St. <HI>Paul</HI> words it, <HI>the Fle&s;h and Spirit</HI>) cau&s;eth tho&s;e dolorous Pa&s;&s;ions of the mind, which being conquered, prove the be&s;t of plea&s;ures; and of the&s;e kind of concu&s;&s;ions <HI>Plato</HI> &s;peaks in his Dialogue, <HI>Philebus vel de &s;ummo bono,</HI> when
<PB REF="3"> he &s;aith, <HI>&s;unt igitur mixtiones corporis quidem ip&s;ius in Corporibus, animae &amp; anima, &amp; dolores animae &amp; corp&ograve;ris voluptatibus mixtos reperiemus; eamque utrorumque commixtionem interdum voluptatem, in|terdum vero dolorem Cognominatum,</HI> that there are divers mixtures of the body exi&s;tent, that of the body in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ody, that of the Soul in the Soul, and the dolors of the Soul and Body we &s;hall find mixt with plea&s;ures; and either of them or the commixtion of both, are &s;ometimes called plea&s;ure, and &s;ometimes pain.</P>
<P>But the&s;e kind of Apparitions, as, <HI>Parelii, Para&s;elene</HI> and <HI>Comets,</HI> are but the Amba&s;&s;adors of Nature, being &s;ent by the Superiour Powers to tell the World that God is angry, which <HI>Dubartas</HI> thus ob&s;erveth,
<Q><LG>
<L>On th' other &s;ide, if the Cloud &s;ide long fit,</L>
<L>And not beneath or ju&s;tly oppo&s;ite;</L>
<L>To <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon,</HI> then either of them forms,</L>
<L>With &s;trong <HI>A&s;pect</HI> double or treble forms.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Upon the &s;ame the Vulgar's then affright,</L>
<L>To &s;ee at once three Chariots of the Night.</L>
<L>And in the <HI>welkin</HI> on nights gloomy throne,</L>
<L>To &s;ee at once more &s;hining <HI>Moons</HI> then one.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>And a little after thus.
<Q><LG>
<L>God the great God of Heaven &s;ometimes Delights</L>
<L>From top to toe to alter natures Rites.</L>
<L>And his &s;trong works to Nature contrary,</L>
<L>May be fore-runners to &s;ome Mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<PB REF="3">
<P>And indeed this is not much unlike that of <HI>Herodotus</HI> the Philo&s;opher, who &s;aith, <HI>That when God intended to puni&s;h a City or Nation, he fir&s;t &s;hews them his De&s;ign by Prodigies and Apparitions, that he may leave them inexcu&s;able, under the &s;courge of their &s;ins</HI>&mdash; for &mdash;. <HI>Loquitur cum hominibus Deus non modo Lingu&acirc; huma|n&acirc; per Prophetas, Apo&s;tolas &amp; Pa&s;tores &s;ed non nun|quam etiam ip&s;is Elementis in formas &amp; magines diver|&s;as Compo&s;itis,</HI> i. e. God doth not only teach us by the mouths of his Prophets, Apo&s;tles and Pa&s;tors, but &s;ome|times by Elementary Me&s;&s;engers, compo&s;ed into divers Forms and Images. For when the cour&s;e of nature is changed, it is not to inform the Superior, but the Inferior World, for man is made as well for Speculation as Contemplation, and therefore what Preternatural &s;ights are afforded either in Heaven or Earth is de&s;igned for mans in&s;pection, and by how much the more they differ from the u&s;ual cour&s;e of nature, by &s;o much the more they are to be taken notice of; and <HI>Hippo|cratis</HI> (the <HI>princeps Medicorum</HI>) in his Book <HI>de In&s;omniis,</HI> hath a Learned Di&s;cour&s;e of Dreams, of the <HI>Sun, Moon</HI> and <HI>Stars,</HI> which if they appear in their natural quality, cour&s;e and motion, they then &s;ignifie Health, but if other|wi&s;e the contrary, <HI>Vide in libro citato:</HI> Yet indeed the&s;e are no new things, for Hi&s;tory is fertile with Pre&s;idents and examples of this, as you may find in Hi&s;tory.</P>
<P><HI>Anno 1551.</HI> at <HI>Antwerp</HI> were three <HI>Suns</HI> &s;een, and twice two <HI>Mock-Moons;</HI> after it the Duke of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> was Beheaded, great Di&s;putes in <HI>Germany</HI> about Religion, and the <HI>French</HI> Invade the Empire.</P>
<P><HI>Anno 1553.</HI> three <HI>Suns</HI> appeared, and after <HI>Sun</HI>-&s;et three Moons, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Papi&s;ts and Prote&s;tants Di&s;|pute
<PB REF="4"> about Religion, and Queen <HI>Mary</HI> comes to the Crown.</P>
<P><HI>Anno 1622.</HI> there were three <HI>Suns</HI> &s;een, and divers Circles about the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon,</HI> what Calamities then fell upon the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> &s;ome yet living have cau&s;e to la|ment; many more examples of this kind might be pro|duced, but they being more proper for a Treati&s;e then a Preface, I forbear to trouble you with any more of the&s;e in this place, and &s;o I leave this following Treati&s;e to be Read and Cen&s;ured as the Ingenious Reader &s;hall think fit, de|&s;iring him to remember, <HI>With what mea&s;ure you meet,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>From the Corner of</HI> James-&s;treet, <HI>next door to the</HI> Kings-head <HI>in</HI> Covent-Garden, <HI>where A&s;tro|logy is Studied and Practi&s;ed in all its parts</HI></P>
<BYLINE>By <HI>John Partridge.</HI></BYLINE>
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<PB N="1" REF="4">
<HEAD>AN A&s;trological Di&s;cour&s;e OF Two MOONS Which were &s;een the Eleventh day of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, a little before Midnight.</HEAD>
<P>NExt to the Holy Writ, Phylo&s;ophy (Speculative and Practical) is the only means to let us know, that God hath left a lively In&s;cription of his Finger upon all his works; not Graphical by a Literal Compo&s;i|tion of Letters or Characters; but My&s;tical, of the &s;everal forms, orders and con&s;titutions of things, which aptly and duely put together Spells all the effects of nature, &mdash; as &mdash; Number, Mea|&s;ure, Weight, Quantity, Quality, Matter, Form, Privation, Ge|neration, Corruption, Motion, Re&s;t, Soul, Body, Life and Death, and after the &s;ame Pylo&s;ophical method, though in a more holy &s;en&s;e, the Wi&s;e, Omnipotent calls the Stars by their Names; and by the &s;ame My&s;tical order did <HI>Adam</HI> give each Creature a name peculiar to its nature in Paradice, and nature doth then mo&s;t vi|&s;ibly &s;hew the Trea&s;ures of her fertility, when &s;he doth unbo&s;om her &s;elf to the whole World by diver&s;ities of <HI>Phaenomina</HI>'s, who&s;e nature and effects are only examinable by Natural Phylo&s;ophy, and therefore take this &s;hort account of their generation and
<PB N="2" REF="5"> and exi&s;tence, before I come to &s;peak in particular to the A&s;tro|logical effects hence depending.</P>
<P>The cau&s;e and generation of the&s;e <HI>Mock-Moons,</HI> is the &s;ame with the <HI>Parelii</HI> or <HI>Mock-Suns;</HI> for as the <HI>Mock-Suns</HI> are called <HI>Parelii</HI> from <GAP DESC="foreign"> and <GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;o the&s;e are called <HI>Para&s;elene</HI> from <GAP DESC="foreign"> and <GAP DESC="foreign">; and although this is not &s;o much taken notice of as the <HI>Parelii</HI> (it being an accident of the le&s;&s;er Luminary) yet it is from the &s;ame Cau&s;e, of the &s;ame Nature, though le&s;s forcible in effect, and of the &s;ame name al&s;o the particulars con&s;idered, they being both the effect of Refraction, Reflection, who&s;e &s;ub|ject matter is a Cloud that is thick, plain and watery, and the Air quiet and free from Wind; for a turbulent Air di&s;&s;ipates the matter that produceth the Reflection, and this is the &s;econd of this kind of <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI>'s that have been &s;een &s;ince <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> la&s;t, the fir&s;t of which was &s;een the &s;ixth day of <HI>January</HI> about Eleven of the Clock at Night, and was ob&s;erved by divers &s;ufficient men of <HI>Hereford,</HI> but e&s;pecially by Mr. <HI>Mathews</HI> a very Ingenious Gentle|man; the la&s;t of the&s;e hapned the Eleventh of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, a little, before Midnight: But be&s;ides the&s;e two <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI>'s, there were al&s;o two others before of the <HI>Sun</HI> &s;een in <HI>England;</HI> the fir&s;t of which hap|pened the 28th. day of <HI>July</HI> about Eight of the Clock in the Morn|ing, and was &s;een in <HI>Oxford&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Northampton&s;hire;</HI> Thus the true <HI>Sun</HI> had on each &s;ide of it another like it with a Circle pa&s;|&s;ing through the Center of the two <HI>Mock-Suns,</HI> and a right Line pa&s;&s;ing through them all three.</P>
<P>The other happened <HI>October</HI> the 10 day about four in the After|noon, and was ob&s;erved at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> the true <HI>Sun</HI> being Be&s;ieged by two fal&s;e ones, and one of them exceeded the true one in Light and Glory: Upon this occa&s;ion I took the pains to write a few Sheets upon the then pre&s;ent Affairs, and what might in a cour&s;e of nature be expected the Winter following, but Autho|rity would not afford me the Liberty of the Pre&s;s, and &s;o my Labours were doom'd to Oblivion; but of the&s;e former ones I have given a better Account in my <HI>Almanack</HI> for 1680, and thi|ther do I refer my Reader for further &s;atisfaction, and ha&s;ten to my A&s;trological Di&s;cour&s;e upon this <HI>Phaenomenon,</HI> deduced from a
<PB N="3" REF="5"> Figure erected to the middle of their appearance as near as can be gotten from tho&s;e divers relations of its Spectators, that is 50 Minutes after Eleven of the Clock at Night.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<HEAD>Figura Caeli ad tempus Para&s;alence. ad <HI>Jun.</HI> 11. hor. 11. min. 50 M. P. 1679. &Moon; a &trine; &Venus; ad &quadrine; &Mars;</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>depiction of the configuration of planets at a certain date and time</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Longitu. Solis</CELL>
<CELL>&Cancer;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">A&s;cen. Rec.</CELL>
<CELL>&Sun;</CELL>
<CELL>90</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">A&s;cen. Recta temporis</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>165</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">A&s;cen. Rect. M. C. add. 90</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>257</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Obli. A&s;en. A&s;cen.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>357</CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Longitudo Planetorum</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Saturn;</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>&Gemini;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="6">all direct.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Jupit;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>&Taurus;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Mars;</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>&Virgo;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Sun;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>&Cancer;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Venus;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>&northnode;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Merc;</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>&Gemini;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&Moon;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>35</CELL>
<CELL>&Sagitt;</CELL>
<CELL>Lat. So. 3^d 14</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<PB N="4" REF="6">
<P>I have the rather taken this pains at this time, becau&s;e his <GAP DESC="foreign"> happened &s;o unhapily upon the <HI>Suns</HI> entrance into <HI>Cancer,</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>Northern</HI> point of the whole <HI>Zodiack,</HI> and the <HI>Stars</HI> &s;o unfortunately placed as you may &s;ee: <HI>Saturn</HI> is in <HI>Conjunction</HI> with the <HI>Sun,</HI> and both in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the <HI>Medium Caeli,</HI> the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Conjunction</HI> with the <HI>Scorpions heart</HI> in <HI>Square</HI> to <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Mercury, Jupiter</HI> in the <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> in <HI>partile Square</HI> to <HI>Venus</HI> in the &s;ixth hou&s;e, and <HI>Mercury</HI> Lord of the fourth, in <HI>Square</HI> to <HI>Mars</HI> Lord of the fir&s;t and eight.</P>
<P>With the&s;e con&s;ider al&s;o the double bodied <HI>Signs, Saturn</HI> af|flicts the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Gemini,</HI> a double bodied <HI>Sign,</HI> the <HI>Moon</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> are both afflicted in double bodied <HI>Signs,</HI> by <HI>Mars</HI> Lord of the eight hou&s;e and <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> a <HI>Bicorporeal</HI> Sign a&s;cends the <GAP DESC="foreign">, hence may an ordinary A&s;trologer with little con&s;ideration give a rational &s;atisfactory judgment upon this Figure, as it concerns the general Affairs the next &s;ix months &s;ucceeding and more, which will afford matter enough for the Actors and Spectators of this Tragy-comedy to gaze at: For the World is but the va&s;t univer&s;al Theater, and men and women the Puppets with which the Fates &s;port them&s;elves.
<Q LANG="lat">Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus.</Q></P>
<P>This en&s;uing Judgment may be divided into two Parts, as it were under two Heads, <HI>viz. General</HI> and <HI>Particular.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t</HI> in <HI>General,</HI> the fir&s;t thing con&s;iderable is <HI>Saturn</HI> in the fourth hou&s;e ca&s;ting his <HI>Square</HI> to the <HI>A&s;cendant,</HI> and his <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the tenth, and by his proximity afflicts the <HI>Sun,</HI> this old Gentle|man <HI>Saturn</HI> in this Figure performs the place and bu&s;ine&s;s of a common incendiary, he whi&s;pers to one, and he writes to another, and indeed he di&s;turbs the peace of all, &s;ure he &s;hould be a <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> or one indued with &s;uch principles by his action and endeavour, here he di&s;turbs the minds of Nobles, he poi&s;ons the hearts of the people, and he &s;ets them again&s;t their Superiors; for here you &s;ee he is in direct <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the tenth hou&s;e, the hou&s;e of digni|ty, and if there be difference between his <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> and the tenth hou&s;e, it is yet applying by rea&s;on of his Latitude, but yet as <HI>Saturn</HI> and the <HI>Sun</HI> are the only <HI>Stars</HI> angular in this Figure, and
<PB N="5" REF="6"> both within <HI>Orbs</HI> of the <HI>Sextile</HI> of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> &s;o there &s;hall be &s;ome who on the other &s;ide will u&s;e their utmo&s;t endeavour to pre&s;erve Peace and &s;ecurity, to prevent dangers, and pre&s;erve their Prince in &s;afety, as <HI>Guido Bonat.</HI> well ob&s;erves <HI>part.</HI> 4. <HI>chap.</HI> 59.</P>
<P>In the Preventional New <HI>Moon Saturn,</HI> was directly oppo&s;ite to his place here, and the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon</HI> al&s;o upon the place of the la&s;t <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> ha&s;ting to a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> in the tenth Hou&s;e; and at the ingre&s;s of the <HI>Sun</HI> into <HI>Cancer</HI> they were both in <HI>Conjuction</HI> upon the Cu&s;p of <HI>M. C.</HI> Hence I am of Opinion that there will be &s;till &s;trange Devices and In|tentions both again&s;t Princes and their Government: But for their Incouragement I can tell them, that the <HI>Moon</HI> is in <HI>Con|junction</HI> with the <HI>Seorpions heart,</HI> in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Mercury,</HI> and <HI>Square</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> Lord of the eight Hou&s;e, and <HI>Saturn</HI> the great Patron of this work is afflicted by Combu&s;tion in the fourth Hou&s;e. Mars Lunae <HI>tetragonis aut oppo&s;itis radiis Configuratus in</HI> Signis <HI>humanis Seditione, Bello, aut propria Manu Natos interficien|das decernit:</HI> Thus Argul. Cor. Scorpio <HI>cum</HI> Luminaribus <HI>cruentam mortem &s;ignificat,</HI> Origan. 723. Saturnus Soli <HI>junctus Lapidationem, Strangulationem, vel Suffocationem Igne vel Aqua portendit: Item amputationem Capitis, Su&s;pendium,</HI> &amp;c. Ptolo. Par. Fol. 137. In <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> thus, <HI>Mars</HI> Configurated by <HI>Square</HI> or <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the <HI>Moon</HI> from humane <HI>Signs,</HI> it &s;hews &s;ome &s;hall be &s;lain by Sedi|tion, by War, or by their own Hand; al&s;o the <HI>Cor. Scorpio</HI> with the <HI>Luminaries</HI> &s;ignifies a violent Death: And la&s;tly, <HI>Saturn</HI> joyn'd to the <HI>Sun,</HI> doth portend Stoning, Strangling, or Suffocation by Fire or Water; al&s;o Beheading, Hanging, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Let the Vul|gar cea&s;e their Murmurs, for the Governours not only of our Kingdom, but of others too, will u&s;e their utmo&s;t endeavours, not only to prevent future mi&s;eries, but al&s;o to puni&s;h fal&s;e offences; and to this purpo&s;e and end it is the happine&s;s of <HI>England</HI> to have an e&s;tabli&s;hed Law, Judicious and Learned Judges, a Di&s;|creet Loyal Parliament, a Wi&s;e Council, and a Merciful Gracious Prince.</P>
<P><HI>Saturn</HI> in this Figure per&s;onates Religious men of the <HI>Ro|man</HI> Church: and I am of the Opinion that the effect of this Fi|gure
<PB N="6" REF="7"> will appear in matters of that nature and quality, that is in reference to their quiet or di&s;quiet, being or bani&s;hment, life or death, and not only of them, but of their Friends and Favorers al&s;o; <HI>Saturn</HI> is here in the la&s;t degrees of <HI>Gemini:</HI> And <HI>Bethen</HI> &s;aith, <HI>That a</HI> Planet <HI>in the la&s;t degrees of a</HI> Sign, <HI>is as a man falling from his former e&s;tate,</HI> Apho. 22. <HI>and</HI> Apori. 25.</P>
<P><HI>Jupiter</HI> the great Patron of the Clergy, is almo&s;t in <HI>Sextile</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Saturn;</HI> the Governours and Rulers of Kingdoms and Nations will adhere to the Churchmen and Lawyers, and will confirm them in their Rites and Priviledges. Yet <HI>Venus</HI> who hath dignities in the <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> and by that &s;he hath &s;ome &s;igni|fication of the Commonalty of Kingdoms, and &s;he al&s;o depo&s;eth of <HI>Jupiter</HI> in the fir&s;t; hence there will be differences about pro|perties, and great debates and di&s;putes concerning the priviledges of men and Societies, and in the conclu&s;ion it will &s;carce appear to have been worth their while.</P>
<P>The <HI>Moon, Venus</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> are of one party, and <HI>Jupiter; Sol</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> of the other, and according to their &s;trength and power &s;o will the effects in the&s;e affairs be, which I judge will happen this time to the <HI>Moon, Venus</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> after much &s;truggling and contention; and while the&s;e two parties are con|tending, <HI>Saturn</HI> is undermining of them both by &s;ecret Coun|cils and Clande&s;tine De&s;igns. God pre&s;erve us from Popi&s;h Plots, (in good earne&s;t) about <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> and the latter end of <HI>September,</HI> and al&s;o from Murders and Treacherous Actions.</P>
<P>Some Amba&s;&s;ador, Agent, or rather Mini&s;ter of State imploy|ed in Forreign Affairs, &s;eems to be que&s;tioned about his neglect, or ill performing his bu&s;ine&s;s; the matter is managed with great force and violence, but in the end it will appear not to be &s;o bad as was &s;uppo&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>Mars</HI> being indeed Lord of the <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> principally, as having his day hou&s;e <HI>Aries</HI> wholly incercepted there, will after much de|bate turn the Scene of Affairs wonderfully; yet <HI>Jupiter</HI> in re|ception with the <HI>Moon</HI> will bear as great &s;way as any of them, if not all; and tho&s;e who are per&s;onated by <HI>Jupiter</HI> will be the only and effectually active for &s;ome Months, and who tho&s;e are,
<PB N="7" REF="7"> may be ea&s;ily known, if you con&s;ider what Hou&s;e he is Lord of; the <HI>Angle</HI> he is in, and the <HI>Moon</HI> he is in Reception with; and if you ob&s;erve, <HI>Jupiter</HI> hath but one enemy in the whole Figure, and that is <HI>Venus</HI> who is in <HI>Trine</HI> to the <HI>Moon</HI> from regal fiery <HI>Signs.</HI> If the <HI>Reader</HI> plea&s;es to ob&s;erve what Hou&s;e <HI>Venus</HI> is Lady of, he may &s;oon gue&s;s at the cau&s;e of this difference, <HI>divitiae di&s;cordiam faciunt,</HI> or in <HI>Ovid</HI>'s term, <HI>irritamenta malorum.</HI></P>
<P>And as <HI>Venus</HI> is Lady of the &s;econd and &s;eventh Hou&s;es, and in <HI>Square</HI> to <HI>Jupiter</HI> in the fir&s;t from fixed <HI>Signs,</HI> this &s;hews tena|cious differences, and that about Money and Priviledges; the <HI>Cauda draconis</HI> in the fir&s;t Hou&s;e, will be the cau&s;e of much Sorrow, Evil and Poverty to &s;ome Countries and People in <HI>Europe;</HI> Good and Hone&s;t men are Abu&s;ed and Scoft at by the ba&s;e and inferior rabble.</P>
<P>The&s;e kind of <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI>'s or Apparitions never happen, but they pre&s;age &s;ome hurry or &s;torm in the World, as we have had large experience of within a few Months: And a Learned Philo&s;opher gives this account of their effects. <HI>Pluvias naturaliter &s;ignificat, ob copiam humoris in nubibus comprehen&s;am, Politice denotat magnum conflictum aut Cladem.</HI> That there will in &s;ome Country be diffe|rence, both Popular and Private, is without Controver&s;y; but with what kind of cloak the babe &s;hall be covered I will not di&s;|pute, but this I am &s;ure, that every threed of the whole garment will be lined with Religion, and things of that make and nature: And that I may prove A&s;trologically what I have here &s;aid. Ob&s;erve.</P>
<P>That <HI>Jupiter</HI> who is Lord of the ninth, is al&s;o Lord of the <HI>A&s;|cendant</HI> in the <HI>A&s;cendant,</HI> and di&s;po&s;eth of the <HI>Moon</HI> who is but ju&s;t removed out of the ninth Hou&s;e, and <HI>Mercury</HI> who is Lord of the &s;eventh and di&s;po&s;itor of <HI>Saturn,</HI> is in direct <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the <HI>Moon</HI> and Cu&s;p of that Hou&s;e al&s;o; and <HI>Mars</HI> who di&s;po&s;eth of the <HI>Dragons Tail,</HI> was in <HI>Square</HI> to the <HI>Moon</HI> during her pa&s;&s;age through the ninth Houth, and during the fir&s;t half of the time of the appearance of this <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI> the <HI>Moon</HI> was wholly and locally in the ninth Hou&s;e, and al&s;o the <HI>Moon</HI> who was but a few Minutes before in the ninth Hou&s;e, is in Reception with <HI>Jupiter</HI> the Lord thereof, and he the great Patron of Religion, and the la&s;t <HI>Con|junction</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="8"> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter, anno</HI> 1663. was upon the Cu&s;p of the ninth Hou&s;e in this Figure, and the <HI>Moon</HI> at that great <HI>Conjunction</HI> was in <HI>Gemini,</HI> and in this Figure &s;he is in the ninth in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to her di&s;po&s;itor in that: Hence it may appear to any who is A&s;trologically Learned, that the effects of this <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI> prin|cipally will di&s;cover it &s;elf in rai&s;ing up the &s;pirits of all &s;orts of Di&s;&s;enters from our Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed by Laws, to the unhappy di&s;turbance thereof: And that &s;uch Configurations have former|ly &s;o done (though ble&s;&s;ed be God without advantage to tho&s;e who have aimed at its ruine) will manife&s;tly appear by this A&s;tro|logical Hi&s;tory following. And fir&s;t con&s;ider whether <HI>Saturn</HI> doth not cau&s;e &s;ome hurry and mole&s;tation about Religion in the World the fifteenth year always after his <HI>Conjunction</HI> with <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and perhaps this may better &s;atisfie the Reader, if he con&s;iders the years 1578, 1598, 1618, 1638, 1658. and la&s;tly the year 1678. with what <HI>A&s;pects</HI> then happened, relating to the &s;everal Coun|tries according to the place where their <HI>A&s;pects</HI> happen, and that when they chance to fall in <HI>Gemini, Sagitarius, Aries</HI> or <HI>Libra</HI> with their <HI>Quadrangles,</HI> they concern <HI>England,</HI> and particular|ly when their <HI>A&s;pects</HI> happen in humane <HI>Signes,</HI> they then work upon men, and their actions at home; but if in <HI>Quadrupedian Signes,</HI> then their effects are Extraneous and Forreign; but of this matter &s;ome examples will more perfectly illu&s;trate the Di&s;|cour&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1563. In <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> there was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Cancer,</HI> after which followed that third Bloody War in <HI>France</HI> about Religion; and the Dukes <HI>d' Alva</HI> made horrible work in the <HI>Low Countries:</HI> And the Ma&s;&s;acre in <HI>France</HI> &s;uceed|ed al&s;o.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1578. Being 15 years after the <HI>Conjunction, Saturn</HI> came to the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> hereof, and <HI>Mars</HI> was that year in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> in <HI>Quartile</HI> to <HI>Saturn</HI> and in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Jupiter</HI> and the <HI>Sun.</HI> Pope <HI>Gregory the</HI> 13. Con&s;pired with the <HI>Spaniards</HI> to Depo&s;e Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and to re&s;tore the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Religion; and to this pur|po&s;e one <HI>Stukely,</HI> an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Fugitive, was &s;ent with 800 <HI>Ita|lians</HI> to Invade <HI>Ireland,</HI> and joyn there with the Popi&s;h Rebels who in 1579. did many Murders.</P>
<PB N="9" REF="8">
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1581. <HI>Edmond Campian</HI> the Je&s;uit was Executed, with others, and new Laws made again&s;t the Papi&s;ts; <HI>Mars</HI> that year did tran&s;ite <HI>Gemini,</HI> and in <HI>July, Mercury</HI> in <HI>Leo</HI> pa&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> in <HI>Aquarius.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1583. There was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> and in <HI>July Mars</HI> being in <HI>Virgo,</HI> pa&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of them both; and &s;hortly after <HI>Francis Throckmorton</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> was Executed for contriving the death of the Queen, and &s;hortly after <HI>William Parrey,</HI> for a Fact of the &s;ame kind, together with a horrid Plot (di&s;covered by one <HI>Creighton</HI> a <HI>Scotch</HI> Je&s;uit, who was taken upon the Seas by <HI>Dutch</HI> Pirates) of the Pope, and the <HI>Spaniards</HI> Re&s;olution to Invade <HI>England:</HI> By the Parliament, this year were all forbid to Harbour Papi&s;ts, who were commanded to depart the Realm in 40 days.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1588. When that &s;o well known damnable de&s;ign of the <HI>Spaniards</HI> was put in practice again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> there was a <HI>Con|junction</HI> of <HI>Saturn, Mars,</HI> the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> in <HI>Taurus:</HI> Yet without doubt this was but the effect of the la&s;t <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> with &s;ome other cau&s;es, advanced by the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> from <HI>Aries</HI> and <HI>Libra</HI> in 1585. and their <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Aries</HI> 1386. The&s;e without doubt were the Cau&s;es of tho&s;e di&s;turbances in tho&s;e years by Mr. <HI>Babington, Giffard</HI> a Prie&s;t, <HI>Ballard</HI> a Prie&s;t, and <HI>Hodgon</HI> one of the &s;ame Trade, together with <HI>l'Aube&s;pine</HI> the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador, all contriving the Queens death.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1589. The Papi&s;ts again endeavour to Invade <HI>England</HI> again, by the means of <HI>Bru&s;e</HI> a Prie&s;t, and <HI>Creighton</HI> a Je&s;uit, who drawed <HI>Huntley, Arral, Crawford,</HI> by per&s;wa&s;ion into Arms, but were by the care of King <HI>James</HI> prevented: <HI>Saturn</HI> was now in <HI>Gemini,</HI> in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Virgo</HI> in <HI>Square</HI> to <HI>Saturn;</HI> and &s;hortly after <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> near the place of the former <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Square</HI> to <HI>Saturn.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1594. Doctor <HI>Lopar</HI> was Executed undertaking to Poi&s;on the Queen, and <HI>Cullen, York,</HI> and <HI>Williams</HI> were appre|hended for undertaking to Burn the Fleet with Fire Balls; there was then in <HI>July</HI> a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of the <HI>Moon, Saturn, Mars, Venus,</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="9"> and <HI>Mercury</HI> in <HI>Leo</HI> in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Jupiter: Mars</HI> at the time of the <HI>Conjunction</HI> was very near the <HI>Lyons-heart.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1597. <HI>Saturn</HI> comes to the oppo&s;ite place of the la&s;t <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Square</HI> to <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Gemini. Edward Squire</HI> was Executed for endeavouring to Poi&s;on the Pommel of the Queens Saddle, and the Pommel of the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI>'s Chair: To this he was per&s;waded by <HI>Walpoole</HI> the Je&s;uit, who gave him this Bene|diction. <HI>God ble&s;s thee and give thee &s;trength my Son, and give thee good courage, I pawn my Soul for thine, and thou &s;halt have my Prayers dead and alive.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1603. <HI>June</HI> there was an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mer|cury</HI> from <HI>Sagitary</HI> and <HI>Gemini,</HI> upon which <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> there was a horrible Plot di&s;covered again&s;t King <HI>James:</HI> Tho&s;e concerned were the Lord <HI>Cobham,</HI> the Lord <HI>Gray</HI> of <HI>Wilton,</HI> Sir <HI>Walter Rawleigh,</HI> Sir <HI>Griffin Markham,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Parham, Brook, Brooksby, Copley, Wat&s;on</HI> and <HI>Clark,</HI> Prie&s;ts; Their Indictment was for Con&s;piring the Kings death, to rai&s;e Rebellion, to alter Reli|gion, to &s;ubvert the State, and procure Forreign Inva&s;ion: They were all found guilty but <HI>Parham,</HI> of whom there were but three put death, that is <HI>Clark, Brooks</HI> and <HI>Wat&s;on,</HI> who was the man that drew all the re&s;t into the Plot.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1603. There was a <HI>Conjuncton</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> and from that time to the end of <HI>June</HI> following <HI>Mer|cury</HI> was in <HI>Libra,</HI> which was the &s;pace of &s;even Months; and in <HI>October</HI> following <HI>Mars</HI> came to a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of them both in <HI>Sa|gitary</HI> (there was now a great Plague in <HI>England</HI> mo&s;t part of this year 1604.) under the influence of the&s;e Po&s;itions they laid the en|&s;uing Plot to blow up the Parliament Hou&s;e. And in 1605. when <HI>Mars</HI> came to an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> from <HI>Gemini</HI> and <HI>Sa|gitary</HI> in <HI>June,</HI> they began to fall clo&s;e to their work, and to ha&s;ten the bringing in of their materials to perform their de&s;ign: And near the end of <HI>October Mercury</HI> came into <HI>Virgo</HI> to a <HI>Square</HI> of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and &s;uddenly after the whole Plot was di&s;covered, in which was <HI>Winter, Fauks, Keys, Bates, Winter, Graunt, Rook|wood, Digby.</HI> all which were Executed; and &s;uddenly after <HI>Garnet</HI> the Provincial of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Je&s;uits was Executed al&s;o; at
<PB N="11" REF="9"> which time there was al&s;o Proclamation for all Je&s;uits, Prie&s;ts and Friers to depart the Land upon pain of death.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1610. In the beginning of the year there w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Oppo&s;i|tion</HI> of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> from <HI>Gemini</HI> and <HI>Sagitary;</HI> there was now new Proclamation put forth to command all <HI>Roman</HI> Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits to depart the Kingdom by the fourth of <HI>July</HI> following upon pain of death.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1618. Which was the fifteenth year after the <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter;</HI> in <HI>June</HI> there was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Sa|turn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in the beginning of <HI>Gemini,</HI> within &s;ix degrees of the oppo&s;ite point of the la&s;t <HI>Conjunction,</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> at that time in <HI>Square</HI> to them both: At this time not only <HI>England,</HI> but divers parts beyond Sea are in a general di&s;turbance about Reli|gion; the Pope per&s;wades the Papi&s;ts to keep a day of Jubilee, and to implore Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the Catholick Cau&s;e; the Elector of <HI>Saxony</HI> at that time remembring that it was 100 years &s;ince <HI>Luther</HI> oppo&s;ed the Popes power, he ordained a &s;olemn Fea&s;t of three days for Thanksgiving to God for their deliverance from the Tyranny of <HI>Rome;</HI> to this the Univer&s;ities of <HI>Lip&s;ick</HI> and <HI>Wit|temberg,</HI> and the <HI>Imperial</HI> Towns of <HI>Frankford, Worms</HI> and <HI>Norm|berg</HI> gave their Suffrage: Nay the <HI>Calvini&s;ts</HI> al&s;o freely con&s;ented to ob&s;erve the &s;ame Jubilee in oppo&s;ition to the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Church; the Prote&s;tants put forth Declarations of their Sufferings from the Popi&s;h party, and in the end both parties took Arms.</P>
<P>The <HI>Spaniards</HI> &s;eek to Con&s;ummate the Match between the In|fanta and the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> in hopes to advance the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Faction; which cau&s;eth much Jealou&s;ies, and many fears among the Subjects. <HI>Gondamor</HI> endeavoureth and accompli&s;heth the death of Sir <HI>Walter Rawleigh,</HI> as a common enemy to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> cau&s;e: In a word, it would take up a particular Volume to re|late the Troubles and Con&s;ternations of <HI>Europe</HI> about Religion at that time, and the principle end of all was to reduce this King|dom of <HI>England</HI> to the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> per&s;wa&s;ion; but before <HI>Saturn</HI> got out of <HI>Gemini, Mars</HI> came to an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of him in <HI>Sagitary.</HI> The&s;e Hurries did not end here with 1618, but continued at lea&s;t four years and more, till the <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Leo</HI> gave fre&s;h matter to the motion of Nature.</P>
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<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1623. In <HI>July</HI> there was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Ju|piter</HI> in <HI>Leo:</HI> The Marriage of the Prince of <HI>Wales</HI> to the Infanta, is the publick and common bu&s;ine&s;s of both Kingdoms, the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Conchen</HI> Inqui&s;itor General of <HI>Spain,</HI> and <HI>Conde Olivares</HI> &s;ollicite the Prince to turn Papi&s;t, to which end they tamper with the Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> and the Pope &s;ends a Letter both to the Prince and Duke about the &s;ame matter; in the end the Match is di&s;liked, and the Papi&s;ts of <HI>England</HI> apprehend them|&s;elves in danger thereby: The Prince leaves <HI>Spain,</HI> and &s;hortly after Marries the <HI>French</HI> Lady; the <HI>Spaniards</HI> al&s;o prepare for a War with <HI>England;</HI> They that would &s;ee more of the&s;e matters, let them read our Learned and Hone&s;t Country man <HI>John Ru&s;h|worth</HI>'s Hi&s;torical Collection of private pa&s;&s;ages of State.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1621. There was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Libra,</HI> a humane <HI>Signe,</HI> and an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and the <HI>Sun</HI> from <HI>Sagitary</HI> and <HI>Gemini,</HI> the people commit divers Outrages in and about <HI>London,</HI> Dr. <HI>Lamb</HI> is Murdered in the Streets, the Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> is Killed by <HI>John Felton</HI> who is al&s;o Exe|cuted, great Severities are u&s;ed again&s;t the Papi&s;ts, who are Im|pri&s;oned and proceeded again&s;t according to Law, divers Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits taken at <HI>Clerkenwell</HI> and &s;ent to <HI>Newgate;</HI> new Proclamations again&s;t all Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits, but particularly again&s;t the Titular Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Calcedon,</HI> and all others who had taken Orders from the See of <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1638. Which was the fifteenth year after the <HI>Conjunction, Saturn</HI> comes to the oppo&s;ite point of the <HI>Conjunction,</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> the &s;ame year is &s;even Months pa&s;&s;ing through the Sign <HI>Sagitary,</HI> that is, from the begining of <HI>February</HI> to the beginning of <HI>Septem|ber:</HI> The <HI>Scots</HI> quarrel with the <HI>Common-Prayer</HI> Book lately &s;ent into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and it occa&s;ions Tumultuous Meetings, The <HI>Scots</HI> enter into a Covenant, <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t declares again&s;t Innova|tions in Religion, The Queen Mother of <HI>France</HI> comes into <HI>Eng|land,</HI> The Covenanters take Arms, and Sollicite <HI>France</HI> for Aid, The King leads an Army into <HI>Scotland</HI> again&s;t them, he Encamps within two Miles of <HI>Berwick</HI> in view of the <HI>Scotch</HI> Army, they come to a Treaty, Peace is Concluded, and the Armies are both
<PB N="13" REF="10"> Disbanded, and not long after the Troubles of <HI>England</HI> began, that is, in the year 1640. about Bi&s;hops and Religion.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1643. In the Month of <HI>February</HI> there was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in 25 degrees of <HI>Pi&s;ces</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> at the &s;ame time in <HI>Gemini</HI> in <HI>Square</HI> with the <HI>Sun</HI> and ha&s;tening to a <HI>Square</HI> of <HI>Saturn,</HI> both in <HI>Pi&s;ces:</HI> The Capuchins at <HI>Somer&s;et-hou&s;e</HI> were ba|ni&s;hed by Order of Parliament, the Cro&s;s in <HI>Cheap&s;ide</HI> demoli&s;hed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The difference in <HI>England</HI> grows bloody, now in good earne&s;t, what the Cau&s;es of the&s;e differences were, together with the par|ticular tran&s;actions of the management, are &s;o well known to all men in general, that it will &s;ave me both time and Paper in the further inlargement thereon.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1656. <HI>Saturn</HI> came to the oppo&s;ite point of the la&s;t <HI>Con|junction,</HI> and &s;o made up not full fourteen years; but that <HI>Con|junction</HI> &s;hould have fallen in <HI>Aries</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> would have come to its <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> in 1658; yet neverthele&s;s when he came to his fifteenth year, you may ob&s;erve what a hurry here was in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> Sir <HI>Henry Slingsby</HI> and Dr. <HI>Hewit</HI> died upon <HI>Tower-hill, Oliver Cromwel</HI> died al&s;o, <HI>Richard Cromwel</HI> was quickly after made Protector, and was afterwards quickly found u&s;ele&s;s; there were now divers new cuts of Government, as a Council of State, the Keepers of the Liberty of <HI>England,</HI> a Committee of Safety, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1663. There was a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in 13 degrees of <HI>Sagitary,</HI> and a little before the <HI>Counjunction Mars</HI> oppo&s;ed them both from <HI>Gemini;</HI> The <HI>January</HI> following there were 19 or 20 men Executed in <HI>Yorkshire</HI> as Con&s;pirators, and the <HI>March</HI> following there was four more Condemned and Execu|ted in the &s;ame County for the &s;ame Facts, and in the year follow|ing the Wars with <HI>Holland</HI> began.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1678. <HI>Saturn</HI> came to an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of the place of the former <HI>Conjunction,</HI> and within two Months after he came to a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> near the &s;ame place, this being compleatly the 15 year after the <HI>Conjunction;</HI> the <HI>Michaelmas</HI> day at night fol|lowing there was a Horrid Popi&s;h Plot di&s;covered at <HI>Whitehall</HI> to take away His Maje&s;ties Life, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To alter Religion, bringing in Popery, and change the Government, for which thirteen men
<PB N="14" REF="11"> have &s;uffered, namely <HI>Coleman, Green, Berry, Hill, Ireland, Groves, Pickering, Whitebread, Harcourt, Gawen, Turner, Fen|wick</HI> and Mr. <HI>Langhorn:</HI> But this may be ob&s;erved by the Studi|ous Reader, that from the beginning of <HI>October</HI> 1678. (&s;uddenly after this Plot was di&s;covered) to the end of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t the Fiery Planet <HI>Mars</HI> was pa&s;&s;ing through <HI>Leo,</HI> which was almo&s;t eight Months, a thing not u&s;ual; what hath been the effect of this in <HI>England,</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e the whole Kingdom knows; neither need I be at the pains to In&s;ert the particulars thereof, they being &s;o well known to every one.</P>
<P>Thus have I endeavoured to prove the fifteenth year after the <HI>Conjunction</HI> to be a year of Trouble, e&s;pecially to <HI>England,</HI> if at that time <HI>Saturn</HI> or <HI>Mars</HI> happen to be in <HI>Sagitary</HI> or <HI>Gemini;</HI> and that at tho&s;e times there happens debates and differences about Religion, as I have before proved.</P>
<P>Hence it may appear that the&s;e &s;ub&s;equent years are like to be years of great trouble in the World; to omit a particular Judg|ment of all the trouble&s;ome years, I only here &s;peak in the gene|ral (for I well know that <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> make no le&s;s then four <HI>Conjunctions</HI> in the Sign <HI>Leo,</HI> and I could &s;peak &s;omething of their effects, but it is not my bu&s;ine&s;s in this place, perhaps I may live to do it.) But I &s;peak according to the precedent Hy|pothe&s;is.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, 1686. <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Scorpio</HI> in <HI>Quartile</HI> to the place of the la&s;t <HI>Conjunction,</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Gemini</HI> in <HI>Quartile</HI> to <HI>Saturn</HI> in <HI>Virgo;</HI> &s;ome difference now about Religious Affairs.</P>
<P>Secondly, 1690. <HI>Saturn</HI> comes to the <HI>Quadrate</HI> of the <HI>Con|junction,</HI> and there Stationary in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Mercury;</HI> this threatens &s;ome Country with Wars and Calamities.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1692. <HI>Mars</HI> Stationary in <HI>Gemini</HI> in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Saturn</HI> in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> this &s;eems to portend a Storm to <HI>London</HI> about Re|ligion, and this is confirmed by <HI>Mars</HI> his <HI>Conjunction</HI> with <HI>Saturn</HI> in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> and both in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Gemini</HI> in the &s;ame year, which I fear may be continued to 1693.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1698. Which is the fourteenth year after their fourth <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Leo</HI> 1683. <HI>Saturn</HI> comes to the oppo&s;ite place of the
<PB N="15" REF="11"> <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Quartile</HI> to <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> in <HI>Conjunction</HI> in <HI>Scorpio,</HI> and in 1699. <HI>Mercury</HI> comes to a <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> in <HI>Aquarius,</HI> in direct <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to the degree of the <HI>Conjunction</HI> 1682. God pre&s;erve &s;ome parts of <HI>Europe</HI> from Murders and Slaughters, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Why may there not &s;ome Factions ari&s;e among the <HI>Roman</HI> Clergy in order to the ruine of that See? I am of the Opinion there will now, and within a few years &s;ucceeding.</P>
<P>The fate of Kingdoms and Countries doth not depend only upon the <HI>Conjunction</HI> and <HI>A&s;pects</HI> of the <HI>Planets</HI> only, but al&s;o up|on the motion of the <HI>Nodes;</HI> for by their motion through the Signes, are Eclip&s;es cau&s;ed in divers parts of the Heavens: And when they (e&s;pecially tho&s;e of the <HI>Sun</HI>) happen near the <HI>Horo|&s;copes</HI> of Kingdoms or Cities, they cau&s;e divers Accidents and Calamities according to their then &s;ignification; and it will not be ami&s;s here to give a Hi&s;torical Account of their effects as they have for many years concerned <HI>Great Brittain</HI> and <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1554. There was an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> from <HI>Virgo</HI> and <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> and the next year the <HI>North Node</HI> tran&s;ited <HI>Ge|mini;</HI> in tho&s;e years were the great Per&s;ecutions in Queen <HI>Marys</HI> dayes, and other differences and di&s;putes about Religion, which may be ea&s;ily remembred by the Reformed Churches &s;till.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1564. The <HI>North Node</HI> tran&s;ited <HI>Sagitary,</HI> about this time the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e</HI> Killed 1500 people at a Sermon, great troubles throughout <HI>France;</HI> and there was a Rebellion in the <HI>North</HI> of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1574. The Prince of <HI>Conde</HI> heads the Prote&s;tants, and &s;o begins the fir&s;t Civil War in <HI>France</HI> about Religion, which by Act of Pacification was ended <HI>anno</HI> 1576. the <HI>South Node</HI> then tran&s;ited <HI>Gemini.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1583, and 1584. The <HI>North Node</HI> again tran&s;ited <HI>Sagitary,</HI> now great troubles in <HI>England</HI> with Plots again&s;t the Queen and Prote&s;tants.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1592. The <HI>North Node</HI> pa&s;&s;eth through <HI>Gemini;</HI> the Popi&s;h Lords ri&s;e in <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;ome Hang'd for Writing Sediti|ous Books, and &s;hortly after the Plot of Dr. <HI>Lopez.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1602. The <HI>North Node</HI> again pa&s;&s;ed through <HI>Sagitary,</HI>
<PB N="16" REF="12"> the Je&s;uits and Secular Prie&s;ts in <HI>England</HI> quarrel, and the year following the Plot of <HI>Wat&s;on</HI> and <HI>Clark</HI> again&s;t King <HI>James</HI> is di&s;covered.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1611. There was a total Eclip&s;e of the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Gemini,</HI> Proclamations again&s;t Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits; two <HI>Arrian</HI> Hereticks Burnt, the one at <HI>London,</HI> the other at <HI>Lichfield,</HI> and Prince <HI>Henry</HI> the Flower of <HI>England</HI> dies.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1621. There was a great Eclip&s;e in the beginning of <HI>Ge|mini, Gondamore</HI> is abu&s;ed by the people in <HI>London</HI> Streets, and the <HI>French</HI> Prote&s;tants are troubled by the Papi&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1630. There was two very great Eclip&s;es of the <HI>Sun,</HI> the one in <HI>Gemini,</HI> the other in <HI>Sagitary;</HI> the Earl of <HI>Ca&s;tlehaven</HI> Beheaded on <HI>Tower-hill, London</HI>-Bridge lamentably ruined by Fire, &s;oon after &s;ome Tumults in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1639. There were two very great Eclip&s;es of the <HI>Sun,</HI> the one in <HI>Gemini,</HI> the other in <HI>Sagitary;</HI> the King Marches down into <HI>Scotland</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Scots</HI> then in Arms, the <HI>Spaniards</HI> and <HI>Dutch</HI> Fight in the <HI>Downs,</HI> the <HI>Scots</HI> Invade <HI>England,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1648. There was a Total Eclip&s;e of the <HI>Sun</HI> in the la&s;t degree of <HI>Gemini; Francis</HI> Lord <HI>Villiers</HI> &s;lain, <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> &s;urrendred, and <HI>Lucas</HI> and <HI>Li&s;le</HI> Shot, the King Murdered, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebel|lion, and &s;hortly after the Powder-blow in <HI>Tower</HI>-Street, <HI>Cum multis aliis.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1658. There was two Central Eclip&s;es of the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Sa|gitary</HI> and <HI>Gemini; Cromwel</HI> dies, an In&s;urrection in <HI>Ches&s;hire, Monck</HI> Marches toward <HI>London,</HI> Tumults and Uproars in the City, the Gates and Portculli&s;es of <HI>London</HI> pull'd down.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1666. In <HI>December</HI> there was almo&s;t an Central Eclip&s;e of the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Gemini,</HI> and in <HI>May</HI> following there happen'd ano|ther as great in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> and in <HI>November</HI> following there was another as great as either in <HI>Gemini,</HI> all of the <HI>Moon;</HI> the Boyes Ri&s;e Tumultuou&s;ly in <HI>London,</HI> and with&s;tand the Kings Guards; &s;hortly after the then Mayor laying hold of the Penal Laws, &s;et the City into a common hurry, by committing divers of the Al|dermen and other Citizens to Pri&s;on for Religion.</P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1676. There were two Central Eclip&s;es of the <HI>Sun,</HI> the
<PB N="17" REF="12" MS="y"> one in <HI>Gemini,</HI> the other in <HI>Sagitary;</HI> Tumultuous Ri&s;ings in <HI>London,</HI> the Weavers Ri&s;e about the Abu&s;es of their Trade, the Train-bands are rai&s;ed to prevent Di&s;turbances; here are al&s;o new Proclamations and old Laws put in force again&s;t the Noncon|formi&s;ts.</P>
<P>By this Rule, we mu&s;t expect &s;ome effects of &s;ome &s;uch like nature, when the <HI>North-Node</HI> tran&s;ites <HI>Gemini,</HI> which is in the year 1785, and 1686. But what the&s;e effects will be, let time &s;hew.</P>
<P>But &s;econdly and la&s;tly in particular, the effects of this <HI>Pha&s;ma</HI> or <HI>two Moons</HI> will appear more vi&s;ibly about the beginning of <HI>Au|gu&s;t, Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> then having been in <HI>Square</HI> a little before: So al&s;o about the middle of <HI>November, Mars</HI> then comes to the op|po&s;ite point of the la&s;t <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> and to|ward the end of <HI>November</HI> the <HI>Sun</HI> comes to the &s;ame point: <HI>De|cember</HI> will be a Month of great Action in &s;ome Countrys of <HI>Europe,</HI> and &s;o will <HI>January</HI> following, neither will <HI>March</HI> be a Month of le&s;s Action then the re&s;t: <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Germany</HI> are un|der <HI>Aries,</HI> God pre&s;erve tho&s;e places and all others under <HI>Aries</HI> from Differences and Wars.</P>
<P>I thought to have in&s;i&s;ted A&s;trologically upon tho&s;e Oppo&s;iti|ons of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> and the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>December</HI> next; but becau&s;e it is a work of a different nature from this here be|fore us, I will refer it to &s;ome other opportunity, or el&s;e leave it for &s;ome abler Pen: In the mean time I pray God ble&s;s <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> with Peace and Plenty, and let all our Con|tention be who &s;hall be mo&s;t Zealous, and who &s;hall perform the mo&s;t Acts of Ju&s;tice in the fear of God, then may <HI>England</HI> be cal|led the <HI>Holy Land,</HI> and <HI>London, The New</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>the City of our God:</HI> And as <HI>Ovid</HI> him&s;elf &s;aid, &s;o do I.
<Q LANG="lat"><L>&mdash;Quod &s;i quis ab alto</L>
<L>Ju&s;tus ade&s;t precibus, <HI>Jupiter</HI> ip&s;e meis</L>
<L>Dii, precor, a nobis omen removete Sini&s;trum</L>
<L>&amp; &s;ua det reduci vir meus arma <HI>Jovi.</HI></L>
<L>Sed timeo: quotie&s;&abque; &s;ubit mi&s;erabile bellum</L>
<L>more nivis lacrymae &s;ole madentis eunt.</L></Q></P>
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