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<P>News from the HEAVENS: OR, NEW PROPHESIES, AND A&s;trological Predictions Relating to the Pre&s;ent State of <HI>Europe,</HI> and other mo&s;t Important Affairs of our Age.</P>
<P>By Mr. <HI>Lilly,</HI> and other able Arti&s;ts.</P>
<P>Together with the &s;aid Mr. <HI>LILLIES</HI> Prophe&s;ie or Prediction of a General PEACE, And mo&s;t Glorious time of PROSPERITY, That &s;hall &s;hortly be E&s;tabli&s;ht throughout the World.</P>
<Q><L>Caelum e&s;t in&s;tar Libri Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">au&s;i,</L>
<L>In quo <HI>Futura</HI> Notis Siderum qua&s;i Litteris,</L>
<L>Con&s;cripta, Fil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">js Artis Leganda Proponunter.</L></Q>
<P>Printed by <HI>A. Pur&s;low,</HI> in the Year, 1673.</P>
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<HEAD>M^r^. LILLIES NEW PROPHESIES, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>HI&s;torians tell us, that in the days of that <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> de|&s;ervedly &s;tiled <HI>Augu&s;tus,</HI> affairs were throughout the World in &s;uch a calm po&s;ture, as if <HI>Mars</HI> had been excluded from having any Vote in the Cele&s;tial Senate, or degraded by the more friendly Planets from his mi&s;chief-making Office: for that, Peace &s;preading her &s;ilken Wings as far as the Geography of that Age could extend, &s;eem'd to have hu&s;h'd up all Alarms of War, and invited all inhabitants of this earthly Globe, to a &s;weet repo&s;e in the &s;oft Arms of a general Tranquility; wherewith po&s;&s;ibly Almighty God might then more e&s;peci|ally ble&s;s Mankind, to U&s;her in, and the better prepare them for the reception of the <HI>Prince of Peace,</HI> our ever ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Sa|viour,</HI> who about that time, out of infinite Love to wretched Humanity, de&s;cended from the Man&s;ions of Glory to appear on Earth vailing his Divine Lu&s;tre in garments of mortality: Certain it is, &s;uch Halcyon days rarely happen, and perhaps in all the Records of Time, before or &s;ince we may not find a Parallel to that happy juncture; but on the contrary, War, Blood-&s;hed, Inva&s;ions, In&s;urrections, De&s;truction, and De&s;o|lations have in mo&s;t Ages been &s;o frequent, as to turn the Earth into an <HI>Acheldama</HI> or <HI>Golgatha,</HI> a <HI>Field of Blood,</HI> or gene|ral <HI>Charnel-hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>How di&s;mally embroil'd the Affairs of <HI>Europe</HI> are at this in|&s;tant, or in the&s;e very days wherein we live, cannot be wholly unknown to any intelligent man: and that tho&s;e Commoti|ons are Judgements and Calamities inflicted by the ju&s;t hand of Heaven, on rebellious Mortals for their repeated Sins, and multiplied Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions will readily be a&s;&s;ented unto by all
<PB N="4" REF="3"> that have any &s;ence of Religion, or awe of a Deity upon their Spirits.</P>
<P>But the natural Grounds or Di&s;po&s;itions of the Cele&s;tial Bodies, which like Mediate links in the grand chain of Secon|dary Cau&s;es, have produced, or at lea&s;t Co-operated in the production of the&s;e Martial Di&s;turbances, or the extraordi|nary <HI>Phaenomina</HI> which merciful Providence makes u&s;e of to pre&s;ignifie its plea&s;ure the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ein, and like Beacons to admoni&s;h the World of &s;uch impending Cha&s;ti&s;ements, cannot but cer|tainly de&s;erve our more curious Ob&s;ervation and Enqui|ries; of this &s;ort the mo&s;t Judicious Scrutators with much rea&s;on A&s;&s;ign.</P>
<P N="1">1. That wonderful new Star, which to the great amaze|ment of the World manife&s;ted it &s;elf in the Con&s;tellation of <HI>Ca&s;&s;iopeia,</HI> in the Year, 1572.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;everal Comets, who&s;e &s;ignifications are not yet to|tally accompli&s;hed; as that in the Year, 1652. Three more in the Year 1665. and one &s;ince, not much above a Year and a half la&s;t pa&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Conjunction of the two Superiours, <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter, Anno</HI> 1663. in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> and five opo&s;itions between them lately.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, The Revolutions and other Cardinal Ingre&s;&s;es of the pre&s;ent and en&s;uing Year; together with the Eclip&s;es, and mo&s;t forcible A&s;pects therein happening.</P>
<P>To treat of the&s;e all exactly and in method, is as much be&s;ide our Intention, as above our Abilities in the pre&s;ent &s;heet, which we de&s;ign only for a brief Collection of the Suffrages of more Learned men thereupon: and to &s;erve as an Echo to their Ora|cles.</P>
<P>Concerning the Famous New-Star fir&s;t mentioned, divers excellent per&s;ons in that Age obliged the World both with their Ob&s;ervations and Sentiments of its Effects or Sig|nifications, but none &s;o happily as the incomparable <HI>Tycho Brahe,</HI> who taking it for granted that the &s;ame was purpo&s;ely Created for the manife&s;tation of future Events and Pre&s;aging of &s;ome &s;trange <HI>Cata&s;trophes</HI> to happen, concludes, that as the
<PB N="5" REF="3"> &s;aid Star was vi&s;ible almo&s;t to all the World, &s;o few Nations or Countries between the <HI>Artick</HI> and <HI>Autartick</HI> Poles &s;hould e&s;cape without being &s;en&s;ible more or le&s;s of the Calamities and Di&s;orders thereby threatned; and becau&s;e it continued fixed during all the time of its appearance; That therefore the Portents thereof would be long before they manife&s;ted them&s;elves, or were brought into Action; whence it was thought rea&s;onable to a&s;&s;ign about one Century or hundred Years before their Commencement; which term is now expir|ed: <HI>Viz.</HI> In the la&s;t Year, 1672. And what grand Actions have &s;ince appeared, both by Land and Sea on the <HI>European</HI> Stage, is &s;ufficiently notorious; though (as the Judicious Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> in his <HI>Anglius</HI> for the approaching Year, 1674. well ob&s;erves) the full determination of tho&s;e mutations, it was to be the Prodromus of cannot be expected for many Years yet to come; for &s;ince, we read not in any Author of &s;uch an ad|mirable Star, or of &s;uch continuance &s;ince the beginning of the world be&s;ides it; &s;o mu&s;t certainly its &s;ignifications be equally miraculous, and &s;uch as Mankind hath yet been &s;carce ac|quainted with: The particular Nature of which the &s;ame worthy Author tells us, <HI>Praecipium quandam &amp; maximam Ad|mini&s;trationum, Politicarum, Innovationem,</HI> Innovations in the e&s;tabli&s;ht or accu&s;tomed Policies of &s;everal Nations, and turning Empires and Kingdoms top&s;y-turvy.</P>
<P>As to the effects of that Comet in 1652. Tho&s;e in 1665, and this of 1672. Our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ptolomy before named, a&s;&s;erts them not yet determined, but at pre&s;ent on the anvil of Fate, and in &s;ucceeding years like to be more vi&s;ible, even till mo&s;t part of the Habitable <HI>Globe,</HI> &s;hall in one kind or other, have partaken of much affliction, and &s;uch Calamities as no age hath &s;een the like; among&s;t which the &s;ame Learned Gentleman, reckons up the <HI>Dutch</HI> or <HI>Hollanders,</HI> as like in due time to ta&s;te more deep than ordinary of this bitter cup of Divine Vengeance, &s;ince the la&s;t of tho&s;e Comets in <HI>April</HI> 1665. having a long &amp; large <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed fiery Tail pointed directly <HI>E&s;ta-ward,</HI> threatning more e|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">pecially tho&s;e Countries of the United Provinces, <HI>Spani&s;h-Ne|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">herlands,</HI> part of <HI>Germany,</HI> and places adjacent.</P>
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<P>Of the Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in 1663. An ac|curate Treati&s;e has been already emitted into the World by Mr. <HI>Richard Edlin,</HI> nor &s;hould we have wanted another by the &s;ame judicious Pen, on the late oppo&s;itions of the&s;e Su|periors, did not the &s;ordid &s;elf-intere&s;ts of &s;ome narrow-&s;oul'd people &s;trangle for want of Midwifry, what the Author has long &s;ince happily conceived. However in his <HI>Praenuncius Sidereus,</HI> &s;peaking of the Year 1674. from a Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> happening in <HI>July,</HI> he predicts the Death or detriment of &s;ome great per&s;ons, in places &s;ubject to <HI>Libra,</HI> by Civil or Dome&s;tick differences. But towards the end of that Year (&s;aith he) the Moon to a trine of the Sun by direction denotes a di&s;covery of &s;ome Important affairs, that long have lain maskt in ob&s;curity; Kings and their Subjects &s;hall bet|ter agree, and Spirits heretofore factious, turbulent and un|&s;etled, &s;hall become conformable and more obedient to their Superiors.</P>
<P>In the Revolution or Ingre&s;&s;e of <HI>Sol</HI> into <HI>Aries,</HI> at the be|gining of the Year 1674. <HI>Aquarius</HI> a&s;cends <HI>Mars,</HI> being on the Cu&s;p of the Horo&s;cope, and <HI>Saturn</HI> Lord of it in the &s;econd: So that the two Malevolents are in mutual reception. Hence <HI>Merlin</HI> Collects, a fair pretence or apearance neer the&s;e times of friend&s;hip and agreements, yet nothing but fraudulent de|&s;igns, intended by an ob&s;tinate and pevi&s;h generation, rather indeed more contentious; the &s;cene of war is enlarged, Rup|tures of Leagues, deva&s;tation of great numbers by the Sword, impoveri&s;hment of the Cominalties, and beggary to many once rich and flouri&s;hing Cities and Countries <HI>Ea&s;t-ward</HI> from <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>That mo&s;t Indu&s;trous Arti&s;t and able <HI>Mathematician,</HI> Mr. <HI>Henry Coley,</HI> with equal mode&s;ty and rea&s;on gives this breif, yet di&s;creet Judgement, on this vernal figure, in his <HI>Nuncius Caele&s;tis,</HI> or Almanack for the &s;aid Year, 1674. <HI>The year</HI> (&s;ays he there) <HI>by the po&s;ition to be no way con&s;iderably dangerous for any contagious di&s;temper that may Tyrannize among&s;t the people, but rather a &s;erene Air and Salubrity in general: nor do I di&s;cover any
<PB N="7" REF="4"> con&s;iderable injury or danger from our mo&s;t potent enemies (accord|ing to the &s;tream of natural cau&s;es:</HI> For which he &s;ubjoyns his rea&s;ons in Art, <HI>Sol</HI> being in the a&s;cendant, &amp;c.</P>
<P>To which we may add, that ob&s;arvation of <HI>Merlins,</HI> that the Heavens &s;eem now to promi&s;e our Soveraign of great <HI>Brittain</HI> &s;hall not want either Men, Money or Ships, to render him feared all over the World. The wars now impending: &s;eeming notwith&s;tanding all overtures of peace, de&s;igned by providence, to have continuance till the proud <HI>Hollander</HI> &s;ub|mit unto that High Monarch, whom they have wrongfully abu&s;ed with not to be &s;uffer'd Indignities.</P>
<P>Upon the Suns entrance into <HI>Cancer,</HI> the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> af|firms, that the <HI>Hollanders</HI> &s;hall ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r that time fear in earne&s;t Popular tumults; and Seditions at home, by their Boars and Vulgar people, who &s;eeing them&s;elves &s;till deluded and made mi&s;erable by the ob&s;tinacy of their &s;uperiors begin to make in|&s;urections again&s;t them: As al&s;o that they are threatned with a great Plague and Famine, not only of provi&s;ions for man, but a &s;carcity of men to furni&s;h their Fleets, as al&s;o a &s;udden declining or being abandoned or for&s;aken by their Allies or Confederates, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Several Eclip&s;es happen in the approaching Year, but the mo&s;t con&s;iderable one of the Moon, the 7th. of <HI>July,</HI> three quar|ters of an hour after 8 at night, &s;ignifieing (according to <HI>Merlinus Anglius</HI>) the de&s;truction of Cattle, horrible Cold, unwhole&s;ome winds, Shipwracks; bad Voyages, &s;carcity of Grain, and all kinds of provi&s;ions, &amp;c,</P>
<P>From the con&s;ideration of this Eclip&s;e, and the dire E|fects thereby threatned: that &s;olid and well-read Arti&s;t, Mr. <HI>Richard Saunders</HI> in his <HI>Engli&s;h Apollo,</HI> breaks out into this Pa|thetical Exclamation. <HI>Oh! Infandum renovat dolorem: Infi|nite Calamities it brings to places under</HI> Capricorn, <HI>and the oppo|&s;ite &s;ign</HI> Cancer, <HI>to &s;ome here is &s;ignified Mi&s;chiefs, perfected to o|thers, devi&s;eing, but if</HI> Holland <HI>and</HI> Am&s;terdam <HI>have any &s;ub|&s;i&s;tance at this time, let them look to receive their &s;hare of &s;uperla|tive &s;orrows: But (Ble&s;&s;ed be God)</HI> London <HI>comes not the lea&s;t un|der the&s;e malignancies.</HI></P>
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<P>We &s;hall conclude with that happy Prophecy or Prediction of Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> (who&s;e pardon we beg for making bold &s;o oft with his honour'd Name in this incon&s;iderable Pamphlet) <HI>In An|glicus,</HI> 1674. delivered verbatim as follows.</P>
<P><HI>We further &s;ay and probably eonjecture according to the Acute Judgement of</HI> Tyche, <HI>and other learned men, upon this new Star (he is treating of that before mentioned in</HI> Ca&s;&s;iopeia.) That when its effects begin to operate (as for the&s;e two la&s;t Years, or &s;ome|thing &s;ooner they have done, and for many &s;ub&s;equent years will continue) that after many &s;harp wars had and determined or ended, that then the World &s;hall find and enjoy quietne&s;&s;e, &s;uch as yet hath not been in any Age, <HI>Pacificum quodam &amp; concors &s;aeculum aliquam din futurum.</HI> A mo&s;t peaceable and quiet age or world &s;hall be in all parts of the earth. <HI>In quo politicarum admini&s;trationum, &amp;c.</HI> Wherein the Tumultuary Confu&s;ions in Politick and Religious admini&s;trations &s;hall be changed or quite altered, and be fited to a more conform Analogy of the Divine Will or truth. To which give us leave to add that memorable prediction delivered more than one h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed years &s;ince by that famous A&s;trologer <HI>Hieromymus Cardanus,</HI> that a|bout the year 1680. <HI>Incipiet Mutatio Legum, cui nunquam fuit &s;imilis, &amp; con&s;urget nova Lex &amp; cum his alia multa, There &s;hall in &s;ome parts begin an alteration of Laws, the like whereof was ne|ver before, and a new Law &s;hall ari&s;e or be e&s;tabli&s;ht, and with it many other things.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e &s;everal predictions we offer to the Reader, not as di|vine and Infallible, but as the Sentiments of the&s;e worthy. Ar|ti&s;ts, according to natural cau&s;es of pre&s;ent and future affairs, and leaving them as &s;o many embrio's in the womb of time to be brought forth, or prove abortive, as providence &s;hall or|der, we conclude with our humble wi&s;hes.</P>
<P><HI>May the good Hand of Heaven in all the Revolutions of Fate, Ble&s;s the Monarch of great</HI> Brittain, <HI>in all his Councels, and un|dertakings; Crowning him with health in his Royal per&s;on, victory o|ver his Enemies, and Happine&s;s in the Love and Affections of all his Subjects from the lea&s;t to the greate&s;t,</HI> Amen.</P>
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