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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>A REPLY TO That Pernicious and &s;candalous LIBEL, lately Printed in <HI>HOLLAND,</HI> IN AN ALMANACK, For the Year 1687.</P>
<P>Writted by (whom?) but <HI>Io. Partridge</HI> an <HI>Engli&s;h <HI>Renegado.</HI></HI> Manife&s;ting his horrid <HI>Trea&s;ons,</HI> wicked <HI>Bla&s;phemies,</HI> and mo&s;t ab&s;urd Errours in <HI>Art;</HI> and exhibiting the genuine &s;ignification of the STARS toward GREAT BRITAIN.</P>
<Q>What reward &s;hall be given (or done) unto thee thou fal&s;e Tongue; even mighty and &s;harp Arrows with hot burning Coles. <BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 120.3.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>Let the mi&s;chief of their own Lips fall upon the head of them: Let hot burning Coles fall upon them: Let them be ca&s;t into the Fire, and into the Pit, that they never ri&s;e up again. <BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 140.9 10.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>If ye do Live, ye &s;hall be Accur&s;ed: If ye Die, the Cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e &s;hall be your Portion. <BIBL><HI>Eccle&s;. 41.9</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by Authority.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Nath. Thomp&s;on,</HI> at the Entrance into the <HI>Old Spring-Garden,</HI> 1687.</P>
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<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>TO ALL LOYAL READERS, WHETHER <HI>ENGLISH,</HI> or <HI>DUTCH,</HI> Or, of any other NATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen!</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOu may wonder to &s;ee a <HI>Progno&s;tication</HI> for <HI>1687.</HI> peep out in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> viz. when more than half the Year's expir'd. But you'l admire much more at the oc|ca&s;ion, when, in the Reading it you find 'tis a <HI>Reply</HI> to <HI>One</HI> of the &s;ame Year, written (I am a&s;ham'd to &s;peak it) by an <HI>Engli&s;h-Man,</HI> with a de&s;ign to <HI>Traduce</HI> and <HI>Trample</HI> upon His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> and <HI>Government,</HI> to decry <HI>Monarchy,</HI> vent <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> with <HI>Bla&s;phemy,</HI> and all manner of wickedne&s;s that can be expre&s;t in <HI>Ink</HI> and <HI>Paper;</HI> And this under pretence of <HI>A&s;trology,</HI> to the great di&s;honour of <HI>God,</HI> and the Science of the Stars, bidding de|fiance to Heaven it &s;elf, with the greate&s;t impu|dence and indecency of Expre&s;&s;ion, that po&s;&s;ibly can proceed from the Pen of one in <HI>Humane</HI> &s;hape.</P>
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<P>But that which we may mo&s;t marvel at, is, that this <HI>Author,</HI> (fled for <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> into <HI>Holland,</HI> &s;hould There find Protection. In <HI>Holland!</HI> I &s;ay, a Country in Amity with <HI>England,</HI> and Ally'd to His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> by the &s;tronge&s;t and mo&s;t <HI>Royal</HI> of all <HI>Pledges,</HI> that Nature or Nations can afford: I mean the happy <HI>E&s;pou&s;al</HI> of the Royal and Illu&s;trious Prince&s;s, the <HI>Prince&s;s MARY,</HI> the Elde&s;t Daughter of <HI>England,</HI> unto the thrice Noble, Valiant, and Magnanimous <HI>Prince of Orange:</HI> The pre&s;ent vi&s;ible hopes of that In|du&s;trious and Fortunate Nations Ri&s;e, and Ho|nour. If, I &s;ay, this be con&s;ider'd by that <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> and <HI>Prudent</HI> People, they'l never believe it <HI>Plea&s;ant,</HI> or <HI>Grateful</HI> to the <HI>Ears</HI> of that <HI>Royal Prince&s;s,</HI> or to the mo&s;t Excellent <HI>Prince</HI> Her Husband. Nor is it for the Honour of the High and Mighty <HI>States</HI> them&s;elves, to &s;uffer this bold <HI>Libeller</HI> to Publi&s;h his impudent <HI>Scandals</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> (un-regarded) under their very <HI>No&s;es.</HI> Which practice tends, not only to the di&s;honour and di&s;turbance of tho&s;e again&s;t whom he levels his Arrows of Envy; but, to a direct breach of the Friend&s;hip of both <HI>Nations:</HI> For the continuance whereof, every good Man in each Country will always Pray.</P>
<P>If a <HI>Letter</HI> or <HI>Fal&s;e Report</HI> have (formerly) &s;et <HI>Nations at odds,</HI> what then may be the I&s;&s;ue of a <HI>Connivance</HI> at the gro&s;e&s;t <HI>Scandals</HI> and <HI>Trea|&s;ons?</HI> and wherein the greate&s;t of <HI>Kings,</HI> and the
<PB REF="3"> be&s;t and mo&s;t Antient of <HI>Religions</HI> is concern'd? I will not pre&s;ume to Augure, or Determine, what: But this I may be bold to affirm, if <HI>Honour</HI> be tender in a <HI>&s;ingle Per&s;on,</HI> 'tis much more &s;o in a <HI>Prince,</HI> or <HI>Nation</HI> If the <HI>Faith of Nations</HI> be allow'd <HI>Sacred,</HI> then, why not their Honour? It concerns me, that I am con&s;train'd to re-mind my Native Country of th &s;e broad fac'd <HI>Calum|nies,</HI> thus <HI>(&s;ine cau&s;a)</HI> cast upon Her: But more, that in all this time there has not been found one <HI>Loyal Engli&s;h-Man</HI> of Courage and Ability to Retort them.</P>
<P>As for the method, I have follow'd the <HI>Libeller,</HI> almost <GAP DESC="foreign">, (&s;ave in his rude and ridi|culous Poetry, at the beginning, and end of his Libel, the &s;ub&s;tance whereof is &s;ufficiently reply'd unto in the following di&s;cour&s;e.) I have ript up his Ridiculous <HI>Follies</HI> expos'd his <HI>Bla&s;phemies</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;ons,</HI> Corrected his <HI>Errours</HI> in <HI>Art,</HI> made known his gro&s;s <HI>Juglings</HI> and the no-ground he had, wherein to <HI>Traduce</HI> his <HI>KING</HI> and <HI>Country.</HI></P>
<P>For the Hexameters over the Months, I will not call them &s;o much an <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to his Infamous <HI>Rhimes,</HI> as Direction, and Caution to him of the danger of je&s;ting with <HI>Edge-Tools,</HI> least his Trea&s;onable and Bla&s;phemous Mirth bring him to Perd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ion. <HI>Non bonum e&s;t ludere cum Sanctis.</HI> Had I exactly follow'd him here, I must have put my &s;elf upon the ungrateful <HI>Drudgery</HI> of repeating
<PB REF="3"> all his <HI>Athei&s;me</HI> and <HI>Bla&s;phemies;</HI> which mu&s;t needs Nau&s;eate any &s;ober <HI>Reader.</HI></P>
<P>I have Explain'd all the horrid <HI>Scandals</HI> and <HI>Fal&s;hoods</HI> contain'd in his <HI>Chronology,</HI> and have taken the pains to inform him of &s;ome things, he'l no more thank me for, than care to hear of.</P>
<P>Now that <HI>Truth</HI> may Triumph, and <HI>Rebellion</HI> and <HI>Fal&s;hood</HI> meet its ju&s;t <HI>Reward;</HI> That our N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ble Nation, and the most Pui&s;&s;ant <HI>Governour</HI> thereof, may ever (as they already do) <HI>out-&s;hine,</HI> and <HI>dazle</HI> their <HI>Enemies,</HI> and &s;ee the <HI>Down-fall</HI> of &s;uch as wi&s;h them <HI>Ill.</HI> That they may be the <HI>wonder</HI> of the <HI>World</HI> in their <HI>Devotion</HI> to <HI>God,</HI> and true <HI>Loyalty</HI> towards the <HI>King.</HI> That all true and u&s;eful <HI>Arts</HI> may Flouri&s;h among us; and that Loyal <HI>Arti&s;ts</HI> may prove as Zealous in the &V;&s;e of them, for the Honour and Advantage of the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Government,</HI> as <HI>Rebels</HI> and <HI>Traytors</HI> are ready to imploy them again&s;t both. Is the con&s;tant Prayer of</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>(Gentlemen!)</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Humble Servant.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="4">
<DIV2 N="January" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on JANUARY.</HEAD>
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<Q><L>Touch'd with the &s;en&s;e of Ancient <HI>Britains</HI> worth,</L>
<L>My Pent-up <HI>Mu&s;e</HI> into a <HI>Flame</HI> breaks forth,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Sacred Fury!</HI> &s;corns to be afraid,</L>
<L>Of vaunting Boa&s;ts dull <HI>Hereticks</HI> have made,</L>
<L>Against the <HI>Chri&s;tian Truth</HI> which mu&s;t prevail;</L>
<L>While every <HI>Schi&s;m</HI> unto <HI>Her</HI> &s;trike Sail.</L></Q>
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<P><HI>REader!</HI> That thou may'&s;t &s;ee what an <HI>Engli&s;h|man</HI> the <HI>Libeller</HI> is, he hath omitted the <HI>Mar|tyrdom</HI> of King <HI>Charles</HI> I. in his Calendar, which was <HI>January</HI> 30, 1648. a <HI>di&s;mal Day</HI> indeed! and never to be forgotten by any Loyal Man, and Chri&s;tian. A Day commanded by <HI>Act of Parlia|ment</HI> to be ob&s;erv'd for ever. But the <HI>Libeller</HI> is as much a Friend to the <HI>Priviledges</HI> of <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI> as to the <HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>Prerogative</HI> of Kings. <HI>i. e.</HI> For either, or neither, as his peri&s;hing <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> leads him. For his <HI>A&s;trological judge|ments</HI> of this Month, as they are not many, nor Material, &s;o had he no great ground in <HI>Art,</HI> whereon to rai&s;e any. Howbeit, he makes <HI>Soldiers</HI> brisk and bu&s;ie, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in this un-active and un-&s;utable time of the Year: Whenas, his <HI>Tu&s;&s;er</HI> might have taught him better. <HI>A&s;trology</HI> tells him, that every Coele&s;tial <HI>Agent</HI> works upon the <HI>Patient; &s;ecundum quid, i&punc; e.</HI> according to its <HI>aptne&s;s</HI> and <HI>di&s;po&s;ition</HI> to receive the influence and im|pre&s;&s;ion; and to the <HI>Time</HI> and <HI>Place</HI> al&s;o, when, and where the <HI>effect</HI> is expected; according to <HI>Hipocrates.</HI> Now <HI>Ja|nuary,</HI> of all the Months in the Year, is the mo&s;t unfit for <HI>Martial</HI> bu&s;ine&s;s, or briskne&s;s. And I will inform the <HI>Li|beller, That though the Load&s;tone will draw Iron, it will not draw a Nail out of a Po&s;t.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="February" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on FEBRUARY.</HEAD>
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<Q><L>Right <HI>Chri&s;tian Prie&s;ts</HI> are like their <HI>Mother,</HI> True,</L>
<L><HI>Pious</HI> and <HI>Painful,</HI> and <HI>Obedient</HI> too.</L>
<L>Their <HI>Charity's</HI> &s;o great, as fain would Save</L>
<L>The verie&s;t <HI>Villain,</HI> and the vile&s;t <HI>Knave:</HI></L>
<L>Even &s;uch as <HI>Wrong</HI> them mo&s;t! This is their <HI>Care,</HI></L>
<L>To bring <HI>Truths Enemies</HI> to Bli&s;s by <HI>Prayer.</HI></L></Q>
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<P>HEre the <HI>Libeller</HI> boldly Praedicts&mdash; <HI>Some high offers made to the King of</HI> Spain <HI>by &s;ome Grave Saturnine States|man.</HI> He &s;eems to build his Judgement upon the <HI>Sextile</HI> of <HI>Sa|turn</HI> and <HI>Mars;</HI> And &s;o makes <HI>Mars</HI> to &s;ignifie that <HI>Monarch.</HI> But if any demand, <HI>Quo Warranto,</HI> by what Authority he doth &s;o? He hath nothing to An&s;wer. For neither is <HI>Spain</HI> it &s;elf, or yet that <HI>Catholick Prince,</HI> &s;ignified under <HI>Mars.</HI> And if he &s;ubject that <HI>Monarch</HI> to <HI>Saturn,</HI> (as &s;ome <HI>A&s;trolo|gers</HI> do, and perhaps, truly) then he makes <HI>Mars</HI> the <HI>Grave States-man,</HI> who is to propound the&s;e offers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> It is cer|tainly, <HI>Primae impre&s;sionis,</HI> the very fir&s;t time that <HI>Mars</HI> hath been term'd a <HI>Grave States-man:</HI> Nor was he ever e&s;teem'd a <HI>Politician,</HI> except in the <HI>Libellers A&s;trology;</HI> who, it &s;eems, hath got <HI>Caucus</HI>'s Art, and can make (&mdash;<HI>Candida de nigris, &amp; de candentibus atra) Saturne,</HI> the <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aring Boy,</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> the Sober Thinking <HI>Philo&s;opher.</HI>&mdash; He goes on, The <HI>Conjunction of</HI> Jupiter <HI>and</HI> Mars <HI>in</HI> Sagitary, <HI>disturbs the Cler|gy in</HI> England; <HI>I hope,</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>They are not about to put on</HI> Buff-Coats; <HI>if they do, the</HI> Souldier <HI>must wear the</HI> Black Ones. But, ble&s;&s;ed be God, we have heard <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f no &s;uch Eccle|&s;ia&s;tical War in <HI>England.</HI> And to &s;ay the Truth, his Prae|diction is without ground; For, if <HI>Cancer</HI> be the pre&s;ent <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> (as it is,) then are the <HI>Clergy</HI> thereof not under <HI>Sagitary,</HI> but <HI>Aquarius;</HI> and may <HI>wear their Black Gowns</HI> them&s;elves, if they <HI>Forfeit</HI> them not, or make them&s;elves <HI>Irregular,</HI> by Dancing after the <HI>LIBELLERS</HI> Pipe.</P>
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<DIV2 N="March" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on MARCH.</HEAD>
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<Q><L>This <HI>Papal-Power,</HI> though <HI>Envy'd</HI> by the <HI>Fiend,</HI></L>
<L>Is That will bring His <HI>Kingdom</HI> to an <HI>End,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Fiend!</HI> which &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts his <HI>Sons</HI> a broaching <HI>Lyes,</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>Cheat</HI> the <HI>Ea&s;y,</HI> and to <HI>Damn</HI> the <HI>Wi&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>Saviour's</HI> Promi&s;e to his <HI>Church</HI> is &s;ure&punc;</L>
<L>With <HI>IT</HI> He'll be, while <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon</HI> endure.</L></Q>
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<P><HI>MArch,</HI> is threat'ned by the <HI>Libeller, to be a Month of Action with a Witne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> And to bode <HI>an Earth-quake among Gown-men, both Sacred and Secular; Bi&s;hops, Judges Civilians,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>are blown up, and out of their Elements</HI> &mdash; But not one word of all this h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th <HI>proved true.</HI> Nor was it likely it &s;hould. For let us examine upon what <HI>Con|figuration</HI> he lays the weight of this <HI>Praediction;</HI> and we find it to be upon the <HI>Quadrate</HI> of the <HI>Luminaries</HI> to <HI>Ju|piter</HI> at the <HI>New Moon.</HI> But doth not every <HI>Astrologer</HI> know that <HI>Qudrates</HI> are <HI>A&s;pects</HI> but of imperfect <HI>Enmity</HI> at the mo&s;t? And that <HI>Jupiter</HI> is a Star of an Amicable and Pre&s;erving <HI>Influence</HI> Naturally? And are we not taught by the <HI>Sages</HI> of this <HI>Science,</HI> that if that good Planet hap|pen to be detrimented, (which here he is not) it doth only <HI>minuere, (i. e.)</HI> Le&s;&s;en his benefique <HI>Energie,</HI> but not <HI>per|mute</HI> his Nature? How then, I &s;ay, &s;hould &s;uch an <HI>Earth|quake</HI> have fallen out?&mdash; But the <HI>event</HI> hath an&s;wer'd his <HI>Prediction;</HI> As there was no ground for it, &s;o nothing like it hath happen'd. The <HI>Libeller</HI> is as true in what fol|lows, <HI>viz, About the third and fourth day a Surprize of &s;ome Town, Ca&s;tle, Fort,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Holland</HI> threat'ned with <HI>War,</HI> and <HI>Denmark</HI> with <HI>Inva&s;ion, England</HI> and <HI>France</HI> with <HI>Di&s;contents,</HI> &amp;c. All which have been fulfil'd <HI>per</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, to the Lying <HI>Libellers</HI> Credit.</P>
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<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on APRIL.</HEAD>
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<Q><L><HI>Rea&s;on</HI> mu&s;t yield to <HI>Faith</HI> in Sacred things;</L>
<L><HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> like good <HI>Angels,</HI> &s;till good Tidings bring.</L>
<L>'Tis for our <HI>Souls</HI> they <HI>Watch.</HI> We then &s;hould <HI>Pray</HI></L>
<L>For, not <HI>Traduce</HI> them: least we run <HI>A&s;tray</HI></L>
<L>From the great Shepherds <HI>Fold.</HI> Ungrateful men,</L>
<L>Do <HI>Crucifie</HI> the <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>Life</HI> agen.</L></Q>
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<P>THe Libeller confidently tells us,&mdash; <HI>This is a month of War too, with News of a Bloody Di&s;pute by Sea or Land, or both&mdash;</HI> But, for his <HI>Conviction</HI> there was not one word of any <HI>War,</HI> or any &s;uch <HI>Bloody Di&s;pute</HI> heard of in all this <HI>month.</HI> And yet herewith he hath threat'ned <HI>England, France, Scotland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden,</HI> and part of <HI>Germany.</HI>&mdash; The Man's chief de&s;ign is to <HI>Terrifie</HI> Eng|land, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> with <HI>War, Di&s;turbances,</HI> &amp;c. but is hitherto mi&s;taken in his mea&s;ures, as he is like to be for the Future; Maugre all his <HI>Fanatick</HI> malice. For the <HI>Zodiacal Square</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> to the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon,</HI> (he lays &s;o much &s;tre&s;s on) is &s;e|perated, even beyond the <HI>Orbs</HI> of <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>They</HI> much <HI>&s;wif|ter</HI> in motion than <HI>He.</HI> Which had the <HI>Libeller</HI> minded, he had not been guilty of this Fooli&s;h and Ridiculous <HI>menace.</HI> Well! but though he hath frighted us with fal&s;e fears of Variety of Mi&s;chiefs, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Yet he &s;ays, <HI>The</HI> Trine <HI>of the</HI> Sun <HI>and</HI> Jupiter <HI>from</HI> Sagitary <HI>and</HI> Aries, <HI>prefers &s;ome very Loyal Red Letter'd-Clergy-man, Common Lawyer, or Civilian, and that in</HI> England <HI>too.</HI> The Libeller is here turn'd <HI>Para&s;ite,</HI> and <HI>Fawns</HI> upon, and <HI>Flatters</HI> tho&s;e whom he mortally <HI>hates.</HI> Or el&s;e it may be he hath &s;ome Inter|vals of a <HI>Penitent Con&s;cience</HI> (which I wi&s;h him mo&s;t heartily, if he have not) otherwi&s;e, how can we think him in earne&s;t, when he allows of a <HI>Red-letter'd-man</HI> to be Loyal? Let him <HI>Read</HI> this <HI>Lecture</HI> to tho&s;e <HI>Gontlemen,</HI> who in their pub|lick <HI>Sermons,</HI> (and in Print too) have affirm'd the contrary. But alas! the <HI>Truth</HI> is, This <HI>Praediction</HI> came from him by way of <HI>Irony,</HI> I doubt. otherwi&s;e I could &s;hew him its ju&s;t Verification.</P>
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<DIV2 N="May" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on MAY.</HEAD>
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<Q><L>Says <HI>Truth</HI> it &s;elf,&mdash; <HI>Believe</HI> and <HI>Saved</HI> be;</L>
<L>Yet &s;how &s;ome <HI>Signs</HI> of thy <HI>Integrity</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Pious Works;</HI> By which a <HI>Chri&s;tian's</HI> known,</L>
<L>And not by Bea&s;tly <HI>Ralling Order</HI> down.</L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t</HI> came not to <HI>De&s;troy!</HI> but to fulfil</L>
<L>The <HI>Will</HI> of <HI>God:</HI> The <HI>Rule</HI> of <HI>Humane Will.</HI></L></Q>
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<P>THe <HI>Libeller</HI> is here upon the <HI>High Rope:</HI> and tells us,&mdash; That <HI>Lorain, Ireland, Ru&s;&s;ia,</HI> and <HI>Poland,</HI> are <HI>violently, threat'ned with the effects of the</HI> Suns <HI>eclip&s;e in</HI> Taurus: <HI>when</HI> Mars <HI>comes to the Square thereof in</HI> June <HI>and</HI> July, But, ble&s;&s;ed be God, we have liv'd pa&s;t tho&s;e very <HI>months</HI> and do not find <HI>Lorain Re&s;tor'd,</HI> nor <HI>Ireland Di&s;turb'd:</HI> which were the <HI>Libellers</HI> groundle&s;s <HI>Hopes.</HI> We know who he means by his <HI>Turk of Chri&s;tendom</HI> in <HI>February;</HI> but let him, as an <HI>Arti&s;t,</HI> tell me if ever he knew any <HI>Per&s;on</HI> who had the Lord of his <HI>Horo&s;cope in &s;ecunda Domo,</HI> that ever parted with any thing ea&s;ily that he got, be it hy Conque&s;t, or otherwi&s;e? And for the Affairs in <HI>Ireland,</HI> they are in a very thriving Po&s;ture, and daily like to be better. Let the <HI>Libeller</HI> read Mr. <HI>Whalley</HI>'s Judgement on that <HI>Gallant Countrey,</HI> for 1687. and be convinced&mdash; That <HI>eclip&s;es,</HI> Govern'd by <HI>Venus,</HI> are Innocuous both to Places and Per|&s;ons, unle&s;s aggravated by other Circum&s;tances.&mdash; But he concludes,&mdash; <HI>Popery will not do.</HI> And, why not, <HI>Libel|ler!</HI> If <HI>Red-letter'd-men</HI> are <HI>Loyal,</HI> as lately you allowed them.&mdash; But, <HI>'tis not good</HI> (&s;ays he) <HI>to promote it by pre|ferring Scandalous Favourers of it;</HI> I &s;ay &s;o too. But where are any &s;uch Prefer'd? If he can find any; let him produce <HI>One</HI> Hone&s;t Man of his <HI>Faction</HI> to throw the <HI>Stone.</HI> The <HI>Wretch</HI> is brim full of <HI>envy,</HI> and is much troubled that the KING hath any <HI>Loyal men</HI> fit to Serve Him. But <HI>Popery! Popery!</HI> That's the <HI>Term</HI> with all tho&s;e who know not what <HI>Religion,</HI> or <HI>Catholick</HI> is.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="June" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on JUNE.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>To <HI>Rail</HI> at <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Ban</HI> the <HI>Holy Cro&s;s.</HI></L>
<L>May purcha&s;e to thy <HI>Soul</HI> eternal <HI>Lo&s;s.</HI></L>
<L>Alas! No <HI>Inqui&s;ition</HI> here can free</L>
<L>Us, from the <HI>Aby&s;s</HI> of <HI>Eternity</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>Rome</HI> none need be <HI>Slaves!</HI> 'Tis <HI>Here&s;y</HI></L>
<L>Ingulpths our <HI>Souls!</HI> The <HI>True Church</HI> &s;ets us <HI>Free.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>NOw the <HI>Libeller</HI> doubles his Threats at <HI>London,</HI> bid|ding us remember the <HI>Sun is in</HI> Gemini, <HI>in Oppo&s;i|tion to</HI> Jupiter <HI>in</HI> Sagitary; <HI>and that it affects</HI> London <HI>about Religion, Liberty of Con&s;cience, Per&s;ecution,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; Sir, we do remember all you &s;ay very well, and affirm, <HI>&s;ecun|dum Artem,</HI> that though <HI>Jupiter</HI> be in <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Sun,</HI> &amp;c. Yet hath <HI>London</HI> felt no <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> in this Month, either for <HI>Religion,</HI> or ought el&s;e; but the plain contrary. We mu&s;t read the <HI>Libeller backward,</HI> as Men read <HI>Hebrew.</HI> In the room of <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> we enjoy <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience</HI> in the Service of God. A <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ation!</HI> that we are in|debted to <HI>Heaven</HI> for, and to a <HI>Gracious King;</HI> who is a true <HI>Nur&s;ing Father</HI> to all His People! A <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ation!</HI> This <HI>Libeller</HI> no more <HI>Fore&s;aw,</HI> than <HI>Wi&s;hed.</HI> And, now I would have the <HI>Libeller</HI> remember, That in true <HI>A&s;trology, No a&s;pects of the Fortunate Stars,</HI> (in a &s;trict &s;en&s;e) <HI>can be hurtful,</HI> much le&s;s can they <HI>change</HI> their <HI>e&s;&s;ential Virtues</HI> into Malignity, <HI>vide.</HI> S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r <HI>C. H.</HI> p. 513. The <HI>Libeller</HI> hath therefore <HI>Forged</HI> this Judgement; <HI>contra artem,</HI> on purpo&s;e to Create <HI>Di&s;turbances.</HI> S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lly Soul! to imagine that the <HI>Specifical</HI> Virtues of the <HI>Stars</HI> can be changed. They may, indeed, (as <HI>A&s;trologers,</HI> with good Rea&s;on allow) be <HI>Inten|ded,</HI> or <HI>Remitted,</HI> but never <HI>alter'd:</HI> and <HI>Magis &amp; minus non tollunt &s;peciem:</HI> Their <HI>e&s;&s;ences</HI> mu&s;t remain the <HI>&s;ame</HI> for ever.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="July" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on JULY.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>Nor can our <HI>Holy Mother</HI> give command</L>
<L>To <HI>Murder</HI> men! For, on Her <HI>Ivory</HI> Hand</L>
<L>A <HI>Spotle&s;s White</HI> is &s;een! <HI>No Blood-Stains</HI> there,</L>
<L>The <HI>Schi&s;maticks</HI> for <HI>Blood!</HI> the <HI>Church</HI> for <HI>Prayer.</HI></L>
<L>But this vain <HI>Wight</HI> believes that <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> can</L>
<L><HI>Command,</HI> what s <HI>Di&s;allow'd</HI> by th' <HI>Alcoran.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>THe <HI>Libeller</HI> tells us, <HI>Mars Retrograde, in Oppo&s;ition to the place of the la&s;t Conjunction</HI> 1682. <HI>&s;hews lo&s;s to the</HI> Turk <HI>by the arms of his enemies.</HI> But, what hath the <HI>Turk</HI> to do with <HI>Aquary</HI> and <HI>Leo?</HI> the place and oppo&s;ite of that <HI>Conjunction.</HI> I wonder he had not levell'd this Arrow again&s;t the <HI>Pope</HI> and <HI>Popery,</HI> (the only <HI>Butt</HI> or <HI>Mark</HI> of his <HI>malice!</HI>) but he had not the <HI>luck</HI> to hit on't. In truth it is of no great moment to either, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the <HI>Libeller</HI> loves to hang <HI>great Weights</HI> on <HI>little Wyers.</HI> For <HI>Mars</HI> comes every year to the <HI>place,</HI> and <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of that <HI>Conjunction,</HI> and &s;hould, by his Argument, as often put the <HI>Turk</HI> into a <HI>Feaver.</HI> But alas! <HI>Tran&s;its</HI> are but of little effect when other <HI>Influences</HI> are ab&s;ent. There are other more preva|lent <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> that <HI>menace</HI> the <HI>Turks,</HI> of which I perceive <HI>He</HI>'s ignorant; and I have not room here to inform him.&mdash; But the <HI>Libeller</HI> talks of a <HI>New Plot, and Accu&s;ations for Trea|&s;on, upon the Oppo&s;ition of</HI> Mars <HI>and</HI> Mercury; <HI>and</HI> Eng|land <HI>and</HI> France <HI>are concern'd,</HI> The Man is willing to put his <HI>fellow a&s;&s;ociates</HI> in good Heart, that when he hath &s;et us together by the <HI>Ears,</HI> they may take a <HI>trip</HI> over, to help on the <HI>Rebellion.</HI> Ungrateful <HI>Brute!</HI> Thus, without <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> to <HI>Rave</HI> again&s;t his <HI>Native Countrey,</HI> He was affraid, to take notice of the formidable <HI>Trine of the Sun and Jupiter,</HI> which, with re&s;pect to a commanding <HI>Radical con&s;titution,</HI> and other concurring Circum&s;tances, bodes <HI>England</HI> much good in Earne&s;t, and Anticipates his <HI>Plots, Trea|&s;ons,</HI> &amp;c. But this was not for the <HI>Libellers tooth</HI> to take no|tice of.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="August" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on AUGUST.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>Let <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> and all the <HI>World</HI> make known,</L>
<L>The <HI>prejudice</HI> that <HI>Prie&s;ts;</HI> as <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> have done.</L>
<L>And then <HI>con&s;ider</HI> how this <HI>Wretched Man,</HI></L>
<L>At th' <HI>Sacred</HI> Name of <HI>Prie&s;t,</HI> dare <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> and <HI>Ban,</HI></L>
<L>But <HI>They</HI> that Freedom take <HI>Gods Prie&s;ts</HI> to <HI>Cur&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Would &s;erve <HI>Kings</HI> &s;o! and (had they <HI>Power) wor&s;e.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>OUr Canting <HI>Libeller</HI> here tells us,&mdash; <HI>That from the Oppo&s;ition of the</HI> Sun <HI>and</HI> Mars <HI>la&s;t</HI> Lunation, <HI>there will be more Murders, Duels, and Violence of all &s;orts.</HI> Where by the way, I mu&s;t tell him, he's guilty of another <HI>Creti&s;m,</HI> and fal&s;e Art together. For that Oppo&s;ition was not <HI>Angular,</HI> but <HI>Cadent:</HI> Celebrated in the <HI>Twelfth</HI> and <HI>Sixth</HI> Hou&s;es: And therefore could not intimate <HI>publick Murders,</HI> or <HI>Violence,</HI> &amp;c. But rather <HI>Fears, Anxieties, Im|pri&s;onments, Sorrows, Bodily Infirmities,</HI> and the like. This he knows to be the true <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of that <HI>Oppo&s;ition,</HI> and not what he &s;ugge&s;ts. But he goes on,&mdash; Italy <HI>is under &s;ome apprehen&s;ion of Troubles;</HI> &s;ome of the <HI>Sacred Crew</HI> at <HI>Rome di&s;agree about power, precedence,</HI> &amp;c, Here the <HI>Libeller</HI> hath <HI>transfer'd</HI> a term of <HI>Art</HI> u&s;ed among <HI>Saylers, (viz.</HI> the <HI>Boat-Swain</HI> and his <HI>Crew,</HI>) to the <HI>Pope</HI> and his <HI>Cardi|nals&punc;</HI> as having ju&s;t the &s;ame (but no more) Reverence for <HI>Them.</HI>&mdash; Well! <HI>but nothing</HI> comes of <HI>it but words and talk.</HI> Nay, I dare lay a Wager with him, nor that nei|ther. For <HI>Jupiter</HI> (the Patron of the <HI>Sacred Crew,</HI> as he &s;currilou&s;ly terms them,) is in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> comforting the <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of <HI>Rome,</HI> by a Noble <HI>Trigonal</HI> Beam: And <HI>Trines</HI> never <HI>di&s;turb,</HI> but <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;t</HI> &s;uch <HI>places</HI> and <HI>per&s;ons</HI> that <HI>&s;hare</HI> in the <HI>Influence.</HI> But the <HI>Libellers</HI> Praedictions never afford any <HI>Mu&s;ick,</HI> unle&s;s the <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> bear a part, like the <HI>Dumb Jack</HI> in the <HI>Virginals.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="September" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on SEPTEMBER.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>The <HI>Voice</HI> of th' <HI>People</HI> cannot always be</L>
<L>The <HI>Voice</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> W'have &s;een the <HI>Contrary.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Frauds,</HI> and <HI>Fal&s;e Rumours</HI> have their <HI>Root</HI> in <HI>Hell.</HI></L>
<L>And 'twas for <HI>London</HI>'s <HI>Sins,</HI> that <HI>London</HI> Fell.</L>
<L>But that <HI>Rome Burnt it,</HI> Swear't who will! I Fear</L>
<L>The <HI>Martyr's Blood!</HI> made <HI>London</HI> pay &s;o <HI>Dear.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>NOw the <HI>Libeller</HI> talks of <HI>Peace and Reconciliation&punc; but that the Troubl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of</HI> Europe <HI>will not over, while the Power of the</HI> Conjunction <HI>of</HI> Saturn <HI>and</HI> Jupiter <HI>la&s;ts.&mdash; And that</HI> Mars <HI>in</HI> Aquary <HI>will irritate the Effects thereof.</HI> This is &s;omewhat of the <HI>Cuckows</HI> Note he Sung before, and for which I have already reckon'd with him. But yet I ask h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m, whether that <HI>Conjuncton</HI> be not more for <HI>quiet|ing,</HI> than <HI>creating Troubles,</HI> &s;ince <HI>Jupiter</HI> is the <HI>Ruling Planet</HI> therein? Some trouble, 'tis true, there may be to bring <HI>Beggars to the Stocks,</HI> and then to get in their Legs. But <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Unity</HI> will be the <HI>Con&s;equence</HI> of that <HI>Con|junction.</HI> And I can tell him, that after the Celebration of that <HI>Conjunction,</HI> his Patrons, <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> and <HI>Monmouth,</HI> &amp;c. never <HI>pro&s;per'd.</HI> He proceeds,&mdash; <HI>The pre&s;ent Wars &s;hall Travel from one Countrey to another, till all</HI> Europe <HI>have ta&s;ted thereof.</HI> But, (as I &s;aid) the <HI>Ruling Planet</HI> in that <HI>Conjunction,</HI> is for <HI>Peace,</HI> and for freeing us from <HI>Di&s;quiet,</HI> not fomenting it.&mdash; But lo! He changes his Scene, to <HI>Whi&s;pers an</HI> England <HI>about a Man of Quality, Old, and Infirm.</HI> Who he is, we'll tell you when the <HI>Libeller</HI> hath told us. Sure he means not Sir <HI>P. W.</HI> who plays at <HI>Hide</HI> and <HI>Seek,</HI> to avoid the Puni&s;hment due to <HI>Perjury.</HI> He's an <HI>Old Man;</HI> and was of <HI>Quality</HI> too, when he (as this <HI>Li|beller</HI>) affirm'd the <HI>Papi&s;ts Burnt</HI> London, <HI>and</HI> maliciou&s;ly Order'd it (when <HI>Mayor</HI>) to be In&s;cribed on the <HI>Monument</HI> at <HI>London-Bridge.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="October" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on OCTOBER.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>The <HI>Libeller</HI> Rails &s;till: and let them <HI>Rail;</HI></L>
<L>Try how his <HI>Bruti&s;h Morals</HI> will prevail</L>
<L>For his <HI>De&s;pi&s;ed Cau&s;e.</HI>&mdash; For <HI>Godfrey's Blood,</HI></L>
<L>Oh! that the <HI>Truth</HI> were fully under&s;tood!</L>
<L>But <HI>Prance!</HI> unhappy <HI>Prance!</HI> hath &s;o much done,</L>
<L>As (not to <HI>clear</HI> it, yet) to <HI>Quit</HI> ju&s;t <HI>Rome.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>THe <HI>Libeller</HI> tells us&mdash;<HI>The New Moon in conjunction of</HI> Sa|turn, <HI>and Square of</HI> Jupiter, <HI>concerns</HI> Germany, England, ('twere much if <HI>England</HI> &s;hould be out.) <HI>Denmark,</HI> &amp;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>about &s;uch Men and things as relate to Wars,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>becau&s;e</HI> Mars <HI>in</HI> Aquary <HI>is in Trine of them all.</HI>&mdash;What? in <HI>Trine</HI> of <HI>Ju|piter</HI> too? you mu&s;t lay your <HI>lies</HI> clo&s;er together, you'l be di&s;cover'd el&s;e. But he proceeds,&mdash;<HI>The effect will be T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea|chery, &mdash;Practiced for Villanies &s;ake</HI> (as all Treachery is, &s;ure.) <HI>It concerns the Kings of</HI> Denmark <HI>and</HI> Portugal, <HI>an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Duke of</HI> Brandenburg. And &s;o it may, and yet never hurt them, unle&s;s <HI>Trines</HI> can be turn'd into <HI>A&s;pects</HI> of <HI>enmity.</HI> &mdash;Soon after he tells us,&mdash;<HI>Of a noi&s;e about Peace and Recon|ciliation, and that the A&s;pests of the Month incline to quiet|ne&s;s.</HI> Like the <HI>Traveller</HI> in the <HI>Fable,</HI> that could blow <HI>Hot</HI> and <HI>Cold</HI> in a <HI>Breath,</HI> &amp;c. He hath Created <HI>War</HI> and <HI>Peace</HI> from the &s;ame <HI>Cau&s;es.</HI> For which his <HI>Delphian</HI> Cunning, let the <HI>Satyr</HI> be his <HI>Cen&s;urer.</HI>&mdash;He Concludes,&mdash;<HI>Some Reverend Right-Lin'd Clergy-man receives con&s;iderable referment.</HI> He di&s;tingui&s;hes of the <HI>Clergy,</HI> as <HI>Mathematicians</HI> of their <HI>Triangles;</HI> makes &s;ome <HI>Right-Lin'd,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Spherical,</HI> &amp;c. &mdash;But now, &s;uppo&s;e his <HI>Right-Lin'd Clergy-man</HI> &s;hould prove <HI>Spherical;</HI> Or, what if no &s;uch matter happen at all, as 'tis mo&s;t likely; (for <HI>Jupiter</HI> makes no perfect A&s;pect with any <HI>Planet</HI> in the whole Month, <HI>praeter Lunam.</HI>) Why then the trifling <HI>Libeller</HI> hath lo&s;t his <HI>Je&s;t.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="November" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on NOVEMBER.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, <HI>Bla&s;phemy</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> arm his <HI>Pen,</HI></L>
<L>To &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ike at <HI>God,</HI> as well as &s;cratch at <HI>Men.</HI></L>
<L>Behold an <HI>Athei&s;ts Impudence!</HI> &s;o great,</L>
<L>He Counts both <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>Prie&s;thood</HI> too, a <HI>Cheat.</HI></L>
<L>Take heed Curs'd <HI>Corah!</HI> lea&s;t thy Mother Earth</L>
<L>Do <HI>&s;wallow</HI> thee, as an <HI>untimely Birth.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>WE have often been told of <HI>Popi&s;h Ma&s;&s;acres, Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ck B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lls, Spani&s;h Pilgrimes,</HI> &amp;c. as if all the <HI>wicked Plots</HI> in the World were to be found among <HI>atholicks;</HI> and that the <HI>Prote&s;tant a&s;&s;ociating Party,</HI> were the <HI>Sheep</HI> and <HI>Doves</HI> of Nature, the very <HI>Pictures</HI> of true <HI>Innocence!</HI> But the <HI>Li|beller</HI> here proves to us, that tho&s;e pacifick <HI>Umble Bees</HI> have <HI>&s;tings,</HI> and can &s;hew them too for a need. For thus the <HI>Bloody mi&s;creant</HI> Writes,&mdash;
<Q><L>Never be <HI>bubbled</HI> by a <HI>Popi&s;h Lie,</HI></L>
<L>Rather then that, <HI>Re&s;olve, Revenge,</HI> and <HI>Die.</HI></L></Q></P>
<P>And in his Epi&s;tle to Prote&s;tants.</P>
<Q>Give not your <HI>Faith</HI> up, nor yet <HI>Tamely</HI> Die.</Q>
<P>He hath el&s;ewhere declaim'd again&s;t <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience,</HI> and here excites to <HI>Re&s;olution, Revenge,</HI> and not to <HI>Die tamely!</HI> what <HI>Rombald, Fergu&s;on,</HI> or impudent Incendiary of them all, could have vented more <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> in &s;o little <HI>Room,</HI> to have animated a <HI>Rebellion.&mdash;Re&s;olve!</HI> you have been good at this before, as appears by the Te&s;timonies, in the Hi&s;tory of the <HI>Rye-Hou&s;e</HI> Con&s;piracy again&s;t you; which your <HI>Flight</HI> and pre&s;ent <HI>Malice</HI> prove to be true.&mdash;<HI>Revenge!</HI> on whom? who hath done you wrong? not <HI>tamely Die!</HI> how comes your <HI>Life</HI> in Que&s;tion, unle&s;s you have forfeited it by your <HI>Trea&s;ons?</HI> &mdash;Give not your <HI>Faith</HI> up! &mdash;What <HI>Faith</HI> hath an <HI>Athei&s;t</HI> to loo&s;e? &mdash;<HI>Sir,</HI> your <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> haunts you, and ever will, for your <HI>Trea&s;onous</HI> and <HI>wicked contrivances</HI> again&s;t your <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Country.</HI> 'Tis in that <HI>Gla&s;s</HI> you behold your <HI>wicked Actions,</HI> and thence proceeds your <HI>Di&s;tracted Fears.</HI></P>
<P>There's little el&s;e in <HI>November</HI> worth minding; &s;ave that the <HI>Libeller</HI> makes the Planet <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs</HI> a <HI>Don-Quixet,</HI> and &s;ets him a <HI>Fighting</HI> by him&s;elf.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="December" TYPE="month">
<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on DECEMBER.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>The <HI>Canting Varlet</HI> thinks he hath done well;</L>
<L>To <HI>Grin</HI> at <HI>God,</HI> and 'gain&s;t his <HI>King</HI> Rebell:</L>
<L>And, for to <HI>Menace</HI> Gods true <HI>Church</HI> again,</L>
<L>Rai&s;es his <HI>Raptures</HI> to a higher &s;train:</L>
<L>And boldly <HI>boa&s;ts</HI> her certain <HI>down-fall</HI> here;</L>
<L>When nothing like the <HI>Contrary's</HI> more <HI>clear.</HI></L></Q>
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<P>FRom the la&s;t <HI>New Moon</HI> being in <HI>Sagitary,</HI> in <HI>Square</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> and in <HI>Conjunction</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> at the <HI>Fir&s;t Quarter.</HI> The <HI>Libeller</HI> Predicts&mdash;<HI>Per&s;ecution for Religion, or &s;ome New Invention to puni&s;h people for difference in opinion from tho&s;e in Power; but whether it extend to life or le&s;&s;er pain, he cannot determine.</HI> And therein he's wary.&mdash;But Sir! your <HI>Art</HI> teaches you that Per&s;ecution proceeds not from particular <HI>Lunations,</HI> but <HI>General Con&s;titutions.</HI> Con&s;ult your <HI>skill</HI> again, and tell me, are not the two <HI>Superiours</HI> in <HI>Cardinal Signes?</HI> and is not <HI>Saturn</HI> in friendly A&s;pect to the late <HI>triple Conjunction</HI> of <HI>him,</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Leo?</HI>&mdash;I affirm, that in &s;tead of the <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> this Libeller threatens us with, that the <HI>Actions</HI> of this <HI>Month,</HI> and the la&s;t al&s;o, with &s;ome Months &s;ucceeding, will make for the <HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>ea&s;e</HI> of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> and the <HI>Pious,</HI> (yet Warlike) Ruler thereof. And this the <HI>Libeller</HI> might have known, had he con&s;ider'd <HI>Revo|lutions</HI> and <HI>Profections,</HI> and compared them with the great <HI>triple ruling Conjunction.</HI> But I will not charge the <HI>Libeller</HI> as guilty of the knowledge of &s;o much <HI>A&s;trology,</HI> as goes to the under&s;tanding of <HI>Cardan's&mdash;Multiplicatio effectus Siderum Secreta.</HI>&mdash;He &s;ays, <HI>The &s;quare of the Sun and Mars incline to down-right Murther,</HI> &amp;c. But this mu&s;t needs prove <HI>fal&s;e;</HI> The Planets &s;quaring being govern'd by <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and nei|ther of them in <HI>Interficient</HI> Decades, or Terms.</P>
<P>Thus have I done with the <HI>Libellers monthly Predictions</HI> and <HI>Poetry,</HI> (or <HI>Ravings</HI> rather,) full Fraught with <HI>Fal&s;hood, Trea&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Bla&s;phemy;</HI> and of &s;o <HI>black</HI> a <HI>Die,</HI> that all the Water between <HI>Us</HI> and <HI>Holland</HI> will never be able to <HI>wa&s;h</HI> away.</P>
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<PB N="2" REF="10">
<HEAD>THE <HI>LIBELLERS</HI> Lying Chronology EXAMINED.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Since <HI>Phocas Murther'd</HI> his <HI>Ma&s;ter,</HI> and his <HI>Children,</HI> got the <HI>Empire,</HI> and then <HI>Piou&s;ly</HI> &s;et up the <HI>Pope. 1085.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS if there had never been a <HI>Pope</HI> until the time of <HI>Phocas.</HI> An egregious, yet plea&s;ant fal&s;hood! The Man &s;ure never &s;aw <HI>Platina,</HI> or <HI>Heylin.</HI> &mdash;But here the &s;tory of <HI>Phocas</HI> out of <HI>Fox.</HI> &mdash;<Q>This <HI>Phocas</HI> comming up to be <HI>Emperour,</HI>&mdash;Thinking to e&s;tabli&s;h his Empire with friend&s;hip and favour of his peo|ple, and e&s;pecially with <HI>Boniface</HI> the Third, the <HI>Bi&s;hop of Rome,</HI> quickly conde&s;cended to all his <HI>Petitions,</HI> and &s;o granted him, (as it is &s;aid (mark it!) to be, that he would) the <HI>Univer&s;al</HI> and <HI>Head Bi&s;hop</HI> over all <HI>Christian Churches.</HI></Q> So that you &s;ee <HI>Phocas</HI> did not <HI>make</HI> Boniface <HI>Pope,</HI> but <HI>found</HI> him &s;o. Only, for quieting of differences between the <HI>two</HI> (then) contending <HI>Intere&s;ts,</HI> he ju&s;tly pre&s;erv'd the <HI>Title</HI> of <HI>Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop</HI> to the <HI>See</HI> of <HI>Rome.</HI> We wi&s;h that had been the wor&s;t act of which <HI>Phocas</HI> had been guilty. He was, 'tis true, a <HI>wicked Man,</HI> and came to a <HI>&s;uitable</HI> end. God is ever ju&s;t.&mdash;But <HI>Fox,</HI> (&s;o by Nature, as well as Name) as knowing the <HI>fal&s;hood</HI> of his <HI>Relation,</HI> claps in the <HI>Paren|the&s;is,</HI> (as it is &s;aid) to <HI>e&s;cape</HI> by, in ca&s;e of pur&s;uit. For he knew well enough that the <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> did never di&s;pute the <HI>Title</HI> of <HI>Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop,</HI> with the <HI>Bi&s;hop of Rome.</HI> Neither did that <HI>Title</HI> begin (by <HI>Phocas</HI>) to be attributed to the <HI>Pope,</HI> but from the time of the Emperour <HI>Marcian;</HI> above an 150 years before <HI>Phocas,</HI> it had been <HI>exhibited</HI> to <HI>Him</HI> in the Council of <HI>Chalcedon.</HI> And, after that, under the Emperour <HI>Ju&s;tinian:</HI> above 50 years before the time of
<PB N="3" REF="10"> <HI>Phocas,</HI> it had been given him in <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> it &s;elf. So that <HI>Phocas</HI> was as far from <HI>Piou&s;ly</HI> &s;etting up the <HI>Pope,</HI> as this <HI>Libeller</HI> is from &s;etting out the <HI>Truth.&mdash;Vide Fox, Vol.</HI> 1. <HI>p.</HI> 155. and <HI>Card. Perron's</HI> Reply to <HI>K. James</HI> I, <HI>lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 7.</P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>Popi&s;h Powder Trea&s;on Nov.</HI> 5. at which time all the <HI>Protestant Nobility</HI> and <HI>Gentry</HI> were to be <HI>murder'd</HI> in the <HI>Parliament Hou&s;e.</HI> 82.</HEAD>
<P>IF this were really a <HI>Plot</HI> of the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> hatching, (we do not deny but there were &s;ome deluded <HI>Catholicks</HI> in it&punc; and <HI>&s;uffer'd</HI> for it,) it was the mo&s;t <HI>ridiculous</HI> (next to <HI>Oates</HI>'s Plot) that ever was heard of. For there was no manner of <HI>Provi&s;ion</HI> made for <HI>Security</HI> of their own <HI>Friends.</HI> Be&s;ides, it was a <HI>Catholick Lord, (viz.</HI> the Lord <HI>Mount-Eagle</HI>) that <HI>di&s;cover'd</HI> it by a <HI>Letter</HI> &s;ent to him. A great &s;ign that all the Eminent <HI>Catholicks</HI> were not concern'd (except <HI>pa&s;&s;ively</HI>) in that <HI>horrid Contrivance.</HI> And had the <HI>de&s;ign</HI> taken the pretended effect, the <HI>Popi&s;h Powder</HI> (as the <HI>Libeller</HI> idly terms it) could never have di&s;tingui&s;h'd between <HI>Catholicks</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tants:</HI> So that the <HI>Popi&s;h Nobility</HI> and <HI>Gentry,</HI> mu&s;t have been <HI>murther'd</HI> al&s;o. But be it as it will, I will, &s;ing in <HI>Con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rt</HI> with the late Loyal Sir <HI>George Wharton.</HI>&mdash;
<Q><L>Twit <HI>Rome</HI> no longer with the <HI>Powder-Plot,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Doctrine</HI> is half <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and half <HI>Scot.</HI></L></Q></P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>City of</HI> London was <HI>Burnt,</HI> by <HI>whom</HI> 'tis well known. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">21.</HEAD>
<P>I wi&s;h it were! The <HI>dreadful,</HI> and never to be forgotten <HI>Fire</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> began <HI>September</HI> the 2, 1666. Many noi&s;es and rumours were &s;pread concerning the <HI>cau&s;e</HI> thereof. Some, affirming the <HI>Papists</HI> did it. Others, the <HI>Fanaticks.</HI> Others, not &s;ticking to &s;ay, it was the <HI>King</HI> him&s;elf. Whether will not <HI>malice</HI> read the <HI>Ra&s;cality?</HI>&mdash; If the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> did it, they were the mo&s;t <HI>imprudent men</HI> in the World; &s;ince as well their <HI>Protection,</HI> as <HI>Riches,</HI> and <HI>Relations,</HI> being in <HI>London,</HI> they mu&s;t in &s;uch an <HI>Action</HI> labour'd the <HI>Rnine</HI> of them&s;elves. If it were done by any <HI>Power</HI> then that of <HI>Hea|ven,</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="11"> I have great rea&s;on to believe, that, not the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> but <HI>Phanaticks</HI> were the in&s;truments. For in a <HI>Gazet</HI> of <HI>April</HI> 1666. I read, <HI>That &s;ome of the Republican Party,</HI> (as confe&s;&s;ed by &s;ome of them, then <HI>dying</HI> for <HI>Trea&s;on.) by con|&s;ulting</HI> Lilly's <HI>Almanack of that year, found</HI> September <HI>to be a month fit for their de&s;tructive and Rebellions purpo&s;es again&s;t the King and Government.</HI>&mdash;Albeit, it &s;eems clear to me (if I may not offend in &s;aying &s;o,) that had not the hand of <HI>Heaven</HI> mo&s;t manife&s;tly appear'd therein, &s;o <HI>va&s;t</HI> and <HI>prodigious</HI> a <HI>Fire,</HI> could never have happ'ned in &s;o <HI>&s;hort a time.</HI> I make no doubt but the good, (or rather bad) <HI>wi&s;hes,</HI> and perhaps, the <HI>Actions</HI> too, of &s;ome <HI>enemies</HI> to <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Kingdom</HI> might not be wanting. But that <HI>Heaven</HI> had a great hand in it, is very plain, to all rea&s;onable and con&s;idering Men. Seeing this <HI>di&s;mal Accident</HI> was preceded by a more then ordinary <HI>dry Summer,</HI> preparing the Hou|&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of that Glorious <HI>City,</HI> fit for the con&s;uming <HI>Flames;</HI> And at the very time of its commencement, and all the time of its continuance al&s;o, a mighty <HI>Ea&s;t-Wind</HI> prevail'd. So that neither the &s;tately Structures of <HI>Churches</HI> and <HI>Halls,</HI> and other Sumptuous and Noble <HI>Edifices,</HI> were able to give a check, or oppo&s;ition thereunto. But lo! at la&s;t, when as we may ju&s;tly conceive its <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> for <HI>De&s;truction,</HI> began to <HI>expire,</HI> the <HI>Wind</HI> changed, and the <HI>Fire</HI> ceas'd to <HI>rage,</HI> and &s;top'd even at <HI>Paper Buildings,</HI> as it were, or Hou&s;es (otherwi&s;e) unable to oppo&s;e &s;o mighty a <HI>Devourer.</HI> I am morally a&s;&s;ured, that, had there not been <HI>digitus Dei</HI> in it, &s;hould <HI>Ten</HI> &s;everal Per&s;ons with Authority, have gone to <HI>Ten</HI> &s;everal equi-di&s;tant <HI>Places</HI> of that great <HI>City,</HI> on purpo&s;e to <HI>de&s;troy</HI> it; They could never (without the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;uch a <HI>Wind</HI> and <HI>Drought</HI>) have ruin'd &s;o many &s;tately <HI>Edifices,</HI> and &s;o many <HI>Thou&s;and Hou&s;es</HI> in &s;o &s;hort a time.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, this dreadful Fire was long &s;ince Prophecy'd of by <HI>Michael No&s;tradamus,</HI> and (to &s;hew that all <HI>Proph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cies</HI> are not to be &s;lighted) the very <HI>Time</HI> and <HI>Propinquate cau&s;e</HI> thereof was expre&s;&s;ed by him, as you may find, <HI>Cent.</HI> 2, <HI>Stanz.</HI> 51.</P>
<Q><L>Le Sang du ju&s;te a Londres fera faut,</L>
<L>Bru&s;lez par feu, de vingt &amp; trois les &s;ix, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L></Q>
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<P>Which may admit of this <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>For</HI> Blood <HI>of th'</HI> ju&s;t <HI>fair</HI> London, Fire <HI>&s;hall</HI> vex,</L>
<L>Which happen <HI>will,</HI> in the year <HI>Sixty Six,</HI> &amp;c.</L></Q>
<P>By the <HI>Blood</HI> of the <HI>Ju&s;t,</HI> mu&s;t be meant the <HI>Blood</HI> of that Ble&s;&s;ed Martyr <HI>King</HI> CHARLES the I. who was barba|rou&s;ly <HI>murther'd</HI> at his own Door, <HI>January</HI> 30, 1648 &mdash;Nay, to add t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this, I can truly affirm, That amazing <HI>Accident</HI> was <HI>Predicted</HI> in two <HI>Almanacks,</HI> wrote near a Twelve-Month before it happen'd; <HI>viz Trigg,</HI> and <HI>another;</HI> in which later; the <HI>Prediction</HI> was expung'd by the <HI>Licen&s;er.</HI> But let any &s;tupendious Accident what&s;oever befall us, whether from <HI>Heaven,</HI> or by <HI>men,</HI> the <HI>Libeller</HI> is certain to Father all on the <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI> And, be &s;ure al&s;o, that he means the <HI>Engli&s;h Papi&s;ts,</HI> the natural Subjects of the <HI>King</HI> of <HI>England.</HI> Where|as <HI>Hubert,</HI> (that died for the <HI>Fact</HI>) was a <HI>Foreigner,</HI> and a <HI>French-man.</HI> And 'tis ea&s;ie to remember, that <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France</HI> were then in <HI>Ho&s;tility,</HI> they joyning the <HI>Hollander</HI> again&s;t us. Now, what an <HI>enemy</HI> doth, (in ca&s;e <HI>Hubert</HI> did it, which the <HI>Ob&s;ervator</HI> proves not po&s;&s;ible, by &s;undry <HI>De|mon&s;trative Rea&s;ons.</HI>) is not to be imputed to <HI>Religion,</HI> but to the <HI>fewd</HI> and <HI>di&s;tance</HI> between the <HI>parties</HI> concern'd.</P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>Popi&s;h Ma&s;&s;acre in Ireland,</HI> where 300000 <HI>Prote|&s;tants</HI> were <HI>murder'd,</HI> and this done by <HI>Authority.</HI> 46.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Libeller</HI> had done well, if he had nam'd the <HI>Au|thority.</HI> If any Authority Commanded &s;o <HI>Barbarous</HI> an Act, it mu&s;t be either <HI>lawful,</HI> or <HI>un-lawful.</HI> If the <HI>later,</HI> all <HI>good men</HI> will <HI>bewail</HI> the <HI>misfortune,</HI> as much as the <HI>Libeller.</HI> For then it is <HI>Vis,</HI> not <HI>Jus.</HI> And <HI>Force</HI> and <HI>Vio|lence</HI> may <HI>effect</HI> what <HI>Law</HI> or <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> will not <HI>ju&s;tifie.</HI> But if the <HI>Former,</HI> I would fain know of the <HI>Libeller</HI> (when he hath con&s;ulted his <HI>Ca&s;ui&s;ts</HI>) how Men acting under a <HI>lawful</HI> Au|thority, and not going beyond their <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> can be guilty of <HI>murther?</HI> And if they exceed their <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> they cea&s;e to be <HI>Sons</HI> of a <HI>lawful Authority,</HI> and adopt them&s;elves <HI>Heirs</HI> of <HI>violence.</HI> Moreover, I require of
<PB N="6" REF="12"> him to poduce <HI>one Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> from any <HI>Lawful Authority</HI> for the Proof of what he boldly thus a&s;&s;erts: wherein I doubt, he'll be as much to &s;eek, as his Friend <HI>Titus</HI> was, to procure <HI>one</HI> of <HI>Paulus de Oliva</HI>'s <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions</HI> for the &s;upport of his <HI>Damnable</HI> PLOT. This piece of <HI>Chronology</HI> mu&s;t pa&s;s therefore for a <HI>Horrid Scandal</HI> upon all the Loyal Party in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and likewi&s;e upon the Sacred memory of that Pious Prince and Martyr, King <HI>Charles</HI> I. Moreover, I have read many of the Pamphlets of tho&s;e times, and all the Printed Papers that pa&s;&s;ed between the two Illu&s;trious and thrice Noble Lords, <HI>viz.</HI> the Duke of <HI>Ormond</HI> his Grace, and the late Earl of <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> as al&s;o the <HI>Memoires</HI> of the late Right Honourable Earl of <HI>Castlehaven,</HI> relating to the Troubles of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and find nothing in any of them to countenance what the <HI>Libeller</HI> maliciou&s;ly &s;ugge&s;ts. This therefore I brand for a <HI>Horrid Fal&s;hood;</HI> though I remember the <HI>Mobilee</HI> were then &s;trangely frighted with <HI>Mon&s;trous Pictures,</HI> as if all the <HI>Ten Per&s;ecutions</HI> were there, and only there extant.</P>
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<HEAD>Sir <HI>Edumndbury Godfrey</HI> was murder'd at <HI>So|mer&s;et-Hou&s;e. 9</HI></HEAD>
<P>GOd forbid that this &s;hould be true, though <HI>Bedloe</HI> and others have <HI>Sworn</HI> it! The <HI>Libeller</HI> Prints this with as a&s;&s;ured a Confidence, as if he had been <HI>One</HI> of the <HI>murder|ers;</HI> or, a <HI>Sharer</HI> in the 2000 <HI>l.</HI> which <HI>Bedloe</HI> has Sworn to be offer'd for carrying away the <HI>Dead Body</HI> Mon&s;trous Villain! that dares be &s;o <HI>po&s;itive</HI> in a matter &s;o <HI>Ob&s;cure!</HI> the non knowledge whereof is as much the Amazement of the World, as the non-di&s;covery of the <HI>Vizzarded Villains</HI> who were on the <HI>Scaffold, January</HI> the 30th. 1648. when King <HI>Charles</HI> I. was <HI>murder'd.</HI></P>
<P>It was an unhappine&s;s in a <HI>greater,</HI> and much more Lear|ned <HI>Per&s;on</HI> than the <HI>Libeller, viz.</HI> He that <HI>Preach'd</HI> this un|fortunate Gentleman's <HI>Funeral Sermon,</HI> (Oh! the <HI>Witch|craft</HI> of <HI>Credulity</HI>) as to lay the <HI>murder</HI> on the <HI>Papi&s;ts;</HI> and this too, before any <HI>Evidence</HI> appear'd to ju&s;tifie the <HI>Fact.</HI> The <HI>Sermon</HI> was Preach'd <HI>October</HI> the 31&s;t. 1678. But
<PB N="7" REF="12"> <HI>William Bedloe</HI> did not <HI>accu&s;e</HI> him&s;elf publickly of that <HI>Hor|rid murder,</HI> untill <HI>November</HI> the 7. following. And 'tis well known, that <HI>Miles Prance</HI> came not in until <HI>December</HI> the 22. following.&mdash; As for <HI>Bedloe,</HI> I leave him to be dealt with by the <HI>Righteous Judge</HI> of Heaven and Earth Yet, may we rea&s;onably be convinc'd, That <HI>Pardon, Pen&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>Money</HI> in Hand, are very great <HI>Temptations</HI> to Men of no Con&s;ci|ence, and needy too. But for <HI>Prance,</HI> he hath own'd his <HI>Perjury,</HI> and been <HI>puni&s;hed</HI> for it. And I wi&s;h that others concern'd in that Barbarous <HI>murder,</HI> would di&s;cover the <HI>Truth</HI> thereof, for their <HI>Souls Health,</HI> and <HI>Satisfaction</HI> of the <HI>Deluded</HI> World; and implore the <HI>pardon</HI> of <HI>Heaven,</HI> and that of His Gracious <HI>Majesty,</HI> for their concealment of &s;o horrid a <HI>Crime</HI> &s;o long, to the provoking of <HI>Gods Judge|ments,</HI> and pulling them down upon us. But though my <HI>Gentleman</HI> be &s;o <HI>po&s;itive</HI> as to name the place, where, this <HI>Villanous murder</HI> was committed, yet could I never meet with any who would believe that a <HI>Ju&s;tice of Peace</HI> &s;hould be <HI>Decoy'd</HI> down thither to part a couple of <HI>Rude Fellows,</HI> that were <HI>Fighting</HI> (for&s;ooth!) at Nine a Clock at Night. If they had been <HI>Fighting</HI> in the <HI>Ju&s;tices Hall,</HI> 'tis true, his <HI>Authority</HI> might have allay'd the <HI>Fray:</HI> but abroad, what could he do? How &s;hould he be acknowledg'd? Meer <HI>Stories.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>That Pious Prince, <HI>Charles II.</HI> died a <HI>Roman Catho|lick,</HI> and yet <HI>Head</HI> of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England. 2.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd yet <HI>Head</HI> of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England!</HI> Yes, <HI>Libeller&punc;</HI> this good <HI>King</HI> did <HI>Die</HI> a <HI>Roman Catholick,</HI> and yet <HI>Head</HI> of the Church of <HI>England.</HI> Why not? What have you to do with <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience,</HI> if you will not allow it your <HI>Prince?</HI> What Infamy is it to <HI>Die</HI> a <HI>Roman Catholick?</HI> The <HI>Libeller</HI> and the <HI>Heard,</HI> think their ca&s;e <HI>De&s;perate:</HI> But what Learned man ever &s;aid &s;o? Do they not rather &s;ay, even <HI>They</HI> of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> that <HI>They</HI> come nearer <HI>Primitive Christianity</HI> than the <HI>De&s;&s;enters?</HI> He <HI>Died</HI> a <HI>Ro|man Catholick!</HI> He knew what was be&s;t to do. But He <HI>pro|fe&s;t</HI> it not all His <HI>life.</HI> Wretched <HI>Traytors!</HI> who Plotted
<PB N="8" REF="13"> again&s;t His <HI>precious life,</HI> even while he was not declar'd to the contrary. You know whereabout I am; the <HI>Rye-Hou&s;e Con&s;piracy,</HI> you <HI>Varlet!</HI> You were <HI>One</HI> that <HI>Flatter'd</HI> up and down in that <HI>Black De&s;ign.</HI> In the mean while the Church of <HI>England</HI> is beholding to you very much, who <HI>Grind</HI> your <HI>Teeth</HI> at the mention of It, as at your <HI>Sovereign.</HI> A <HI>Viper</HI> that hi&s;&s;es at all that are better than it &s;elf. Our pre&s;ent Pi|ous <HI>Monarch</HI> lives a <HI>Catholick,</HI> (and long &s;o <HI>God</HI> grant Him to <HI>live!</HI>) and yet <HI>Head</HI> of the Church of <HI>England.</HI> His Head&s;hip over the Church of <HI>England,</HI> is no more a <HI>Bar</HI> to His <HI>living,</HI> or <HI>dying</HI> a Member of the <HI>Catholick Church,</HI> (A <HI>Church,</HI> that built all the Famous <HI>Churches</HI> in <HI>England!</HI>) than His <HI>Supremacy</HI> over the <HI>Presbyterian</HI> and <HI>Congregatio|nal A&s;&s;emblies,</HI> &amp;c. All the People of <HI>England</HI> being <HI>Equal|ly</HI> His <HI>Subjects,</HI> even as to their Religious Wor&s;hip&punc; (if out of the Pale of the <HI>Univer&s;al Church,</HI>) and for the <HI>practice</HI> thereof, are accountable to Him as their <HI>Sovereign.</HI> But lea&s;t this <HI>Libeller</HI> &s;hould not truly under&s;tand what the Church of <HI>England</HI> is! I refer him to a very Rational Di&s;|cour&s;e lately Publi&s;hed, Entituled, GOOD ADVICE, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>JAMES II.</HI> took His <HI>Coronation Oath,</HI> and was Crown|ed <HI>King</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter. 2.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is very true, that this mo&s;t Excellent and greatly <HI>Suf|fering Prince,</HI> as He was the <HI>lawful Heir,</HI> is now (by Gods wonderful Providence, Maugre the Malice of all <HI>Exclu&s;io|ners) Monarch</HI> of <HI>Great Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &amp;c. and as &s;uch, was Crowned at <HI>Westmin&s;ter,</HI> on <HI>April</HI> the 23. 1685. And then, and there did take an <HI>Oath,</HI> called the <HI>Coronation Oath,</HI> as the <HI>Libeller</HI> intimates. What then? was it not of His own <HI>Free Choice?</HI> He was <HI>King</HI> of <HI>England</HI> without it. And, tho' it hath been <HI>Customary</HI> for the <HI>Kings</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> (I think &s;ince the time of King <HI>Richard</HI> I.) to take an <HI>Oath</HI> at their <HI>Coronation,</HI> it is not of irre&s;i&s;table <HI>Obligation,</HI> but <HI>prudence</HI> and <HI>Humanity</HI> that they do &s;o. As Sir <HI>R. Filmore</HI> hath fully proved. <HI>Kings</HI> have their <HI>Patents</HI> from <HI>Heaven,</HI> not <HI>Men.</HI> They are Founded in the Law of <HI>Nature</HI> upon <HI>Paternal Right.</HI> The <HI>Coronation</HI> makes not
<PB N="9" REF="13"> the <HI>King,</HI> but only declares the <HI>Sovereign.</HI> 'Tis <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> to Act again&s;t the <HI>King,</HI> even before He is <HI>Crown'd</HI> But this Sawcy <HI>Rebel</HI> intimates a <HI>Violation</HI> of that <HI>Oath.</HI> Wherein? In wi&s;hing <HI>Well</HI> to what he thinks <HI>Right,</HI> and to which that very <HI>Oath</HI> obliges? In maintaining the Church of <HI>England, &s;tatu quo?</HI> In his <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ation</HI> for <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience?</HI> Let the People be Judge who enjoy the benefit of that <HI>In|dulgence;</HI> when that your &s;elf may come and hold forth, if you were not <HI>Obnoxious</HI> on other <HI>Accounts.</HI> In the mean while, now you talk of <HI>Oaths,</HI> and their <HI>Violation,</HI> but who regards the <HI>Oath</HI> that concerns them? the <HI>Oath</HI> of their <HI>Al|legiance?</HI> This <HI>Libeller</HI>'s <HI>Fled</HI> to <HI>Holland</HI> for his <HI>Allegiance;</HI> Will you believe it?</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Judge STREET.</HI> and&mdash;00000000000&mdash; <HI>Tre&s;ilian,</HI> &amp;c, 1.</HEAD>
<P>HEre the <HI>Libeller</HI> acco&s;ts us with a <HI>Riddle</HI> under pre|tence of a piece of <HI>Chronology.</HI> But we want not an <HI>Oedipus</HI> to unfold it. He &s;eems by this <HI>Aenigma</HI> to menace <HI>Eleven</HI> of the <HI>Twelve</HI> Reverend <HI>Judges</HI> of the Nation. But <HI>One</HI> of them he hath mercy for; (impudent Varlet!) that I believe will &s;carce give him <HI>Thanks</HI> for his <HI>Civility.</HI> Howbe|it, the other <HI>Eleven,</HI> under&s;tood by his <HI>Eleven Cyphers,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>Tre&s;ilianiz'd,</HI> (i. e.) in plain <HI>Engli&s;h, Hang'd.</HI> [The <HI>Libeller</HI> knows who&s;e <HI>De&s;tiny</HI> that is, if his <HI>Nativity</HI> belie him not.] How dares this <HI>Fellow</HI> thus pre&s;ume to <HI>&s;it</HI> in <HI>Judge|ment</HI> upon the Learned and Loyal <HI>Judges!</HI> What have tho&s;e Reverend <HI>Sages</HI> done, as de&s;erves thus to be <HI>Libel'd?</HI> They all mo&s;t happily draw in a <HI>Yoak</HI> together for the good of the King and Kingdom. That <HI>One Worthy Per&s;on</HI> he men|tions, as well as the <HI>other Eleven.</HI> There are no <HI>Di&s;&s;enters</HI> among Them. 'Tis therefore a notorious boldne&s;s in the <HI>Libeller</HI> thus to <HI>Divide</HI> Them. As if <HI>Eleven</HI> of Them had agreed to do &s;ome <HI>Horrid Act,</HI> and that the other <HI>One</HI> &s;hould oppo&s;e Them. A nefarious in&s;inuation! to make our Neigh|bour Nations believe there's a <HI>Faction</HI> among&s;t our <HI>Judges:</HI> and that <HI>Eleven</HI> of them have <HI>Forfeited</HI> their <HI>Lives</HI> by going again&s;t the <HI>Law,</HI> and mu&s;t therefore follow the <HI>Fate</HI> of <HI>Tre&s;ilion;</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<P>As for Sir <HI>Roberet Tre&s;ilian,</HI> and the re&s;t of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Judges</HI> in the Reign of King <HI>Richard</HI> II. They came to be cen&s;ur'd, not for their <HI>Loyal Advice</HI> to the <HI>King,</HI> but for giving him <HI>Contradictory Advice,</HI> and renouncing their fir&s;t given Coun|cel. <HI>Adulation</HI> in <HI>Future advice</HI> and Gro&s;s <HI>abu&s;es</HI> of the <HI>Com|monalty,</HI> were tho&s;e <HI>Judges Crimes.</HI> For it is Recorded in <HI>Stow, Baker,</HI> and others,&mdash; That Sir <HI>Robert Tre&s;ilian,</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>Judges,</HI> had given the King <HI>Councel</HI> in his <HI>Parliament;</HI> and out of <HI>Parliament</HI> gave him <HI>advice</HI> quite contrary thereunto. Be&s;ides, Judge <HI>Tre&s;ilian</HI> is Noted for a Man of more <HI>Craft</HI> and <HI>Cruelty,</HI> than <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Integrity;</HI> and that at his coming to <HI>Coventry,</HI> he <HI>Indicted</HI> no le&s;s than 2000 Per&s;ons at once. An <HI>action</HI> &s;ufficient to <HI>consternate</HI> the whole <HI>Kingdom.</HI> Nay, he was al&s;o in a <HI>Con&s;piracy</HI> with the Duke of <HI>Ireland,</HI> Earl of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> &amp;c. to de&s;troy the Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> the <HI>Kings Uncle,</HI> and the mo&s;t Powerful <HI>Subject</HI> of that Age. Thus the <HI>Indignation</HI> and <HI>Fury,</HI> not only of the <HI>Commonalty,</HI> but of the <HI>Gentry</HI> and <HI>Nobility</HI> likewi&s;e, came to be heightened again&s;t Sir <HI>Robert Tre&s;ilian,</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>Judges</HI> of tho&s;e days.</P>
<P>But, what is all this to the Reverend <HI>Judges</HI> of our Time? What have <HI>They</HI> done that looks <HI>Parallel</HI> to the Actions of <HI>Tre&s;ilian?</HI> with whom have <HI>They</HI> Con&s;pir'd? or again&s;t whom? What Countries have they injur'd? What <HI>Single per&s;on</HI> have <HI>They</HI> oppre&s;s'd? Or, wherein have <HI>They contra|dicted Them&s;elves,</HI> or given <HI>double</HI> Advice? Speak! Infamous <HI>Libeller!</HI> that <HI>They</HI> &s;hould be thus <HI>Menac'd</HI> with <HI>Tre&s;ilian?</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The <HI>King</HI> could di&s;pence with the <HI>Te&s;t,</HI> and all <HI>Laws.&mdash; 1.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HEre we meet with a Reflective <HI>Irony,</HI> and Gro&s;s <HI>Fal&s;e|hood</HI> together. The <HI>Libeller</HI> fir&s;t <HI>Scoff's</HI> at the King's <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ing</HI> Power, and then tells us, 'tis but <HI>One Year</HI> &s;ince He could <HI>di&s;pen&s;e</HI> with <HI>all Laws.</HI>&mdash; If the <HI>King</HI> had not a <HI>di|&s;pen&s;ing</HI> Power by virtue of His <HI>Prerogative Royal,</HI> the <HI>Subject</HI> were in a mo&s;t unhappy <HI>Deplorable condition.</HI> As many of them mu&s;t have &s;adly experienc'd, even &s;ince His Maje&s;ties <HI>acce&s;s</HI> to His <HI>Throne,</HI> who, by due form of Law mu&s;t have peri&s;hed, had not the <HI>Royal Mercy</HI> interpos'd for their
<PB N="11" REF="14"> Safety. <HI>Summum jus, Summa injunia.</HI> The Laws are &s;trict; <HI>Malice</HI> of Enemies boundle&s;s; and many there are that delight to make a <HI>Man</HI> an <HI>Offender</HI> for a <HI>Word.</HI> The <HI>Judge</HI> and <HI>Jury</HI> go according to <HI>Evidence:</HI> and it is ju&s;t they &s;hould do &s;o. But &s;uppo&s;e the <HI>Evidence</HI> to be a <HI>Plotting</HI> Politi|cian, who&s;e <HI>Tongue</HI> is to be purchas'd by a <HI>Bribe;</HI> Or, what if he be a downright <HI>Enemy;</HI> He Swears for the <HI>King:</HI> The <HI>Pri&s;oner</HI>'s Condemn'd, and (let him be never &s;o Innocent) it is not in the Power of the <HI>Judge</HI> to Save him. We have had liberal <HI>Demon&s;tration</HI> hereof in <HI>Otes's</HI> Reign. What think we now? What's fit to be done in &s;o <HI>hard</HI> a Ca&s;e? If the <HI>King,</HI> as Grand <HI>Tru&s;tee</HI> of all His <HI>Subjects Lives,</HI> have not a <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ing Power,</HI> Envy and Fal&s;hood prevail, becau&s;e given in <HI>Evidence, &s;econdum Laegem,</HI> and an Hone&s;t Inno|cent <HI>Subject</HI> is Lo&s;t. Certainly, in &s;uch a <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> both <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Religion</HI> allow of a <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ing Power</HI> in the <HI>King?</HI> El&s;e He cannot be &s;aid to be exactly like <HI>God,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Vicegerent</HI> He is, as wanting Power to extend <HI>Mercy</HI> to contemper and mitigate his <HI>Ju&s;tice.</HI> And in my Opinion, none, but Men of <HI>Inhumane</HI> Di&s;lloyal principles can any way grudge at it. Yea, but &s;aith the <HI>Libeller,</HI> it is but <HI>One Year</HI> &s;ince the <HI>King</HI> could di&s;pen&s;e with the <HI>TEST,</HI> and <HI>all Laws.</HI>&mdash; 'Tis the <HI>TEST</HI> you &s;ee, the <HI>Libeller</HI>'s in love with. The <HI>TEST!</HI> a <HI>Trick</HI> contriv'd by the <HI>A&s;&s;ociating</HI> Party, to <HI>Exclude</HI> the <HI>Lawful Heir</HI> to the <HI>Crown.</HI> And, well may we que&s;tion that Mans <HI>Loyalty</HI> to the <HI>King,</HI> that &s;hall offer to <HI>plead</HI> for a continuance of the <HI>TEST,</HI> again&s;t His Maje&s;ties Royal Inclination: That, and the <HI>Covenant</HI> of 1643. being both <HI>de&s;ign'd</HI> for the <HI>Ruine</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h Monarchy.</HI></P>
<P>But further, by the <HI>Libellers</HI> leave, the <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ing</HI> Power is of more than <HI>One Years</HI> &s;tanding: Or el&s;e the good Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> could never have exerci&s;ed it; nor any of the <HI>Engli&s;h Kings</HI> before, or &s;ince her time; which that they <HI>all did,</HI> both <HI>Law</HI> and <HI>History</HI> manife&s;t. In ca&s;es of Life the <HI>King</HI>'s <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ing</HI> Power was never que&s;tion'd. And, the <HI>Li|beller,</HI> when once the Law hath took hold of him for his <HI>Trea&s;ons,</HI> &amp;c. will be glad to <HI>own</HI> &s;uch a <HI>Prerogative;</HI> as &s;undry <HI>per&s;ons</HI> of late <HI>Years</HI> have done, to their peculiar
<PB N="12" REF="15"> <HI>Safety,</HI> and the <HI>Eternal Honour</HI> of His <HI>Maje&s;ties Courage</HI> and <HI>Clemency</HI> &mdash; Nay, our Learned&s;t Lawyers affirm, that not an <HI>Information,</HI> or <HI>Indictment</HI> upon Penal Statutes, but mu&s;t give way to a <HI>Nolle pro&s;equi,</HI> if the <HI>King</HI> plea&s;e to move no further therein. And if it were not &s;o, a <HI>Subject</HI> would u&s;urp a <HI>Priveledge</HI> over his <HI>Sovereign,</HI> and make u&s;e of His <HI>Name</HI> without His leave (to &s;ue in) for the <HI>vexing</HI> &amp; <HI>abu&s;ing</HI> whom he plea&s;es. Than the which, there can be nothing more <HI>Un|ju&s;t,</HI> or <HI>Unrea&s;onable;</HI> nothing more <HI>ab&s;urd,</HI> and <HI>ridiculous.</HI> And &s;o I have done with the <HI>Libellers</HI> Scandalous Lying Chronology.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The <HI>Libellers</HI> General Judgements brought to the <HI>Te&s;t</HI> and found unable to abide the <HI>Tryal</HI> of true <HI>Art</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN good time we are arrived at the <HI>Libellers General Judg|ments</HI> wherein we &s;hall <HI>meet</HI> with as much <HI>Loyalty, Truth</HI> and <HI>candour,</HI> as in the <HI>Former.</HI> He profe&s;&s;es to build his <HI>Prae|dictions</HI> upon the <HI>Vernal Ingre&s;s</HI> of the Year; (a weak foun|dation, when not &s;upported by other more weighty Argu|ments.) But for want of room (he &s;ays) he forbears to in&s;ert the <HI>Scheam</HI> thereof. I will therefore do it for him, and &s;hew him the Fal&s;ene&s;s thereof, and <HI>convince</HI> him of his per&s;i&s;ting to abu&s;e his <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Countrey</HI> under pretence of <HI>A&s;trology;</HI> whereas from the true <HI>Ingre&s;s,</HI> and other <HI>cau&s;es, Astrology</HI> &s;peaks <HI>Good</HI> to both, and <HI>confu&s;ion</HI> to their <HI>Enemies.</HI> The <HI>Libeller,</HI> (though at <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI>) gives us the time of the <HI>Suns Ingre&s;s</HI> into <HI>Aries</HI> for <HI>London</HI> 1687. which is with him on <HI>March</HI> the 10th. day, at 10. Hours, 10 Minuits, <HI>A. M.</HI> the Figure's thus.</P>
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<P><FIGURE>
<P>The LIBELLERS Figure for <HI>Sol</HI> entering <HI>Aries,</HI> 16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">7. <HI>March</HI> 10d. 10h. 10l. <HI>Mane.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sub. Latit. Londini.</HI></P>
<P>&Moon; a &opposition; &Jupit; ad &quadrine; &Merc;</P>
<FIGDESC>astrological chart</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>Behold the <HI>Craft</HI> of the <HI>Libeller!</HI> He makes u&s;e of a <HI>Fi|gure</HI> from whence to draw his <HI>Judgements</HI> again&s;t his <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Countrey,</HI> that none of the <HI>Tables</HI> made by the Princi|pal Ma&s;ters in <HI>A&s;tronomy</HI> will own. And thence he threatens the <HI>King</HI>'s <HI>Sacred Life,</HI> and the <HI>Kingdoms Ruine,</HI> over-turning of the <HI>Government, Wars,</HI> &amp;c. and all this, and more, from a poor &s;ingle <HI>Ingre&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> into <HI>Aries.</HI> But, alas! Doth not every <HI>Puny Astrologer</HI> know, that <HI>Vernal Figures,</HI> without con&s;ideration had to the Ruling <HI>Conjuncti|ons</HI> and <HI>A&s;pects</HI> of the <HI>Stars</HI> at that time, are of very &s;mall or no <HI>Efficacy,</HI> from whence to Praedict <HI>Futurities.</HI></P>
<P>I allow it for a <HI>Truth,</HI> that <HI>Mars</HI> in an <HI>Angle</HI> is <HI>per &s;e,</HI> of violent &s;ignification, and is commonly attended with <HI>rugged
<PB N="14" REF="16"> effects.</HI> It is no News to an <HI>Arti&s;t</HI> to hear <HI>Alman&s;or</HI> Command Aphori&s;tically.&mdash; <HI>Averte Oculos &acirc; Figura, in qua Mars fuerit in Angulo.</HI> And all <HI>A&s;trologers</HI> give <HI>Caution</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Heats</HI> of <HI>Mars.</HI> Which, the <HI>Libeller</HI> knowing, hath made a <HI>Scheam</HI> with <HI>Mars</HI> on an <HI>Angle</HI> (though a fal&s;e one) that he might thence take occa&s;ion to <HI>affright</HI> and <HI>terrifie</HI> us the more ea&s;ily. But, as his <HI>Figure</HI> is <HI>Fal&s;e,</HI> &s;o are his <HI>Judge|ments.</HI> And were not <HI>A&s;tronomy</HI> again&s;t him, yet the <HI>Events</HI> he expected have deceived him hitherto; and nothing hath happen'd to this <HI>Kingdom</HI> like to the furious Influence of <HI>Mars</HI> in an <HI>Angle,</HI> as he hath Praedicted.</P>
<P>For further Eviction of his <HI>Errour</HI> herein, I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with a <HI>true Figure</HI> of the Worlds Revolution for 1687, and that from &s;uch <HI>Tables Astronomical,</HI> as are in repute, and concurr with, the be&s;t and able&s;t <HI>A&s;tronomers</HI> of the pre&s;ent Age. I &s;ay, the <HI>Tables</HI> of the <HI>Be&s;t Astronomers</HI> con|&s;pire with the <HI>Figure</HI> I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with, <HI>viz,</HI> the <HI>Ru|dolphine, Billian, Bullialdine, Shackerleian</HI> Tables, and al&s;o tho&s;e of <HI>Vincent Wing</HI> in his <HI>Astronomia Britannica,</HI> and many more; but none of them all do own the <HI>Libeller</HI>'s <HI>Fi|gure.</HI> Perhaps he may have &s;ome &s;ingular conceited Author that him&s;elf only follows. But were it &s;o, can any one force a belief upon me, that <HI>one Single Clock</HI> &s;trikes the <HI>Hour</HI> of the <HI>Day</HI> true, when I find it <HI>differs</HI> va&s;tly in <HI>Time</HI> from all the <HI>Famous</HI> and be&s;t made <HI>Clocks</HI> in the <HI>City?</HI> No &s;ure. Be|&s;ides, I will tell the <HI>Libeller,</HI> that the certainty of <HI>Events</HI> do truly prove the <HI>Truth</HI> of <HI>Astronomy;</HI> and that there was an <HI>A&s;trology</HI> in the World, long before <HI>A&s;tronomy</HI> came to any degree of Perfection; (perhaps before it was thought of,) as the <HI>Chaldean, Per&s;ian,</HI> and <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> Philo&s;ophy fully prove. And <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> it &s;elf informs us, That had not Men fir&s;t felt the <HI>Heats</HI> of <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>Cold</HI> of <HI>Saturn,</HI> it is very probable, they had never enquired after their <HI>Motions</HI> in the Heavens. <HI>A&s;tronomy</HI> is therefore more oblig'd to <HI>A&s;trology</HI> than the World is aware of. And although the popular Opinion be, that <HI>A&s;tronomy</HI> is the <HI>Elder</HI> Si&s;ter, (allowing <HI>Uraniah</HI> to have Twins) yet it is really the <HI>Younger;</HI> and <HI>Astrology</HI> hath the right of <HI>Primo-geniture.</HI> And &s;o I come to give you the <HI>true Figure</HI> from the <HI>Briti&s;h Tables,</HI> thus.&mdash;</P>
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<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Tempus Datum, Ma.</HI> 9d. 20h. 15l. <HI>P. M.</HI> 1687.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Longit. Solis, S. d.</HI> &prime;. &Prime;.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Apog. Solis. S. d</HI> &prime; &Prime;.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Longit. Med. Solis Apogaeo Solis.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>11. 27. 58. 29. 3. 6. 57. 6.</CELL>
<CELL>3. 6. 57. 0.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Anomalia Solis.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"></CELL>
<CELL>8. 21. 1. 23. 2. 1. 31.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Verus locus Solis.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>0. 0. 0. 0.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>in. r.</HI> 0<HI>d.</HI> 0&prime;. 0&Prime;.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><HI>And to this time, the</HI> Figure <HI>of Heaven in the</HI> Meridian <HI>of</HI> London, <HI>the</HI> Metropolis <HI>of</HI> England, <HI>is as followeth.</HI></P>
<P><FIGURE>
<P>The true Figure of the <HI>Sun</HI> his entring <HI>Aries,</HI> 1687. <HI>March</HI> the 9d. 20g, 10l.</P>
<P><HI>P. M.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sub. Latit Londini.</HI></P>
<P>&Moon; &acirc; &opposition; &Jupit; <HI>ad</HI> &quadrine; &Merc;</P>
<FIGDESC>astrological chart</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>Here we have a <HI>Vernal Scheam</HI> of 1687. that &s;omewhat re&s;embles the happy Peaceable Actions of the Year. <HI>Jupiter,</HI>
<PB N="16" REF="17"> the mo&s;t Benevolent Planet in the Heavens, is in the <HI>Seventh Angle,</HI> (the place of <HI>Di&s;cord, Controver&s;y,</HI> &amp;c.) there po&s;ited as a <HI>Con&s;table</HI> upon his <HI>Watch,</HI> keeping the Peace; or ra|ther, as a good <HI>Chri&s;tian Arbitrator,</HI> Uniting Per&s;ons or Kingdoms at Odds, and preventing any <HI>New</HI> Animo&s;ities to break forth&punc; &s;o far is he from giving any notice of <HI>Wars,</HI> or <HI>Controver&s;ies</HI> to happen, as the <HI>Libeller</HI> had a&s;&s;igned us from <HI>Mars</HI> on the <HI>Seventh</HI> in his fal&s;e <HI>Figure.</HI> And yet we have <HI>Mars</HI> in <HI>Quadrate</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Saturn,</HI> &amp;c. though in parts of Heaven le&s;s powerful to do mi&s;chief, then they were placed in, the <HI>Libellers</HI> Scheam. &mdash; Why, what a &s;ad place is <HI>Holland,</HI> that cannot afford <HI>one A&s;trologer</HI> able to Correct the <HI>Fal&s;hoods</HI> and <HI>Scandals</HI> of this Pitiful <HI>Libeller,</HI> that in|habits among them.</P>
<P>Before I proceed any further, I will in pure pity, teach this <HI>Libeller</HI> a little <HI>Art,</HI> that he may better <HI>Con</HI> his Le&s;&s;on again&s;t the next year; for then he promi&s;es to appear again, <HI>viz.</HI> After he hath Learn'd a little <HI>good Manners,</HI> and aban|don'd <HI>Di&s;loyalty</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on;</HI> (before which I &s;hall never allow him to &s;et up for a <HI>Secretary</HI> of the <HI>Stars.</HI>) Then let him <HI>&s;upplicate</HI> God Almighty for his Grace and A&s;&s;i&s;tance, in the Di&s;covery of <HI>Truth;</HI> as the Noble <HI>Arabians</HI> were wont always to do. And when he hath thus fitted him&s;elf for his Work, making his entrance thereunto <HI>In Nomine Dei;</HI> He'll never think it ju&s;t and hone&s;t to make a Noble <HI>Art</HI> a <HI>Bawd</HI> or <HI>Pro|perty</HI> whereby to Praedict <HI>Wars,</HI> and <HI>De&s;truction</HI> to his <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Countrey;</HI> but follow the <HI>true</HI> Principles of <HI>Science,</HI> and acquaint us with the truth of the <HI>Stars</HI> Portents to us.</P>
<P>But if he will not take this <HI>advice,</HI> as there's but little hopes he will; then I admoni&s;h him (for the better favou|ring his hard favour'd <HI>Pre&s;ages,</HI>) that if he find <HI>Mars</HI> in a Qua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rupcian or <HI>Bea&s;tial Sign,</HI> he do not make him dart all his <HI>Influence</HI> upon <HI>Humane</HI> kind; but remember that the <HI>Stars</HI> Operate upon &s;uch kind of <HI>creatures</HI> only, as are re|pre&s;ented by the <HI>Signs</HI> they po&s;&s;e&s;s. The <HI>Libeller</HI> knew, that <HI>Mars, Sol,</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> (in his own Figure) were not lo|cated in <HI>Humane Signs,</HI> and therefore could not Influence <HI>Men</HI> with any remarkable <HI>Violence</HI> in this Revolution &mdash;
<PB N="17" REF="17"> The Superiour Planet <HI>Saturn</HI> ('tis true) is in a <HI>Humane</HI> Sign. But, Sir, he is not an <HI>Enemy,</HI> but a <HI>Friend</HI> both to the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Commonalty,</HI> forasmuch as he irradiates both <HI>Medium Coeli;</HI> and the <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> with an Amicable A&s;pect; and de|lights and rejoyces in both places, as being Eminently Dig|nified in them, He cannot therefore countenance any of the <HI>Di&s;mal Prae&s;ages</HI> which the <HI>Libeller</HI> hath <HI>Fal&s;ly</HI> &s;catter'd among us. Nay, to our Comfort, and the <HI>Libellers</HI> Shame, we &s;ee the <HI>Year</HI> near three parts expir'd, and <HI>Nothing</HI> hi|therto of his <HI>Praedictions</HI> have come to pa&s;s; nor is there any doubt but that they'l be an&s;wer'd with the &s;ame <HI>&s;ucce&s;s</HI> in the remaining Quarter.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>But now enter <HI>Libeller.</HI></HEAD>
<P><Q>THis Po&s;ition <HI>(meaning his own fal&s;e Figure,)</HI> taken in general, is violent and pernicious; for it &s;hews the Clergy and Commonalty of <HI>England</HI> to be at variance, and to look on each other with an ill a&s;pect; and to &s;ay the Truth, the People cannot well have a good opinion of them; for it was They that pull'd in <HI>Popery</HI> by preaching up that cur&s;ed Doctrine of pa&s;&s;ive Obedience.</Q></P>
<P>The <HI>Caitiff</HI> cannot breath out a <HI>Praediction</HI> without &s;ome|thing of the <HI>Incendiary</HI> and <HI>Traytor.</HI>&mdash; He knows the true Figure of the Ingre&s;s of <HI>Sol</HI> in <HI>Aries</HI> 1687. owns nothing of all this Scurrilous Trea&s;onable <HI>Menace.</HI> Let us examine it a little, and that by <HI>Authority;</HI> a way the <HI>Libeller</HI> &s;corns to make u&s;e of. Indeed, <HI>Authors</HI> are again&s;t him. Here <HI>Haly&punc; Si</HI> Jupiter <HI>fuerit in &s;eptima domo fortunatus,</HI> (as he mu&s;t needs be when in <HI>Sagitary) gaudebunt homines mulieribus, &amp; mulieres hominibus,</HI> &amp;c. (i e.) When the Benevolent Planet <HI>Jupiter</HI> in a Revolutional Figure of the World, &s;hall be fortu|nately placed in the <HI>Seventh Angle,</HI> Men and Women in that Revolution &s;hall rejoyce promi&s;cuou&s;ly together, and there &s;hall be much <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Quiet</HI> among them. No Plotting and Contriving to do mi&s;chief can then take any effect: The Stars <HI>(&s;ub Deo)</HI> renders the <HI>Malice</HI> of Enemies fru|&s;trate. Nay, <HI>Jupiter</HI> &s;o located&mdash; <HI>Significat multum bonum in anni medietate, &amp; meliorem &s;ucce&s;&s;em in arboribus &amp; fructus multos.</HI> He &s;ignifies much good to Humane kind to|ward
<PB N="18" REF="18"> the middle of the Revolution, chiefly, (the <HI>Seventh Angle</HI> divides the Circle with the Horo&s;cope,) and that the Hone&s;t <HI>Husband-man,</HI> or <HI>Farmer,</HI> &s;hall have better &s;ucce&s;s in his <HI>Gardens, Orchards,</HI> and in his Setting and Planting, than in former years, and that they &s;hall yield him abundance of <HI>Fruit,</HI> &amp;c. rewarding of his Sweat and pains, to his great Content and Satisfaction.</P>
<P>Let now Experience be Judge! When ever had we a more <HI>Peaceable, calm,</HI> and <HI>Quiet Year!</HI> When were we ble&s;s'd with geater <HI>Plenty</HI> of <HI>Fruit</HI> and <HI>Herbage?</HI> as if it were an Earne&s;t of the favour of Heaven, in removing from us the <HI>Meagre-Sower</HI> effects which the late <HI>terrible Fro&s;t</HI> had left behind it. When had we fewer <HI>Law Suits</HI> in a year? Or, when, in <HI>Term time,</HI> was <HI>Westmin&s;ter-Hall</HI> ever le&s;s throng'd? And is not all this parallel to the Po&s;ition of <HI>Jupiter</HI> in the <HI>Seventh Angle?</HI></P>
<P>But we have not only <HI>Jupiter</HI> in the Seventh Angle, but the <HI>Moon</HI> in the <HI>Horo&s;cope;</HI> (and the <HI>Moon,</HI> we know, is to be valued as more than half the <HI>Figure,</HI> &s;he being the Con|veigher of all the other <HI>Planets</HI> Influences to us.) When <HI>God Almighty</HI> graciou&s;ly vouch&s;afes to befriend either <HI>Nations</HI> or <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> He is pleas'd to &s;uit Natural Cau&s;es thereunto accor|dingly! 'Tis not in every <HI>Mundane Figure</HI> we have <HI>Jupiter</HI> in the Seventh, or the <HI>Moon</HI> in the <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> 'Tis his great Mercy to our unde&s;erving <HI>Nation,</HI> we find them &s;o now.&mdash; The <HI>Moon</HI> in the <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> being in a <HI>Humane Sign,</HI> denotes much happine&s;s and &s;ucce&s;s to <HI>Men,</HI> and not <HI>Wars</HI> and <HI>Con|fu&s;ions,</HI> as the <HI>Libeller</HI> talks of; nor yet <HI>Quarrels</HI> between the <HI>Clergy</HI> and <HI>Commonalty,</HI> about pulling in <HI>Popery,</HI> by their Preaching up <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience,</HI> of which, more anon.&mdash; What &s;ays our Noble <HI>Arabian</HI> thereunto? <HI>Quando Luna e&s;t in A&s;cendente, &s;ignificat pro&s;peritatem &amp; Salvationem Popu|li in &s;uis corporibus, &amp; in omnibus membris &s;uis,</HI> When the <HI>Moon</HI> &s;hall be &s;cituate in the <HI>a&s;cendant,</HI> (chiefly in a <HI>Humane</HI> Sign) much Pro&s;perity and Felicity is portended to the <HI>Peo|ple</HI> generally in that year, Security to their E&s;tates, Health to their Per&s;ons; and that they &s;hall be vigorous and &s;trong in all parts, &s;ound and free from any Malignant Di&s;tempers.</P>
<PB N="19" REF="18">
<P>Let any &s;ober ob&s;erving <HI>Arti&s;t,</HI> or Other, tell me&mdash; Whe|ther this Judgement be not true in every part of it. Hath it not been a <HI>Gentle</HI> and <HI>Pro&s;perous</HI> year with us hitherto? have we not enjoy'd <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Plenty</HI> in all things? Nay, in the thing that is mo&s;t dear to us, I mean, <HI>a quiet Enjoyment of Peace of Con&s;cience in our Religious Wor&s;hip?</HI> And as to Corporal Health, we have been wonderfully ble&s;&s;ed there|with hitherto. When was it known, that the <HI>City</HI> hath had more People in it, and that the <HI>Bills</HI> of <HI>Mortality</HI> have been &s;o <HI>moderate?</HI>&mdash; All proving again&s;t the <HI>Libeller,</HI> that his Figure and Judgements too, are notoriou&s;ly Fal&s;e.</P>
<P>The <HI>Libeller</HI> goes on threat'ning,&mdash; <HI>page</HI> 2. Mercury <HI>un|der "the</HI> Sun <HI>Beams brings the Cur&s;e of Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> &amp;c. But I tell him, that <HI>Mercury</HI> (even by his own Figure) hath no|thing to do with <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es.</HI> He might, (indeed) (had his Fi|gure been true) have a hand in the <HI>Cure</HI> of <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> but not in the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of them. This malicious <HI>Trifter</HI> under&s;tands not the very fir&s;t <HI>Principles</HI> of <HI>A&s;trology,</HI> but makes a <HI>Blundering</HI> with what comes uppermo&s;t, without either <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> or <HI>Autho|rity.</HI> I de&s;ire him for time to come, to remember, that the <HI>Sixth</HI> is <HI>Domus Infirmitatum,</HI> and that the <HI>Tenth</HI> is <HI>Domus Medicinae,</HI> and not think to <HI>Pawn</HI> and <HI>Shuffle</HI> &s;uch apparent <HI>Fal&s;hoods</HI> upon the World for <HI>Truth:</HI> As if every Man that read him, under&s;tood nothing of the Significations, or Di|&s;tinctions of the <HI>Twelve Angles</HI> of Heaven.</P>
<P>But the <HI>Libeller</HI> &s;eems to lay the weight of his Forged Fal&s;e Praedictions upon the <HI>Moons</HI> being in oppo&s;ition to <HI>Jupiter,</HI> &s;aying;&mdash; <Q>The <HI>Moon,</HI> if you con&s;ider her Latitude, is not full twenty one Degrees in <HI>Gemini,</HI> and applying to an Op|po&s;ition of Jupiter.</Q>&mdash; And thence it is he hath pre&s;umed to &s;et the <HI>Clergy</HI> and <HI>Commonalty</HI> together by the <HI>Ears,</HI> for their Preaching up the Doctrine of <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience,</HI> and bringing in <HI>Popery.</HI> But that <HI>A&s;pest</HI> (the &s;ame in his Fal&s;e, as well as in the True Figure) is wholly again&s;t him, and gives him no countenance at all; for Rea&s;ons I have given in my Examen of his <HI>Monthly Errours.</HI> And, although I have neither <HI>Time</HI> nor <HI>Room,</HI> to cite Authors at large for his Conviction; (as in truth it needs not) yet, I'll Summon <HI>Haly</HI> in this Point, <HI>viz.</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="19"> If the <HI>Moon</HI> &s;hall (in any Revolution) apply <HI>ad oppo&s;itum</HI> Jo|vis, <HI>&s;ignificat placita &amp; verba in lege &amp; ejus Scientia,</HI> &amp;c. And now let the <HI>Libeller</HI> tell me, whether this Oppo&s;itions Influence, looks like a difference between the <HI>Clergy</HI> and <HI>Com|monalty</HI> for their pulling in of <HI>Popery,</HI> by their Preaching the <HI>accur&s;ed Doctrine</HI> of <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience.</HI> As he <HI>accur&s;edly</HI> calls it.&mdash; But, have the <HI>Engli&s;h Clergy</HI> pull'd in <HI>Popery</HI> in earne&s;t? Are they the <HI>Friends</HI> to it as this Man a&s;&s;erts? Is it really <HI>Settled</HI> yet among us? Let the <HI>Libeller</HI> reckon again, and calmly, and he'll find for one <HI>Catholick Chappel,</HI> an hundred <HI>Conventicles.</HI> He need not therefore make <HI>Po|pery</HI> the <HI>Bugbear</HI> wherewith to affright the <HI>Nation.</HI> The <HI>Li|beller</HI>'s angry, that the poor <HI>Catholicks,</HI> (after their having been <HI>Hara&s;s'd, Impri&s;on'd, Plunder'd,</HI> by &s;uch as <HI>Waller</HI> and his <HI>Crew;</HI> and &s;uffer'd &s;o mi&s;erably in their <HI>Lives, Liberties,</HI> and <HI>E&s;tates;</HI> yea &s;o &s;everely, that had they dwelt among <HI>Turks,</HI> they could &s;carce have been wor&s;e u&s;ed;) &s;hould par|take at all of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Univer&s;al <HI>Favour</HI> to His <HI>Subjects;</HI> forgetting it &s;eems, that they are <HI>Engli&s;h-men,</HI> as much as any of the other <HI>Di&s;&s;enters.</HI></P>
<P>But alas! I do not &s;o much wonder that this <HI>Uncharitable</HI> Wretch, (like another <HI>Julian John&s;on</HI>) doth <HI>Storm</HI> and <HI>Rail</HI> at the Doctrine of <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience</HI> (he being, as he thinks, &s;afe at <HI>Am&s;terdam,</HI>) when I find &s;ome of far greater Lear|ning and Breadth in the World, (pretended <HI>Advocates</HI> for the Doctrine&punc;) to declaim as Zealou&s;ly again&s;t it. Pray here <HI>One</HI> of them, for All, in an <HI>Addre&s;s</HI> to <HI>Julian,</HI> viz. <Q>Be it known to Mr. <HI>J. (i. e.</HI> Mr. <HI>John&s;on</HI>) that many of tho&s;e who have Thunder'd &s;o much of late with the <HI>Thebaean Legion,</HI> would rather think it their Duty, than any breach of it to tell, not only a <HI>Popi&s;h Prince,</HI> but a <HI>Popi&s;h King</HI> to His Face, did He openly profe&s;s the <HI>Popi&s;h Religion,</HI> that He was an Idolater, a Bread-Wor&s;hipper, a Godde&s;s-wor&s;hipper, an Image-wor|&s;hipper, a Wafer-wro&s;hipper, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Jovian <HI>p. 96.</HI></Q></P>
<P>Here's the Doctrine of <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience</HI> made out with a witne&s;s! What greater <HI>Affront</HI> can be offer'd to <HI>God?</HI> to <HI>Religion?</HI> to the <HI>King?</HI> Is all our pretence and claim to the right of <HI>Primo-geniture</HI> in <HI>Loyalty,</HI> come to this? Is to <HI>Rail,</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="19"> and <HI>Re&s;i&s;t;</HI> become the Doctrine of <HI>Non-re&s;istance?</HI> Is <HI>pa&s;|&s;ive Obedience</HI> turn'd into the <HI>Bearding</HI> and <HI>Upbraiding</HI> of <HI>Kings?</HI> Heaven help us! Where are we?&mdash; My <HI>Province</HI> is not <HI>Divinity,</HI> and therefore I forbear. But this Authors <HI>Theo|logy,</HI> and the Libellers <HI>A&s;trology,</HI> are of a &s;tamp both for <HI>Re|ligion, Art,</HI> and <HI>Loyalty.</HI></P>
<P>To return to our <HI>Libeller</HI> again, for 'tis He I have chiefly to do with. In <HI>page</HI> 2. he Praedicts,&mdash; <Q>The People of that Nation <HI>(England)</HI> &s;hall again take Courage, and Re|lea&s;e them&s;elves from the Oppre&s;&s;ions they now labour under, and this in a few Months; for it doth not reach unto Years.</Q> And this Judgement he derives from the <HI>Square</HI> of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mercury.</HI> <Q>who, <HI>(&s;ays he)</HI> are the two Stars that Per&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|nate the King and Government.- <HI>Mercury</HI> is under <HI>the Sun-Beams,</HI> which &s;hews the Cur&s;e of Di&s;ea&s;es. and <HI>Jupiter</HI> is in a Zodaical Parallel with <HI>Mars,</HI> which &s;hews want of Mo|ney, and al&s;o Danger of Death. The&s;e plainly &s;hew a Ca|ta&s;trophy approaching, and that there will be a change in that Kingdom and Government al&s;o, and this in a &s;hort time.</Q></P>
<P>Thus far this dating <HI>Incendiary,</HI> with de&s;ign to Buoy up the &s;inking hopes of <HI>Rebels</HI> and <HI>Traytors,</HI> in expectation of the <HI>Ruine</HI> of the <HI>Kingdom</HI> and <HI>Government</HI> to be near at hand, <HI>viz.</HI> in a <HI>few Months, for it doth not reach unto Years,</HI> he &s;ays. But to manife&s;t this to be a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ry vain and feigned encouragement to his <HI>own Party,</HI> (who I wi&s;h no longer to credit his <HI>Fal&s;hoods,</HI> but return to their <HI>Obedience,</HI>) the very Configuration upon which he builds all this <HI>Trea&s;onous Tra&s;h,</HI> (which is the <HI>Quadrate</HI> of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mercury,</HI>) is of a quite oppo&s;ite &s;ignification. Once more hear <HI>Haly,</HI>&mdash; If <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> &s;hall (in any Mundane Revolution) be in a <HI>Quadrate</HI> A&s;pect of each other, and that this A&s;pect &s;hall happen from the <HI>Tenth Angle,</HI> (as it doth in his own fal&s;e Figure,) <HI>Signi|fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t quod Reges diligent multum &s;cire &amp; perquirere Scien|tias, &amp; amabunt libros,</HI> &amp;c. Such a Po&s;ition and A&s;pect (&s;aith he) denotes that <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Princes</HI> &s;hall de&s;ire to know and read much, and diligently enquire into <HI>Arts</HI> and <HI>Sciences,</HI> that They &s;hall be in love with <HI>Books,</HI> and will
<PB N="22" REF="20"> greatly incline to <HI>Learning,</HI> and to be acquainted with the <HI>My&s;teries</HI> of &s;undry curious Subtilties, the Secrets of Wi&s;dom, and the like.</P>
<P>This &s;hould hone&s;tly have been his Judgement from his own fal&s;e Figure: Of which the <HI>Libeller</HI> was either Ignorant, or el&s;e had no mind his own Friends (with whom he ba&s;ely prevaricates) &s;hould know the truth of things.</P>
<P>But now, in the <HI>true</HI> Vernal Scheam, we meet with a much better &s;ignification of this <HI>A&s;pect:</HI> For therein we find <HI>Mer|cury</HI> in the <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Angle of <HI>Friend&s;hip, A&s;|&s;i&s;tance,</HI> and of the <HI>Good Spirit;</HI> and there, being in <HI>Qua|drate</HI> of <HI>Jupiter, A&s;trologers</HI> tell us, he &s;ignifies&mdash; <HI>Quod Rex vocabitur ad &s;e &s;apientes, &amp; ornabit eos.</HI> This Excellent <HI>A&s;|pect</HI> gives us great hopes of much happine&s;s to attend the Kingdom of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> and the <HI>King</HI> or <HI>Governour</HI> thereof, and &s;eems to intimate <HI>(&s;ub Deo)</HI> that His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> will call unto Him&s;elf the A&s;&s;i&s;tance, Aid, &amp; Advi&s;e of the mo&s;t Wi&s;e and Learned <HI>Men</HI> both in <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State,</HI> and will Heap, or Confer Honours and Priviledges upon them according to their Capacity, Dignity, or Merit. It is of &s;o Favourable an Influence to the&s;e Nations, (con&s;idering the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Gemini,</HI> in <HI>Trine</HI> of the Eleventh Angle, and A&s;pect of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mercury,</HI> as before) that if it &s;hall plea&s;e God to incline His Sacred Maje&s;ty to call a <HI>Parliament,</HI> (His great Council of the Realm!) It may prove a mo&s;t Happy and Healing A&s;|&s;embly to both the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>Parliament,</HI> who&s;e great Wi&s;dom may be made u&s;e of to Settle the&s;e Kingdoms in a fixed Condition of Pro&s;perity, Peace, and Plenty, to the wonder of after Ages; and which we hope will con&s;ider of, and advi&s;e the Enacting of &s;uch Provi&s;ional Laws for a continuance thereof, as &s;hall make for the <HI>Kings Honour,</HI> and for the <HI>Terrour</HI> of His and the Kingdoms <HI>Ene|mies;</HI> and al&s;o be able to reach all wicked <HI>Traytors</HI> and <HI>Li|bellers,</HI> tho' lurking in <HI>Holes</HI> beyond the <HI>Seas,</HI> thence tran&s;|mitting their <HI>Trea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nous</HI> and <HI>Bla&s;phemous</HI> Papers hither to do mi&s;chief.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the Natural &s;ignifications of that <HI>Quadrate A&s;pect,</HI> upon which the Traducer excites his Native Coun|trey
<PB N="23" REF="20"> to a <HI>Rebellion,</HI> by telling them&mdash; <HI>They &s;hall again take Courage, and Relea&s;e them&s;elves,</HI>&mdash; Ha! Take Courage! Again&s;t whom?&mdash; Relea&s;e them&s;elves! from what? The <HI>Li|beller,</HI> would have been a happy Man, no doubt, had he lived in <HI>Cromwels,</HI> the U&s;urpers <HI>time.</HI> For then was <HI>Astrology</HI> made a <HI>Pander</HI> and <HI>Property</HI> to every <HI>Trea&s;onous purpo&s;e</HI> in the World: <HI>Art</HI> was wre&s;ted, Judgement from the Stars <HI>Forged;</HI> and all to encourage <HI>Rebels</HI> on the one hand, and terrifie <HI>Loyal Per&s;ons</HI> on the other. The Knavi&s;h Republi|cans, then, as now, making it the Burden of their <HI>Song,</HI> to open again&s;t <HI>Monarchy.</HI> Take Courage! Relea&s;e your &s;elves! He tells you plainly again&s;t whom, and from what? if you dare take his word, in his Trea&s;onable Ver&s;es to the Hone&s;t <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> thus,&mdash;
<Q><L>The <HI>Sun</HI> will Ri&s;e, the <HI>Actors</HI> fill the <HI>Stage,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>One and Twenty Months</HI> is not an Age.</L></Q></P>
<P>Again.</P>
<Q><L>Now <HI>Hangs</HI> your <HI>Freedom</HI> on each <HI>Villains</HI> Sword,</L>
<L><HI>Cheated</HI> your Selves, taking your <HI>Princes</HI> Word.</L></Q>
<P>And in his Farewel he &s;ays,</P>
<P><HI>A</HI> Commonwealth<HI>'s the thing that</HI> Kingdoms <HI>want.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Libeller</HI> can't be thought here to &s;peak in <HI>Riddles,</HI> like the Devil of <HI>Delphos.</HI> But will he &s;ay he deduces the&s;e Ryming <HI>Scandals</HI> from the Heavens too? I would have him, or any of the Rebellious Tribe he belongs to, &s;et Spleen and Rancour a&s;ide, and &s;oberly ask the <HI>Nation,</HI>&mdash; Whether it ever enjoy'd a more <HI>Free, Tranquile,</HI> and <HI>Peaceable</HI> time, than &s;ince His pre&s;ent <HI>Sacred Maje&s;ties</HI> acce&s;s to the <HI>Throne</HI> of His <HI>Ance&s;tors?</HI> (abating <HI>Monmouths</HI> Rebellion.) Does not every Man &s;it under his own <HI>Vine,</HI> and Eat the Fruit of his own <HI>Fig-tree,</HI> or Labour without di&s;turbance? Do we not en|joy both <HI>Life</HI> (and its Comforts) <HI>Liberty</HI> and <HI>Property,</HI> in a far greater mea&s;ure than in any Age preceding? We are not annoy'd with <HI>Informers</HI> or <HI>Catch-poles,</HI> or with vexatious <HI>Suits</HI> or <HI>Indictments</HI> for our <HI>Religion.</HI> We have no <HI>Taxes</HI> to burden us. No Man permitted to do us wrong. The Law is pre&s;erved in its ju&s;t <HI>Current</HI> (its rigour only abated; and is there any harm in that?) and <HI>awards</HI> to every one his <HI>Right</HI>
<PB N="24" REF="21"> What is it that he would have Men take <HI>Courage</HI> again&s;t? What is it (I &s;ay) this <HI>Libeller</HI> would be <HI>Relea&s;ed</HI> from? When they groan under <HI>no Oppre&s;&s;ion</HI> at all; Are <HI>Burthen'd</HI> with nothing; except with an <HI>Exce&s;s</HI> of <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Plenty.</HI></P>
<P>Oh! <HI>Engli&s;h-men!</HI> ye know not the <HI>happine&s;s</HI> you enjoy under a Lawful and <HI>Religious Monarch! Holland</HI> it &s;elf (the place that protects this <HI>Libeller</HI>) is, in compari&s;on of <HI>England,</HI> a <HI>Hell</HI> to the <HI>Subject;</HI> where he cannot &s;o much as wear a <HI>pair of Shooes,</HI> or eat an <HI>Herring,</HI> before they be <HI>nine times. Excis'd.</HI> As the Ingeniou&s;ly Learned Sir <HI>George Pud&s;ey</HI> mo&s;t truly and wi&s;ely ob&s;erv'd in his <HI>Speech</HI> at <HI>Oxford,</HI> upon his being admitted the worthy <HI>Recorder</HI> of that <HI>City.</HI> Whereas We of this <HI>Nation,</HI> like the <HI>Jews</HI> with <HI>Quails</HI> in our mouths, invoke the Wrath of God by <HI>Railing</HI> again&s;t His Maje&s;ty and His Government. We have <HI>Surfeited</HI> of <HI>Freedom,</HI> and like <HI>Je&s;urun,</HI> being waxed Fat, are ever ready, not only to <HI>Di&s;o|bey,</HI> but <HI>Kick</HI> at our <HI>Superiours.</HI></P>
<P>But the <HI>Libeller</HI> hath &s;tudied the <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> more fully, and as <HI>boldly</HI> as plainly, tells us, what we are <HI>defective</HI> in, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>A <HI>Commonwealth</HI>'s the thing that <HI>Kingdoms</HI> want.</P>
<P>I believe, the <HI>Libeller</HI> would, (<HI>non obstante</HI> this Bravado) give all the <HI>Shooes</HI> in his Shop to be at home quietly again, and be <HI>acquit</HI> of his <HI>Commonwealth.</HI>&mdash; But he &s;hapes well, to make us believe the contrary; and gives his Brethren hopes of a <HI>Change</HI> in <HI>England;</HI> and <HI>page</HI> 4. thus Salutes us.&mdash; <Q><HI>England</HI> &s;eems to be pointed at in particular, as you may ea&s;ily &s;ee, if you do but con&s;ider <HI>Aries</HI> as <HI>Englands</HI> Horo&s;cope, and <HI>Gemini</HI> as <HI>Londons.</HI> And thus will there be turning, and overturning, till the Great turn comes.</Q> Quod faxit Deus,</P>
<P>Incarnate Devil! to invoke God to ha&s;ten a <HI>Rebellion</HI> which him&s;elf (without ground in <HI>Art) praedicts.</HI> What if <HI>Aries</HI> be the <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of <HI>England?</HI> It is not &s;o particularly at this time. But, what if it were? Is not <HI>Venus</HI> in it? Doth not <HI>England</HI> di&s;po&s;e of its <HI>Enemies Significator,</HI> and (by his own words) <HI>afflict</HI> her too? And, what if <HI>Gemini</HI> be <HI>Londons</HI> Horo&s;cope at large? Is not the <HI>Franchi&s;es</HI> and <HI>Liberties</HI> there|of &s;eized into the <HI>Kings Hands?</HI> You know for what, <HI>Libel|ler!</HI>
<PB N="25" REF="21"> And a particular <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of that Famous <HI>City,</HI> no Man can know until His Maje&s;ty of His Grace give them a New <HI>Charter&punc;</HI> which (finding the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Gemini</HI>) I hope the Noble <HI>Senators</HI> thereof, by their <HI>Grave, Prudent,</HI> and <HI>Obe|dient Actions</HI> and Demeanours towards their <HI>Sovereign Lord,</HI> will incline His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> the &s;ooner to take it into His Prince|ly Con&s;ideration.</P>
<P>But, how comes the <HI>Libeller</HI> to be now &s;o zealous for a <HI>Commonwealth?</HI> When, not long &s;ince, he contended as ear|ne&s;tly for <HI>Monarchy,</HI> provided the unhappy <HI>Monmouth</HI> had been the <HI>Man.</HI> But po&s;&s;ibly he deems an <HI>Illegitimate</HI> Mo|narch, and a <HI>Commonwealth</HI> Synonyma's. No matter which to him, &s;o a <HI>Change</HI> come, that he may get by the <HI>Bargain.</HI> Any thing but the <HI>Legal Heir</HI> will plea&s;e his Pallate.&mdash; And, herein the <HI>Libeller</HI> Eccho's to a couple of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Mi&s;cre|ants, calling them&s;elves <HI>Astrologers</HI> al&s;o, who have <HI>Printed</HI> nearly the like <HI>Scandalous</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;onable Stuff,</HI> &s;ome years &s;ince, under pretence of <HI>Praedictions. vid. Holwel</HI>'s <HI>Cata|&s;trophe mundi,</HI> page 61. And <HI>Kirby</HI>'s <HI>Astrological Prophet.</HI> page 29.</P>
<P>But this Ternary of <HI>Knaves</HI> and <HI>Impo&s;tors</HI> have all liv'd to &s;ee them&s;elves mi&s;taken, by a Lawful <HI>Monarch</HI>'s taking place again&s;t their long-hop'd for <HI>Commonwealth</HI> Nay. I dare a&s;&s;ure the <HI>Libeller,</HI> and all that thir&s;t for a <HI>Dem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">crati|cal change,</HI> that the <HI>Stars</HI> are again&s;t them; and (if they be not willfully blind) they may plainly &s;ee, that <HI>God,</HI> (who is greater than the <HI>Stars,</HI>) is al&s;o again&s;t them too; and they will be all mo&s;t mi&s;erably deceived and deluded in their Expectation thereof. Alas! A <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> (that is a <HI>Bo|dy</HI> with no <HI>Head,</HI> or with many <HI>Heads</HI>) will not go down here. This <HI>Nation,</HI> Mad as it hath been (and the <HI>Libeller</HI> wi&s;hes it &s;o agai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, hath <HI>try'd,</HI> not only this <HI>Experiment,</HI> but all other <HI>Governments,</HI> and di&s;reli&s;h'd them all, but <HI>Monarchy.</HI> It hath had <HI>Pre&s;idials, Viceg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rents, Lieutenant, Generals, Parliaments,</HI> a <HI>Free-State, Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tectors, Major-Generals, Committee of Safe|ty,</HI> &amp;c. But how uncouth, unea&s;y, and di&s;gu&s;tful <HI>All</HI> of them have been to the three <HI>Nations,</HI> let the whole World about us <HI>Judge;</HI> who have with wonder and amazement beheld
<PB N="26" REF="22"> our <HI>Confu&s;ions.</HI> All which <HI>mutations</HI> plainly tell us, that no|thing can <HI>agree</HI> to the Honour and Government of the&s;e <HI>Re|gal Nation<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> but a <HI>Legal</HI> Crowned Head.</P>
<P><HI>Britannia ab initio mundi &s;emper fuit Regia, &amp; Regimen illius &s;imile ille Coelorum,</HI> (&s;aith one.) Great <HI>Britain</HI> from the beginning of the World hath been <HI>Kingly,</HI> and her <HI>Go|vernment</HI> like to that of the <HI>Heavens.</HI> It is impo&s;&s;ible (I &s;ay) therefore, that &s;he can remain long in <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Quiet</HI> under any other <HI>Power.</HI> And, what if I &s;hould tell you that <HI>Ptole|my</HI> (that great Ma&s;ter of <HI>A&s;trology</HI>) hath plac'd <HI>England</HI> un|der <HI>Aries,</HI> a <HI>Kingly Sign,</HI> and the very fir&s;t of the <HI>Fiery Tri|gon,</HI> as well as of the <HI>Zodiack.</HI> A Sign, wherein the <HI>Sun</HI> (the true repre&s;enter of <HI>Kings</HI>) receives his <HI>Exaltation.</HI> As if it had been the <HI>Decree</HI> of the <HI>King</HI> of <HI>Kings</HI> (according to the Order of the <HI>Stars</HI>) that nothing but a <HI>Monarchy</HI> &s;hould be &s;uitable to this Kingly <HI>Nation.</HI></P>
<P>I wonder how any Man endu'd with <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> can plead for a <HI>Commonwealth?</HI> If he con&s;ider his <HI>Creation,</HI> that, as he is a <GAP DESC="foreign">, or a <HI>little World,</HI> and had but <HI>One Head</HI> a&s;|&s;ign'd him, therein made in the <HI>Image</HI> of Him who is <HI>Lord</HI> of the <HI>Univer&s;e,</HI> he cannot po&s;&s;ibly but own a <HI>Monarchy</HI> before all other Powers If <HI>God</HI> had intended a <HI>Man</HI> &s;hould have been in <HI>Love</HI> with a <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> he would have Created him with a <HI>Head</HI> on each <HI>Shoulder,</HI> as well as with what he did make him, which renders him of <HI>Form</HI> and <HI>Figure</HI> plea|&s;ant and graceful; whereas the <HI>other</HI> had been to have made him in the <HI>Image</HI> of <HI>Cerberus,</HI> and not of that <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> and <HI>per|fect Being</HI> who&s;e &s;hadow he truly is. If <HI>Government</HI> therefore, like the <HI>Body Natural,</HI> &s;hould have <HI>many Heads,</HI> 'tis a <HI>Mon|&s;ter,</HI> and we know it ever bodes <HI>III.</HI></P>
<P>And, will not a dear-bought <HI>Experience</HI> convince us of this <HI>Gro&s;s Errour</HI> yet? And when we have <HI>paid</HI> &s;o fully for our Knowledge? Is there any need of more <HI>Suns</HI> than one in a <HI>Day?</HI> Or of more <HI>Moons</HI> than one in a <HI>Night?</HI> Or of one <HI>King</HI> in a <HI>Kingdom?</HI> I cannot but think that Man out of his wits (&s;aith one) that would affirm a po&s;itive nece&s;&s;ity of any more. Hath not <HI>England</HI> been <HI>Fleec'd</HI> for its <HI>Wantonne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Wickedne&s;s?</HI> We thir&s;ted after <HI>Change</HI> in 1641. we obtain'd
<PB N="27" REF="22"> it But what got we by it? <HI>Ruine</HI> and <HI>De&s;truction.</HI> And that will be our <HI>Portion</HI> again, in ca&s;e we &s;hould turn <HI>Wanton</HI> again. Hath not this Glorious <HI>Nation,</HI> fir&s;t by <HI>oppo&s;ing,</HI> and afterwards <HI>murdering</HI> the be&s;t of <HI>Kings,</HI> been turn'd into an <HI>Aceldema?</HI> And were we not made thereby the <HI>&s;corn</HI> and <HI>by- word</HI> of all the <HI>Nations</HI> round about us? Have not our &s;tate|ly <HI>Pallaces</HI> and mo&s;t Glorious <HI>Structures</HI> been turn'd into <HI>De|&s;olation</HI> and <HI>Rubbi&s;h?</HI> Our <HI>Plenty</HI> into <HI>Penury?</HI> Our <HI>Free-Trading</HI> into Dangerous <HI>Hazards?</HI>&mdash; And whereas, while under a <HI>Monarchy</HI> we &s;ate <HI>quietly,</HI> (as now we do, <HI>Laus Deo,</HI>) and enjoy'd our <HI>Peace, Liberty</HI> and <HI>Property.</HI> Lo! when we were Subject to the <HI>Tyrany</HI> of a <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> (a <HI>Headle&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> or a <HI>Hydra-Government!</HI>) the Bramble of <HI>Confu&s;ion</HI> was con|tinually <HI>&s;cratching</HI> and <HI>tearing</HI> us.&mdash; Oh! what <HI>Virtuous things</HI> have <HI>Free-Quarter! publick Faith! Meal-money! De|cimation!</HI> Robbing <HI>poor Servants</HI> of their <HI>Bodkins</HI> and <HI>Thin|bles! Compo&s;ition</HI> over and over! And <HI>One hundred and twenty thou&s;and pounds per men&s;em!</HI> I &s;ay, what <HI>Virtuous things</HI> have the&s;e been to <HI>England,</HI> in compari&s;on of a Tri|vial Story of <HI>Ship-money!</HI> Which was indeed the <HI>No Grie|vance</HI> that was Rebelliou&s;ly complain'd of in the year 1640. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That <HI>Fatal year!</HI> in which <HI>Monarchy</HI> began fir&s;t to be <HI>Bearded</HI> in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>By this &s;hort <HI>Sy&s;tem</HI> of our pa&s;t <HI>mi&s;eries,</HI> occa&s;ion'd by a <HI>Few</HI> Factious Spirits at the fir&s;t, we may &s;ee, and be convinc'd, (if we are not willfully blind with ob&s;tinate prejudice) that the <HI>little Finger</HI> of a <HI>Commonwealth</HI> is <HI>Heavier</HI> than a <HI>Mo|narch</HI>'s <HI>Loyns.</HI> But the <HI>Libeller</HI> being of another Opinion, tells us,&mdash;
<Q>Now, Hangs our <HI>Freedom</HI> on each <HI>Villains</HI> Sword</Q></P>
<P>This is a brisk gird at his <HI>Majesty</HI> for keeping an <HI>Army</HI> for the Security and Peace of the <HI>Kingdom.</HI> He'd be con|tent that the <HI>KING</HI> were without a <HI>Guard,</HI> and <HI>Naked,</HI> that he, and his <HI>Party</HI> may the more ea&s;ily <HI>Seize</HI> Him, and <HI>bind</HI> Him in <HI>chains.</HI> But the <HI>Libeller</HI> may ask, as &s;ome of his <HI>Par|ty</HI> formerly,&mdash; <HI>Are not the Train'd-Bands a Gu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd &s;ufficient for His</HI> Maje&s;ty <HI>and the Kingdoms peace?</HI> I an&s;wer, no! Our late <HI>Wectern Experience</HI> tells him, no! Every one who can
<PB N="28" REF="23"> wield a Pike, hath not the Valour to re&s;i&s;t a Multitude of Evil Doers; hath not the <HI>Education</HI> to di&s;tingui&s;h a <HI>Good Title</HI> to the <HI>Crown,</HI> nor a Re&s;olution great enough to <HI>abet</HI> it. <HI>Jack Straw</HI> and <HI>Wat Tyler</HI> &s;hew what Service the <HI>Countrey Train'd-Bands</HI> can do, when led on blindfold to pull down what they ought to maintain. So there is need of an <HI>Army,</HI> and why not? Doth not His Maje&s;ty pay them? <HI>Order</HI> them? and where need is, &s;hew them the <HI>Severiiy</HI> of the <HI>Law?</HI> Upon this Coercive Power thus E&s;tabli&s;h'd;&mdash; Who&s;e <HI>Li|berties</HI> have they Invaded? Or what <HI>Damage</HI> have any &s;uf|fer'd by this, I may &s;ay, <HI>Civiliz'd Army?</HI> (unle&s;s he'll call that of oppo&s;ing <HI>Monmouth</HI> in the <HI>West,</HI> a Damage.) An <HI>Army</HI> for Order and Di&s;cipline, none ever &s;aw a <HI>better.</HI> Their <HI>Camp</HI> being more like a <HI>Well-Govern'd City,</HI> than a <HI>Field of Mars</HI> I am a&s;&s;ured none can truly affirm that any <HI>one man</HI> in the Countrey where they came, hath been wrong'd to the value of a <HI>Pig, Goo&s;e, Hen,</HI> or an <HI>Egg,</HI> with|out <HI>Redre&s;s,</HI> in ca&s;e complaint have been duly made again&s;t the <HI>Offender<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> We Honour and Value the <HI>Train'd-Bands,</HI> &amp;c. had they nothing el&s;e to mind but the <HI>Service</HI> of His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> and <HI>Safety</HI> of the <HI>Kingdom.</HI> But <HI>Wives</HI> and <HI>Families</HI> are grea|ter <HI>Clogs</HI> to <HI>Clergy-men</HI> and <HI>Souldiers,</HI> than to others. They are Powerful <HI>Load-Stones</HI> to draw Mens <HI>affections!</HI> of the <HI>One</HI> from the True <HI>Service</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> and the <HI>Other</HI> from the Faithful <HI>Service</HI> of his <HI>Prince.</HI></P>
<P>But the <HI>Commonwealths-men</HI> (for whom the <HI>Libeller</HI> is <HI>Ad|vocate</HI>) are di&s;turb'd the <HI>King</HI> hath any <HI>Army</HI> at all. Yet had their beloved <HI>Monmouth</HI> prevail'd, (that <HI>Prote&s;tont Prince!</HI>) they'd never grudg'd him an <HI>Army,</HI> any more, than their precious <HI>Predece&s;&s;ors</HI> did <HI>Oliver Cromwel;</HI> who&s;e <HI>Title</HI> to the Government was <HI>Equal</HI> to his; but not one jot better. But &s;aith the <HI>Libeller,</HI>&mdash;
<Q><L><HI>The</HI> Sun <HI>will</HI> ri&s;e, <HI>the</HI> Actors <HI>fill the</HI> Stage;</L>
<L><HI>And</HI> One and Twenty Months <HI>is not an</HI> Age.</L></Q></P>
<P>And to &s;trengthen this his <HI>Trayterous Meeter,</HI> he tells us in <HI>Pro&s;e,</HI> p. 6.&mdash;<Q><HI>England</HI> &s;hall yet make a further advance; 'tis yet more than three months to the Harvest; and at the appointed time &s;hall thy deliverance come; even at the
<PB N="29" REF="23"> time when the <HI>Sun</HI> makes his &s;econd Vi&s;it to the <HI>Scorpion:</HI> and then will the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Apple be grateful to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> palate.</Q></P>
<P>Here's <HI>Encouragement</HI> to purpo&s;e for <HI>Traytors</HI> and <HI>Rebels;</HI> in ca&s;e they have but <HI>Faith</HI> &s;trong enough to Credit the <HI>Li|beller.</HI>&mdash; The <HI>Sun</HI> will <HI>Ri&s;e!</HI> yes, I hope it will, to <HI>di&s;cover</HI> &s;uch <HI>Sycophants</HI> as you, and <HI>Reward you</HI> too, for your <HI>Bla&s;|phemy</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> again&s;t <HI>God</HI> and your <HI>Sovereign.&mdash; Eng|land</HI> &s;hall yet make a further <HI>advance!</HI> God grant it may, in <HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>Grandeur.</HI> But God forbid it &s;hould, in the <HI>Libellers</HI> Sen&s;e: <HI>He</HI> intending nothing thereby, but <HI>Rebellion</HI> and <HI>Ruine.</HI> But <HI>Deliverance</HI> &s;hall come at the appointed time! when the <HI>Sun</HI> makes his <HI>&s;econd Vi&s;it</HI> to the <HI>Scorpion,</HI> and then, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Here's <HI>Encouragement</HI> for <HI>Trayt rs</HI> and <HI>Rebels,</HI> I &s;ay, with a <HI>witne&s;s!</HI> had the <HI>Libeller</HI> call'd all the Infernal <HI>Fiends</HI> to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, he could not have <HI>&s;poke</HI> more <HI>plainly</HI> or <HI>wick|edly:</HI> But the be&s;t on't is, he hath deluded his <HI>Party</HI> hither|to with his <HI>Spurious Oracles</HI> drawn from the <HI>Vernal Ingre&s;s,</HI> as you have heard; They have therefore <HI>little Rea&s;on</HI> to believe him in <HI>This,</HI> it being likely to prove as <HI>Errant</HI> a <HI>Fal&s;hood</HI> as any of his former ridiculous and groundle&s;s <HI>&s;ug|gestions.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Libeller,</HI> notwith&s;tanding, is here come to the <HI>highest pitch</HI> of his <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Daring.</HI> For by the&s;e <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lli&s;h</HI> pa&s;&s;ages, he mo&s;t <HI>Trea&s;onably</HI> and <HI>Fal&s;ly</HI> imagines the <HI>Death</HI> of the <HI>King,</HI> and hath pre&s;umed to &s;et <HI>Bounds</HI> to His <HI>Sacred life. [One and Twenty months is not an age!]</HI> For which I doubt not but <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> will Requite him. The 25th. of good K. <HI>Ed|ward</HI> III. is not <HI>Repeal'd.</HI> Take notice <HI>Libeller!</HI> and re|member that <HI>Kings</HI> are <HI>God</HI>'s <HI>Vicegerent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and have <HI>long Arm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></P>
<P>And why &s;hould not I a&s;&s;ume as much <HI>Freedom</HI> to An&s;wer this his <HI>Trea&s;onable In&s;inuation,</HI> as him&s;elf hath taken <HI>Liberty</HI> to <HI>Write</HI> and <HI>Print</HI> it? For <HI>Astrology</HI> cannot own any &s;uch <HI>damnable &s;ugge&s;tion,</HI> unle&s;s his <HI>Maje&s;ties Birth</HI> were known, which I am confident it is not either to the <HI>Libeller,</HI> or any other <HI>truly.</HI> Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>Laud</HI> in his <HI>Diary</HI> &s;ays, His Maje|&s;ty was born on <HI>October</HI> the 14th. 1633. but no more, and
<PB N="30" REF="24"> yet that good <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> was an <HI>Astrologer.</HI> Mr. <HI>Whitlock</HI> &s;ays His Maje&s;ty was <HI>Born, October</HI> 13. And I have &s;een a <HI>Meddal</HI> made at His Maje&s;ties <HI>Sacred Birth,</HI> with <HI>October</HI> the 15. in|&s;crib'd upon it. One of which <HI>Meddals</HI> Mr. <HI>Sandford</HI> al&s;o owns to have &s;een. And if the <HI>Day</HI> of this Illu&s;trious <HI>Birth</HI> be thus uncertain, how much more the <HI>time</HI> of the <HI>Day?</HI> And, the <HI>Libeller</HI> knows that <HI>Astrology</HI> requires the <HI>minute,</HI> if Men would be exact in their <HI>Praedicting</HI> of any thing thereon de|pending.</P>
<P>There was a <HI>Scheam,</HI> pretended to be His Maje&s;ties <HI>Birth</HI> Figure, publi&s;h'd (among other things) in <HI>Anno</HI> 1659. [By <HI>no</HI> Enemy to the <HI>Royal Family,</HI> as the Book &s;hews;) which <HI>Scheam</HI> had <HI>Leo</HI> on the <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> and this po&s;&s;ibly hath hope to mi&s;guide the <HI>Libeller,</HI> and his <HI>two</HI> Fellow Incendiaries be|fore-mention'd; who greedily taking up the matter upon Tru&s;t, (as did the Publi&s;her thereof,) hath occa&s;ion'd many to believe His Maje&s;ties <HI>Nativity</HI> is publickly known. But that <HI>Figure</HI> is not true, for many <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> I could give. I'll mention <HI>one</HI> for <HI>all.</HI> What Imperial <HI>Geniture</HI> did any <HI>man</HI> ever &s;ee, that had the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Duodecima Domo?</HI> That very Argument alone is &s;ufficient to <HI>convince</HI> any under&s;tan|ding <HI>A&s;trologer,</HI> of the <HI>Fal&s;ene&s;s</HI> of that <HI>Figure.</HI> And for the ab&s;olute <HI>true one,</HI> I am morally confident it is not, cannot be known. But, in ca&s;e it were known exactly, what would the <HI>Libeller</HI> do with it? He'd even make the &s;ame Jarring fal&s;e <HI>Mu&s;ick</HI> with it, as he hath done with the <HI>French</HI> King's <HI>Geni|ture,</HI> which is truly known, and Printed by <HI>Morinus</HI> in <HI>A&s;tro|logia Gallica.</HI> And what's that? Why, the <HI>Libeller</HI> doom'd that Great <HI>Martial</HI> Monarch to <HI>Death</HI> three years &s;ince, and yet is that Illu&s;trious Prince alive, and likely to live, to prove <HI>him</HI> a very <HI>Impudent,</HI> but Ignorant <HI>Impo&s;tor.</HI></P>
<P>But alas! It is the <HI>Eclip&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Scorpio, October</HI> 1688. which the <HI>Libeller</HI> refers to, when he tells us of the <HI>"Suns</HI> making his <HI>&s;econd Vi&s;it</HI> to the <HI>Scorpion,</HI> &amp;c. at which time his XXI Months reaching from <HI>January</HI> 1687. are <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ompleated,</HI> which he &s;ays, are not an <HI>Age.</HI>&mdash; But what im|partial <HI>A&s;trologer</HI> would dare to give Judgement upon his <HI>So|vereigns Geniture</HI> at all, much le&s;s at &s;o <HI>Wild</HI> and <HI>Groundle&s;s</HI>
<PB N="31" REF="24"> a rate? Can a <HI>&s;mall Eclip&s;e,</HI> &amp;c. prove <HI>Fatal</HI> without other Arguments? What Author teaches him this for <HI>A&s;trology?</HI> 'Tis the <HI>Libellers</HI> Malice, not his Art, that makes him guilty of this palpable and mo&s;t <HI>Trea&s;onous Fal&s;hood.</HI> And although I ought not, and therefore dare not intermeddle too far with &s;o <HI>Sacred</HI> a <HI>Theam</HI> as is the <HI>Life</HI> or <HI>Death</HI> of my <HI>Sovereign,</HI> otherwi&s;e than by my <HI>Prayers;</HI> yet I &s;hall pre&s;ume to tell the <HI>Libeller,</HI> that 'tis not full <HI>Nineteen Years</HI> &s;ince, (<HI>viz.</HI> in <HI>October</HI> 1669.) that the <HI>Sun was Eclips'd in the very &s;ame place,</HI> as he will be in <HI>October</HI> 1688. And no Danger atten|ded His <HI>Sacred Per&s;on</HI> upon it. Neither can there now, for ought the <HI>Libeller</HI> can read in the <HI>Stars.</HI> And for his <HI>Spani&s;h Apple,</HI> which He &s;ays, will then be grateful to the <HI>Engli&s;h Palate;</HI> he tacitly but mo&s;t wickedly <HI>menaces</HI> His Maje&s;ty with <HI>Poy&s;on.</HI> From the which I doubt not but <HI>God,</HI> and all good Mens <HI>Prayers</HI> will protect His <HI>Sacred Per&s;on.</HI> Behold! This <HI>Rancorous Bloody Villain!</HI> nothing can <HI>&s;atiate</HI> his <HI>malice,</HI> but the <HI>life</HI> of his <HI>Sovereign!</HI> and that by a <HI>Death</HI> of his own <HI>appointment,</HI> without ground in <HI>Art.</HI> But <HI>Libeller!</HI> let me tell you, <HI>God</HI> hath <HI>pre&s;erved Him</HI> from the <HI>Lyon</HI> and the <HI>Bear;</HI> from the <HI>A&s;&s;ociators</HI> and the <HI>Exclu&s;io|ners!</HI> from <HI>Perils</HI> by <HI>Land!</HI> and <HI>Dangers</HI> by <HI>Sea!</HI> And I doubt not but he will <HI>Deliver Him</HI> from the malicious, groundle&s;s <HI>menaces</HI> of this <HI>Uncircumcis'd Philistine,</HI> too. God Almighty, never <HI>Delivers</HI> any from <HI>Iminent Dangers,</HI> but for <HI>Great</HI> and <HI>Stupendious Purpo&s;es.</HI> As he pre&s;erv'd <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in the Water, to be a Leader to his <HI>People. Jo&s;eph</HI> from <HI>Capti|vity,</HI> and attempts upon his <HI>Innocence,</HI> to be the <HI>Supporter</HI> of his <HI>Family,</HI> and <HI>Countrey,</HI> by making him the Chief Man in <HI>Aegypt. David</HI> from variety of Dangers, and being <HI>Hunted</HI> as a <HI>Partridge</HI> upon the Mountains, to be the King of his People <HI>I&s;rael. Cum multis aliis,</HI> &amp;c. And, can we believe, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t <HI>God</HI> hath not a mighty <HI>Work</HI> for His <HI>Sacred Maje&s;ty to do,</HI> having pre&s;erved Him from as <HI>Imminent Dangers</HI> as ever he did any? A&s;&s;ure thy &s;elf, vain <HI>Libeller!</HI> thy <HI>Pre&s;ages</HI> will never be an&s;wered, let thy <HI>Wi&s;hes</HI> be never &s;o <HI>Bloody</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;onable.</HI></P>
<PB N="32" REF="25">
<P>But this impudent Fellow, as making him&s;elf &s;ure of His Maje&s;ties true <HI>Nativity,</HI> confidently ventures, (<HI>page</HI> 3.) to write&mdash;<Q>Saturn in Oppo&s;ition to the part of Fortune in His Radix, and that giver of life, will in a few months, <HI>(mean|ing his XXI</HI> months, <HI>no doubt,)</HI> be directed to a malefique Ray of <HI>Saturn,</HI> &amp;c.</Q></P>
<P>Mon&s;trous Lyar! As fal&s;e to thy <HI>Art,</HI> as to thy <HI>Sovereign!</HI> what <HI>Genethliacal Astrologer</HI> ever taught, that the <HI>part of Fortunes</HI> directions to any <HI>Promittor</HI> were Dangerous to <HI>life?</HI> Such a <HI>Direction</HI> (as A&s;trologers tell us) may pre&s;age <HI>lo&s;s</HI> and <HI>damage</HI> &s;everal ways, according to the Nature of the <HI>Star</HI> that is <HI>Promittor,</HI> and <HI>place</HI> it may happen in: but can ne|ver <HI>cut off life Ptolomy</HI> teaches us, in Judging of <HI>Natali|tial Scheams,</HI> fir&s;t to con&s;ider the <HI>Horo&s;cope, Sun,</HI> and <HI>Moon,</HI> for the <HI>Life</HI> and <HI>Being</HI> of a <HI>Per&s;on</HI> or <HI>City,</HI> &amp;c. and next to take care of its <HI>well-being,</HI> and that was by minding the <GAP DESC="foreign">, or place of the <HI>part of Fortune,</HI> which they commonly call'd the <HI>Lunar Horo&s;cope,</HI> becau&s;e projected from the <HI>Luminaries</HI> and the <HI>A&s;cendant.</HI></P>
<P>This was <HI>Ptolomy</HI>'s method, and yet the Impudent <HI>Libel|ler</HI> is not a&s;ham'd to vouch <HI>Ptolomy</HI> for this his new Di&s;cove|ry, <HI>lib.</HI> 3. <HI>cap.</HI> 12. 13. But I have taken the pains to read <HI>Ptolomy</HI> in both tho&s;e Chapters of his third Book, and, <HI>Truth be my Witne&s;s,</HI> there is not one word in either of them that <HI>&s;ounds</HI> any thing like to what he <HI>a&s;&s;erts.</HI> Nor do the Argu|ments of tho&s;e Chapters lead him to any &s;uch purpo&s;e. He therefore hath bely'd <HI>Ptolomy,</HI> and is not to be credited, The fir&s;t of tho&s;e Chapters, treats, <HI>De impedimentis &amp; infirmi|tatibus Nati accidentibus Corpori.</HI> The &s;econd di&s;cour&s;es, <HI>De qualitatibus animae Nati.</HI> Certainly, the <HI>Libeller,</HI> the Morning before he wrote this palpable <HI>Untrath,</HI> offer'd Sa|crifice at the <HI>Altar</HI> of the Godde&s;s <HI>Laverna,</HI> in &s;ome &s;uch like Supplication as this,&mdash;
<Q><L>&mdash; Pulchra <HI>Laverna!</HI></L>
<L>Da mihi fallere, da justum &s;anctum&abque; videri,</L>
<L>Noctum peccatis &amp; fraudibus obj ce Nubem;</L></Q></P>
<PB N="33" REF="25">
<P>Thus in <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>Godde&s;s</HI> mo&s;t <HI>Fair!</HI> this <HI>Suit</HI> deny me not,</L>
<L>That <HI>Qua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k</HI> and <HI>Lye</HI> I may, and yet be <HI>thought</HI></L>
<L>An <HI>Arri&s;t Ju&s;t:</HI> my Knavi&s;h <HI>Frauds</HI> o're&s;pread,</L>
<L>With <HI>Sable-Clouds,</HI> that they may <HI>ne're</HI> be <HI>Read.</HI></L></Q>
<P>But, what if <HI>Ptolomy</HI> had &s;aid &s;o, which you &s;ee he doth not. What &s;tead would it have &s;tood him in? unle&s;s the exact <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of that <HI>Royal Birth</HI> were known. And that it mu&s;t be before the place of the <HI>Part of Fortune</HI> can be obtain'd. Thus this bu&s;ie Man endeavours to <HI>Flie</HI> without <HI>Wings,</HI> and vainly labours to exalt him&s;elf (with the Lord <HI>Montaign</HI>'s <HI>Turnebus</HI>) as if he under&s;tood <HI>all things;</HI> when in <HI>Truth,</HI> he is a very <HI>&s;hallow Fellow</HI> in the Art of <HI>A&s;trology,</HI> and hath nothing to value him&s;elf upon, but his common <HI>Talents</HI> of <HI>Trea&s;on, Athei&s;m,</HI> and impudent <HI>Daring.</HI></P>
<P>Here, I was about to lay by my Pen; but that I had fre&s;h and better con&s;ider'd the <HI>Libeller</HI>'s Gro&s;s Prevarications and Abu&s;e of his Art in deriving all his malicious Judge|ments from one &s;ingle (fal&s;e) <HI>Ingre&s;s&punc;</HI> and a Tran&s;it or two, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and neglecting more <HI>weighty Cau&s;es,</HI> by which an Ar|ti&s;t ought to have been Govern'd in Praedicting of Futuri|ties. As the great Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> which pre&s;ides over this pre&s;ent Age; together, with other le&s;&s;er Cau&s;es. The True and Natural <HI>Effects</HI> of which, I &s;hall as briefly as I can run over, and &s;o conclude.</P>
<P>Let it in the fir&s;t place be remembred, that the World is under the Regency of the <HI>Fiery Trigon,</HI> and &s;o will con|tinue untill about, or &s;omewhat after, the year 1800, <HI>viz.</HI> For 113 years yet to come. But we, at this time are more particularly &s;ubject to the Government of a Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Leo,</HI> the <HI>Sun</HI>'s Domal Dignity: The Influence whereof will extend unto 1702. yet 15 years to come. At which time will be Celebrated another Con|junction of the &s;ame <HI>Planets</HI> in <HI>Aries, (England</HI>'s Horo&s;cope) the fir&s;t Sign of the <HI>Zodiack,</HI> continuing the &s;ame <HI>Trigon.</HI></P>
<P>Now, we will briefly enquire into the <HI>Effects</HI> of this Fa|mous <HI>Synod.</HI> Authors tell us, that,&mdash; <HI>Sub Arietis Triangulo
<PB N="34" REF="26"> &s;unt Monarchiae ingentes,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; When &s;uch a Conjunction happens in <HI>Aries,</HI> there will be an appearance of <HI>Mighty Monarchs,</HI> and that Ju&s;t and Pious Laws &s;hall be Enacted for the Pre&s;ervation of Men; and People will be more inclin'd to Piety and Devotion than formerly, and be more &s;trict and &s;erious in their Enquiries after things <HI>Divine,</HI> or belonging to a <HI>Future Life;</HI> They will abandon Sen&s;uality, Fraud, Hi|pocri&s;y, and each thing that leads to De&s;truction: and be more Ju&s;t and Virtuous in their actions towards God, and one another.</P>
<P>Further,&mdash; <HI>Dum fiunt Magnae Conjunctionis in Trigono primo, quae durant annis</HI> 199, <HI>&amp; &s;ingulis</HI> 20. <HI>fiunt annis,</HI> &amp;c. During the time of the great Conjunctions of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in the fir&s;t Triplicity, which continues 199 years from their fir&s;t entring the &s;ame; and are therein once every 20 years repeated: (&s;aith <HI>Campanello</HI>) there ari&s;es in the World, New <HI>Empires, Monarchies,</HI> and with them much Peace and Tranquility, by rea&s;on of the Power the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> have in that <HI>Trigon.</HI>&mdash; And the Learned <HI>Da&s;ipodius</HI> fortifies the &s;aid Opinion, thus,&mdash; <HI>Conjunctones in &s;ignis igneis, &s;i fiant,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; If Conjunctions of the Su|periour <HI>Planets</HI> happen to be made in the <HI>Fiery Triplicity,</HI> New <HI>Empires</HI> and <HI>Monarchy's</HI> are erected in the World, for as much as the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> bear &s;way therein; and there will al&s;o be an Apparition of <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> and <HI>Learned</HI> Per&s;ons; and much Peace and Tranquility will be vi&s;ible among Men, <HI>&amp;c. Da&s;ip. Aph.</HI> 64.</P>
<P>The <HI>Sun</HI> Naturally &s;ignifies Empire and Glory; and <HI>Ju|piter</HI> promotes Goodne&s;s, Wi&s;dom, Virtue, and Piety; which evermore pre&s;erves Empires; as the contrary Vices mo&s;t certainly brings them to De&s;truction. And this con|&s;ider'd, it mu&s;t be of excellent con&s;equence to the World, (&s;o much thereof at lea&s;t as is therein concern'd) when &s;uch Conjunctions are Influencing of it.</P>
<P>Give me leave to &s;earch a little into the <HI>Effects&punc;</HI> which have formerly attended &s;ome of tho&s;e Noble Conjunctions, and thence demon&s;trate the Truth of the&s;e <HI>Aphori&s;ms.</HI> I will be very brief.&mdash; It was under the Influence of &s;uch a
<PB N="35" REF="26"> Conjunction that the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> Monarchy began; and that <HI>Nabona&s;&s;er</HI> advanc'd to the Monarchy of the <HI>Babylonians,</HI> giving them a New <HI>Aera.</HI> Under &s;uch a Conjunction, <HI>Car|dan</HI> &s;ays, the fir&s;t <HI>Emperour</HI> appear'd. 'Twas under this <HI>Trigon,</HI> that the mo&s;t Famous of Men have appear'd in the World, <HI>viz. Mo&s;es, Aaron, Jo&s;hua, Hezekiah; David, Solo|man,</HI> &amp;c. &s;o al&s;o <HI>Thales,</HI> and all the re&s;t of the <HI>Seven Sages</HI> under this <HI>Trigon,</HI> &s;aith the Learned Mr. <HI>John Butler,</HI> (in a Manu&s;cript of all the Conjunctions of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> which he kindly gave to me,) <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was born, and all the XII. <HI>Patriarchs.</HI> And that <HI>O&s;iris</HI> began his Famous March over all <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> teaching them to &s;ow <HI>Corn,</HI> Plant <HI>Vines,</HI> make <HI>Wine,</HI> &amp;c. The Holy <HI>David</HI> was advanc'd (through many difficulties) to be King of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> The <HI>Olympick Games,</HI> Famous for above 1000. years after, (he &s;aith) began under this <HI>Trigon.</HI> And al&s;o, that under the &s;ame, <HI>Sylla</HI> aro&s;e, and became the fir&s;t Imperial Monarch of <HI>Rome.</HI> The <HI>Ger|mans were</HI> taught <HI>Phy&s;ick, Agriculture, Grinding, Forging, Brewing,</HI> &amp;c. under this <HI>Triangle.</HI> And under the &s;ame, many Famous Cities have been built, as <HI>Memphis,</HI> (now Grand <HI>Cairo</HI>) in <HI>Aegypt:</HI> But whether by <HI>Apis</HI> or <HI>Epaphos,</HI> I will not di&s;pute. <HI>Sparta, Lacaedemon, Syracu&s;e, Tarentum, Rhegium, Abdera, cum multis aliis,</HI> all Erected under this <HI>Trigon.</HI> So likewi&s;e the Famous Univer&s;ities of <HI>Oxford, Cambridge, Tholou&s;e</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; But, to in&s;tance in One for All, let us (in Duty and Thankfulne&s;s to <HI>God</HI>) re|member, that, according to his good plea&s;ure, (for the Enno|bling of this Famous <HI>Trigon</HI>) the Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Lord</HI> and <HI>Saviour</HI> of the World was born of a <HI>Virgin,</HI> (under the &s;ame,) and became <HI>Incarnate,</HI> to take away the &s;ins of the World, and reconciled Lap&s;ed <HI>Mankind</HI> to a greatly offended <HI>Deity.</HI></P>
<P>By this &s;hort account, we may rea&s;onably Judge of the <HI>Effects</HI> Dependant on the pre&s;ent Famous Conjunction; which mu&s;t, according to the Cour&s;e of Nature, be of ad|mirable advantage unto the World, and tho&s;e particular <HI>Kingdoms, Cities,</HI> &amp;c. that are &s;ubjected to this <HI>Ignean Tri|plicity,</HI> under a Friendly Con&s;ideration. 'Tis the <HI>Fire</HI> that Purifies all things. And this Conjunctions Influences (<HI>Ju|piter</HI>
<PB N="36" REF="27"> bearing rule herein) will mo&s;t happily con&s;ume all the <HI>Dro&s;s</HI> and <HI>Dregs</HI> of <HI>Fanatici&s;m, Fraud,</HI> and <HI>Hipocri&s;y,</HI> (which hath &s;o long infatuated the World,) and leave us only the Pure Gold of <HI>Peace, Felicity, Religion, Honour,</HI> and <HI>Con|tent,</HI> &amp;c, And, what if I &s;hould &s;ay, they will &s;alute us with Durable new <HI>Monarchies,</HI> New <HI>Cities,</HI> New <HI>Arts,</HI> &amp;c. The Conjunction is Fixed, and Fixed Signs relate to things of duration, and continuance.&mdash; Mi&s;take me not. I do not mean that the <HI>Effects</HI> of this Famous Conjunction &s;hall be of &s;o <HI>all-Glorious</HI> an Influence, or &s;hall &s;o far &s;ignifie <HI>Peace, Piety, Honour, Quiet,</HI> and <HI>Content;</HI> as that all War, Di&s;content, Athei&s;m, or Di&s;honour &s;hould wholly <HI>cea&s;e,</HI> or be <HI>ab&s;ent.</HI> No! What year was there ever &s;o <HI>Dry,</HI> but that it admitted of &s;ome <HI>moi&s;ture?</HI> Or &s;o <HI>Pro&s;perous,</HI> but that &s;ome Men met <HI>Infelicity</HI> therein? The <HI>Antipathies</HI> of Nature can no more be de&s;troy'd, than the <HI>Sympathies.</HI> Both, may be <HI>intended</HI> or <HI>remitted,</HI> but not (while the World la&s;ts) <HI>aboli&s;hed.</HI> A Man be &s;aid to be a good Man, and yet guilty of &s;ome Immortalities. And a Year may be &s;aid to be a <HI>moi&s;t,</HI> or a <HI>dry</HI> One, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in <HI>compari&s;on</HI> of the <HI>moisture,</HI> or <HI>drought</HI> it is laden with. All the Diver&s;ity or Variety that appears in the World, is &s;o but by <HI>compari&s;on,</HI> viz. In re&s;pect of a <HI>Dry</HI> Year, or of a <HI>Temperate,</HI> &s;uch a Year may be reputed <HI>moist.</HI> Or, in regard of a <HI>Fruitful</HI> Revolution; &s;uch a one may be term'd <HI>Barren.</HI> But there can be no Year in which all <HI>Four Qualities</HI> &s;hall not be Apparent and Vi&s;i|ble. And thus ought we to under&s;tand the &s;ignifications of the <HI>Stars</HI> at large, and of this Famous. <HI>Ignean</HI> Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in particular; and not otherwi&s;e. For while there is a <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> and Point <HI>Culminant,</HI> there will be a <HI>Seventh,</HI> and a <HI>Twelfth</HI> Angle, <HI>i. e.</HI> As long as there are <HI>Men</HI> and <HI>Actions</HI> in the World, &s;o long there will be <HI>Ene|mies</HI> and <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to them. As there are Per&s;ons and Pla|ces with whom this Great Conjunction accords, &s;o there are &s;uch with whom its Influences Antipathize. The ad|vantage of an Amicable Configuration is chiefly this, that, like the <HI>Diurnal</HI> Arch in Summer, we have <HI>(plus Solis)</HI> more of <HI>Good</HI> than of <HI>Evil;</HI> and that the <HI>Evil</HI> it &s;elf is
<PB N="37" REF="27"> kept under, from being able to do the World any material or &s;ignal Damage.</P>
<P>But the <HI>Libeller,</HI> (or &s;ome like him) may interrogate, what though Great and Famous <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Actions</HI> have been the <HI>Effects</HI> of the&s;e Notable <HI>Congre&s;&s;es</HI> formerly? and perhaps may again now al&s;o appear during the continuance of this <HI>Trigon?</HI> Why &s;hould they be more vi&s;ible to <HI>Eng|land,</HI> or <HI>Rome,</HI> than to any other Kingdoms, Cities, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Or, why at this time more than another? I an&s;wer.&mdash; That the Effects of this Conjunction cannot concern <HI>Rome</HI> or <HI>England,</HI> more, than they will other <HI>places</HI> which are e|qually related to that <HI>Triplicity.</HI> To &s;uch they will be of a &s;uitable &s;ignification. But they will much more relate to tho&s;e Famous Places, than to others that are either not at all, or el&s;e not <HI>Equally</HI> concern'd with them. Every <HI>Countrey, Kingdom,</HI> or <HI>City,</HI> &amp;c. is not in <HI>Trine</HI> to the <HI>Conjunction,</HI> or in good Configuration with it, therefore cannot be equal|ly advantaged thereby. Some Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Societies, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are in <HI>Quadrate,</HI> or <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> to this Noble <HI>Congre&s;s:</HI> Others have <HI>Horo&s;copes,</HI> and <HI>Hylegiacal</HI> Points not at all beholding it. To &s;uch therefore it will be either of an Oppo&s;ite, or of no &s;ignification at all.</P>
<P>But all <HI>A&s;trologers</HI> concur, that tho&s;e Places and Per&s;ons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that <HI>Harmoni&s;e</HI> with the Conjunction, will be &s;harers in its Nobler Influences; and tho&s;e that are <HI>Di&s;cordant</HI> un|to it, will partake of its mo&s;t adver&s;e and contrary Effects. Now <HI>Rome</HI> and <HI>England</HI> being related to this Conjunction very peculiarly, (though not Exclu&s;ive of all other Places) are the more certain Eminently to &s;hare in its Effects, and that as I &s;aid for good.</P>
<P>That <HI>England</HI> is &s;ubject to the <HI>Fiery Trigon,</HI> is, with A&s;trologers out of Di&s;pute. <HI>Ptolemy</HI> him&s;elf places it un|der <HI>Aries,</HI> and <HI>Mars; Unde impatientes regni,</HI> &amp;c. &s;aith He; And that truly enough, it being of the Nature of Collerick Countries, as well as Per&s;ons, to <HI>A&s;pire, Tyranize,</HI> &amp;c. And <HI>Cardanus</HI> adds, that therefore we are a Rebellious and Unlucky People: And that al&s;o, is not to be di&s;allow|ed of, when labouring under Rebellious and Tyrannous Influences.</P>
<Q><PB N="38" REF="28">
<L>The Warlike <HI>Ram</HI> A&s;cends in <HI>England<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Scheam,</L>
<L>And <HI>Mars,</HI> or <HI>Mars</HI> his Sons, mu&s;t Govern them.</L></Q>
<P>For we mu&s;t know it for a Truth, that all the &s;hining Diamonds of Heaven do not emit &s;uch Salutiferous and Pre|&s;erving <HI>Rayes</HI> as doth the Planet <HI>Jupiter:</HI> Neither is <HI>Jupiter</HI> always the Ruler of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Conjunction;</HI> (though here he be) &s;ometimes it happens that he is a <HI>Patient</HI> or Sufferer him|&s;elf; and Envious <HI>Saturn</HI> will bear the Rule over him But now (Ble&s;&s;ed be God) it is otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Now, to &s;trengthen the Opinion (though it &s;carce need) that <HI>Aries</HI> is the <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> I have &s;een a <HI>Figure</HI> of Heaven, &s;aid to be that of <HI>William</HI> the <HI>Conquerors</HI> fir&s;t Landing in <HI>England;</HI> and it is this, and probably the true time thereof, or very near: as I &s;hall upon another occa&s;i|on endeavour el&s;ewhere to Demon&s;trate.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<P>The Figure of <HI>HEA|VEN</HI> at the time of Duke <HI>WILLIAM,</HI> Sirnamed the <HI>Conqueror,</HI> his Entrance into <HI>ENGLAND</HI></P>
<P>&Moon; &agrave; &quadrine; &Mars;. <HI>ad</HI> &trine; 5. <HI>&amp;</HI> &quadrine; &Sun;.</P>
<FIGDESC>astrological chart</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<PB N="39" REF="28">
<P>Whether this be the very true Figure of Duke <HI>William</HI>'s Landing at <HI>Pem&s;ey</HI> I will not ab&s;olutely affirm; but it looks &s;o like the True One, (chiefly as it accords to the Kingdoms Original <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI>) that it may, <HI>cum graro Salis,</HI> be ad|mitted for the truth. A <HI>Cardinal</HI> Scheme agrees well e|nough to a vigorous, Active People; and <HI>Mars</HI> Lord of the A&s;cendant in <HI>Trine</HI> to it, and in Conjunction with a Star of his own Nature, in Sextile of the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Venus,</HI> &amp;c. well &s;ignifies a Di&s;po&s;ition to Liberty, Plea&s;ure, War, Victory, Conque&s;t of Enemies, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> with other matters vi&s;ible in the Figure, which I purpo&s;ely pa&s;s over; All confirming it to be nearly true. And if &s;o, let us con&s;ider how the <HI>Full Moon</HI> Scheme before the Great Conjunction in 1682. agrees herewith. In that Figure the <HI>Laminaries</HI> are in a Friendly A&s;pect to the Place of the <HI>Conjunction;</HI> And as the <HI>Conjun|ction</HI> it &s;elf fell in <HI>Trine</HI> to the A&s;cendent of <HI>England,</HI> &s;o it was Celebrated near the place of <HI>Jupiter</HI> in this <HI>Scheme,</HI> and in partile Trine of the Ninth Angle (which is termed <HI>Domus Religionis</HI>) which is govern'd by <HI>Jupiter.</HI> All which Arguments prove <HI>England</HI> to be Eminently concern'd in the Effects of this Conjunction, and that for Good. And that which makes it the more con&s;iderable, the <HI>Profectional</HI> Scheme of this <HI>Coel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tial Synod,</HI> is in <HI>Trine</HI> to that of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ull Moon</HI> preceding it, and therein return'd to the Place of the Conjunction, and that of <HI>Jupiter</HI> him&s;elf in the Radix. I want Room (if it were convenient) to Explain all the&s;e Excellent Arguments. &mdash; <HI>Unity in Religion</HI> (I &s;ay) is the main intendment of this Famous Congre&s;s; and tho&s;e particular Te&s;timonies tell us where? and to whom? <HI>Si Deus &amp; A&s;tra nobi&s;cum, quis contra nos?</HI> Some may expect a Judgement A&s;trological on this remarkable Figure, (a <HI>Cardinal</HI> one indeed, and &s;emblable to the Actions and Pa&s;|&s;ions of this Warlike Nation) but that is Irrelative to my pre&s;ent Purpo&s;e. My bu&s;ine&s;s being to &s;hew the Partiality and Neglect of the <HI>Libeller,</HI> or his malice rather, that thus hath dared to Di&s;turb the Peace of his <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Countrey,</HI> (as far as lay in him) under pretence of drawing Judge|ments from the <HI>Stars;</HI> whereas had he hone&s;tly con&s;ider'd them, they had been found wholly again&s;t him.</P>
<PB N="40" REF="29">
<P>But further, for as much as the <HI>Libeller</HI> hath Confidently joyned <HI>Rome</HI> with <HI>England</HI> to &s;uffer all the <HI>Plagues</HI> his Envi|ous Pen was able to Scatter; I will here (to manife&s;t his <HI>Folly</HI> as well as <HI>Fal&s;ene&s;s</HI>) Produce the Nativity of <HI>Rome,</HI> as I find it in <HI>Gauricus;</HI> that the world may &s;ee what little Ground he had &s;o ba&s;ely to be&s;patter it.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<P>The PALLADIUM of ROME, agreeing to its Second Re&s;tau|ration. As it is found in LUCAS GAURICUS.</P>
<P><HI>Latit</HI> ROMAE.</P>
<P>&Moon;. <HI>&acirc; Vac. ad</HI> &sextile; &Sun;.</P>
<FIGDESC>astrological chart</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>What skilful A&s;trologer is there, that &s;eriou&s;ly viewing, this Figure of Heaven, would dare to pronounce <HI>De&s;truction</HI> to <HI>Rome,</HI> under a Conjunction in the Fiery <HI>Triangle?</HI> Be|hold how all the Planets are rang'd in Order, all <HI>(Supra ter|ram</HI> too,) to a&s;&s;i&s;t it by their Harmonious Po&s;itions. <HI>Pi&s;ces Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,</HI> all po&s;&s;e&s;s'd by <HI>Planets.</HI> Fortunate <HI>Stars, Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> in the <HI>medium Coeli;</HI> and the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Aries,</HI> his Exaltation, &s;miling on the <HI>Horo|&s;cope</HI>
<PB N="41" REF="29"> with a Trigonal Ray: The <HI>Moon</HI> increa&s;ing in the An|gle of <HI>Hopes</HI> and <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;tance,</HI> applying to the <HI>Sextile</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> in the Ninth Angle. An Admirable Po&s;ition of <HI>Hea|ven,</HI> enough to Dazle the Eyes of <HI>Romes</HI> greate&s;t Enemies: and &s;ufficient to confirm them, that they &s;hall be no more able to <HI>prevail</HI> again&s;t <HI>Her,</HI> then the <HI>Gates</HI> of <HI>Hell</HI> can a|gain&s;t the <HI>Truth She</HI> Maintains. And had that Whim&s;ical A&s;trologer, who a&s;um'd the Name of <HI>RUTH,</HI> (which Mr. <HI>Maxwel</HI> gives us notice of in his Collection of <HI>Prophe&s;ies,</HI> &amp;c.) but truly ob&s;erved the <HI>Glories</HI> of this Coele&s;tial Scheme, he could never have been &s;o <HI>Ra&s;h</HI> or <HI>Fanciful,</HI> as to have Praedicted the <HI>Downfal</HI> of this Famous <HI>City,</HI> and <HI>Hierarchy</HI> as He did, from a Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Scorpio,</HI> 1484. and by &s;undry <HI>Pictures,</HI> and o|ther frothy fallacious Stories; which vain pre&s;age, it hath now &s;urvived <HI>(laus Deo)</HI> more then 200. years, &s;o that we &s;ee&mdash;
<Q><L>Stout <HI>Rome</HI> &s;tands &s;till, a Bulwark, to Defie,</L>
<L>The Pen-Granado's of Fal&s;e Phrophe&s;ie.</L></Q></P>
<P>You &s;ee by this, there have been other <HI>Fops</HI> and <HI>Impo&s;tors</HI> as well as the <HI>Libeller,</HI> and long before him too, that have been &s;tretching their <HI>Skill,</HI> and &s;training their <HI>Credits,</HI> to &s;trike at <HI>Rome.</HI> Mr. <HI>Potter</HI> flirted at it from the Number of the Bea&s;t, 666. And many others have done the &s;ame, by <HI>Chronograms, Crotchets, Prophe&s;ies, Dreams,</HI> &amp;c. But ala&s;s! how vainly! All of them have been deluded and mi|&s;erably deceived in their hopes; and, may they not al&s;o be ju&s;tly <HI>derived</HI> too? <HI>Plus faetent &s;tercora mota.</HI> I will rake into this Dirty Puddle no further.</P>
<P>Let me now con&s;ider how matters &s;tand at pre&s;ent with that Noble <HI>Place</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> in re&s;pect of Coele&s;tial Cau&s;es. And here I find this Famous <HI>Conjunction</HI> to fall in the very <HI>Horo&s;cope</HI> of <HI>Romes Palladium;</HI> and the <HI>Moon</HI> in the <HI>Pleni|lunium Figure</HI> exactly return'd <HI>ad locum Solis,</HI> and <HI>Sextilum Proprium</HI> therein. And if the <HI>Luminaries</HI> are the grand <HI>Spirits</HI> of the World, and the Life of All things Living, (as
<PB N="42" REF="30"> &s;aith <HI>Hermes Tri&s;megi&s;tus,&mdash; Sol &amp; Luna po&s;t Deum, Omni|um viventium vita &s;unt.</HI>) then their places being fortuna|ted in any Radix, mu&s;t add to the Life and Vigor, and con|&s;equently, to the Honour and Splendor of that Place unto whom they belong. <HI>Ergo,</HI> much Happine&s;s, and Succe&s;s mu&s;t hereby be intended to the <HI>See</HI> of <HI>Rome,</HI> maugre all the <HI>Libellers</HI> Malicious Predictions to the Contrary; And this Judgement is the Natural Re&s;ult of <HI>Art.</HI></P>
<P>Further, we may ob&s;erve, In the <HI>Profectional</HI> Scheme, that the <HI>Conjunction</HI> is returned to the <HI>Fifth</HI> Angle; which (according to Natural Cau&s;es) renders that <HI>Holy See</HI> Pro&s;|perous, and Succe&s;sful, and Prevailing, hy her <HI>Envoys, Agents</HI> or <HI>Amba&s;&s;adors,</HI> &amp;c. and heaps Honours and Advan|tages upon many of her <HI>Obedient Children,</HI> and denotes them, al&s;o, happy in their Endeavours; and that their Pi|ous and Prai&s;e-worthy <HI>Labours</HI> will be more Ea&s;ie and De|lightful, and le&s;s Hazardous to them, than in &s;ome former years; that they &s;hall be re&s;pected, and kindly treated where ever they come; and not be (while this Conjunction <HI>Rules</HI>) &s;ubject to &s;uffer under the Damnable <HI>Perjuries</HI> of <HI>Satan</HI>'s <HI>Imps,</HI> as lately they mo&s;t wrongfully did.</P>
<P>I cannot Enlarge upon the&s;e two Illu&s;trious <HI>Genitures;</HI> which if con&s;ider'd (as you have heard) with the two other mention'd <HI>Schemes,</HI> together with <HI>Revolutions</HI> and <HI>Directi|ons</HI> of the <HI>Planets,</HI> &amp;c. (A large, and Laborious task?) do pronounce mo&s;t <HI>Glorious things,</HI> not only to <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Rome</HI> in particular, but to all <HI>Chri&s;tendom;</HI> to the Ad|vancement of the <HI>True Religion,</HI> and to the Depre&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Devils</HI> Kingdom, <HI>Here&s;y, Schi&s;m,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Here, let me premi&s;e, that when I mention <HI>Religion,</HI> &amp;c. I do it not as if I believ'd the <HI>Stars</HI> acted <HI>Fatally</HI> upon <HI>Men,</HI> or that they had any Dominion over <HI>Con&s;ciences,</HI> or matters truly <HI>Divine.</HI> I am &s;atisfi'd (with <HI>Indagines</HI>) that they <HI>Incline</HI> only, and that (many times) very <HI>gently</HI> too; the <HI>Mind</HI> is affected with Stellary <HI>Influences,</HI> only by the media|tion of the <HI>Organs,</HI> and not Directly. And the <HI>Soul</HI> is a free Agent. 'Tis the <HI>Mutable</HI> part of <HI>Religion</HI> only, that is <HI>Cogno&s;cible</HI> to the <HI>Stars;</HI> that part of it which is Subject
<PB N="43" REF="30"> to our <HI>Sen&s;es:</HI> But the <HI>Sub&s;tance,</HI> or <HI>E&s;&s;ence</HI> thereof is above their <HI>Influences,</HI> and, as being <HI>Eternal,</HI> admits of neither <HI>Alteration</HI> or <HI>Addition.</HI> Wherefore the <HI>Stars</HI> may di&s;cover a <HI>Hipocrite</HI> or <HI>Heretick,</HI> &amp;c. becau&s;e &s;uch are led by their <HI>&s;en&s;ual</HI> Appetites, and not by the Spirit of <HI>Unity.</HI> But alas! they can never Declare a <HI>Chri&s;tian.</HI> A True <HI>chri&s;tian</HI> is the Holy Apo&s;tles Spiritual Man, that <HI>Judgeth</HI> all things, and is Judged of None: He is Influenced by a <HI>Heaven</HI> a|bove the <HI>Stars;</HI> Even the <HI>Caelum Empyreum,</HI></P>
<P>This premis'd, I &s;ay then with <HI>Origanus,</HI> &amp;c. that the <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Religion <HI>(&s;ecundum formam)</HI> is under the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> whence <HI>Cardan</HI> &s;ays &mdash; <HI>Lex Chri&s;tiana, Lex e&s;t Pietatis, Ju&s;titiae, Fidei, Simplicitatis,</HI> &amp;c. That the Chri&s;tian Law, is a Law of Piety, Ju&s;tice, Integrity, Faith, Simplicity, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &mdash; All which <HI>Virtues,</HI> as they are own'd by the Good Planet <HI>Jupiter,</HI> will be Improved and Advanced, during the Influence of this <HI>Conjunction,</HI> to the Honour of <HI>God,</HI> and the Happine&s;s of tho&s;e Gountries, Kingdoms, So|cieties, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that are &s;ubject to the Fiery Trigon. <HI>Jupiters</HI> Influences are ever benefique.&mdash; <HI>Nam &acirc; Jove amicitie, fae|dera, religio&s;i,</HI> &amp;c. when <HI>Jupiter</HI> hath Supreme Rule in a Conjunction, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> He intimates many Notable and Serious Enquiries into former Alliances, Leagues, Friend&s;hips and matters relating to <HI>Religion,</HI> and to the <HI>Civil Cu&s;toms</HI> of Kingdoms, Countreys, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to an <HI>Aboli&s;hing</HI> of &s;undry un|ju&s;t <HI>Encroachments.</HI> A <HI>Reformation</HI> of many Notorious <HI>A|bu&s;es;</HI> and to an Extirpation of <HI>Fraud,</HI> and <HI>Inju&s;tice.</HI> So far are <HI>Rome</HI> and <HI>England</HI> from &s;uffering what the <HI>Libeller</HI> awards, that the Grand Chanel of <HI>Divi&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Confu&s;ion</HI> is like to be &s;top'd up, and turn'd into the Joyful Current of <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Unity.</HI></P>
<P>As to <HI>England</HI> in particular, give me leave to remember a Notable pa&s;&s;age in <HI>Michael No&s;tradamus,</HI> Written about 130. years &s;ince, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;ome &s;hort time after the pretended <HI>Reformation;</HI> which is thus,
<Q><L>Le grand Empire &s;era pars L' Angleterre.</L>
<L><HI>A mighty</HI> Empire England <HI>Once &s;hall be.</HI></L></Q>
<PB N="44" REF="31"> And, allowing it a <HI>Prophe&s;y,</HI> it hath not been yet fulfill'd. Neither can it be more likely to meet an accompli&s;hment then in this pre&s;ent Age: <HI>England</HI> being now Govern'd by a <HI>Warlike-Martial Prince,</HI> and under the Influence of a Noble <HI>Regal</HI> Conjunction.</P>
<P>Again, It is an allow'd <HI>Axiom</HI> among <HI>Astrologers,&mdash; Na|tivitates quae configurantur cum propinquis figuris duorum &s;uperiorum Conjunctionem,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; That tho&s;e Provinces, Coun|tries, Cities and Per&s;ons, who&s;e Genitures corre&s;pond with the Figure of the la&s;t Ruling Conjunction of the Superiours, will remarkably advance in Honour and Grandeur, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;hall perform &s;ome more than ordinary Action or Acti|ons worthy the &s;ame. The <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> (as you have &s;een) doth happily agree with that of the pre&s;ent Ru|ling Famous Conjunction. It follows therefore clearly (<HI>non obstante,</HI> the <HI>Libellers</HI> Rab&s;heka-Railing) that <HI>Great Bri|tain</HI> will advance and pro&s;per Eminently under the Influen|ces of this <HI>Regal Conjunction;</HI> and that as well in things <HI>Sacred</HI> as <HI>Secular;</HI> to the rejoycing of the <HI>Truly Loyal,</HI> and Con&s;ternation of its <HI>Enemies.</HI> I may therefore be held to affirm,&mdash; <Q>That whoever <HI>He,</HI> or <HI>They</HI> be, that &s;hall pre&s;ume to promi&s;e them&s;elves any Encouragement or Security in their <HI>Practices</HI> or <HI>Con&s;piracies</HI> again&s;t the Illu&s;trious <HI>Mo|narch</HI> of the&s;e Nations, or the Peaceable <HI>Government</HI> thereof, <HI>They</HI> will be mo&s;t mi&s;erably <HI>deluded</HI> and <HI>decei|ved;</HI> and be <HI>Fru&s;trate</HI> in all their de&s;igns, by a timely di&s;|covery thereof: Let <HI>Him,</HI> or <HI>Them,</HI> Act never &s;o <HI>Crafti|ly,</HI> or <HI>Occultly;</HI> and they will come to be expos'd to the greate&s;t and &s;evere&s;t of <HI>puni&s;hments</HI> as their <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> can de&s;erve, or the <HI>Law</HI> can inflict; even to the De&s;truction of their <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> Ruine of their <HI>E&s;tates;</HI> and po&s;&s;ibly to the utter Extirpation of their <HI>Names</HI> and <HI>Families.</HI></Q>&mdash; Let them remember the &s;ad, but ju&s;t <HI>De&s;tinie</HI> which of late be|fell their <HI>Brethren,</HI> and Fellow Con&s;pirators in the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> viz. <HI>Anno</HI> 1685.</P>
<P>Moreover, if the <HI>Evil</HI> Figures of a <HI>Kingdom,</HI> or <HI>City,</HI> &amp;c. (as &s;ays the Famous <HI>Ptolemy</HI>) are intended, or remitted ac|cording to <HI>contrary</HI> Configurations of the Heavens, or
<PB N="45" REF="31"> Stars; Then our pre&s;ent Argument receives &s;till greater &s;trength. For, it is mo&s;t apparent, that the Malignant and Angry A&s;pects of the Stars are removed from us. The late general troubled, and (I was about to &s;ay) unparallel'd <HI>Fate</HI> which fo furiou&s;ly afflicted us, was occa&s;ion'd by the great Equinoctial <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter;</HI> preceding it, Which, as aggravated by other le&s;&s;er Cau&s;es, made it &s;o. <HI>Violent, Fierce, Turbulent,</HI> and <HI>Raging.</HI> It happen'd from <HI>Aries</HI> and <HI>Libra;</HI> and generated Di&s;ea&s;es and Di&s;turbances in the <HI>Head.</HI> (As well of Kingdoms, and Cities, as Per&s;ons) Which was wittily noted by the Author of the MEDAL, &s;peak|ing to the (then) <HI>Achitophel</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> telling Him,&mdash;
<Q>That, the <HI>Pox'd Nation</HI> felt him in their <HI>Brains.</HI></Q></P>
<P>Whence I&s;&s;ued &s;o many Damnable, Wicked and unheard of <HI>Plots</HI> and <HI>Con&s;piracies</HI> of the <HI>Vulgar</HI> and <HI>Ba&s;er</HI> &s;ort, a|gain&s;t their <HI>Superiours.</HI></P>
<P>But now, I &s;ay, be it known unto all the World, that tho&s;e Malignant <HI>Dog-Stars,</HI> under who&s;e fierce Influences we were of late &s;o horribly <HI>worry'd,</HI> are wholly <HI>remitted,</HI> being &s;uper|ceded by tho&s;e of a more Noble, Generous, Temprate, Fixed and Pre&s;erving Influence, <HI>viz.</HI> that of the fore-men|tioned Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Leo.</HI> No more <HI>Wallers,</HI> now, to be heard of, to look for <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> in <HI>Pepper-Boxes;</HI> Or to mi&s;take <HI>Jacobus,</HI> s, for <HI>Popi&s;h Images;</HI> or Rich <HI>Bracelets,</HI> or <HI>Necklaces,</HI> for BEADS; Gold <HI>Watches,</HI> or valu|able <HI>Jewels,</HI> for <HI>Trinkets</HI> belonging to the <HI>Whore</HI> of <HI>Babilon,</HI> &amp;c. No more <HI>burning</HI> of our Savours <HI>Picture,</HI> to promote <HI>Re|ligion.</HI> No more of the&s;e noon-day <HI>Cheats</HI> now! which were lately perform'd in the Face of the Sun, <HI>in Nomine Dei.</HI></P>
<P>The time of the devouring KITES intimated by <HI>Merlin,</HI> is pa&s;t. We had them with us in the late <HI>Plot</HI> with a Wit|ne&s;s! Such a <HI>Perjur'd</HI> Crew of Athei&s;tical and Plundring <HI>Caitiffs</HI> the World was &s;carce ever acquainted with &s;ince <HI>Cain</HI> &s;lew his Innocent Brother. A parcel of Dignify'd <HI>Knaves</HI> too! from <HI>Heraldry</HI> of their own making, <HI>viz</HI> Do|ctor <HI>Otes!</HI> Capt. <HI>Bedlo!</HI> Capt. <HI>Dangerfield!</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Dugdale!</HI> Mr. <HI>Prance cum multis aliis,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; When as but a &s;hort time before, <HI>Otes</HI> beg'd for Six Pence of <HI>Pickering. Bedloe</HI> was
<PB N="46" REF="32"> fed out of the <HI>Alms-Basket. Dangerfield</HI> fetch'd out of <HI>Newgate</HI> by a kind-hearted Old Woman; and had been of|ten <HI>Whipp'd</HI> and <HI>Pillory'd</HI> before for his precious <HI>Pranks. Dugdale</HI> had &s;quander'd away his Lords Money to whom he was <HI>Bayliff;</HI> and to even accounts with his Lord&s;hip, &s;wore him into the <HI>Plot.</HI>&mdash; Yet, &s;uch was the <HI>Iniquity</HI> of the (then) times, the&s;e devouring <HI>Varlets</HI> were believ'd, and &s;o &s;trongly <HI>back'd,</HI> and held up by the <HI>Chin,</HI> that every hone&s;t <HI>Loyal Man,</HI> and &s;ome Great <HI>Noble Men</HI> too, (for the&s;e <HI>Birds</HI> of <HI>Prey</HI> &s;lew at all!) which one would have thought had been out of the reach of &s;uch Verminous <HI>VVretches;</HI> &s;tood in fear of them, and were <HI>terrify'd</HI> with the danger and noi&s;e of their horrid <HI>Mouth-Granodoes.</HI></P>
<P>Surely, <HI>Ambro&s;e Merlyn</HI> him&s;elf, had he then been alive, would have &s;worn that the&s;e things had been an ab&s;olute full|filling of his Prophecy.&mdash; <HI>Et erit tempus Milvorum.</HI> And there &s;hall be a time of <HI>Kites,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; But ble&s;&s;ed be God, this <HI>time of Kites</HI> is pa&s;t. And all the pe&s;tiferous and <HI>Perju|rious</HI> Vermin are either di&s;&s;ipated, or dead, (the <HI>Doctor</HI> only remaining in <HI>Salva Custodia,</HI> to a&s;&s;ure us <HI>five</HI> times every <HI>year,</HI> that there was &s;uch a time of <HI>Kites</HI> among us.) And every Loyal Man begins to be reduc'd to his right mind again, and to enjoy him&s;elf. And &s;o I que&s;tion not but we &s;hall continue, many and many years, notwith&s;tanding the <HI>Machinations</HI> of Rebellious and Blood-thir&s;ty Men.</P>
<P>Now, as to what the <HI>Libeller</HI> talks of to attend us from the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> to come in 1692. and 1693. I &s;ay&punc; it is not only be&s;ides his pre&s;ent <HI>Text</HI> (for he wholly omitted to explain their <HI>Conjunction,</HI> that, being again&s;t his Knavi&s;h de&s;igns) which was a Judgement on the <HI>year</HI> 1687. but a direct and palpable <HI>Contradiction</HI> to what he hath writ. For he has as you have heard (tho' mo&s;t Fal&s;ly) terminated the pre&s;ent happine&s;s and Government of <HI>Eng|land</HI> by <HI>October</HI> 1688 at the farthe&s;t. When the <HI>Sun makes his &s;econd vi&s;it to the Scorpion,</HI> then the <HI>Spani&s;h Apple,</HI> &amp;c
<Q>&mdash;And <HI>One</HI> and <HI>Twenty months</HI> is not an <HI>Age.</HI></Q> Which agrees to the fore&s;aid Month of <HI>October.</HI> And yet (forgetting him&s;elf) he fooli&s;hly tells us of matters to hap|pen
<PB N="47" REF="32"> &s;everal years after we all are to be De&s;troy'd. &mdash; <HI>Oportet mendacem e&s;&s;e memorem.</HI></P>
<P>But ala&s;s! Were there any thing in what he pretends, the <HI>Effects</HI> of an <HI>Oppo&s;ition,</HI> are ever <HI>Obedient</HI> to tho&s;e of a <HI>Conjunction.</HI> And if the Congre&s;s be <HI>Bal&s;amique,</HI> the Di|ametrial Ray can never be <HI>Corro&s;ive.</HI> It may indeed <HI>Mi|nuer&egrave;,</HI> &s;omewhat abate of the Synod's good &s;ignifications, but can never oppo&s;e or alter them.</P>
<P>Shall I give this <HI>Libeller</HI> a little more Light into the Truth hereof; and that by an In&s;tance or two within our own memories al&s;o? Let it then be remembred that there was a <HI>Conjunstion</HI> of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces, February,</HI> 1643. an Irregular Conjunction, and attended with as Anomalous Actions and Effects, <HI>viz.</HI> A <HI>Horrid Rebellion,</HI> and the <HI>Murther</HI> of the Be&s;t of <HI>Kings</HI> at his own Door, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> I meddle not with any Forrein Effects thereof, though they al&s;o were Mon&s;trous and Strange. &mdash; The <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of the &s;ame <HI>Planets</HI> happen'd <HI>Anno</HI> 1653. in the Signs <HI>Leo</HI> and <HI>Aquary.</HI> But, what then? Did that mend the matter? or did it not make it wor&s;e, rather? 'Tis true, the <HI>Rebelli|ous Rump Parliament</HI> was &s;oon after <HI>Routed.</HI> But, to continue the <HI>Rebellious</HI> Effects of that <HI>Conjunction, Cromwel,</HI> the <HI>U&s;urper,</HI> was exalted in their Room. Who, with his <HI>Major-Generals,</HI> and Lords of his own making, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Built upon the &s;ame wicked and <HI>Perjurious Foundation.</HI> Con&s;ult the Hi&s;tory of tho&s;e times, and then tell me, whether the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> did not an&s;wer to the <HI>Conjunction</HI> in it's <HI>Tyranous</HI> and <HI>Rebellious Effects,</HI> as in a Gla&s;s, <HI>Face</HI> an&s;wers <HI>Face.</HI> Under the Influence of the <HI>Conjunction,</HI> the <HI>Rebells Mur|ther'd</HI> the <HI>King;</HI> and during the Regency of the <HI>Oppo&s;ition,</HI> they <HI>Abjur'd</HI> the whole <HI>Royal Line.</HI> Study now, <HI>Libeller,</HI> and then tell me, where's the Difference? They, <HI>viz. Crom|wel,</HI> and his <HI>Party,</HI> could not <HI>Kill</HI> him whom they had <HI>Murther'd</HI> before. But did they not endeavour to <HI>Murther</HI> him in his <HI>I&s;&s;ue?</HI> where now, I &s;ay, lyes the <HI>difference</HI> be|tween a <HI>Conjunction</HI> and <HI>Oppo&s;ition?</HI></P>
<P>Take another In&s;tance nearer hand, which perhaps may be more readily remembred, <HI>viz.</HI> the great <HI>Conjunction</HI> of
<PB N="48" REF="33"> <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> Celebrated in <HI>Sagitary, October</HI> 1663 <HI>Sagitary</HI> is held le&s;s <HI>Noble,</HI> and more <HI>Feral,</HI> than <HI>Leo.</HI> This <HI>Conjunction</HI> was &s;ucceeded with a very great <HI>Plague,</HI> and terrible <HI>Conflagration</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> &amp;c. Two or three <HI>Wars</HI> with <HI>Holland;</HI> and but a Wavering and Unea&s;ie Peace at home. &mdash; Now, the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of the &s;aid Planets fell in <HI>Aries</HI> and <HI>Libra,</HI> in the Month of <HI>April,</HI> 1673. The very year of the <HI>Di&s;criminating Act,</HI> and of the Earl of <HI>Shaft&s;|bury</HI>'s contriving the <HI>TEST,</HI> which was attended with the Damnable <HI>Projects</HI> for an <HI>A&s;&s;ociation,</HI> and an <HI>Exclu&s;ion</HI> of the Lawful <HI>Heir</HI> from his <HI>Birth-right.</HI> And for their more ea&s;y compa&s;&s;ing thereof, the late Damnable <HI>Plot,</HI> common|ly call'd <HI>Oates</HI>'s <HI>Plot,</HI> was Spawn'd. The Nation was &s;urvey'd by the command of Subjects; who had nothing to do there|with, and it was al&s;o divided into <HI>WORTHY MEN,</HI> and <HI>MEN WORTHY,</HI> by tho&s;e who&s;e hone&s;t bu&s;ine&s;s was <HI>Obedience.</HI> His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> that then Reign'd, was bearded by his <HI>Va&s;&s;als,</HI> and almo&s;t brought into a <HI>Plot</HI> again&s;t him|&s;elf. Many worthy Per&s;ons Innocently &s;uffer'd <HI>Death,</HI> be|ing Sworn out of their Lives by <HI>Varlets;</HI> and to compleat the Mi&s;eries <HI>England</HI> then Lahour'd under. A Noble and Loyal <HI>Lord</HI> was al&s;o Sworn out of his Life, and <HI>Dyed</HI> as an Enemy to the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Government.</HI> &mdash; Thus thou &s;ee&s;t (vain <HI>Libeller</HI>) that the effects of an <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> are ever E|quivalent to tho&s;e of the <HI>Conjunction</HI> preceding. Can any believe that the <HI>Plague,</HI> and Dreadful <HI>Fire,</HI> which the <HI>Con|junction</HI> brought, could be more Mi&s;chievous to <HI>England,</HI> then the&s;e Damnable <HI>Effects</HI> which follow'd the <HI>Oppo&s;ition?</HI> This Nation hath Rea&s;on to e&s;teem the <HI>Latter</HI> to be the far greater <HI>Plague</HI> of the two; It being far better to fall into the Hands of <HI>God,</HI> then of <HI>Men.</HI> And, therefore the <HI>Mali|cious Menaces</HI> of the <HI>Libeller,</HI> from the <HI>Oppo&s;ition</HI> of tho&s;e two Planets, which will happen in 1692. and 1693. are both <HI>vain</HI> and <HI>fal&s;e,</HI> &s;ince the Effects thence to En&s;ue, muct naturally bear a re&s;emblance to tho&s;e of the <HI>Conjunction.</HI> And were it not &s;o, the Law of <HI>Nature,</HI> and of the <HI>Stars</HI> (which is all one) were not <HI>Uniform,</HI> as we know it ever is, when not contradicted by <HI>Miracles.</HI></P>
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<P>I &s;hould now take notice of his confidence in pre&s;uming to <HI>advi&s;e</HI> the <HI>German Emperour</HI> to leave the PAGAN, and lead his Forces again&s;t the CHRISTIAN TURK; thereby meaning the Great <HI>French King,</HI> and of his &s;till threatning that Illu&s;trious <HI>Monarch</HI> (whom three years &s;ince he had im|pudently pretended to <HI>Kill</HI> by his no-<HI>Art,</HI>) with a three years mi&s;chief at his <HI>Doors.</HI> Of his Scandalou&s;ly twitting <HI>Denmark</HI> with the <HI>weakne&s;s</HI> of a STAGGERING PRINCE. Of his Egregions <HI>Flatteries</HI> to the <HI>States</HI> of <HI>Holland.</HI>&mdash; That they <HI>&s;hall plow the Ocean with &s;ucce&s;s,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; I &s;hould, I fay, have taken notice of all the&s;e, and other Villanous Lying pa&s;&s;ages,&mdash; As, who it is this <HI>Varlet</HI> means by his HATED MONARCH, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But having been taught by the Noble <HI>Plutarch,</HI> to keep within my own Sphere, and to ABSTAIN FROM BEANS, <HI>i. e.</HI> Not to concern my &s;elf too nearly with the Actions or Affairs of <HI>Princes, Monarchs, States,</HI> &amp;c. I &s;hall leave &s;uch matters to be con&s;ider'd of by the &s;everal Honourable <HI>Agents</HI> or <HI>Amba&s;&s;adours</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Princes</HI> or <HI>Re|publicks,</HI> unto whom it properly belongs; for them to take <HI>Care</HI> in the places where they re&s;ide, that the Honour and Dignity of the <HI>Sovereigns</HI> they Repre&s;ent; be not Le&s;&s;en'd, Undervalu'd, or Wounded by <HI>Scandals</HI> in any &s;ort or man|ner; but much more, when they &s;hall be di&s;honour'd and Scandaliz'd by Libellous <HI>Prints,</HI> which <HI>proclaims</HI> the &s;ame, not only to the <HI>pre&s;ent,</HI> but to <HI>future</HI> Ages for ever.</P>
<P>And, &s;o I have done with the <HI>Libeller,</HI> for this time pray|ing <HI>God</HI> in mercy to reveal his <HI>Eyes,</HI> and awaken his hard|ned <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> to a <HI>love</HI> of the <HI>Truth,</HI> and of true <HI>Duty</HI> and <HI>Loyalty</HI> toward his Lawful <HI>Sovereign,</HI> whom he hath, with|out Cau&s;e, mo&s;t maliciou&s;ly and daringly <HI>provoked.</HI> And al&s;o to give him Grace to <HI>Repent</HI> of all his <HI>Athei&s;m, Trea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Bla&s;phemy,</HI> inter&s;per'd throughout his wicked <HI>Pamphlet,</HI> and that he may before it be <HI>too late,</HI> crave <HI>Pardon</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> and of his Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> for all his wicked and wilful <HI>Of|fences</HI> committed again&s;t both.</P>
<Q>Sero Sapit Ingratus.</Q>
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<HEAD>POSTCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>I Have purpo&s;ely omitted to &s;earch into &s;eve|veral &s;trains of his Doggrel Poetry, as not willing to under&s;tand whom he points at: and yet they &s;eem very plain and intelligible. Hear him in one or two of them.&mdash; He &s;ays, that in his <HI>wanted Commonwealth</HI> &mdash;
<Q><L>No <HI>Charters</HI> &s;eiz'd for <HI>Rome</HI> by New-found VVrit,</L>
<L>Nor <HI>City-Rights</HI> que&s;tion'd as they thought fit,</L>
<L>And <HI>ROGUES</HI> made <HI>JUDGES</HI> to Determine it.</L></Q></P>
<P>And,&mdash;
<Q><L>No <HI>FIDLING JUSTICE</HI> there perks up his Head,</L>
<L>Prefer'd to <HI>Cheat</HI> the <HI>Church</HI> that gave him Bread.</L></Q> With &s;undry other Venomous <HI>Flirts</HI> at &s;everal Eminent and <HI>Loyal Per&s;ons,</HI> and &s;ome of them by <HI>Name,</HI> as Mr. <HI>Graham,</HI> Mr. <HI>Burton,</HI> &amp;c His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Solicitors; po&s;&s;ibly, for that they might be appointed to <HI>Pro&s;ecute</HI> him for his <HI>Trea&s;on.</HI> Of which pray take a Copy thereof as it was <HI>Sworn</HI> again&s;t him, and Printed in the <HI>Rye-Hou&s;e Con&s;piracy,</HI> p. 90. of the <HI>Octavo</HI> Im|pre&s;&s;ion, <HI>viz. &mdash; <HI>This</HI></HI> Examinant (<HI>Mr.</HI> W. WEST) further &s;aith, <HI>That Mr.</HI> Goodenough <HI>told him this</HI> Examinant, <HI>That he had &s;po|ken to one</HI> PARTRIDGE <HI>a</HI> Shooe-maker <HI>and</HI> Almanack-maker <HI>in</HI> Covent-Garden, <HI>to Act in this</HI> ASSASSINATION, <HI>and that the &s;aid</HI> PARTRIDGE <HI>offer'd to</HI> Joyn <HI>in it, if it were to be done in</HI> Town, <HI>but was not a|ble
<PB REF="34"> to</HI> RIDE, <HI>and therefore could not</HI> Joyn <HI>in the</HI> ATTEMPT <HI>out of</HI> London. And fur|ther &s;aith, <HI>That the &s;aid</HI> PARTRIDGE <HI>had erected &s;ome</HI> Scheams, <HI>and thereby found the Duke of</HI> YORK <HI>would &s;carce out-live</HI> March <HI>or</HI> April: <HI>And that the</HI> KING <HI>was under an</HI> Ill Direction <HI>too, and the</HI> PEOPLE <HI>would be</HI> VICTORIOUS. <HI>And Mr.</HI> Riley <HI>told this</HI> Examinant <HI>the &s;ame thing as to the</HI> Scheams <HI>erected by</HI> PARTRIDGE.</P>
<P>This <HI>Libellers</HI> horrid <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> being thus di&s;|cover'd, he fled into <HI>Holland</HI> to avoid the Pu|ni&s;hment due unto them; and there the more fully to <HI>Evince</HI> his <HI>Guilt,</HI> he excites, (as much as in him lies) by his <HI>Poy&s;onous</HI> Pen to a <HI>Rebellion</HI> again&s;t his Lawful <HI>King.</HI> A&s;&s;uring his <HI>A&s;&s;ocia|ting</HI> Brethren, <HI>The advantage is far greater to the Patrons of Liberty, Courage,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>than to the Patrons of Popery, and that Popery will not &s;tand in</HI> England <HI>many months &mdash; but decline, and pe|ri&s;h; &mdash; And then run <HI>Rogues.</HI></HI> Now com|pare Mr. <HI>We&s;t</HI>'s Te&s;timony, and &s;ee if it do not exactly jump with the <HI>Libellers Predictions.</HI>&mdash; And, yet, behold the <HI>Impudence</HI> of this <HI>Wretch!</HI> after all this <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> and reiterated Provoca|tion of His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> abu&s;ing the Reverend <HI>Judges,</HI> and other his malicious <HI>Scandals,</HI> as you have heard,&mdash; He dares with the <HI>Whore</HI> in the <HI>Pro|verbs,</HI> wipe his mouth, and &s;ay he hath done no <HI>Evil;</HI> But hath the hard'ned confidence as to &s;end over an <HI>Almanack</HI> to <HI>London,</HI> to be Printed for 1688.</P>
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<P>Finally, If any &s;hall Judge me too <HI>Sharp</HI> in this my <HI>Reply;</HI> I mu&s;t pre&s;ume to tell them, that if they ju&s;tly con&s;ider the occa&s;ion given, they'l then think me rather too <HI>&s;paring</HI> in my Animad|ver&s;ions upon &s;o <HI>Horrid</HI> a LIBELL; Wherein the <HI>Libeller</HI> hath <HI>Traiterou&s;ly traduc'd</HI> his <HI>Liege Lord</HI> and <HI>Sovereign,</HI> menac'd His <HI>Royal Life,</HI> and &s;et bounds thereunto, to the Di&s;honour of the King of Kings, who&s;e Prerogative it is; Di|&s;turb'd and <HI>Be&s;patter'd</HI> his <HI>Native Countrey,</HI> from whence he drew his <HI>Infamous Breath;</HI> Scandaliz'd and threat'ned all the <HI>Reverend Judges</HI> of the Realm, Bla&s;phem'd <HI>Chri&s;tian Re|ligion,</HI> and the <HI>Clergy</HI> of both Churches; and, to the&s;e his Enormous <HI>purpo&s;es</HI> hath unworthily pro&s;tituted <HI>Astrology,</HI> one of the mo&s;t <HI>Antient</HI> and <HI>&V;&s;eful Sciences</HI> in the World, and ever in <HI>Repute</HI> with the <HI>Wi&s;e&s;t</HI> of Per&s;ons in all Ages. Yea, and this too, when that Noble <HI>Art</HI> &s;peaks quite different to what the <HI>Libeller</HI> brings it to prove.- I &s;ay, the&s;e <HI>Mon&s;trous Stories</HI> con&s;ider'd, I have been rather too <HI>gentle</HI> and <HI>&s;paring.</HI>&mdash; Yet the Holy Apo&s;tle S <HI>Paul,</HI> advi&s;es <HI>Titus</HI> to <HI>Rebuke</HI> the <HI>Cretians</HI>) who he &s;ays, <HI>are allways Lyars, Evil Bea&s;ts, &amp;c.</HI> as this <HI>Libeller) Sharply</HI> (<GAP DESC="foreign">, Cuttingly.) That they may be &s;ound in the Faith, <HI>Tit. c.</HI> 1. <HI>v.</HI> 12.13.</P>
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<P>EPi&s;t. page 3. read <GAP DESC="foreign">. June, r. <HI>Ingulph</HI>'s, p. 2. l. 4. r. <HI>hear,</HI> p 8. l. 19. for! r., p. 29. r. <HI>not,</HI> p. 35. l. 8. r. Trigon <HI>&s;aith.</HI> p. 34. l. 20. r. <HI>Conjunctiones,</HI> p. 36. l. 24. r. <HI>Moi&s;t, or Intemperate.</HI> Smaller <HI>Errors</HI> are left to the Brea&s;t of the Candid <HI>Reader</HI> for Pardon.</P>
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