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<HEAD>Mr. <HI>John Petrige's,</HI> NEW PROPHESIE OF This pre&s;ent Year 1684.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">WHEREIN Are foretold the mo&s;t con&s;iderable Events and Mu|tations in <HI>Great-Britain, France, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Italy,</HI> &amp;c. According to the Opinion of the be&s;t <HI>A&s;trologers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat the Superior have influence on the Inferior Bodies, no man that hath not given him&s;elf over to &s;tupidity can deny; but that their Influence is &s;o great that their Effects are inevitable, is more then we affirm: For to what end do we di&s;turb and amu&s;e the World with the unplea&s;ant Rumours of horrid and dreadful Calamities that &s;eem ap|proaching, but to warn and incite men to a u&s;e of means for the preventing of &s;evere Judgments, which otherwi&s;e will overtake them.</P>
<P>We read in the Holy Scripture, that they were placed in the Heavens for Signs of Sea&s;ons, of Night and Day, Winter and Summer, &amp;c. Now if we, be&s;ides the proper and natural meaning of the Words, do likewi&s;e u&s;e a Me|taphorical Interpretation of them, to wit, that they al&s;o are for Signs of the Night or Winter of Adver&s;ity, and the Day or Summer of Pro&s;perity; I humbly conceive, we do not thereby pervert the true meaning of the Scrip|tures. And tho we are forbid in the Holy Scriptures to be afraid or di&s;maid at the Signs of Heaven, viz. To be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with &s;uch a Fear as is incon|&s;i&s;tent with our confidence in God, or as di&s;turbs us in performing the Du|ties we owe, as Creatures, to our great Creator, or &s;o as to become Infatuate, that through the exce&s;s of Fear we &s;uffer our Rea&s;on to be &s;o far Eclip&s;ed that we cannot put it in exerci&s;e, either for our Temporal or Eternal well-Being: Yet I do not &s;ee but we may Lawfully &s;o far be admoni&s;hed by them, as to for&s;ake an evil cour&s;e, and to deprecat that great Wrath that by our innumerable iniquities we have drawn down upon us. I hope therefore that the candid Reader will concur with me in my de&s;ign in publi&s;hing this following Prediction on this pre&s;ent Year, in which I &s;hall be as brief as po&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P>I &s;hall begin my Judgment from the time that the Sun entred <HI>Capricorn;</HI> at which time the Face of the Heavens in the Meridian of <HI>London,</HI> is thus: <HI>A|quarius</HI> Nine Degrees Culminant, and <HI>Gemini</HI> 14. A&s;cending, the <HI>Moon</HI> 12. Degrees in <HI>Aquarius,</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in Sixteen: the <HI>Sun</HI> 00 Degrees in <HI>Capricorn,</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> in 8. Degrees of <HI>Capricorn: Mercury</HI> 14 Degrees in <HI>Sagittary,</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> in 4 Degrees, and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in 21 Degrees of <HI>Virgo.</HI> There is not one Planet well &s;eated in the whole Scheme; the <HI>Moon</HI> is applying to the
<PB N="2" REF="2">body of <HI>Mars</HI> and &s;quare of <HI>Mercury;</HI> the&s;e two Stars govern the Brain and the Faculties thence proceeding; the <HI>Moon</HI> the &s;ub&s;tantial part, and <HI>Mercury</HI> the Actions of it. Now what may we expect, when the two Governors of Rea&s;on are Afflicted by <HI>Mars,</HI> the great Corro&s;ive among the Stars? The ef|fects thereof will be (according to the Opinion of mo&s;t famous A&s;trologers) &s;trange Rumors, effu&s;ion of Blood, and much deceit and lying. And this flows, either from the violence of the pre&s;ent impending Affairs; or from the effects of &s;uch pernicious and wicked Coun&s;els that &s;hall be contrived under the influence of this Ingre&s;s. But this is further aggravated, if we con&s;ider the part of the Heaven where it falls, whether Ecliptically or Mundanely; for the Ecliptical place of this Conjunction is directly oppo&s;ite to the place of the la&s;t Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Leo:</HI> this doth greatly en|crea&s;e its Malignity; but Mundanely, it happens in this Figure and Meridi|an too, in the tenth Hou&s;e, the Angle of Honour.</P>
<P>The great Ma&s;ters of this Science do agree, that the <HI>Moon</HI> in Conjunction with <HI>Mars,</HI> threatens Mankind with all kinds of Calamities that belong to <HI>Mars;</HI> and as they are &s;o near Mid heaven, it &s;hews its expedition, and that what depends on this Ingre&s;s, will &s;hortly appear.</P>
<P>In the beginning of this Year we meet with an oppo&s;ition of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in cold Signs, <HI>Virgo</HI> and <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> after which follows an Eclip&s;e of the <HI>Sun,</HI> which has a very bad influence. That Epidemick Di&s;temper of Itch|ing after Novelties, will be no le&s;s common now, than it hath been the&s;e &s;e|veral Years pa&s;t. <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter</HI> being got into <HI>Virgo,</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> be|ing there in Reception with <HI>Mercury,</HI> things will be Managed with great Se|crecy and Policy. And the former Oppo&s;ition in a little time will di&s;cover it &s;elf in making &s;trange Divi&s;ions among the people; and to &s;ee one impeach|ing another will be no matter of Admiration. Al&s;o not a few &s;hall pay their la&s;t debts to Nature.</P>
<P><HI>Saturn</HI> by his Retrograde motion returns into <HI>Leo,</HI> at which time many Pam|phlets are di&s;per&s;ed, for which the Authors and Printers are called to an&s;wer. <HI>Sol</HI> oppo&s;es the 2 Superiors. Many for&s;ake hone&s;t Callings and turn High|way-men: The Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts be&s;tir their &s;tumps, for their God is like to be taken away from them. The <HI>Turk</HI> is bu&s;ie in his Neighbour Countries, and many &s;hortly may ta&s;te his Mercy. <HI>Mercury</HI> is oppo&s;ed again by <HI>Jupiter.</HI> Old Sores begin to pain. The City is unea&s;ie, and the Countrey little better. The Trine of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> may give &s;ome ea&s;e, but heals not the Wound. <HI>Mercuries</HI> weakne&s;s occa&s;ions decay of Trade. <HI>Saturns</HI> Square to <HI>Venus</HI> will make Women wear Tears on their Faces in&s;tead of Pearl. The Effects of the <HI>Comet</HI> 1680. will I fear ere long be di&s;covered. God pre&s;erve the Life and Health of all our great Ones, and our City from Contagious Di&s;tempers. The Square of <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> denotes Fears, Anxieties and Impri&s;onment to great Ones, and that Rulers and Magi&s;trates will fall out among them&s;elves; and the Conjunction of <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> fills the Nation with Thieves, and <HI>I</HI> fear the time is at hand, when no body can call any thing their own &s;ave Tri|bulation and Affliction.</P>
<P>The Conjunction of the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> will have a &s;trange Effect in &s;ome Countreys in <HI>Europe,</HI> and &s;ome Prince perhaps Ea&s;t from <HI>England</HI> finds it true. Let them therefore be wi&s;e betimes. Some Money'd Men &s;hall &s;uffer lo&s;s, and that from the breaking of &s;ome great Banker or Bankers, in or about the City of <HI>London;</HI> &s;ome Clergy men may be frowned upon by his Prince, and &s;everal belonging to the Law turned out.</P>
<P>The Eclip&s;e of the <HI>Sun Jul.</HI> the 3d. is very con&s;iderable. Its happening in the 9th. and 8th. Hou&s;es, and <HI>Mars</HI> the principal Lord thereof, &s;heweth
<PB N="3" REF="2">Wars, Seditions, Captivities, Impri&s;onments, popular Tumults, di&s;plea&s;ure of Princes; al&s;o Death and detriment in Mens Bodies, burning Feavers, and Violent Deaths, chiefly of young Men; in our Lives, Violences, Injuries, Burning of Hou&s;es, and Towns, Man-&s;laughter, Rapes and Robberies; In the Air, Pe&s;tilence and Contagious Winds, Fla&s;hing Lightnings, and Whirl|winds, according to <HI>Ptolemies</HI> Opinion. The &s;ame Author &s;ays, that its hap|pening in a Tropick, &s;ignifies mutation of Air, and in publick Matters, a change of Laws and Cu&s;toms; and that an Eclip&s;e in <HI>Cancer</HI> brings damnage to the Fruits of the Earth and Sea affairs.</P>
<P><HI>Saturn</HI> threatens to give &s;ome Per&s;ons of Honour their <HI>Exit.</HI> The po&s;i|tion of <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> denote &s;ome Sea Fights, or Piratical Inva&s;ions, many great Robberies, with many other Adver&s;ities. <HI>Venus</HI> produceth alte|rations in Ceremonies, Religion, In&s;titutions, and Laws. <HI>Orig.</HI> 460.</P>
<P>In a word, this Eclip&s;e con&s;idered with that <HI>Jan.</HI> 1683. the great Conjuncti|on of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> 1683. and the <HI>Comit</HI> in 1680. threaten the O|verthrow of the Roman Hierarchy, if Authors may be credited. Y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t ma|ny other places be&s;ides are concerned more or le&s;s;; as <HI>Armenia, Con|stantinople, Dama&s;cus, Ce&s;ena, Bramberg, Bohemia, Brabant, Corduba,</HI> the We&s;t, and South-we&s;t of <HI>England, Flanders, Holland, Hircadia, London, Lovain, Italy, Metz, Norimberg, Scotland, Turky, Cicily, &amp;c.</HI> The e|vents will begin to work from the fir&s;t hour, but will be more apparent the Year following, and will continue for &s;everal Years. I will conclude what I &s;ay on this Eclip&s;e with the predictions <HI>Cyprian Leovitius.</HI> <Q>O ye Kings, and Princes, that are exalted either to Secular or Spiritual Digni|ties, many Evils &s;eem to threaten you, for di&s;&s;entions &s;hall ari&s;e among you, which &s;hall occa&s;ion Wars, Dangers and Mutations, whence the common People will be di&s;contented, and will be ea&s;iely &s;tirred up to Con&s;piracies and Factions, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> Certainly &s;ome things of great concernment will in few Years be brought about. Few Princes in <HI>Europe</HI> but will more or le&s;s be lyable to the effects thereof.</P>
<P>The next con&s;iderable. Appearance this Year is the Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> in the beginning of <HI>October,</HI> in 13. Degrees of <HI>Virgo,</HI> the Hou&s;e and Dignities of <HI>Mercury,</HI> which I &s;hall a little unfold; for the more hap|py performance of which, I &s;hall con&s;ider the Lunation preceeding. Fir&s;t then, know that <HI>Saturn</HI> is really peregrine, and therefore the more malevo|lent; <HI>Mars</HI> is out of all Dignities of his own, but in Sextile, and Reception with <HI>Mercury;</HI> &s;o that <HI>Mars</HI> mu&s;t be allowed &s;ome fortitude, tho not much, yet enough to exceed <HI>Saturn.</HI></P>
<P>At the preventional new <HI>Moon</HI> we &s;hall find all the Planets under the Earth, and <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> in the fifth Hou&s;e with <HI>Venus,</HI> which if well con&s;ider|ed is a &s;trange Heterogeneous Mixture, ju&s;t like an old decrepit U&s;urer, a bold true bred Souldier, and a Luxurious Wench. But what the effects may be let us Con&s;ider.</P>
<P><HI>Haly</HI> &s;ays; <Q>When <HI>Mars</HI> &s;hall be joined to <HI>Saturn</HI> in a humane Sign, it gives Strife, Deceit, Fighting, Effu&s;ion of Blood, and that the King of that Coun|trey &s;ubject to the &s;ign of the Conjunction, &s;hall be troubled and &s;uffer Lo&s;s and Labour from his Neighbours or Subjects.</Q> <HI>Morinus</HI> &s;ays, <Q>That the Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> gives Corruption of the Air, Plague, War, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> And to this purpo&s;e al&s;o <HI>Albuma&s;&s;ar</HI> &s;ays; <Q>That there &s;hall be Difference and Wars, in many places.</Q> So that all Authors agree, that this Con|junction can pre&s;age nothing but Evil to Mankind. But becau&s;e Au|thors in this are only general, I &s;hall particularly give you my Judgement of it.</P>
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In the Figure we find <HI>Gemini</HI> a&s;cending, and <HI>Mercury</HI> Lord of the A&s;cen|dant in <HI>Scorpio,</HI> a fixed violent Sign, and all the &s;even Planets in the Fifth and Sixth Hou&s;es of Heaven, and under the Earth. This &s;hews &s;ome great Meeting or Council conveened to con&s;ult about the affairs of Nations; the de&s;ign is con&s;iderable as well as Politick, for it is in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and his greate&s;t Dignities too. The occa&s;ion of this Con&s;ultation is by rea&s;on of &s;ome defeat either in Council or Arms &s;ome few weeks before this Con|junction; and it is &s;o general, that the whole Faction both Men and Wo|men are engaged both for Council and Action: but Debauchery will either prevent or Corrupt the Enterprize de&s;igned: it is for &s;ome undertaking to confederate in Arms or &s;ome other ho&s;tile Combination, in which &s;everal are Solicited to be engaged, as we may &s;ee by &s;o many in the fifth Hou&s;e, which &s;ignifies Amba&s;&s;adors, Agents, Me&s;&s;engers, , and &s;uch like Servants, to a Prince or State, the&s;e are &s;ent to engage &s;ome Prince or Princes into a League and Alliance, or to Treat or Negotiate about a Peace, <HI>&amp;c</HI></P>
<P>In the clo&s;e of this Year &s;ome Countries are threatned with per&s;ecution for Religion, and that pretty &s;harp too: The old Adver&s;ary of mans Happi|ne&s;&s;e will not cea&s;e to &s;tir up the Wicked again&s;t the Ju&s;t: and this is like to happen in &s;ome places in <HI>France,</HI> and it is to be feared many will be forced into other Countries for Con&s;cience &s;ake: the great Whore will never be weary of her Cruelties till the la&s;t Vials are poured out upon her, when the joyful tidings &s;hall come abroad, that, BABILON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN; Which all good Chri&s;tians earne&s;tly long for, and which we hope ere long &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>To conclude, we have rea&s;on to fear this Year may prove more Calamitous the mo&s;t we have yet &s;een, there being &s;care any Affliction incident to men, which we are not more or le&s;&s;e threatned with: But yet, as I &s;aid before, the&s;e Judgements may be averted (if we be not ob&s;tinate) by our Repentance and Amendement of our Lives. Let us not therefore any more be active in drawing down Judgements upon our &s;elves, but let us admire infinite Mer|cy that hath &s;pared us &s;o long and that &s;hews how unwilling he is to de&s;troy us by his placing his Signs in the Heavens for our Admonition; let us de|precate that great wrath we have incen&s;ed, by our continual Addre&s;&s;es to the Throne of Grace; let us fear God, obey the King, and live in Peace, and Union together; which if we do, we need not fear (notwith&s;tanding the greatne&s;&s;e of our Sins, or Malice of our Enemies, or the Signs of Hea|ven) but we &s;hall yet dwell &s;afely every man under his Vine, and under his Fig-tree.</P>
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