Opus REFORMATUM : OR, A TREATISE “ASTROLOGY. IN WHICH ‘The Conition Errors of that Art are Modeftly Expofed and Rejected. | With an ESSAY, towards the Reviving the True and Ancient Method Jaid down for-our Diretti- on.by the Great PTOLOMY; and more agrec- | - : able to the Principles of Motion and Nature, than i that commonly Praétifed and Taught. | In Two Parts. Se | By JOHN PARTRIDGE, Phyfician to Her Prefent | . Majefty, and Student in Aftrology. | i ‘Poft Nubila Phebus. LONDON:- Printed for Awnfham and ohn Churchill at the Black- Swan in Pater-Nofter. Row. MDCXCIILTOTHE READERS. GENTLEMEN, HO I have here detetted and difcovered divers Errors in the Study and Practice of Aftvology, efpecially in that Part of it that concerns Nati- vities; and alfo [poke flightly of fome Authors who ave much valued, and in great efteem among divers Pradtitioners ; and likewife condemned their Writings, as being filled with little elfe but Errors and idle Innova- tions, which are indeed but the fame thing, if rightly confidered. et I would not be mifunderftood in what I have bere done; and thought (becaufe I charge fo many with Miftakes) that 1 think my felf free from Fanlts , Errors, and Overfights , either in my Prattice or Wri- tings; or that I intend to direct and teach the Students in this Art to endeavour after [uch a Perfettion: Noy I know too well, that Over-fizhts and deceptio fenfus, és too true, and too vifible a Chasatter of Hitman Nature; and to Err, is the known and common Calamity that Mankind is [ubje# to; for befides the Infirmities of our Conftitutions, the Depravity of our Wills and Affeitions, the Obfenvity of our Under ftanding, and the Weaknefs of our udgments The Curfe on our Original Parents for their Tran{zreffion at the beginning fecms full to lye heavy on onr Shoulders, and tells us plainly, That Sorrow and Sweat, , A 2 ThornsTo the Readers. Thorns and Thiftles, Life and Error, are infeperable. But yet there“is 4 difference between the Errors of Nature, contra voluntatem, and the Errors of Pra‘tice, introduced by Crftom and Difcipling. Aud thefe are they that I contend agai ft, and cndeavory to reform’; tho the other alfo onght aot to be forgotten. Nor woitld I have any one think, that I intend to de- frroy the Art of Aftrology ¢y what I have here done; no, 1 do affure yor, that this is the leaft of my thoughts; nor would I impair any part of it that I judge nfeful and ferviceable , either for its Suprort ov Reputation. But my veal Intent and Defign ts to excite the Lovers of this Contemptible Science, to refine it, and make it more coherent in its Principles, aud more certain in ils Ufe and Praétice, than it is at prefent; and alfo to lay by thofe Idle Notions and Practices ufed therein, which have drawn the Objettions of Learned Pens upon ws. For tho Tam not willing to fwallow dowa thofe falfom Errors with which it is clog’d and loaded ; it doth not therefore follow, that I am an Enemy to its Truth and Excellence, and muft be debarred my Inquiry towards its Perfection , and not permitted to approach the Spring of its Ori- ‘ginal Truth. I doubt not but you may find Some Errors in this Treatife, which you may smpute either to my Over- fight, or want of Skill, which you pleafe; yet I hope they may deferve your Exenfe and Pardon, efpecially when yon confider, that I have undertaken to turn the Torrent of a mighty Stream, and that with fuch little Affiftance as iF have received: I being indebted to no Man for any fer- vice or help therein, but to my Honoured Friend and Late Deceafed Mafter, Dr. Francis Wright , by whofe Inftru- Etions only, I own my felf enabled to perform this, and what I have elfe at prefent ader my Confideration for the Prefs. But fer my Errors (if any foall think ars o To the Readers. fo) laid down in Prattice, by way of Rule, I defire no excufe for them, but refer them to your Confideration, and for that very purpofe I have printed them here; and alfo hope, that thofe Gentlemen that think then fo, will be pleaf:d-to iaform my Underftanding , and give me better Notions in print , with better. Proofs for their Doztrine, than 1 have given for mine; and I do affure them, I wilt re dily fubmmit and cry Peccavi, And fol come to fpeak particularly. — : Fir , To the Book it felf. Ia which thou haft the whole Myftery of Aftrology relating to Nativities, accord- ing as I underfiand it ; but it is difperfed here and there throughout the whole Book and Matter alfo, and will take thee fome time and prins too, to collect and digeft it into a method for Practice, which is no hard matter, if thow wart but willing to take a little pains, and without pains, 1 can affure thee, thou wilt prove but a very ordinary Ar- tift in thy Profefion. I have there given thee the Nati- vity of Oliver Cromwell, with my Reafons for its Cor- vettion, and alfo his Difeafe, by which he expired; with a Table of Directions from his Birth to his Death; with each Ark, its trne Meafure; ana the Tear of our Lord when it did begin to operate. 1] have alfo fhewed the incohe- rence of thofe Rules laid oa feveral Occafions , not cnly in his Nativity, but ia divers. others; and the juft Canfe our Enemies have from thence to Cavil at, and ri- dicule the Art and its Profeffors. -I have alfo throughout that Nativity, on my Judgment thereon, wholly diffented from the Common Method now prattifed ; and where Ihave ‘fo done, I have alfo given you the Text of Ptolomy for my Juftification to prevent my being queftion’d in print 3 that thofe who think my Method new, may exaimine that» Author, aad fee whether I have done him aud the Art iteTo the Readers. it felf Fuftice or not. I have alfo fhew'd you the excellent nfeof the ile, and the'vanity of their calling the Lord of the Eighth, the Anareta, and judging the Quality of Death from his Nature and Bofition, dnd indeed, I have been plain in every thing elfe ufeful in the Judgment of a Nati- wvity, with my particular Upinion and Method, that I ufe in all Revoluttonal Figures, and alfa how to take them. Aad to tell you plainly, all other Methods are really lnno- vations, and new Projects without any ground from Authors of Authority. : In the Second Part, I have endeavoured to fhew you, That the opinion of Cardinal Signs on Angles, according to Mr. Gadbury’s Opivion in his Cardines Celi, is vain and groundle{s; and the Arguments and Aphorifms he ° brings to prove it , are lug’d in by Head and Shoulders, and of no Validity to that purpofe; and that the. Nati« vities brought to that end, are alfo fictitious. In the Sup- plement I Lave given you feveral Nativities out of He- minga, that he brings’ as Arguments againft Aftvology, becanfe he conld find no Reafons direttional for their Deaths, Sicknefs, and other things in his way of Aftrology, which I have endeavoured here to few was no hard thing to do; and in particular, in that Nativity of Cardan’s Son, about which both he and Alexander de Angelis, do Sufficiently abufe the Aftvologers , and the Art, becaufe there was no Direction found for his Death, either by his Father, Maginus, or Naibod, three Great Men in their Times. -It was firft printed by Placidus de Titis, i bis. Primum Mobile, which may admit of a Correttion, as may be feen by that printed in this Book; and yet we both keep exrily to Cardan's eftimate Time, as may be. Seen fe by bis own Figure in his Comment on Prolomy, Lib. 3. Cap. 14. Aand indeed, I could have given you di- vers To the Readers. vers mort ous of Heminga, were I not certain that fome of thems are false, and fure he took them upon Truft. In the whole thing theve is much Varicty, both in the Mat- ter and Method, and thefe founded on very good Prin. ciples, which I fhall deliver more methodically hereafter , according as I {ball find this is received in the World. 1 do not pretend, that cither the Matter or Method, is either of thers new, but only the old ones revived; and to fay the truth, it isfoold, that I can [afely fay, it is forgot, and the whole of it will feem firange to this Age. Which I hum- bly offer to the confideration of the Ingenious Students , and intreat every one to examine it ferionfly and delé- berately before he gives a determinate ‘Judgment , either in Approbation or Exprobation of what I have here done. Secondly , To the Studious Lovers of Aftrology ix General. I hope Gentlemen , there will be no need to perfwade you with Arguments, either to believe, or affert the Truth of Aftrology 3 efpecially you that bave already had a profpett of it from the Top of Pilgah ; and have alfo a better opinion of its Truth and Fixcellence, than you are able to demonftrate to the Unbelievers, by Examples of your own; fair Predittions (I mean) of the Effe any Direttion before she Accidents happened , for it i minft give your Art a Reputation. And yet I judge it may not be wholly improper to perjwade jon toa greater diligence and labour in your feveral Methods of Praitice in that Art; aot fo much for the difcovery of New Whims and Notions, without either Ground. or Resfon, aad fome of them not at all under tood by their Inventors and Teachers; But for improving thofe we have already in-our Poffeffi- on, and to try whether they will ftand the Teft.of Exam- ples and Examinations in feveral Nativities; not to pend time ¥To thé Readers, tinge ia making- a noife -about a thing. but tittle -Laown; .and perhaps lefs-underflood’ but to work, and by the va~ riety of Examples to. try and. compare one with awother and at loft {ce how their Rules will agree inthe genta ral; for 1 can affure you, one hour fpent that way, [ball teach you wore fubftantial Knowledge in thefe things, than a whole days prating. And to this. end, it is not a rufh, aatter what your Principles are’, whether Geacentrick , -Heliecentrick, or Selenocentrick ; zor whether their Di~ zcétions are Dire&t, Convers, Rapt, or Secondary , nought iz Mundo or Zodiaco, ix the Crepufculine ‘Circles, or the Obfoure Arks; fo you will but make your. Dettrine all of a piece; and let your DireLt-ns do'the [ame at one time, that they do at another, and not give fomes thing in one Nativity, and mifs in Twenty others, when you try them again. And to this purpofe , I do advife vow not to rely on your Authors ; nor take-up their Rules iz your Prattice, without examining their Atility and” Truth. For Ucan affure you, 1 has.all the Principal Authors of the laft Ceatury, and more (except two or three) have dowe very little for the Art of Altvology, wilefs it was to make it Ridiculous and Coatemptible ; fo that thofe who are difpofed to lauxh at Altvology, need not read Heminga, Alexander de Angelis, Chambers, and the reft of them that have ridicul'd it iz Print but have vecourfe to our own Authors, and. confider and compare them well, and they will find fooleries fufficient for their purpofe and defiga that way, be it what st will’ Our Rules ia Judgment are fo deficient , that they are generally not to be rely'd om; and mbat is more, one thwarts another, by which means the Young Students know not which to, lelieve or fallow. Our new-made Aphorifins are fo SNes that not onc in ten of them will hold according t6. i}:c Text given for our Direttion and Guide. In the Pyfects of To the Readers. of Direétions they have’ followed Matchivel’s Rale (Throw “ dirt enough, and fome will ftick) ; namd abundance of Ace . cidents to attend each Direétion, and the Devils tn't if Some of them do not happen to take effet. - But in the Direttions affigued for all kind of Accidents, Death, &c: there they have out-done themfelves ; and fo involv’d-us into a Labyrinth of Confufion, that we are not able tounder- Stand thems if we will zeake Reafon our Guide, and com- pare one thing with another. Therefore, pray Gentlemen, take it into your Confideration, and let Something be done, that the next Age may be better inform’d by you, than we were by that which went before us. Let us have lefs Vox umes, and more Truth; fewer Rules, and more to the purpofe; plainer Directions how 20 work with fewer Con- traditions; refine the Art, and rejet thofe Fooleries it is loaded with; affert its-Truths, and declaim its Errors, and then it will appear to be what we sell the World it 48, and would have it thought tobe. Nay, let us have all the New Inventions likewife that can be difesvered, provided they are true. There is one thing more, Gen- tlemen, that Iwould fay to jou, and that is, Do not hug Innovations for no other Reafon but becanfe they are news That trick bath been too often put upon ns already , and even by thofe too, that knew very little of the matter; and had as little skill, as thofe that endeavoured to fol- low their Dirvettions » by which means and ways our Evroné= ons Confufions were not a little increafed. Nor would I advife you to be afraid of any thing that is new, becaufe it is [03 bring it to the Touchftone and try it s and that 4 tobe done ao otberways, but by Labour ‘and Experience} for if the thing it felf bth a good Bottom, and Seems ra- tional, it may prove worth your while to examine it: And by this way I intrest you to put what I have done tv the tryal, and if it will not hold, and in the general ftand a theviii To the Readers, the Toft, I fall be ready to recant and beg your better Information. Thiidly, To the Enemics of Aftrology, to whom, tho I am aot obliged either by Kindne{s or Duty, yet. I have a few words to fay, tho 1 do not expelt to make one Con- vert by my fo doing. It is the hard Fate of A'trology and Altrologers ta undergo the. fevere Cenfure of you Gentlemen, who never knew any thing of it , but its Name; and I am confident, fome of you do not know one Charatter from another, nor did you ever yet arrive at that Skill to erect a Scheme of Heaven; which if you did, yet they are very {mall Abilities to entitle any man to be Fudge of a thing he is.fo little acquainted with; as, I am certain the Major part are , that pretend to ridicule this Study. For whatever the Common Profelfors pretend. to, either by falfe Notions, or worfe Practice, 1 own it, and Study it no otherways than a Bran:h of Natural Philofo- phy, and do think it is no hard matter to give it a fair Foundation on very rational Principles, and thofe I thizt, demonftrable too without any. great Difficulty and Trouble, and they are Motion, Rays, ana Influence ;’ and thefe in that Part of Aftcology that takes notice of Nativities in particular; which Part of it I bave made moft gene- rally my Study; and for the other Parts of it, let thofe who. have imployd themfelves therein , take the fame care to. jupify it both by Examples and Rules. . And I do believe that this of Nativities being done, will give fome Repu- tation to the other Parts of Attrology likew:fe ; and this az prefent is fallen under my Confideration', tho I believe there are fome far more able than my felf to do it, if they neve pleafed to take the tronble- of fush a Work upon them. - And whatever your Affertions are of its being for bidden ia Sacred Writ, they are really falfe, and do.ngt any mire probibit To the Readers. prohibit that, than the Command given to the Prophet Hofea 10 Marry a Whore, did juftify Whoredom ; for what is faid there againft it, doth only reprove the Pretenders abufe of it, and the Peoples fuperftitious dependance thercon s which every honeft Artift will difown at this day, that believ:s the Power of an Eternal God. - - Neither can it be an Enemy to Religion and Piety; for by how much the more every good Man knows the Myfleries of Nature in her varions Ways and Operations, by fo much the more it will bring him to admire and contemplate that undeniable Power of the Tremendas Deity that firft gave it its Being and Order, and we fee daily when the beft of things fall into the Hands of Ul Men, what a Scandalous Account they give of them, and pervert their lawful Ufe. Hence there is no reafon’ to believe, that the Abufe of Virtue, or ang other ufeful thing, pleads its Prohibition , cither by Lav or Arguments, if fo, farewell Food and Physick. : “And befides, if we foould allow (what fome of you fay) that there is no verity in it, yet that ncither doth not pro- claim it unlanful, but jufily reprehends us for Spending fo much time in a thing void of truth, and would draw From good Mei rather Pity than Scorn ; but we defire neither, being able to juftify its Truth, and that it is of more worth and rfe than fome Studics that carry a greater Applaufe and Repute; concerains, which I hope fomething will be done hereafier. But your great Objection that makes it Ridiculous and Scandalous, I rmanft acknowledge is too true, That many of its Pretenders tell the World they can do things that are impoffible, and under the pretence of Affrology ack abundance of Villanies: And thofe, perhaps, ignorant of the Study, do’ not know to the contrary, but that fuch things are prefcribed by its Rules and Rudiments, And fecing they az haveTo-the Readers, have the Impudence.to ait fuch things, I hope it will be no Offence to the World to know fome of them, nor to any bone Artifi to hear it told; and therefore take thefe fen, and jucge by ihem what they are that ufe fuch Roguifh Tricks. ; - There is alittle Ruddy-fac'd Conjurer, who in my hear- ing had the Impudence (1 being uzknowa to him) to tell the Company that he could do feveral things out of his Power ; and at laft [:id, That be could raife Spirits; and that of any of the Company would come to him one at a time, he would foew them-a Spirit that {hould appear fairly on the Table. So I advifed them to go, which they did, and abvays when they came, he put them off with a Ro- guild Excufe, vill he bad tired them, and fo they went xo more. : The fame Man had aWoman came to him out of South- wark 20 ask him a Queftion; and that was, If her Misfor~ tunes were al over ; he toldher, no, they were not; but he had.an Art to make them go off quickly, which be defired: So having extorted a Fee for his Figure, told her, foe muft Sit down and pare the Nails of her Finzers and Toes, and leave him fixe Shillings more to buy fix Ounces of Aqua- fortis ; amd by fetting them in a Sand-beat, as her Nails confumd, fo fhonld her Misfortunes;. all whith the Woman did. Then he bid her remove from her Houfe to another, and . be would come and write fomething behind the Door that Should make her Fortunate. And a Month after, fhe fent « Friend to him, to know how it went on ; fo be went down Stairs pretending to fee, and came up again, and told her it went on very well but the poor Woman is fill as the was, poor and unhappy. Mrs. B. in Holbourn tcok 31. of a Maid, to make her Sweet-heart Love and Marry. her, who had then Zot a new Miftrefs, and left the formers the ‘Maid frding her felf cheated, To the Readers. cheated , went toa Fellow abous White-Chappel, who taok 1058. of her to make the other Cheat bring the 31. again: You may guefs at the Coufequence. | 7 There is one Ignorant Confident Fellow, that gives a Paper folded up and feal d, for which he Bubbles fome of 5, and fome of 108. apiece for them; and this is to make Mea and Women love one another in order to Marriage, and to pro~ cure Lascivious Meetings, 8c. and-tomake People fortunate. Thus he ferved 2 poor Mztd in the Minories, and cheated her with thems fo long as fhe would fiad Money, and believe his Lies. : Others, and I conld name them too, pretend to fetch Peo- ple back that are abfent or run away, aad this by force of Magick as they callit; to take off Witeh-craft from thofe th-y fay are Bewitched and alfo to promote or prevent Copulation, according to their Clicits defire, either out of Love or Malice to thofe they intend it ; with abundance more of fuch fluff, as I contd relate, that is pra‘tifed under the pretence of Aitrology, by a Crew of Scandalous Cheats. Yet I hope, Gentlemen, you will ot call this Attrology, but Cheating, Rognery, and Abnfe, both onthe Art, and the People ; andtherefore | wold intreat you to confider what it is 10% weuld condemn, before you take the Seat of Fuftice, and pals the fevere Sentence againft that which 1am fure at prefent you do not suderfiand. Lattly Since the/e Sheets were printing, there is « Treatife ~ come to my hand from Padua, written by one Antonius Francifcus de Bonattis, in which he gives us a new Method of Dircétions, but not by bim (he fays) invented, but by his Maffer Confalonerius ; and becanfe the thing is wholly New, and as yet frange tothis Nation,there being vo other of thofe Books in England but mine, I believe, and am partly fare; therefore 1 will give you one Operation in the Protector ” Cromwell's Nativity, according to his method, and it ee xiTo'the Readers. be ful! as. plain as thofe he hath given in-his Book , without any Direttion to underftand them. And it ts of the Sun tothe Body of Satutn at the tinse of his Death, in his Method and Operation , and to that end you muft know that Crom- well dived 59 Years, 4 Months. ‘and 8 Days. The Sern. Noét. Ark of the Radix, és 4162. which gives the Suns diftance from the Fifth Hufe 2045. The Sem, Nott. Ark of she Direction, 15 3417+ hence tt gives the diftanee of the Sun from the Fifth Honfe, 1679. or 27d. 39 a. which added to the place of the Direttion, leaves the Cufp of the Fifth Houfe in 7 degrees 19 minutes of Leo, as you may fee by the foll-wing Figure and Direttion together. For bya Figure be always explains and demon- firates his Direttions; and indeed this Direétion agrees to the time of 59 Tears, 4 Months, and odd days. } y s Z Ys, Ne y an Ss *y NX , | And at this Age, ~ 2 4° ‘he died of an Inter- >,” . 'mitting Fever, &c. dy s%, “LY b > To the Readers. Thus, Reader, I have given thee, with this Curiofity, afoort Account of the Book, and defire thee to read it im- partially, and confid-r the Matrer and Defign of it, to the end 1 have writ it. Corred the Errors that have flipt the Prefs, which are not many, yet perhaps there may be more than I have obferved ; Deal by me as you would have another do by you in the, like Cafe; 1 beg no Pity, but Juftice; ufe me genteelly, and it fall be a further Obli- gation / To your Friend, Joun Pantaives.Corre& the Errors followi th ) evring , that have efcaped the Pre Age 5. line fs cline 31, read Dims, p.g. 1 25 in the Sch pg. 1a3, roverfow, pz. 136s, fe ai eae p80 1 Ae erie irda, es tiene hie. ie ra. pe 95. 1.6.1. variata, py rLrger. Tis. p. 84.1. 22, 1, Jupit asd Ube Bop kek nina pligdas.tomm psci3y tor bk sry well, that the (OPUS REFORMATUM, Shall not enter into an Argumental Conteft about the mrt of Afrology in general, but leave that Work for the more florid Pens to difculs. Neither will 1 at this time - Tndertake to demonltrate the Motion by which Which is plain to me,that they donot underftand their own Rules, or clic they do not believe them. To my knowledge thete was (asin the cafe of the Proteor ) a Figure of Charles the Second’s Birth ally agreed on, and believed by all thofe that profeffed Alivclogy, and by which a certain perfon did prediét his Death ih F685, and by which Figure they all faid he would live to 7° years of ?5 but fince his Death. you may gO to twenty of them, and perhaps every ene of them fhew youa different Figure, and ailiyn different Caules for his Death 3 they being as much con— founded about that Prince’s Nativity and Death, ‘as ever they were about the Protector’s ; OF thefe and fuch-like Rtoriesas thefe are, I could giveyoua great number, which will ferve forno other ufe but to thew you, that Ignorance becomes Powerful, when ic Blows Popular and General, at which time it is ufually guarded by Lmpudence and Error, and by their aifitiance it commonly takes ruth by the beard, - I thall therefore conclude’ thefe things with this Axiom, ‘That every Canfe muff havea Cortain Effed 5 and that Rule, any Diretiion that hath one time, hath ct another, -or elfe a good fubftantial Rule to foew reafia to the co wer ary. oy Power to kill at Te hath been the common ciftom of our Modern Pretenders to Altrology, to impofe-on the world, and abufe the Art they pre- tend to, by Printing the Nativities of dead perfons for trie ones 5 for when they are laid in their Graves, it is prefumed that: no. thing can happen afterwards able-to Contratliét the Authority of their Rules, in the pretended Correction of the deceafed man’s Geniture 5 “for now all Accidents ceafe, and the common Profef. fors rett fatisied, that what was done was true, they not being able or willing co make any farther Enquiry after it, nor perhaps can = are commonly printed, are made by Opus Reformatum. th From hence they pretend to eine a fortes canes ife, F: Infamous, Health, Sicknets, ionsof Life, Famous ot hy Sik, and palt acon ath it fells makingevery thing appear as pl Jat of a ea diay efpeilly cotholethatdo no! voderiand ae faa i any of thole advantagious notions ee ie ott ity ave printed and pablilhed co iftmdt che young, Tyrer andy they ee is Science, where they may tind the Pa sP A Sade ee Reafons thescof anncxed 5 with choice Rules and ee arfims fitto be cenfidered by thofe fe sre Beyer, that S : f their way 5 and by J ‘ones they may be ted ov in their Errors: For thofé Nativitics ta ae the Aclogcrs hey often Cuy al Ume= eri etrue time, one, two, oF three curs, end ferme differing fm a ee prom bi Clim pris be rv ive anes nvand abirty yeare longer, and the poor Gentleman mas ded oe Bick re : wblifbed. So that it is {afer to take aNa ivity by Fore he Bika by their Correétion, std perhaps nearer the Ha Neto mention the tory of Sir Hor Me cae h may fairly challenge a pla ee d thi eae hole Nativity a tabi oft ae and » nfairly ufed by them, as any man whatever, arid hath been a thin have Pies slandingy and Tone ore Atcendant which they thought ees a a m y Martine to his Giandeur and Courage, and for one tat wae falta ior. And this paffed very well amo g chem for great a 9 or vithout any diftrult of -the truth of ic and OY be fome see could prove all his Sicknefs, Honours, vies a ee th died and to the amazement of aa pe ae ae a ae ey Dizedbion to ill hims whit riche doubt pu them eit ines fora while, «ill they them out of hc Nativity s for it was in ain for them &o bee raking him a “nan would think that to be: his true One; Ea Tieve, that any cetiony (10, not afham one ) co mal the world te ad aoe dyed’ by Order from the Sere sand that was ae hat they had no direétion at that time,tor oe oe es eee as of the Afcendant.to the Square oe f pot ae Fapter ot Pens the Afcendant to his own ae a aoe Siew - t Afcention, i as:-occafi s in Signs ot ang os ane the Dragoly-Tail, or {uch-like fu as Sun ot Moo Si i d fulfome, (0 bear fuch: this'is 3 and tho this may. feem naufeous and fi MeeeOpus Reformatum: fooleries as thefe are, yet I do affure yo ° oY lure you they Se al ea Tm cs on Salat of this si Geems they had not {ach Directions as they shunshe Prebible to pal among the ref of che Society 5 and. cicret ancw Nativicy malt be found ous, and ie malt be fech a as t mA prox + his Death, tho ie prove nothing clfe. -- onewwo _ And che: nexe they: pitched upon. was farther. Kine of i Bit than the focmet wes for ues ther woe tae dlrs Bfeciding, and the Stain is Horolcope in Tama, and See ce fe ats in Oppotition from the Culps of the firtt and fev at ia ie, and in Square tohis Tenth, and Fupiter in Oppotition 7 bis Midheaven, and in Squaré to his Alcendant, which would cae a an untoward Nativity, (according .to their ow Ral ae Gadbay's in particular, printed by hire, but all , for a Perfoa of his C x NH Profine “if mind in his molt dangerous L eee ee ee on the Aendant maf be allowed to few his Manners, Difpot - 9 ind Temper, by being in that Angle; as you miy fee Dur Nuno. pag, 9tz_and then his being in Oppotition to Satnn and in Square Jupiter, mutt make a very odd temper'd man, Morofe Peet babs and Unfalfe in his genera Endeavours, and Sicklys vide Cardin. Cali, pag. 34. §. 78. in words Z To which Twill add, That the Opputition of Sun aa re and fearful, and by confequence a little Gonrardy, ‘ oO a Bafé fpirit 5 bucl could never hear his Enemie: 2 Bi any 0 thefe things in the leaft on him ; but they fa that ee Bute and-Generns that he never had any Foor or i im, but always beat that into this Enemies 5 sehen he tok them uted them more like Gentlemen at tihene i 3 but betides, they all allow, th E Tenth in Oppolition to Mars, and both in ce a aia peed isa perma fa any man’s Honour when born mie en pray how thould fuch a Polition give fi i Power as he advanced to, if their Rules are true Ser nae "hae pag. 164. For it is certain, that Saturn and Mars in Oppofition from the Firit and Seventh, wor Ke hit t , would make him a very iil-m . fone Pemene fomay aroun! and indeed Teouid ed 1 er this manner, from their ow: oa Oppolite to this Pofition, and yery rabies en, which was then printed, was not the Protector'stiue Nativie ty; Opus Reformatnm. ty but I hall leave all thef@ Arguments and Reafonings, becaufe Thave better to infilt upon, which will bettcr ferve, and more demonitrably prove the Falfity of that Fizure, and the Unskil- fulne(s of him that made it ;-and fo I come tothe matter more nearly. The Figure of this Great Man’s Nativity is owned by a very worthy Gencleman, one 7. Gasisrry by name, and by hi ed in his crowd of Exrors, cailed Collectio Genitirarem. ox 4 Colle@ion of choice Notivities, that is, of his own meking 5 now this T could have paffed by, and look’d on it as the effect and overfight of his Juvenile years 5 but he ptints the fame again in his Card. Cali, after five and twenty years, to fhew that he was fill the fame man, and thet he-had no more skill in his own Profeffion in 1685, than he had in 16595 and by doing that, he fees to me to juttifie all the Errors of his Collection, becaufe he hath hitherto given us no Caution concerning any of thofe Errors in that book, cf which thefe of the Protetter’s are fome of the yrcat- eft; and to fay the truth, this of his Cardings Caliis as full of Fool- cries and abfindities, as the other » which I fhall endeayour more fally to evince, before I conclude this Treatife, The time he fets this Figure for, is the twentyfifth of April at alinoft forty feven minutes after three of theClock in the Morning 1599. and upon that Polition he fpends a whole Page to rell his Reader, that there are feveral things concur to prove it true,befides the Directions he after mentions 5 as the Oppolition of Saturn and Mars {rom Aries and Libra, the three Superioursin their own Digni- ties, and above all Cardinal Signt, potfelling, che four Angles of the Figure; which in the Nativity of Charles Guftavus; as well.as.in this of the Proteéfor’s, was (as Gadb. fays) fully verified. And from thefe two Fi@itious Nativicies ( for.tuch they both are ) he confidently forms this notion-into au Altrological Aphorifin, and prints it in his Choice Colleéiion , Aphor. 18. of which more hereafter; and after abundance of forry ‘iui belides , he con- cludes with thefe words. ¢ Prefuming chat divers Artifts will be © curiots in {cauning this Geniture , 1 fhall for their affiltance, «and prevention of trouble, prefent them with a. Catalogue of « feveral Accidents of his Life, and the Dircétions, és. that were Cin an Aftrological fenfe ) the proper O-cafions of them , and © Ceith no finall pains to me) they axe thefe following. And- Opus Reformatum. And here I defire the Reader, and all 2 eas q re the > th tits, to confider his reafons for the Caneae neni = 1. In the Year 1540. ‘this Native’s G: . "this rand thee sa fit called ino publi aieesbylte nc asaes Meer of “aliament; to ligne which he had [as FG: faye] a haven cathe Drags Head 5 nowy is vt this phe » that t jade fhould give greater ad: pe 5 We ta Song STS arm Fall, for this was the beginning.and ground of all ¢ i Honors and Preferments both 2 the State, and aon Ne a yout will but confer, this Dragons Hid and Tui! ae nothing but the Interfcétons of the Ecliptick and Orbite of the Moon a2 oppotite Points, and thole two Cirles sxe but imagin a threfore the two Nodes canoe be otherways: Agen, Whpen of thefe Points thould be a Fortune, and the other an’ Infortune isa Mylery chat the grater Matiers of his Science fl relerve in ms, But to the Queltion in hand: P; i the reafon thatthe ME Cad Capa fhould give Koch meres _ Ed fe in lay the ground-work for the future, when the M. c tothe Tene of Sarr, ind Senile of Mare went a ltd b fore” ane pave nothing ree as we know of: and yet this Nutive, dcligned by God and Nature to be fo great-a Man as he : ce and that to0, a the nature and principles of die i s, Policy, Power and Courage? And-indeed 1 w i hhonell Fibn to prefene the World wi S Treatie that ant 0 h rid with fome Treatife i teri Werte Etienne Noftrums not yet ome : orld, as Ifuppofe hecalls the great, if not thé preat. elipact of the Nation, Bur did this Dragos Had eine he atte thould happen to prove true, I punettiv eg mmel adeeate Diet i C1 ve true, I protcitit isd molt i very 5 but Xdoube cis is he it Experiment; ad fede andi ¢ a aft co its kind 5 for whofocver (hall have accion tot " it in another Cafe of the Hike natare,. will find themfclves _ Witstchedly dsceived and cheated. For throughout bis Cl ice ie re es ee youa word of any one being, preferred by the M.C. ad &, but of that Minijfer’s being cledted Fellow Pag tat. but to tell you the truth, it wa: Hae ate i > Ss not On that Bia tothe body of Fnac he lls you nmtlfbat he Pind not tell you one word of the effect of the M,C. ad jcihge Starkzy’s Nativity. However, he tickled aa hE ca Set man Opus Reformatum. nents and Scandals upon the MC, ad Candave aman with Tnprifonm: draconis 5 but to tell you plairly, thofe Accidents Cif the Figure is true ) were’ from. the Stn ad oppofitunt Saturni, who is the real Author of fach things as thofe, as the Cafe then flood 5 and he hath let Mr. Etwaod,pag.17 0. pals by his M. C. ad 83 without any “emarkable effect, which Dhews a kind of plaguy Ml-tature in him, to let the young man at 20 years of Age pafs without fome good éffe& of it {ure he might havedeferved fomething at that Age, as ‘ell a5 Oliver, to have all at forty. Ina word, T think he hath knocked two or three little Babes on the head befides with the Dragons Tail 5 which is as ufeful as the other in its place, and ferves fornetimes at a dead lift. But let him prove to m if be can,why the Head and tail Thould not be both of one and the {ame nature, if they have any influence at all, or power to give good ox evil in diredtion 5 I confefs 1 could never find it. 2, Secondly, In the Year-1642. he was preferred to the Com- mand of a Gollonel of Horfe; having before, like an honeft Gentleman, and trac Englifoman, raifed a Troop of Horfe at his own Charge, and ferved in his own Perfor: to defend his-Country againtt the then growing Popith Intereft, which like a Deluge was dike to overthrow all, -He had then, fays JG. the Moon dire-- Ged to the Scorpion’r Hearty but whether with, or without Lati- tude, he hath not told us: but let it be which it will, it is whol- ly falfe 5 for the Moon’s pole of Pofition in that place in his Fi Bure is about 505 and her Oblique Afcention under that Pols in the oppofite point is about 35° d, 18". fo that the Ark of Dire- Gion with Latitude, is 37 4. 28": and without Latitude itis 45 4. 14’, which aceording to Naibod's meafare, will give more than 45 years: and therefore neither of them can come up in the Year 1642. ashe pretends, But fuppofe it did come up then , why mutt it give fach confiderable Preferment as a Collonel of Hoxfe, which to him at that time was very great, both as to his Com- mand and Trult repofed in him? why fhould ir not give trouble ot ficknefs to him ; the death of his Wife, or Mother ,Géf he had one living) as well, or rather than give honour and preferment? forin the Nativity of the French King, pag. 40. of his Colleétion, he gives him a violent Fever on the direction of the Afeendant to the Scorpion's Heart, without any thing elfe to affift it, except 2 Tranfit of Mars on the Moon’s Radical place. And in pag. 43. in the Revolution of Guftavus the Second, it is there brought in as Cc anOpus Reformatum. an Argument of death 5 the Sin and i junc the Cor m, is there called violent Gucnate of che canbonation near the Nativity of the Prince of Orange, page 54. itis theremin of to kill his Mother, and to give hima great deal of tre ine but to affift it, he tells us, that the M. C. came up th srouble 3 Square of Satu, which is notorivully falfe for there we a fan diteétion at that time, or near it. Yee afterall this Sugf and Foppery, when he comes to Dr, Gonge’s Nativity, pa eae fends hirn to Cambridge upon no other Direttion Bul Bi nto che Seupio’s Heart, and nothing elfe to ali ir, Ti you fee what an Excellent Atrologer Mr. 7. G. is, and how obedient ie Stars are to thofe who can skilfully command chem; ket we kill one, give another trouble, fend a third to Candas ed tnake a fourth a Collonel of Ftorfe: Buc if all he fays were a i a in the Protsdia’s Cale, it ferves nothing at all to the Cone Sion, nor to prove the time of his Figure trues fer all men that eae any thing of Directions, know very well that this biediog ee ae nearly the fame, had the time been taken Tater een but wonder why 7G. fhould cxclaim agaiinht C; or linking, the Oath of Allegiance to his Sovereign, as he al: him, when that King had broke and fk i Corning ath: long before and we all remember very well wh sit was that did it fing. alfo in the Year 1686, and 1687. to I oft the Nation's ui, and defrudtion of the Proteliant Religion imo the 3. Thirdly, Yn the Year 1643. he Raina tot Ent ch Macys a Which cme belay hehad then ee cote cee but es is allo cxtreamly fall bee fe ch direction as he protends ta is thne s ai ul enticne may fee by working thofe Opin which the Ark without Latitude , which isthe only Direétion that he inows in that way, i 48 d. 26", and the Ark with Latinde i molt 41. both which are far diftant from 1643, and c: for come up at ve time he-mentions, nor ngar it: bue ific dia it aa correct without fome other to agree with it to the An- 4. Fourthly, He tells us, that he quarrelled with vert Fi h the Mardufty bis General, i { preferred divers Informacions sgeinlt vent,é naged it ied hisPoi and came off wit honour s the Gaul of tis es he a) het Sa- turn being on his Afcendant, and the Radical place of Mars in Op- Folition Opus Reformation. pofition to his owns and the Afcendant directed: to the Terms of ‘Mars. Certainly’ this Man was infatuated when he wrote this Nonfenfe; for | have mote Charity for him, than to think he had fo little Skill or Senfe to believe this, and not know better; but - vous of a Tranit of Satarn by Mars his Radical place in oppoti- tion to his own: Why, what was this to Crommell ? why did not Gif thigis trac) Saturn do him a mifchef the latt year, when he got his Licutenant-General’s Commiffion, for he was then Sta- tionary on the Piadical place of Mars, and no harm obferved. Well: but the Afcendanc was allo afftiGed by difcttion 5 hoi fo? why it came to the Terms of Mars 5 Ay, this is fometning like to do the feat : did ever any Soul hear an Infallible Son of an In- fallible Charch give fuch Ricafons as thefe-are? In the laft year he fays the Muon to the Trine of Mars gave him Preferments and is that Direétion fo foon over? will it not continue in force’ one year ? and if it doth, pray why thould the Terms of Mars be ale edged as an Injaxy cohim, and he under a very good Martial Di- weBon? Why fhould noé che Trine of Mrs give the Contelt (if there was furch a Direétion at that thme,as he {ays there was, more Tikely chan the ‘Terms of: Marr, it ending, in his Advantage and Honour? which cannot bevallowed fach an Afliéion as he feems to. infinuate by the Tranfit of Sata. But why mutt the A dant to the Terms of Mars be brought in now asa caufe of dif- ference? Doth it always give Quarrels and Contelis? Did it alfo give ‘Quarrels, Contelts, ‘and Difference, when the Afeendant cameto the beginning of Cancer, which was the'Terms of Mars alfo, which was two or three years afterward? I doubt its and Ithink it would be worth while-to ask the Geatleman, if it ‘did hot fallin pivtedand {moaky degreess if fo, then it is beyond all queltion and doubt ; but the truth of all is, there’was nothing self to fham in at chis time, and therefore this mutt do 5 yet I do thiak there is.no man. will look upon this'as a good reafon and argument to prove the Nativity true. : 3. Fifthly, In 1645 he fays Oliver Crome! was made Lieute- nant-General to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and this under the Dire¢tion of the Moonto the Sextile of Satmrn, Lord of the Tenth Honfe 5 and indeed it was well he was Lord of the Tenth, or elfe he had _ certainly loft his Honour ‘and Preferment at.that time 5: however, that is alfo falfe,there was no fuch Direétion at that time, and that for the Reafons before-mentioned. ~ : : G2 6, Sixthly,Opus Reformatum. 6. Sixbly, In 1648, for his-contending with the Parliament, and fome other things, he fays he had his'Sem to the Square of ~ Saturn, and the part of Fortune to the Oppofition of Venus: As for that of Venus, I am fare ’tis falfe, for he is not able either to take or direct the part of Fortune ; and what is more, if the part of Fortune were truly placed inthat Figure, it fhould ke in ebout 11 or 12 degrees of Leo, and he hath made it in one and twen- ty; and for that Direction of Satura,if it fhould be true, it doth net at all help to the Correction. 7. Seventhly, In 1649 he went over to Ireland to oppofe thé Popi(h Rebels in that Nation, and defend the Proteftant Religion 5 and as Gadbury fays, he had a Flux and Feaver there; for thele things he gives him the Moon to her own Square, and the Con- trantilcion of Jupiter ; alas, poor man! he never knew yet how to take an Antiicion ora Zodiacal Parall:l, which you pleafe 5 and I will venture an even Wager of what he will, that he doth not know how to direét the Moon either to an Antifcion or Con- trantifcion of any Planet; {0 great is his Confidence and Ignorance in pretending, toa thing he underfands not. And furthermore, had the Moon been fo direfted at that time, as Re fays the was to thofe two direétions, } am certain he would have had neither _ Flax nor Feaver at that time, if Prolomy fays true ; bit you muft ban with his Ignorance, for if he knew better, he would do etter. 8. Eighthly,,In 1650 and 1651, he beat the Scots at Dunbar, and the Cavaliers at Woreefter to theit hearts content ; for this he gives him the Sun tg his own Sextile, but how he doth make # do, I cannot tell, for the Ark of dircétion is 53, 45, and gi about 54 years, and he was now but 51 and §2 years of age which is a great difference in point of time; but he doth not tell you one word.of the Sun te the Square of Mars and S.turn, nox their-effects; one of which happened at-48 years of Age, and the other at 51; and tho he could not tel whafthey gave, yet he might have told us what the reafon was that they did not Kill, or at leattwife give Sicknefs,a3 well as the Moon tothe Contrantifcion. of Jupiter and her own Square ; or why the Sun to the Square of ‘Saturaand Mars, thould not. give lofs of Honour, and damage to Reputation, as well as che M:C..tothe Dragons-bead, gave the Breatelt of Honour; but’ thefe, T fuppofe-are Nefirums lodged in his own Carka(s, and are not to be made known till the publicati- - op Opus Reformatum. js body of Tautofogy, or a more convenient time: Now one ea that he Wath printed, were true, then the Sun is politively Giver of Life, which if fo, he hath (according to Ptolomy ) not only the principal Government of Honour and Gran- deur, but of Health, Sicknefs, Life and Deach 5 and thercfore i¢ is the greatelt wonder to m¢y that under two fuch directions there fhould be no effeét attend him ee of Sickne(s or Scandal 5 {mail things with honelt joon. | te In Raed December, he was Proclaimed Protector of England; he had now the Sun directed to the body of Fair, Sextile of the Moon; and the part of Fortune to the peas Venus 5. thofe directions, Iconfefs, are probable for fuch an ca 7 and the former comes, too at the time he fays it doth ; but the » Jat of the thrce he knows nothing of it. ith France, and +10. bly, In 1654 he concluded a Peace wit 5 makes E Leap with “ . . * i ich is the thing he aims it eye nt oe en the year 1658, on September the Third, this great General avd State(man died of an Intermitting, Feayer at rit L Beto bythe Afcendant. (who is, : ‘nual ; which Gadbmry tclls us was bout afterward Cornthois, fayshe in this Nativity, Giver 5 of Life) ditetted to the Square of Mars in Ganeer, his fall 5 AeOpus Reformatum.. Sun tothe Head of Hirewles,ind the part of Fortune to the Square cf the Moon. As for this latt of the @ to the Square of the Moon, that cannot be direéted to the Afpeéts in the Zodiack, becaufe oftentimes that doth not move frit, nor he knows no other way of dircéting. And for the Sun to the Head of Herceles, *tis a final Star of the Second Magnitude in 18 degrees of Cancer, and almok 7 degrees of North. Latitude; but he direéts it here without La- titude: If this hath any torce’to kill without Latitude, why did not the Sun to that Sear with Latitude kill, it coming up with the Square of Ssizna, and the ® to the Oppolition of Penis, in the year 1645 2 For it would be more able to kill when the Sun was afflicted by two violent Promittors, than by one; and thé rather, if the Sun fhould prove Hilg, as 1 believe you will find it is in - this Figure of his making: And here by the way, IT mult take the liberty to queftion this trifing Gentlersan’ how he proves the Afcendant to be Giver of Life? For in his borrowed Rules in the Dolir of Nutiv. he tellsus that the Sun in the Afcendant is Hileg, and I hopehe willnot make two 4pheta’sin one Nativiiy: And allo Origenus in Introduét. par. 3. ezp.2. preachcth the very fame Doltring 5 fo doth Argol, Pezelins, Ranzow, and all the rett of our Authors 5 but above all, the Great Prolomy, in his Seesdripartiaum, lib. 3. cap. 11.und-eap. 13. where he is particular and very poli- tive, when hefays, Cism autem querins in bis locis potentifimum, primus erit Medium Cali, deinde Horofcopus, ec. So that you ‘ee the Horofcope is one of the chiefelt prerogatory places; and yet this worthy Gentleman, contrary to the Rules printed by himfelf, and all our ancient Authors, réjeGts the Sun in the middle of the Afcen- dant, and confidently or ignorantly tells us, That the Afcendant is Giver of Life, or Hileg; and this for'no other reafon, ( as I can fee ) but to give countenance and credit to his own erroneous practices ; and to lead ( like Fack witha Lanthorn ) other men out of the way, into thefe bogs of Error. Ia fhorts{ do affirm, That the Sun within five degrees above the Cufp of the Afcendant, till within five degrees of the Culp of the Second ; or rather, to {peak in Prolumy's terms and meaning, within thecompafs of his double Horary times there, he is to be accepted for Giver of Life 5: pro- vided the Moon is not in an Aphetical place above the Earth, or ‘the part-of Fortune, ge. qualified for that power: But in this Figure of_his, the Sunis beyond all doubt Giver of Life, he being in the very middle of the Houfe, and having there no Competitor. . - Hence Opus Reformatun. Hence that which Gadb. afferts in this cafe, isa palpable falthood, inch Bae have been excufed in a Novice, but in an old Bulle weather it ought to be reproved, and that fharply too: Bac let it rehow it will, it, was a ercdit for Cromel, that his Foes could fd nothingto kill him but the Head of Heretics, joined with a + GGitious DireGtion; and that.is the Afcendane ‘to the Square of Mars, which in reality could not come up before Ninety years of ‘ bofts. ea main Dircétion that Mr. Foha lays all the ftrefs of the matter upon, isthe Afcendant to the Square of Mars in the eae ack, which is, (to fay the truth ), no direétion at all 3 for you may as well dire the A(cendant to the Antifcion of any Planer, as toan Afpeét in the Zodiack 5 they being both impottible tot 1c done by any one, Fobuexcepted, But fuppofe it rere elon le, and thatthere was fucha Direction in Nature, as he tl are He there is, yet that Direction could not kill 5 for if he plea! a ut to read “Ptolomy, Lib. 3. Cap. 13. Quadripart, he there tel 5 us, That if the Rays of Jupiter or Venues fall within cight or ore degrees after a Maletck Direétion, that Direction canuot kill: Now in this cafe; here is but one Malefick Dircétion to the Alcenr dant, and that is the Square of Murs, which is fucceeded by te ‘Alcendant to the Sextile of the Sun, the Bidy of Jupiter, Sextile of the Moon, and Sextile of Meresry,and they all nearly in Alpe to Jupiter, and for that reafon partakers of his nature in a great meafure 5 therefore how this body of: Direétions thould G ces tycoall good and Authentisk Rules ) Kill, ems to mea Myler ry 3 and what is more, that he fhould dye of {uch a plea intermitting, Feaver or Poyfon 5 for it is not Mars, ae he Sun and Jupiter, ‘that do fpecificate the Difeafe 5 and how eee fhoald kill, but efpecially after that manner, | hope my Prien ain wilkexplain in his twenty years promilid Body of smeley when he thinks convenient to print it; and alfo in ee 00k ive us full direétion for the underftanding his -pitte aoe and fmoaky Degrees; which, perhaps, miy have agecat a in killing thisGentleman, tho fa hath not mentioned it, nor do adit, which is worfe. ; Hee a anealogy i allowed and owned by fome of the molt Leaned, tobe a bunle of Experience improved into Rules by continued obfervatioms ‘of thofe Accidents and Effects that dic itech fitions ; Hence it then always attend different Directions and ion ions osOpus Reformatum. follows, That liky Canfes aft alwoays have like Effetts, or elfe Rules of Exception laid down to know when they fhall, and when they thall not give thofe common Effects that they all tell us of : For it the Afcendant, Sun or Moon to the body, Scaare or Op- polition of Satzrn and Mars, hall kiil in two or thaeeCafes, and , mifs in ten or twelve, it leaves Allrology an idle, foolifh, and |. xeprogchful Study, being uncertain and vains and therefore not to befudicd nor defended by any but men of a Reputation equal to it elf: For if the Afcendant to the Square of Mars, in this pre- tended Nativity of the Lord Protetior's, hould Kfllwhen the Body of Fupiter, Sextileo€ the Sun and Moon, &c. ase fo near, then Ido affirm, That nothing can binder it at any tirte, but it mujt always cer- tainly kills which if true, then pray obferve what follows, taken out of that Learned Tredfife, called Cullecti Genitura, a Book full ot Contradictions and Error, asto the Principles and Truths of Alirology 5 which I thall more ‘fully detect hereafter, but give you aglinpfe of irnow, to fhew you what a fort ot man he is, that pretends to be the Leader and Top-man of the Society of Afirologersin England, and how he and his Notions oaght to be believed. : 1. Fir then 5 In the Nativity of Queen Mary, pag. 11. the Afcendant to the Square of Mars did not kill, tho it wasaffifted by the.Bodics of Mercury and the Sim, and they both Malefick and Peregrin 5 nor did the Square of Saturn afterward kill her. 2. In the Nativities of Ann Queen of Hungary, pag. 28. Lesit the Keb. King of France, pag. 34- and Charles Guibsous, King of Sweden, pag, 35. he lets thofe three out-live the Afcendant to the Body of Mars, which mult be undoubtedly more violeut than the Square 5 arid in two of the three it came up young. In the Cale of Frederick Krug of Denmark, pag, 37. it did not kill, tho it fell near the Lyons heart. 3. In the Nativity of the Ear! of Effex, pag. 45. we havea molt admirable Inftance 5 for there the Afcendant to the Squares of the Sun, the Moon, and Murs, all together, had not Power and Strength enough to kill, and yct no affiiance from Jupiter and Venus to helpor fave 5 when youitce in the Cafe of Crammed, that the fingte Square of Murs did the butinefs, tho the Body. of Jupiter, Oe. were very near to the place. This is Brick-Cosmrs Ajtro~ Jogy with a witnels! Rift teneatis. a 4 In Opus: Reformatum, 4. Inthe Cafe of Cafimir King of Poland, pag. 46. it did likes wile fail, tho Mars was there among the Pleiades, and for that rea- fon the more violent. , 7 5. Inthe Nativity of Charles Tortenfon, the great Sroedifo Gene ral, page48. where Mars isin Conjunttion with the Sun, Lord of the Eighth, and in Square to Saturn in the Eighth, yet this worthy Gentleman lets him out-live the Afcendant to the Square of Sa- turn, Bodies of Mars and the Sun, and fends him to the other world onthe Afcendantto the Oppofition of Satarn. Ta this Na- tivity Honett Jobn hath (hown as much of his Ignorance ( as to the Rulcs of Aitrology) as in any one Cafe throughout the whole Book belides ; for here he gives the Afcendant the Power of Hi- deg, and yet both Sun and Moon in Aphatical places, the onein the firlt, and the other in the feventh. aa 6. Inthe Nativity of the Dutebefs of Sfortia, page 64, the Square of Mars did not kill, but the Afcendant to the Oppofition of the Moon and the Sun tothe Square of Venws did, and yet neither of them Givers of Life ; neither did the Afcendant to the Square of Mars killin the Nativity of Don Fobn of Axjris, pag. 65. 7. In the Nativity of George Diske of Albemarle, pag. 70. nei- ther the Squareof Saturn or Mars to the Afcendant could kill him, and yet Mars Lord of the Eighth Houfe. 8. Inthe Cafe of Pope Paul the 5th. the A(cendant to the Square of Mars did not kill; and yet the Oppofition of Mercury ‘out of the Eighth Houfe fell near the fame place. 9. Inthe Cafe of Pope Gregory 15. pag. 8t- the Horoftope to the Square of Mars did not kill, and yet that Angle Giver-of Life; but the Square of Meresry did itto the purpole a whileafter. I fuppofe A4srs was Popifhly inclined at that time, and therefore would not hurt his Ghoftly Father 5 but Mercsry appeared to be a downright Heretick, and had no refpet either to his Age or In- fallibiliey. 10. In the Nativity of Cardinal Peter Bembus, pag. 85. the fame Afpect did not kill, and yet Mars Lord of the Eighth. I really judge that he was a Papiltin thole times ; what think you: Jobn, was he or no? You are the better Judg of thetwo, becaufe you are of that Perfuafion. . 115 Inthe Cafe of Mr. Thomas Gatoker, pag. 102. the Square of Mars, and Oppofition of the Sun ‘out of the Eighth, would not do ; but the Oppofition of Satwra did it afterwards. D 42.1018 Opus Reformacar 12, Inthe Nativity of -Judg Reeves, pag. 124. the Square of Murs, Oppofition of the.Maon, and Body of Saturn, conld not kill; but after that, fomething elfe did it. ; 13. In the Cafe of Dri:Richard Laford, pag. 133. he out-lived the Affendant to tho Square of Murs and the Sxn,.both ‘which Afpeéts fell near the Lyons-bears;” 14. Inthe Geniture of Mr. Stephen Rogers, pag. 138. the Afcen- dant was dire&ed to the Square of Mars; and yet that could not Kill him, although the*Square of the Moon gave her af- fiftance.. - . 15. In that of Major-Genens) Lambert, pag. 167. he paffed the Alcendantto the Square of Mars, and divers years after, tothe Square of Saturnand the Moon, and tived many years afterward. 16, Inthe Cafe of Dr. Geoffrey le Neve, pag. 178. he likewife out-lived the Afcendant to the Square of Murs, and to the Square of Saturn after that alfo. es Peer 17. In the Nativity of Mr. Jobu,Booker, pag: 189-you will here find that he out-lived the Afcondant to the Squaré of Mars, Square'of the$un, Square of the Moon, and Square of Mercury, and lived many years afterward. : rtf 18, In the Geniture of Mr. Will. Leybowrn, pag. #87 you will find that he alfo hath’ out-lived the Afcendant to. the Square'of Mats and Mercury, and yet thefe fell sear the: Cufp of the'fourth Houfe, and in Cancer likewiles as it did in that Figure Honeft Jobn gave us for the true one of. Oliver Crommell, 19. hy his own Nativity,‘pag. 190. he out-lived the Afcendant tothe-Oppofition of Mars, and lives yet, as} fuppofe. : 20. In the Nathity‘of Mr. Jobn Mallet, pag. 180, he outlived theiAfcendant tothe Square of. Mars, but unhappily dycd after- ward on the Afcendant to the Square of Saturn, as Honeft Foba hays. os : - Thui'l have given you above Twenty Examples of that Afpe@ and_Dire@ion out of his own Book, where it did not kills. and coyld have given you more out-of: the fome alfo, if I had not thaught.thefe over and above {ufficient to prove the Improbability of whst this trifling man puts upon us for truth; Now let any impartial man ferioufly confider: thé Reafons that he. gives co - prove hisFigure true, (which he fays coft him fo much pains.) and éfpecially that for-his Death, and compare the. Collection of Examples Opus. Reformasam, sles L haveheremade, with thofe Reafons he-hath given, Ean me, Whether the Afeendant 40 the Square of- Marsis a Direction fit to be believed and depended on, for the'Death of Olizgr Crommvell:. For you, fec herg is twenty to one againft it » and if like Cans have not likeEffeds, ( without Rules of Excepti- on ), then will certainly renounce Aftrology, and believe it no more; And I dare further affure you, That the Aftrology which is genaually made Uje of, Studied, and Pradifed, is rather htto be aught at, than believed 5 as you may cafily fee by the dilly thams of Gadbury, if you compare one thing with another throughout “his whole Book, called the Collection, which ina thost time? a al fc fe. . A rina for me to believe that this Gentleman died on the Afcen- the Square of Mars, after fo plaina Conviction of the Reread are Twenty Examples under_his own hand to prove where and when it hath miffed of that Effect, isto tcll all mankind, That I am an Ignorant, Credulous Fellow, void both of Reafon and Skill, and fit to be impofed upon by any one that is willing to attempt it. And_for my part, when Lconfider that there are a great number of Ingenious perfons of all, Qualities and Degrees in this Kingdom, who underftand Attrology very well, and have obferved the Shams and Cheats of this Impoftor, wonder they were never callcd in queftion, and exploded before nows for they will ferve for no.other ule, butto Iead the young Students out of their way, and bring an Odium.upon the Science it felf, when it isxcad by fuch men, who avhen they obferve its incoherence, axe readily apt to make ule of it, or any thing elle they can pick up to brand it with Infamy ; for which end they need not trouble themfelves to read Books written againtt it 5 for Jet them perufe but our own Authors, and :they.will not fail 7 find Ruff enough to make themfelves merry. ats anid yet foral this, There is a'True Ajtrology in being : Little Thanks to, our Modern Authors, ‘ 7 i i ject 1 would Objet. But pethaps here may rife an Objection, and not have any hing left in thedark, that now orcurs to my memo- xy : For perhaps fome may fay, Do you believe thacit is polible for the Afcendant to the Square of AZurs, to kill at any time? or do you think it can never kill? D2 Anfw. #9Opus Reformatum. + Anfc. Yes; That U can atteft upon experience, that it doth kill ; and I can tell you feveral Nativities in honelt John's Collecti- on, that have dyed on the Afcendant to the Square of Mars, and Square of Saturn, tho unknown to him 3 but it mutt be in fuch Nativities where the Horofcope is Giver of Life ; for no Point can be direéted for Death, but the Hilegs and therefore whofo- ever practifeth contrary to that Rule, erreth, and will never do any thing well ; and you fhall {ee more on that fubje@t, That no man ever yet made any famous Predi@ion of Death, but when he direéted and made ufe of the Giver of Life in his Operation and Judgment. ‘hus have I made it as plain as poffible itcan be, toany Artif, or other Pretender to Aftrology, Phat the Rules and Reafons made ufe of to prove the truth of the Proteétor’s Nativity, are falfe and erroneous, and built upon fuch Principles as are not true in themfelves, neither will they hold true in other Pofitions, to ef- fect what they are brought here to prove. And alfo the major part of the DireGtions that he there talks of, will ferve to any other Pofition within half an hour or an hour, witha little varia~ tion; but for the firft, the fourth, the tenth, and the thirteenth, being thofe that do depend fartieularly onthe truth of the Fi- gure, they are fo ridiculoufly falfe, that they need no other Argu- ments to. expofe them, but their Non-effect in other Genitures 5 and therefore F do advife.all Ingenious , Laborious Artifts, to compare one thing with another after this manner, in thofe books fent forth into the world by our Modern Authors 5 and ‘at lait try in their own Practice, whether thofe Rules will hold or not 5 and alfo let them contider, whether they are not impofed upon in di~ vers other cafes, as well as in this Nativity. Lifily, | would advife Mr. John, feeing Mars hath played thefe Tricks, and cheated hiti fo, to proceed againfthim by a Form of Law, ashe knows how, without doubt; and the Bookfellers of Lindon fay he hath very good skill in Scandalum Magnatums , for which they defire him to remember the Earl of P. Figt then, Lechim bring a Qx0 Warranto againtt him, and take away his Charter, (he knows where to have Judges for that purpofe }, unlef(she can thew good reafon:why he hath done his duty fo. negligently, pastially, and bafcly, killing one part of mankind, and letting Twenty efcape, that fay at his mercy 3 by which means he hath brought Catholick, John’s Reputation into doubt Opus Reformatum. doubt and queftion, for which he can never make him fatisfa@i- on, unlefs he can help him to a greater fhare of ————. And in the next place have him before Father Peters, and Inquitition him, for I-doubt the Knave is not found in the Brine but hath a plaguy ihare of Hesely and Difobedience, How! erve honett Jobnfo! But it will be fo fommetimes when Papilis deal with Here- Sanita let him draw up an humble Addrefs to Monfieur Titan, in the Name of him; and his Scciety, in quo bumiliter Mon- firensr ; that he hath for a long, time drove ona Trade-of Lying, ‘(but not a word of his Ignorance) being cheated and abufed by 2 fort of obftinate and difobedient Stars. And that if now at laft he pleafeth but to give his Mandamac, that Saturn and Mars, Se, may henceforward obediently comply with all the Atirological Rules in falhion, that he fhall be in duty bound to thew himfelf fall as skilful as cver. T come to prefent you with the true Nativity of this one without Shani or Trick; and the Ditections thal! alfo have’an equal Effe& in other Nativities, according to the Hy- plotbefis before hid down.Opus Reformatum. THE NATIVITY liver Cromwell , Lord Protector'of ENGLAND, Fairly and faithfully handled according to the true Principles of Aftrology. it himfelf, was on St. Mark's day in the year 15.99. Sum- mo Mane, at Huntington, whofe Latitude is 52 deg. and, afew minutes; and this is the eltimate time given. : Ti E time of this Great Man’s birth, according as he gave Now the main point is, how we mult underftand this fhort Sentence , Swmmo Mane; and it can in my Judgement have no other meaning than very early inthe Morning, that is, in the very top of. the Morning, or fuddenly after Twelve, for fo the word feems to import ; and inded I can give it no other Interpretation but thiss for the word Swmmo mult be there taken Adverbially, and derived from the Adjeéfive Summus, which in that fence it ts here fpoken, fignities the very higheft, extream, utmoft, top, &c. of the Morning; tho I confels the word Morning takes in all the whole ~ time Opus Refoxmatum, time from Twelye, or Midnight, till Twelve at Noon’s but if he had been born after Sun rifing, Lam very apt to believe he would have ufed another way of expreffing it, as by Aite Merediem , 8c. but if before Sum rifing, as indced they all agree he was, ‘them I can take it in no other fence but this that I havealready given, The top of the Morning, and the time pitched upon, is at about 5 mi- nutes after one of the Clock, and to that time the Pianets places, both in Longitude and Latitude, are calculated by the Caroline Tables, as followeth, - - Longit. Plshetar, ‘+ | ~~ Late Plans | Par.Phan. deg. m. fc, 47) 2 is 4. 19 yo W539" 29 51 4 16 19° 35 13 55 10 14 35 15 $1 a5 gk a No Ne ‘So No No 00 oor oD Om OH Ro Swen haw 00 2-9 as Ee PRdacasas, h x 3 g B © > 8 1S 9 ‘oo i From theit Lorigitudes and’ Latitudes: thas’ found’; are their Parallcls, or Antifciong-obtained, as here you may fte. i atte BRAS ; 2 , 2 2g 58" 24" 58 ’ 48? GB “10° 48 1g t 19 12 55 55 2% 5 m5 10 3 219 2 22 $0 56 2 SM ob es 9. 4. 31 TM 29 3h yt) 1 929 57D s7 16 6 3 Now: to"Bain the Cufps of the Twelve Houfes, I proceed in the methodifollowing’) By-thking the right Aftention of the Sum, and'thé: righe A(tention-of Pime, and‘ adding them together, gives-Opus ‘Reformatum. gives the right A(cention of the: Mid-Heaven ; to which adding thirty Degrees,gives the Obliqueafcention of the Eleventh Houfes and (oby the addition of thirty Degrees, we gain the other Gx of the Oriental Houles, as in the following Example. Afeent. Rela Solis 4h 26 Afechti Rel. Temporis 196 14 Afient, Re med. Cali 237 48 ‘Adde 30 fem, Oblig. Dem. 11 267 49 : aide 30 —— Afeen. Oblig. Dom. 12 297 4° Adie 30 m 294 52" 218. v8 os Afien. Obliq. Afeendn. 327 49. VS.26 19 5 Adde * 30 Afeen, Obliq. Dom. 2 357 40 XK 26 ‘Adds "30 7 Afcen. Oblig. Dim. 3 (27 40 GB: 6 Many of our Modern Profcffors have madea great noife a- bout taking the Minutes and Seconds for the Cufps of every Houfe, which I think are both ufelefsand impertinent ; for what ufe do they make of them, when they have taken them? none, as I know ; however, 1 will give youa fhort Example, and leave the reft for thofe that think them afeful. : : For the M. C. I take the difference. between the two Arks, greater and leffer; then the Right Alcention of the M. C. and that is 62. Then I take the difference between the next Leff. and the Right Afcention, and that is 54: then I fay by the Rule of proportion, If 62 gives 60, 54 fhall give 52, which leaves the Cufp of the Tenth in 29 deg, 52 minutes of Scorpio. - And for the Cufp of the A(cendant, I allo take the difference as before between the two Arks , greater and leffer than the Ob- lique Afcentionof the A(cendant,, and thatis 44 Minutes; and allo between theleffer rk and the Oblique Afccntion , which is 34 Minutes: then I fay as’before, By the Rule of Proportion, if 44m Oe 44 minutes gives 60 minutes, 14 minutes fhall give 19 minutes, which tells us,-that the Calp of the Afcendant refteth in 26 degrees and 19 minutes of Capricora, under the Pole 52. [ omit to take notice of the Equation for thofe few minutcs above 52. the Pole of Birth; and therefore the’ figure without any further operation , is as followeth 5 Die 25. Aprilis, Hora 1. Mimi. 4. Second. 56. - -Mane, 1599. pAeO dA HY ASL Latitude, Hitington2 Opis Reformatum. . Opws Reformatsars, ae _ . fait . a Testi . Arcus (Numer A Table of the Direétions in this Nativity, with the . Nomina Diretionum: bes Anno) tks thereof, the meafuure of Time agreei ~ ir. Milan, feveral Arks F Breen Medum Gaia FW ee en to each of them, and the year of our Lord when they eon Os Efe asinine ————f> g Lypia ad Corpat WY in Zodiace-cwm Latitudine ——aelta §2)07 began to take effet. : Sel ab Termin oe : a 7 renfac! Anni Lana ad CU in Zactaco cums Lotitudine a Nomina Dieftianum. . ets Dom Lana ad Terwinos - Se Sol_ad Corpus % in Zediate— mas a ‘Sol ad Tormines & tres} Soo Yana ad “Uf in roundo dit ——— ——-16 53) ps Luna ad Spicam "cams Latitedine | eeu a4) tear Sol ad quintile Ye mucide die rs 35 nga Sol ad Parallelum Q i Zadinco 6 $7 ‘bo Afeenders ad Sepiquadratwm: © — peed Cera 8 in Zedicco cums Latibedie = — bees Lana ad Terntinas: 2 ———— — tea Lana ad Corpus Wy Zedisco -fine-Latitudine ——-—| Raat Sol ad Parallels YL mate rapto ~~ ——— Beet “Aferndens: ad Semiquadratum & 2 Nese Solad Aldcharan fine Latitudine Pea “aivndens ad Seniquadration He 1605 eed CH ih Zadince fine Latitudine 1605 : tes at Sete: ¢————— ee : Sol ad 2 hh in mando da ; rs Lune ad Termines 3 606 Lane ad Termints 3 1606 ® ad quadratum 2 in sownde da. 1607 Sol ad. Termins 1607 Afendens ad BY eee Medium Cali ad OD. 60° Sol ad of O munde motu Cenver——<— ee ‘Luma ad Spicam ™® fine Latitudine eae Sol ad Aldebaran. cus Latitudine—— a rena ad quincilem YW mundo dd feel Sol ad Uf in mundo dd, aay 160) ‘Tuna ad Parallelum % im Zediaco —— - ————~24 47, ae @ ad Parallelars % % Zedaica—, ~ong 47 Hees Sul ad % in Zeina oer 1609 @ ad Sefquiquadratnm- 3 in mundo dd. 1603 Lana ad Termines 9 —me— 1609 Sol ad 2 fy im Zodiac ———— 38 3 ae Ta ad Sefyiquadrarin Fras, ‘mate Cover. —26._ 4g ® ad Do in mundo dd: 1610 oleae (——— 7 se is —_ 1611 0 inal oo endo cit Lasting mmm 12 Mle‘ slxetr Inna ad Semiquidratam hy motute mite Corier—— 38 45 _ ‘Nomina ‘Median Celi ad QQ Q—mmese 39 hp. at r628 . Ee - Nomina * zl OL ad Terminos Y, ———— Sol ad % Ub in Zodiaco ——— Luna ad % J in Zodinco cum Latitudine Luna ad Ye & in Zodifico cum Latitudine — Sol ad Corpus & ——— Luna ad Tormines te — Luna ad Termines 3 ———— —] Luna ad ¥% Y Zodiaco fine Lasitudine —| Luna ad parallelam Y imunds da, | ‘Sol ad (2 2 in munalo de, ———— Luna ad &. % Zediaco fine Latituiine Sol ad Sefquiquadeatum fx mundo da. Sol ad parallelams @ in Zodiaco—— Luna ad parallelum, Y it Zodigco ® ad parallelum th in: Zediago —— Mfeendens ad % O——— ‘Luna ad Sembquadratum Y reundo dd Luna ad paralbelue Bin Zodjaco— @ ad paraleluin Fin Zediago, Sol ad pleiades ean’ Latitudive,- ‘Luna ad 4 in Zediaco cum Latitudine ® ad parallelum B mundo dd ———— Luna ad Terminos h —— Luna ad Terrfins ty — @ ad © mmundo.da. Luns ad parallelum proprium — ® ad parallelum \) in Zodiaco——— Sol ad Terminos —_- Luna ad O & in mundo dd. - Medium Gali ad L 3 — » Sel ad Pleiades fine Latisndine Medium Caliad XY | —— @ ad parallelum Yy mundo dd. ——— Lina ad Terninss & — BAe wan oP m3 we Sew es 88 Se LUI TAAARAAAMM ARS HO = 3 BB BS Be Ou To eeOpus Reformatum. Nomina Direftionum. Sol ad HY mundo motu Cerverf. Sol ad ) in Zodiaco Afeendens ad L Y—— Luna ad Parallslam Q in Zodiace @ ad Parallelum @ in Zediaco —— Sol. ad Termines $ — Lana ad 8 © cum Latitudine— Sol ad % B mundo dd.—— Luna ad Sextilem. proprium cum Latitudine ———, Aleendens ad Semiquadratiam 2 —— Medium Cali ad A 3 — — Luna ad L\ ¥f in Zodiaco cum Latitudine BD ad DO mundo dd, — = ® ad A % mundo dd: SS Lana ad 8 % in Zodsico cum Lativudine Luna ad parallelam bh, mot rapto _ Luna ad Terminos 3 oo Sol ad Scaniquadratum Y youndo dd,—— Luna ad Terminos = ‘Sol ad parallelum ¥ in Zedaiza —— Sol ad Parallel Y runde dd.—— Luna ad O 2 in mundodd.—— Lana ad Parallelin Yf' jv, Zadiaco—— @ ad Parallelum ¥ in Zodiaco——— Sol ad Parallelum }) motu rapta—— Luna ad 8 © in Zodiace fine Latitudine Luna ad Terminos —— ‘Luoxt ad Xe Yin Zodiaco fine Lasitudine Luna ad DY in Zodiaco fine. Latitudine Afeendens ad Cups B=. Medium Coli ad OS —— _ Luna ad Parallelum % motu rapte Sol ad quintilem Q motu Converfi— Luna ad 8 % in Zodinco fine Latitudine.———-——} ® ad Parallelum Q mundo dd. @ sd Smiquadratum W da- Sol ad Termines —— = Lana ad 8 & in Zediaco cum Latitudine——~ Medinm Gali ad L. 2—— _— — Luna ad Terminos 4, — _ — Luna ad 2, & mundo motu Convers. — ATATEUCTADART rial l| Alenden; ad & Py Medium Gali ad OH— ‘Lima ad parallelum proprium motu Conver Sel ad parallelum 2 mundo raosu Conver} Opus Reformatum. | Ateus Nomina Dire&tionum. Dire&ti a (Gr. Mi. ® ad Sefquiquedratem % mounde.dd——- — —— #3 @ ad LB mundo da. —— #2 Solad GY mundo dd— —# ® ad Sefguiquadsation © in manndo dd — ® ad Cor Leonis id. —— Luna ad 5 Yareundo dd. ——— Luna ad YY mundo mote Conver{—— Luna ad Parallelum 2 motu rapto —— Sol ad Semiquadeazum % mundo da. Sel ad %.@ mundo viora Convers — Luna ad Gor Ml in Zodiaco cum Latitudiné — Sol ad Terminos FS — Sol ad Parallelum' motu vapto @ ad Parallel Y. ain rapto-— Sol ad He & in mundo dd. Luna ad 8 % Zediaco five Latitudine—— Medium Cali ad 8 UY. Afeendens ad OY @ ad ¥% UY, mundo dd, Médinm Cali ad Q3) ———~ Lui ad 2 Bin Zodiaca cum Lasitus Luna ad % hy in Zodiaco cum Latiss @ ad Corpus Lune dd. Afeendens ad Corpus Q — Medium Caliad 0 © Sol ad (2% mundo metuConverf— — —— @ ad Sefquiquadratem & mde dd ———— Ajeendens ad Corpus & —" Medium Gali ad 03 — Luna ad Cor Scorpii fine Latitudine ———— Luna ad Termin, 2. —— —_— Luna ad 2 Uf in mando da. Sol ad Terminos 9 ———— ‘Luna ad © proprium Zodiac cum Lotitudine Sol ad % % in mundo da. —_— ‘Luna ad £8 in Zodinco'fine Latitude —— Sol ad OB in Zodiaco— —— Sol ad Parallelum 3 in Zodiaco— Luna ad % Vy in Zodiaco fine Lazitudine————| Sol ad (3, hin Zodiaco aera) Sol ad quintiles \y mundo dd. ‘Luna ad Parallelum muinde dd. ———— Lana ad Parallolum B mabude dd. Sol ad C @ in mundo dd—— —_ [Numer. Annor. An. M st 0) lent 42 09] ° 8 Soup Boyer eoone vo on Iw ‘Luna ad © ) in Zodiace, fine Latitudine —ZOpus Reformatum: ‘Arcus (Numer) Anni Nomina Dire@ionum: Ipiceat Annor,| Dom Ge. MijAa. M. Sol ad Ye proprinnn int Zodisee— psn 60211950) Sina ad Paratichan mrt dm meme? 185K Lema ad Paralleiun Wy sna dd.——— a {oa s1|6a Sol ad ON it mundo de. 63 18462 ‘Luna ad O By nitro rot Comverf—mmm —| 5666 Loonsad CG mundo mora Corverf-——— 17168 Having finithed the Table of -Direétions, give me leave to fay a word or two about the Directions of the Sw, as it is deli- vered and.approved by the beft Authors in that way and me- thod: The Direétions of the Sw under the Earth are different from thofe above the Earth, and that two ways: Frift, By being in the Crepnfeuline Circles : And fecondly, By being in the Odjcure Ark; and the caufe of this difference is from the Sun's being, nearer t80, or farther from our Horizon or Hemifphere, or ra- ther (which is more iproper) according to the Intenfion of his Light toward our Hemifpbere 5 -for when he is in the Crepufenline Circles, he doth much more affect us, and his Directions are move forcible than when heis in the Odfewre Ark, Now, in the Operation for the Dire@tions in the Obfewre Ark, the main thing, is, the Part proportional for the occurrent place. “But in that for the Crpufanine Circles afeending, or defcending, tbe chiefett thing to be obtained, isthe Ortive difference, and both thefe are tobe ap- plied, as direéted to compleat and perfect thofe Directions in the Zodisck; And thefe things will appear the more plain, if we confider a few things about Diredtions, with the real and natu-, ral Motion thereof. The Prorogatory Virtue of the Sun or Moon remains, immovable’ in Msendo , movable in the Zediack, which is plain, becaufe the Noéturnal Ark is cither extended or contratted , according as they by their direétional Motion (hall change aud alter their Declinaiion; and by the fare reafon make their diftances greater cr lef from the two next Angles’; from whence arifeth that diver(ity and variety of Operation in work- ing the Suas, direCtions truc, which is.a Myficry not known to many. But yet farther ¢o illufirate this truth 5 Suppofe the 15th De- gree of Aries fanuld afcend under the Elevation of 52. at Which - time, about.tix degices of Cancer will be on the Jmum Cali; the Seminodturnal a Opus Reformatum. SeminoGurnal Ark of the end of Aries in Horary Trines is 75 4. 30", of Taurus, 63 d. 6'. and of the end of Gemini 57d. 30%. by which you fee the difference between the Semino@urnal Ark of the 30th degree of Aries, and the 30th degree of Gensini, is 18 degrees, which is the 2oth part of the whole Circle , which in one Quadrant mutt of neceffiry form avotber Oblique Ark of ditfe- rence in the diftance between the 30th degree of Aries (where wwe will fuppofe the Sun to be) and the end of Gamini, the place ofa Promittor, either Body or Afpedt 5 and that the Nodurnal Circle of the 30th degree of Aries, from which the Sun moves by diretion, is greater by 18 degrees, than the 30th degree of Ge= mini, to whitly Point the Sun mutt come to mect the Promittor : And this is fuch a difference, that neither the Circles of Potition, * nor the Horary Times will, or can regulate, becaule they are both . formed from the fame Principles and the reafon of it really is that which 1 {poke of before, That the prorogatory.virtue re- mains fixed in Mundo, but moveable in Zodiaco: And by reafon of that mobility, it makes a variation jn its Circle by reafon of its Declination s, for at that time before-mentioned of 15 degrees of. “Aries acending, the Sun being in 30 of the fame Sign under the Pole'52. the diltance of the Sax from the Afcendant will be 6 de- grees, 38 minutes ; but when the Direction is finifhed to the 30th degree of Geminé, the Six will be diftant from the Afcendant but 5 degrees, 3 minutes 5 fo that -your own Reafon will tell you, if his diftance grows lefs, his Pole mutt grow greater 5 and then where is the truth of your dire@tion? And let this fuffice to have fpoken of the ground of direction which hath fallen in by accident, it not being intended at firity perhaps I may take.a time to difcourfe it larger and plainer. . . CoG The Sun (as it is agreed on: by all) when he is above the Earth, exerts his Power more, and his Influence isegreater, and more effedtual to us 4n «ll Cafes, whether he be Significator or Promittor, thau when he is under the Earth; if fo, thea when he js under the Earth, by how matich nearer he is to the Horizon, by fo much the more -efpecially in the Crepufculine Ark ) the Power and Influx of his Light and Vertue affects our Meridian; and ac- cording to the inten how of his Light, fo is his vital and Proro- gatory Power. . But now in this Nativity though the Sun is under the Earth, yet his Ascidents are fuch that will not admit him to-apy severe ule. Opus Reformatum. Rule that 1 have feen in osder to diretion 5 for at the time of his birth we find the Sun in the third Houle diftant from the Af ~ cendant-52 degrees, 9 minutes 5 and in that point of the Zodiack his Obfcure Ark is one hour 44 minutes, and his Crepu(culine Ark is two hours and 49 minutes, which togethet make up his No- . Garnal Ark fous hours 33 minues. Hence you {ce at the-time of birth we find the Sua within the Limits of his Obfeure Ark, and by that he ought to be direéted fo long,as he hath any, which ter- minates in the beginning, of Gemini, when he is increafed in his Noith Declination about 4 degrees and 8 minutes;(o that then his Nodturnal Ark is abdicated, -and he within the Crepufculine Ark, Where he ought to be discéted allo, different from the former method : but at that time alfo the metlod imentioned is obftru- Gted, for the Nocturnal Ark is but one continued Crepufpulum, and admits of no operation 5 becaule the Ortive difference is not to be gained as in other Nativities. That is, in other Nativities of different Pofitions, or different Elevations, or at other Seafons of the year; for all Nativities ‘of the fame Pofition and Elevation ate liable to the very fame Circumftance, when the Sw is near the Solttitial Tropick, and under the Earth, as here in this now under confideration. Now the whole curiofity and difficulty (as 1 faid before) in working Directions of this fort and natute, is to gain the true Or- sive difference that is proportionably allowable for cach Ark of di- ftance, and to apply it according as it ought to the Ark of Dire- Gion, by which means the truc Diredtion is produced and obtain- ed. But this cannot be performed in this Nativity, and therefore 1 will propound another way, which to me feems rational in this Cafe, and that is to direct the Suu, as if he were in the Crepufcu- Tine Circles without the Ortive difference ¢ For though we cannot dire the Sun as he ought to be, yet we ought to purfue the tra and method of Tiuth-as far-and as near asitis poifible , in order to obtain what we expect from the dittance and Ark of Di- seétion: which if it be done ( for all the preceding Directions of the Sun in the Zodiack arc performed, according to Ptolomy, By the Oblique Afcention, taken under the true Pole of pofition; And thofe Diredtions in Mundo ate performed by the ufual way of Pro. portion, @&e. without the Obfcure Ark ) we fhall find a confide- ponte diiference when we compare the Direétions following, which are wrought after that method’ with thofe performed after ne ufual Opus Reformatum. tufual manner, and inferted in the Table of Directions preceding. For indeed the Direétions of the Sun there wrought have no great matter to do: in ‘the publick Tranfactions and Mutations of this Native’s Lif, wlels we do allow (as a certain Bounce among, us, hath done)'That bad Direélions in Violent and Eminent Nativities, give gloriows and eminent Effetis 5 and that they do not few their Effects Fy inuring the Native, bnt thofe robo are bis Eneivics, and with whom Be doth contend which is a pretty fort of Cant, that the Effedts of the Stari fhall in one Nativity from the fame Ray and DireCtion, give Sickue{s, Loft of Honour, Imprifonment, and, perhaps, Death in the conclulion, to the Native ; and in another Nativity to his Ene- mies only: a very likely Story, and jutt fuch ftuff as the reft of his is, who hath impofed this upon the World, But as to the Sun, he is the principal Significator of all Ho- nour, Grandeur and Reputation, as well by DireCtion as by Po- fition ; for as the Moon is fignificator of all common and general Adtions of human Life, fo the Sun is fignificator principally of thofe of Honous, dc. Hence we may very well expect the Sun to give fomething confiderable in this:Great Man’s Nativity : for I think every one allows the Accidents and Contingencics of hu- man Life are brought to paGs, and produced by direétions, as the only effcdtof Motions and therefore as this Native hath had great and prodigious Effects, fo the Direétions ought to be fomething in proportion to what was produced ; for fiom poor weak Dire- Qlions there can be but (mall and inconfiderable Effects produced. However, 1 do not lay this down as ab(olutely neceffary to be fol- Towed 5 Loniy propound it, as being an unufual Cafe, that you, whoever you are that underitand it, may judge which is the moft probable; though I am fatisfied that the Diredtions of the Sea in _ the Crepufculine Circles are true, but in this Cafe we have no Rule, and therefore this method is offered as a fupply to that de- fed: that is; whither the Sun direéted after the method and man- ner when he is in the Crepufculine Circles without the Ortive dif- ference (when it cannot be had, as here) will not nearly correfpond ‘to Truth, as in other parts of the Zodiack where it gan be taken. Jn which thing I fubmit my felf to thofe skilful in that way and method, and only enteri¢ down as an Effay toa better difcovery 5 for Iam well affured, that the belt method of direétions yet dif- covered, may admit of correCtion and emendation, if the Profel fors of this Study would be pleafed Gi. take pains and labour in : 3 ut 33Opus Reformaturn. but one part of them are ignorant, and the other idle, and fo.thg work lies by: but for the common ways as it is a very eafie one, fo it is a very falfe one 5 and he that pretends to Aftrology, and hath not found him(elf cheated by his own Rules in Directions; ee, fome hundreds of times, } think he hath takerbut very little pains in thofe Operations; or elfe by the help of a bad memory he hath forgot, them: but it ferves the turn; and fo tong as none knows better, every one is ‘contented , and, I fuppofe, molt of themare fo far from mending of ie, that were there a bettce pro- duced, they are fo fond of their Errors, that they will not part with their old. one, and therefore let them go on and fee what they can make of its and whether this | have here done pleafeth. or not, I care nots under which contideration, 1 come now (as I promifed you) to give half a (core Directions to fpend, your Judgment on ‘and toconfider what profpect they have to Truth = yet I do not expect every one to be capable of judging whether it be true or falfe, and therefore would not have every little Caprica think that L call for his Opinion, or would have him bu- fily concerned in giving, his Judgment about the matter, before he apprehends it: And yet without fetting a Figure, 1 can tell you E muft expect fuch ulage , and that from fuch People: too, Who Ican affare you (fome of them) are no fmall Fools. Nomina Direftionum. OL ad %& CB in Zodinco —————-———|'7 ‘sel ad Trive fh in Zodiaco ———————"8. | Saad Q Luna in Zediaco —_————————— 74 Sol ad) Martis in Zediaco —————— 148 Sol ad. aallelem Lin Zodiace 8 Sol ad CI Saturn in Zodiac 5 Sol ad ¥ proprisem in Zediaco — ‘52 Sol ad ¥% Lune in Zediaco ———— 53 Sol-ad Corpus YL in Zodiaco a? Sol ad % Mercuri in Zediaco —— —'s5 Sil od Meer Zeicy — ——— SSSA . Thefe things being thus performed, and done, Let us now ex- amine the whole Work, and fee how the DireCtions do agree with his Accidents, from the Year 1640. to his death ; for we have none particular and fignificant before he was 40, OF 41 yeu o Opus Reformatum. of Age, the former part of his Life being to me unknown; nei- ther is there any folid Account of any of note by thofe that have written his Life, and therefore I fhall make ufe only of thofe Ac- cidents that are certainly true, and generaliy known to all Man- kind, and they are thoft that do generally relate to the Publick. Anno 1640. He was by his Country chofen a Member in that Parliament that King C. 1. called to fit in November, and this was the firft ftep he made into the Publick; but I cannot own this to be fo great a preferment as fome do, becaufe it is attended with Jabour, trouble and charge s yet I mutt acknowledge that this laid the ground-work of his future Rife and Grartdeur: He had then the Moon directed to the ‘Oppolition of Venues in Zadiacos Moon ad Trina & in mando'dd. and the Mid:heaven ad A % and Ohi, and in bis Revolation for that year Jupiter was in exact Sextiie to his Radical Mid-heaven 5 thus you fee he had both good and.bad Di- reétions in this year, ‘and therefore) do ndt doubt but he had fome- firugling and conteft in his Bleétion, as well as in his other Affairs. Anno 1641. Like a Trae Englifomoan he tdifed a Teoop of Horfe at his own Charge to affit the Parllarndnt, ‘and defend his Coun- try againft Popery, which was then coming in like a flood : he had then the ® ad Sefquiquadrat of 9 dd.and tothe A % dd, the Sun fo the fquare of the Moon » ‘and the ® ad Sefquiquadiat of the - Bro, and witht thefe hé had alfo an untacky Revolutioii. ne “Anns 1642. Be had a Cominhitfion for a Hegirent of Hort nt which Regiment he raifed in his own Country of eeholders, ari Freehvlders Sons, who did really go out in point of Confclencé td ferve theit Country fy that time of danger: he had now thé © ad Cores atid a very good Revolution to affift hich. Anno 1643. He was. very ative in the North, where he oppo {ed the Bat) oF Neweaftle, attd to that patpofe joined with the Lord py,afnd did the Parliament and ‘wholteNation gallant Service, "thes Sethimer he alfo took Stamford froth the King’s Forces arid this was the firtt yeat chat hé was taketh noticé of fn publick, arid efieemed by the Parliament, becaufe they found him faithful s he had now'the Moon ad A IL in mundo dd. Moon ad % hh in mundo dd. and Moon alfo ad paralelam & in oe Motis Rapto, with thefe ai heOpus Reformatum. ” Achad alfo a moft admirable Revolution, for the Muon was on hi Radical Mid-heaven in Trine to Venus, and both Moe vod Penns in Trine to his Mid-heaven, with other advantageous Pofitions, Tremernber Hone Jobn exclaims azainit im in ths, year for his whining and difimulation in Religion, which I conte(s, if true was a very ill thing 5 but prthee Join tell me one thing, Was this Hypocrilie at Mbite-ball, in the Year 1643. greater than that at Breda in 165%. when none but the good men mult beg a bleffing on the good Creatures? ée. And when one of thofe good Parfons - asked a certain Gentleman how they fpent the Subbath-day ; fays he, we (pend the Morning in reading, and Prive Bionen ; but in the Afternoon they always met together, and every man took a portion or part of Scripture, and fpoke from that; and when they.had all done, then His Majelty took up every man’s Notions delivered, {poke to them diftinétly, giving his own Opini- on of the whole matter ; and after fome Exhortations toa ood Life, he himfelf concluded the day in Prayer ; which made thofe good men fay, that they had a King in Covenant with God. I think this enough without mentioning any thing of the Scotch Co- nema to ioc ore }. a he might have forbore that eflection on Crommell; for you (ee it is an ealic mat ive hi a Rowland for his Oliver. * ae mercer co give him Anno 1644. He differed with the Earl of Mancheter, one of the Parliament Generals, about the Conduct of a Battel, I think that of Marfton- Moor, about which they accufed each other ; but well came aff Vitor,and fiill flood fair with: theParliament Rae his own Cafe good. He had now the Sun ad Semiquadrat of @ in mundo dd. the Sun to his own Sextile in mundo dd, and the Moon to the Cor M with latitude. In his Revolution he chad the Sun in Conjundion with Fupiter, the Moin in ConjunGion with Satwre, and Mars in Trine to his Radical Mid-heaven. ; ° Anno 1645. Cromwell was made Lieutenant-General to Sit ma Fairfax, and did the Parliament and Nation sterde Sete in the Welt of England, in Oxfordjhire, and at Nafiby: He had now the Sui ad parallelum & in mundo mots rapto, the © ad par 1 mote ropte, and the Sun ad % 3 in mundo d Aan Opus Reformatum. “Anny 1647. was a year of trouble and much labour to him about the Differences of the Army ; ‘his Enemies appear’d openly againft him, and endeavour to out him by-divers Afperfions ; but at laft he got an Impeachment againft them in Parliament, and with much ftrugling he at faft got clear with Honour and Reputation. He had now the Moon ad 8 2 in Zodiaco SL. the M.C. ad & ¥% and the Afcendant to the Square of Fupiter 5 and in the Second Table he had the San ad Square of Mars, and parallel of Jupiter, which -are indeed all of them very apt and proper Directions for fuch ‘Troubles and Vexations as he then underwent. The Revolution for that Year wa’ bat indifferent, more of bad than good in it; for the Sun, Moon and Saturn was in Conjuntion. Anno 1648. was a Year of much Labour and Toil to him: for then was he imployéd to reduce the Welfh Rebels, which he did effectually; after that he went againft Duke Hamilton and the Scots, then in Lancafhire, where he beat and took the Duke Prifoner 5 and toward the end of the Year he was chofen by the Parliament to go General for Ireland; he had now the part of Fortune to the %& of %; in his Revolution for that Year he had his Moon in: Sex- tile to his Radical Mid-heaven, and Satérn in Oppofition to it, on the radical place of Mars, and in Trine to his Mid-beaven, which I judge gave his Arms fuccefs. Anno 1645. be went General for Ireland to refcue that poor Kingdom out ‘of the hands of the Papifts, who had fo barbaroufly: murthered 200000 of the Protefiant Englifh before in the Year 1640, and on Fuly the roth he fet forward on his Journy, which God was pleafed to profper with faccefs, and that glorioufly too, as you may fee by the Hiftory of that War 5 and efpectally his firfk Undertaking, which was at Drogedab, where he ftorm’d that firong, Garifon, and put them to the Sword 5 and by that means frighte the whole Country,’ and made other Towns eafier to be taken. But during, his continuance in this Kingdom, they fay he had the Flux, yet by the bleffing of God he did very well: He had now his Mid-heaven.ad 4 D 5 the Moon ad oF in Zodiaz C. L. two: very great Directions, and fit for fach an Undertaking : his Revo- Jation was but indifferent, but what was in it, was good : His ‘Mon was in his Radical Horofcope in Trine to the Sua, and in % to ¥ onthe Radical place of his ¢~ _ Anno38 Opus Reformeatums, :* Anno 1650. hé was made Lard General of all the Forces in the Commonwvealth of England, and was then fent into Scotland to reduce them to obedience. And on July the 22d he-entred that Kingdom with a powerful Army’; and on September the 34 following, he Chattifed the Scots in that memprable and famous Battel of Dznbar , where he flew 3¢00 and took 1000 Prifoners, and with them Lieutenant-General Lomfden, Adjutant-Gencral Bickerton, Three Collone}s, Eleven Lieutenant-Collonels, Nine Majors, Forty feven Captains, Sevea-Captain-Lieutenants, Twelve Gornets, Seventy eight Enligns, Thirty. Guns; Fifteen thoufand Arms, and Two hundred Colourg: ‘He had now the Moon ad % h in Zodiaco C. L, the © ad Corpus Lune, and the Alcendant to the body of the Sua with the Dircétions of the lait Year, which are not yet overs’ In his Revolution for that year, there is not any thing remarkable 5 all'thatis, we find che Sea in Conjuridtion with 2 and Mars. Anno 1651. the Valiant Cromwell beat the Scots at Worecfter, where he took,Duke Hamilton and Twelve Earls, Lords, and Knights 5 be- fides 5 Three Major- Generals, and Four other Generals, Twelve Collonels, Sixteen Lieurerint-Collonels, ‘Twenty one Majors, a:Huadged and ten Gaptains, a Hundred and thirty fix Lieutenants, Seventy fixsCornets, Twenty one Enfigus, Ninety Quartermatters 5 NINE PARSONS, Nine Chyrurgeons, Thirty of the King’s Domeftick Servants, Eight thoufand Prifoners, Two thoufand flain, and.a Hundred and fifty Golours taken , with all their Baggage, Ammunition and’ Aatillery:, together with the Plunder of the Town. Hg hadinow: the Sux to the Square of 2 mots Converfas ® atl Sefqniqnsdritum .® in mando dd. the-Afcendant tothe Sextile of Mercury, and the Joon to the Cor. MS. L. In the Revolution there is little or :ndthing confidetable. somes veo) Anno 16524 we have but Jittle account of his Publick A@tions and Affairs in chis Year 5, neither Have we any DireCtion, except in the Second Table the Sun ad * D, but a very good Revolus tion, the San in Trine to Jupiter, the Moon in Trine to the Mids heaven, and alfo in Squate to &,. in # 8, #¢ and Ato 4%. : edna 1653. drthe beginning of the year he diffolved the Parw Hament, and all che year afterward he was bufic about the Affairs of the Nation, and in Dicember he was made Protedtor. He had ~ now Opua Reformatum. now the Moo ad % in mundo dd. Sun ad Term & the Moon to ber own Square in the Zod. C. Le and in the Second Tablethe Sun tothe body of Fupitr; his Revolution for that Year was but ine different. ' . Anno 1654. he made Peace with the Dutch, fent a Fleet tothe Wift Indies under the Command of Pen, made a League with Sre- den, &c. he had now the Sun to the Sestile of Venus in mundo dd. but in the Second Fable the ©-ad % %,-and indeed either of them may be allowed fuch an effet. i Anno 1655. His Army in the Welt-Indies was deftroyed by the overlight of the Commander; the Fleettook Famaiea ; he received Addreffes from divers parts of the Nation, and he appoints a Com mittee to-provide relief for the poor Prote(tants:in Piedmont. He had now his Moon direéted tothe Trine of Mars in Zodiaco S. L, but a very ill Revolution, Mars on his Afcendant in Square to the Moon, ‘Anno 1656. there was.a Plot againit his Life: by fome of his Guards and alo to fet White-ball on fire 5 but-it was difcovered, and Sindescom apprehended , and alfo condemned for it, but died in the Tomer; and as it was fuppofed, he poifoned himfelf. The Protettor alo called a Parliament, or fomething like it, who con- firmed him in his Title and Power that he had: before: He had now his Sun ad Oo in Zodiacn,. and to’ the parallel of Fupiter in Zediacoalfo, which are-very like the Effects of this Year. In his Revolution he had his Sun in Conjundtion ‘with Jupiter and Trine of Saturn, and the Moon in Trine to the Sun and: Jupiter, and in EonjuinGion with Sarwra. : Anno £657. He fent Forces into Flanders'to: fight the Spaniards, Ike took Dunkirk, orc. He had: now the Moon ad % h in Zodiaco S$: L. and the Sun ad Oh in Zodéacs likewife. In-the Revolu- lution he had his’ Moon on the Radical Afcendant in Trine to Saturn. But in Anno 1658. after tHe great Succefs of his Army in Flan- _ ders, the Confirmation of his Title, and many other Publick Af- fairs of State being difpatched by him 5 as the Relief of the Perle; cuterOpus Reformation. cuted Proteftants in Poland and Bohemia, his preferving thofe f Piedmont from the French Perfecution, &c a Seplember the 34. he died of an Intermitting Fever, having been fick about’a Month, and was taken at Hzmpton-Court, to which place he reforted once a week. know fome pretend he was poifoned,and alfo (ay they knew the man, which was one of his Phyficians : and fo let him be for me, for that doth not concern my bufinefs here in hand:, If his Doétor did poifon him, and then brag of it, I think be was a ve- ry lil man; for whatever Oliv was, cither as to his Power, Prin- ciples or Religion, if very bad in all, was no authority for him to commit a private murther, nor any way extenuate his Crimes of Marther and Blood 5 but aggravated and made morc hainous, as being done by his Phyficians which would be of ill confequence, fhould fuch things grow into cuftom and approbation; and who- ever (hould encourage fuch a thing , would be very unwilling to fuffer by the fame way themfelves ; therefore ina word, if the Phyfician did do it, 1 think he was the worlt of men. About June this Year, the Moon, whois giver of Life, came to the pa- rallel of Mars in Mundo Mite Converfo, and about the Jatter end of Auguft following, he had ‘the Moon to the parallel of Mars in mundo motu directo: and this followed by the Moon to her own Square in Zodiaco Sine Lat. the Moon to the parallel of Saturn in mundo motu directo & motu Converfa; the Moon to the Square of Saturn in mundo mote Conver{o, alfo to the Square of Mars in mundo mot Converfo. Thus you fee he had feven Directions violent and amalefick (and not one good Direction between) to kill him : which not only in this, but in any other Cafe to the Giver of Life, thall do the fame without fhamming in the A{cendant to the Square of Mars, as our Popifh Conjurer you fee hath done; and yet at the fame time take the confidence to tell the World the Hurofcope was Giver of Life, when the Sun is but cleven degrees 33 tninutes diftant from the Afcendant,. which according to all the Aftrological Au- thors that I have read, is, and ought to be Giver of Life. As you may feein Prolomy’s Quadriparti, Lib. 3. cap.13. Campanella, Lib. 4. cap. 4, Artic. 2. with many others that I would defire the worthy Gentleman to look over, and examine them well, and after he hath done that, to refolve us what he means by that Ex- preffion in his Deéirine of Nutivitier, pag. 258. where he fays, The Sun cannot be Giver of Life, if be were in an Apbetical place, becaufe rhe Birth is Noéturnal, “Methinks it founds a little odd. But Opus Reformatim. . But yet Tarthier to clear thig_ point about the Hileg ;‘becdufe 1 have mentioned my Authority for it, 1 will alfo prove it plainly from my Author’s words, with the Book ‘and Chapter, lett he may reaffume his accuftomed gift of ‘Tmpuctence, and deny ‘my ‘Quotations, as he did in his Reply to my Wnianadk Sf 1687, when thofe Quotations were really true, asthefere; Fie Tranflarion that I ufe, is that of Melandibon , whith ‘is the beft Tranflation of Prolomy in beirig, and hath I think given the tineft meaning of Prolomy's words; and if you pleafe but to Joo into. the rth Chapter of that Quadripartite, and the Third Book, you ‘will there find thele words, Crm autem quenimits ‘in bis locis ‘purenciffi= imum, primus erit Medinm Celigdeinde Horofeipus, poftea sndecims dons fuccedens Medio Cali, dtinde occafins y oftea Nonus domus Antecedens ‘Medium Cali, In this Chapter he is labouring to prove, and alfo lay down by Rule the place of the Prorogator 5 and after he hath fpent fome time to fliew the Prorogatory ‘place in general ; ‘he comes in the words beforementioned fo the’pafticulats, and which of them do precede in Power and Order; and therefore fays he, When wee inquire soho is mult poroerful in tbefe places , she fintt in order is the Midbeaven next after that the Afeendant , then the EleomB Houfe, then the Seventh’, and laft of all the Ninth. And: the reafon why he is fo particular in this Cafe, is becauft the Sun and “Mon may be fometimes both in Prorogatory Places, and both’ contend for priority 5 therefore in’ fuch.a Cale thefe’ Rules are. ‘to be con- fidered and compared with thofe of the 13th Chapter of the fame Book 5 by which it may be decided:which of the two havé the seal Power of Hikeg , or-giver of Life. Hence ‘c tamby out Author by taking fach pairis and. care"to fay'down partletl ar Rules hoi to elect the giver of Life, did intend a greater “aie <0 be made of it; than any of our late Pretenders, I perveive, are aware ofy which feems more plain from the tirlt Parapraph of the 14th Chapter, where he difcourfeth, wholly of ‘the Anarctiog) Point, afd who or what he judgeth to be. imarets, yet ¥ $ none to be directed to that point, but the Hilig, or giver nf Lites and therefore he begins that Chapter with thefe words, Inverto Prorogatore, duo modi fumendi funt, &c. we Now, if this Doétrine be truc, and that the Profeifins of ‘this Science will be pléafed to allow the Great Ptolomy a fh’ss<" in their good Opinions ; then this Lying Oradle ‘BE ayts is*quite ow of doors, and befides “the” Matle in ae own Tidde, when he a . theOpus Reformatum. the World, Phat. she Sun cannot be giver of Life, if be were in an Aphelical place ; as in the page before-quoted. For when he al- lows the Afcendant in Cromel’s Nativity, the power of Hileg , and the Sun at the fame time within 12 degrees of the Cufp, and locally in it, feems to me a fubftantial piece of Nonfence, quite contradi@ory to the moft approved Authors in being, who allow all of them, that the Afcendant is the fecond place -in power to entertain the Prorogator; and that the Sun there is alfo certain- ly Hileg, if the Moon is not above the Earth. So that fhould I infift on no other reafon but this, it would be fufficient to prove the Figure and Time of his Nativity falfes and this becaufe he makes that imaginary Dire@tion of the Afcendant to the Square of ‘Mars , the only one to prove the truth of the whole Calculation. For if we fhould allow fach a Dire¢tion in that Figure, as the Sun to the Square of Mars“ (which indeed there is none before he fhould be Ninety‘one years of Age) yet it is wholly mifapplied, and a power given to it quite diftin& from the Order of Nature, and the Authority of Authors; the Afcendant not having power to kill when the Sua is in the Horofeope, or any other place, giver ‘of Life. I have been the plainer and fuller in this point, becaufe it is the Principal Foundation: of Nativities , and the only thing firlt to be known in, the Dire@tions. and Predi@ions about Life and Sicknefs, and the only thing negleéted and forgotten at this time among the Profeffors, both old and young; they having on- ly the Name of it, but nothing of its Power and Ufe; but I have fpoken enough if underitood 5 and more will be to.no purpofe if not underftood. f But again: In this Nativity that he hath publifhed and affert- ed for truth, there is another Notorious Errors and that is, he lets the Sun pafs by the Square of Mars, the Square of Satsrn, and bo- dy of Jupiter, Lord of the eighth Houfe in the fourth, that fatal place as they call it; and kills him with ‘the Afcendant to_one fingle Direétion only. Now, if we thould alfow that, the Afcen=- dant had power, and did kill by Diredtion to the Square of Mars’ Why fhould not the Sun to thof three fatal Directions before- mentioned, give the Native the fame effe& of Death tong before; as they did now? I know no reafan to the contrary, according to that fort.of Aftrology which is common among molt of the Profeffors, but efpecially ufed by this our Famous and moft Re- nowned NativityeMaker 5.28 may appear by thofe, Ingenious and . : Learned Opus Reformatum. Learned Treatifes that he hath befriended the-World with, being filled with abundance of Errors and Contradiétions. But to re- turn to our Bufinefs agains at the time of this great Hero’s death, befides the Directions mentioned as the true Natural Caufes thereof; there were other things worth our confideration, that did concur as‘Concomitants to the fame; and the firft was his Revolution: for that year, and indeed a very remarkable one it was, if we confider it well and fully. And feeing I have menti- ened fomething of Revolutions, 1 will alfo {peak a word or two of their ufeand abufe. The Profeffors of this Age make a great ~ buftle about the exad time of a Revolution, that is,.to find the exaé. Minute and Second when the Sun comes to his Radical Place, for which purpofe they have invented ‘a great many Foole- ries, and to lietle purpofes but when this exat and critical Time is obtained, and a Figure fet, they gravely tell us of range and prodigious Effeéts that-the Planets have by being in particular “Houles thercins that the Horefeope and Midhesven of a Revolutiog nal Figure, is of a great fignification both to the Native’s Life and Reputation. Nay, they are now grown fo that perfection in their Trade of this kind, that they work Diredtions in that Fi- gure like as they do in the Radix; to which purpofe alfo they have made us a meafure of Time, with other kinds of Tables to compleat theic Folly, and render their Art ridiculous. When indeed the Ancient and more’ Authentick Authors‘have taken no notice of fuch things as thefe s and Ptolomy himfelf hath not above four Lines in his four Books that have any relation to the Revo~ lutions in Nativities; and therefore how they came by all thefe whims, it would be worth while to confider , (for we have not one word about themin Firmicus, onc of the oldelt Altrologers we have, that came after Prolomey), and perhaps may find a {pare theet in my next Tréatife, to unriddle the Juggles that they have jum- bled together to cheat themfelves, and the reft of Mankind. For I doaffure you, There is nothing in their method of Revolution, ‘neither can they fetch their Authority further back than Origanus, Argol, Schoner , Hifpalenfis', Junttine , and two or three more of -them that have taken it up upon very flender Authofity, and they that fiill follow, do every one endeavour to improve the Errors of him that went before. For I will now foberly ask one quefti- on, and thatris, to tell me what they have found in the Revoluti- 6nal Dire¢tions, that was not a5 plainly difcovered by the Tranfits 7 27 in ’44 Opus Reformatium. - in the Revolution, and the Returns? If: fo, what-thould we ga to make abundance: of Confulion when it may be done with Icfs trouble? And: to be plain with you; The truth and myftery of Revolutions doth really confitt in nothing elf but the ‘Tranfits and Returns of the Planets to the Radical Points and Parts of the Na~ tivity, and to the places of Direction, And to this end there is no need of abundance of labour to gain the cxatt time of the Suus. - return to his Radical places if you mifs ten Minutes-of it in time, it will be no great matter of Error in your Judgement, if you underftand your Bufinefs. And to fay the truth, the Radical Fi-- gure may very well ferve for every Revolution throughout the Native's whole Life, placing the Planets in the degrees of thofe Signs that they hall be found in at the time of the Suas return to his Radical place, or nearit. And after this manner I will give the Figure of this great Native’s final Revolutions and it is as followeth, Latitud. Planitars Revolutio Solis & Loci, ‘Planetarum ad tempus Re- lditi, quod fuir die 244 ‘Aprilis circa horam fextam. ‘Mane 1658. Luna ad Ah. Latitudo Londini. Having confidered the Diretions , and alfo, the Point or Part of the Ecliptick the Maen, who is giver of Life, is arrived at in this year by dire Direétion in Zodiacos and. that is about. 14 de-, grees ~ place, Sutarn and Fupiter Opus Reformatum. grees of Sagitary, the exaGt Square to her own Radical Place , and at the time of the Sur return, going to the oppofite point of that place, and tothe Square of her own place in the Radix 5 Saturn and Jupiter are both return’d to their own Radical Places; and {0 is Mars and the Moon to the Square of theirs ; Mercirry and Venus axe in Taurens, where. they were in the Radix, and not far from their own Radical Places. So that you fee all the Planets are retumed to their own places, except Murs anid the Moon, and- they are in.Square to them. Now, the ufe T fhall make of the Revolution is:this ; The Moon, Mars, and Satwrn, are all of them Promittors by direétion 5 Mars is in Square to Saturn, Lord of the Radical Horofcope, who is return’d to his Radical Place; and the Moon, tho Hileg, yet fhe is here a Promittor alfo, and is going to the dire@ Oppotition of the-place of Direction , and to the Square of her own place; and. betides this, Murs is “going to the Mundane Parallel of the Suz. And to fum up all, we find both the Moon and Mars in violent Conttellations , the Moon being with the Aldcbarar of the. Nature of Mars; and Mars is with thofe Stars in the beginning of Cancer , called Cajtor & Pollax, of the nature of Saturn So that we may from the Suns return, and. the then Configurations compared with the Dire@i- That according to fecond Caules, it‘could be no lefs then mortal. When I have done this, [always confider Se- condary Direétions , and Progreifions , and. alfo obferve if they helpon the Works for if all. concur, we may certainly judge that nothing but a Miracle can fave; and therefore under this Revo- lution, we find that the Afcendant by Secondary Motion was di- rected to the Oppofition of Jupiter, the Sun under the Square of Sater, and had been fo.about fix Months, and the Mion to the Oppofirion of Mars , and: that jult toucheth about the time of his Skinefs, all which are ill, and thew a bad ycar. | The Rrogrelfi- on began Fansary the 2d, about fix of the Clock in the Mom- ing, Ann.16c3, and was but an indifferent one; you may if you pleafe, call it bad y for the Mum was on the Suns Radical onthe place of Direction, in Square to the Mom's Radical place, and Mars in Oppofition to his own place 5 but Venus is on the Radical Afcendant in Conjunction with the Sun, and that is all that may be called good in this Progreffive- Lunation. But above all, the Ingreffés and Tranjits of the Pla- nets at the time of the beginning of his. Sicknefs , and of. his ° . Death ons, conclude,Opus Reformatum. Death, are very remarkable ; for about the time that-he was taken Sick, which was Augwft the 26th, there was a Tranfit and Ingrefs of the Swn.on the Moon’s Radical Place, in Square to the place of Direction and a little before that, there was a Conjunétion of the Moun, Murs, and Mercury, on, or near the fame @egree , and fo configurated as before 5 and the very day of his Death, the Moon did Tranfit the Radical Place of Mars’s Body, and Saturn’s Oppofition, and alfo in Oppofition to Saturn that very day of his Death ; and the Sun in an exa& Zodiacal Parallel with Saturn, and going to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mers, and to his Conjunttion alfo. Thus I have endeavoured to fhew you how Lunderftand the method and manner of judging Death by Primary and Convers Dircétions , Revolutions, Secondary Diretti- ons, Progriffons, Tranfits, and Ingrefes y which if rightly under- food and prattifed , would give the Students in this Science more fatisfa@tion than all thofe Whims publifhed by our Modern Authors, and ftollen from them by our Popifh Oracle. And 1 hope by this time, Ihave given the Profeffors and Students in this Art full fatisfa@tion , in proving thaf the Nativity which Gadbury printed , was notorioufly falfe’, and grounded upon Principles next to none; and that the Reafons and Rules given to affert its Truth, are no ways becoming a Man of Skill or In- genuity, efpecially one that pretends to be the Mafter and Head of the,whole Tribe, and endued with the advantage of Twenty five years Experience, and more; when he wrote and publithed Cromwell's Nativity laft in the year 1685. And fo I come in the next place to give you my General Judgement on the whole Figure, after the manner that the relt of our Profelfion do on the Twelve Houfes; and perhaps too, T may follow the fame Or- der in my Judgment, but not in their Rules and Principles of Judgment, Opus Reformatum. A Fudgment on the preceding Nativity , after the: man ner of the Twelve Houfes. . HE firft thing 1 hall confider, is the length or thortnefs of the Native’s Life; and from the Pofitions in general, what Life. time may be probably aifigned for the number of his years 5 yet I know very well there can be no pofitive Judgment given on that point, becaufe the number of his years depends on the di- fiance between the giver of Life, and the Anarctick point, as to the certainty of their number ,. and the time of Expiration ; but yet give me leave to tell you there muft.be. Arguments of a long Life in the Pofition, or.elfe I {hall be very {paring in his number of years; and to be.yet more plain-with you, the Arguments of: Long Life are fuch good Rays and Pofitions, that roborate and fostify the Giver of Life, and this the more when the Hileg is na- turally ftrong, and.well-placed in the Figure. ‘ rugth of ‘And in this Nativity we find the Hileg Angular, in Trine to the 74. Moon Sun and Mercury, in Sesiile to Fupiter, and alfo in Reception with is Hileg. Mercury; and befides thefe, we tind the Sua and Mercury in Sextile to the Afeendant, and in Sextile to Fupiter likewife, and he in his Exaltation in Cancer, and no ill Rays of Saturn and Murs any ways affliting either Sun, Moon, or Afcendant ; fo that we may rationally conclude the Native was defigned by Nature for a con- fiderable long Life; and not only long, but alfo a healthy one. Tknow there are fome. according to the ufual Cant, would tell” you, That the Square of the three Superiors from thofe Cardinal Signs houid give him bad Langs, with pains in his Head, the Vertigo), Lethargy, 8c. imperfcétions in: his Reins , Gravel , Stoney and abundance moic of thefe things, had they feen his Nativity before he had been grown to years of Ripenefs. But I dare venture to fay, That he had none of thefe, the.Gravel excepted s but they that would know. more of thefe things, let them read carefully the 17th Chapter.of the 3d Book of. Prolomy’s Quadripartite, De Le- fionibus & morbis Corporum. The Native’s Underftanding, Judgment, with all’ the other p7.. Faculties of the Soul, depending on the Pofition and Configura- anding tions of Mercwry, as one well fays, Qaalitotes anime , qne proprie and judg fans ment, &aOf his Opus Reformatum. fant mentic, & ratiocinationis , fiumuntir in fingulis ex Mercurii condi tione. Which if true, then hath our Native a moft excellent Poti- tion for intelleCtual Abilities, for his Mrreury is as ftrong as in any Figure 1 have een. For here is Merciry jult palt, the Conjundtion of the-Sum, and in his Oriental Occidentali'y , incxeating, in Light and Motion, in Reception with the Moon ; but that which is the great- eft, and. moft to be obferved, is, that the Moon beholds him with a Trine, and Jupiter with a. Sextile, and what is more, Ju- piter alfo beholds him by a Mundane Square, fo that they arc re. ally contigurated-, both in Zodiaco & Mundo; and betides we find him in a fixed Sign, the Heufe of Venus, and in a Zodiacal Paral- Ll with Venue, in Sextile to the Afcendant. Thefe Politions mutt be allawed to give all the great and excellent Qualifications that are requilite to.make a Counfellor, a States-man, and a Soldier 5 here is no Rathnefs, but Refolution upon deliberate Contidera- tions here is no Timidity ,-nor yet unttedinefs in Judgment 5 here is no Dulnefs nor Stolidity, but a Natural and Native Sharp- nefs of -Fancy at all times, tit either for Inquiry or Council. Ina word, The Moon in Virgo in Trine to Mercury in Taurus, is without doutt the moft agreeable Pofition to give a good, quick appre- heiifive Fancy and Judgment. Msltum enim ad animz: proprictates Signs conferunt , in quibns Mercirius & Luna verfantur , rmsltum Sicllaram adfpettus ad folem & ad Cardines, & natura enjuifleber pla- nete Congruens certis Inelinationibus anime. Quadripartite Prolomei, . Libs 3. Cap. 18. I thall confider his Riches from the part of Fortune, as the Riches,&c. general Signiticator of Wealth; but yct before I begin my Judg- ment thereon, give me leave to premife a word or two: I would not have you think, becaufe that he arrived to the Government of a Nation,and had the ufe and command of the Kingdoms Money and Treafure, that I call him Rich,for I look orr that to be but the common Attendant of his Honour and Granceur, and not the excellence ef his Fortune to Riches; For a King may have vaft Sums of Money, and yct be no rich Man . as we have feen in K.C. 2. and a King may have far leffer Sums than ever he had, and yct be a very'rich Man,-and lay by him a great Treafure for his own Ule and Pofterity, diftiné trom the Intcreft of the Na- tion and People, as was K. H. 7. Therefore 1 would not.be thought to build his Honour upon his Riches, which is indeed no fuch thing, but that kind of his Wealth was really founded on his . Honour Opus: Reformatum. - ‘Honour and. Grandeur; for the Sword was the Anvil upon which he wrote out his Fortune, his Honour, Ge. And as that always brings a certain Charge , fo it ufually brings a. Supply of Fortune. to detray it. And therefore } thall confider his Fortune diftin@ly and (eparately, from that which came by his Honour , and what it might have been, had he continued in that Station in which he was Born and Bred. 4d rem uro, the part of Fortune (as I faid before ) is the onty Signiticator allowed by Prolomy, for Riches and Fortune in the World; and that we firid about 2 de- grees diltant from the Culp of the Sixth Houfe in Cancer, in Six- tile to Venus , and difpofed of by the Moon and Jupiter, all which are ftrong and potent,and do certainly promife (whoever hath fuch aPofition) Riches and Plenty of the things of Fortunes and this . by various ways and méans. And I-am of Opinion , that it being, in Cancer, a Tropical Sign, doth not add a litele to the Advan- tage. Prolomy fays, Lib 4. Caput de facultatibus: Jupiter per fideli- tatem, prefetiuras, &c, That when Jupiter gives bis Aifitance to the Natives Fortune , he doth it by Places and Offices of Truft, Command and Rule in the Government , Gc. And tho he:doth mot fay it, yet I judge the Moon in Trine to the Sun and Mercury, ives the fame things as relate to Dominions and therefore from Fete and fuch like things, we may judgeshe fhould grow Rich, and iucreafe his Eftate. But thén we find.the pars fortune is in an exa@ Zodiacal Parallel with Mars, and is alfo going to his Mundane Parallel ; this gives damage and lof to his Eftate , and why may not this be the Expence and Wafting} of his Bitate and Fortune in Military Service at the beginningof the Wars, “and af terward too 1 believe? And indeed it is in Ptolomy’s own words, - ‘Mars ex Militia & Gubernatione Exercituum. And thol think he did increafe his Fortune, ashe did advance.in Honours yet I think fome men would haye got more, for { could never hear that he. left any large Sums at his Death, unlefs they, were. Debts. I do therefore conclude, that the Parallels of Mars had their Effects alfo as well as the other Rays's but belides thefe, we tind Mars in the Second ftrong, and alfo Lord of the Second, but in Oppaf- tion to Saturn, and Square to Jupiter; this fhewed he would gain much, and advance’ mightily., but. it would. be. by Violence , Force, and with Oppofition too. But whereever you find Mars ftrong, in the Second: that Native always gets much 3 per fis ant mo a H nefas50 Opus Reformatum, nefas he cares not which, and {eldom parts with it again as long ashe lives. _ ; ofthe Ne _ The old way and cuftom isto judge thefe things from the nve's Kuve Third Houle, .« But Prodgniy teacheth us another Do¢trine, and that dred, Preis’ to judge of Brothers and, Silters by the Tenth and Eleventh - +> nd Houtes, with Venus by Days ‘and the Moon by Nights and this he ero&e. Gey not do dogmatically and politively without rendring you a reaton for it, Lib. 3. Cap. §- from which Principles and M.thod Ido here form and colle my Judgment. The Sign Sugitary doth -poffefs both the Tenth and Eleventh Houfes, and Jupiter Lord of it, is in Cancer, a fruitful Sign , and in Sextile to the Swen and Opus Reformatum. “ga Serutari volet , Dastricrm ftellam collocet in Horofeopo, fatto themate, ut in Genefi. Lib. 3. Cap. 5. The ufual way of judging thefe matters among the Profeffors of she Nae of this Science in gerieral, is from the Fourth and Tenth Houfes, tive's Fe- as they do Brothers, Sitters, and Relations , from the Third sf, Gd Houle.’ But the Great Prolomy takes ‘his Judgment from the Sun Le and Saturn for the Father, and the Meon and Venu for the Mo- ther. And accurding, to their Pofitions, Strength, Weaknefs, and * Contigurations to the other Stars, with refpeét to the Parts of feaven , “where they are-all placed fo he’ judyeth of their Muon, but in. Square to Saturn and Mars 5 and both Satu and “Murs arc in Oppolition, and cafting their Squares to the Culp of the Eleventh Houfe. Thefe Pofitions fem plainly to fhew he had Brothers; but not above one Siler, it any 5 but not many, if any of both Sexes,~fhuld live to years of Difcretion and riper Age 5 and do think the Sextile of the Sun and. Fupiter-fhould give one that might live to fone confiderable Age. But the Square of Jupiter to Mars and Saturn, and their Squares alfo to the Eleventh Houle, thould alfo thew, that their Agree- ment was but indifferent, and that the reft of his Confanguineal. Relations (Children excepted ) and he, fhould not: have an ex- traordinary Intimacy: and Kindnefs the one for the other, neither indced Thould they very well agree:in reality, tho in his Poft and Quality his Power cornmanded it; and therefore his more infe- slor Relations durft do no lefs than fhew him the Refped difé to his Quality, and.for which reafon J thall omit all farther difcourfe thereof. But” before J.make an end of this Paragraph, Ich L fhould be qucfioned, becaufe I have overturn’d-the.old cuftom of the Third Houle. it will not be amiG if I give you Prolomy's own words, and perhaps that may {top a more violent Inquiry from the fhort-fighted Capricin, that thinks himfelf able to call’ me to- an account 5 and his words are thefe, De fratribus vero, figuis Be nevali Inveftigatione contentus qrit, nec fupra quam pofibile oft, nume- ram, & particularia Exatte quercty Phyfica ratione de Germanis, O ex tadens metre natia fiemer Fudicinm ex figno M.C. & materno loco Ensipiente venerem Interdén © Nofin Lunam. Cus enim id fgniem o fuecedens fignificens mstvem , © «jus Liberos 5 evis idem fratrum Locus. ‘And at laft he concludes thas, Ceterum fiquis particnlaria curiofins . : fernsaré « Condition, Original, Health, Riches , Length or Shortnefs of Life, @e. Yet 1 think it is not altogether amifs to take notice ‘of thofe Houfes, as well as the other Bodies that he mentions; and this the rather, becaufe I find he calls the Tenth Houfe, Lo- sets Materius, ini another place, and therefore I fhall confider them together. e = In this Native’s Radical Figure, we find both the Sun and ‘Mim mott excellently fortitied by the good Beams.of the benefick Fupiters and belides, they al in Trine to cach other from T:#- Fue and Virgos the Morn is the fironger of the two, as being Angu- Jar, increafing in Light, and in Parallel as well as Scxtile with Fopiter, who is in Cancer, his Exaltation, direét, and increating jn Motion. But the Sun is in Taurus, among violent Stars Ca- dent, flow in Motion, and only in Sextile to Jupiter in the Zod, ack, but in Square in Mundo. And if we add to thele Signiti- cators, the Lords of the Fourth and Tenth Houfes, which are Jupiter and Mercury, we hall not find any thing coafiderable to - alter the Judgment from the former Determination ot the Muon, Venus, and Fupiter, being far fironger than the Stan, Mercary, and Saturn: from whcnee it is natural .to judge, ‘that the Natives Pa- rents were moderately healthy, and long liv’d , and that they might live till the Native was arrived to a perfect Age, and to a confiderable number of yearss yet I thall judge the Father to be the more healthy, but the Mother the more durable and longer Liver; that the-was fabje@ to the Spleen and Vapors. becaufe the Moon isin Parallel with Mars, and Fuviter'in Square to Saurn and Marg; that the was fabjet to-Obttrudtions of her Lungs Hy- pochonders and Stomack, becaufe of the former Square of Sarurn.atd Jupiter. And tho'l have been fo, favourable to their old Mumpfi- mus of the Third and Fourth Hontesas not to condemn it; yet 1 do > 2 f fay,Opus. Reformatum.. and Fourth, or Firft and Seventh, and that Native prove a Fortu- nate Manor Woman throughout their whole Life, as did this Gen- tleman. And-fo I came to conlider the Figure of his Nativity, [which I call the trae one] and to fee what Difeafe or Injuries to his Body are prediétable, according, to the Do¢trine.and Principles of the forementioned Author. 52 ‘Opus Reformiatuni. fay, That this Do@trine of the Great Prolimy is moft rational and confentaneous to Nature; and what I can experimentally juttify in fome hundreds of Nativities, Of the Na- _— Sceing all People are fubjeé to fome Diltemper of Body or other, tive’s Dif- it is not amifs to fay fomething to this point alfo. And before I cafes, %. hopin it, I will ask. 7. G. what Difeate or Difeafes the Protetior had that were fixed, chronick and-durable , becaufe he hath placed Satuen (in the Nativity he hath made him) on the Culp of the Seventh ,.a° little towards the Sixth Houfe, in Oppofition to Mars on the Cufp of the Afceadant , the only two points in the whole Scheme to give broken Bones, dillocated Joynts, and Chronick Difeafes; and yet 1 do not remember that .it was ever faid he was fabje@ to either of chem, [ perbsps now and shen a Woinad, the honourable Mark of a Soldier] but a Brave, Lully, Jolly Géntlemsn, as | my felf can teltify, having feen*him fome {cores of times. And to this purpole, T-will give you Prolomy’s own words in the Cafe, as you will tind it, Lib. 3. Cap. 17. De Lefi- onibus G morbis Curporum And he begins with thefe words fol- lowing, when he comes to inquire into the Hurts and Difeafes of the Body. Univerfalis vero regula bec «ft. Dun Cardines Horizontis Infpiciantur, urdelicer iy qui eft in ortu, & alter qui ef in ocala. Pre- cipus vero confideretur is, qui et in occafte, G Locus Antecedens, qui prorfus non oft Copulatus Afeendenti. Es -obfervetur quomodo mal:fici Pla- nete ea Loca adfpicinnt, “Si enim gradibus qui Afcendunt in dictis Locis, jontii funt Corpore, amt adfpiciunt cos quadrato adfpediu,. vel ex oppor ‘fito 5 Jin alter planeta maleficus , feu xterque: Lefiones, & morbi natis acerdent, ‘Thus yourfee- in the Nativity that 7.G. made for the Prote@or, this very Rule of Ptulomy takes place politively ; for there we find Saturn upon the Cufp of the Seventh, in dire&t Op pofition to Mars on the Culp of the Afcendant. And you {ce alfo both the Angles pf the Horizon in that Figure are afflicted, which by Prolomy’s Rule [which I fuppofe they do not dare deny] ought to give Hurts and Difeates to his Body: But om the contra- sy, he was a Brave, Bold, Healthy, Fortunate Man, and none more free from Wounds, Hurts, or Difeafes of Body than hinifelf. -So that this is another ftrong Argument to prove that Figure falfe, and that the Figwre-makef did not know any thing of the matter he pretended to give the World an accout of. And yet to add more, neither F.G. nor any Man elfe can thew me a true Nativi- ty where the two Infortunes were in Oppofition from the ae an Both the Angles of the Eaff and Weft, are free from the Malefick _Beams of Saturn and Mars,@c.and the Sixth Houfe,which is his Liens Anticedens is poffelt by the benign Planet Jupiter, and there is no ill Ray catt to the Cufp of the Firft and Seventh Houfes,but the Square ot Venus from the Culp of the Fourth and belides, the Moon who - is Lady of the Seventh , -is in Sextile to Jupiter in the Sixth Houfe, and the Sun in Sextile to him alfo. Which Politions are no ways likely to give any Chroiick Difeafe or Hurts, and Accidénts~of detriment to his Body; neither indeed had he any that. was re- markable and vifible; and for thofe that are not fo, I think they are inconlidcrable, efpecially, if we conlider that-all Men are fube ject to fome little defeéts in Nature, which may be Impediments, but not Difeates in Ptolomy’s fence and meanings for in the Chap- ter beforementioned , he doth thus dittinguith between Hurts and Difeales, Differunt enim bec interfe.. Lafio femel corrumpit membrum aliquod, nee adfert poftea Cratciatns Intenfionem : morbus vero, aut affidue, aut per Intervalla correptos excraciate . But to conlider what he might be fabject to, let us confides Mars and Saturn in Oppofision, and both in Square to Fupiters thele might give him fomething of the Grazel in the Kidntes , with.a heat in. or about thofe prts; he might alfo be fubje& to the Hesd-ach, or fome little diforder there, coming from the Stomack and Spleen 5 for we tind both the Maleficks in Square to Jupiter in Cancer ; and betides this, he might alfo be liable co fome Obitru- - tions of his Lungs, either by Colds, &c. but none of thele-conti- nual, bue accidental, and only happening upon bad Direttions, Tranfits, Re-urns, Ge. 7 The Sun and Moon both in’ Scxtile to Jupiter , and in’ Trine to ‘the Na» each other from Taurus and Virgo, and the Moon and Jupiter apply syve's Mar ing to a Viindane, Parallels the Swa is in Sesxtile wo the Afcendant , riage, &c, and Venus in Square to it, aod Saturn no ways alflicting the Signi- ficator of Mariage, are indubitable Signs tha. the Native fhould Marry. ‘The Mon in Virgo, @ barren Sign and a Sign of one = fbape, and in Afpeét to no Oriental Plauet, and but to oa oa . jental54 Opus Reformatum. dental, hefides the Swrand Mercary, which in this cafe are all one, fhould allow him but one Wile, nor is there any Rule here that allows two ; the,time of his Marriage fhould neither be early nor late, but between both; and therefore, I judge, he might Mar- ry about the Twenty fifth or Twenty fixth year of his Ages for + in Mens Marriages, I cfteem Eighteen years of Age early, and Thirty years of Agé late, but in Women, } count Fifteen carly, and Twenty five late, And as to the Defcription of his Wife, I fhall take a method quite oppofite and contrary to the common way in Praétice; and therefore I do fay politively, That the Sun “and Jupiter arc Significators of this Gentleman’s Wife, with a Tit- tle mixture of Merez:y, but that concerns her Intellect more than her Body. Thefe Pofitious defcribes her to be a Woman well de- {cerided, of a middle Stature, flefhy Body’d, and when in years Fat, her Hair brown, or rather brightith, a Woman of a high Spirit,a generousTemper,a healthy Conttitution, Ambitious,Long- liv'd, and one of much Ingenuity and Sence. But if honett 7. G’s Figure were truc, the (hould be one of the~ wortt humoured Women in the World for Paflion and Pride 5 for - they defcribe the Wife always by the Seventh Houfe, and the Pla- nets therein placed, and rhere we fhall find Sutsen in Oppefition to Mars, and Square to Jupiter; and befides, according to their own Rules, Satin on her Alc_ndant in Oppofition to Mars, fhouid give the Native a Wife, but (hort-liv’d; tho I confefs, 1 know no seafon why thofe two Stars fo placed and contigurated , fhould give the Woman a fhorter Life than the Man. But I contefs they are not to be asked Reafons , for if any one doth give them that’ trouble, it will be without fatisfaétion to him pains, for theis Notions are Apodictical, and their Rules witht Reafon. - 7 ' : Opus Reformatum: Culp ofthe Fourth, and the Moon alfo Angular, I fhould conclude, that the. major part of them were Females: and becaule Minus is © freé from all manner of Aa@liGion, and Jupiter Cadent in the Sixth, in Square both to Saturn and Mars, fo | judge there were fome of the Males died before they came to Ripenels of years, or Maturity. That his Children fhould. advance to a‘ confiderable Quality or Station, is vilible, becaule Jupiter, who is their Sig- nificator, is in Cancer his Exaltation, in Sextile tothe Sun and Moon, the Fountains of Promotion and Honour ; but perhaps fome may objett and fay, You might have {pared your labour in that point, Opjc, and not pretended to give 2 reafon for it by the Stars, feeing their Father was advanced to a degrec to makevhis Children as Great as himfelf, and leave them in Poffeifion af fuch a Power, as to be able to defend themfelvés when he was gone. To this Lan- Anjiy, fwer, That there is no Man rifeth to any great and remarkable Poft or Station, but he muft have great and illuttrious Pofitions for fo doing and acting; and itis very probable, that fome ot thofe Stars that give him his Honour, may be alfo Signiticators of his » Children, and fo gives an Iluftrious Iifue , as well as an honour- able Parent. But befides, we find. Fupiter in Square both to. Mars and Saturn, as well as in Sextile to the Sun and Moon, which did alfo yew Rubs and Misfortunes in their Lives, which I thall leave to the Reader to judge, whether it-was verified or not. And obferve, that a poor Man as well as a rich Man, may have famous and eminent Children; and a rich Man as well as a poor Man, may have poor, deje&tsd, and infamous Children, and this from brinciples in Nature, and Rules in Altrology, with- out any Injury to true Divinity, or the Great Being. But to con clude this Paragraph, ‘I defire all thofe who are Angry with my Method in judging on this Subjeét, ‘as well as the whole Figure betides , that they would forbear Quarrqlling witht me, and In confidering the Native’s Children , and their Qualitication, ‘ [ ofan we muft have revarle to the Tenth and Eleventh Houtes, and the fall upon Prolomy s but fixft let me advife them: to underitand aren, &c. Planets placed therein, or in the Houfes oppolite to them 5 ont in this Figuré we find none in either but Venus, and therefore let us + confider her with the Lord of the Tenth and Eleveith, and the Moon and we tind Jupiter Lord of thofe Houfes in Cancer, a Pro- him. . By Tong Journies, we commonly underftand thofe of the Sea, of the Naa in going into other Kingdoms or Nations, which our common tive’s Long. Trade Aitrologers judge fromthe Ninth Houfe, and his Lord 5 Zeng, litick Sign; and his own Dignitics , in Sextile to the Sun in the Houle of Venus, and in Sextile to the Moon in the Seventh, and alfo in Parallel with her applying. Thefe Politions thew, that che Native fhould have many Children ; and ds Venus was onl aa 5 lp buc I pafs by that, and fay, that the Significatos of long Journeys in this Figure, is the Moon, [as be that pleafeth’ may read more at Large, Lib. 4..Capi 9: Quadripar. } and°as the is in Trine to the Sun, in Trine to Merewry, hex Difpoiitor, and-in Sextile to Fupiter 5. . fo:Opus Reformatum. fo his Journeys fliould be about great and eminent A@ions and Butinels ; and the Jffue of them fhould be Great, Famous, and Fortunate; for you fee the Mion is no ways afflicted , ncicher were his Undertakings beyond Sea in his own Pe:fon without Succe(s and Glory, he always ccming home Vitor and Coique- ror. But if we thould accept and judge by 7. G’s Figure, and take either Jupiter or Saturn, they having both ot them Deminion in the Ninth Houfe, but Jupiter the mott Power, his long Jour- neys would have been [by that Polition] full of Labour , Toil , Trouble, and generally « ithout Succefss but if that fhould have given fucccfs, it would have been attended with much dificulcy and doubtfulnefs. Of the Ne How,-and to what degree of Greatnefs this Gentleman did tive's Ho- arrive, is known to the whole World, and therefore J {hall di- nuir fd sedtly examine-the Caufés of it Atrologically, -without any fur- - eher inquiry into the Modus Acquirendi, (ceing he was really poffelt of ee greatelt Power thar.the Dominion of England was able to give him. In his Radjcal Figuré we tind Six of the Seven Planets effenti- ally fortified , according to the Dignitics allowed them by Ptolo- tty, Lib. 1. for Saturn and Fupiter are in their Exaltations; Mars in his own Houfe, Venus in her own Houfe 5 Mercury in Taurus in — Opus’ Reformatum. Sextiletothem all nay, and we may reckon Sater, atid Mars too, for the is in a Zodiacal Perallel with them alfo applying and the Three Superiors, according to his Rule, are, two of ther in Trine, and one in Semtle to che Mid-heaven, and all of them ap- plying likewile , and Jupiter Lord of the Tenth the Angle of Honour, To which I wilk add this Obfervation, That neither ‘Sun nor Moon is in any il] Afpeé with any of the Planets, nor any of the Planets placed to his difadvantage in the Figure. The ‘Sun who is always the Significator of Honour, Glory, and Ree putation, is likewife frce from ali ill Circumftances, and in Trine to the Mion, Scxtile of Jupiter, and Conjunction with Mercury, and Murs jultrifing before-him. "Which if compared and confides ed with the following Chapter of Ptolomy, thews, That Arms and Armies-would be the Practice of his Life, the. Delight of his Soul, and by thee things he would raife his Honour and -Fortunes. The great Conjunction of Satern and Jupiter , in the Year 1623. in the eh degree of Leo, near the eae of his Seventh Houfe, in rite to Mars in his Sécond, and in Sextile to Saturn in his Eighth, was none of the {mallet Caules of his Greatnefs and Promotion 5 neither was that Conjenétion in the Year 1643. which was on the Culp of his Segond, in exact Trine to his Tenth Houfe, and in Sextile to Venus. Reception with the Moon in Virgo ;-and what is yet more, the it may {em ftrange to fome , why he was fo Old ry fi long Moon, whi is the Lumn Conditionarinm, is Oviental from the Sun, Oe eee Tppeat upon the Stage of Mundane Affairs 3 lire Ie is Angular in Sextife to Jupiter, and in Trine to the Sua and Mer- which thing is not indeed very range , becaule all the Planets a ewry, her Difpofitors and what is yct more, ‘the Pofition of Sa- in Occi rts of Heaven, Jupiter and Venus excepted 5 and pear in the turn, Jupiter, and Mars, are perhaps the molt confiderabile of all, eesti and the ae allthe reft being either in Ca- iverla. they all cafting their Benefick Beams to the Tenth Houfe, the An- dent or Succedent Houfes, which always give what they promife gle of Honour and. Preferment , and they alfo in thofe Signs in the latter part of the Life ; and this is the more confirmed too, ' which we call Cardinal, and are in the Zodiack , equal to thofe if we obferve, that all but the Moon and Satwra are under the points that we call Angles in the Figure. - And thefe are the rea Earth, So that if the Pofitions are but really perpended, it will fons that I give for this Native’s Rifing and Advancement; and feem no ftrange thing that this Native did not Advance and Rife as the Three Superiors arc in the Cardinal Signs, in Square and fooner, But if 7, G's Figate thould be allowed, all the Planets Oppofition one to another , fo you fee he attained his Grandewer are Angular but the Mons, which maft without doubt give the by a kind of Violence, Force, and Labour ,. joyned and affifted Native his Honour and Preferment early, even in his younger with Power: and by that means and method he maintained it alt Years, which ’tis plain he-had not. 1 confe(s, I have no Autho- his time. : rity from Prolomy for this Judgment of the Time and Age, when The Birthis Nocturnal, and the Moon is Light of the Time in the Native fall receive thote things of Honour promifed him in an Angle, and her Sutellites or Stipatores , according to Ptolomy his Radix, he only {peaking tothe ching in general, Si dignitatem,vel. are the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venws, (be being in Trine and ed : I - an ‘ Sextileg Opas Reformatum. : : 7 P Ref eater Opus Reformatum. non,babeat. But my Experience in many Nativities, and the method ~ : by which we judge carly and late Marriages, which is much after times. When ‘he came to be Prote@tor, he had Enemies always the fame manner, with fome other things that I have formerly plotting againft him; but at the fame time all Nations were remarked in the fame Cafe , is fufficient for me to believe that this is Friends, either for Love or Fear; and what is more, it was method is not improper to be followed and praéticed in jadgin his own Prudence, Courage, Conncil, and Condydi, that carvicd him this, and things of this Nature. oe through and above all thefe things s and this is aptly fignitied Of the Na _ Ptolomy makes a diftin@ion between Friends and Friends, and by Ptolomy’s own Rule and Words, which are thefe, Com Lamina tives Enemies and Enemies 3 for he calls nothing Friend thip, but what congraunt , erit amicitia adjuntla® confilio optima & twiffima, Which Friends, is durable and intirely real; and all the rett of it he calls Familiae in this Figure ‘and Nativity takes place, for the Lights are in and oe rity , and the effet of Converfation and Society. By Enemies Trine to each other 5 the one in Conjunttion, and the other in Trine 48°. and Enmityshe underftands a perfect Radical and perpetual Hate and Reception with Moviry , and all thele sited Dy the Bens All the other things of Difference, Debate, and Controverly, he Of Jupiter , who is in Cancer, and‘in Trine to the Mid-heavens by looks upon it to be nothing more than little Accidents or Cafual- which means he is doubly concern’d in giving and fupporting his tics in Converfation. And to confider and judge of thefe, he Honour and Friendthip, which wereindeed really infeparable. Ina doth not make ufe of the Eleventh Houle as the manner is 3 but word therefore , this Valiant and Fortunate Native had many contiders the Sum, Moon, Part of Fortune, and Horofcopes and his : Enemies, and thofe great and confiderable in their Quality, and reafon is, becaufe he judgeth Friend(hip and’ Amity among Men this judgeable by this Pofition 5 but he bad more Friends, and ‘to be cither for Council, Pleafire, ox Profit; and indeed upon fome thofe more powerful to fupport his Intereft - which is the ufual or all of thefe Principles, Men do generally love and fupport and natural Ede@ of fo good and fortunate a P. or differ and deftroy one another , and therefore bis Fudgment is bleft with. Thus you fee the beft and moft Ancient Aftrologers, founded upon reafon, : had other ways to judge of Friends and Friendfhip, Enemies and In the Radical Figure we find the Sin, Moon, and Afcendant, a Injuries by them, without making ule of the Seventh Houfe, the well befriended by the Rays of the other Stars, but the Part of Eleventh,and Twelfth, with their Lords and Governors, and Pla- Fortune is in Parallet both to Satern and Mars, both in Zodiaco, nets placed therein,which method is indeed abfurd and ridiculous, and Mundo, and Mars, who comes very near Ptolomy’s Puule, ors if compared with Prolomy’s, which is founded on better Principles is in his own Houle, and not much above 17 degées diftant from of Phitofophy and Reafon. Bat more of thofe Fooleries you thall the Sum (afcending) bythe Oblique Afcention, is in Square to Fue have in my Deftétio Genituarum, now ready for the Prefs. 7 Piter, and Oppofition with Saturn; the Moon is in Reception with It is not very material to our work in hand to take ‘notice of Of the Nae ‘Mercury, and all the reft of the Planets in their own Dignities, exe this part of Judgment in this Nativity, becaufe he was not liable sive’ Ser cept the Su, Hence.it is reafonable to judge, That this Native to the Fate and Accidents of private Men; for Princes feldom wants. fhould have both many Friends, and many Enemies 5- and as the know their Servants, [ (ome few excepted ], and by that means part of Fortune is affli&ed moft of the four, fol judge the hatred are not liable to any Differences and Difcord with them, nor are of his Enemies was real, and thé caufe of it was, -becaufe of his their Servants admitted to any intimate Familiarity with their Ma- Profit and Advantage he received with his Power and Honour. fess for when they are put into.an Employment, the Service ex~ Befides, Venus is in Square to the Afcendant, which might raife pected from. them in that Imploy, is Diligence and Faithfulnefs him forne Enemies that did envy him for the Pleafure ea Eafe intheir Duty to their Matter. But we may certainly conclude, That of his Life, and other things that were the advantagious Gir- all Princes have Servants.of both fort',good and badsfor according cumMflances of his Station he was in, at the latter end of his days. as thofe Minifters of State are affected, that putin, and imploy the While he was in the Army he had many Encmies, and they ates Inferior Servants , fo muft that Prince expe& to be ferved or be ‘of the Ordinary People 5 but the Parliament was his Friend at all betrayed; and 1 could withave had no Examples of this kind in : ; times. | ee Ap : But60 Opus Reformatum. But for the Readers fatisfi@tion, I will allo give the Judgment of this matter with the reft. Ptolomy doth allow the Tweifth Houfe, and Planets placed therein, to fignify the Native's Servants; -but if there are none in that Houle, to take thofe placed in the Sixth 3 but moft chiefly to obferve how the Lord of the Twelfth Houfe doth agree, or difagree with the chief and mott principal parts of the Figure, and trom thence mike your Judgment of the matter in hand. "In the Nativity now under confideration, we find Saturn Lord of the Twelfth Houle in Libra, his Exaltation, but in no Afpeét, either good or bad, to the Mid-heaven, A(cendant, Sua, Moon, or part of. Fortune, only in Parallel with the laft of them, which fhould indeed thew the Native’s Servants. to be none of the beft; but if we confider that Fupiter ts in the Sixth Houle, and there ina Zodiacal Square, but a Mundane Sextile to Satun, 1 fhoutd judge that his Servants were Modcrate, Trufty and Jutts and this the rather,becaufe Venus beholds the Culp of the Twelfth, with an exa& Trine; but this laft I {peak-of my felf, there being nothing of that in the Rule. Upon the whole matter, I do judge, . had this Native been of the Common Quality, and liable to thofe Accidents that Subjects mult meet with in fuch Affairs, that his Servants would have been juft in their Duty, but fubborn and head-ftrong, and that the Native and they would have agreed mo- deratcly wells fome littledifferences there would have happened, but yet true and trufty in the main, Of the Na- 1 am now come to the Jatt part of Judgment,that is to be given pues onthe Nativity of any Perfon, Nam sltra mortem nibil s but the Shcthogs Molt confufed part of the whole Art, as it is now anderftood and that depind Ptactifed by all thofe that pretend to underftand the Language of shereon az the Stars, and have juft skill enough in hard Words, to make che s0itsCaufé eft of Mankind believe that they ase really what they confi- and ual dently call them(elves, that is, Afrolagers. And therefore J thall "bea litcle the larger on this Paragraph.” Fir, To thew the World their Miftakes. And Secondly, To give a few Directions in order to fet them.right, but in this I {hall be.very thore-and concife, and that for {everal Reafons, which perhaps you may find elfewhere. mentioned-in this Treatife. For I am now handling a. Nativity, not giving General Rules fo to dos which perhaps ¥ may perform ata more convenient time; for F really belicve [ have taken a5 much pains in that part of Aftrology that concerns Sicknefs and Death, as any Man ;, and for that reafon, L think I ought to under- ftand, Opus Reformatum. 61 fland it as well. However, when time fhall: ferve, I will give the World what I have prepared ’and intended, and let them that aré more skilful and knowing Correct it, for which I will give them thanks, if I am convinced that they have done it. But T thall divide my Difcourfe on this matter into Three Parts, and bring all under three diftin@ Heads. Fir(t, The Caufe of Death. Secondly, The Quality of Death. I mean of a natural Death, 1 not intending here to run into a Difcourfe of Violent ones, becaufe it would be too long, and alfo not fuitable to my pre- fent purpofe: . . Thirdly, To compare the Caufe with the Quality. And, ¢ consrs from whence will arife fome Queries. The Caufe of Death is varioufly. afferted ; fome laying the zhe caye Caufe of it on a.bad Revolution. So one ferved my Friend Mr. of Death. R. B. whom they faid lay. under a bid Revolution four years face ceifive, and kill'd him at lait, for which they could never give any other reafon sand yet had his Nativity to contider in the thing. Some lay the frefS on Eclipfes of the Luminaries, and thefe they tell you do mighty things, efpecially in Death, Nay, many of them to my knowledg have no other Caufe .to alledg for the late Abdication , but a poor fmall Eclipfe of the Su, on the St’s Radical Place, and day of his Birth, Ofiober 14. 1688, Mine. Which if they pleafe to con‘ider, there was an Ecliple of the Moon, April 15. 1660. near that place, and that ‘a very great Eclipfe, and yet did-him no harm. Alfo in 1669. Odivber 14. at. which time the Sua on Kis Radical Place was Eclipfed in 2 de- grees of Scorpio, the very place of the Dragos Tails, and yet | do not remember that it did him any harm, nor yet kill'd him ; but any thing ferves when better Reafons are not in their Power, Sometimes they tell us, that great Conjundiions kill, and yet that- (hall not happen in divers Years after the Conjunction is over and paft. And this I have often heard alledged as the Caufe of Death, when fuch a Conjunétion hath happened on the Mid-heaven, Af cendant, Sun, or. Mzon, &c. of a Nativity, in which | they could find out no other reafon more fubftantial.. They likewite fay, That Comets oftentimes kill when they begin, or expire on the chief Points and Parts of the Nativity. But this as well ane