Catastrophe Galliae, & Hiberniae Restitutio, AN Impartial Judgement, Denoting the Reduction of Ireland, This Revolution, 90. ending March the 10th 1691.  
ALSO THE Conquering of proud Lewis, and Abasing France.  
By Their present Majesties William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Defenders of the Faith, &c.  
Prophetically Deduced From the Characters of Heaven.  
ALSO, The Planets Attributes, according to the Doctrine of Hermes. With a Philosophical Discourse of the Four Elements, and Powerful Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. Likewise, a modest Defence of prophesy, demonstrated from the Ten Sybils, and of their wonderful Prophecies of our Blessed Saviour, long before his Birth. To which is added, Scutica Gadburiana, or, a Whip for that Scorpion Gadbury,  
By Richard Kirby, Philo Astrologus & Medicus.  
London, Printed for Tho. Howkins, in George-Yard, in Lombard-street, 1690.   

THE PREFACE TO THE Vnprejudiced Reader.  
Courteous Reader,  
I Here adventure to present thee with a small piece; entitled, the Catastrophe of France, and Reduction of Ireland, in Two Parts; In the First, I have endeavoured to prove by plain Demonstration, the powerful Influence( and Operations) of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, on these inferior Elements, and Elementary Bodies; and how they were to give Light unto the Earth, on all sides, and to heat it with a various Temparature( that is, neither to burn it, nor leave it destitute of heat.) Secondly, to make a Various Harmony of Times, and to inspire a Various Form into the Creatures: And Lastly, why they were Created in so vast a Number, and to what Use God ordained them; and now from their Conjunctions and Aspects,( which is their Various intermixing one with an other) also, by their Ascending, and Descending, the Firmament, and perpetual rolling round this Globe of Earth, I have deduced Judgement concerning the Affairs of some particular Parts of Europe( more especially, France and Ireland: Also, our thrice happy delivered Kingdom of England) and how it will go with them this Revolution, hoping it will offend none; and if it doth, I am sure it will be the contrary Parties, therefore I shall be the less concerned.  
In the next place, I have been a little Critical upon Mr. Gadbury, concerning his 89's almanac, in showing him the uncertainty of the Argolian and Regiomoritanian Rules, in the Astral Science, and how there is no truth in any of their ways, only Hermes and Ptolomies, whose Attributes of the Planets, I have inserted, in the Second Part,( but itis very Mysterious to Dulconcepts) with a philosophical Discourse of the Four Elements, the like not extant in the English Tongue; I have likewise shewed you the fallacy of the Papist pretended Transubstantiation, it not lying in the Power of Humanity: And Lastly, I have given you an Account of the ten Sybils, and their particular Prophecies, of our blessed Saviour, long before his Birth; also, of two more who spoken notable things which came to pass. Now if Mr. Gadbury, or any Argolian, or Regimontanian, are minded to take up the Cudgels against me, let them know that I will show them such Demonstrations in Starry Dialect, that they will be ashamed to own the Name of Argol, Regiomontanus, or any of their Illegitimate Associates( or Pupils) that pretends to the Art of Astrology; not that I do it in any Degradation to Mr. Gadbury, or any other, only to assure them, there are more Infallible Rules then ever they were so happy as to be acquainted with, tho I am sure, at the same time, they have met with them, yet knew them no more than the cobbler did Harry Tuder; and for their further Association with them, they are in the Marrow of Astrology, translated from Placidus, and writ by Mr. Bishop and myself( who took the greatest pains in the doing of it, tho he hath proved so Ungrateful to me, as to blot out my Name, claiming the Book as his own( since my absence out of London) being the true Doctrine of great ptolemy, whose Works and Name, I Honour and Apploade, requesting all those that are this ways inclined, to bear his Name in Memory, to everlasting posterity; and thus I leave you to the Protection of him that made us all, and remain their Majesties Loyal Subject, and my Countries Friend, whilst I am  
Yours, Richard Kirby   

Catastrophe Galliae, & Hiberniae Restitutio: OR, An Impartial judgement on the celestial Motions; DENOTING A Signal Conquest over the Late King James, and the Irish Rebels, this Revolution in Ireland.  

INTRODUCTION.  
THE All-Powerful GOD never intended either Good or Evil towards the Sons of Men, but He always shew'd his Signs and Tokens in the Firmament, of His unalterable Will and Pleasure; witness the Holy Writ, as well as the Writings of the most Ancient and Sage Authors; and it is manifested by All, for an undoubted Truth, That under the Conjunctional Influence of the Two Superiors, viz. Saturn and Jupiter, in the Fiery trigon,( which hath been seven times repeated since the Creation) strange and wonderful Alterations hath happened on this Globe of Earth; and all for the preservation of the Church of God: Instance the Universal Deluge, by the keeping and preserving of Noah, and his subjected Animals in the Ark: And their last Conjunction was their Sabatical Return, under whose Influence God hath delivered His Church and People, by the Coming-in of His Servants, Our Sovereign Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Mary; whom God grant long to Sway the sceptre in Peace and Unity amongst us.  
But to avoid Prolixity, and immediately push forward to our intended Subject, I think it convenient to give some probable Conjectures upon   

The Sun's Vernal Ingress into Aries.  
 astrological chart 
Figura Mundi: Or, Sol enters Aries, March the 10th. 3 Hours, 25 Min. Mane.  
☽ a △ ☉, ad ✶ ♂ □ ♄.  
☿ a ☌ ☉   ♀ a △ ♄   ♃ a △ ♄   ♂ a ☌ ♃   ☿ a ☌ ♀   ☿ a ☌ ♃ 2 ☿ a △ ♄ 2  
Saturn goes to the Mundane Parallel of Mars, by the motion of the Primum Mobile, from active Parts of Heaven.   
NOW, he that looks upon this Figure( only) with the bare glance of an Eye, at the first sight, it may seem to him as a Painted Fire, or the Effigies of a Serpent drawn upon a Wall, which can neither burn nor sting: But if it be seriously viewed, we shall find it a Figure of great consequence; for there are no less than Five of the Seven Erraticks subterranean, and Four of them in the 2d. House, and Three beholding Saturn in the 9th. by a benevolent Trine. Oh! let the great God of Heaven give a double Portion of His Blessings unto their Effects; for they denote great Counsels now on Foot, and those seriously carried on, for the Glory and Grandeur of England, and our neighbouring Nations; and that chiefly for the settlement of Affairs, as to the Rights and privileges of Church and State; and all to make the hearts and spirits of a disatisfied People easy; and this particularly in our own Nation, where there is the greatest necessity for it, because of the many differences of Opinion, who are often in an uproar, like Seamen in a storm. The War-like Planet Mars, passeth through the Sign geminy, London's Ascendant, which, according to Authors, denotes the frequent breakings-out of Fire, also Pestilential Diseases,( the which I pray God divert) but since he is in Quadrat of Mercury, and hastes to a malevolent Square of Jupiter and Saturn, to his Mundane Parallel, by the motion of the Primum Mobile, I rather think he threatens breaking of Houses, Rapines and murders; also many discontents amongst the people, as Plotting, Contriving, and striving to raise mutinies and disturbances in the Government, only on purpose for some intended Rebellion; and yet Religion and Conscience is still their pretence. Thus moves mans misguided Orb of Ambition on this swinging Globe; but those black crimes will not be long hide, for about that time as the Sun comes to touch the place of Mars, there may be a discovery made of some of their villainous Conspiracies; for at the same time, Mercury and Venus comes to a Conjunction in geminy; for Mercury can keep counsel no longer, but must of necessity reveal it to some Woman: Then let such Rascals know, that an Ax, or a Hempen-string, will be their just reward( or some thing equivalent,) for the Heavens bends down their powerful frowns upon such Vilains, for the very Steeds of Day seem to blushy at their Actions. One would have thought, we had clipped the wings of Rome's black Tribe ere now, but I know it's impossible to lad the Sea dry( or to pen out the Fresh Rivers;) yet we may endeavour to keep these within the bounds and measure of order; and in so doing, we shall ever be as free from the Curse of Popery, as we are from Arbitrary government. At the end of April the Sun toucheth the opposite place of Saturn, in this Vernal Figure, at which time you will hear of a great deal of Treachery; also mischevious offences committed amongst the people in Ireland, causing many discontents, frights and fears: But let the Teagueland Rebellious party know, that they most certainly will pay dear for their unheard-of outrages, committed upon those innocent souls; for the opposition of Saturn and Mars, begins now to operate to purpose; for on the 28th. of April, the Sun toucheth the place of Mars, at the time of their opposition; therefore now, my hearts of Gold, take Courage, and stand to it; fear not; God's on your sides, and the Stars of Heaven, in their course, fights for you; your Guardian Angels stands by you, with their Swords drawn in their Hands, and will drive the Enemy, like Chaff, before the Wind, and tumble them to and fro, with many rolling fears. There are Four Planets with the Dragons Head in the 2d. in Trine to Saturn, Lord of the Ascendant, and the Moon defluxes from a Trine of the Sun, to a Sextile of Mars, the God of Battle, and Lord of England's Ascendant; all which do promise our Souldiers Moneys & Ammunition, sufficient to oppose those( idolising) bold Pretenders; they being the true instruments of War: But let our Enemies know, that they will be necessitated extremely, though they be proud and haughty; as he that hath but half an Eye may plainly discern, by the application of Mars to the malevolent Quartile of Mercury, Lord of their House of Substance, who is both in detriment and fall, and also retrograde. And thus let Ireland know from me, that they will most certainly be Reduced, ere this years Actions be over; as it doth more evidently appear, by the position of the Heavenly Bodies, at the Suns Ingress into Cancer and Libra; which two Figures of Heaven I have consulted, though not here inserted: And so I conclude with these following words; 
If Fate there be not, what can we foresee;  
And how can we avoid it, if there be?  
If by Free-will, in our own sphere, we move,  
How are we bounded by Decrees above?  
Whether we drive, or whether we are driven,  
If bad, they're Ours; if good, the Acts of Heaven:  
Thus good and bad's the Fate attends all men,  
All things return f●●m whence they first began.   
Thus I have given my probable Conjectures of the Influence of the Heavenly Bodies, from their Position, at the Sun's Vernal Ingress: I shall now proceed to present you with some Philosophical Demonstrations, of their powerful operating Qualities upon all Sublunaries.   

Philosophical Demonstrations.  
IT's well observed by Commenius, That Stars are fiery Globes, full of Light and Heat, with which the Sky glitters on every side; for the Ornament of the World required this, that hanging Lamps should not be wanting in so lofty a palace; as also the necessity of the inferior World, concerning which is the following Aphorism: Now we reckon Stars in the rank of Concretes, because it is certain they are made of Matter and Light; also they were produced in so vast a number, upon very great necessity,( 1.) To heat the Earth with a various Temperature.( 2.) To make the various Harmony of Times.( 3.) To inspire a various Form into the Creatures; for so great Variety could not be Induced into the lower World, without such Variety in celestial Things. For they are Certain, Indeterminate, and Universal Causes to sudorifics, and Individual Effects; if so, they are determinated for the Truth, to whom they are visible, and of nearest cause: As the Sun makes Wax soft, day hard, a Worm white, the Skin of Man black; with a Man he begets a Man, with a lion a lion. Then the Stars cannot be Signs of Effect, unless they be the Causes also: For they act according to their Situation and Parallax, upon the Bodies by which they pass; yet they do not act upon Inferiors, according to the true and real Intention, and extension of the Light, which they have in themselves; but only according to their appearing, when they come to those Bodies that are subject unto them.  
Now, God hath placed the greatest number of Stars in the highest Heaven, round about, that they might eradiate the Earth on every side, and carry about their sphere with a rapid motion of Heat: Now the Numerable Stars are found by us to be 1022; but the great God knows the number of the Innumerable; therefore as we know but in part, we are( nor ought) not to be positive in our Conjectures of their Influences, &c. Now, there is a very great portion of most ardent Light conglobated in the Sun, so that it may seem the only Fountain of Light and Heat; for were it not for the Sun, we should have perpetual Night, notwithstanding the rest of the Stars: For as much as at high Noon, we are presently in Darkness, if the Sun be but covered. Now, as touching the Sun, these following Axioms are to be noted;( 1) That it was so great, as might suffice both to Illustrate the whole World, and to Heat and Vapourate the whole Earth.( 2) That it is such a distance Elevated from the Earth, as might serve, so as neither to burn it, nor leave it destitute of Heat. Psal. 19. v. 7. And,( 3) That it may serve all sides of the Earth with its Light and Heat, to wit, by turns; that Radiation is not made simply through the midst of the World, under the Aequator; but under the zodiac, bending to the North on this side, to the South on that side; whence comes the division of the Year into Four Parts, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. And because it was not convenient the Sun and Stars should always operate after one and the same manner( for variety is both pleasing and profitable to all Nature) there were six other wandring Stars added over and besides, which running under the same zodiac, and by certain turns entering into Conjunction and Aspect one with another, and with the Sun, might variously temper his Operation upon inferior things: These wandering Stars are called Planets, of which there are Seven, reckoning the Sun for one; the other six Planets therefore are the Sun's Coadjutors in Governing the World, which differ in Sight, Course, Magnitude, Motion, Light. The higher Planets do observe the Sun; that approaching nigh unto him, they betake themselves into the highest place, going from the Sun they sink lower towards the Earth; and for this cause both their Magnitude and their Motion vary in our Eyes; for when they are nearer to the Earth, they seem greater, but more remote, less. As for their Light, Mars is very Fiery and Calefactive; Saturn is Pale, and very Frigifactive; Jupiter and Venus are of a pleasant Light; Mercury changeable and Sparkling; and because the Moon was to rule the Night, a weak Light, and that but borrowed, was given her; and by reason she was appointed to show lesser times( as Months,) a Motion different from the Sun was given her; that, by her departure from the Sun, and other Stars, and by her returning again, she might design the progress of the Months, and bring down their good and evil Influence unto We Mortals on Earth; and that it might be done more evidently, she was placed below the Sun, that she might appear to us with her Face enlightened after divers manners. Now, God ordained Eclipses also,( 1.) That we might understand that our Light is from the Sun;( 2.) That the Magnitude of the Luminaries, and of the Earth, might be found out;( 3.) To find the true Longitude of Countries: And lastly, To denote Firtility and Stirrility, also Mundane Affairs, as well as by the motion and position of the other wandring Stars, and the appearance of Comets, &c. Now, Comets are accessary Stars, which sometimes shine, and go out again, for the most part with tails, or Bushes of Hair. We reckon Comets to the Heavens and Stars, not to the Air and Meteors; because they are not generated in Sublunary Places,( as Aristotle thought) but in the highest Heaven, even above the Sun: Comets are not Vapours kindled, but a reflection of the Sun's Light, in Vapours so far Elevated. The first is easily proved; for if a Comet were a Vapour kindled, it could not last half an Hour.( For nothing can be kindled, but a Sulphureous Matter, and that is consumed in a Moment, as it appears in Gunpowder, Lightning, a chasm, or Falling Star, &c.) But Histories relate, that Comets have lasted three Years. The Second is shewed, because Comets( First) Cast a tail from the Sun, as the Moon doth a shadow( for those dry Vapours are not an opacious Body, like to the Moon, but Semidiaphanous.) Secondly, They are Eclipsed( as Campanella testifies) by the shadow of the Earth, as well as the Moon; which would not be, if they burned with their own Fire. The ends of Comets are, that it may appear; First, That the whole Heavens moves, not the Stars only. Secondly, That it is Liquid and Transmeable; not hard, like crystal. Thirdly, That Vapours ascend so high, and that there are Mutations every where in this visible World. But it is not my Business at this time to dispute that, but as near as may be, by the Permission of the Highest, endeavour to Interpret the Meaning of those Comets and Apparitions, which hath been visibly seen with us since 79; also Conjunctions and Aspects of the superior Stars; likewise Eclipses, to this very Year 1690. And, if I thought I should not offend, I would give some probable Conjectures( at this time) of the present Affairs of some parts of Europe,( but more especially of France and Ireland) and how it will go with them; the which I hope will prejudice no man; and if it doth, it will be the contrary Parties, and therefore I am the less concerned: For Religion in this Kingdom of England, I hope, now will Flourish like a fruitful Vine, that brings forth her Grapes by Clusters; that it may smell sweet in the Nostrils of the Lord, like the Cedars of Lebanon. Let us look back to the Year 79, and consider the manifold Mercies the Lord hath been pleased to bestow upon us, and how He hath shewed us Signs and Tokens in the Heavens of His Love, signifying what He would do for us, as well as the Preservation of His Church, if we would but amend our Lives and Ways( that is, in keeping His Commandments and Statutes sure;) and if not, how we must expect to incur his heavy Displeasure. First, by His setting up his Prodigious Fiery Beacon tn the Heavens, in the Year 80, in the Sign Capricorn, the House of Saturn, and Exaltation of Mars, extending its tail almost 60 Degrees, to the Astonishment of most part of the Christian World: Such a one appeared before the Birth of our Blessed Saviour, in Caesar Augustus his Reign; at which Time the Sybils were very expert in the knowledge of the celestial Science; for one sibyl, a Tiburnian,  told the Emperor, It pointed out a Child to be Born of a Virgin, which should be greater than he; therefore she exhorted him to Worship Him. And then the Church of God was preserved in the highest degree, as I hope it will be now, &c. Secondly. The Triple Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, in the Regal Sign lo, part of the Fiery trigon; besides, the Appearance of a Comet in the said Constellation; also the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars, Jupiter and Mars, and all in the Year 1682. which did much aggravate their Effects: Besides many strange Apparitions, Eclipses, Mock-Suns and Moons, to this very Time: Moreover, the double Square of Saturn and Jupiter, in 88, and 89; also the Opposition of Saturn and Mars on the 5th. of August, from Taurus and scorpion; likewise their Opposition in September from the said Constellations. Taurus is the Ascendant of Ireland, and scorpion is its opposite Sign: All which do usually and very frequently point out to Mankind, throughout the whole macrocosm, many Calamities; as Plague, Pestilence, Blood-shed, Wars, Famine, Depopulation, Alterations of Laws and privileges, Change of Government, setting up and pulling down Kings,( sometimes change of Religion) also Inundations, Earthquakes, &c. stirring up strange Heats and Passions in Men, prompting them upon slender occasions to destroy each other; and this by their Influences( and the Permission of the Great Creator of all things, to whom all Causes are but Subordinate:) All which generally happens to those Kingdoms and Countries, where those Apparitions are seen; likewise to those places under the Influence of the Signs wherein they appear; also, to those places where they extend their Rays; the same by the Eclipses, and meetings of the superior Bodies, whether Corporally or by Aspect; that is, where they cast their Squares or Oppositions, also smq. ssq. or Parallels: But thrice happy are those Nations and People, where they sand their favourable and smiling Aspects; for to Them they promise Plenty, much Happiness, and safe Deliverance from Bondage and Captivity, from Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government, &c. as this our English Nation hath been very lately freed from: All which the aforesaid Apparitions, and triple Conjunctions of the two superiors in lo, did pre-note, as is demonstrable according to Starry Dialect, &c. Thus moves the dreadful Wheels of the Astral Orbs, whirling themselves round by a most swift Motion, to fix the reeling Spirits of the People, and settle the loose Liberties of most Nations; more especially France, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Turkey, Tartaria, &c. lo is the Ascendant of Rome, scorpion of Turkey, Aries of England, Virgo of France, Taurus of Ireland: Saturn denotes the Roman Clergy, and all their Seminaries of Learning; and Jupiter, the Orthodox Principles of the English Church. The Wise knows what I mean; and the Learned in the celestial Science, is able to discern a total Subversion of the Triple Crown, with the downfall of Popery, in a few Years: For the Stars in their course Fights against them, as they did against Sisera; for which see my Vates Astrologicus, Printed in 83. Also, in my 82's almanac you will find these Verses: 
Twice topping Rome, now, fears she must decline,  
Her Glory is departing; she doth shine  
But dimly; ere few Years we shall have proof,  
That she'll extinguish like a stinking snuff.   
And that I think, is as near coming to pass now, in this Kingdom of England, as the Men of Benjamin could throw a ston,( and that was to an Hairs breadth;) notwithstanding all the Plots, Counter-plots, and Contrivances, of Romes Wicked, Black, juggling Tribe,( those profane or Abominable Idolaters,) who are not Rulers for God, but Rulers against God, to their Power; also destructive to all that are good, and all that tends thereunto: For Religion, Laws and Liberties, must not so much as be named to such, except their own; for all others, that pretends to any else, are heretics with them. Thus, you see, when a Rent is made in a Government, Religion, and its true Professors, are sure to suffer deeply. Examples of this within these few Years, in this Kingdom, and also at this present in France, Ireland, &c. but, I hope, God will deliver them in his due Time, as he hath done us: For let the Papists know, it is not an easy Matter to change a whole Kingdoms Established Religion in a Moment; besides, the same God that delivered the Israelites out of the Hand of wicked pharaoh, and the egyptian Slavery, is also able to deliver the Protestants out of the Hands of the Late King James, and the Irish Rebels: And this let the Roman catholics know from me, except the Stars fail in their Influence, and God by his Word turn the Course of Nature( the which He is able to do in less than a moment) they will never set their Feet on English Ground again. And tho the French King joins with them, yet all is in vain; for on the 23d. of November, 1690. will be Celebrated a Famous Conjunction of the two Malevolents, viz. Saturn and Mars, in scorpion, the French King's Horoscope: therefore, expect in a short time, the Power of France to be brought very low, and all their wicked Designs end in Confusion; for God at present tries him, to see what he will do; and therefore, hath given the Devil the length of his Chain, that they might walk Hand in Hand together, filling his Heart full of Pride and Tyranny; being a lying Spirit in him, as he was in the Mouths of wicked Ahab's Prophets, when they persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Gilead, and Prosper! And thus the Devil leads him on, till he hath done by him, as the Eagle doth by the Coco-Nut, sore with it a great height, and so lets it fall, and breaks the Shell, that she might the easier come at the Kernel. Let none admire what is here Written; for God regards bad Kings no more than silly Shepherds; for are they not cast in the same common Mould, as we are? Doth not their Spirits move with the same Springs and Wards, as ours do? And doth they not( as we do) Hear, and Smell, with the Organs of Nature, and breath in one Vital Air? If so, Mortal; and if Mortal, Subject to Accidents and Misfortunes, as we are: And, if I am not mistaken, France, at this time, is at Enmity with all the World; the Turk excepted, who is a common Enemy to all Christendom. Thus Men catch at any thing, when they are falling: Oh! what a Degree of Boldness, is France amounted to? But it will suddenly find an Alteration, to the Glory of God, and the Comfort of his People; because that Tyrant, who at present is Ruler thereof, hath trodden down all that is most Holy, and Acceptable in the sight of God, viz. the poor Protestants, even his own Subjects; when he ought to have been a Nursing Father, and Tender governor; Ruling his People with Moderation and Affability, and not with Tyranny and Barbarism; showing ill Examples to his Neighbour Nations; especially, the Kingdom of England: But France, must expect to smart for it, in a short time: Also, the Bloody Irish; for how can they think, but God will punish them, and suffer great part of their Walls to be laid waste, for spilling the Blood of Innocent Babes, that sprawled aloft, upon the Souldiers Spears in 41? Can they think, that the shrieks of their Robbed, and Ravished Mothers, did not pierce the Skies? O! Babarous and Wicked Men! Can they expect otherwise, than to drink deep of the Cup of Affliction; for they are threatened with Famine, or at leastwise, a great want of Provision; besides, Wars and Pestilential Diseases. Thus the Eternal Stars, so fiercely rolling over us with all the Circulation of the Heavenly Orbs, looks as if they had a patent to take an Account of every Man's Actions in this lower World; for as they were established, from before all Ages, to be for Signs and for Seasons, for Days and for Years; so will they continue their Influence over Mortals, to the end of Time, and never rest till the Universal Peace extends her Wing; the which, must not be expected, whilst we have our Natural being; but I hope we shall see the Golden Age return, where every Man is Master of his own, and live at Peace in a Free patent Government. Thus when King and People do agree, and live secure, all Rankor, Malice, and Ambition will Extinguish, and Princes and Nobles be Reverenced, true virtue and Learning be highly esteemed, Religion and Laws be practised in their Right Forms, and Principals, and the Kingdom flourish; yet the Enemy will push hard at her: Thus Men strive to leap at Fate, and hurl their Fortune head-long at the Stars: Such is Man's misguided Orb of Ambition, every one strives to be as great as Caesar! But let them behold the Game that laughing Fortune plays, who dooms them to either Axe, or Halter; and tells them, by the Stars, they may as well stop the Eternal Sun, and drive him back, as think of entering. Therefore I shall conclude with Saint Paul; Si Deus nobiseum, quis contra nos? If God be for us, who can be against us? And the great God direct our superiors, in the Management of those weighty Affairs that are before them; Preserve their most Sacred Majesties, and give them the Hearts of their People, that every Soul may be Subject to the Higher Powers: And this is the Hearty wish of him, who is a Loyal Subject to their Majesties, and his Countries Friend.   

Remarks upon King William's Access to the Throne, and of his speedy Conquest of France. With a Treatise, of the Two Superiors, for the Four ensuing Years.  
SInce the great God of Justice, hath been so Graciously pleased, to admit a Monarch to the Throne of England, whose Prudence and Courage( no doubt) will soon alloy the hot Spirits of Antichrist, and moderate a stubborn and dissaffected People, fearing not to unsheathe his Sword, against the fiercest Dragon in Nature; but, like a Second St. George, will venture Life and Fortune, to preserve his People, whom God hath committed to his Charge and Care; and we need not doubt, but( in the end) will come off like an Imperial Conqueror, to the Honour, and Glory of the great Creator, his own Renown, and the happy tranquillity of a flourishing Nation, and that to the final Extirpation of Popery, and Arbitrary Government, in Great Britain( Besides, I dare almost be positive, he will in a short time, enter the great Metropolis of France, conquer proud Lewis, and trample him under( with all his Pride and Tyranny) as little David did great goliath, whom he slay with a Sling-stone, for defying the Hosts of the living God; and it's my steadfast belief, that the Omnipotent Creator( in Mercy looking down upon these sinful Nations) sent him amongst us, as a second Moses, to stand in the Gap, and deliver these Four Kingdoms out of the Hands of Tyrants, who, like hungry and enraged lions, with open Jaws, would eagerly have swallowed up.) How then, ought the People of these Kingdoms by the good Examples of the Holy Saints, who are gone into Everlasting Rest, to Honour and glorify the Lord their Maker, and sing forth his Praise both Night and Day, with loud Acclamations of Spiritual Songs, lifting up their Hands and Hearts to the Throne of God, for all these Mercies received in so wonderful, and unheard of a Preservation? And in so doing, no doubt, but he will give them a double portion of his Blessings hereafter.  
One Word or Two have I to say, concerning the double Trine of Saturn and Jupiter, which fell July the 7th. 89. from Libra and Aquarius; and March the 7th. 89 / 90. from scorpion and Pisces; also, of the Triple Oppositions of the said Two Superiors, which happens June the 12th. 1692. in Six Degrees of geminy and Sagittarius; December the 3d. 1693. in Fourteen Degrees of geminy and Sagittarius; and April the 22d. 1694. in Two Degrees of geminy and Sagittarius. London, thou wilt dearly pay for these Oppositions; therefore look to it, for the People will expect to have Justice done them.  
I dislike nothing in these Trines, but Saturn's passing the place of Mars, and the Cusp of the Twelefth House in their middle Conjunction: scorpion is a Treacherous Sign; Mens Fancies are not yet settled: Here is still striving one against another; yet we have a glimpse of a better Satisfaction among ourselves, and things begin to appear more plain to the Eye, and we begin to Smile, though we have no strong Confidence of being quiter cured of our Distempers; for there many times appears a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing; and the Puppy of an old Fox, knows how to betray and cousin those which are Innocent, &c.  
O London! London! In the Years 92, 93, and 94.( as I said before) Saturn and Jupiter make no less than Three Oppositions from geminy and Sagittarius, the Signs of the First and Seventh, in their middle Conjunction; there's Transversion of Figure in the Heavens, so is all Unity and Friendship amongst the Princes of Hungary, Spain, Flanders, Brabant, Dalmatia, Moravia, Arabia; the happy Sardinia, Arminia, Hircania, Mesina, Celtica; the Dukedom of Wertenberge, &c. quiter dissolved: And what hath been obscured, ever since 78. 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, and 86. now plainly appears by a large Manifesto, to all the World; and now the European Princes begin to perceive by whom, and whose means, the Troubles of this present Age were fomented, but with no due Satisfaction, but still a Prospect of Confusion; for the Retrogadation of Saturn and Jupiter, in the middle Opposition, makes me mindful to persuade every one to bear a little, for another War, for new Combustions are threatened; very great Matters are now in Agitation, all over Europe, In Oppositione duorum Superiorum strages fiunt. Reg. Lib. 1. Aph. 80.  
During the Influence of an Opposition, of the Two superior Planets, there happens cruel Slaughters of Men, or Mankind, the ruin of many Families, and decay of Ancient Foundations, or Buildings; therefore, it was Judiciously observed by Cardan, When thou shalt at any time, perceive an Opposition or Conjunction of the Two Superior Planets, to be either in the Fiery, or Airy Triplicity, be not hasty in delivering thy judgement thereupon; or, when thou hast taken time, and dost pronounce it, beware thou do not mention, or Predict unto the World any frivolous, or mean Contingencies, to be signified thereby: For I would have thee well to understand, that these Two Triplicities are preheminent, and in Signification far exceeds the other Two; for thou must know, Things or Accidents, signified by the Fiery Trigon, excel in Greatness, Height and Glory, those Matters which in time are derived, &c. For the Influence of the superiors, in an Airy Triplicity, have Respect to profundity of Wit, sound councils, deep Policies in Laws, Ordinances, Statutes, and such Things, as the unwearied Disposition, or Mind of Man contemplates on: Therefore, from the Effects of these Oppositions, we must expect to hear of strange and uncouth Alterations, from the East and West parts of the World; especially, Spain, Dalmatia, Hungary, Flanders, Brabant, Arminia, London, the East and West-Indies, and all Places which are under geminy, and Sagittarius, are much herein concerned; for Opposite Aspects, or Configurations of the Planets, seem to Presage no less, than much Contention and Division to break out amongst us; for it hath been observed, Eo in Anno, nulla quies, cum Jupiter & Saturnus sunt in Oppositione, nunquam enim Mentes Hominum quiescunt, &c. In that Year there is no rest or quietness in the Minds of Men, when Saturn and Jupiter are in Opposition; for the Minds of Men at that time will never be quiet; therefore, this Opposition is the Messenger, or Foreteller of great Fights, and the Death or Slaughter of a number of Men, in the forementioned Places: God deliver us from a Plague! It likewise denotes the lamentable departure out of this World, of some Principle Men and Women; also portends a Dissolution of very ancient Leagues, Nam a Jove Amicitiae, faedera, Religiosi, &c. Jupiter having a strong Signification herein, we Predict from him great Alteration, or controversy, about Religion, Leagues, Friendship, Civil Affairs, and further Contracts betwixt Nation and Nation, or Common-wealths. We shall also find many underhand and pernicious Transactions, agitated by the several Agents, Messengers or ambassadors of Europe; and, in all probability, we may observe some secret Plot to break out, soon after this Opposition; for here is nothing but Contrivance of Mischief one against another, as it was in October, 1678. when that worthy Gentleman, Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey was murdered; at which time, there was a platick Square between Saturn and Jupiter, from geminy and Pisces: Oh, what Contrivances was there, then, against our Metropolitan City? and suddenly after, the Plot broken out to purpose; for in the April following, there was a Sextile between Saturn and Jupiter, in Aries and geminy: Oh! that happy Transit of Jupiter, through Aries, England's Sign, that discovered all their villainies, and frustrated their Evil, and devilish Designs: Therefore, if such grand Alterations did happen upon the platick Square of Saturn and Jupiter: What must we expect from this their triple Opposition, &c. But, if I mistake, or fail in these my prognostics; perhaps, the all-seeing Eye of God hath reserved the Honour for some more deserving Person than I am; therefore blinds my Senses, or else permits me not to see, or foretell, what these Heavenly Messengers are the Fore-runners of.   

The Planets Attributes, according to the Doctrine of Hermes, or the Hermetick-Philosophy.  
AND now, Courteous Reader, let me tell thee, He says nothing in philosophical Matters, that proves nothing; and he proves nothing, that doth not so demonstrate it, that you cannot contradict it. Therefore, I cease to persuade, and begin to demonstrate; cease to believe, and begin to know; cease to dispute, and begin to speculate; for that Aristotellical maxim, Discipulum oportet credere, A Learner must believe, is as Tyrannical, as Dangerous; therefore, let no Man be compelled to Swear to his Masters Words, but let the things themselves constrain the Intellect; nor let a Master have any more credit given him, than he can demonstrate, &c. Then let Urania be propitious to me, in this great Mystery; to declare a Work of Truth, and Permanency, concerning the Philosophical part of the Astral Science; also the Four Elements.  
There are Four Elements, and Original Grounds of all Corporal things, ( viz.) Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, of which all Elementated inferior Bodies are compounded, not by way of heaping them up together, but by Transmutation, and Union; and when they are destroyed, they are dissolved into Elements that is pure; but they are more or less mixed, and apt to be changed one into the other; even as Earth becomes Dirty, and being dissolved, becomes Water; and the same being made thick and hard, becomes Earth again;( even so amongst the celestial Bodies, Venus being in Conjunction, Aspect, or Parallel with Saturn, participates of his Nature, and is wholly an Infortune; but being separated, acts by the power of her own Nature: It is an Aphorism of Bethem's, A Fortune, with an Infortune, strengtheners the Infortune, but abates the worth of his own.) Now, Earth being evaporated through heat, passeth into Air, and that being kindled, passeth into Fire; and this being extinguished, returns back again into Air; but being cooled again after its burning, becomes Earth, or ston, or Sulphur; and this is manifested by Lightning: And it is the Opinion of the best Philosophers, or the more subtler sort of them, That Earth is not changed, but relented and mixed with other Elements which do dissolve it, and that it returns back into itself again: Now every one of the Elements hath two special qualities; the former whereof, it retains as proper to itself; in the other, as a mean, it agrees with that which comes next after it; so are the Stars by their tracing through the Signs, and touching each others Body, or Aspects; and that according to their Natures; as we know fire to be hot and dry; the Earth could and dry; the Water could and moist; the Air hot and moist: And thus you see, that after this manner, the Elements, according to contrary qualities, are contrary one to the other; as Fire to Water, and Earth to Air. Moreover, the Elements, are upon another Account, opposite one to the other; for some are heavy, as Earth and Water; and others are light, as Air and Fire; the two first being Passive, and the latter Active. Besides, every one of them are distinguished after another manner, and have assigned to each of them three qualities, viz. to the Fire, Brightness, Thinness, and Motion; but to the Earth, Darkness, Thickness, and Quietness. Now, according to these qualities, the Elements of Fire and Earth are contrary; so is Saturn and Sol; but the other Elements borrow their qualities from these, so that the Air receives two qualities of the Fire, Thinness and Motion; and one of the Earth, viz. Darkness: In like manner, Water receives two qualities of the Earth, as Darkness and Thickness, and one of the Fire, viz. Motion; but Fire is twice more Thinner than Air, thrice more Movable, and four times more Bright: And the Air is twice more Bright, thrice more Thin, and four times more movable than Water: Wherefore, Water is twice more Bright, thrice more Thin, and four times more movable than Earth; therefore, as the Fire is to the Air, so is the Air to the Water, and the Water to the Earth: And again, as the Earth is to the Water, so is the Water to the Air, and the Air to the Fire. Now, this is the Root and Foundation of all Bodies, Natures, virtues, and wonderful Works; and he which shall know these qualities of the Elements, and their intermixions, shall easily bring to pass such things that are wonderful and astonishing, and shall also be perfect in Starry Dialect; being capable to red the Language of the Stars, and distinctly know their Voices. Now, this is quiter out of the Common Astrologers way, for it appears as a new Doctrine to them, tho' it's the old and plain; for ask them the Reason, why the Sun is Exalted in Aries, or the Moon in Taurus? and why Saturn was not Exalted there, he being the first Planet, and Aries the first Sign? and why Mercury should have such a privilege above all the other Planets, as to have an Exaltation and house in one and the same sign? and why the Sun could not have that pre-eminence, he being the Light and Glory of the World? and why Jupiter could have no better place to be Exalted in, than Cancer, and Mars in Capricorn, and so of the rest? &c. O say they, The Sun is Exalted in Aries, because he is the Fountain of Light and Life; and when he comes into Aries, he produceth a new life to all Creatures and Vegetables, on this side the Equator: But, by their Worships leave, they might for all that reason have attributed Libra for his Exaltation also; for when he comes on that side the Equator, viz. the South side, he makes a new Vegetation there likewise, and yet they attribute his Fall to that place; so that that Argument will not hold water, it carrying no weight with it; for if the new products of Vegetation be from the Suns Exaltion, he must by the same Argument have two Exaltations; and then his Exaltation here in Aries is not Universal, but in our Climates. When this fails, then say they, The Planets have Dignities in such and such parts of the Heavens; because there are Stars of their own Nature; and so by consequence must be the Dignities of those Planets of that nature with themselves. Now, this is quiter contrary to the Doctrine of Hermes and ptolemy, whom these Gentlemen boast of as their Leaders; when in truth they understand nothing of their Sayings, but cleave to the Customs of the World, and forsake Truth: Which said Learned Authors in their Attributes, did not go about to Teach only the Art of Judicial Astrology; but( in them, although darkly) the very Secrets of Philosophy, in the three Worlds; namely, in the celestial, Animal, and Vegetable Kingdoms; to which we might add the Mineral Kingdom also; and how in each, the Great God JEHOVAH hath set forth His Divine Works of Creation, Production, and Multiplication: For there is no part in these Three Kingdoms, but the Great God( who was the Creator of all Things) hath declared Himself therein; nay, in the very infects, Reptiles, and the smallest of Individuals! Therefore the true Knowledge of these Things consists in the true understanding of the celestial World; which when Hermes and ptolemy had understood, they found and knew, That Sol was no ways to be Exalted but by Mars; and that it must be done likewise in his Fiery Cell; and that pale-faced Luna, by entering into a Friendly Conjunction with Amorous and Sanguine Venus, and by Lodging in her Bed, near sols Chamber, became equal to Sol himself; and that Caput Draconis with Mercury, remaining in the Airy Region, did produce a Fountain for Jupiter to wash off his Defilements, and become clean, to keep Court with Royal Sol in the lion; and that Mercury duplicate in Virgo, in his House and Exaltation, hath power to overcome all the rest of the Planets; that being the Hellespont, that even Sol himself, and all the rest of the Planets, must pass through, before they can enjoy their Princely Thrones. And Thou, whosoever thou art, that canst have admittance to this celestial Virgin, Court her without delay, and she will unfold to thee Great Mysteries! For she is a Virgin, yet old; she was Born before her Mother, and brought forth her own Father; she holdeth in her Hands the celestial Scales, where Saturn is made King, by the permission of Blood-stirring Venus; who afterwards brings in Mars to the like Honour with himself. That is, when Mars is become a Servant to Saturn, and has likewise entered into an Everlasting Friendship with him, that they may Live and Die together. Also, Venus shall have a Crown of pure Gold set upon her Head, when she will take good Counsel of Grave Jupiter, and harken to his Precepts: Then shall the celestial Ram Fight with the celestial Bull, until they both die with the Effusion of their Blood, which is a Twin: This by the Divine Power is Circulated, till it becomes an Ocean, in which the lion doth Swim, and the Virgin doth Bathe her self: Here Equity, or the balance, are the Stairs to descend into this Fountain; where the Scorpion is washed from his poison by the Archer, and the raging He Goat's Horns are broken; this is the Conduit from whence the Tankard-Bearer gets his Water to boil his Fishes in, by the First Power which Sol is Exalted, ( viz.) in Aries. I have given this Inigmatical Discourse, which I know will be Carpt at; but let such know, it's past their Understanding! Therefore have I done it, to show how lame and deficient their Judgments are in the Astral Science; yet impudently pretend to understand those dark Mysteries, and at the same time cannot see through the Light of Nature; but, Gypsie-like, Tongue-Pad Ignorant and Credulous People out of their Moneys, &c. It may be, some will expect I should here, in plain Words, unfold all this Mystery; but let such know, as from Nights Womb the Glorious Day breaks forth, and seems to kindle from the setting Stars; so are all things kept within the bounds and measure of Order: And thus I leave it as a Whet to the Ingenious, that they may Redeem their lost time, as a Meteor wades through the Abyss of Light.   

The judgement of the Sybils, in Confirmation of this Book.  
At the Conclusion of my Book, I think it not amiss to Instance the Famous Sybils; who are not only in great esteem for Poetesses, but Prophetesses: Therefore, I think it will be convenient( in this place) to give a brief Account of them, as it has been handed down by past Ages to the present, and Translated, &c.  
ISidorus saith, The Word sibyl is a Name of Place and Office, derived of Syos, which signifies a Deity, and Beele: But for the Number of these Sybils, the Ancient Writers differ; For Aelianus will have but Four, ( viz.) Aerithraea, Samia, Egyptica, and Sardinia. Now Aretina agrees with Isidorus in the Etymology of the Word, but he numbers Ten, and ascribes them these following Names and Places; ( viz.) Persia, Lybia, Delphica, as Born at Delphos, Omeria of Italy, Erithraea of Babylon, Samia, Cuma, Hellespontica, Phrygia, and Alburnea. Cumae was she that brought Books to tarqvinius Priscus, which spake of the Roman Succession: And how strangely soever these were Inspired, they foretold wonderful Truths; and, as the Ancients affirm, exposed their Prophecies in Verse: But, for Brevities sake, I shall only mention those that were fulfilled in the Conception and Birth of the Blessed messiah, &c.  
1. Sybilia Persica, Born in Persia, and held more Ancient than the rest; who having expressed the most material things, relating to the several Ages of the World, till the Year of our Blessed Saviours Incarnation, thus Speaks: 
In which Year, of a Virgin shall be Born  
The Prince of Peace, crowned with a wreathe of Thorn:  
Him, the Seventh Age shall follow, and extend  
till the Worlds Frame dissolve, and Time see end.   
2. Sybilia Libia, by some called Phaemoroe, was held to be the Daughter of Apollo, surnamed Prima; and is Imputed by some, the first inventor of heroic Verse; and of our Blessed Saviour thus held to prophesy: 
A King, a Priest, a Prophet; all these Three  
Shall meet in one Sacred Divinity;  
Shall be to Flesh espoused; Oh! Who can scan  
This Mystery? Uniting God with Man.  
When this rare Birth into the World shall come,  
He, the great God of Oracles strikes Dumb.   
Nor may it be amiss to set down how exactly the two last Lines were fulfilled; for the very Day wherein our Blessed Saviour was Born, one asked a Response of the Oracle, and had this Answer: 
Me Purus Haebreus, Superum Rex linquere Tecta  
Haec Jubet, & Coecas Noctis remeare sub umbras;  
Ergo, silus Aris, tu nunc discendito Nostris.   
And may be englished thus: 
A Hebrew Child, King of the Heavens High,  
To leave these Altars has commanded me  
To Nights dark Shadows, and to final Woe;  
Thou therefore silent from our Altars go.   
And since that time it is observed, they remained Mute.  
3. Sybilia Delphica, was by some called Daphne, and said to be Daughter to Tyresias; She having foretold the Wars of Troy, proceeds to speak thus of our Blessed Saviour: 
An Angel shall descend, and say; Thou Blessed Mary, Hail!  
Thou shalt Conceive, bring Forth, yet be a Virgin without fail:  
Three Gifts the Chaldeans to thy Son, shall tender with much Piety,  
myrrh to a Man, Gold to a King, and Incense to a Deity.   
4. Sybilia Cumaea, also called Cimmonia, is held to have been one of the Priestesses to Apollo, Born in Cuma, a City of Aetolia, and speaks thus, in Relation to our Blessed Saviour: 
The Ancient of Days, shall then submit to Time;  
The Maker yield himself to new Creation;  
The Deity and God-head most sublime,  
Take Shape of Man, to ransom every Nation.  
Die to make others Live, and every Crime  
Committed from the round Worlds first Foundation,  
Take on Himself, as low as Hell descending,  
To win Man, Heaven upon His Grace depending.   
5. Sybilia Samia, otherwise called Europhile, took the Name of Sama, from the Isle of Samos, the place of her Birth: Her Predictions were these: 
The World shall to six Thousand Years expire;  
By Water once, but then destroyed by Fire.  
The first Two Thousand voided; the next the Law;  
The last Two under the messiah Awe.  
And as Repose by Sabbath is expressed,  
Sun, Moon, and Stars, all Things shall then have Rest.   
6. Sybilia Cumana, by some called Amalthaea, having Prophesied of the great Revolutions and Successions of the Monarchies of the World, speaking of the Glories of Rome, she comes to her Predictions of our Blessed Saviour: 
Great Rome shall then look high;  
Whose proud Towers, from their Hills shall brave the sky,  
And overlook the World; In these blessed Days  
Shall come a King of Kings; and He shall raise  
A New Plantation, and though greater far  
In Majesty and Power; yet in that Day,  
So meek and humble, he shall deign to Pay  
Tribute to Caesar; yet thence happy he,  
Who shall his Servant, or his Subject be.   
7. Sybilia Hellespontica, was otherwise called Marrinensis; and, as some affirm, derived her self from Troy; Her Predictions are these: 
When Atlas Shoulders shall support a Star,  
Whose ponderous Weight he never felt before;  
The splendour of it shall direct from far,  
Kings, and the Wisest Men, a New Light to Adore.  
Peace in those Days shall Flourish, and stern War  
Be banished Earth, Man-kind to restore.  
Then shall the Eastern Monarchs presents bring,  
To One, a Priest, a Prophet, and a King.   
8. Sybilia Phrygia, as most are of Opinion, was no other than Cassandra, Daughter to Pryam, King of Troy, and Hecuba his Queen: She foretold the Destruction of Troy, but was never Credited; but Speaking nothing of our Blessed Saviour, I shall pass by her Predictions, though they exactly came to pass.  
9. Sybilia Tyburnia, so called of the River tiber, was otherwise called Alburnia, or Albania, from the City Alba, the place of her Birth: It is reported of her, That the Romans going about to deify Augustus Caesar, demanded her Advice; who after Three Days Fasting before the Altar, where the Emperor was present; after many Mysterious Words miraculously spoken, concerning our Blessed Saviour, upon a sudden the Heavens seemed to open, and Caesar saw a Beautiful Virgin standing before the Altar, holding an Infant in her Arms, whereat affrighted, he Fell on his Face, and heard a Voice, saying, This is the Altar of the Son of God. In which place was Built a Temple afterwards, and Dedicated to the Virgin Mary; and it was called, The Altar of Heaven. This Polichronicon asserts, and quotes St. Augustine for his Author, Lib. 8. Cap. 24. Her Predidictions of our Saviour was these;( after she had recited divers Wonders of the World, which I willingly omit.)  
What at these Trifles stands the World amazed?  
And hath on them with Admiration gazed!  
Then wonder, when the Troubled to appease,  
He shall descend, who made Them, that made These!  
10. Sybilia Europica, was so called, for that her particular Region, or place of Birth was never known; nor is she accounted amongst the Ten, though Inserted here. Her Predictions were these: 
When the Great King of all the World shall have  
No place on Earth, by which He can be known;  
When He that comes, all Mortal Men to save,  
Shall find his own Life by the World o'erthrown:  
When the most Just, Injustice shall deprive;  
And the Great Judge, be Judged by his own:  
Death when to Death, a Death by Death hath given;  
Then shall be op't the long-shut Gates of Heaven.   
11. Sybilia Aegypta, was likewise added to the Ten: she Prophesied on the Number Three; and having reckoned many things existent in that Nature, thus proceeds: 
But which of us, observed the Sacred Trine,  
Three Persons in one God-head, sole Divine?  
That individual Essence, who dares scan,  
Which is, shall be, and e're the World began,  
Was in Eternity, when of these Three  
One of that most Inscrutable Trinity.  
The Second Person, Wisdom, shall Entomb  
All Majesties, within a Virgins Womb,  
True Man, true God, shall to that best Trine link;  
True Light shall shine, and false Stars be extinct.   
12. Sybilia Aerithraea, was born in Babylon, and was Daughter to Berosius, the Famous Astrologer; she Prophesied of the Greeks, that came to the Siege of Troy; defined the Places whence they came, and how long the Siege would last; mentioning in her Book Homer, and how that he should writ of those Wars, partially, according to his Affection: And in this manner she Prophesied, of our blessed Saviour: 
The Time, by the great Oracle assigned,  
When God himself, in pity to Mankind,  
Shall from the heaven descend, and be incarnate,  
Entering the World a Lamb imaculate;  
And of himself, in Wisdom thinks so meet,  
Walks on the Earth, with Three and Thirty Feet,  
And with Six Fingers; all his Subjects then,  
Though a King Mighty, shall be Fisher-Men;  
In number Twelve: With these, Wars shall be tried,  
Against the Devil, the World, the Flesh, and Pride.  
Humility shall quell; the sharpest Sword,  
With which they fight, shall be the Sacred Word;  
established upon Earth, which Foundation  
Once laid, shall be divulged to every Nation.   
By the Words, Feet, and Fingers, are to be understood Years and Months.  
And thus I conclude the Prophesies and Perdictions of Sybils: Which, if truly theirs; and by their being delivered down through so many hands, have been neither added to nor diminished; it remains doubtful, whether it was in the power of any infernal Spirit to divulge such Sacred Truths, so long before they came to pass: Or, if it was, by this we may see, that the Devils themselves, were constrained to fore-tell, what they fore-saw would be the Ruin and Destruction of their Kingdom of Darkness: But I rather think it was by Divine Inspiration, because the Devil was a liar from the Beginning, therefore not able to tell the Truth; that being only the Office of the celestial Angels, who are the Messengers of God, appointed to reveal his Will and Pleasure, so soon as it is delivered unto them; for they themselves know nothing of future Events, until they have received it from the great Creator.    

Scutica Gadburiana: OR, A Whip for Gadbury.  
READER, Knowing that this small Tract may fly through most Parts of Christendom; I have therefore thought it convenient, to show you some Reasons of me thus differing with that Neroean, Gadbury; that the World( hereafter) may count me blameless, and find him guilty of the fault.  
The ground( or foundation) of the Quarrel is this: In the Preface of his 88's almanac( as I take it) without Consideration or Demonstration, he had the Impudence to writ against Me and my Associate, Authors of the Marrow of Astrology; calling us a couple of Astrologers; and at the same time said, he believed the Art was scarcely got Cutis deep, which was a gross Affront to Men of Sense: But that's not all; for since Mr. Partridge and my absence out of London, he wrote a little Book, called a Reply, in which pag. 25. he calls us a Ternary of Knaves and impostors( viz.) Mr. Partridge, John Holwell, and myself; And herein the libeler( saith he, meaning Mr. Partridge) echoes to a couple of English Miscreants,( which word, in English, signifies Infidels, Atheists, or Godless fellow, those that believe not in God) calling themselves Astrologers also; who have printed nearly the like treasonable Stuff, some years since, under pretence of Predictions, Vid. Holwels Catastrophe Mundi, page. 61. and Kirby's Astrological Prophet, p. 29. And in other places of his Works, he calls us a brace of Almanack-men; those common Plunderers of Ephemerides; says he, Where are they now? And abundance of worse Stuff, not to be bore with, especially by me. Thus far this Sodomite, Ahab's false Prophet, after a scurrilous manner, hath insolently abused us, and, Crochadile like, spewed out his poison against us, who never wronged him by Thought, Word, or dead: But who can expect any thing better from such a Fellow, who hath been of all Religions, and never stuck to any? I suppose, he thought we had finally absconded, or at least ways durst never more appear in Sight: But why need I to trouble myself about it? Did he not writ against Mr. lily, in the worst of Language, after he had gave him the benefit of his Study for several years, besides the employing of him to make his clothes for some time? Yet for all this kindness, he could not forbear Ingratitude: And who can expect any other from a Scorpionist, and Mars in Taurus, as this Gentleman himself hath very ingeniously inserted, in his Doctrine of Nativities, page. 77 and 78? Where he writes of the Inclinations and Conditions of the Native, by the Planets in their own Houses; and in the Houses of each other, as they are Lords of a Nativity: But if Mars, says he, shall be in Taurus or Libra, it shows the Native to be Luxurious, a a Fornicator, a Sodomite, and wickedly given to all abominable and filthy Actions; a Deluder of Women, and shall be deluded and deceived by them; shall betrothe some, under an Evil pretence; and by being so addicted, shall bring unto himself great Damage and Detriment: Thus inserted by his own Hand, from Guido Bonatus. But from Alboaly, thus; If Mars be found in Taurus, as he is here in Mr. Gadbu— Nativity,( as he himself hath Calculated,) he signifieth a traitor, given to falsehood, evilminded; a Boaster and Fornicator. And thus you see, how this Spark hath spoken of himself at unawares; and here is his Nativity from his own Calculation, in the said Book, page. 254. which I leave to all Judicious Men, to Judge both of his Manners, Inclinations, and Dispositions:  astrological chart 
Decemb. 31st. d. 14. h. 26. m. P. M. Lat. 51. 42.  
The Author forgot the Year, which was 1627.   
But for their better Satisfaction, I shall display him in his proper Colours, in this following Matter.  
And thus to my most endeared and loving countrymen( but more especially, to the Sons of Urania, which are Students in the Siderial Sciences) do I present this small piece, wherein are some Reflections on a Prick-louse Astrologian,( alias, John Gadbury, the Scorpionist) who, upon a certain time( in his Annual Ephemeris) had the brazening Impudence to writ( in his Preface) against the Authors of the Marrow of Astrology; saying, He believed the Art was scarcely got Cutis deep,( as I said before) when I am apt to believe, at the same time, the Man was either lunatic, in some strange Delireum, or at leastwise Planet struck; as the Impartial Reader( I doubt not) will certainly imagine, when he hath well examined this small Messenger, and weighed every Word in that most equal and just balance of Reason, &c.  
And now to undeceive the Genius and Laborious Astral Students,( especially, those that are Genethliacally given) the mayor part of the Marrow of Astrology was Translated from that learned Monk, Placidus, De titis Primum mobile, Printed at Patavia, in Italy; it being the very Method of the Prince of philosophers, viz. the great and learned ptolemy; to whom( as it is Recorded in Doctor Dee's Action of Spirits, page. 153.) an Angel appeared, and opened unto him the unknown Parts of the Earth; but some he was commanded to keep Secret, which was those under the North Pole; the Book being now in Print; the Original of which was found in Sir Thomas Cotton's Library, at Westminster, and caused to be Printed by Doctor Causabone; in which Book you will find something of moment, concerning the Year 88. such as is worth the Readers searching after; the which, I here forbear to insert; but refer thee to the Book, &c.  
And, as touching the Marrow of Astrology, you have in it the only method of Directions in the World, but handled very concisely; and is Exemplified with Twenty sundry eminent and remarkable Nativities, and other useful Operations, pertinent for such a Work; the like every Vulgar Astrologer hath not had the happiness to meet with: It is also furnished with excellent Tables of Twi-Light, Semi-diurnal, and Semi-nocturnal Arches, and Mundane Aspects; and, I dare aver, is more Infallible than John Gadbury's wearing the across, or eating the Wafer; who( Esau-like) sold his Birth-right for a Mess of Pottage, as is visibly seen by this his Time-observing Method of Writing: For, instead of laying down the true Rules of Art, he hath glazed it over all along with a little sorry rhetoric, on purpose to amuse and persuade the Ignorant and Credulous! And thus the Devil prompt on this Slave, this gipsy, this Fortune-Teller, with undigested Notions, filling his Heart as full of Pride, as his Brain of chimaeras( not regarding, but) casting the true Rules of Art at his Feet; not considering, that all things depends on Time and Motion, as is well defined by Placidus; also, by my most Respective Friends, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Bishop, and myself, whose Method we all use: But this Idiot, this walking Shred, this vaunting, upright Needle of a tailor, hath followed the uncertain Steps of Argol and Regiomontanus; the best of which( nor none of their Followers) never understood the Rudiments of Art in all their Days:( And this I can prove, let whose will undertake to vindicate them;) but have, with their base Absurdities, Infatuated the Genius of those, which would have been good Proficients in so noble a Science; as this Scorpionist, and his Associates( Rome's Dark Lying Elders) would have done us, concerning the Prince of Wales, and their Papistical Doctrine,( persuading us to bear more than the Asses Burden;) had not the First Mover, by His never-failing Motion and Providence, Delivered us in due time, By the Coming-in of a Thrice Happy Prince of Orange, now King of England; who ought to have a Never-dying Name Charactered in Letters of Gold, throughout all the Churches of Great Britain, &c.  
I once remember, I red a little Piece, entitled, A just Reward for unreasonable Service, by Bentivolio Phylo-Hufflash; it being upon that Gadburian, stigmatized, False, Deceitful, Treacherous Sign, scorpion, and done by a Learned Pen; the which, I don't doubt, but he the said Jack Gadbury hath oftentimes perused over, and that with a blushing Countenance, it wholly reflecting on the Horoscope of his Nativity, viz. scorpion; the which one might have thought, would have checked his Insolent Viperous Pen, for ever more scrawling Words of Envy or Impiety! But Impudence is like true Malice, it knoweth no bounds; and such are signified by Neroe's Constellation, scorpion; under the Influence of which, is Brick-Court Gadbury, the Limb-Trimmer; whom Future Ages will be bound to Curse, as Peterborough did the Priests; who had no sooner choose his Religion, but he was constrained to begin again; and, as far as I know, may, till the Day of his Dissolution. But, to return to my present Task in Hand, I dare adventure to give any Man an Hundred Guineas, that hath seriously Traced over Gadbury's Collection of Genitures, and can produce me one True Arch of Direction in the whole Work, done according to the Rules of Art: And for his Doctrine of Nativities, it is vain and insipid, the Tables being excepted, the Calculation of which is none of his; and for his erroneous 20 Years Ephemerides, it wholly belongs to Merrifield, whom he calls his Quondam Pupil; whom scarcely any Artist, living in London, will own him worthy his Society; yet, I think, as good an Astrologian, as Mr. Gadbury the tailor, though not so well known to the World as he is, especially amongst the Papal Crew; whose Hellish Inventions, Plots and Contrivances, makes even Lucifer himself stand amazed. Let both Wise and Ignorant People, but once look back, and re-count their mis-spent time which they have lost, in Addressing themselves to this Fine, Canting, Tongue-Pad gipsy; and what false Reports, and little Satisfaction, they have received from him; and it will( even) make them sit down, and Weep with Heraclitus the Philosopher: For, as Aristotle's Writings have much Learning and Ingenuity in them, so have his as much Obscurity and Falsity; which hath given occasion to many to inquire after, and suppose they see those Things which are no where in being! Then, What Man can think well of such a Fellow as this? That had a Commission to Dissemble; a Patent Hypocrite, that took Pay to Forge Lies by Law, and lives by the Sins of the People: For, how many Nativities hath he pretended to Calculate, and promised the Natives an Assurance of their Lives to 50, 60, 70, or 80 Years of Age; yet have they Died in their Minorities? And all this was for want of Studying God and Nature, and following the true Rules of Art; the which is laid down in Placidus, also in the Marrow of Astrology; being the same that Mr. Partridge did once offer to Demonstrate to the World: But this Idolater cried out, he was mad: And why do you think that was? Only, because he understood it not, neither was he capable of answering his Queries; but, like a Bell without a Clapper, gave no Sound: Besides, if you peruse over his 89's almanac, you will find Inserted there abundance of horrid Stuff, and what is worse, Impudence, enough almost to raise the Bodies of ptolemy, Michael Nostrodamus, and Placidus, out of their Graves, that they might join their Wits with Hudibras to bring the Stars to their Directions: For no Mortal Living can bring Directions, Conjunctions, Aspects, Parallels, Transits, Eclipses, or Comets, to signify or portend any such things in Mundane Affairs, as he hath there Predicted in his said Ephemeris;( but Parrat-like, talks of the Stars by root, yet knows not the Voice nor Language thereof) only speaks by Lot or Chance, or as he would have it; like Men at game, every one that Plays would win, &c.  
And now Gadbury! If thou art in thy right Senses, red and Consider well your 89's almanac, and more especially your January's and February's Poems; the which I here Insert, &c.  

Gadbury, In January, 89.  
All Hail my Masters! Eighty Eight is gon,  
That Year of Wonders which the World so feared;  
Yet hath produced for us to Anchor on,  
A Prince of Wales, the Subject of each Bard!  
And that thou now art mine; Sweet Babe forgive!  
I'll Sing thy Praises, and thy Vassal Live.   

Kirby, 90.  
Begon thou Lying, Fond, Ambitious Brat,  
Young Pirkin's Slave; and, his blind Prophet too:  
The Counsels Rod can reach thee,( think on that)  
And all, the bloody Papists plotting Crew.   

Gadbury, in February, 89.  
Angels and Stars, adorned this Royal Birth,  
As if the Prince of Peace, breathed Peace on Earth:  
May it to Warlike Britain, prove as he  
Did to the World( its Saviour to be)  
Gladding the drooping Souls, of Loyal Men,  
And Madmen, to their Wits, return again.   
But I think( and am apt to believe that you will never return to yours, but instead of being Compos-mentis( as you say by Titus oats) in July's Observations, you will grow down right Mad; for, I dare say, you are as near it now, as eager Death is to a Malefactor, at the place of Execution, after the Cart is drawn away.  
Then Kirby.  
All hail my Masters, the Year of Ninety's come.  
And Mars in Taurus, Warlike Canons thunder;  
Then, hence you learing, bald Pates, Priests of Rome,  
For we your Rebel Teagues, resolve to plunder, &c.  
And for the Vindication of the Astral Science, according to Placidus, which I now profess; I shall prove by several Examples, that all Gadbury's Rules in the Genethliacal part of Astrology( which he hath taken from Argol and Regiomontanus) are false and absurd, therefore I wholly explaud them; as instance, a certain Nativity, out of his great Delilah, viz. his Collection of Genitures, seriously perused and corrected, which take as followeth,  
 astrological chart 
Collectio Geniturarum, pag. 30.  
Sebastianus Portugalia Rex, Natus, Anno. 1554. Jan. 19. 13 h. 46 m. P. M. sub Elev. Po. 40. d. 00 m.  
☽ ad Vacuum.  

Lattitude Plan.  ♄ 1 43 S. ♃ 1 44 N. ♂ 0 04 S. ♀ 1 10 N. ☿ 1 48 N. ☽ 2 51 N. 
Dec.—  ♄ 7 47 ♃ 0 08 ♂ 16 42 ☉ 17 56 ♀ 22 02 ☿ 12 40 ☽ 16 12   
This Native died a violent Death( saith Gadbury) at Twenty Four Years of Age; but, say I, at Twenty Four Years, Six Months, odd Days; the Reasons( according to Argol) for a violent Death in this princes Nativity, as he affirms. are these. Mars cum Sole, in Signo Humano, cum Testimonia Mercurij, domini Octavae Occidentalis; Luna, in Oppositio Solis, Martis, & Mercurij.( he might as well, saith Gadbury, have noted their casting a Square to the Ascendant also, chiefly the Moon and Mercury, &c. But, I say, Gadbury( if he had understood it) might have added the Moons Parallel Declination to Mars, Lord of the 12th. being far more prevalent. For, ptolemy saith, Mars evilly beholding the Sun, or Moon, in any Nativity from human Signs, denotes Death to the Native, by intestine broils, or Civil Commotions; or, that he shall be slain by the Hands of his Enemies; herein, Gadbury was in the Right, but at unawares, because, he did not apprehended ptolemy, neither had the sense to consider that the Moon was giver of Life, as here she is, but like an empty skull'd coxcomb, has laid her aside, as useless. Moreover, according to his Argolian Method, he produces no Direction of Hers to kill, but ignorantly directs the Ascendant to the Quartile of Saturn to signify Death, which Direction, according to the true Rules of Art, came up in the 7th. Year of his Age; The Work is thus,   D. M. obliqne Asc. Saturn, under the Pole of Birth, is 352 39 Saturns, Seminocturnal Arch. 6 Hours, 29 Min. or 97 15 Which Subtracted, leaves 255 24 From which, I Subtract the     Ob. Ascen. of the Horoscope, viz. 248 55 And the Remainder, is the Ark of Direction 006 29 Which is to be equated.      
Now, as I said before in this Nativity, the Moon is giver of Life, and by her coming to the Parallel Declination of Saturn, from the 4th. House, was the Cause of his Death, by Her Direction she comes near the 21 Degree of Virgo, where she hath 4 d. 21 m. North Latitude; and there she meets with the parallel Declination of Saturn, which is 7 d. 47 m.  
The Work take as followeth,  
The Moon's Declination is 16d. 12m. to which, in the zodiac, answers 15 d. 40 m. of lo, whose Semidiurnal Arch( She being above the Earth) is 104d. 15m. the third part whereof being 34d. 45 m. and is the space of one House.  
Now, the Pole of the 9th. is near 16 deg. The Moon's R.A. 147. d. 29. m. the difference between that, and the M. C. is 11 deg. 26.  
Now to find the Moon's Pole of Position, I do thus,  
If 34 d. 45( being the space of one House  
Give 16 deg. the Pole of the 9th. House.  
What shall 1126 the differ. betwixt the R. A. of the M.C. and the Moon R. A. give.  
Which by the Rule of proportion, I find to be 5 d. 16m. the 16 m. I reject, and take only the 5 deg. which is the Moon's Pole.  
Now, because the Moon is in the descending part of Heaven, I take her opposite place under the Pole of 5 deg. and therein her obliqne Ascension with contrary Latt. which is 328d. 56m. Now the obliqne Ascension of 21 d. of Pisces, with 4 d. 21 m. South Lat. is 354 d. 9 m. from which I Subtract the obliqne Ascension of the Moon's opposite place, and it leaves the Ark of Direction, 25 deg. 13 m. which being equated, points out the true time of Death.  
Dear John, had I room, I would have inserted Carolus Gustaws, the King of Sweeden's Nativity, Born Nov. the 7th. 14 hours 28 min. P.M. Lat. 59.d. in your own Coll. Gen. pag. 35. Who, as you say, the more pollitickly to bring his Designs about, Bribes a Quack in Astrology( as well hit Jack, as if thou hadst struck an Arrow through thy own Liver), with a Golden Chain, to predict him Victory and Success over his Enemies, from the Stars; which cursed Bribe, received by a Greedy, Hellish, Hypocritical Canter,( and no Astrologer) had no more Success than thy flattering Predictions for the Late King James, and your God-like Prince of Wales in the Year, 88.  
Farther, you mention that the Sybils and Mother Shipton were conjured out of their Graves to assist the Swedish King, and that he was promised to be made greater than Charles the Great, for the sake of his Golden Chain; and that he was ordained to kick, and cuff, the Hogens of Holland, and make William of brandenburg repent in Sackcloth and Ashes, and that he should beat the Dane out of his Country, and writ himself Rex Daniae; even so Jack didst thou pretend to raise the Devil and the Pope, to assist your Old deluded Master, the Late King James, against our great Deliverer the P. of Orange; 'Tis a Thousand pities that two such sycophanting pretended Astrologians had not lived both in one time, that to save the World 3 d.( which was more than their Bodies were worth) they might have been hanged together in one string.  
Have a Care Jack, and take this for a Precaution; for thy Stars presage thee to have more to do with the Air than the Earth, and that in a little time too; but what shall we say, if a Man must be exalted above his Brethren, who can help it.  
The Direction( thou sayest) that brought this King to the Crown was the M. C. to the Body of Jupiter, in the 23d. Year of his Age, and that which killed him was the 10th. House, to the Conjunction of Saturn; but how that could be, and the Moon giver of Life, I know not, nor thee neither; but to satisfy thee, in a little time, I will give you positive Directions for these, and correct all your Collection of Genitures, and show wherein you err; In the mean while, I must a little extol my very good Friend Mr. Henry Coley, that Ingenious Matthematitian, who hath been a Laborious Student in the Siderial Sciences this many years, and hath given great Light to the Sons of Art, in his Clavis Astrologia, and other his Works, in demonstrating the substantial Rules of Trigonometry, so plain and facile, as he hath done, laying open the 28 Cases of Spherical Triangles, so candidly, that the meanest of Urania's Darlings may easily learn to perform, and become a profound Artificer in celestial Serveying, and so I cease, as to that.  
And now Doctor Jack, I think it necessary in this place to show the Fallacy of the Papists pretended Transubstantiation, the which hope will be very satisfactory to all true Christians, and be never the worse excepted of, tho it comes from a Lay-Man; for Truth is Truth, and a Horse is a Horse( if I may so call it) No Ignorant Man's envy do I Care for, I have hitherto lived, and shall still, so long as the Divine Providence is over me: And now to the Purpose.  
To what end doth Man think, that God gave to all Creatures Five Senses, viz. Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Smelling and Tasting; and more especially to him that calls himself Rational, viz. Man; but that it was to undeceive him, that he might discern a Distinction, between Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, also, the Elements; for by the Sight, we know one Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral, from another, viz. a Man from a Horse, a Dog from a Bear, a Snake from a toad, Gold from Silver, Copper from Iron, and Tin from led; an Oak from an Alder, Ash from Elm, and Beech from fir; Sage from Rosemary, Time from Parsley, and Onions from Nettles; and lastly, Light from Dark; by feeling, we know Flesh from Bone, Fire from Water, one being Hot and Active, the other being could, Moist and Passive; also, we discern Earth from Air, one being Dry, Ponderous and Passive, and the other being Hot, Moist, Vivifying and Active, by Hearing, we discern the difference of Sounds and Voices; by the Organs of Smelling, we know the difference of Scents; and by Tasting, we know Sweet from Bitter, and sour from both; Bread from Flesh; Wine from Water, and Blood from all, &c. Then, what Man is that dare presume to say, that a Weafer dipped in Wine, is the Body and Blood of Christ, true God and true Man, since the Senses themselves cannot be deceived, besides, Miracles are ceased, and he that can do this doth a Miracle, because it is above Nature: Shall the Sands seem to invite the Mountains? Or can the small Rivers entertain the unknown depths of the Sea? No; And why? Because it is impossible for the Minor to comprehend the mayor: Therefore, let not Mortal Man think to do that which properly belongs to none, but the great Creator of all things; for, as all things were created and made by the Word of God, so shall the whole frame of Nature be changed,( or Transubstantiated( by the same God, and not by Man, who is Subject to Change and Chances himself: Not that I, or any Rational Man, under the celestial Canopy, can deny, but that our blessed messiah, did( at the Institution of his last Supper) give his own Body and Blood to be eat and drank by his Disciples; for by His God-head, He had Power so to do; for He took the Bread and broke it; He took the Cup also, and He blessed it, saying, take eat, this is my Body; drink, this my Blood of the New Testament, which is  shed for many, for the Remission of Sins; for except you eat my Body, and drink my Blood, you have no part with Me, as in some Translations it is verified; this he did, being yet alive, and not Crucified, and his Disciples did believe, because he had shewed them the possibility of his so doing before, in sundry Examples, First, at the Wedding, by changing the Water into Wine; Secondly, in feeding so many Thousands with Five Loves, and Two small Fishes; and so many Baskets full of Fragments were taken away, which was a great Augmentation; also, in raising the Bodies of the Dead; especially Lazarus, who had lain Four Days in the Grave, and in many other Examples which caused them to believe. And thus, as you believe him to be the Son of God, you must believe all things are possible unto him; for as God the Father( in the beginning) created and made all Things out of Nothing, viz. the Heavens, the Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is; out of the nearest part of that Nothing, he made the Soul of Man, which is a Secret shut up in the Holy Scripture, not fit for the World to know( for I am sure it is as impossible for any Man to discover what the Soul of Man is, as to gather the Sun into his Bosom, or show me the Image of a Voice, because the Natural Eye cannot discern it) He said, Come let us make Man, after our own Image; who did he then speak to, but His only Son, begotten before all Worlds, being equal with the Father, in Power and Substance; for, as there is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in Trinity Three Persons, yet but One God, and Equal in Power and Substance( as before) for as God the Father, in the beginning, took the Dust of the Earth, by way of plasmating, he folded it together, and so made Man, then breathed the Breath of Life into his Nostrils, and so he became a living Soul; and the Dust( or day) at the same time, becoming Flesh, Blood, and Bone, it being so transubstantiated; Man then being the very Idea of the same Architect as framed him;( and that more especially, because of his Innocency;) and thus our blessed Saviour at his last Supper; being God as well as Man; by the Power of his God-Head, took the Bread by way of plasmating, breathed, or blessed the Bread and Wine, and so transubstantiated it into Flesh and Blood,) viz.( his own Flesh and Blood) which was as possible for Him to do; as for God the Father, with the Son, to turn( or transubstantiate) the Dust, by his Word, into Man, which is Flesh, Blood, and Bone; yet I would have no Priest( Popish or other) presume,( or think so to do, tho he perform Christ's Office, because he is Man( only) and not God, and Sinful also: Now, if there be any Mortal amongst the whole microcosm, can create one Member in Man if it be lost, I will believe it is possible for him to do the other, which is as far above the former, as the Sun excels the Light of a Candle in Glory, which is extinguished with a small blast of Wind; yet in receiving of the Sacrament, we ought to Receive it as the Body and Blood of Christ, yet not Really, but Mystically, because the Senses cannot be deceived, as I said before; yet, he that Eateth this Bread, and Drinketh of this Cup, Unworthily, Receiveth to himself Condemnation; because our Lord and Saviour said, So often as you eat of this Bread, and drink of this Cup, do it in Remembeance of me; for I will drink no more of the Fruit of the Vine, till I drink it New in my Fathers Kingdom: So much for Non-Transubstantiation, by the Powor of Humanity, &c.  
And thus I have laid down these few certain and undeniable Arguments, which no Popish Recusant dare to oppose; Therefore, now Gadbury, speak for thyself, and don't stand like a Man dumb, and try if you can clear the Matter; the which, I think, you( nor none of your Jesuitical Tribe) are no more capable of doing, then I am able to stop the Course of the Sun, hinder the Influence of the Stars, or weigh the weight of the Fire in a balance; and that is as impossible for me to do, as 'tis for a Pismire to turn the Earth off of her Axis, or number the Sands of the Sea, &c.   

ERRATA.  
page. 11. Line 11. after the Word Jupiter, add a Semicolon, which is marked thus; p. 14. l. 8. f. 7. r. 6. p. 20. l. 8. for free Petent, r. free and potent. p. 21. l. 8. blot out. 1693. l. 29. f. 1694. r. 1693. and for 2 Degrees, r. 21. Degrees. p. 22. l. 8. blot out, and 94. p. 32.( which should be p. 40.) l. 34. blot out what is. Reader, There are many literal Faults, which I desire thee to mend, as thou traceth over the Book, occasioned by my absence from the Press.  
FINIS.