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