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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Introduction
for he throughout all his works indifferently uses the name of ASTROLOGER
and ASTRONOMER, and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and
the same; and amongst all ancient and learned writers Astrology and
Astronomy have received for one and the same science, though distinct parts of
properties, as has been hinted at in the first Book of this Volume, and the 2 nd
Chapter.
It contains four sections, the three first treating of the Revolutions of the Years
of the World, and the fourth and last of Eclipses, Comets and Blazing-Stars,
and the great Conjunctions of the Planets; by which we are taught how to judge
of the order and course of nature, and the government of the world; as the
general accidents of the world, and the alterations therein, the change of laws,
customs, empires and governments, the alterations of the air, the cause of
plenty, scarcity, health, sickness, peace, wars, etc. We may also hereby most
manifestly see the infinite wisdom, providence and government of God in the
whole universe by the constant harmony and celestial influences of the
PLANETS and the STARS, whose portences, so long as God upholds the order
and course of NATURE unperverted, must inevitably prove true and effectual,
they being never frustrated but by miracle. My Lord, this is the ASTROLOGIA
MUNDA, the Pure Astrology, which the patriarchs and the ancient fathers
studied and contemplated: by which the Babylonians, Arabian, Syrians,
Egyptians, Grecians, Persians and Lacedemonians ruled and became famous
and glorious to the whole world, and therefore (My Lord) as being the chief and
most exquisite part of these my undertakings, I have placed it last, that so it
might not be attempted by any that are unacquainted with the preceding
discourses, which serve but as it were introductions hereunto, for which cause
(my Lord) it is that I humbly presume to lay it at your Honours’ feet above any
others, being so nearly bound to eternise for ever your late Honourable and
virtuous consort of happy memory, doubting not but by the unparalleled
splendour of your Honours’ surpassing endowments, it might be exalted to that
height of Honour as to be but accepted into your Honours presence, which will
be a perpetual fame unto it and him, who in all humility presents it to your
Honour, and from thence assumes that Honour as to subscribe himself.
My Lord,
Your HONOURS’ most
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