A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon].
- Christopher Heydon
- Date:
- 1603
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![92> eAuanfver-to a Treatife Yet the Jefuit and he,thinking they haue gotten.a great ads uantage hereby, ciueit not thus ouer, but doe fecond the. fame by the like example of apenitent , of home S, Augustine after bis-excpofition of the 61.Pfak.maketh mention. fu errour was (aéit wthere reported) that he did denie his owne will to commit adulserie,bue Veuns, or that the fault was in his owne will to. com wsit mourther, bate Mars: and lafily, that Inftice did not come. froms God, bat from. lupiter, with other the like facrilegious blashbemies, for the which this Penitentiarie touched in confct- ence, brought bis bookes openly to be burnt, that fo he msight finde i ated ext. This fhortly is thefumme or cffeét.of that which he barely.reporteth , but-vrgeth not toany purpofe at all: though fecretly he infinuateth that this arteis to becon- demned for the errours of this Penitentiarie. Wherefore I can not better thew how iniurious thefe calumniations be ,and wherein the errour of his conclufion ftands , then by the like follie which Pistarch in his booke de andiendss Poetts, repres Ahendeth in Lycargus: who feeing the Lacedemonians giuen to drunkennes, ena€ted by:a law, that all the vines in the cun- trey fhouldbe cut downe. But Plutarch much blaming his aindifcretion in taking away that, which of it owne nature was good , for the abufe thereof; teacheth how, by. ming- ling Neptene with Bacchus, that is (faith he) the temperate God with the furious, he ought rather to have taught them to vfe wine more moderately, and fo by this meanes Chamber take full libertie to.controll thé in that wherein they doe offend: -butlethim not with Lycurgus for this take away the arte it felfe,or the praétife of fuch as vie it foberly and ex- ceede not their boundes. For he knowcth it was-notthe bur- ning of this Penitentiaries bookes , but hisrepentance and re- fence. And it is a vitious argumentation , which in comingates confoundeth can/am per fe ad canfam per acciaens, For exame ple, Theare fay he isa Phyfitian ; but if ] fhould argue inlike “~](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30331031_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
