A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon].

  • Christopher Heydon
Date:
1603
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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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    ignominie, If at any time] tell him plainly, offuch partialities and iniuries as he vfeth again{t his owne Knowledge, or doe apparently lay open his ignorance in Afirologie , or otherwile tell him thathe plaieth the Sophifter, where fraudulently and by. fallactes , he {eekethto deceiue his readers yet this 13 but oyle for his yineger. I prefcribe to my felfe boundes of:mort ciuilitie, then to.call him The great unpoftor of the world, alyars afoole, aiuggling Tacke «a wizzard , the founé of, aheage-whore, with other like opprobrious and vndecent additions, where- with he difgraceth all Asfreiegers without refpedt. Neither doe,1 prefumptuoufly enter into Gods iudgement feat, and from. thence pronounce him the Ememie of God, fequefired from biskingdome,worfe then an infidell, or 4 witch, the mateana confederate of the Denill,and diretily damned, Thefeand the like indignities , and vnchriftian imputations to men which profefic the fame God, and the fame Faith , which he doth, doe leaue bebind them (asthe Orator teacheth him) Quen- dam aculenm quew. pati prudentes, at boni virs minime pofjunt. And therefore, if I fpare him lefle , then otherwife I confeffe were fitte, in regard of his eftimation among the learned , let _ ¢-qbe truly imputed to the yenome of his owne tooth , which aoth forankle that it driveth me of nece{Mitie, fometimeto re= quite him with the like fpirits except I would feeme to for- - fake the truth, in. defending ittoo coldly, and to feare the force of my.aduerfaries eloquence too much. It may be he thinketh it a fatisfaGtion , tocraue pardonin his preface by preoccupation, /f any enadwifed,or hard words bane efcaped him inhis beat: but-if one fhould purpofely breake his head, and afterward craue:pardon , would hethinke this.afufhicient a- mendes:2. Dosh it not rather plainly prooue,thatheknoweth — he hath.conanitted a fault, then.any, way excufe it? ‘And who feeth not how prepofterous it isto choofe;rather to aske par- don fox an iniurie, which we voluntarily intend to offer, then to forbeare.to doe it, when it was in. our owne power toab- © ftaine ¢, Verysfitly.therefore doth Axis Gellin reportCato fometime, to havtearifwered 4. Albinusin thelikecafe , Nets Asile Guidemniminen nigateres chm malisfieculpam ceprecart, pita qq 2. ri
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