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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![§38: AnanfwertoaTréeatife:. . fuch individual particularities, asthey are notte, be-difcers ned in-oné particular natiuitice, Butthe former’, and fuch ag: are like ynto them,he doth auow,as there is. enidentreafon to particulars:4/frologers, may foretell, and what not, and How: inivridus.a thing itas, to fingle out one place or fentence, and, not to conferré the fame with the authors do€trine,and mind in other, places. For thongh the precepts of arte(as] have, faide)be vniuerfall; yetthe application of them by the artiftis to. particulars, according to that,abntes,ce 2 /centia, os As for thatlong allegation of Welphis his words, it is no- thingtoprocuethat particular iudgementes. are reiected by, Protensie. Ieis true that he maketh not the influence of. the ftarres inevitable, butafcribeth much to the cércum/fances of regions, countries, lawes., education, Parents » timess place » by. but thefe matters haue beene before obie ted, and.anfwered by ine, neither doth he {peake any thing , which I doe. not willinely fubfcribe vntojas beeing taught by Prolemie,.and all..A ftrologers. with one:confent.. For though the courfe, &influenceofheauen in it felfe be immutable, yetthe matter berateth, choofeth, or determineth without the helpeofany corporal inftrument, itmay ele@,or refufe thofe things which are.offered vnto vs by the fenfes, And therefore though the heatiens doiricline'the fenfitiue part,asit vfeth theinftruments ofthe body, as the-earetoheare, the’eye to fee, the nofle,t¢ {inell, the palaté, andtopgue to taft, thehands & other. parts to touch : yet fith the will freely exercifeth the ations thereof without any helpefrom the body, the {tarres haueno power ouer thefame'direétly; nor other wife, then as the will is in- formed by.the-vnderftanding, and the.vnderf{tanding appre- hendeth by meanesiof the fenfes; arid therefore it may refift ‘ournaturall appetites; thoughthereare fewe that withf{tand them}or-that vfethe. commaund of reafon, the moft part-of ‘mien beeing, giuen ouer to followe-their affeftions: From hence cometh that Aftrologers haucia large fieldte.walke a geet arr?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30331031_0558.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
