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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![| acainft lndscialleAftrologie. theén aniwered,.” DR, al vet ioe by >t ee] Be O0C8 Fa TOT Be ie <A Laftly: there remainetl-one teftimonie more; which: Hee thinga andyhe'cite out of ben Exraycap.1.de Natsvit. That whatfoener Heaven hath decreed ;needé nor come to pale. either becaufe the matter ts not fitte to receine the influence or becanfe humanaaffeires:depend much upon our will por becaufeparticular deftinies are‘énercome of the gener all; or laftly,becaufe divine pro- widence doth orberwsfe ordaineand difpofe of things, then the ords- warietourfe of beanen uffoarderh: then which what could be (poké either morebefeeminga Philofopher, or more worthy achriftian,or further fromthe purpofe ofan impoftor?For is te riot a principle in Philofophie, that the. agentdoth alwaics worke,as the. matter which fuffercth is capable of the agents vertue.: and not according‘to the power of the agentit felfe 2 And therefore we {ce though the Sunnewill not burne tho- rough cuery glafle , yetif the fame be made apt by Parabols- call fetKion, or-otherwite after'the manner of our burning glaf- fes, witha corivex fuperficies, it will burne . In hke manner, though the Afagnes draweth yron , it. willnot attra& filuer, or gold,orany other mettall neither dothahe Torpedo benumme otherthings,though it benummeth the fifhers hand, buteuery thing-doth worke,.as the matter is proportioned vnto it. And therefore in this point 092. Chamber may as well denic the heate, and light of the Sune, or the attractiue vertueof the . Magues,or the {tupifying power of the Torpedo,becaufe they doe not burne, attra&t, and benumme, but where the meanes and matter is proportionable s as thinke that Abe Ezra hath fpoken againft Aftrologie, in denying neceflitie of the Hea- uens decrees, where the matter is not fitte toreceiuethe influ- ence. In like: manner concerning our wills, Lhaue-often be- fore fhewed the fame to bea pure action which the mind ex- ercifeth without. the helpe of any corporallinftrument, and therefore a nicere {pirituall funétion , andfo not dire€tly fub- iegt to the ation of any bodily fubftance. But is thisa good reafon, thinkes he,that becaufe a bodie cannot direGly worke vpon a fpirit, therefore to exempt all inferiour bodies from the influcnce of the ftarres? or to denie that indireétly(as the ys Yyyr will £](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30331031_0567.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
