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Pys-mantia the mag-astromancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner, posed, and puzzled / [John Gaule].
- Gaule, John, 1604?-1687
- Date:
- 1652
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pys-mantia the mag-astromancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner, posed, and puzzled / [John Gaule]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Be i al Le LE AE I NN ln a ee Ae 4 Tlés-payzia, or the | Gei.jo:41. And Leah faid, A troop cometh : and (he called his name 7 Gad, Ber | Who but gadding Aftrologers, that follow troop of magicall ‘Reb. ' bives could here (by their kind of peepéags ) {py outa child born under a Conftellation ? Nay and more, could pretend the fame to be taught by the Husband before hand, and here now gloried in by the wife? Alas poor Mother that bare the child! how chance fhe alfo is not taught ( for fome joy inher travell ) to rejoyce in fuch a judiciary con{tellation ? Nay, how chance no fuch ftarre is obferved at the nativity of the reft of the twelve Patriarks, they (many of them ) being not only fo obicure, but more no- ble, and defigned by God to more eminent offices, and greater actions a- mong Gods people >: What ill luck was it, chat there was not a ftarre then invented by the name of his next uterine brother ( ver/e 1 3.) fince the fignification of the name had been tnuch mote fuitable to the Srarres benige nitie ? Why doe not Facob (Gen.49.19.) and Mafes ( Dent.33,20,21.) in their propheticall benedictions, intimate any thing of this New Star ? Since the Prophecy is of a troop of Sons, who would nox looke for a troop of / Stars to attend the reft of the Sons as wellas this ? but (in faying footh, or j footh-faying) will they have Gadto be the Planet Jupiter, and he (becaufe | Lord of the afcendant, and great domiator) turning God-father, and gi- ving che name of Gad to the babe new born under him? And if it be he,and he fo wholly benign, and fortunate (as they would make him.) wherefore thenis the prediction of any kind of malignity, or adverlity ? For fo Facob _ expounds it in his prediétion 3 4 troop (hall overcome him. Are not they good Hebricians, who fay thus upon the place? “bi Kamets propter ath- nach, cy legendum \X NF tales voces gumdecim funt, que [cribuntur ut una, ac legauntur ut dus, tefte Mafora magna 5 Not only (asthemielves tranflate it) wricten imperfectly, and yet to be read as perfect, but written as ene word,and to be read as two: and therefore drawn out at length, or into: two words ftillin the margin. Batagain, is Gad Jupiter ? Andis the Pla- | net Jupiter a stoop of Starres himfelt? Doe not their own divining Rab. | bines refer it ikewile to JZars,to the conjunction of the Planets, to the 12.Signes of the Zediack,, to the whole hoff of heaven, and {o to the troop of Starres? And what of that place? /#.64.11. Letit (according the Septuagint, =} the Chaldze Paraphrafe,the Fathers,and others ) be interpreted of Idolls, . or of Devils of Fortune, or of Fate; or of their Eptcurizing, or their | facrificing to the Sarres, in an aufpication of the years fertility : Is it not now molt fitly applied for the confirmation of a Patréarks conftellated mativitie 2 If after ages (more corrupt.and idolatrous ) might invent an Idol], or a. Damon, or a Paganith Planet of that name, mutt ghics be. } ; NOW: . “AN 2A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30328962_0002_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
