The prophecies, and predictions, for London's deliverance with the conjunction, effects, and influences of the superiour planets, the causes thereof, and the probability of the happy abatement of the present dismal pestilence, (according to natural causes the ti[m]e when, and the we[e]ks and moneths fore-told, when the city of Iondon [sic] wil[l] be freed and acquitted from the violent raging of this destructive enemy. The appearance of which great pest was predicted by the learned Mr. Lilly. Mr. Booker, Mr. Gadbury, Mr. Trigge, and Mr. Andrews.

The prophecies, and predictions, for London's deliverance with the conjunction, effects, and influences of the superiour planets, the causes thereof, and the probability of the happy abatement of the present dismal pestilence, (according to natural causes the ti[m]e when, and the we[e]ks and moneths fore-told, when the city of Iondon [sic] wil[l] be freed and acquitted from the violent raging of this destructive enemy. The appearance of which great pest was predicted by the learned Mr. Lilly. Mr. Booker, Mr. Gadbury, Mr. Trigge, and Mr. Andrews.

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Prophecies and Predictions.

Prophecies and Predictions.

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DEath is not a greater Enemy to Nature, than the Peſtilence is a Friend to Death; and though it be ſo grievous a Diſeaſe, againſt which there is yet known no general nor infalible Medicine; yet ſometimes, either by the ſtrength of Nature, or help of Phyſick, it hath been cur'd. Now to inform you of the Cauſes of this particular great Peſt we now labour under, they are theſe. 1. The great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Octob. 10 1663 in the Celeſtial ſign Sagittary 2. A Conjunction of Saturn and Mars, Nov. 12. 1664 in Sagittary 3. An oppoſition of the Sun and Saturn, June 5. 1664. 4. The Apparition of Three Comets in the latter end of 1664. and beginning of 1665. 5. The Tranſit of Saturn through Sagittary, unto his greateſt dignities, the [...]e to continue for above 5 years together. All which are Cauſes ſo powerfully [Page] impelling, that it is to be feared the Peſtilence we now partake of, will not be the one m [...]iety of the Effects thence to enſue, or thereon depending. By this connexion of Cauſes, it is ſomewhat apparent that this Peſt ſhould have took its beginning at the latter end of 1664. and truly had not the Winter then been ſo extreamly ſharp (it having a Froſt of almoſt ten weeks continuance together) to have kept it back, it had beyond all queſtion broke forth then. Nay, and break forth it did then too, as the Learned Artiſt in Aſtrologie Mr. Gadbury, can experimentally teſtifie, having been perſonally viſited with it at Chriſtmas that year. And many other Patients of Mr. Joſias Weſtwood the Chirurgeon, were then alſo afflicted with the ſame Diſtemper, and yet obtained cure againſt it, the Air being then ſo friendly to Nature, and an Enemy unto the Peſtilence. But now let us conſider its progreſs and increaſe, with the cauſes thereof, and the poſſibility of its abatement, with the time when. In this matter I ſhall cen [...]ult but not trouble you with the Figure of the Suns Ingreſs into the Equinoctial Sign Aries, for the year 1665. and thence draw down the ſeveral Arguments of encreaſe and abatement; and becauſe the Peſtilence was hardly perceptible untill the Month of June, I will begin there.

This Month, (as if God and Nature had appointed the Sickneſs to [...] Ominous in earneſt to theſe Nations) we may obſerve two moſt fatal tranſits to uſher it in, viz. Mars his then coming to the oppoſite point of the Aſcendant, and the Sun to the oppoſite point of Saturn; a beginning of a ſickneſs ſo miſchievous, that greater can hardly be; God grant the end be not as inauſpicious: and although (I preſume it will not be of many Months continuance to this great City, yet we are not to ſuppoſe a Peſtilence ended, when it ſeemingly acquits one place.

In the moneth of July it began to encreaſe conſiderably, eſpecially toward the latter end thereof: there were then ſix oppoſitions of the Erratick Stars, and two Eclipſes; and to add to theſe, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, then came to the Quadrate place of the Sun, and to the oppoſite point of Saturn by tranſit; and the Sun then came to the oppoſition of Jupiter both by tranſit and aſpect: all which were very great arguments of its encreaſe.

In the Month of Aug. Saturn comes to the Quadrate place of the Sun and will be ſtationary upon it all the Month; the two Eclipſes laſt Month do now begin to operate, which are teſtimonies of very great augmentation: howbeit the fortunate Planet Venus coming to the Sextile of her own place and of the Moons, at the beginning [Page] of the Month; and coming to a Trine of the Sun, the latter end thereof, may ſo happily contemper the fury of it, that it may not [now] encreaſe or augment to any exceeding great height.

A part of Septem. is like to prove ſomewhat dangerous, becauſe Saturn is in a manner ſtill ſtationary, and the Sun and Saturn then come to a Quadrate aſpect, and this in ill points of the Vernal Figure, Mars and Jupiter (who is Dominus Aſcendentis) then alſo come to an oppoſition, and both in ſquare of Luna's place; whence it is probable, that in the ſecond and laſt weeks of this Month, the Peſt may admit of an abatement; but indeed, I much fear about the middle of the month an encreaſe conſiderable: nevertheleſs, I hope, and rationally believe (favente Deo) that this Peſtilence cannot aſcend to any higher degree, than it may at that time reach unto.

The Month of October ſeems to promiſe well, and the Diſtemper therein cannot meet with any eminent cauſe for augmentation: yet I ſuppoſe the ſecond and laſt week will make ſome ſlight Offers at an encreaſe, becauſe then the Sun comes to the oppoſite place of the Moon: and Venus hath a progreſſional motion to the oppoſition of the Sun, and Quartile of Saturns places.

November and December in this reſpect (God not fruſtrating the courſe of ſecond Cauſes, or taking advantage of [...] for our ſins) I queſtion not will prove very kindly; and the City of London will begin to be in a better heart, than in many Moneths before. Howbeit, it cannot be ſuppoſed that this Peſtilence ſhould in ſo ſhort a time totally vaniſh; or that ſo great a Sickneſs ſhould not leave ſome unkind impreſſions behind it; but in compariſon of what it hath been, I dare aſſert, that we ſhall [then] be (in a manner) wholly acquitted from it, and its violent raging, deſtructive Qualities and Company.

La [...]ly, London hath at preſent been the Patient, and hath felt the force of the Almighties ſcourge to purpoſe; while moſt other places of England have eſcaped the [...]aſh. I wiſh with all my ſoul, that London might be the Scape-Goat for them all: but ah, I fear, before the Planet Saturn be gotten quite out of Capricorn, that tho [...]e other parts of this Nation will drink deep of the ſame Cup. God and Nature puniſh none by proxy. It will not be this Cities ſuffering [...], that can excuſe other Towns [...]nd Cities, from the violent ſtroak of ſo inſatiate an Enemy. Thus much for the Predictions of the Learned Gadbury.

[Page] And now a word or two touching the preſent Peſt, whether it be infectious or catching: If any Diſeaſes be infectious or contagious, to any perſon or perſons, it is their fear and imagination; and the timidity of their Affections that occaſion it Caſt off then the love of the World, let the diſtruſt of God's mercy be far from you, uſe the exerciſe of a holy life, and good converſation; and becauſe it is God's doing, repine not at his Providence, but uſe theſe ſupernatural Remedies, it being a moſt evident Truth, that Faith is the beſt Fence againſt Fear. Patience the beſt Plaiſter againſt Sores; Repentance the beſt Reſtorative; and Prayer the beſt antidote Theſe are the onely Remedies againſt Paſſions, Terrours, Fears, Frights, and Imaginations, which are more eaſily diſcourſed of, than removed. When, nay, and before you are forſaken of Friends, and hear nothing but Complaints of Neighbours, the crying of Wives and Children, the mourning of Husbands and Parents, the ſorrowing of Kinsfolks and Allies, the Sickneſs ſpreading, the Peſtilence raging, & the Plague encreaſing from Tens to Hundreds, and from Hundreds to Thouſands. But (God not altering or ſuſpending the power he hath given to ſecond Cauſes) this Peſt will abate about the latter end of Septemb 1665▪ and then grow leſs apace. As thoſe perſons which fly from the Plague, are the moſt [Page] ſubject unto it; ſo hence it is, that the Countries round about us, come to be ſo ſuddenly ſeized with this ſickneſs; the Fears of the Heartleſs Fugitives, being as ſo many nimble Chariots, to convey it unto the places whither they fly or travel. If men be afraid to truſt God, it is no wonder that he refuſes to protect them. How many are there, that by flying from dangers, have fallen into the midſt of dangers? When men plot to ſave themſelves, their contrivances often procure their ruine. In the year 1348 when that great and terrible Peſt hapned, many people not only changed their Habitation, but th [...]ir Nation alſo, in hopes to avoid it. But behold, they that refuſed to truſt God at Land, were overtaken by that his judgment at Sea, and were forced to make their Graves in the Bellies of Fiſhes. But ſome there are that ſay, they fly not from God, but from his Plague: Alas, Gods judgments are never ſeparate from him; the Rod of his Anger is of ſuch a Longitude, that it can reach us every where. But that the ſhutting up of people in a time of Sickneſs and denying [...] the advantage of the Air, is certainly a great cauſe of the encreaſe of the Contagion. For by how much the more Men are abridged their cuſtomary liberty, by ſo much the more are they ſubject to Fear; and the greater their Fear is, the ſooner do they meet the Ill they dread. And we in this age, [Page] ſhut up not onely the unclean, but the Sound and Sick together, (the onely way to be rid of all, if [...]e leaſt there be ſuch a thing as Infection.) For [...] the time of the Levitical Law, men were not to [...] ſhut up above 7 days, and then only the unclean perſon; but if he amended either before, or at the [...] days end, then was he pronounced clean.

To conclude, This preſent Plague was fore-told by ſun [...] learned and famous Artiſts; as Mr. Gadbury, in his Ephemeris [...] the preſent year, 1665. in the Moneth April, at which time [...] Sickneſs firſt began to ſhew it ſelf viſible; notwithſtanding it [...] its Riſe at Chriſtmas, he himſelf, with many others, being viſited that time.

It was alſo fore-told by Mr. Lillie, Mr Booker, Mr. Trigge, and [...] Andrews, who in the Judicials of the Aeſtival Figure thereof, [...] theſe words: And in regard he (that is, Saturn) is in the [...] Houſe [viz. the Houſe of Death and Mortality] he doth thereby [...] to prenote a Mortality, which will deſtroy & bring many to their [...] And Mr. Trigge had theſe-prophetical Expreſſions, in his Obſervations upon June, I very much fear a ſickly Seaſon in earneſt; from [...] evil God of his mercy protect this great and populous City, for Mars [...]ſeſſeth Gemini, the Aſcendant of London. It is obſervable, that' [...] Sickneſs then began to encreaſe.

And the eminent Mr. Gadbury, from the apparition of thoſe Celeſtial Moniters the Comets, further expreſſeth, That he bewaits [...] World by reaſon of the many and terrible afflictions they denounce unto [...] And after a conſideration of the natural portents of the effects influences of Comets or Blazing-Stars, he ſubjoyns theſe word [...] When we conſider theſe ſeveral dreadful ſignifications, it may put us at our Letany, From War, PLAGUE, and Famine,

Good Lord deliver Us.

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THE PROPHECIES, AND Predictions, FOR London's Deliverance: WITH The Conjunction, Effects, and Influences of the Superiour Planets, the Cauſes thereof, and the probability of the happy abatement of the preſent Diſmal Peſtilence, (according to Natural Cauſes the Time when, and the Weeks and Moneths fore-told, when the City of London wil [...] be freed and acquitted from the Violent Raging of this Deſtructive Enemy.

The Appearance of which Great Peſt was predicted by the Learned

Mr. LILLY.

Mr. BOOKER,

Mr. GADBURY,

Mr. TRIGGE, AND

Mr. ANDREWS.

Printed for Tho. Brooks, and are to be ſold near the Royal Exchange.

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The prophecies, and predictions, for London's deliverance with the conjunction, effects, and influences of the superiour planets, the causes thereof, and the probability of the happy abatement of the present dismal pestilence, (according to natural causes the ti[m]e when, and the we[e]ks and moneths fore-told, when the city of Iondon [sic] wil[l] be freed and acquitted from the violent raging of this destructive enemy. The appearance of which great pest was predicted by the learned Mr. Lilly. Mr. Booker, Mr. Gadbury, Mr. Trigge, and Mr. Andrews.

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— The prophecies, and predictions, for London's deliverance with the conjunction, effects, and influences of the superiour planets, the causes thereof, and the probability of the happy abatement of the present dismal pestilence, (according to natural causes the ti[m]e when, and the we[e]ks and moneths fore-told, when the city of Iondon [sic] wil[l] be freed and acquitted from the violent raging of this destructive enemy. The appearance of which great pest was predicted by the learned Mr. Lilly. Mr. Booker, Mr. Gadbury, Mr. Trigge, and Mr. Andrews.,

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