t+bi Ep:file to táeC,elatian Chap. 4. 3'7. ded from followingof faires on that day. Againc,to obferuedales ofgood &-bad fucceffe, according to theconflellations of the beauens,isan heathenifh fafhionto be auoided.For it is here condemned in the Galatians Here thcrefore,we muff beput in mindc,not to obferuc the pianeta- rie houres:for men fuppofe that thehoures of thedareare ru- led by the planets,and hereupon , that Ionic homes are good, and luckie(as they fay)and Ionic vnluckie: that men are taken Ì wih planets,and borne vnder vnluckie planets . But there are 10 heathenifh conceits.Neither milli we refpett our Horofcope or the timeofour birth,and the conflellation of the heaucns the, 'as though we could herebyknow, what fhould befall vs to the end of our dales.Anci we mull not put difference of daies, as I though force were luckicvnto vs, and fame vnluckie,accor.% ding to the courfe ofthe Ganes. The like I faie atticCritical I 5 daies,that is,the 7.aud the r 4.daie after that a man beginnes to be frcke. For they aregroaded vpon the afpe£ts ofthe rnoone, which are not tobe regarded. And the Clara,`lericall years are not to be obferned as dangerous and difmall. The obferuatib s0 of the fìgnes,is of the fame nature. For the it a . firnes areno- thing els,but t z. partsof the ftrfi mooueable, which is but a fuppofedbeaten. Therefore there is no danger in the thing, but inour conceit. We arc to feare God, and not to feare the (lures: neither are we to make differences ofdaies in refpeet 2S, ! of them,as though the affaireswe take inhand, fhould profper the better or the worfe, in refpe& oftheir different operation. Godscommandement is, Feare not the/îgnes ofheamen. Ierern. I 0.2. And good reafon. For no man can by learr;iny* knowe the operation ofthc flarrs: becaufe their lights and operations ;o are all mixed togither in all placesvpon eeerth r and therefore no obferuation can be made of this or that fiarre,more then of this or that hearbe,when all hcarbes are mixedand compoun-' ded togither. Againe, the operation of the flares is by their hght,and light bath no operation but in heat or cold, moiflr:re i or drineffe. In this refpe£t,;(though we may well obferuc the full and thechange of the IROEone) it is fooiifhnefle toa cribs the regiment ofour affaires to the liarres,they becing matters contingent ,which depend on the will and plcafitre ofman. Laflly,it is a great oucrfight to hold fundrie oftheRarres to be Malignant- and Infortunate., in r fpe& ofvs:whereas they arc; 1 , r 3 tl;
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