Four great liars, striving who shall win the silver whetstone Also, a resolution to…Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to…

The dignities of the Planets, are found out by these means especially. 1 Houses of Planets. 2 Exaltation. 3 Triplicity. 4 Terms. 5 Stars. 6 Houses. 7 Freeness from Combustion. 8 Directions. 9 Velocity of course. 10 Sazimi. 11 Some aspects of other Planets.

The dignities of the Planets, are founde out by these meanes especially. 1 Houses of Planets. 2 Exaltation. 3 Triplicitie. 4 Termes. 5 Starres. 6 Howses. 7 Freenesse from Combustion. 8 Directions. 9 Velocity of course. 10 Sazimi. 11 Some aspects of other Planettes.

These toys be so foolish that a reasonable man would not vouchsafe to refute them: yet a word or twain. If the houses of the Planets shall be battered and pulled down, all the rest of their worship and dignity will lye in the dust. Aries and Scorpius are appointed the houses of Mars, Taurus, and Libra the houses of Venus, Gemini, and Virgo, the houses of Mercury: Cancer the house of the Moon, Leo the house ⟨image 38⟩of the Sun, Sagittarius and Pisces the houses of Jupiter, Aquarius, and Capricornus the houses of Saturn. What reason do they give of this? Leo and Cancer, say they, are the houses of the Sun and Moon, because they resemble the nature of these Planets; and because they come most near our heads: such reason they give of the rest. What feeble grounds are these? As in the North part of the world Cancer and Leo resemble the nature of the Sun: so in the South part, in the contrary climates, Capricornus, and Aquarius do resemble their natures. Also in every country some divers signs be either vertical or else come near the top of the country, and so all signs shall be the houses of the Sun and Moon. Now then, the sun being displaced, I cannot find how the rest of the Planets can keep their hold. To go further the exaltations of Planets in like manner are very dreams. They suppose Exaltations be those degrees in which the Planets were in the beginning of the world. But why should those places ⟨image 38⟩give more force then any other? And if they could give more force, yet they have falsely assigned them. For the Sun was not in Aries, when it was created of GOD, but was placed in Libra, which I prove by this reason. GOD created man and beast in perfect age, giving unto them all kinds of fruits being then ripe, so that in the beginning was the time of the year, which we call harvest. Now, because God never afterward changed the seasons, and we find that in the time of ripeness the Sun is always in Libra, we must needs also say that his place in the creation was in Libra. In the 23. of Exodus God commandeth that the feast of tabernacles should be celebrated in the end of the year when the Israelites had gathered their fruits out of the fields.