I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Instance 8 As for Judicial Astrology. That is another thing that is cried up as a great means of Light in these dark times of ours. Thereby men will undertake to tell how things may be found, that are lost; what Persons shall be joined together in Marriage; what shall be the issue, and end of Suits in Law, and Diseases; what ends men shall come to, in reference to their Lives; and what Plagues, and Mortalities in Common-wealths; and what not? This is, I say (this Judicial Astrology is) cried up as a great Light in these days of ours.

Instance 8 As for Judicial Astrology. That is another thing that is cryed up as a great means of Light in these dark times of ours. Thereby men wil undertake to tel how things may be found, that are lost; what Persons shal be joyned together in Marriage; what shal be the issue, and end of Suits in Law, and Diseases; what ends men shal come to, in reference to their Lives; and what Plagues, and Mortalities in Common-wealths; and what not? This is, I say (this Judicial Astrology is) cried up as a great Light in these daies of ours.

But is in Truth, a Work of Darkness; for where do we find in Scripture, that God doth command any of his People to attend upon Astrologers, or Star-gazers (as the Word calls them) for any such things as these. We are forbidden to learn the way of the Heathen, in fearing the Signs of Heaven; Jer. 10.2. and Deut. 18.9. Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those Nations: Wherein? Verse 10. There shall not be found amongst you, any that maketh his Son to pass through the fire, or that useth Divination, or an Observer of Times, or an Enchanter, or a Witch, or a Charmer, or a Necromancer. The Observation of Times, is one of these things: the e were the ways of the Nations, these things were abomination to the Lord, these things cannot stand with a perfect heart, verse 13. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.