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

This destroys Prophecy; for if a man can foretell future things by the Stars, then what need of Prophecy? The Lord tells us in Isaiah. 47. that he will bring evil upon his People, which they with all their Astrologers, should not be able to foresee, and hide themselves from, verse 11. Therefore shall evil come upon thee, and thou shalt not know whence it riseth: No! but we will (might they say) go unto our Astrologers: Do so, says God, verse 12. Stand now with thine Enchantments, and with the multitude of thy Sorceries, if so be thou mayest be able to profit: and verse 13. Let now the Astrologers, the Star-gazers, the Monthly Prognosticators, stand up and save thee: Behold they shall be as stubble, verse 14. I• Astrologers, and Star-gazers, can foretell the several Changes in States, and Common-wealths, and what great things ⟨p. 36⟩shall come to pass therein, and how they come to pass; then why doth God say here, that in spite of all them, thou shalt not know whence this evil comes? verse 11. Surely therefore, such things as these, are not to be read in the Book of the Heavens.

This destroies Prophesie; for if a man can foretel future things by the Stars, then what need of Prophesie? The Lord tels us in Esai. 47. that he wil bring evil upon his People, which they with al their Astrologers, should not be able to foresee, and hide themselves from, verse 11. Therefore shall evil come upon thee, and thou shalt not know whence it riseth: No! but we wil (might they say) go unto our Astrologers: Do so, saies God, verse 12. Stand now with thine Inchantments, and with the multitude of thy Sorceries, if so be thou maist be able to profit: and verse 13. Let now the Astrologers, the Star-gazers, the Monthly Prognosticators, stand up and save thee: Behold they shall be as stubble, verse 14. I• A••rologers, and Star-gazers, can foretel the several Changes in States, and Common-wealths, and what great things ⟨p. 36⟩shal come to pass therein, and how they come to pass; then why doth God say here, that in spight of al them, thou shalt not know whence this evil comes? verse 11. Surely therefore, such things as these, are not to be read in the Book of the Heavens.