CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹Fourthly, Seeing that to foretell any thing to come be thus the property of God and of the Scripture, Then by this we see, That all those who go to Astrologers or Witches to know things to come, and all those that profess judiciary Astrology, that will undertake to foretell not natural things but voluntary, such as are merely subject to mens will, Do not only undertake a vain rash, and false thing, but that also which is very abominable and wicked; It's necessary to speak to this, because there are many people look more to the fulfilling of what such Prognostics and Almanacs say, then to the Scripture, as if Saturn and Jupiter did reign, therefore the Earth must tremble, and not God reign; It would require a great Volume to speak of this exactly, Only briefly Consider these things.²

¹Fourthly, Seeing that to foretell any thing to come be thus the property of God and of the Scripture, Then by this we see, That all those who go to Astrologers or Witches to know things to come, and all those that professe judiciary Astrology, that will undertake to foretell not natural things but voluntary, such as are meerly subject to mens will, Do not only undertake a vain rash, and false thing, but that also which is very abominable and wicked; It's necessary to speak to this, because there are many people look more to the fullfilling of what such Prognosticks and Almanacks say, then to the Scripture, as if Saturn and Jupiter did reign, therefore the Earth must tremble, and not God reign; It would require a great Volume to speak of this exactly, Onely briefly Consider these things.²

1. 1IV. How vain and wicked it is to go to Astrologers or Witches, or to be such.
2. 2Against Astrology and Witchcraft Consider,