An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Hence observe; The Heavens have a power on the earth.

Some Astrologers give them a power of doing all on the earth, as if both our lives and livelihoods depended wholly upon the Aspects of Planets: It is not this mans endeavour (say they) nor that mans skill, but all flows from the Stars. These make or put the Heavens, which are Gods work, into the place of God himself; they put the heavens into the place of the God of Heaven. All things are in the hand of Heaven, say they. We say, All things, even the Planets themselves, are in the hand, and at the dispose of God. We grant, and this Text proves, that the Heavens have a great power upon the earth; we cannot but see and feel what the Sun doth upon the earth, we see, it distributes the year into four seasons, Summer and Winter, Spring and Autumn; we see, it makes Equinoxes twice in the year, when days and nights are of an even length, and as many Solstices, in one of which days are of greatest length, and nights in the other. We see how the Sun brings forth several effects in those several seasons, even the generation or corruption of natural things. We know also, that as the North draws the Magnet or Load-stone, so the Sun, the Heliotrope, a flower so called, because it follows the motion of the Sun. It is said also, that the Sun hath a great power upon the Cock, who therefore croweth about midnight, as if he did then congratulate or welcome the return of the Sun from the Antipodes to our Hemisphere. Though these instances are not demonstrative or concluding, yet they are probable evidences of the Heavens dominion in the earth.

Some Astrologers give them a power of doing all on the earth, as if both our lives and livelihoods depended wholly upon the Aspects of Planets: It is not this mans endeavour (say they) nor that mans skill, but all flows from the Stars. These make or put the Heavens, which are Gods work, into the place of God himself; they put the heavens into the place of the God of Heaven. All things are in the hand of Heaven, say they. We say, All things, even the Planets themselves, are in the hand, and at the dispose of God. We grant, and this Text proves, that the Heavens have a great power upon the earth; we cannot but see and feel what the Sun doth upon the earth, we see, it distributes the year into four seasons, Summer and Winter, Spring and Autumn; we see, it makes Equinoxes twice in the year, when days and nights are of an even length, and as many Solstices, in one of which dayes are of greatest length, and nights in the other. We see how the Sun brings forth several effects in those several seasons, even the generation or corruption of natural things. We know also, that as the North draws the Magnete or Load-stone, so the Sun, the Heliotrope, a flower so called, because it follows the motion of the Sun. It is said also, that the Sun hath a great power upon the Cock, who therefore croweth about midnight, as if he did then congratulate or welcom the return of the Sun from the Antipodes to our Hemisphear. Though these instances are not demonstrative or concluding, yet they are probable evidences of the Heavens dominion in the earth.