Thirdly, What evils, what crosses, what curses, what miseries, what mischances (as we speak) we are subject to, and may fear, if we walk proudly, impenitently, frowardly, in the way of our own hearts. We need not go to the Stars if we would know what is like to befall us in this life; let us consult the Promises, and they will tell us what good we shall receive, if we believe and obey; let us go to the threatenings, and they will tell us what evils will be our portion, if we are unbelieving and disobedient. Let us fear God, not the Stars; let our hope be in God, not in the Stars. If we are evil, and do evil, the most auspicious conjunctions, benign and promising appearances of the Stars in our nativity, will never produce us any true good; and if we are good, and do good, their most inauspicious, harsh and threatening appearances shall do us no hurt: It needs not trouble us under what Star we were born, if we are new born. One being told, that the Stars in power, or which had the dominion in his birth, bare him no good will, answered, I care not for that, I have had a second birth. Do not my words (saith the Lord, Mic. 2.7.) do good to him that walketh uprightly? doubtless they do, and so they will, let the Stars do their worst. Let us sit down quietly in this assurance, That whatsoever rule or dominion Heaven hath in the earth, the dominion of God is over, and over-ruleth the Heavens.
Thirdly, What evils, what crosses, what curses, what miseries, what mischances (as we speak) we are subject to, and may fear, if we walk proudly, impenitently, frowardly, in the way of our own hearts. We need not go to the Stars if we would know what is like to befal us in this life; let us consult the Promises, and they will tell us what good we shall receive, if we believe and obey; let us go to the threatnings, and they will tell us what evils will be our portion, if we are unbelieving and disobedient. Let us fear God, not the Stars; let our hope be in God, not in the Stars. If we are evil, and do evil, the most auspicious conjunctions, benigne and promising appearances of the Stars in our nativity, will never produce us any true good; and if we are good, and do good, their most inauspitious, harsh and threatning appearances shall do us no hurt: It needs not trouble us under what Star we were born, if we are new born. One being told, that the Stars in power, or which had the dominion in his birth, bare him no good will, answered, I care not for that, I have had a second birth. Do not my words (saith the Lord, Mic. 2.7.) do good to him that walketh uprightly? doubtless they do, and so they will, let the Stars do their worst. Let us sit down quietly in this assurance, That whatsoever rule or dominion Heaven hath in the earth, the dominion of God is over, and over-ruleth the Heavens.