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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
All Astrological predictions are conversant, or busied about such things, as do either simply depend on the will, or dispensation of God, or about such things as do depend upon Mans free-will, (and so are altogether contingent, and therefore can neither be foreseen nor foretold,) and not upon the Heavens.
All Astrological predictions are conversant, or busied about such things, as do either simplely depend on the will, or dispensation of God, or about such things as do depend upon Mans free-will, (and so are altogether contingent, and therefore can neither be foreseen nor foretold,) and not upon the Heavens.
It is impossible by the bare knowledge of such a cause as is both common to many, and far distant from such things as it worketh in, precisely and infallibly to set down particular effects.
It is impossible by the bare knowledge of such a cause as is both common to many, and far distant from such things as it worketh in, precisely and infalliblely to set down particular effects.
The Stars have indeed a great force, but such as doth manifest it self only in the operation, which it hath in the four principal qualities of natural things, as in heat, cold, moisture, dryness.
The Stars have indeed a great force, but such as doth manifest it self onely in the operation, which it hath in the four principal qualities of natural things, as in heat, cold, moisture, driness.