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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.
That part of Astrology which concerneth the alteration of the Air,1 is for the most part of it false and frivolous, and therefore all manner of predictions grounded upon the Doctrine of it, are nothing else but toys and delusions.
- 1M. P. p. 44▪
And that part of Astrology which concerneth Nativities,1 Revolutions, Progressions, Directions of Nativities, Elections of times, and the finding again, of things lost, is very wicked; yea, it is very probable that this Art, is of the same brood with implicit Magic, and that for these reasons.
And that part of Astrology which concerneth Nativities,1 Revolutions, Progressions, Directions of Nativities, Elections of times, and the finding again, of things lost, is very wicked; yea, it is very probable that this Art, is of the same brood with implicite Magick, and that for these reasons.
- 1Astrology concerning Nativities is wicked.
1. Because the word of God reckoneth Astrologers amongst Magicians,1 and adjudgeth them both to the same punishment.