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Mags fuch as were thofe of the Prophets, andy! vers other Saints and favorits of God, that om) the se they have prov’dalmott all falfe bi i
For inftance.the’e:his afirming that Charles VITE would. comea fecondrime 3 into pe chat hee): fhould come to an unforrunateend, thac ended-{ um vour’dto rule in Florence: that amies Picuss fhould recover of the fickneffe; whereol, we dayes after, he dy°d;: and divers others of ‘his pros gy lan hefies 5 ie more vaine than thefe, as che
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of the Florextixes, and i K. of France. : AK laftly forthe re Roi ‘ofhisactions, they eafily dil cover hiin a very great Foie putt mans
a Limes upon very ta ble E Employments, anc endu’d with an Aires io 5 10 ready and perfua ry that he may well be compar’dto thofe am
ent a guise whowere as powerfull in populail sec mocraticall Governments asthe winds are upon Mie Ne entettainine themast es leat bh borh in the Calries of peace and Storm s of wartll roffing them now, on one fide, thenton the otherf, turning them upfide down; andin aword, dilpo fing hemat their plealure by rhe Charmes of theiilh. ditcourfes, -Thisn ay Savonarola prefume he dial, for the ce of ten years at Flarezce, thouch hel had withall the affifiances of hisrevelations anc a counterfeit fanétimouy to Keep up his credit foo folong atime ; knowing well by the exampleall. of Mahomet and Arrius that che reipedt we havi fo
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j for Religion hath an extr aordinary influence e upon fus, and chat whe ” a Man hath once rhe reputation fot living holily, he perfwa =a the people to what he pleales ; ; e! pecial ly when heis endu’d with the orace of well (peaking, ae a nore then ordin: iry |eloquenc €. Toprove this, we may in‘tance in ‘the fortunate and temerarious enterprife of the Ber iigiows man Almohad:, who being exceilent- ily learned and well verf¢din the A/coran, under- took without any other aff iltance than thar of
tan Astrologer that {ec onded | him with his predi- étions » and the great opi inion men ha d of his Mhfe, to cr owne, King of Africk, the Son of a Potter, a poor and neceffirous man, called A bael- Wmon, To effect which wich more eale, he Grit, got fome f
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e o!lou ei the introduét'on ofa new lHerely, and then perc elving himfelf fufficie ently Meconded (0 far as ro engage in che pi iblick Affairs, band co reform 1e themat his plealure, he besan to iq prove: hat Abdelmon, wasa perion ral. oj up by 7 God, who chronch hismeanes, wou! id plant the Jholy . phon anistick Law throueh all the world, His next bufineffe was ro preach downthe race of the na pene calling chem Tyrants he
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MU Lu + » asfuch as hac idriven out che family of ithe Alabeci, and the b!ood of their Prophet 414-
Mibomer, This Ldone. be fec uponthe perfon of the Caliph of Baldac high Prit of cheir Law, and d lidfo well I, by che force of his periwa- Whions, char, having aotrfen this oon lon th
Haflittance of che greate!t part of the Nobil iry, there dlhappened à a great batcle between them , wherein fiche King 4, Ibohaly » ben Tesfin being kill’din the year 1147, this Noble Potter Abdelmonw as made
| MKine and ALiramomelin of Africk. From this fto-
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ry I leaye men to judge , whether Savonaralad
micnt not governe at Florence, quando (as Paulus Fovius, fpeaking of him, well oblerves ) #ihil va: lidius effet ad iv’ i (aadenaune fpec. ‘etp[a pietatis, jt gua etiam thende Mybertatis fiudium emineret.
I fhould have lete Ad¢ichaei Nostradamus out ob this Apology, were it not ro adde {ome luftre ta 10 manyexcell entperions, by the cemerarious: ay | norance and little merit of this upftart prophet: |
as the{parkling ofa Diamond is heightned by iietle forte. Or rather to imirâte thar ‘reat 7#/i# | Cafar Scaliger , rhe haying pafi?d his judgment i onthe moit famous Poets, would need; give thee),
fame upon Rhedophi lus and Delet aliedoine byl ape excule char it was in imitation of. Ari
fotle, who inthe fame Book treats of living Crea-4
cures and their ordure and excren nents, © Thi: Fey I muc h more apply to this Monfier ©, aones > Wi ho! € lit el fnail nor fet forth accordine
Lud HE
LO its principal l'cireumitances, fince they are fall
fat an a pittuull chat no Hitorian hath yet med-
Jed with them, but the At irhor of the French i
Janus, and the Pleiades, it being my bufinefle
only to ob'erve the vanity ofhis Defienes. Feng not content to have cheated usin his prædiéirs ons, which he printed at the beginning of everyyll year from 1550, till 1567. he further jm 'oin'dit
that he might ew? blait che memory obj
Merlin , 1 ‘ele[phorus » À a ataldusy Lolhavdus , Toa: chim Savonarila, Linas it10 Miniatrs Antonie Torquato, and all chest thachad dabled in predi- ions. by the reputation he was in hope to gaine by publithing a Decad of Centuries , upon thés
future frate of all things in the world. Thefee
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and Monluc not knowing what to fay to their Lib. 4. of falling out crue fomerimes ; and others looking his Com- on them as lyes fooleries and impoflures, and ey menlaris, containing {uc ha diverficy of crafty ambiguities,
(| char it were in a manner impoilible not to find
i) fomething among fo many thout inds of tetraft-
À 1cks upon any occalion a man can propole to him-
| {elf : Accondingly did:fomerake thence occafion
1) to make de with thote falfities, among whom
che mot incenious was he, who, without charg-
af ing him with contradiétions; or calling him Monfire d'abus, and Monstra-damas as divers
did, onely fenc him this Diftick ;
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LS | (ef; | Noftra damus cum verba damus,nam fallere noftrum Et cum verba damus, nil nifi noffra damus,
But as there is no Caulfe fo defperate which, in 20) time, meets nor with {ome thar will patronileit; | fo much it be acknowledg’d, chat there area ma- ny hollow braines, and minds fit only to receive wif anyching thatis extravagant, and thar without any examination > who ‘think their pockets em- pty without thefe Centuries which they. idelife as Humanifts do Petremus,and Politicians Tacitus, looking on them as more infallible then rhe Gof- ) pell, and making ic appear on alloccafions that i happen daily though ever {o trivial],
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Yet does nor this Idolatry hinder, but that i) among those who admirethem fo much, it is a controyerly
Cap. 7.1.9.
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controverly by what meanes the Authour could
arrive to fucha certain knowledge of things ro come, Some hold he gor it by t the practile of
judiciall Astrology : others, that ir was re4
veal’d {ro him by the meanes of fome familian Damon ; and a chird fort, that he had no other
afiitance then that of the capacity of the Hire Soul to foretell thingstocome, For, according) to the Opinion of ’ Avicenna, when fhe is difengae dil from the cos ernment of the body, the fuffers an! certain paralyfis,. and leaves : ie as it were buried
in the maffe ofits cerreftrial! Element, cha t fo), fhe may befreeto confider what is ac che grestéft} diftance from her. Then it is char thee feess things co come as prefent, w hich fhe could nott
ave’ done aki leche exigencies of rhe body divertti her fromthis contemplation, And this hap; pense) 1 L
for the mot part nn being fore’d aoainft herr saturall motion by the violent agitation of Me= lancholiy fhe dip! ayes and difcovers what is: moit hidden in her,that : forces and faculties; fo chat chere is nothing hin- ders her from exceeding her t ordinary Limits. andi) arriving tothe knowledge of things to come. ON this we have fome experie nce inold men, who
being in the urmoft declination of cheir 406, don
often forete il w what afterwards comes to paffe : ass 1 |
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ready at Liberty. : To Hrengthen thts laft opini-
on, they adde that were fone reafon to charge
Nature witha certaine difcare of mankindif fhe: 17
deny’d his perfedion to man when we fee he: if
birds call’d | os Oy y weHeUy.ess tl 1e Mefleng eers of the Gods as Evripides cerms them, and feverall other
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i) the changes of feafons, wind, raine, fair He J tempetts, and ali this withont any other iniiructie Jon chan that ofcheirinarurall inftinct. Ihave been more particular in chis laft caufe, is) then in the other two, becauie Nostradamus him- | {elf contefles in his Eputle ro the three Centuries | dedicated to Hezry the fecond ot Frazce , that he | uttered his pred Sons rather throu igh a naturall ine | fink attenc led by 4 Poeticall fury, then by any affife- ance of the rules of Poefy, though he had reconcil’d sl them to aftron onzicall C aleulations, But fince che cruch & reputation of that fo My- 4) ferious book cannot fubiitt buc by one of thete three reafons, they cr are to be blam’d for 4} their over- credali lity, who would ground the Au-
| thority of dis Fortune-reller, upon caufes, which |:
have found more falfe chan any of his Centuries,
‘int And this it were the more ealy to fhew; in that, of all predtétions and Prophecyes that ever came
ro our knowledee, we havenot mec with any
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precilely markes our all the accidents and feverall À onto. even to occurrences oflitle or / no concernment. Whencein che firft place I in- ferre, that he could not compofe thofe predictions by the affiftance of Aftrology ; the Authors whereof having not left us any rules whereby we ) might atcain the knowlec ce of thole particulars. | For thefe areno more under the juridi@tion ot
that Art, byreafon of the uncertain emergencies | of their caules, chen things ‘purely free and con-
tingent, fuch as are the ations chat depend meer-
15 on our will, and which in regard they have not J) aby determinate cruthor falfhood cannot be ei- ther
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if they had well examined them, they fhould
more particular then thole of Noltradamins , who.
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In the fecond place, Jinferre , chat he could nor
caufe even they, confdesd in their nature, have: not any knowledge of thefe actions which are trees & depend purely on our wiil, as being nor able to forefee them either in their cau'es,or their etteatsy,
while they remaine buried in the feveral morionss of our mind, as being fuch as St. Pal fpraks oft to the Corinthians, None kuows thethings of mam but the [pirit of man that is in him : not in the lac ter, as being {uch,as cannot be known ill they ap pear. So that if we allow his prophecies any7 foundation , it mutt be thar of che chird cante ,, grounded on.the naturall capacity men fometimess
D gatl.2, Valefius, who divaupthe very cornerftones ok b De Sacra this erroneous opinion.
eee Toanfwer therefore, in few words, ail thofe: o 30,
capable of Sciences, more æearneft in the dil-
by ic makes fooner difcoveries of the reafon it
proceed from ic this naturall Divination, where=-
have co forerell things re come, which yet is per
ofrhereis notinic eather che caufe ; principles fi or besinnings. Norasitto be credited, that oldifl: nen are more likely to forete] chingsthen orhersal unleffe:|h
have done it by any revelation trom Demons , bei
ther known or forefeen bythe help of any hu, mane fcience, ull fuch ume as they are prefenc..#.
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}anleffe ic be by way of Revelation, as Jacob did , por che Pope Pras V.
.& the Archbifhop_dzgelo Car- (to. Ofchefetwo laft, the former knew by reve- Comines. f, | lation chat the Chriftians had gain’d the battel of 2: €. 3+ | Lepanto;the other acquainted ewis the Sixth with 4} the dearh of the Duke of Byrgundy at the very )hourit happened. And la(tly for rhe forefighr of | certaine Creatures, Leonard Vair will tell ns, that ) the gefture of their bodies does not portend any ... thing co come, buc only what is prefent, char 4, is, the humid influx of the Aire , which, by a | naturall infiinst, they feel in cheir bodies; afioon | asit gathers together in the Element, And as } co che Birds which fhift Countries according to ‘| the feverall feafons of the year, itis not fo much | out of any forefight in them, of Spring, Winter, (or Autume, asa certain knowledge of thofe vi- cifittudes according rothe natural! alteration of their bodies, proceeding meerly from heat and cold, or fome other quality unknown tous. This premifd, Lleave thofe to judge who are
pot over-eafily drawn in to embrace opinions }wichout any reafon or gronnd, what efieem fhould be had of chele fine Centuries, which are ‘foambiguous, and contradictory, fo obfcureand "fenigmaticall, thatitc were no miracle ifamone a “T thouland cecralticks, whereof every one fpeakes
commonly of five or fix feverall thines, and par- pticularlyfuchas ordinarily happen, there comes Lin a Hemiftick mentioning the taking of a Town Din France , orthe death of a Grandee in Italy, à ‘} plague in Spaize, a Monfter, a oreat fire, a victory, for lomething of this nature, 2s if thofe Emergen- ) cies Were extraordinary, and happen’d not at one ftime orother, And yetthisis the main motive
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of that little ! hope there is co fee thefe prophecye veryfi'd as being { uch as we cannot compare ti any thing more “fit ly then to T heramewes’s {hooe: which fitted all { feet ; orthat Lesbianrule, which a being of Lead, bent ir {elf to all figures, cont) cave, oblique, round, and Cylindricalf, So mad; |, we fay ofthis Anthonr, that hismaine defigne wall}, fo to write as co avoid a clear and inteilisiblif., fente, chat Pofteriry might incerpret his predidii bir ‘ons as they p leafd, For though John Aim). Chavigni, te thar, of all or! hers, hath fooïifhit4!.. rifled a away his paines upon all kinds of Prophe? cyes hath fhewnin his French jarws, chat thal) greatelt part of Nostradamiu’s prèdiétions are ac compli (h’d near thirty years iricesyer are they RU, brought upon the Qi rgewhen any thing remarkabil ialls out, as for Infance, thole that : art (Gt abroad upon the death ofthe Marth all da’ Anecrr the prose Toren of MonGeur de CE and tha hiring of the Palace and the Bridges of Paras. Ani indeed, chat there arenotiound fome: vpn alii occaftons , is only | becaufe men will not be ar rhwdl paines to fearch them out, fincethey mer wirlll fomething about chat imaginary monfrous fill Whigh fome years fince was fold up and down #2 effigie , and |
thar che Sarit of a little boob called: The Chyvaift, or French eck rver, {aye f pag. 18, chat Noftradaneu » above thirry four vears be fore he was born, qu oting him by his IS ware ant Armesinthe 21, cetraftick of che 6th, Cemury,
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La Lune au plein de Nuitt fur le haut mont. Le nouveau Sophe, a’ un feul cervean Ll a
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bar: . = r : - AIT his heis fo confident of, that he affirmesit Can
Jnoc pofhbly be meant of any other then him- Helf, for certain reafons by him Jayd downin the | Jlaid Book. But becaufe it may be objeéted that |
jthe Author of the French Janus, who tranflated
Adivers of the Centuries into Latine verfe, does,
{by the explication he makes of them evince the
frruch at leaft of {ome of thole retrafticks, & confe-
jquently that I ought not fo farre to difcredit them,
Jefpecially thofe whofe events are yet uncertain ;
{hall briefly anfwer, and wirhall conclude this
Chay cer wich that excellent paflace of Seneca, Paz
Mere etiam aliquando Mathematicos vera dicere, ©,
Mot fagittas cum emittamt, unam tangere > noc Jjaberrantibus ceteris, To which adde chat of attic. Phanorinns in Gellius , that, ifta omnia que antt.14.¢.%, “ptemere aut astute vera dicunt, pre ceteris qua (pmentinnter , pars ea non fit millefima.
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CHAP. XVI Of. St, Thomas, Roger Bacon, Bungey, MA: ichael the
Sc 0 Johann 6 Sis Pics, ana Trithe: IINS,
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Î Have fometimes wondered there fhouldbe aid the Roweans a Law fo barbarous,as fhoulcq:
mong impower the Diétater to putto death any Citi if zen t
he pleafed, without allowing him ro make uel { ithe out che leaft wx
or himfelt, and thac with
fear of being cali’dto any account for fo doing, Bui
there is} more realon £0 wonder now,when a mari rejects on the temerity of chofe Wrirers, who»
though chey have northe power of the ancienniter): Dictacors of Rome, do ai lo « confidently conse aemn che mott eminent A ucnours, NOL as deier-ix ving death, but as guilty tof a crime e, as Johanna}
Sartsberienfs afarms ot ss morte din: | fi q Le Rh
| 2 mutare, whith detervesd) nothing Jefle, Nay, firch is whe impucences thati
they have no more refpet for Religions men, Bi fhops, and Popes, than chey had betore for Phi Jofophers, Phyficians, and others of greatelt anus thority among the Learned. Forit we look om bu any reafon of this rigorqus proceeding, the e willl
be no mee found than that they aay at all without any exception of perions, Tos Rutulefved fuat, out Of an ex Lelie otueal tomes ruth, as ti ey umnagine: fo under the fhadow and conc eit of hein pretended integriry to the pr ejudice of the accus} fed innocent, to gain the greater credit to certaiftil colle&tions and gleanines of I know not whatth ridiculous and ill digefted rélarions,which wouloil heveri
SESS CRS eT ERE The Hiftory of MAGICK, never find Readers, were there not more fools who are delighted to fee extravagant pictures, than wife men that have the patience to contem= place à fimple and naturall Beaury. | Since therefore it were indifcretion inme to | break off this Apolovie, when I am come to that | poinc for which principally I undertook ir,I think "| 4 now time to fpeak of Religious men, and to | fhew what ineraticude it were in usto make fo )
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| fleight acknowledgement of the obligation we
‘it owe them for che prefervation of Lerters, from sal) che times of Boetius; Symmachus, and Caffisdorus, 1 to the laft taking of ConfPantinople, At which 4} time Learning begañ to creep. out of Aonafferies, | Which for all the time before, had been (as ic x} were) publike Chriflian Schools, where not only #] youth, but alfo fych men as would apply them-
“4 felves chat way, were -inftrnéted in all manner of
sf Difciplines, Sciences, & Morality, and that to fuch
a height, chat not content with that fo famous
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ts) Quadrivinm of the Mathematieks, which, befides all that is now fhewn in Colledges, was then ji taught, Medicine, both as to Theory and Practice
‘was fo well cultivared, thar weneed no more to
(a Convince us how expert they were therein, than i the Writings of A gidins, Conftantine, and Dama- \Mfcere, Foannitins, Peter of S pain, and Turifanus, So
chat it were éañé for me to anfwer thofe who yeharge them with illirerature and ignorance, did Mrot chink it more requifite to apply the remedy.
where there is moft need, and by culling out five aor fix among them,
— Qui ob fatta ingentia poffunt | Veré homines, & Semidei, Heroe[4 vorari,
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to refcue them fromthe crime of this Magical) ii Idolatry, which were {o much the more horridi and abominable, practi'd by them, by how mucky, they are principally chofe who fhould oppofe 1t,,/ and cleanfe mens minds thereof, as weil by chee! example of their good lives, as by che zeal ancdj wi fervencie of their learned in{tru@ions.
Weare then roconfider, that the Auchour ol the Book entituled-4rs #otoria, publith’dby Giles) ih ¢ Bourdin, \ayes this foundation for the repuratiorihiis thereof, that the holy Ghoft had dictared it tec) jy) ä Lib. 1. |a\ St. Hierom, which we mut allow upon ano), adverf, cher affurance of his, that he rranflated the hiltorty jy, Aftrolog. of Fudithin one night. To which adde, that Ja))),.; Franc. Pic hannes Picus affirms, he had {een a book of Ez), cusl.§. de chantments, which diverfe weak judgements hol Pre, 6. & was interpreted by che fame Sr, Hierom, chong) |).
withas little reafon,as Trithemins afarmsyas rt NON attribute certain conjurations of the four prim)... cipall Devils to St. Cyprian Bifhop of Cary thage. This confideration pren ‘d, I donbr nou but che evide nt falfhood of thefe calumnies, will prove a certain light to the judgement we fhoullf.. pafle on thofe books of | Neanomaewerape Image: the Metallick, Art, the Sécrets of Alchymy, am) | that De effentiss effentiarum, divule’d and vente a fo. Pics daily under the name of St. Thomas Aquites,i i. PF ei ly frnam’d by [al Pres, Splendor Theologie ; Vy {firelog. : Idem. in. Ev afm Vir non fui facul,by |b Vives Ser Iptor cap. Heptaple {chola omnium faniffimus, and by the confenc cd}, rn i Ecclef- al] Auchours, with that of the Church, T he fait} ne C1 fall Interpréter of Ariftotle and the boly Scriprured) i l1b.de The- T alig.fudio, The bafe and foundation of Scholaftical Divimtry b pe trad. andin aword,the trs Doétor. For I woulll Difcipl. 5: know, what-eround there were to imagine, chia tne
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this great Intelligence, canoniz’d in the year £322, and whole doétrine was approv’d by a De- cree of the Univérfty of Paris, in the year 1337; and by three Popes, Zarocent VW, Urbah V1, and John X XII, fhould rouble himfel£ wich either Magick or the extravagancies of the Æ/chymists, who might indeed have brought him over to their parcy, hadchey not fotgot onething, which is co dafh out anid corrupt, as fome Hereticks do, chat paflige of his Commenraries, upon the fecond
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take warning not to expole chemieives {o freely to the {corn of rhofe who diftruit whatever comes from them,& who read thefe fuppofititions books out of no ocher defigne, chan cto obferve their great indifcretion therein, and the lictle judve- ment they have co carty on cheir fubcle plots: | We may inftance,not to engage inco an infinicy of "9 proofs, in their making chis oreac Doétor {peak fo SW childifhly in the Book De effentiis effentiarum that ‘IN he mighe very well be faid to have no more ac- quaintance wich his works, chan the barbarous Inhabitants of Margajats and Topiaamboux in eÆAfrick, who fhould beleevé rhac fuch low and reptile conceptions could fall from a mind fo #0 high and fublime; or that he ever dreamt of whar they make him fay in che fame Treatife of an
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M} Hermes, who took the book out of it, wherein Ww) was taught the Art of making Images under cer- tain Planers and Confellations, Belides the ttory concerning himifelf, that beine difturb’din his flu- i Q: 2 dies,
Book:of che Adlaster of Sentences, where he for- pifing 7: mally impugñes the poffibility oftheir tranimura- que/. 3. tions of Mecals. Whence, mé thinks,they fhould 421.44 5.
À Aftrologicall Book, which -Ade/, fon of Adam, De effent,