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Strpntarius^ An 1604. and was called by the name pfthefaid Conftellation. There are fome others bciidesj which JJcetuSy DeNov.Jjir. &Cont.L'^, a C^p. 6, ad 2:5; hath coUeftcd together, out oH-iomer^ VarrOy St AugUjline^ tltny, Jlbuwazary Vherecides^ AthendiHy EujiathiuSy Germanicm^ yprianm^ Leovitm, CMrdaHy Paul us Hajazelm^ GaliUuSy Ihomas Fienm^ Cufpinianufyljcho Brabe^ Gul, JanfoniuSy who wis his .VchoUer, Jo.KepleVy Alpbetra-gm^ David Chytraus^ FabrkittSy Hieronym^f Munofius^ Wenceflam TantaleOy BeyeruSy Tyrgius^ Michael Coignetus, Cornelm Frangipa^ Husy &c, fome of which Authors have particularly obferved the truth of this Doftrine which we have here delivered ; namely that all thefe new Stars have been the Fore runner of the greateft Muta- tions that have happened : and that in default of thefe. Comets have appeared; which, though - they arc eafily diftinguifhed from true Stars, and have their place of being in tl>€ Aire only ; yet h ave they ferved to reprefent, by their diverfe Afpe^^s, (according to the Doftrine of the Kahhines^) Other Letters, and to forefliew the Difafters that have happened : it being very ncceflary f fay they^ to have afpecial regard tothefenewlightsj which are as a new Letter, which being added to a word, al- ters the (ti\^t of it. As, for Example, in this word AKE, ifone add an L, it will be no longer AKE, but LAKE. Or if in the middeft of this word A K E> one infert an R, it will alter the word, and make it ARKE. So that we fee, one only Letter, as an L, or an R, utterly changeth the whole Senfe. In the fame manner is it with the Stars 5 where a new Star added , varieth both the writing, and the fenfc.
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lytoiindcrftand this CeleftiallTritingy we muftex- a^ly obfervc the vertical Stars ; for, thofe which are over a Kingdome, faith Abindan^do ordinarily (hew, what ever is like to befall it. And in this fenfe, it will not be any hard matter to apprehend the mea- ning oi Cardan^ when he faies, (peaking of the Star in theTaiioft/y/^A/^jor, that it hath forefliewed the changes of all the Great Empires : underftan- ding this to be the fenfe of this Truth, delivered by Cardan ; that, according to the Doftrine here laid down, this Star, though not Alone, and by it fclf, yetjoyned with others, hath fhewedthefe changes; tnaking up, by their Conjunction, fuch Entire words, as did forc-fticw the fall, or rife of thcfe Em- pires, either clearly, and plainly ; or elfe perhaps, more fecretly, and Myftically, as we (hall (hew here- after. Now, as in all forts of Writing, there is one certain Letter, both in Nounes and Verbs^ which i^ more frequent then any other, and hath the Pre- minence throughout all thefeveral CoHJugatiom^ and Vecknfions *, in the like manner in this Celejlialwri* ting^ it hath been obferved, that in all the Mutati- ons of Empires, this Star, in the Taile of the afore- faid Conftcllation, hath been more eminently noted then any other : Either becaufe it is more frequent, in the difcourfeof Monarchies, then any ottier : Or elfe, that it is as the Capital letter, in the moft figni- ficacive words j as we fee there is in all proper Names, of almoflall the languages in the World : as for example, in the nameof Ho'^ i,the firft letter ig greater, then any of the reft that follow. And thus may we anfwer this queftion, which fome may happily make; namely. Why, in this Ccleftial wri- ting, there are both little, and great Stars alfo ? If it be furth:r demiinded j Why, in this kind of wri^-
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