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UHg^ there are, in one and the fame word, great^ and fmal Letters, or Stars, mingled together? It may be anfwered, that the Reafon is, to make us take more notice ofthofe letters in the word, which are the moft fignificative; which is a courfc, that the Anagrammatifts arc very well acquainted with- all. As, for example, if in the word Soveraignty^ I would have VEKlIT^ to be efpecially ob- ferved, 1 will write the word Soveraignty^ in this manner, foVERalgnTY : where the letters of the Word FfillTr, arc greater, then any of the reft. Or if the word Keprefentativey I would havCj Frefenty to be chiefly taken notice of, I would then write the whole word thus, rePRESENTativc. Wc are not then to wonder, if in the Heavens we often fee two, or three great Stars to go to the Compofition of a word, wherein there are fmal Stars alfo: and this is thatjwhich wc are to have moft particular regard unto, fas we have already (hewed, when they are Vertical to anyplace. And by this means may we be able to give a Reafon of that, which hath been hitherto Unknown : as, when the Aftrologers affirm, that when Caput Algol^ or Medufa's Head, was Vertical to Greece 5 the ftars did fore- with * * ftiew tl\e Calamities, which afterwards *
happened unto it, by theTyranny of the * *
Mahometans ; without giving us any Rea- * *
fon why : no more then they do of their In tbeFigure Confidence^ in aCTq ring us, that the fame Conftellation, which will in a ftiort time beVer* tical to France alfo, fore-fhews a ftranqe Dcfolation, that is to fall upon that Country. Now all thefe difafters, though, accordnig as they are foretold, fo do they certainly come to pafs 5 yet neverthclefs is the fore-feeing of them grounded meerly upon Ex- perica^c 5 neither can the Authors of thefc Prcdi- L ' ' aiou?3
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^ions, fpr the moft par^, give any other Reafon of them. iButnow, according to this Do^rinc of the Celefiial writings we know^that thefe Mutations (h^ll happen on the Earthy becaufe we fee^thcy are writ- ten in the Heavens. And thi? is the Reafon thac K,Cbomr affirmsj^ that the aforefaid Maduja's Head^ ortheftars thatcoijapofeitj did forecel the lamen- table Defolation ofGr^fC^, becaufe that five of the principal Vertical ftars did for a good while toge- ther, makeup this words 5^^ rt Charab. Which, in the fecond ^ J T* Conjuga- tion, figni&€$^ ToheVefolate: under- ilanding this, particularly of Greece, over which thefe ftars (hone, becaufe that the number of its Letters, which zicjod, Vm, Ntm, ajid which being put together, make up ]V J^^», that is to fay, Greece, do yield the fame number,that Charab doth : as you may here fee.
Charab,
Deftroied Delblate.
SumM. 12.
Greece.
According