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Title:
Cometomantia, A discourse of comets shewing their original, substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages ... : where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies : both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places.
Author: Edwards, John, 1637-1716.
Collection:
Early English Books Online
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Influence on the Mind and Thoughts,
the Free-will and Determinations of
Men? In satisfaction to this main
Demand I assert, That the Heaven∣ly
Bodies act upon the Bodies of
Men, and these influence upon their
Minds. I do not say that the Ce∣lestial
Luminaries act immediately
and directly on the Soul of Man;
for after that manner onely they
work on his Body: but this is it
which I maintain, That the Moti∣ons
and Aspects of the Heavens in∣cline
the Mind and Will by Media∣tion
of the Sensitive Appetite, which
is stirred by the constitution of the
Body. For I take it to be an indis∣putable
Truth, that Bodies strong
in humours, and weak in Vertue
or Grace, draw and incline the Mind
and Affections: and therefore those
Creatures that are guided by their
Natural and Sensual Appetites, as
Brutes and wicked Men, do most
of all feel the force of the Heavenly
Bodies. And for this Reason the
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