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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.
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it farther than is fitting and law∣full. The common Astrologers un∣dertake more than they know they can give a fair account of: and they are not the onely People that doe so. Some Physicians and Lawyers will put their Patients and Clients on mad Adventures, and some that pretend to Divinity will assert any thing. It is unreasonable therefore to condemn all, because Frauds and Cheats may be espied in some. If some Astrologers attribute more to the Art than they should, that is no disparagement to the Art it self. The abuse of the Doctrine of the Stars must not make us discard the Sci∣ence. Though most of Judiciary Astrology be vain, yet all may not be so. Though I have offered Rea∣sons which are able to diminish Mens fond Opinions of that Study, and to take off the certainty which some pretend to in their Astrologi∣cal Judgments, nay, though all the Rules and Aphorisms of Ptolemy and 0