Dec. 13. 1657. Jan. 21, 22. 1659. Jan. 16, 17. 22. 1671. Feb. 9, 21. 22.
23, 24. 1660. March 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26. 1661. March
17, 22, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31. 1678. Dec. 25. 1681. March 4. 1684. Not
only for Wind and Wet, but as we said from Pliny and the Antients,
Hail, Lightning, Thunder; Winter-Thunder in some special Signs,
which Signs by the Virtue of some judggling words, and the Powder of an
Opposition, make such Coruscations and Tempest in the Air, in Nov. Dec.
&c. A Diametral Ray metes the Circle of the Heavens, and unites Car∣dinal
Points, brings Midsummer at Christmas, and makes January tast of the
Praesepe, and February of the Lyon. In our Diary for the ☌ you may see
the like violence, if not in Winter; See I say there, and believe me in
the other.
§ 21. And here I believe it will appear, that Jove's Lightning is also
more minacious, doth more terrible Execution than usual, not out of the
strange Pyrotechny of the Planets Constitution, but, (as in case of ♂ and
☿ Stationary) from the Excess or Disproportion of the Emanation, which
makes the Scale fly up beyond all comparison.
§ 22. So much in the 1. place for the Warmth, now we have leave to
speak to the Frigid Planet. Yes surely, if he inclines to the North-Wind if he
inclines to fair Weather, if he inclines to Fog, if to Dryth, and abating of
Moisture, a Misle, a coasting Showr, if he brings as many Frosts as ♄,
he must be allowed amongst those who justly admit of more Frigid Stars
than one. Now that he furthers as many Frosts, must be evidenced by
comparing him with ♄, in hard times, and Winter Seasons, which will
be done in due place; and some of these Products are apparent from the
Table, viz. that of Fog and contracted Moisture, yea some Frost too, and
Cold Winds are found far and near. For the Sums lye thus, Mist yields
55. Fog 49. in toto 114. Frost 86. Not to say that ☍ □ △ are all consonant,
true to these Stiles notably and frequently.
§ 23. But now—after all Curiosity and minute Search possible, I find at
last that All this is, I may say, even Accidental to our Planet, i. e. falling
out in case of some Desertion, Hiatus, Co-arctation of Him, or the Rest,
or Both to a narrower limit. True it is, that it doth Rain in one place and
not in another; that a Showr coasts the Country, and singles out, as we
said, the Ground in which it will shed its Influence, but then ♃, for in∣stance,
a Star Potent enough at Liberty, when restrained or forsaken, can
do no more, than he can do, can reach no further than a Topical Showr.
The Planets bode a Showr many times, when they give warning also, that
it shall be Topical, confined to a Parish, to an Hundred, to a Wapentale,
yea to one side of an House, and not another: On the same account we
make the World believe we can tell when a Meteor will Flare, and
describe an Arch like a Flaming Arrow in the Air, and when it will strike
out of a sudden, as an Arrow, when near the Ground upon Sight, fixes;
the same is our reason for Hail, we see some Watry Meteors will be pro∣duced,
and yet we see not vigour enough to secure their freezing.
§ 24. When I thus argued therefore, Jove produceth Fog, but Fog is a
Dew with some degree of Congelation, to make it visible, ergo, Jove is
Cold. I consider the Dew and the Congelation are 2 things, the one may
proceed from the Stars, and the others from the Nitrous Atome, which is
ready to break in, (being kept out by main Force) on all occasions, where
the Planetary Watch doth not disturb it, as in all Warm Weather
it doth; the Planets do not emit this Atome, but at present they are not
in the Capacity to Expatiate and hinder its Intrusion.
§ 25. For, have we not made out how all ☌ s do tend to Cold? And
doth This not hold in ♃, which holds in others, ♂ it self? And is not