from Paradise, and that our Father Adam after the fall Communicated it out of his Memoires of the state of Innocency, to his Son Seth, and that Seth made Impressions of the same in certain permanent Pillars which were able to withstand both Fire and Water, and that hence Enoch had it and Noah, and from him Shem, and so it came to Abraham, who taught the Chaldeans and Aegyptians the principles thereof. Pref. to Hagiastrolog. p. 18.
Again, (p. 27. of the same Book) he contends that Moses, that great man of God, was an Astrolo∣ger, as being learned in all the wisdom of the Aegyp∣tians, of which Astrology was a part, which they were taught by Abraham when he was in Aegypt.
Thirdly, That Moses was an Astrologer, he sayes is apparent by his Predictions touching the Tribes, as to what should betide them for the time to come, Deuteron. 33. which he not doing by Revelation, nor Dream, nor Vision, (for when it was so, the Scrip∣ture was wont to say how it was so) he must needs have done it by Astrology.
Fourthly, The Patriarch Jacob was also an Astro∣loger, by his Predictions to his Sons, and that the Opinion of the learned Origen was, that he was so indeed.
Fifthly, That Joseph was also an Astrologer, he being the very Hermes Trismegistus that Diodorus speaks of, who taught Osiris and Isis many learned matters both concerning Religion and State, and concerning things to come, and who lived about the same time that Joseph, and taught a Religion by himself, contrary to all the ways of worship as was ever known amongst the Aegyptians, before him, he assisted Osiris in the Art of the Plough, and counsel∣led