A pronostycacyon practysed by master Mathias Brothyel of Rauensburgh. Anno. 1545

¶ The fyrst chapiter sheweth of the in¦fluence and effycacy of those planettes which shal chefely beare rule this yeare.

IT can not be denied but that the worde of God and the work created by his deuyne worde (that is to say, heauen, earth and al that is conteined in thē) are so annexed & vnited together, that it is impossyble to knowe the operacion of the one without the oth••r. For wylt thou knowe the po∣wer and strengthe of the worde of God, then must thou searche in his workes▪ by the which we naturally vnderstād what God worketh with hys creatures▪ and what he wil worke herafter. For here in earth n••xt god almighty (as Ptholom•••• in the fyrst quadripartite techeth) al ••a••∣ses as wel of thinges to come as of thyn∣ges that doth chaunce vnto vs, cōmeth through the heauenly, course & influence

of the planettes predominatinge or bea∣rynge chefe rule, who of al the moost ex∣pert auctors in this arte of Astrology, is best alowed and folowed. Therfore whē I sawe wrothful and cōtencious Mars in the fygure of the reuolucion newly en¦tred into the house where Venus was, I may not geue the power of the hygher rule to the womannyshe or femynyne planette Ven{us}, but she agreeth with the angry Mars to be an aydour vnto her▪ wherby Venus may gouerne this yeare after her wyl and dysposycion. wherfore euery wyse man wyll cōsyder the nature and propertye of these two planettes, & so loke vnto theyr matters (through the deuyne helpe) that they fall not into the vngodly inclynacions of them. For it is wrytten, Vir sapiens dominatur Astris, (that is) the wyse man shall beare rule with the star∣res.