Vates astrologicus, or, England's astrological prophet, fortelling what is likely to befall Great-Britain and Ireland, particularly the great and famous city of London as also France, Holland, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Sicily, Apalia, Bohemia, Turkey, and indeed all Europe, but more especially the see of Rome, for twenty years together, beginning March 10, 1683, and ending March 10, 1702 : likewise astrological judgments of the effects of that famous triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, being thrice repeated in that regal sign Leo, the great dignities of the Sun and Jupiter : also some remarks upon the eclipses, and more especially upon that great and famous visible eclipse of the sun, July 2, 1684 : with twenty years predictions from some of the most eminent mutual aspects of the planets, and eclipses of the luminaries, and annual revolutions of the sun : here are also many hieroglyphicks representing the future state and changes of the world : to which is added a treatise of the pestilence, both for the prevention and cure thereof / by Richard Kirby.
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Vates astrologicus, or, England's astrological prophet, fortelling what is likely to befall Great-Britain and Ireland, particularly the great and famous city of London as also France, Holland, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Sicily, Apalia, Bohemia, Turkey, and indeed all Europe, but more especially the see of Rome, for twenty years together, beginning March 10, 1683, and ending March 10, 1702 : likewise astrological judgments of the effects of that famous triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, being thrice repeated in that regal sign Leo, the great dignities of the Sun and Jupiter : also some remarks upon the eclipses, and more especially upon that great and famous visible eclipse of the sun, July 2, 1684 : with twenty years predictions from some of the most eminent mutual aspects of the planets, and eclipses of the luminaries, and annual revolutions of the sun : here are also many hieroglyphicks representing the future state and changes of the world : to which is added a treatise of the pestilence, both for the prevention and cure thereof / by Richard Kirby.
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Kirby, Richard, b. 1649.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Malthus,
1683.
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Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- History -- Prophecies.
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Astrological Judgments for the Year 1690.
IN this present year 1690, we have no less than four Eclipses of the Luminaries, besides a Trine of Sa∣turn and Jupiter, in Scorpio and Pisces, and also a nota∣ble Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Scorpio, from which Configurations we may rationally predict an uni∣versal change, for all Europe is up in Arms: Oh Ita∣ly, what dangers and troubles art thou like to undergo! for thou canst expect nothing but mischief to fall upon thee, for those unspeakable Villanies thou hast been Guilty of: Oh the strange mischiefs, Plots and Trea∣cheries there are in the minds of Men! This Conjuncti∣on falls in square to the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, 1682: Now Italy and Rome, where are all thy Princes with their Jesuitical Tribe? what unlooked and unhoped for Deaths are some of them like to endure! for Mars threatens them with Wars,
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Commotions, Insurrections, Massacres, Persecutions, and Murthers, But England be thou content, for thy Condition is better than any, since thou injoyest both Peace, and Tranquility, God continue it; but Ireland is full of Troubles and Vexations, and besides here is a longer time of Sufferings appointed for that place, and indeed many more are threatned with Wars, Sedition, Cruelty, Furiousness, and Inhuma∣nity of Soldiers, and that from the Eclipse of the Sun, in the last Face of Pisces, which influenceth over Garamentes, Portugal, Calabriana, Galatia, Cilicia, Lydia, Normandy, &c. The Eclipse of the Moon in Libra, provoketh furious and tempe∣stuous storms of Hail to happen in several places under the Sign Libra; and the E∣clipse of the Sun in the second Face of Virgo doth threaten those places under the said Constellation with Famine, Pestilence, Seditions, and great Droughts, hinder∣ing the plentiful Crops of Summer Corn; here are also threatned many Robberies by Land, and Pyracies and Troubles by Sea, and that from the Eclipse of the Moon in the last Face of Pisces; now what places Virgo and Pisces doth represent, you may find in Mr. Coley's Clavis of Astrology, as I have declared several times already, &c.