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CHAP. III. Of Building of Churches.
WE shall find this Election (since in this our age we build more Serralias then Churches) to be in a manner needless, yet since by the most Learned and well-minded Antients it hath been men∣tioned, I shall for the benefit of Posterity, which I hope will exceed us in Religion and goodness, deliver the Rules of Astro∣logie in such an operation, &c.
At the time then the first stone of the Foundation is laid let the Ascendent be fortunate, as also its Lord, the Moon and its Lord, the Part of Fortune and its Lord, the ninth house and its Lord, the Planets in any of these Places, also the Planet in configuration with the Moon, and let Jupi∣ter be in the Ascendent, and if possible in Sagittary or Pisces, or if you cannot do so, let him be in Sextile or Trine of the Ascendent, especially in Trine, and out of his own houses, and good places of Heaven: but let the Lord of the Exaltation of the Ascendent be well placed, the tenth and its Lord, the ninth and its Lord, the Moon and its Dispositor; and Jupiter, if you cannot observe all the rest, &c.