Good news for England, or, A prediction of the happy success that will attend their Majesties Protestant army now in Ireland, and the miserable fate of the French and Irish papists there in arms and open rebellion against their majesties shewing how that by the policy and power of the great Duke Schomberg and the rest of those worthy gentlemen and soldiers there under his command, the late King James and all his adherents, that do not timely lay hold on their most gracious Majesties act of indemnity, will be totally brought unto ruine and desolation : for Ireland must and will certainly be made subject to King William and Queen Mary / by W. K. Astrologer. W. K., Astrologer. 1689 Approx. 12 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2012-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A47205 Wing K24 ESTC R14904 13341543 ocm 13341543 99144

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Good News FOR ENGLAND: OR, A PREDICTION, OF THE Happy Succeſs that will attend Their Majeſties Proteſtant Army now in Ireland; and the Miſerable Fate of the French and Iriſh Papiſts there in Arms and open Rebellion againſt Their Majeſties.

SHEWING, How that by the Policy and Power of the Great Duke Schomberg, and the reſt of thoſe worthy Gentlemen and Soldiers there under his Command, the late King James and all his Adherents (that do not timely lay hold on Their moſt Gracious Majeſties Act of Indemnity) will be totally brought unto Ruine and Deſolation; for Ireland muſt and will certainly be made ſubject to King William and Queen Mary.

By W. K. Aſtrologer.

Licenſed

Octob. 2. 1689. J. F.

LONDON, Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall, 1689.
Good News FOR ENGLAND.

THE Noble Science of Aſtrology is an Honeſt, True and Lawful Art and Study, though by two ſorts of Men now adays ſlighted, vilified and condemned, (to wit) the Envious and the Ignorant, both which have been ſufficiently corrected and refuted by the Learned Champions and Propagators of that ſublime Knowledge.

But to come to our intended Buſineſs, an Honourable, Worthy and Loyal Proteſtant Gentleman, with much Earneſtneſs and Affection, deſired me to erect a Scheme, and give him my Judgment on the Affairs now depending in Ireland, and according to his deſire, I took the exact time of his propounding the Queſtion, and found the Heavens in the following Poſture: And becauſe it is ſo remarkable and pertinent a Poſition, I was earneſtly ſolicited to make it publick, which I have here done for the Reaſons urged unto me.

Now that a Man may lawfully ſeek a Reſolution on any lawful Enterprize, is plain from that Example of David, who being in Keilah, and hearing that Saul was advancing towards him, in order to beſiege that City, was deſirous to know whether he would yea or no; and if ſo, then whether the Men of Keilah would be true unto him, and not betray him into the Hands of Saul?

The SCHEME.

Sept. 21. 1689. at 6 h. P. M. diagram for astrological prognostication

Judgment on it.

IN this Figure the ſtrength or weakneſs of each Planet is as followeth, viz. Saturn is here found ſtrong by eight Teſtimonies; Jupiter is weak by five Teſtimonies; Mars is weak by three Teſtimonies; the Sun is weak by nine Teſtimonies; Venus is equal in Fortitude, and Debilities; Mercury is ſtrong by ſixteen Teſtimonies; and the Moon is ſtrong by eighteen Teſtimonies; and thus they ſtand according to their Poſition, omitting the Aſpects either good or evil, which ſhall be conſidered in the Sequel.

By the Strength of the envious Planet Saturn in the Seventh, the Houſe repreſenting our Enemy, and the Square of Venus, Lady of the Seventh, unto the part of Fortune, and her Oppoſition to Jupiter Lord of the Ninth, in the Twelfth Retrograde, with the Oppoſition of Saturn to Mars Lord of the Aſcendant, may we plainly ſee the Miſeries, Calamities, Afflictions and Sorrows that have been inflicted upon the poor Proteſtants in the Kingdom of Ireland by their implacable Enemies; and what unuſual and unnatural Barbarity would be further committed on all that either oppoſe them, or diſſent from them in either Principles or Practice, ſhould but their Antichriſtian Arms prevail againſt them.

By the Weakneſs of Jupiter in the Twelfth, we may behold what would be the Fate of Religion, or at leaſt the true Profeſſors thereof, ſhould our Enemies prevail over us, viz. The True Religion it ſelf would be contemned, caſt by, and trampled on by thoſe Romiſh Idolators, and the true Profeſſors and Propagators of true Piety caſt into Priſon, harraſſed and condemned to Death; and others to perpetual Slavery.

By the Weakneſs of Mars, Lord of the Aſcendant, and his Affliction by Saturn Lord of the Tenth in the Seventh, may we be informed what Kindneſs the People of England may expect from a Popiſh King and Governor, ſhould they again have ſuch an Aegyptian Plague or Task-Maſter.

But now let us ſee whether ſuch a thing ſhall be yea or no, or whether the Proteſtant or Popiſh Army ſhall become Lord and Maſter of Ireland?

Never could there have been a Figure erected (had the time been elected) more pertinent to the matter in hand, or intent of the Querent, than this very Face of Heaven is, wherein we have the Sign Aries Aſcending, which Sign is truly accounted the Horoſcope of England, and Mars Lord thereof not long entered Taurus, the Sign owning Ireland, thereby ſignifying the Engliſh Army now Invading that Kingdom.

Saturn and Mars are mutually applying to an Oppoſition from the Firſt and Seventh Houſe, which imports a Reſolution in both Parties to meet, and that an obſtinate and Dreadful Fight may be expected between them. Saturn is (indeed at preſent) much ſtronger than Mars, and there are more Planets relating to the Seventh Houſe, than there are to the Firſt, which ſignifies the Enemy to be more numerous than we; and the Lady of the Seventh Houſe being with Cor Leonis, puffs them up with Pride and Haughtineſs, and with an expectation of Succeſs: But Oh! the miſerable diſappointment that they will certainly meet with, for theſe Reaſons in Art.

Firſt, The Lady of the Seventh, is in the Sixth, in Oppoſition unto Jupiter Lord of the Eighth, in the Twelfth, which importeth the miſerable Havock that will be made of them by Wounds, Sickneſs, Impriſonment, and Death.

Secondly, The Sun is in the Sixth with the Dragon's Tayl, which ſignifies Infamy and Diſgrace, if not Impriſonment and Deſtruction to a Great Don amongſt them.

Thirdly, The Moon, Lady of the Fourth in the Firſt in her Exaltation, is a ſure Argument that the Country of Ireland will ſurely fall into our Hands, and wholly at the Proteſtant Diſpoſal and Uſe.

Fourthly, That becauſe Mars diſpoſeth of Saturn, and Luna ſtrong in the Aſcendant, and applying to the Square of Venus, as ſhe is Lady of the Seventh, there's no doubt but the Enemy will be routed, ſtand they never ſo obſtinate.

Fifthly, The Trine of Jupitur and Mercury ſignifies a Beneficial, Wiſe, and Succeſsful Concluſion of this great Affair unto England, and the Proteſtant Army; for Mercury is very potent in the Figure, and is Lord of the Second Houſe, and Jupiter is exalted in the Fourth.

Sixthly, Mars is exalted in the Tenth, but Saturn hath his Fall in the Aſcendant; Mars is Riſing, but Saturn is Setting; Mars by his Retrograde Motion returns in Aries his own Houſe, and there becomes Direct; Venus, Lady of the Seventh, is trooping into Virgo her Fall; and Saturn continueth under the Diſpoſe of Mars Lord of the Aſcendant; and the Head of the Dragon is in England's Horoſcope; from all which may thus much be ſaid truly, That the Vanity of the Papiſts, Jacobites, or Grumbletonians is far beyond Laughter, for to think, or rather dream of a Victory, or that ever the Late King James ſhould regain his Abdicated Crown and Dignity, notwithſtanding the Aſſiſtance of his moſt Chriſtian Majeſty. No, the Britiſh Imperial Crowns are ſeated on the Sacred Heads of ſuch as know well how to keep them, to the Terror and Perplexity of their Enemies, but the due Praiſe and Glory of God.

Vivant Rex Guilielmus, & Regina Maria.
POSTSCRIPT.

LEt not any Aſtrological Reader wonder that I ſhould be ſo large and peremptory on a Horary Queſtion; for I aſſure him, that I do not reckon it the leaſt part of the Art; tho I really eſteem of every part thereof: But for to back the Truth of what I have ſaid on the preceding Figure (with other parts of Aſtrology) let the Geneathliacal Aſtrologer conſider, That ſoon after an Eclipſe of the Sun upon the place of the Sun, in the late Kings Nativity, and the Conjunction of the two Malevolent Planets, on the ſame place he Abdicated his Throne, and hath ever ſince ſtrugled under thoſe Influences, and with French and Iriſh Forces hath been fumbling for it again: But now in Auguſt there happened an Oppoſition of thoſe very Planets, Saturn then on the very place aforeſaid; ſoon after which the Valiant, Politick, and Succeſsful General Schomberg with their Majeſties Forces entered that Kingdom; and now about the 22d day of this Inſtant September, thoſe Planets make a ſecond Oppoſition, and Saturn ſtill near the ſame place, and alſo Mars in Taurus, Ireland's Horoſcope; all which, according to Geneathliacal and Mundane Aſtrology, doth ſignifie no other than what we have ſaid on this Horary Queſtion; and that the Duke will purchaſe to himſelf and his Army a Laſting Name and Fame, by routing the Popiſh Hornets out of the Proteſtant Hive in Ireland. And thus much are we encouraged by the Stars, which are Gods Inſtruments: Now let us conſider ſome more Divine Incouragement which ſhould animate our Proteſtant Souls and Souldiers to the higheſt pitch of Valour and Proweſs: For, dear Hearts of Gold, you Fight the Lord of Hoſts his Battel; but your Enemy Fights the Battel of their Lord God the Pope; for ſo their great Cardinal Bellarmine, and other Belweathers of Rome have called him; you fight for the Liberty of the Glorious Goſpel of Jeſus Chriſt: Your Adverſaries Fight for that bundle of Trumpery, the Maſs-Book: You Fight for a Proteſtant King and Queen, that will maintain you and yours in their Juſt Rights and Priviledges: The Enemy Fights to enſlave you and your Poſterity's Souls, Bodies, and Purſes, and devour you by French and Iriſh Canibals: Therefore, although the Enemy (with the Haughty Sennacherib) boaſt themſelves in their Multitude, and humane (I had almoſt ſaid inhumane) Strength; yet you know that you go forth to Battel in the Strength of the Lord your God, who can with a ſmall Number, and without Bow or Arrow, Spear or Shield, with a few Lappers of Water, deſtroy the Midianites and Amalekites, although as numerous as Graſhoppers; and I aſſure you (that as in Deborah and Barach's time, ſo now) the Stars in their Courſe Fight, and will Fight againſt the Romiſh Jabin and Siſera; and you have a Mighty Man of Valour and Conduct for your Leader; therefore make good uſe of the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and the work will be done, to the ſhame of ſuch as Live in a flaviſh Fear, or Treaſonable Hope of the late Kings Return.

FINIS.