we are so fond, mistrustfull & credulous, that we feare more the fables of Robin good fellow; astrologers, & witches, & beleeve more the things that are not, than the things that are. And the more unpossible a thing is, the more we stand in feare thereof; and the lesse likelie to be true, the more we beleeve it. And if we were not such, I thinke with _Cornelius Agrippa_, that these divinors, astrologers, conjurors, and cousenors would die for hunger. ♦Astrologers prognostications are like the answers of oracles.♦ And our foolish light beleefe, forgetting things past, neglecting things present, and verie hastie to know things to come, doth so comfort and mainteine these cousenors; that whereas in other men, for making one lie, the faith of him that speaketh is so much mistrusted, that all the residue being true is not regarded. Contrariwise, in these cousenages among our divinors, one truth spoken by hap giveth such credit to all their lies, that ever after we beleeve whatsoever they saie; how incredible, impossible or false soever it be. Sir _Thomas Moore_ saith, they know not who are in their owne chambers, neither who maketh themselves cuckoldes that take upon them all this cunning, knowledge, and great foresight. But to enlarge their credit, or rather to manifest their impudencie, they saie the gift of prophesie, the force of religion, the secrets of conscience, the power of divels, the vertue of miracles, the efficacie of praiers, the state of the life to come, &c: doth onlie depend upon the starres, and is given and knowne by them alone. For they saie, that when the signe of _Gemini_ is ascended, and _Saturne_ and _Mercurie_ be joined in _Aquarie_, in the ninth house of the heavens, there is a prophet borne: and therefore that Christ had so manie vertues, bicause he had in that place _Saturne_ and _Gemini_. Yea these Astrologers doo not sticke to saie, that the starres distribute all sortes of religions: wherein _Jupiter_ is the especiall patrone, who being joined with _Saturne_, maketh the religion of the Jewes; with _Mercurie_, of the Christians; with the Moone, of Anti-christianitie. Yea they affirme that the faith of everie man maie be knowne to them as well as to God. And that Christ himselfe did use the election of houres in his miracles; so as the Jewes could not hurt him whilest he went to _Jerusalem_, and therefore that [*]the said to his disciples that forbad him to go; Are there not twelve houres in the daie? ♦S. Thomas Moores frumpe at judiciall astrologers.♦ ♦Astrologicall blasphemies.♦ ♦[*] [_read_, he.]♦ ♦Joh. 11. 8. & 9.♦ The xxiii. Chapter. _Who have power to drive awaie divels with their onelie presence, who shall receive of God whatsoever they aske in praier, who shall obteine everlasting life by meanes of constellations, as nativitie-casters affirme._