An Admonition Against Astrology, Title page – To the reader
AN ADmonicion againſt ASTROLOGY IVDICIALL and other curioſities, that raigne now in the world: written in the french tonge by IHON CALVINE and tranſlated into Engliſhe, by G. G.
Auſten of the citie of god. Lib. 5. cap. 7.
It is not without cauſe that men ſuppoſe that when the Aſtrologours do merueylouſly in their anſweres declare manye truthes, the ſame is done by a ſecrete inſtinct of wicked ſpirites, whoſe care is to faſten and confirme in mens mindes theſe falſe and hurtfull opinions of ſtatrie deſtinies, and not by any art or connyng of the noting and beholding of the byrth ſtar. For there is no ſuch art at all.
¶Imprinted at London by Roulande Hall, dwellyng in Golding lane, at the ſigne of the thre arrowes.
To the Reader.
BEcauſe the iudicials of Aſtrology … caſting of figurs to tel fortunes ſeme rather childiſhe plaies then weighty matters for graue mē to be occupied with al. In ſo much as god himſelf threatneth that he will ſend out his plages & powre forth his iudgements vponupon the wicked, & their ſo thſaiers and ſtargaſers ſhall not know how nor when ſuch things ſhal com vponupon them. And our experience teacheth vsus the ſame in the late famine among vsus, in the loſing of Calis, in the burning of Pouls and the deſtruction of other cities and contreis. Therfore am I bold thogh I be but a child to offer to the world ſoch things concerning the curioſitie of that art, and the abuſe of the ſame, as I bothe learned at the mouth of maiſter Caluine and red in his bokes: & the rather becauſe I do ſe that my former labor in the tranſlation of that epiſtle of Cicero vntounto his brother Quintus hath not bene reiected.
Now again if my labors may be profitable to any, I ſhal praiſe god, & giuegive my ſelf to further ſtudies that I mai more admire gods glory, & according to my ſmal talent profit his church, which thing that lord that is the only author of al wiſdom and geuer of all goodnes grant me to do always to my lyues end. So be it.