to turn all his Majesty's subjects into star gazers ? he must beware, or he may receive a rebuke from a quarter he little expects. He endeavoured to form an astrological class at the Athenæum, but the attempt was resisted; and though he was one of its trustees, his astrological zeal led to his separation from that institution; and I much question whether he will ever collect a set of pupils for astral instruction, unless he seek them in our lunatic asylums.-My course of argument against the theme of his idolatry remains in full strength, as he has not dared to assail one of its principles; but still he swells with selfimportance-obliquely attacks my professional reputation, and even levels his shafts against my person. But the description is wide of the truth: I am neither dark nor crooked; but the terms which apply not to my person, may to HIS MIND, and I think he would do. well to sit down to self-examination: the portraiture. concludes with these words-"capricious as Capri the goat." Here's Latin !-Caper or Capra, but never Capri the goat-poor man!

The rude reproach and coarse vituperation which garnish this dying effort of astrological genius, I consider as a crown of laurel; for, vanquished by the power of truth, and lowered before the public, the stream of the Lieutenant's diction is tainted with the

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gall of his spirit: "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Seeing also, that he declines all regular argument upon the subject, I therefore reject his proposition respecting "the sealed packet." He asks-"if astrology be so offensive to God, why was it not forbidden in the decalogue?" I reply, that it is forbidden in every commandment, and if he cannot understand this, he is but a tyro in theology. He adds,

"Let Mr. M. take my word for this, divines having abilities as great as his, have been lost in the depths of the question of the origin of evil.”

Take the ipse dixit of an astrologer !-never! And as to the divines who were thus lost-I reply, that men who explore depths which the word of God affords no light to fathom, can have no other guide than the spirit of darkness; and therefore it is no wonder that many have been lost and bewildered in the mazes of unhallowed enquiry; but as I have no wish thus to tempt the Most High, and to be lost with them, but rather to be humbly thankful for what is revealed, and to rejoice in the glory of God, it is not my intention to exercise my mind "in things too high for me." I am aware that there are some men who do not scruple to trace the foul stream of evil to the fountain of all purity; but, dis

missing all metaphysical subtleties I trace it to the dragon and his angels, and enquire not how it was generated in them; but there leave the matter, till the light of eternity shall chase every cloud of error, illumine every dark and difficult subject, and exhibit the splendour of the Divine government in all its unsullied excellence and unspotted holiness—“what we know not now we shall hereafter."* (John xiii. 2.) My antagonist remarks that it is not for me to shew how far evil may exist by permission.--By permission! He knows that his unrighteous system makes God the very Creator of it; and I would have him consider that the awful day is approaching, when the glorious Majesty of Heaven will enter upon a severe reckoning with those daring speculatists who have had the high temerity to make him the author of that for which his Son agonized in Gethsemane, and expired on Mount Calvary. It is also asserted by this modern advocate of planetary influence, that astrology abhors fatalism, when I have already shewn from Zadkiel's Grammar, that astrology is fatalism, to the great bulk of mankind: and that, upon his principles, none, but its devoted adherents, can escape from the common bondage of human nature.

I now proceed to consider the principles of horary

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astrology, which, in the preface to Zadkiel's Grammar, is defined to be

"The art of foreseeing by the positions of the heavens at any period, when an individual may be anxious about the matter, the result of any business or circumstances WHATEVER."

In the preface of Zadkiel's Lilly, we have the following presumptuous declaration :

"If a proposition of any nature be made to any individual about the result of which he is anxious, and therefore uncertain whether to accede to it or not, let him but note the hour and minute, when it was first made, and erect a figure of the heavens as herein taught, and his doubts shall be instantly resolved. He may thus in five minutes learn infallibly whether the affair will succeed or not, and, consequently, whether it is prudent to adopt the offer made or not."

What are the heavens every moment at the beck and call of every lunar fortune-teller? Solomon has well written, "The mouth of fools poureth out foolishness" (Prov. xv. 2); but, to this insult upon the human intellect, I oppose the solemn declaration of the word of God; for it is written (Prov. xx. 24) "Man's goings are of the Lord, how can a man then understand his own way?" The humble Christian being "taught of God," commits his way "unto the Lord" (Psalm xxxvii. 5,) walks by faith in him, and not by the frenzied vision of an astrologer."We walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor. v. 7);

for "the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord," (Psalm xxxvii. 23.) Lilly, tutored by the master whom he served, proceeds thus:

"The Querent is he or she that propounds the question, and desires a resolution; the Quesited is he or she, or the thing sought or inquired after. The Significator is no more than the planet which rules the house that signifies the person or thing demanded; as if Aries is ascending, Mars, being the lord of Aries, shall be significant of the Querent; viz. the sign ascending shall in part signify his corporature body or stature: the lord of the ascendant, according to the sign he is in, the moon and planet in the ascendant, equally mixed together, shall shew his quality and condition; so that let any sign ascend, what planet is lord of that sign, shall be called lord of the house, or significator of the person inquiring."-Page 76-77.

O! how abominable must that man be in the sight of God who thus thinks and writes of his works! If the principles of astrology be in accordance with truth, we must infer that, from the commencement of the world, "when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job xxxviii. 7), the heavens were so constituted that they should at any moment, even to the latest period of time, give full information to every moonstruck rebel of the person, quality, and condition of any worldling that might consult him: to name it is to confute it; and that man's mind must be awfully infatuated, who can cherish such thoughts of the glorious Architect of the Universe. I would