3000. yeares Antiquitie: of great _Philosophers_, _Expert_,
_Wise_, and godly men, for that Conclusion: which, daily and hourely, we
men, may discerne and perceaue by sense and reason: All beastes do
feele, and simply shew, by their actions and passions, outward and
inward: All Plants, Herbes, Trees, Flowers, and Fruites. And finally,
the Elementes, and all thinges of the Elementes composed, do geue
Testimonie (as _Aristotle_ sayd) that theyr +_Whole Dispositions,
vertues, and naturall motions, depend of the Actiuitie of the heauenly
motions and Influences. Whereby, beside the specificall order and forme,
due to euery seede: and beside the Nature, propre to the Indiuiduall
Matrix, of the thing produced: What shall be the heauenly Impression,
the perfect and circumspecte Astrologien hath to Conclude._+ Not onely
(by _Apotelesmes_) #to hoti#. but by Naturall and Mathematicall
demonstration #to dioti#. Whereunto, what Sciences are requisite
(without exception) I partly haue here warned: And in my _Propaedeumes_
(besides other matter there disclosed) I haue Mathematically furnished
vp the whole Method: To this our age, not so carefully handled by any,
that euer I saw, or heard of. I was,

[* Anno. 1548 and 1549. in Louayn.]

(for * 21. yeares ago) by certaine earnest disputations, of the Learned
_Gerardus Mercator_, and _Antonius Gogaua_, (and other,) therto so
prouoked: and (by my constant and inuincible zeale to the veritie) in
obseruations of Heauenly Influencies (to the Minute of time,) than, so
diligent: And chiefly by the Supernaturall influence, from the Starre of
Iacob, so directed: That any Modest and Sober Student, carefully and
diligently seking for the Truth, will both finde & confesse, therin, to
be the Veritie, of these my wordes: And also become a Reasonable
Reformer, of three Sortes of people: about these Influentiall
Operations, greatly erring from the truth.

[Note.]

Wherof, the one, is +Light Beleuers+, the other, +Light Despisers+, and
the third +Light Practisers+. The first, & most common Sort, thinke the
Heauen and Sterres, to be answerable to any their doutes or desires:

[1.]

which is not so: and, in dede, they, to much, ouer reache. The Second
sorte thinke no Influentiall vertue (from the heauenly bodies) to beare
any Sway in Generation

[2.]

and Corruption, in this Elementall world. And to the _Sunne_, _Mone_ and
_Sterres_ (being so many, so pure, so bright, so wonderfu