8 is with the Moon. Obfervations. 49aft Quarter 1 Day, at 4 Morning. 35 28 33 57 7 33.577 38 43 56 8 15 We are now arrived at the End of the Year, 53 55 8 55 and, by the Bleffing of God, find a more quiet 58 63 54 9 39 Time than in fome Months paft; but yet Sa 68 73 5310 26 turn being retrograde, and oppofing Venus, preferves an unchriftian-like Spirit among us. 7873.5311 15 Repentance and Forgiveness are Duties only 88 83 52 0A 5 98 93 510 56New Moon 9 Day, at 9 Morning. 108 103 50 1 461 118 103 50 2.35 talked of. He that fo often frys, Forgive us 23 our Trefpafles, &s, does it as little as he that does not fay fo at all. The Rays of the laft 10 Month will give little Alteration in this, but 57 all feems to remain quiet and eafy. But 128 113 49 3 138 113 49 4 148 113 49 43 158 123 455 24 251 16 will tell you, here is rugged Work preparing to ufher in the New Year. And fo I-con914clude my this Year's Tafk with God preferve King George, and give him a long and happy 19 Reign; and that all his Enemies may see their 16 20Full Moon 23 Day, at 3 8 123 482 268 123 48 3 Afternoon. 13 Ignorance and Ingratitude; and let all the 3 People fay Amen. 278 123 48 349 England is bless'd with George our fovereign 288 113 49 4 King, [doth ring. 32 Whofe princely Conduct through the World 29 8 113 49 5 15 308 103 505 318 93 51 56aft Quarter 30 Day, at 11 Night. .581 Paffing under the twelve Zodiacal Aries Head and Face. Libra Reins and Loins. m Scorpio Secret Members. Sagittary Thighs & Hips. Capricorn Knees & Hams. Aquarius Legs & Ancles, X Pifces Feet and Toes. The Names and Characters of the Planets, With the Dragon's-Head and Tail. Upon the Twelve Signs, The Head and Face the Ram doth always rule: 8 The Neck and Throat are govern'd by the Bull, O'er the Arms and Shoulder, ftill the Twins prefide: Breaft, Stomach, Ribs, the crooked Crab doth guide. The noble Lion rules the Back and Heart: my The bashful Virgin claims the Belly Part. The Reins and Loins the equal Balance weigh: FAN The Fill our active Feet their Portion call, the Evils the cæleftial Bodies feem to forebode us, let us not fo highly prize the Things of the World, and grind one ano. ther, as is ufual in these Days; but I wish the following Rule were better obferved, and put into practice. Prohibetur në quis faciat in fuo, quod nocere poffet alieno, et fic utere tuo, ut alienum non Ladas. No Man must do that in his own Property or Poffeffion, which may hurt another Man's; and we must fo use our own, as we may not offend and injure our Neighbour; let us therefore, as we have occafion, do good to all Men, as the Apostle speaks, Galatians vi. 1p. but how averse and contrary the practice of thefe Times is, to this heavenly Rule, I need not here remember, we now cry, every Man for himself, and God for us all; but as One well inverted it, where every Man is for himself, the Devil is for us all; one of the greatest Miseries this Nation groans under, is Depopulation, but fure there is a va (to them) qui conjungitis domum, ad domum, a woe to them that join House to Houfe, and lay Field to Field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midft of the Earth, Isaiah v. 8. How many Houses, nay almost Towns, (that I know of) are depopulaed, and ruined of late Years. Rex patitur, pat tur clerus, Res publica pauper. Et non paffurus, Depopulator erit. Nay, doth not the Poor fmart the most of all, by this fore Evil? viz. the industrious Poor, those that would live by their own Endeavours; how many of them are utterly ruined and spoiled thereby, and several are forced to flee into other Parts for Harbour, and a poor Habitation? How doth the City fit folitary that was full of People? How is fhe become as a Widow? Lamen. i. 1. How many fufficient Families that were fometime ago able to affift His Majefty in the Support of his Regality, and the Defence of his Kingdoms, that are by thefe Means much decayed and difabled? We are,faith a learned Divine, but Trustees of this worldly Wealth, or earthly Talent, as we muft not hide but ufe it, fo muft we ufe it, not for ourselves only, but for the common Utility of the common Wealth: But where is there any that strive and endeavour to hinder Depopulation? not one that I fee in a whole Country; Charity is gone, and banished from among us, that indeed fhould be fundamentum Chriftianae Religionis, the cardinal Virtue, and ground-work of Religion, which, as St. Paul fays, 1 Cor. xiii, 5, feeketh not her own, vequi co tatis inutile et operamini malum, &c. faith the Prophet Mich Chap. ii. v. 1. Wo to them that devife Iniquity, and work Evil upon their Beds, and verfe 2. that covet Fields, and take them by Violence, and Houfes, and take them away; but fee their Doom pronounced by their Prophet in the 3d verfe, Behold, against this Family do I devife an Evil, from which you shall not remove your Necks, &c. This I have briefly added to fhew, that many Times, Almighty God, (for the Sins of this People,) fends his Judge ments upon the World, in a Time, when Men are most fecure, and will not take Notice of the Warning he gives them, by the Meffengers of his Wrath, appointed by him to give the World Notice of his Difpleasure against Sin : And we read in Jofephus, that though they had many Signs and Tokens of the Almighty's Wrath against the miserable City of Jerufalem, of a strange Comet that was vertical to them, yet never was there more Security in the old World, than among them at that Time; but I shall fay no more at prefent, only crave Pardon for this Digreffion, which was to let you fee, that great Oppreffion and Sin that is amongst us. Hoftis eft, quisquis mihi· Non monftrat boftem. He doubtless is no Friend to me, that difcovers not my Foe; I heartily with, we may all of us shake off these Vipers, thofe great Enormities and Courses of Sin and Oppreffion, as the foreftalling of Markets, and engrofing of Provifions into private Hands, before they are expofed to Sale, whereby the induftrious Poor are greatly oppreffed; if we could rid our Nation of thefe Enormities, that are, and abound in this Land, (which I have but briefly hinted,) then fhall that of the Prophet be undoubtedly verified and made good unto us, Deut. xxviii. v. 3, 5. Benedictus eris in Civitate, et Benedi&tus eris in ruri, Benedictus Corbis tuus et maɛtra tua &c. Bleffed fhall thou be in the City, and bleffed fhalt thou be in the Field; bleffed fhall be thy Basket, and thy Store bleffed fhalt thou be when thou comeft in, and blessed fhalt thou be when thou goeft out: Then fhall we have no cause to fear the Face of the greatett Oppreflors, Depopulators, and racking Landlords; the King will cover us under the Wings of his royal and religious Protection: and we his Subject fhall render him all fincere and due Obedience; fo will the Lord crown us with Bleffiugs of Peace and Plenty, and the Land shall no longer groan under the Burden of Op. preffions, which God in his Mercy grant. Aftro Aftrological Obfervations for the Year 1768 BE EWARE my Genius, how thou durft to pry, Hieoglyphies are Symbols, or Myftick Figures, ufed among the antient Egyptians, to conceal the Secrets of their Theology, and are proper Emblems of divine, or fupernatural Things, with us they are efteemed as Signs of fenfible and natural Things, and are a kind of real Character,which doth not only denote, but in fome meafure expreffes the Things; thus a Lyon denotes Strength, and a Fox Subtilty; and alfo to the Chamelion denotes an Hypocrite that Studies to please the Times in which he lives, and that can be |