Mercurio-coelico mastix. Or an anti-caveat to all such, as have ... had the misfortune to be cheated ... by ... John Booker. In answer to a ... pamphlet of his ... intituled Mercurius-coelicus ... which ... is hereunto prefix'ed / By G. Naworth [i.e. Wharton].

  • Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
Date:
[1644]
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Credit: Mercurio-coelico mastix. Or an anti-caveat to all such, as have ... had the misfortune to be cheated ... by ... John Booker. In answer to a ... pamphlet of his ... intituled Mercurius-coelicus ... which ... is hereunto prefix'ed / By G. Naworth [i.e. Wharton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Woithy Sir, I pray you have recourfe to fome foun. der Authors then Guido Bonatws,ot Haly , if you delight in fach difcoveries. You know who (in his Learned Book writ- tenia defence of judicial Aflrology again t.Chambers} condemnes your Horary Queftions, as meerly Superfiitiows, vaine,and foolif,And 1 beleeve you cannot have the im- pudence,or will thew fo much of your ignorance,as to fay that that of the Gentlemans before mentioned, was, or could be Radécail. If you doe, I both can,and will produce the contrary,under your own hand,and fhall accordingly publith that lea(t part of your Foolery , and Cofenage to the view of the world. i Youknow Rebellion is as the fin of Wich-craft. And eve- ry man (now) knowes you tobe an Errand Rebell. Now (M' Booker) were you but a Witch too,you might chanceto doc {ome feats of this nature: I would advile you to La- bour hard forthe Art: The one is as lawfull as the other. You are extreame capable,and ableto apprehend & find athing before you heare or fee it: elfe you could never have found the word Caia,or Cannibal in all my Book, But you doe well to put me in minde of Casn: He wasa Atur- sherer-and (one would thinkyhe might ferve as well to put you inminde of your own conditions , who have c7ar- theredto many thoufands of innocent foules , and fterved to death fo many poore Widdowes , and Orphans, that their blood willone day cry for vengeance in yourftreets.. Remember what the Earle of Straffordtold you at his death. Ile recite you the words fo neere as I can, © Les every man lay bis band upon his heart and confider [eq « yjoujly,wherher the beginning of the happeneffe of a kingdome < fhowld be written in Letters of Blood. I feare (now itis ure) “you are in awrong way; Ana T befeech God that not one drop of