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Show / / 17~ S.everalfort·s of Di'lJination for hidden.. L 1 B. IV. and a ninth out of E~J;e~ . 21 ~ 2 ·L 1\ confolter with en• a 1Archi Ltv. trait. t. The firft is\J1~0, an o·bferver of times~ (a) one • 9 ·~ 6·- that ·d Htioguifheth times and fea.fons, faying , Such~ Jay n·good, or fMt:h a day i1 naught; juch an ho11r,(uch a , -wee~, foch a month is l~tc4ie, aNd foch llnd foch unluckje ~ v. Kimchi. for foch ancl Juc.~ huunejfer: ·(b) whence thofe that de. rn -rad. __ .r•t ve·t h e wor d fir om ·pp Gna;.z .n , f1i gnt. f yt.n g an eJe ( as ifhertby we meant a Jugler ) or Jmpofler, who deteiveJ ·the eyes of his (pellators by cafting a mifl bef.ore them) utterly miftake: more ..perttne~tly they fpeak, who derive it fron1 :iJ1)1 Gnona , figntfytng Time. But of all c Ahen, E)"' I approve thofe who derive it (c) from .JJ~ Gnanan Ltvit.19.z.6. r.. "fi d 1 .(._ A C[gud, as if the Original algOl e proper y a Plane= tary'> or Star~gazer. Hereby he is difi:inguifued from the fecond fort o£ unlawful Diviners, tor he alfo was an Obfetver of times; the ftrfl drawing his couclufions from 'the colour or motion of the Clo11ds: the focond from his eff'n JuperflitiotH obforvati~n o j good and ev;il events , happening on jNch and j11ch daJtS, [H&h and f*ch times : the pr.ft feerneth to have drawn his conclufio.n~ , 4 priort, from the Clmtds or Platzlts, ca~tjinggood and bad events: the fecond, a pojleriori, from the eve~ts themjel1us , happening upon foch tt11d fochtimes.Th !S Planetary,when he obferved the ~loHds, feemeth to have Hood 'r&ith kis face Eaflward , hts bac~ H'eflward,hk right hattd towards the So11th, and his lefl httndtowards the North: except it was from this pofitu. re of the Stttre ~g~~zqr s body in time of obferving, 1 find no reafo.n why the Hebrews fuould ter~ the E..jlern part of the world 0\1l Tzadim ·i. Thefor· tner part of the world: the We(iern part ,,nN~ i. f. The hac~p11rt ; the SoNth part J'O' )amin) i.e. The right hand; the N()rth p.zrt 7NoW Shemol, i. 7• ~he ~eft band. That the reafon of thefe denonunauons 1s , bec1ufe Ll B. IV.- Sever ttl fortJ of DivinatitJn forbi4den. IJ:J. becaufe Adam was created with his face toward the Ea(i, is as vain, a5 hard to prove. . 2 . The fecond is w;,Jo , Menachefch, rendre.d·an In ... ch.anter ; it importeth rather an Augur, or Soothfayer. 'The Original fignifieth fuch an one who out of his own experience dr.aweth obforvationJ to foreteU good or evil ttJ come, as So()thfa;ers do, by obferving fuch and fuch events, by fuch a·nd fuch fi y ing of Birds> fcreech .. ings, or kawings. The Rabbtnes fpeak in this wife : (d) He is lvlenachefch, a Soothfayer, who wiUfay, hecauJt d f? .. Kimcbf• a morfel of bread is fa t/en out of his mouth, or his ftafl '"""· out ofhi.J kand~or his Jon cttUed him bacl{pr a Crow l{aw .. ed Hnto hitJJ:,or a Goat pajfed by him. or a Serpent was ott his right hand, or a Fox en his left hand , therefore he wiUfay, Do not this or that today. This word is ufed> Gen.30.17. I have learned by experience, faith Laban·~ that the Lord hath bleifed me tor thy fJke. Again, . Gen.44· S. Is not this the cup i11 which my Lord drink..eth, and wherehy indeed he dtvinethi that is, proveth., ()r mal.eth try a! or experience what manner.of men ;e Are: The Hettthen people were very fupedtitious in thefe obfervations: Some daies were Atri, others At. bi, fame unlltcJv; others luc4y; on fome daies they - accounted it untortunate to begin battel, on (oSle months unfortunate to marry~ Menfe m11IH1tl Maio nJJhere vHlgNs ait. Ovid. F aft. And as they were foperftitioHJ in olferv,ing unlucfv e Plu~a ifliC. ons, fo likewife in the means ufed to avert the evil ~fm~dt Jrb , EUO~I~ portended: the means wereetther rt'o.rds or deeds. (e) f1JfJ-$oJ..t:L Deedr ; thus if any unlucky Bird: or tuch like came in v;de apud their way, thcJ would jJi11g fion~s at it ; and of thi s 1icrh'; tcph~~~'llull fco rr: I•s t he Jrc; ratc bi ng of a J~u .rJ:p, eOeu..1 Wileh , wbt.c h a .. t&ftaJ ralulfelr~.l - mong the fimple fort of people is thought to be a J'fl.l(-fo· means |