proved not so, for he was taken prisoner by pirates ere he arrived in Turkey, and lost all!” Other failures of his are also recorded by Lilly.-History of Lilly's Life and Times.

10.-There was also one Jeffry Neve, at this time a student in physic and astrology; he had formerly been a merchant in Yarmouth, &c. he had a design of printing two hundred VERIFIED questions, and desired my approbation ere they went to press...... When I had perused the first forty, I corrected thirty of them, would read over no more: I shewed him how erroneous [though verified] they were, desired his emendation of the rest which he performed not." After his death Lilly purchased them.-Lilly's Life and Times.

11. The last of the astrologers was Morin, best known as the opponent of Gassendi The latter had in his youth studied and believed in the art, but had afterward renounced and written against it. The former who worked for thirty years at a book on astrology, and was besides an opponent to the motion of the earth, predicted his opponent's death repeatedly, but was always wrong. He also foretold the death of Louis XIII. with no better success. Since his death, which took place in 1656, the science has gradually sunk, and we believe has in no case been adopted by any real astronomer.Penny Cyclopædia.

12. In the 2d volume of Dr. Sibly's astrology is the nativity of the Rev. George Whitfield; it is full of error: I have only room here to notice one circumstance:-"In August, 1761, he was brought to the very gates of death, yet the Lord was pleased to raise him up again." (Dr. Gillie's Memoirs.) This important event is unnoticed by Dr. Sibly, no doubt, because he had not heard of it.

13.-A short time ago I heard that Lieutenant Morrison had calculated the nativity of the child of a professional gentleman in this town, and that astrology had gained no laurels from his efforts on this occasion. I therefore waited on the parents to know the particulars. They informed me that as the time of birth had been noted in the family Bible, the Lieutenant had it to a minute. The infant was then about seven or eight months old, had suffered much from sickness, and had been repeatedly near death. The Lieut. with an ominous look and foreboding manner, gave the parents to understand that the child would die at the age of fifteen months: he afterward informed the father he could calculate the very hour of its dissolution. However, as if the child were to be a living monument of the vanity of astrology, from that time it grew better, and at the age of fifteen months, was as healthy, fat, and

flourishing, as any one in the town, and has continued so ever since.

My next letter will contain a full reply to the Lieutenant's theology, as exhibited in his last two communications.

I am, Sir, &c.

T. H. MOODY.

LETTER IX.

SIR,

THE last three letters of Lieutenant Morrison prove to what an extent an astrologer will proceed in support of his delusive system. Sooner than abandon it, the star-gazer will blaspheme the truth of his Maker-endeavour to worm out of the sacred text some meaning favourable to his unhallowed views, and thus wrest the very "scriptures to his own destruction." Reckless of consequences, daring the vengeance of Him "to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, und from whom no secrets are hid," he proceeds in his career of folly, drawing iniquity with cords of vanity, sinning as it were with a cart rope (Isaiah v. 18), and wildly laughing on the brink of eternal ruin. St. Paul, in his first epistle to Timothy (v. 24) says "Some men's sins are open before hand, going before to judgment." This solemn passage should lead many to serious thought,

whether they may not, with Saint Paul, be thinking they are doing God service, while they are advocating the cause of error, and opposing his holy truth. Certainly I may be permitted to say, that a more awful perversion of scripture than is contained in the two theological essays of the Lieutenant has rarely appeared. His last effort is a bold attempt to escape the force of truth by mere subterfuge and chicanery.

My thirteen facts his fancy has transformed into thirteen mice," nibbling through the foundations of astrology;" and himself, of course, into a good mouser, guarding the temple of folly, which he now supposes to rest principally on his own publications: these are pretty numerous; and he speaks of them as having strengthened the foundations of the tottering edifice (Horary Astrology, page 257). The Lieut. is fearful that my mice will eat up his books; and these having given him so sleek a coat, he springs at whatever attacks them, and will even claw the sacred volume to pieces, that he may purr over the yearly produce of his astrological pen. These mice, however, I trust, will do their work yet, for they have all escaped unhurt from the fangs of the astrological mouser. His observations on my facts shall now be reviewed.

"refers to a miracle re

No. 1.-This, he says, lated in scripture 3000 years ago;" that "astrology,