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Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired…
Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as they have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. / By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as thay have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. / By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]
printed by S.G. for S.S. i.e, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. D. 337. A stupendous Comet, and terrible to behold, was seen in the sign of Aries gcontinuing for the space of six Months. Immediately after which followed the death of Constantine, surnamed the great, whose death made way for great Divisions in the Roman Empire, and infinite miseries upon all Christendom. His Son Constantius being an Arian, quickly became a Persecutor.
A. D. 337. A stupendous Comet, and terrible to behold, was seen in the sign of Aries gcontinuing for the space of six Moneths. Immediately after which followed the death of Constantine, sirnamed the great, whose death made way for great Divisions in the Roman Empire, and infinite miseries upon all Christendome. His Son Constantius being an Arian, quickly became a Persecutor.
- gOros•us L. C. 19. Eutropius L 10 Alstedius &c.
A D. 363. A Blazing Star hwas seen and that not only in the night but in the day time. This was attended with Julian the Apostate his war against the Persians, and with the prodigious death of that great Apostate. About two years after that, another Comet was seen in Aries, continuing eleven weeks. A most prodigious Earth-quake followed iwhich was perceived (as Historians affirm) in all parts of the world. The like to this Earth-quake was never known. The waves of the Sea were rolled out of their channels, and Ships left hanging on the tops of ⟨p. 45⟩Houses; & a fearful-Inundation, so that many Cities, and innumerable Souls perished by those Calamities. Many Persons about Constantinople were killed by an Hail-storm. The Macedonian Heresy caused great troubles and disturbances in the Church of Christ. The Jews attempted to rebuild a Temple at Jerusalem, but fire came from Heaven, and utterly consumed their Foundation. The cruel Persecution under Valens began the next year, so that the Church was in great danger of being carried away by that flood, as John foretold in the Revel. Ch. 12.15. A.D 383. (or as some Historians A.D. 393.) A Comet was seen of that sort which is called