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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. 409. There was an amazing Eclipse of the Sun, so that the Stars were seen in the day time. This was attended with a fearful Comet appearing like a Sword in the sign of Virgo, nblazing for the space of four months (viz, June, July, August, September.) The greatest Calamities followed that had been heard of in the World. All Europe, a great part of Asia, and Africa, was overwhelmed with Judgments. A sore Drought, and Famine and Pestilence, ⟨p. 48⟩and wars amongst the Nations swept away an infinite number of Men. Rome was taken by Alaricus the Goth, who set up whom he pleased as Emperor there. Now did the second Angel sound the Trumpet, and the Roman Empire suffer a violent death, and is therefore resembled unto a Sea made bloody by the fall of a great Mountain all in a flame, as the forementioned great Interpreter doth expound, Rev. 8.8.
A.D. 409. There was an amazing Eclipse of the Sun, so that the Stars were seen in the day time. This was attended with a fearful Comet appearing like a Sword in the sign of Virgo, nblazing for the space of four months (viz, Iune, Iuly, August, September.) The greatest Calamities followed that had been heard of in the World. All Europe, a great part of Asia, and Africa, was overwhelmed with Judgments. A sore Drought, and Famine and Pestilence, ⟨p. 48⟩and wars amongst the Nations swept away an infinite number of Men. Rome was taken by Alaricus the Goth, who set up whom he pleased as Emperour there. Now did the second Angel sound the Trumpet, and the Roman Empire suffer a violent death, and is therefore resembled unto a Sea made bloody by the fall of a great Mountain all in a flame, as the forementioned great Interpreter doth expound, Rev. 8.8.
- nNiceph. L. 13. C 36. Alsted.