N00277:124
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. 620. Another Comet appeared. About this time †Mahomet began to diffuse his pestiferous Doctrine. He had an apostate Monk to help him in composing his diabolical Religion, whereby much of that part of the World, which had been enlightened with the Sun of Righteousness▪ was overwhelmed again with the darkness of Infidelity. He is therefore fitly set forth in the Apocalypse, by the type of a Star falling to the Earth, & a smoke arising therefrom, whereby the Sun & the Air was darkened; And it is not to be wondered at, if so great a Plague to the World as Mahometism, is, was preceded and attended with Blazing Stars, as in the after Relations will appear. Never was the dominion of any Nation spread so far, and in so short a time as that of the Saracens. In the space of about fourscore Years there was added to the Diabolical ⟨p. 54⟩Kingdom of Mahomet, Palestine, Syria, both Armenias, almost all the lesser Asia, Persia, India, Egypt, Numidia, all Barbary, Portugal, Spain, a great part of Italy, as also Sicily, Candy, Cyprus, &c. Though many of these places were not subjugated to Mahomet, until the next Century. In a word, the Saracens are not without reason thought to be intended by the first w• Trumpet, dProphesied of in the Revelation. Those tormenting Scorpions proved a bitter Plague to the Christian World, more especially for the space of five prophetical Months (h. e. 150 Years;) and the times were then so woeful, as that men aid in those days seek Death, but could not find it, Rev. 9.6.
A.D. 620. Another Comet appeared. About this time †Mahomet began to diffuse his pestiferous Doctrine. He had an apostate Monk to help him in composing his diabolical Religion, whereby much of that part of the World, which had been enlightned with the Sun of Righteousness▪ was overwhelmed again with the darkness of Infidelity. He is therefore fitly set forth in the Apocalypse, by the type of a Star falling to the Earth, & a smoke arising therefrom, whereby the Sun & the Air was darkened; And it is not to be wondred at, if so great a Plague to the World as Mahometism, is, was preceded and attended with Blazing Stars, as in the after Relations will appear. Never was the dominion of any Nation spread so far, and in so short a time as that of the Sarazens. In the space of about fourscore Years there was added to the Diabolical