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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. 1009. A Southern Comet terrible to behold was seen in the latter end of May. eAn unhappy Civil War in Germany followed▪ in the Month of August, a great fleet of Danes landed in England, and cruelly destroyed the Inhabitants of the Sea coast. This year also Pope John 18. descended to his own place, whose Successors name was *Peter Hogs Snout, being ashamed of his Swinish Name (though not of his Swinish nature) he called himself Sergius; ever since w•ich, it hath been the fashion for those that arrive at the Popedom to have a new name given to them. The next year the Duke of Saxony died. The Saracens destroyed that most sumptuous Church which the Christians had built in Jerusalem, and burned down many Monasteries and Religious Houses. The Normans made woeful havoc in the Netherlands, burning the Cities of ⟨p. 64⟩Thile, Utreck, &c. The †Plague swept away multitudes in many parts of the World. Also a great Inundation happened, by reason whereof in Flanders some thousands were drowned.
A D. 1009. A Southern Comet terrible to behold was seen in the latter end of May. eAn unhappy Civil War in Germany followed▪ in the Moneth of August, a great fleet of Danes landed in England, and cruelly destroyed the Inhabitants of the Sea coast. This year also Pope John 18. descended to his own place, whose Successors name was *Peter Hogs Snout, being ashamed of his Swinish Name (though not of his Swinish nature) he called himself Sergius; ever since w•ich, it hath been the fashion for those that arrive at the Popedome to have a new name given to them. The next year the Duke of Saxony died. The Sarazens destroyed that most sumptuous Church which the Christians had built in Jerusalem, and burned down many Monasteries and Religious Houses. The Normans made woful havock in the Netherlands, burning the Cities of