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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.
The latter end of this, and the beginning of the next Century, was famous for the appearance of Comets with an unwonted frequency. For good uHistorians relate concerning A.D. 1095 96▪ 97, 98, 99, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1106, 1109, 1110, 1113. that a Blazing Star was seen ⟨p. 69⟩in every one of these years. It would fill a volume to speak particularly and fully concerning the miseries of these doleful times. In Syria a flood happened, whereby innumerable thousands were drowned. Famine, and the Plague raged throughout almost the whole Earth. In wGermany the Pope stirred up the Saxons against their lawful Emperor Henry V. There were no less then five bloody engagements, wherein the lives of many famous Princes were lost▪ and Rivers of Blood were spilt upon the ground. But the most remarkable and great concern attending these iterated blazing Stars, was the Holy War (as it useth to be called) which lasted for many years, and proved most unhappy to the whole Christian World.
The latter end of this, and the beginning of the next Century, was famous for the appearance of Comets with an unwonted frequency. For good uHistorians relate concerning A.D. 1095 96▪ 97, 98, 99, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1106, 1109, 1110, 1113. that a Blazing Star was seen ⟨p. 69⟩in every one of these years. It would fill a volume to speak particularly and fully concerning the miseries of these doleful times. In Syria a flood hapned, whereby innumerable thousands were drowned. Famine, and the Plague raged throughout almost the whole Earth. In wGermany the Pope stirred up the Saxons against their lawful Emperour Henry V. There were no less then five bloody engagements, wherein the lives of many famous Princes were lost and Rivers of Blood were spilt upon the ground. But the most remarkable and great concern attending these iterated blazing Stars, was the Holy War (as it useth to be called) which lasted for many years, and proved most unhappy to the whole Christian World.