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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. 1214. (or as others 1215.) eIn the ⟨p. 73⟩Month of March a terrible Blazing Star was seen, both preceding and following the Sun every day, which caused many in those days to think that there were two Comets at the same time. This was attended with a Persecution in Germany; in Starsborough, eighty persons were for their Religion burnt to death by the Papists. A general Council sat at Rome wherein were 412 Bishops and more then a thousand of inferior Clergymen. Whatever the Blazing Star in the sky had, so many Blazing stars being in Conjunction at Rome, must needs have a malignant influence upon the World. The times in England were now most doleful by reason of King John his ill management of affairs. His tyranny caused the Lords to take up Arms; to be avenged on whom, King John, Acheronta movebat, moved the Pope to appear on his side, who immediately sets his Bull a roaring; The English Lords affrighted with the bellowing of the Pope's Excommunication, request the King of France to come in to their Assistance, so that the Land became a stage of Rapine, bleeding under the devouring miseries which must needs follow, when two merciless Armies were in its bowels. †Several things accounted disastrous hapned. 1. Hugh de Bones coming to aid King John with threescore thousand men out of Britain, and Flanders, were all drowned ⟨p. 74⟩in the Sea. 2. Coming to Walpool in Norfolk, he was careful to obtain a guide to himself, with some few, that he might go over the Fords where it was passable, but took no care of the multitude which followed him, so that they all perished in the water, which disaster filled King John with much anguish of mind, that he fell sick and died. Yet some write that he was poisoned by a Monk, the year after the Blazing Star last mentioned was seen. The King of Scotland died. The Spaniards slew two hundred thousand Moors.
A.D. 1214. (or as others 1215.) eIn the ⟨p. 73⟩