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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. 1268. An horrendous Blazing Star mwas seen, which was attended with these Remarkables. The Suldan of Egypt fell upon Antioch, slew no less then seventeen thousand Christians there, and made an hundred thousand of them Captives. Monaavus the King of Portugal renounced his Christianity, and became a professed Infidel, and raised a cruel Persecution against the Christians. In Scotland there were fearful destructions made by horrible winds, which Cardan thinks were the special evils portended by this Comet.
A D. 1268. An horrendous Blazing Star mwas seen, which was attended with these Remarkables. The Suldan of Aegypt fell upon Antioch, slew no less then seventeen thousand Christians there, and made an hundred thousand of them Captives. Monaavus the King of Portugal renounced his Christianity, and became a professed Infidel, and raised a cruel Persecution against the Christians. In Scotland there were fearful destructions made by horrible winds, which Cardan thinks were the special evils portended by this Comet.
- mCardanus, Ricciolus.
Historians nhave noted that in the latter end of this and the beginning of the next Century, Blazing Stars (some of them of an horrendous magnitude and direful aspect) appeared every year, for seven or eight years together, viz. A.D. 1298, 99. 1300, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. in the last of which years the destroying Angel was let loose upon the World, the Plague raging and killing in all Countries and Nations. But the great and stupendous providence attending these Heralds of Heaven, whereby the World was thus loudly and frequently Alarmed, was the rising of the Turkish Power united in and under the Ottomanical Family: So that in those days the second Apocalyptical Woe (and it was a Woe indeed to the