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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. 1400. In the hSpring time a Comet was seen. But the next iyear in February, the whole World was amazed with the sight of a fiery and flaming Comet in form like a Lamp, whose Blaze was four Cubits in length. The light of it was so great, as that it obscured the Stars, and overcame the darkness of the night as long as it was above the Horizon. It continued until the Sun entered into Libra. The consequents of this Blazing Star, were no less prodigious, then the Comet that appeared. kIn divers places the ⟨p. 86⟩Plague raged, and other grievous Diseases before that time unheard of. Great Rivers were dried up. It would make this Discourse too voluminous, particularly to enumerate all the fatal and memorable accidents which happened by reason of Wars in many Countries. Our English lChronologers, say, that this Blazing Star was portentous of that effusion of Blood in Wales and Northumberland, which followed quickly after. A very prodigious thing happened the same year in Danbury in Essex; the Devil in the shape of a Grey Friar, entering the Church, put the People into a lamentable fright, and in the same hour with a Tempest of Whirlwind and Thunder, the top of the Steeple was broken down▪ and half the Chancel scattered abroad. In Bohemia, John Huss standing up in defence of Wickliffs Doctrine, no small Commotions were occasioned thereby. But that which most amazed the World, was, Tamerlane came out of Asia, with an huge Host. He overcame the Turkish Emperor, and used him like a slave. He called himself the Anger of God, and waster of the Earth; and indeed he made the Earth to swim in blood.
A. D. 1400. In the hSpring time a Comet was seen. But the next iyear in February, the whole VVorld was amazed with the sight of a fiery and flaming Comet in form like a Lamp, whose Blaze was four Cubits in length. The light of it was so great, as that it obscured the Stars, and overcame the darkness of the night as long as it was above the Horizon. It continued until the Sun entred into Libra. The consequents of this Blazing Star, were no less prodigious, then the Comet that appeared.