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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. 1542, A lBlazing Star terrible to behold, was seen forty days. Three years after that another appeared of a bloody colour. Remarkable Events, were, a great Drought, in England, the lesser Rivers were clean dried up, much Cattle died there for lack of Water. In Silisia and other Countries the Locusts did much harm. The designed Expedition of the Christians against the Turks proved unhappy, a great part of the Christian Army dying by an Epidemical Disease. The latter of these Comets was attended with the first Session of the Council of Trent; Also at the Popes Instigation the Wal•enses were destroyed for their Religion, and Popish, Barbarous, Unparalleled Cruelties exercised towards them, The ⟨p. 100⟩next year (viz. A.D. 1546.) Luther died, imp diately upon whose death a Cloud of Blood which had been long impending, fell upon Germany, for a fatal War broke out between the Emperor and the Protestant Princes.
A.D. 1542, A lBlazing Star terrible to behold, was seen forty dayes. Three years after that another appeared of a bloody colour. Remarkable Events, were, a great Drought, in England, the lesser Rivers were clean dried up, much Cattle died there for lack of Water. In Silisia and other Countries the Locusts did much harm. The designed Expedition of the Christians against the Turks proved unhappy, a great part of the Christian Army dying by an Epidemical Disease. The latter of these Comets was attended with the first Session of the Council of Trent; Also at the Popes Instigation the Wal•enses were destroyed for their Religion, and Popish, Barbarous, Unparalleld Cruelties exercised towards them, The ⟨p. 100⟩next year (viz. A.D. 1546.) Luther died, imm• diately upon whose death a Cloud of Blood which had been long impending, fell upon Germany, for a fatal War broke out between the Emperour and the Protestant Princes.
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