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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.
As for remarkable Events attending these Blazing Stars, we cannot but remember what doleful things quickly followed. An unhappy War between two professing Nations, viz. the English and the Dutch, whereby much Christian and Protestant blood was shed. A terrible Plague in England the like never known there before this time, so that in London (besides what was in some other parts of the Nation) there died sometimes above seventeen thousand in one week; and more then an hundred thousand were swept away in a years time in that one City by the besom of Destruction which the Lord sent amongst them. The next year the Papists set London on fire; which dreadful Conflagration continued for several days, until eighty seven Parishes were consumed by those fatal flames. The smoke of that burning caused the Sun to look as if it were turned into darkness, and the Moon into blood. It hath been computed that there were burnt within the Walls of the City twelve thousand houses, and without a thousand. *The whole damage amounting to at least nine Millions, and nine hundred thousand pounds sterling. Also, the miseries which the English inhabiting the Caribbee Islands, were n•t long after these Comets, exposed unto, not only by the Sword of their Enemies, ⟨p. 119⟩but by the prodigious Tempests which God sent amongst them, are still fresh in memory.
As for remarkable Events attending these Blazing Stars, we cannot but remember what doleful things quickly followed. An unhappy War between two professing Nations, viz. the English and the Dutch, whereby much Christian and Protestant blood was shed. A terrible Plague in England the like never known there before this time, so that in London (besides what was in some other parts of the Nation) there died sometimes above seventeen thousand in one week; and more then an hundred thousand were swept away in a years time in that one City by the besome of Destruction which the Lord sent amongst them. The next year the Papists set London on fire; which dreadful Conflagration continued for several dayes, until eighty seven Parishes were consumed by those fatal flames. The smoak of that burning caused the Sun to look as if it were turned into darkness, and the Moon into blood. It hath been computed that there were burnt within the Walls of the City twelve thousand houses, and without a thousand.