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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 this Blazing Star, We that live in America know but little of the great Motions in Europe, much less in Africa and Asia, until a long time afterwards. Only we are informed of some considerable Commotions the last year, between the Tartars and the Chinese. Likewise in Hungaria, some things worthy of Remark have happened. Above four hundred Villages in that Country have lately been laid desolate by Sword and Fire. The Turks have an Army on foot there, and it is strange to consider (only God maketh the Earth to help the Woman) that those Barbarous Infidels, should declare unto the Emperor of Germany, that they will not be at peace with him, except he do's restore unto the oppressed Protestants their liberties and estates which have been unjustly taken ⟨p. 125⟩from them. The Pope has disposed of the Ecclesiastical 10th. in the State Milan to be employed in a war against the Hungarian Protestants. This last Summer the Protestants (commonly called Rebels) in those parts have had Wonderful successes against the Popish Generation. It is possible this may be a beginning of Revenges upon the Enemy. The great expectation, is, that the next year the Grand Signior will come in person against the Emperor, with the most formidable Army which hath been known in the World for these many ages. It may be another (the last and most fatal) blast of the second woe Trumpet, is now about to sound. In the Summer after this Blazing Star, there was an afflictive Drought▪ not only in America, but in Europe. The next (i. e. the last) winter, there was a great Inundation in the Netherlands; many thousands perished in the fatal night when those great Waters came nigh unto them. It is said that those Provinces suffered more by that Inundation, then by all the French Wars which of late have been so heavy upon them. The poor Protestants in France, are blazing in a flame of Persecution. The French KING in his Declaration newly come forth, boasts that he hath caused several Millions of Protestants to forsake their holy Profession, and to turn Roman Catholics; He also and the Pope are quarrelling who shall be Pope in France. Yea his hand seems to be against every one, and every mans against him, ⟨p. 126⟩the issue whereof must needs in probability be some great overturnings and alteration of the present State of Affairs in Europe.