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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.
Nicholas for safety, but the violent Waters overthrew the Church, and destroyed all the People which hoped to find Sanctuary therein On the 25 of June last the Popes Palace of St. Peters in Rome, was stricken with a Thunder-bolt, the Fire-ball passing from one Room to another, until it entered that where the Pope useth to give ⟨p. 128⟩Audience. Fanatics think that this may be an Omen that Heaven will pour down a Vial full of Wrath upon the Throne of the Beast ere long.
Nicholas for safety, but the violent Waters overthrew the Church, and destroyed all the People which hoped to find Sanctuary therein On the 25 of Iune last the Popes Palace of St. Peters in Rome, was stricken with a Thunder-bolt, the Fire-ball passing from one Room to another, until it entred that where the Pope useth to give ⟨p. 128⟩Audience. Fanaticks think that this may be an Omen that Heaven will pour down a Vial full of Wrath upon the Throne of the Beast ere long.
A.D. 1682. It is reported that in Germany a Blazing Star was seen June 17. in the South-west, which continued visible for the space of an hour, and was then obscured by the rising of the Sun. If that Relation be true, there have been two Comets (or one hath twice appeared) this present year. For it is certain that there was one visible in August last. Some had a sight of it August 15. for my own part, I saw it not until August 18. 3. h. A.M when it was in the foreclaw of Ursa major. The stream about 10. Degrees in Longitude; the Star bigger then that which appeared about 2 years ago. It was then perceived by us in N.E. only in the morning, whenas I am informed by Letters from London,that they saw it in the Evening the same night when we beheld it in the morning only. By reason of its septentrional Latitude, tis past doubt that in the more Northern Climates it was seen both in the morning and in the evening of the same day, yea all the night long, as hath been noted concerning the Comets appearing Annis 1432, 1470, 1513, 1607. August 23. it was by us in New-England seen in the Evening only, having removed from the place we first saw it in, about 39 Degrees, and was come near Coma Berenices; not considerably changing its Latitude, but moving in a line almost