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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.
There are who think, that inasmuch as Comets may be supposed to proceed from natural causes, there is no speaking voice of Heaven in them, beyond what is to be said of all other works of God. But certain it is, that many things which may happen according to the course of nature, are portentous signs of divine anger, and prognostics of great evils hastening upon the world A Learned and Judicious Author yconceiveth that the prodigious darkness which happened in the Sun at the time of our Saviour Christ's Passion, was caused by a Comets interposing it self between the Sun and the Earth; yet that darkness was a sign of Gods anger, and that darkness of misery should come upon the Jewish Nation, for their unparalleled wickedness in Crucifying the Son of God. Luther thinks, that then Joels Prophecy was fulfilled, who predicted that the Sun should be turned into zdarkness before the terrible day of the Lord came. Thunder, Lightning, Hail, and Rain, are from natural causes, yet are they sometimes signs of Gods ⟨p. 19⟩holy displeasure, Exod. 9.24▪ 34. 1 Sam, 7.1. & 12.17.3 Earthquakes are from natural causes, yet there is many times a very speaking voice of God in them. The Jews have a Tradition, that the first Earth-quake happened in the days of Nahor, as a sign of Gods anger because men were then become Idolaters. They also say that when Joshua was buried there was an Earth-quake in the place where he was interred, signifying that God was offended at the Children of Israel, because they laid not Joshua's death to heart so much as they should have done, whence athat Mountain is called Har gahas The trembling Mountain: R. Azarias bupon occasion of a terrible Earth-quake, which happened in Ferraria, A.D· 1571. wrote a Discourse on that Subject, and the Title of his Book is Kol Elohim h. e. The voice of God. And the Holy Scriptures mention Earth-quakes as being sometimes Prognostics of Mutations and Miseries, & Signs of divine anger.