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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.
Mithridates his wars, and those between Antiochus and Achaeus, and the bloody Battle fought between the Roman• and the Car••aginians, wherein Hannibal wa• overcome by Marcellus ⟨p. 33⟩and Asdrubal by the Scipio's; the death of the King of Sicily (whose Son succeeding and carrying himself insolently, was slain) are mentioned as great Events attending that Prodigy. In this second Punic war fifteen hundred thousand▪ lost their lives. In Spain ▪ no less then 300 Towns were destroyed.
Mithridates his wars, and those between Antiochus and Achaeus, and the bloody Battle fought between the Roman• and the Car••aginians, wherein Hannibal wa• •vercome by Marcellus ⟨p. 33⟩and Asdrubal by the Scipio's; the death of the King of Sicily (whose Son succeeding and carrying himself insolently, was slain) are mentioned as great Events attending that Prodigy. In this second Punic war fifteen hundred thousand▪ lost their lives. In Spain ▪ no less then 300 Towns were destroyed.
A.M. 3789. A Comet was seen in Aries appearing thirty two days. King Seleuchus was poisoned, and there succeeded Antiochus, whom his flatterers called Epiphanes, but the Scripture terms him a vile Person. He raised a terrible Persecution against the Church of God, committing horrid and outrageous Cruelties, defiling the Temple, interdicting the public worship of God