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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.
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 Dan. 11.21, 31. He was a notable Type of Antichrist, nor is it to be wondered at, if a Star, Blaze in Heaven, when such miseries were coming on the Earth.
A.M. 3789. A Comet was seen in Aries appearing thirty two dayes. 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 outragious Cruelties, defiling the Temple, interdicting the publick worship of God Dan. 11.21, 31. He was a notable Type of Antichrist, nor is it to be wondred at, if a Star, Blaze in Heaven, when such miseries were coming on the Earth.
Rockenbachius writeth of a Comet appearing A.M. 3795 for the space of a Year and three weeks together. But there must needs be some mistake in that Relation, and therefore I praetermit it, and proceed unto,
A.M. 3798. (or as others 3782) when there appeared a Comet in September ▪ ⟨p. 34⟩presently upon an Eclipse o• the Moon. After which Perseus the last King of Macedonia was overcome by Aemilius. Within 10 years another Comet appeared, which was attended with a woeful Dearth and Plague and a long war between the Carthaginians and the Romans. An Army of the Bastans going over the Ice, it broke under them, that very few escaped with their lives.