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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.
Cum fera ductorem Germania Varum. Infecitque trium legionum sanguine campos.
A.D. 14. As Calvisius reckons, but according to other Chronologers A.D. 16. odivers Comets (or several appearances of the same Comet) were observed, which have been judged as portentous of the death of Augustus Caesar, who died not long after. Other remarkable Events attending this Comet, were, a great Mutiny in the Roman Army, terrible slaughters amongst the Germans, whose King Arminius was slain by his own Kinsmen: an Earth-quake whereby a great part of the City of Rome was ruined, and an inundation through the River Tiber's overflowing so that many Persons & Edifices were destroyed.
- oSuetonius▪ Alsted.
A. D. 56. A Star was seen in the sign of Cancer, pblazing for the space of four Months, directing its course from the North towards the East. The Emperor Claudius died, bloody Nero succeeded, who murdered besides his own Mother, and his Wife, and his Master Seneca, an infinite number of holy Martyrs. The same Comet appeared again the next Year, so that Nero's Reign began with a blazing Star, great Commotions happened in Jsudea, Chronologers observe that it was in this Year, that Hermogenes and Phygellus made woeful Apostasy and Schism in the Asiatic Churches; and so appeared to be no other then wandering Stars, 2 Tim. 3.15.
A. D. 56. A Star was seen in the sign of Cancer,