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cause_n	effect_n	natural_a	nature_n	4,625	5	5.6875	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40582	A Full and true relation of a comet or blazing-star, that lately appeared, and was seen by many who are eye-witnesses thereof, in this city of London, on the 28th and 29th of July last with many weighty observations upon the same.		1679 (1679)	Wing F2314; ESTC R16220	3,543	6

A full and true RELATION OF A COMET OR Blazing-STAR That lately appeared and was seen by many who are Eye-witnesses thereof in this City of London on the 28th and 29th of July last with many weighty Observations upon the same IN and upon the 28th and 29th of this last instant July appeared and begun to be seen in our Horizon a most wonderful and strange Comet or blazing-Star of a very great magnitude and as long to the appearance as a Pike darting North-wards very marvellous to behold for as though the Heavens did open and shut there was made a pretty large breach in the Cloudy Elements whence seemed other branches like fiery streams from the main body of such the Comet each darting its point towards the Earth which is the same wonder mentioned in the Domestick Intelligence and therein is called a fiery Meteor of a vast magnitude that seemed to compass the whole Heavens only the spectators could see but part thereof the Horizon terminating their sight the sight of which they affirm to be on Monday the ●4th of this instant August about two of the Clock in the morning by a Waterman with many others in his Boat upon the Thames This prodigeous Meteor with the late terrible Thunder and Lightning so audible and visible to most people as proceeding from one and the same Cause namely sin and offence against God provoked thereby to testifie his Judgments against the same are a signal token of such Gods anger or displeasure against a People or Nation with whom by the Sword of his mouth he is come to fight i. e. to proclaim and make open war The Reason of which discourse especially at such a time as this wherein Atheism and Superstition do so abound that God is made a meer mock of in the vulgar apprehensions of a Generation thus threatned with destruction is grounded and founded upon a sutable occasion for such a subject namely the late apparition of that terrible horrible and prodigious Comet over the City of London in and about Drury-Lane Lincolns-Inn-Fields and the places there adjacent where appeared this terrible and prodigious New Star unto many who were there gathered together on Tuesday and Wednesday nights this ●8th and ●9th of August spectators of the same especially one Mrs. Sheeres and her Family living near the Red Lyon in Drury Lane who gives the Relation thereof that it did not continue in their aspection at those times of its appearance but a very little season But what may be hence signified according to Reasons in Nature namely what may be the Effect or Event thereof is left to be consulted and considered upon a more mature deliberation by men of judgment into those natural Causes and Reasons of things brought to pass in this lower world what we say may be on such grounds the Event and Effect thereof It being not our work in this place to dress our Language with Art as though we had taken or were taking any Observation of the Position of the Heavens as to its Diurnal Revolution or the Annual Revolution of any particular Star whence such Observations are to be made but upon generals we give you our opinion in general terms and not according to the art of directions in these cases observed that as the Star so the Effects signified under the same are of a very quick motion Comets therefore do only foretel and threaten dangers approaching not as Causes but Effects so that as the form that every thing naturally bears as such the power of any Operation in the Constellations is accounted efficacious doing nothing in vain Hence is to be considered how Nature doth imitate God in the same manner as Art doth imitate her as well in its way of production as to such the form it bears And although many have endeavoured to argue Natural Causes for what ever comes or is brought to pass in this lower world we do thus far assent That as God is the God of Nature there may be and is a Natural Cause on our part for those things that are thus brought to pass by a Power and Providence that is supernatural subjecting Nature in the way and course that hath a Natural Cause secondarily moving as well as supernatural the fast Mover by which the Divine Being is extraordinarily acted according to Causes of both relating to what-ever is thus brought about either in an ordinary or extraordinary manner So that not to lessen any thing of Gods Works admirable or miraculous do we argue Causes thus operating to an end hidden from us and best known unto the Orderer and Disposer of the Events of all secondary Causes that primarily doth respect the first mover For observing how industrious many Artists have been and what pains and care they have taken to lessen any thing miraculous or that may be accounted admirable of God's works by drawing out the minds of a People after and into Natural Observations of Causes and Reasons in their Opinions and Perswasions for every thing that comes to pass here in this lower World and so by attributing the Cause of all thing to what is but meerly natural do in the stead of God exalt the Power and Strength of their own corrupt Reason and Perswasions for Judgment We say this considering and that such Appearances are but Effects of Causes both natural and supernatural for whatever hath been produced in time and place we do look on our selves bound to thwart and controvert Atheistical Perswasions thereon And this upon mature deliberation in the consideration of what is demonstrative we do offer not only as our Judgment and perswasions of belief relating to what is Doctrinal upon the Sphere wherein those Tokens are put forth but also relating to the practick part of Moral Vertues We having sometimes considered the reason of such Appearanees in which we are most apt to believe and do verily conclude them to be a prodigious Token of God's Displeasure and Anger against a Nation and People for Causes of such his Anger and Displeasure that do lye more inwardly hidden than that they should be comprehended by any Artist in Nature or otherways are understood than by Subjects capable of Instructions from the Heavens according to their own proper guift how or wherein such that and those Causes are so originarily placed the Foundation of which Faith and Belief in these Cases resteth on a well-informed Judgment Furthermore we assent to their Conclusion in this Case That the Causes of Form put forth with the signal Token are exhaled from the Earth a loose prodigious kind of Substance and light Airy volatile Matter not substantial and ponderous untill fixation and fermentation thus made of its Operations in another Principle but shadowing This Exhalation unto such fermentation and fixation of the matter and things so altogether shadowy and figurative in prodigious Characters and signal Tokens of such God's Displeasure and Anger being so made by the Suns Vertue And it being a Question that is material and weighty upon our thus enquiry into Causes for what is made demonstrative whether the Primary Mover be that of the Macrocosm upon the Microcosm or of the Micracosm upon the Macrocosm Our Answer thereunto deserves as serious and weighty Considerations relating to a Conclusion point upon the whole matter so that in the first place we deny not the Operation of that Orb or Sphere called the primum mobile on and over all others thereto subordinate and more low placed under its Raptures in which such subordinate Orb hath nevertheless its own motion and cause of motion so placed in a lower Orb or Sphere and as that Orb and Sphere is moved upon its own proper Poles But whether 〈…〉 be an External or Internal Cause is the main thing questioned in the peoples doubts so that if any thing or all things thus moved are concluded to be moved according to External Causes and these made or judged to be primary over all other Powers in Nature then are we mankind wholly and altogether over ruled or forced to act in all that is hence from and by us brought forth and so you may upon the same score further argue and conclude That God according to Justice cannot Eternally destroy or damn his Creature who hath no Power in this Estate to resist or prevent any of God's decreeings either to Felicity or misery but if you conclude as certain it is the Cause of all things to be Orig●nally placed inward Seed of Life that is in every thing even as the good man Moses writeth concerning the Herb and Fruit-tree whose Seed was in it self then the outward nature and its Bodies are to be considered meerly Passive and but Effects only of those things that have a more inward and hidden Cause than that it should be comprehended by man-kinds Reason of the dark Imaginations and Will that lets fly at every thing And so these outward Heavens are but the Book of God wherein we may see and read the signal Token of his Pleasure or Displeasure and in which may be and is made demonstrative upon an intelligible Subject the Original Cause and root of all our Actions And though this seems a Doctrine different from the Vulgar Apprehensions of our Generations of the World we question not otherwhere to make out more fully the Subject of our Discourse herein treated of by hints at the Foundation it self i. e. that we Mankind as we are set to rule the Macrocosm or great outward World we had in our Macrocosm under the Power of Dominion committed a Government over all other Creatures both sensible and insensible yea over the very Elements and Stars themselves which we since our fall do rather poyson and infect than that there was Originally placed any Poyson or Infection in them that is now become hurtful and pernicious to us and was to become subject to him such their Lord in this Dominion and Authority we having lost in the first Adam are to regain in and by the power of the second Adam otherwise our Sins provoke those Furies and Plagues that are so ready to be executed by a severe hand on us the Offenders whilest we are Enemies to God's work of Reconciliation Amen FINIS