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cause_n	know_v	let_v	lord_n	3,357	5	3.9065	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31068	The blazing star, or, A discourse of comets, their natures and effects in a letter from J.B. to T.C. concerning the late comet seen on Sunday, December the 11, 1664, at Ibbesley in Hantshire and since at London and Westminster and divers other places of this kingdom.	J. B.	1665 (1665)	Wing B94; ESTC R5134	25,274	54

The Blazing Star OR A DISCOURSE OF COMETS Their Natures and Effects In a LETTER from J. B to T. C. concerning the late Comet seen on Sunday December the 11. 1664. at Ibbesley in Hantshire and since at London and Westminster and divers other places of this Kingdom LONDON Printed for Sam Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet neer the Inner Temple-gate 1665. THE Blazing Star OR A DISCOURSE OF COMETS THEIR Natures and Effects SIR YOur Worships commands in Sir I. D. the Lady F. and Mr. S. affairs have been observed with that care and exactness that becomes him who understands little other business he hath to do in this world beside your service as will appear to your great trouble in the tedious account of them sent your Worship by Dr. P. as an alleviation whereunto I thought fit humbly to represent to your Worship a strange Accident that befel us here of late The Accident Sir is this Honest I. S. was going to N. Market about one of the clock the last Thursday morning and observing as you know he is curious that way above his condition the situation of the Stars in Taurus was surprized with a sudden glaring and light which obliged him and his companions to alight and view the strange thing more narrowly but so confounded he was with the rude Gang he had got to whom might be applied the Discourse of the Duke d' Alva who being demanded whether he had seen the last Comet said He had not for many years been at leisure to look up so high that until he had tired them as much with his patience and observation as they had him with their noise and impertinence he could not make any exact judgement of its Figure Situation or Aspect At last having dismissed the people that talked nothing but Lilly and Booker and concluded nothing but fears and jealousies he went up a little Hill by the way side and lay upon his back neer a quarter of an hour between two and three of the clock in which posture he observed a Star in his apprehension about the same dimension with Jupiter South South-West dazling out glaring and glimmering Beams as far as he could then judge some 11 yards long and six broad declining between 3 and 4 a clock West-ward so as that by the interposition of an untoward Cloud he lost it and so arose and followed his Comerades who within six hours after filled the Town with the most horrid apprehensions that mortals could be possessed with those more knowing reflecting on that in Cassiopoeia the old people talking of the Blazing Star 1607. and the Comet 1608. and the subtle Fanaticks improving mens fears and ignorance by a more dreadful story of Prodigies wherein the meanest of them as your Worship observed very well at S. April 7. are most ready and punctual insomuch that our Town had amassed together so much strange discourse of such memorable things as happened since his Majesties most memorable Restauration a miracle that in my poor opinion might supersede all others as occasioned Dr. T. for whose Prudence and Learning this place is infinitely obliged to you to preach last Sunday upon this Text There is no new thing under the Sun wherein having premised the story of Charles the Great who looking on the new Star which presaged and preceded his death was very inquisitive and desirous to know what it portended Enigardus who writ his History returneth the words of the Prophet Jeremy Chap. 10.2 for answer Be not dismayed at the Signs of the Heaven for the Heathen are dismayed at them Unto which the wise Emperor replies Ne quidem metuere se ejusmodi signa sed signorum opificem causam That he did not indeed fear any signes of that nature but the Maker or cause of those signes adding That it is most certainly true that second causes are seldom suspended or altered in their motions and actings but only upon special design to let the world know that nature and the chain of causes are not independent but that he is the Soveraign Lord of them and their being and motions are in his hand yet withal he must repeat he said those Verses of Lucretius Caetera quae fieri in terris coeloque tuentur Mortales pavidis quam pendent mentibus saepe Efficiunt animos humileis formidine divum Depressosque premunt ad terram propterea quod Ignorantia causarum conferre deorum Cogit ad imperiumres concedere regnum Quorum operum causa nulla ratione videre Possunt haec fieri divino numine dicant Which I finde thus Englished in a little Book Sir R. T. bestowed on me Those Bugbear-Meteors which the timerous eyes Of pavid mortals wonder at in the skies And those unfrequent Progidies that appear On Earth while their weak souls are fool'd by fear Are the sole charmes that do emasculate And cheat mens minds into a belief of fate And some vindictive numen for because Men understand not natures criptick Laws Nor her occult efficiency they flye To salve their ignorance to divinity And idly rest in this whate're befal 'T was caus'd by Providence that disposeth all Seconding it with a passage as I remember of Plutarchs That it is our ignorance only of things that makes them seem to us both prodigious and miraculous whereas were the true cause known or hunted out the wonder would quickly abate and seem less and that which before seemed monstrous and miraculous would become very common if not contemptible Which mindes me of a passage in Du Bartas I 'll not gainsay but that a knowing man May give some reason if he list to scan Of all that moves under heavens hollow cope The honest Gentleman whom I pitie when he throweth away his Learning on a poor Village in your absence acknowledging That God might raise Nature which he said was but his Art above the apprehension of common men Yet he asserted That these things have been in every age and that men have assigned the causes of them not observing any fatal effects from them as the Twins in one brought forth Anno 1474 neer Verona with four hands two heads four legs two privities and joyned just from the buttock upward and those in Ubulen a village in Flanders 1567. a childe with two heads four arms and members in all other parts for two bodies save the legs of which there were but two onely the cause whereof was assigned by the Physicians of those times to be a violent contusion and the event proved no worse then that two Queens were those years brought to bed of Twins a piece which with many more terrestrial wonders he insisted upon But the occasion being a celestial one he mentioned out of Bishop Usher the orderly Armies and Fights in the air over Antiochus his tent anno mundi 3785. which imported no more harm to him then that he should take Jerusalem as he did with all its treasures fourty days afterwards The fire in heaven