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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

air it self is and that the Planets move in it as birds in the Air and and fishes in the Sea and by their Progress Parallaxes Refractions and Interferings with the Planets Centricks Eccentricks Cycles Epicycles Aequator Tropicks Circles Aequant and the other hard words of Ptolomy and his followers are hooted at by Delrio Imo ●● as suppositions and fancies that the Comet in Cassiopoeia 1572. that in Cygno 1600. that in Sagittarius 1604. and others were new productions in the Aetherial Regions as Raeslin would have it Caesar la Galla speaking of the appearances or Phainomena in the Orb of the Moon will not admit that they were created ab initio and shew themselves at set times as Blancanus affirms who cryeth Non per eunt sed disparent Burbachius and Maginus earnestly contradict A man would think that when Astronomers underdertake to shew that this or that is a new Star they know all the Stars yet Jo. Bayerus will tell you they are 1026. or 1725. the Rabbins among whom dwelt the ancient Astrologers 29000. Myriades and when these were at variance about their number Galileus hath found they are infinite as nailes driven into a door and so its impossible to guess when any new Star appears These and such like instances have cooled our spirits so far that we are perswaded all things continue as they were before the foundation of the world and that if it be vanity to dogmatize in things neer us it is much more for to be peremptory in things so much above us and I am of Pineda's mind that it is a question fit for a God to propound and for a man to be amazed at Job 37 38. Dost thou know the ballancing of the Clouds the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail which I have reserved against the time of trouble against the day of battel and war hath the rain a father or who hath begotten the drops of dew out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven who hath gendred it canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleia●●● or loose the bands of Orion canst thou bring forth Mazaroth in his season or canst thou bind Arcturus with his Sons knowest thou the Ordinances of Heaven canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth Besides all this the late learned Earl of Northampton in his Defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies dedicated to Sir Francis Walsingham upon the occasion of the Cassiopaeian Star bringeth many ancient and modern instances particularly of the Comets in the years 1555 1556 1557 1558. after which happened nothing extraordinary or evil all things being as cheap as they had been and as abundant Whereupon Dr. Hakewil commends the diligence and faithfulness of Gemma Frisius who observed all the Comets that ever were as this Gentleman before us hath done and noted as many good effects as bad which have succeeded them Peucer a great Mathematician in Germany prognosticaten upon the last Comet there I mean the forementioned Star That mens bodies should be parched and burned up with heat but saith my Author how happened it Forsooth saith he we had not a more unkindly Summer for many years in respect of extraordinary cold never less inclination to War no Prince deceased in that time and the Plague which had been somewhat quick before in Lombardy as God would have it ceased a the rising of the Comet Queen Elizabeth lying at Richmond at the time of a Comet 1568 being disswaded by all means from looking thereon with a courage answerable to her greatness caused the window to be opened and said Jacta est Alea thereby saith my Historian shewing that her stedfast hope and confidence was too firmly planted in the providence of God to be blasted or affrighted with those beams which either had a ground in Nature whereon to rise or at least wise no warrant in Scripture to portend the mishap of Princes And saith the learned Apologist I do not remember that any Comet appeared either before her death as in the beginning of her most excellent Reign there did nor of Prince Henry or King Henry the Great of France the first a most peerless Queen the other a most incomparable Prince and the third for prudence and valour a matchless King and all three persons in whose destiny was involved the fate of Europe Insomuch that I cannot but approve of Vespasians humour when a Comet appeared who as Dion Halicarnasseus reports being told it portended his death redlyed merrily No surely this bushie Star notes not me but the Parthian King ipse enim Comatus est ego vero calvus sum for he wears bushie looks but I am bald And I cannot pass the two instances that are brought of the greatest good presaged to mankind by two Comets the one that Foelicissimum sydus auspicatissimus Cometa in Chalcedius upon Plato That Star of Jacob about this time foreshewed the birth of the greatest Benefactor to Mankind Christ the other that whereof Tacitus speaks Cometes summè bonus apparuit qui praenuncius fuit mortis magnis illius Tyranni pestile●● issimi hominis i. e. There appeared a favourable and most auspicious Comet as an Herald to proclaim the death of that great Tyrant meaning Nero and most pestilent man The Predictions then and successes of mischievous infortunate accidents from the appearance of Comets we may conclude so uncertain and the knowledge of them so little that they are now more rare then in former times when they appeared almost every day because the people are more knowing and not subject to those affrightments he that is Prince of the Air formerly put them unto upon the account of every new Apparition which a curious Reader may see in Lycosthenes de Prodigiis Portentis ab orbe condito usque ad annum 1557. Peucer de Prodigiis Cardan de rerum veritate In the middest of this discourse started up the Question Whether new Stars are possible The Star at our Saviours birth was instanced in to which instance it was returned that it being not observed by the Mathematicians of those times the Magi were only men carryed and moved by Balaams Prophesie Numb 24.17 who was their Countrey-man it is generally thought rather a blazing light created in the Region of the Air carrying the resemblance of a Star then a new and true created Star seated in the Firmament 2. That in Cassiopoeia which we have so often mentioned the very year of the great massacre in France was urged again and it was said it held the same Aspect in all places of Christendom it ●an the same course it kept the same proportion distance and situation every where and in every point with the fixed by the space of two whole years which no vapour can do But I replied to that as we do to all arguments from