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A72929	A treatise of blazing starres in generall As well supernaturall as naturall: to what countries or people soeuer they appeare in the spacious world.; Super huis anni post Christum natum M.D.XXXI. & quolibet alio cometa exploratio. English	Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1618 (1618)	STC 18413.7; ESTC S123128	25,130	36

neuer had Foundation nor beeing It consisteth in his might to moysten the earth with showres distilling from the cleare skies without the meanes of lowring and dropping cloudes He can worke both wayes to whom nothing is impossible Now gathering the cloudes together in an heape from the vttermost corners and coasts of the world now turning againe lightning into raine which couering the heauens with cloudes and preparing raine for the land For Great is the Lord mighty is his power and of his wisdome there is no number or end And therefore I am easily drawne to belieue that Blazing Starres may immediately appeare from God and be supernatural when it pleaseth God vpon some singular cause to giue them beginning matter and substance of nothing Such a Blazing Starre no doubt was that Piller of the cloude The piller of the cloud and the plller of fire were Blazing stars supernaturall The Blazing starre which appeared in Ierusalem was supernaturall whereby the Lord in olde time most miraculously went before the Israelites his people out of the Aegyptian Soile into the Land of Promise in the day time and that Piller of fire which neuer left the face of Gods chosen in the night Not vnlike to this was that Blazing starre as I suppose which threatning destruction to Ierusalem was of no lesse continuance then terrour enduring the space of a whole yeare which is not proper to naturall Blazing stars To conclude as well Diuines as Philosophers and Astronomers affirme thus much in this case that alwayes in a maner Blazing stars doe arise of cases naturall albeit the Lord God is the prncipall author and worker of them as in the Chapter following it is euident Whereof Blazing starres do engender according to the rules of Philosophers and the Canons of Astronomers and what they are in deed CHAP. VI. COncerning Blazing starres I finde some disagreement betweene Philosophers and Astronomers Anaxagoras and Democritus sayde That a Blazing starre was nothing else but a certaine bright shining in the Element procured by the coniunction of two starres To which opinion I my selfe of late did somewhat encline and leane Othersome also there were which supposed a Blazing starre to be but a certaine dimme and darke light compassed and as it were closed vp in a cloud Other some sayd that it was a cloud purged and purified from earthly matter and grossenesse which receiuing light from the other Stars casteth abroad clear strakes of brightnesse smal and slender like vnto hayre or fine wrought flaxe Othersome againe thought a Blazing starre to be but a certaine cloude Aristotle his opinion of Blazing stars and their generation kindled and set on fire with a hote flaming clearnes whose opinion Aristotle séemeth to haue fauoured who supposed that a Blazing starre did consist of a drye vapour which béeing drawne vpward into the highest ayre is there set on fire and that this blazing starre taketh substance of earthly exhalations very hote dry fat and clammy which béeing carryed into the vpper region of the ayre is there kindled and burneth to whom all Philosophers in a manner of this our age haue subscribed and some Astronomers also who with Aristotle thinke no lesse then a blazing star to be but an earthly vapour somewhat thicke fast and fat in substance like oyle or birdlime which being drawne vpward me to the Spheare of the fiery Element and touching the hollownes of the Orbe or circle is therby heat rarified made thin and set in a flame so that by the consent and mutuall agreement of these two sects although some doe vary it is concluded that a Blazing star is engendred and made of Ayre set on fire by reason of the neerenesse of the Element of Fire that Ayre contayneth in the matter and stuffe of a blazing starre and that the Ayre next adioyning and being by the element of fire is called a Blazing starre and is no lesse indeed then it is named Which representeth the colour of fire to our eyes because the drie vapour in it is kindled burneth and lasteth with the light of the flame which is moued to and fro by the vnder ayre where vapours of like nature quality and substance arising giue continuance and length thereunto whereby it purchaseth the name after which it is vsually called Vpon this agrée our late Phylosophers in a manner all counting the doctrine of Aristotle worthy credite and subscription although as well the sect Stoicall vary therefro The opinion of the Stoicks touching Blazing starres affirming Blazing starres to be but ordinarie Starres not differing from other Starres which appeare in the Ayre and to ●ee aboue thirty and two in number not as also they which hold this for a veritie blazing Starres to be perpetuall Starres and to kéepe a limited course or compasse but neuer to blaze and glister in the Ayre saue when they are left and forsaken of the Sunne whose clearenesse dimmeth and dampeth vp their brightnesse that it can neither appeare nor be perceiued And they in like sort which leane to this opinion that blazing starres be Starres hauing their certaine appoynted times of appearance Now as I dissent not from the first those I meane whose opinion draweth néerest to reason and trueth so I varie not altogether from them who hold opinion that a blazing starre may bée supernaturall and also naturall and that the same taketh generation of a fat human and of fiery force whereby it is dissolued and at the length consumeth Whereupon this consequent is to be inferred that we cannot call a Blazing Starre properly a Starre but Catachrestically as we may so terme them I meane vsing in our phrase of spéech a certaine abuse although Augustus Caesar whereof we haue giuen a 〈…〉 in the beginning of this our Treatise called that Blazing Starre which appeared at such a time as he published his Pageants of Triumph by the name of a Star and which vsurped name also Suctonius applyeth to the self same thing they both adding vnto it this word Crinitus which we also with no lesse abuse then they call Blazing This Blazing Starre aforesayd which appeared in the time of Augustus Caesar and shined so gloriously some imagine An erronious opinion misliked and improueds and suppose to be the selfe same starre which directed the Wisemen to the place where Christ was borne But I cannot allow of this opinion and why I do so much mislike thereof the reasons in the next Chapter following do declare In the meane season I would not wade into wonders aboue my capacitie lest I wander in wildernesses of doubts but I desire rather to be wise with sobernesse Whether the starre which conducted the Wisemen to the place where Christ was borne were the Blazing starre whereof the Emperour Augustus did speake calling it by the name of a starre CHAP. VII CHristian duty admonisheth me in few words to make men●on what maner of miraculous and strange Starre that was which after a rare and wonderfull fashion lead

captiuity So the same God gaue a sign in the ayre of Titus and Vespasian his huge hoast against Ierusalem to lay it waste armed men with speares and lances running to and fro in warlike wise which though they saw manifestly yet ceast they not to liue as they were wont most wickedly the vengeance of God falling vpon them which by those forewarnings was prophesied In the yeare 1500 there was séene falling from heauen vpon mens garments Crosses and there appeared in sensible manner A strange sight and wonderful forewarning of a bloudie battell as certaine signes what should after come to passe namely that bloudy battell betwéene the two worthy Princes Rupert the 3. son of Philip Palsegraue of Rhene and Prince Elector and the noble Prince Albert Duke of Bauaria the ensignes of the one hauing blacke crosses the other red so that in the yeare 1504. was fulfilled that which in the yeare 1500. was foretolde Wherefore it is to bee feared lest the Blazing starre which was séene in the likenesse of a rodde threaten vnto vs that rodde which the Prophet spake of wherewith God is purposed in iustice to visite the wickednesse of the people For if this Blazing starre bée naturall wée shall perceyue nothing in it which betokeneth not some great euill All mischiefe commeth from the North. First because it blazed so euen from the West to the North from whence as witnesseth the Prophet all mischiefe doth procéede hauing neuerthelesse an aspect into other quarters of the world terrible thretning enough It was variable in colour sometimetimes pale that is Leaden and Saturnine sometimes Red and Martiall Moreouer in so much as it continued by the auerment of Astronomers vnder Saturne and Mars Planets and Signes of vnluckie influence it seemeth to betoken not onely vnto one or two Countries but to the whole World famine warre and pestilence for it blazed most terribly into all parts of the world Furthermore if the same Blazing starre were supernatural and immediate from God contrary to the course and order of Nature it might not otherwise be thought but that it betokened to the world much misery and woe for God thereby signified that his vengeance was to come vpon all wicked worldlings and vpon all such persons as to their impenitence ioyne continuance in sinne Now who hath the face to say against this that the Worlde hath taken such a surfet in iniquitie and is become so drunken in all abomination that Gods mercy is changed into iudgement his patience into punishment his loue into wrath and his kindnesse into fury in such wise that it may be supposed God to speake vnto vs by this Blazing starre as it were out of a cloude in this manner The end of all flesh is before me The whole earth is filled full of their iniquity and I will sweepe them away from the face of the earth For they haue all played the start backs they haue walked in the by-wayes of wickednes A supposed speech of God expressing his wrath conceiued for iniquity and are becom vnprofitable insomuch that there is none that doth good no not one Which as none can deny so I thinke none dares but thus confesse that the Blazing star séene in our Horizon betokeneth a common calamity considering how iniquity doth abound in a places and that sinne is growne to a perfect maturity and ripenesse which God of his mercy giue vs grace to amend that wee féele not the heate of his consuming anger whereof hee hath sent vs a forewarning Whether such euils as Blazing stars betoken may by any meanes eyther be preuented or auoyded CHAP. XVII IT remayneth most puissant Emperour the premisses considered that your Maiesty taking the King of Niniuie for an example rise vp from your seate of Royalty and putting on sackcloath together with vs your people lift vp our hands and hearts to heauen praying to God most heartily like humble suters Now who is so blunt of iudgement and dul of vnderstanding that séeth not that the confession of offences the repentance and contrition of heart the humbling and submitting our selues both in soule and body vnder the mighty hand of the omnipotent God will pacifie and asswage the fiercenesse of his fury and so spare vs in compassion through vnfained repentance that wee perish not as outcasts from his fauour Why should we not haue this hope and confidence in God God doth not exclude the penitent from the throne of grace but receiueth them to his mercy considering that to the penitent Niniuites he did not shutte the gates of his compassion but séeing their conuersion and forsaking of sinne with the denyall of themselues and all goodnes in them he receyued them againe to mercy from which by their sinnes they were before excluded Furthermore it is not needeful that we stand in feare of the celestiall Signes because without God they haue no power at al to preuayle against any people but being his seruants are at his commaundement from whom all stars and all creatures haue their office and ministery To conceyue terror and feare therefore at the appearing of a Blazing star as betokening some euill like to follow it is extreame madnesse let vs rather tremble at his almightines and feare the consuming flames of his iustice who is the Creator and maker not onely of Blazing stars but also of the Sunne Moone and Planets yea of reasonable man And let vs not thinke but that God who framed the whole world the heauen aboue and the earth below is able as he made them so to rule them for at his commandement are all things within the compasse of the Heauen be they Starres or whatsoeuer else so that he can according to the greatnesse of his power which filleth all places chaunge and dispose them after his owne pleasure yea the threatning tokens of his iudgement and vengeance will he turn into forbearance and forgiuenesse if we penitently neglect not as did the Iewes the time of our Visitation For they being warned by many wonders and among others by a Blazing starre of no lesse horrour then continuance lay slugging in the Couch of security and carelesnesse and not regarding the threats of God for sinne eyther of wilfull blindnesse or stout stubbornnesse counted those tokens of Gods vnsufferable wrath elementarie apparitions and toyes méerely contemptible But let vs not suffer our selues to bée lulled asléepe in the cradle of sensuality It is good to be warned by the example of others Let vs not bée drunken with the dregs of their abomination Let not the vanities of our owne hearts so bewitch vs that we fall into a selfe loue and liking of our owne selues neglecting the preffered time of grace and louing kindnes lest God deliuering vs ouer to reprobation in his vnappeaseable displeasure plague vs with the same rod of reuengement for our vngraciousnes wherewith hee tooks vengeance vpon them for their wilfull stubbornenesse Which that it may not come to passe let vs in time turne to the Lord and in due season take his fatherly admonitions as ready meanes to lead vs to repentance and the auoyding of the scourge of destruction wherewith he punisheth the impenitent From the which deliuer vs O Lord God To the Almighty Euerlasting Inuisible and onely wise God bee All aboue All and in All all Laude Honour Glorie Dominion and Maiesty for euer and euer Amen FINIS