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A52815	A philosophical and divine discourse blazoning upon this blazing star divided into three parts; the I. Treating on the product, form, colour, motion, scituation [sic], and signification of comets. II. Contains the prognosticks of comets in general, and of this in particular; together with a chronology of all the comets for the last 400 years. III. Consists of (1.) the explication of the grand concerns of this comet by astrological precepts and presidents. (2.) The application of its probable prognosticks astrologically and theologically. / By Christopher Nesse, minister of the gospel, in London, 1681.; Full and true account of the late blazing-star. Parts 1-3.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1681 (1681)	Wing N460; ESTC R218855	20,329	25

produceth diversity of Forms in them yet mostly such as have Trains or Tails for the hinder part being not so compact as the former soonest taketh Fire and sputters out a Flame as we see in Squibs or Fuzzees like a long Besomor the Tail of a Peacock 2. Of their Colour which Distinction they derive from the Dominion of the Planet in their Generation which may easily be discerned by their various Colours Comets have their Dusky and Leaden Colour from Saturn Splendid from Jupiter Fiery from Mars Golden from the Sun Silver from the Moon Yellow from Venus and of changeable Colours from Mercury And all these various Colours are supposed to be various Indications of differing Natures as the Planets from whence they derive them do differ in their Natures and Influences one from another 3. Of their Motion Comets are of an Erratick Motion as the new Stars immitate the fixed Stars so do Comets immitate the Planets in their Motions Some are moved according to the Motion of the Primum Mobile to speak ex Hypothesi to wit from East to West but some slowlier fulfilling that Motion and others more swiftly exceeding it Their Motion is therefore called Erratick because it is not Regular and Certain as that of the fixed Stars is whose Rising and Setting are certainly known but the Motion of Comets is sometimes nearer and sometimes further off from the Zodiack as the Motion of the Planets is Yet not altogether as the Planets which never remove far from the Zodiack but have always certain and well known Bounds of their Motions whereas Comets have an Irregular Motion and as to the Zodiack plainly Eccentrick wandring far from it in their remote Appearances and though Motion from East to West be Regular yet this happens by Accident only because the Upper Region of the Air wherein Comets are both Engendred and Fired is whirl'd about with the Heavens hence the Comet therein wheels about with it 4. Of their Signification The principal thing intended to wit the Prognosticks of them 'T is true there be some who deny altogether their Significancy as Erastus Gryneus and others but 't is too too manifest that Comets are not mute things but that they are Signs which God placeth in Heaven to preach something to Men on Earth No Man in his right Mind can say that the most wise God doth make any thing in vain or that the Father of Lights should hang out such a strange and stupendious Light up aloft to be seen far and wide and this not to portend some extraordinary thing Consult Antiquity there is found 1. That Greek Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is no Comet which brings not some Evil. 2. That Verse of Manilius Nunquam Futilibus Resplenduit Ignibus Aether God never Fires his Beacon set upon so high a Hill but those below had need look to themselves 3. That other Trite Verse which is a Synonymon Synbolizeth with the two former Et Nunquam Coelo Spectati Impune Cometae That is never doth the Earth ' scape Scot-free when Heaven holds forth a Blazing Star to her View This is confirmed by all Histories especially those of later Times whereof I could give many Instances The Chronology of Comets to go no higher than the 13th Century after Christ to this present doth afford us most Direful Effects of many Comets frequently appearing within that compass of time a particular Account whereof a single sheet cannot compleatly comprehend especially to Discourse upon them all Phisitally Politically and Theologically The Rules of this Astrological Art whereby to make Right Prognostications must be acknowledged to be Obscure and Doubtful to Instance in that one Astrological Axiom That the Prognosticks of Comets do depend all upon Mars and Mercury T●●s is hard to be Demonstrated for none can prove what is the Influence of this or that Star in Heaven as they may the Operation of Rhubarb or other Druggs on Earth Yet Ptolomy with others make this Maxime aforesaid thus far probable saying The Effects of Comets which are rarely Good but mostly Evil are of two sorts 1. Such things as are Savage Bloody Mortiferous c. portended by them be ascribed to Mars and other things that are Inconstant Moveable and Uncertain be ascribed to Mercury The Assertion here may be true though the Application be false for Astrologorum Decreta non sunt praetoria their Rules are not Infallible yet Examples have more perspicuity and certainty in them I shall only give the two last and latest Exemplifications of Comets the one in 1664 and the other in 1677. That in 64 was a forerunner of most Dreadful Dispensations as the Sweeping pestilence in 65 and the Swallowing fire in 66. The former falls fowl upon Persons the latter upon Habitations The last in 1677. was a forerunner of the most Damnable Plot yea a Complication of Plots that ever Hell invented Now God hath lighted up another Torch to give us a new Warning that being forewarned we might be forearmed also especially with those Arms of the Church to wit prayers and Tears our Desperate Malady hath not yet met with an Effectual Remedy lest those Matchless Mischiefs which are Imminent over us may not also be Incumbent on us There is certainly something more than ordinary God hath upon the Wheel to lighten up such a Blaze as this in the very depth of Winter which is a time Diametrically contrary to the very Nature of Comets for Cold and Moist Weather is altogether unapt to produce those Hot and Dry Vapours whereof a Comit consisteth A Winter Comet is therefore like Winter Thunder which is commonly call'd the Worlds Wonder The proper time of engendring those Meteors is Antumn for in Spring-time there is supposed to be too much Moisture and too little Heat to congregate those Vapours and in Summer-time there is so much Heat as plainly Segregate and Disperses those Exhalations but Winter-time is wholly opposite to their existency and quite contrary to the constituting of them Therefore this Extraordinary and preternatural sign must needs signifie some Extraordinary and supernatural thing even some Sweeping Swinging or Scourging yea some Cutting or Killing Dispensation for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Apparition Extraordinary which I saw with my own Eyes had a threefold Resemblance 1. Of a Broom 2. Of a Rod 3. Of a Sword 1. Of a large Broom or Besom yet Dreadfull to behold by its sparkling Aspect as if God were coming to Sweep Babylon with his dreadful Besom of Destruction as he hath promised Isa 14 22 23. 'T is true God hath his Scopas purgatorias as well as perdito●ias his Brushing as well as Crushing Besoms The former is for Sion which God Brushes only for its Ornament the latter is for Babylon which God Crushes also for its Overthrow God grant this Vnclean Spirit of Babylon may be Swept out of our Land Zach. 13.2 Even by a Parliamentary Besom 2. Of a long and fiery Rod wherewith God may Swinge

Sight of men and likewise it lost its last Flame according to my strict Observation by the cold Beams of the Moon even the Half Moon wherewith it met about the middle of this Month January Foreign Letters do fully testify that this Comet waded out of the Sun-beams wherein it first lay hid much sooner in other Countreys beyond Sea than it did in our Land so that it must have its Existence if not its Appearance in the Month of November continuing all December until the 16 of January the Time of its Disappearance This Comet besides its Diurnal motion wherein the Sun that race-running Champion did daily over-run it had its Retrograde motion wherein it marcheth backward farther and farther on the East side from the Sun and neerer to our Zenith or point of the Heavens directly over our heads before the attaining of which point it vanished out of sight so that is this backward motion it fulfilled a marvellous course from nigh to Cor Scorpij where it had its first being and beginning in this Northern Hemisphere From Scorpio this Comet advanceth almost all along the Aequinoctial Circle through the Solstitial colure by the Milky way into Sagittary and by Antiuous and the Dolphin into Capricorn so by Cygnus Aequulens and Pegasus striking through the Tropick of Cancer it came into Aquarius and so crossing the colure Aequinoctial it passed into Pisces neer to the Southern line and from thence into Aries in which 6th Sign I last saw it where this Aries or as the word signifies the Battering Ram did as it were batter down both the Star and its Blaze quite out of Sight Indeed the long Blaze or Tail of this Comet extended it self to many other Constellations besides these aforenamed as Aquila Lyra Cepheus Andromeda the Triangle Cassiopeia Medusa's head even to Auriga and Capella as if it had been a Messenger sent to visit all the most famous Constellations in the full half part of the Northern Hemisphere The last appearance I had of it was this its Train then weaning away darted it self forth betwixt Cassiopeia and the Pleiades or 7 Stars facing as it were the Bulls Eye and bright Jupiter himself who was then in that Sign of the Bull yea and that most Glorious Constellation of all others to wit Orion with both the Greater and the Lesser Dog Star A more particular Description both of the Star it self and of its Train seemeth necessary to the fuller Explication before we can come to the Application of All and 1 concerning the Star it self I do find it was a Phaenomenon found in various Complexions which perhaps its several Paralaxis or differing scituations might occasion The first Account we had of it was from the Mathematick Professor at Hamburgh who saith he took his prospect of it in his Tube and there in saw the Comet it self to be fiery and glowing like the flames of a Bakers Oven 2. Other Artists that have viewed it by their Telescopes say they saw it of a bright splendid colour as the former Aspect was from Mars and so it was a Martial Star which it might well be while it had the Tincture of the first Sign wherein it first existed for Cor Scorpij hath the same complexion with the Planet Mars of a red and fiery colour so this latter was from Jupiter which made the Comet a Jovial Star portending Jovial or Joyful things as the former doth War and Blood-shed The 3d. Accompt we have from Foreign Mathematicians is that at its first appearance it had a mixture of divers colours which it borrow'd from Mercury so became a Mercurial Star and betokening a mixture of differing Dispensations of good as well as of evil but the 4th and most universal Prospect of it was that it hath been of a dusky and leaden complexion from its first appearance to its last disappearance this colour it borrows from Saturn as is said before and makes it a Saturnine Star of the most sullen influence of all the three other Planets aforenamed so that no less than 4 Planets are as it were called in to the composition of this Comet and though some doubt may be made concerning the 3 former to wit Mars Jupiter and Mercury yet none can question this last the 4th of them inasmuch as many Millions of eye-witnesses do unanimously concur that for a long time to its last extinguishing it had no other complexion but that of Saturn the signification whereof cannot be good as the Satyrical Poet represents him in this Hexastich Pale and of Ashy colour Male-content A Cataline to Mortal Temperament That would blow up the Capitol of Man With Envious Influence Melancholy Wan And if Ill hate be in an Heavenly Breast This Planet with that Fury is possest The 2d Description is of its Tail or Train which some Foreign Artists discovered by their Tubes and Telescopes to be red and fiery all along from the body of the Star which then to them appeared red as before but it was pale towards the end of the Stream having the resemblance of those long Streamers which Men of War Ships of the first Rate do carry with them so that 1 As to its Colour which was Red at the beginning and pale at the end of it and 2. as to its Resemblance of a War-Streamer it plainly portends as if the Red Horse War should Usher in the pale Horse Death which 2 colours the Seal-Prophecy mentioneth Revel 6.4.8 War is commonly accompanied with Fire and Blood 2 King 3.22 Isa 9.5 and 63.1.3 and Death is commonly called pallida Mors as it causeth a paleness of face And if there were no Deception of Sight in those who call this Saturnine Comet a black Star such as Chronology speaketh of then may it also denote the Black Horse in that Seal Prophecy Rev. 6.7 to wit Famine which discoloureth and denigrateth the Countenance as Lam. 4.8 but whatsoever was the Colour of the Train all conclude even from ocular Demonstration that it was pale and the portent thereof is bad enough yet 3. as to the Length of this Streamer it was conspicuous to every common eye to have a most prodigious extent so that whether we take it 1. as Gods Sweeping Broom or 2. as Gods Swinging Rod or 3. As Gods flaming Sword as in the first Sheet it evidently declares that the great God hath great punishing Instruments either to sweep away or to swinge or to slash and slay his Adversaries Those that took the Longitude of this Train by Jacobs Staff c. give us this Account that the true dimension of its Blaze or Tail was about 70 Degrees in Longitude now suppose as is generally supposed that every particular Degree is 60 miles then the Train of this Comet by this very computation must be no less than about 427 miles long yet considering the height of its scituation as the magnitude of a Planet so the longitude of this Comet in its Streamer is much more than can

be taken by the best sight or prospect The latitude or breadth of this Tail is computed by Artists also to be no less than 2 Degrees which amounts unto an 120 miles oh then what a Predigious Streamer must this be that is 4270 miles long and an 120 miles broad In longitude it excelleth all Europe which from St. Vincent in Portugal to Constantinople bears but 3800 miles and in latitude it exceedeth the Northern part of England and every part of Scotland or Ireland This introduceth the 2d part to wit the Application It is therefore very incongruous and unchristian yea rather bruitish and barbarous for any Mortal man to despise or deride such a prodigious piece of work from the Immortal God as is longer than the 4th part of the World and broader than many Countries and Kingdoms As some Princes of the World have lately done at this Comet as it is rePorted of them 'T is writ the French King frothily despised and derided this present Comet saying It had spoiled his sport at a grand Ballet or Dance composed with much curiosity for his Sons the Dauphins Diversion when it was privately proved before him it pleased him well but when it came to be publickly performed in his presence before his Nobles and Ladies of Honour there happened a Baffle in the Actors which did frustrate his expectation hereupon he jeeringly s●offed that the Influence of the Comet was fallen upon his Dance to spoil it p●ssibly before its portents pass away it may in good earnest soil and spoil more of the French Dances 'T is storied of Vespasian that he scorn'd an Hairy Comet shining in his Sight saying it concerned the King of Parthia who wore long Hair and not himself who would not were any long Wiggs which this very blaze may possibly scorch so it denounced no woe to him notwithstanding he soon after smarted for his jesting with Gods edge-tools Any despight done to a mans work is a despight done to the Work-man himself 't is God that Works Signs and Wonders in Heaven and Earth Dan. 6.27 Such as are Despisers of Gods Signs and Wonders God will make them for Signs and Wonders in the World Act 13.41 Deut. 28.46 Thus God hanged up Pharaoh as it were in Gibbets as a Sign and Wonder to the World because he despised Gods Signs and Wonders in the World Something of this Divine Wrath Philip the 1. King of Spain did feel when he took no warning at a Blazing-Star sent it seems to foreshew his Death which followed soon after and when he lay in his dying Agonies he continued crying out Ha Cometa Ha Cometa c. I took no warning by thee but Charles the Great or Ludovicus Pius his Son as some say did better who did Fear at the Sight of a great Comet blazing out before him and when Egmundus his Astrologer unwilling to see his Prince sad urged to him Jer. 10.2 That he should not be dismayed at those Signs c. he prudently and piously answered It was not the Sign the Comet but the maker of that Sign God himself that he feared yet would he praise God for his tender clemency withal in Rebuking their slug●ishness with those his Signs They were not Fools but wise men that said we have seen his Star in the East Math. 2.2 't was a Star of Christs making aswel as leading to him Where a Blazing Star led them to the Sun of Righteousness Mal. 4 2. Mortals in Vain did never Gaze When Comets did in Heaven Blaze Besides what I have said in the Chronology of Comets aforementiond all fore-warnings of following Evils a little may be ad●ed to wit 1. Soon after that Comet in the year 1●37 with its very long Train the French burnt Southampton and did much more mischief upon the Coasts of England 2. Soon after that in the year 1440. followed here the Barons Wars twixt York and Lancaster God bless us from the like 'twixt York and Monmouth And 3. Soon after that Star which appeared in the year 1580. The Rebellion broke out in Ireland through the Popes Instigation who sent Italians and Spaniards to assist the Irish against Queen Elisabeth in the 22 year of her Reign October the 8. God bless us from the like Eruption now Here withal take a little enlargement upon that Star in Cassiopaea 1572. aforesaid which gave Caution and Counsel to Charles the 9th of France the Author of the Massacre at Paris as likewise did Beza in his Poem concluding thus Tu verô Herodes Sanguinolen●e T●●e Yet this bloody Prince another Herods took no warning but first wallowed in the Blood of Protestants and at last God plagu'd him with such an eruption of Blood in his own Body then full of Blood being in the flower of his Age that he wallowed in his own Blood and was also Choaked with it And upon that Comet in the year 1618. which foreran the Desolations of Germany God bless us from the like Desolations the Bishop of Spalata that Turn-Coat as bad as he was said of that very Comet that it was no Phantastick Phoenomenon but Real and Significant a true Exhalation Inflamed and no Deception of sight about it I would to God we did not exercise wild Fancies more than solid Judgment about these Prodigies as this Comet the fiery falling Bullet and other Apparitions most Dreadful of a Northern and Southern Army fighting in the Air 〈◊〉 according to credible Information Alas we know not the Signs of the Times Math. 16.3 Luke 21 11. and Act. 2.9 Such as Dubartus describeth in his Dodekastick or 12. Verses shewing how all Prodigies prognosticate manifold Evils unto persons and places of all Ranks and Qualities Here in the Night appears a flaming Spire There a fierce Dragon folded all in Fire Here a bright Comet there a fiery ●st●eam Here flying Lances there a burning Beam Here se●ms an Honned Goat environd Round With Fiery Flakes about the 〈◊〉 bound There with long Bloody Hair a Blazing Star Threatning the World with Famine Plague and War To Princes Death to Kingdoms many Crosses To all Estates inevitable Losses To Herdsmon Rots to Plowmen hap●ss Sedsons To Sailors storms to Cities civil Treasons If we consult 2ly Paradigms or Examples as we have hitherto Apothegms or Astrological-Rules which are the Placits of Astrologers and possibly are onely ad placitum to be received with the other in the Chronology it may portend either one of or some of yea all of those Evils which they portended not onely to other Lands but also to our Land over which it was almost Vertical in Pers●us and Medusa's Head when it Vanished Sed manum de Tabulà ne Caldaizare videar I withdraw my hand least I should seem to speak like a Caldean whom it better becomes to speak like a Christian and like a Gospel Minister wherewith I shall Conclude The Men of Issachar were in great account with David literal who had Vnderstanding of the Times and did know what Israel ought to do 1 Chron. 12.32 A prudent man foreseeth an evil and hideth himself Prov. 22.3 He foreseeth it not by any unlawful Divination or by Gazing as common Star-Gazers in their Unwarantable Judiciary Astrology do but by a Judicious observation of those extraordinary Beacons which the wonder-working God fireth in the Firmament which he never doth but to give warning that some mischief is ready to make an Invasion As also by a solid Collection and Connection of causes and consequents as If God be the same that ever as Holy Just Powerful c. and If Sin be the same that ever as foul loathsome and God-provoking c. Then such effects and events will follow such causes and courses As there be natural signs sometimes of an ensuing Judgment which prudent thinking Men can readily discover If Elias see but a Cloud though no bigger than a mans hand come from the Top of Carmel he can tell that it will cover the whole Heavens as with a black Curtain and that a great Rain will follow after 1 Kin. 18.44.45 The most tender Tempers are most sensible of the change of Weather A Moses who converseth with God as a man with his Friend is quick-sighted and espies Gods wrath at its first setting forth Numb 16.46 The more faithful and familiar that men are with God the sooner do they see his wrath arising and running forth were we such and had we our Eyes in our Heads as wise men Eccles 2.14 and Vnderstood we the Times as those of I●sachar did knowing by a singular Sagacity both what is to be done and when to do it we shall be of great Account with our David Spiritual and may yet Retrieve Retrench and Redeem some part at least of those evils that are Imminent over us before they be Incumbent on us It remaineth that we ply our Spiritual Oars and Row hard as did the Disciples Joh. 6.19 our Jesus will certainly come to us though sent we be both in the Deep so as we cannot feel bottom and in the Dark so as we cannot see Shore though the Child be come to the Birth and there is not strength to bring forth 2 Kings 19.3 yet Christ will come and Midwife it into the World and after this Day of Rebuke will bring his Spouse into his Wine-Cellar under his Banner of Love and will draw out his best Wine which he reserved last for her even the promises of the latter day which shall be as Life from the Dead Rom. 11.15 even so come Lord Jesus come quickly Cito Citius Citissime l●mera be●amenu Soon and in our Days So prays C. N. FINIS Published by L. Curtiss on Ludgate-hill