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A41979	Memento's to the vvorld, or, An historical collection of divers wonderful comets and prodigious signs in heaven, that have been seen, some long before the birth of Christ, and many since that time in divers countries, with their wonderful and dreadful effects together, with ample discourses, and profitable observations, upon that admirable star which appeared at the birth of Christ, to the eastern magi : as also upon that comet which appeared in the constellation of Cassiopea, after the horrid massacre of the French-Protestants, Anno 1572, and several other comets, with their effects to this present time / by W.G., minister of the gospel ; likewise, Stella nova, or, The new star, or, An account of the natural signification of the comet, or blazing-star, that hath so long been visible in England, and other countreys, and is yet hanging over our heads, by William Knight ...	Greene, William.; Knight, William, fl. 1680-1699. Stella nova.	1681 (1681)	Wing G1813; ESTC R13426	22,692	36

of God happily discover'd And now again God hath shewed us other Signs in Heaven by the appearance of two New Prodigies one appeared in the South-East in the Morning the other in the Evening What else I pray doth God by these Signs seek to shew than his Wrath to an Impenitent World He is the God that maketh Signs and Wonders in Heaven and in Earth Dan. 6. 28. Therefore whosoever feareth God let him say with David Come and see the Works of the Lord how Terrible he is in his Doings towards the Children of Men. Now seeing these Signs in the Heavens are of God let us take heed that we do not despise God in his Works Among the Romans when the General caused a Purple Coat to be hung out over his Pavilion and the Trumpet to sound what Souldier in the Camp durst to Neglect it and not take notice of it as a Sign of Battel How much more when the Lord of Hosts holds forth his Flagg and displayeth his Ensignes signifying what he is about to do and if not making it known what it is in particular yet shewing that he hath some special Work in hand how carefully should we observe these things and prepare for the worst that may happen But the blindness of Carnal Reason darkens the minds of many worldly-wise persons that they cannot see far off as the Apostle speaks in another case Carnal Reason is of too low a stature in this case our thoughts must climb the Sycamore-Tree like Zacheus or we must get up into our Watch-Tower like the Prophet Habakkuk we must take our standing higher and look above the whole Creation and seriously think of the Creatour God himself the first mover and Principal Worker in all these things Moreover Men and Women are so generally in love with the World and do so earnestly desire mind seek and affect earthly things either their Pleasures Profits or Earthly hopes c. that they have no leisure to mind the special works of God which are Signs of the times and give Warning of things at hand Therefore saith Solomon Eccl. 9. 12. Man knoweth not his time As the Fishes that are taken in an evil Net and as the Birds that are caught in the Snare so are the Sons of Men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them As the Bird wholly minding the Bait is taken in the Snare which it minded not So the Sons of Men wholly minding the profits or pleasures or other things of this World heed not the Signs of the times and so are snared in an evil time The love of Sin also possessing the Hearts of Men keeps many from discerning the Works of God It is Wonderful to consider how the people of Israel were besotted this way so as not to see the visible and apparent signs of the times as they had before their Eyes The Thunderings and Lightenings upon Mount Sinai the sound of the Trumpet exceeding loud the Voice of God striking an awful Terrour into their Hearts the Cloudy Pillar every Day the Pillar of Fire every Night was continually as a shining light before their Faces the Glory of the Lord often Appearing Bread sent them down all the Six Days of the Week from Heaven the Rock becomming as a Fountain of Water to them in the Wilderness which Water followed them in their several stations Were not these Signs to them of an extraordinary time wherein God was more than in an ordinary manner present with them and would be sanctified in them si●h he had brought them so neer unto himself And yet as if it had been but an ordinary time and as if they had had no more to do with the onely true God than other people nor any more special relation to him as if he had done no more for them than for the Aegyptians they gave themselves over to divers sins as to foul Idolatry it seemeth in the sight of Mount Sinai to lusting after Quails and Delicates to commit Fornication with the Daughters of Idolaters and then also to joyn with them in spiritual Whoredom and Service of their Idols Some of them to Ambition contending with Aaron for the Priesthood whom God had called and consecrated to that Office so strangely had the love of Sin bewitched and blinded their minds that without regarding the Signs of the times they ran into the Snare and oftentimes brought many stroaks upon themselves Great also is the security of Men and Women This is a general Disease to which the World is subject and as the old World was in a dead Sleep of Wretched security until the Flood-Gates of Heaven with the noise of an unresistable Judgment Awakened them when they Awoke to see themselves perish neither Noah's Preaching nor the knocking about the Ark before could Awaken them so there are many who lye slumbering and sleeping in deep security and no loud crys from the Word do Awaken them to make them open their Eyes to see the signs of the times that they might either avoid the evil which the time is about to bring forth or embrace the Good which the opportunity of the time offereth to them Gods Judgements are there most heavy where his greatest mercies are most Abused Jerusalem had had such mercies as no City under Heaven since the beginning of the World in some respect and these she most grievously Abused and was most unthankful to the Giver and therefore the Lord brought on her such misery as no City ever felt No City had sinned like Jerusalem none had such mercies against which they could sin no City suffered like to her when once the Lords Abused patience turned into Anger and heavy displeasure This should Awaken England which is the Field which God hath Sowed in his Love but through our unthankfulness seemeth to have buried or lost a multitude of mercies No Nation under Heaven at this present hath so many mercies to reckon for as we If the Lord should deal in Justice with us what people since the beginning of the World hath deserved greater punishments If every Parish every Family every Person would look into themselves and see what mercies what means they have had or might have had for Soul or Body what Catalogues might they make and what wrath might they think they had deserved Let us all look home and know that nothing shall plead more strongly against impenitent and unthankful persons at the last day than mercies themselves The Great God of Heaven and Earth doth not onely speak to Men with the Tongues of Prophets Apostles and Teachers but sometimes also by the Elements Composed or wrought into divers Forms and Shapes if we will believe what is Credibly reported the Heavens have been of late Chequered with Strange and Prodigious Sights but what is most Remarkable is That a Comet or Blazing-Star for many Weeks have been Visible to all or most parts of Europe and other places as the Gazettes testifie and there 's so many people in

should bring them bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished And as he came nigh to Damascus at midday a light from heaven above the brightness of the Sun shined round about him and them that journeyed with him and when they were all fallen to the earth he heard a voice speaking to him in the Hebrew Tongue Saul Saul why persecutest thou me it is hard for Thee to kick against the pricks c.. But the men that journeyed with Saul were so amazed that they were speechless seeing indeed a light and hearing a sound of words but neither seeing Christ which spake nor understanding any thing that he spake Act. 9. 1 7. XXII 5. 14. XXVI 12. 18. Saul arose from the earth and being blinded with the glory of the light being led by the hand he comes to Damascus Act. 9. 8. 22. 11. And he was three days without sight and did neither eat nor drink Ananias being sent unto Saul entred into the house and laying his hands on him said Brother Saul the Lord Jesus which appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest hath sent me that thou maist receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy-Ghost and presently there fell from his eyes as it were scales and he received his eye sight forthwith Act. 9. 9. 18. And Ananias said The God of our fathers hath chosen Thee that Thou shouldest know his will and see that Just one and should'st hear the voice from his mouth for Thou shalt be a witness before all men of those things that Thou hast heard and seen c. And Saul arose and was baptized and when he had received meat he was strengthened But what was revealed from the Lord to Saul at Damascus that he should do St. Luke sheweth not in the Acts but out of those things which in the Epistle to the Galathians he saith hapned to him immediatly after his conversion it appears that among other things it was commanded him that he should not confer with flesh and blood nor return to Jerusalem to them that were Apostles before him but that he should go for some time into Arabia or places near Damascus where he should receive the knowledge of the Gospel Not being taught of men but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1. 12 16 17. Saul then returns to Damascus verse 17. and tarries with the Disciples there a few days and straitway in the Sinagogue he preached that Christ is the son of God Of the Signs that appeared before the destruction of the City and Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans Eusebius saith that Seducers and authours of lies against God deceived that wretched people of the Jews before the destruction of the City and Temple at Jerusalem so that they neither marked those Prodigious signes foreshewing the desolations to come nor gave any credit thereunto but as astonished both blind and senseless contemned the divine demonstrations A star stood over the City like a sword and a Comet enduring the space of a whole year Again at the feast of unleavened bread on the eighth day of the moneth of April a little before their rebellion and warlike tumult in the night at nine of the Clock so great a light overspread the Altar and the Temple that it seemed to be clear day continuing the space of half an hour At the same feast the East gate of the inner Temple though of brass and most strong so that in the evening twenty men could scarce shut it being bolted with iron bars and strengthened with long posts and pillars in the night-time about the sixth hour was seen to have opened voluntarily of it self A few days after the feast viz. May 21. there was seen the figure and shape of the Devil Before Sun-set there were seen in the air throughout the Countrey Chariots and armed Souldiers marching in the Clouds and encompassing the City round about In the feast of Pentecost when the Priests after their manner went into the Temple in the night season to offer sacrifice they reported that they heard a commotion and a ratling sound with this voice Migremus hinc let us go hence The afflictions which followed hereupon were correspondent to the signs Eleven hundred thousand of the Jews perished in the six moneths siege of Jerusalem But for those that perished out of Jerusalem Lipsius hath made a large Catalogue out of Josephus the Jew who was a commander in that war and wrote the History of it which number of the dead being added to the eleven hnndred thousand that perished at the siege of Jerusalem makes up the number of 1337490. an innumerable company being ommitted that perished through famine banishment and other miseries Whilst diverse men were plotting and conspiring against the Emperour Domitian among other signs which then were seen there appeared for many dayes together round about the Sun a great bright shining Crown that did compass it about which resembled the Rain-bow against foul weather but that was a whole Crown that did environ the Sun in such manner as it bereaved and Eclipsed the same of its brightness Which signal men did interpret to signifie a change and alteration in the Empire with the death of Domitian And in as much as Stephanus in Greek signifies a Crown there were some which conceived that Stephanus who was Steward to his wife and Empress Domicilla should kill him notwithstanding thev knew nothing of the Conspiracy of Stephanus and others then against him by whom he was shortly after slain When Constantine the Emperour prepared to sight with Maxentius and stood in fear and doubt of the issue of the Battel as well for the great number of the Enemies as for Maxentius his enchantments wherewith he amazed the World he was in great care and perplexity And as he gave credit to the Christians and was their Protector and Defender albeit he was not yet baptized but had a firm stedfast hope in Jesus Christ Eusebius Cassiodorus and others write That he saw in the Heavens a Lightsome Pillar of a Fiery Colour in form of a Cross and therewith he heard this voice In hoc signo vinces ●n or by vertue of this sign thou shalt overcome The which Vision so amazed the Emperour that he mistrusting his own sight demanded of them that were present whether they perceived the Vision which when all with one consent had assirmed the wavering mind of the Emperour was setled with that wonderful sight so as he presently assured himself of Victory and therefore caused the sign of the Cross to be made in his Imperial Standard and joyning with the Enemy right over against Rome near to a Bridge over the River Tiber called Pons Milvius at the beginning of the fight Maxentius was overcharged by Constamius his Vantgard and fled and entring upon the Bridge which he had made of Barks and Boats near to the other both he and his Horse fell into the River where he was drowned which Bridge himself had caused

appeared in the Heavens in the Year 1263 rising from the East above three Months with great brightness and did send forth his rays to the midst of Heaven setting towards the West When he first appeared Pope Vrban IV began to be Sick but in the same Night that Vrban Dyed he began to disappear Soon after the Corronation of Edward I. King of England there hapned such an Earth-quake with Lightning and Thunder and therewithal the appearing of a Burning-Drake and a Blazing-Star or Comet that the people were filled with great fear and astonishment In the time of Wenceslaus the Third King of Bohemia there Appeared in the Heaven a large Comet which did presage the great Destruction which followed in which Year upon Saint Andrew's Day there hapned a great Earth-quake which lasting divers Days by Intervals overthrew many Buildings In the Year 1314 Three Moons Appeared together in the Heaven and a Comet was seen in the North which lasted Three Months It vanishing in the same Year in the Month of November Phillip King of France dyed a Boar breaking the Legs of his Horse as he was Hunting he fell from his Horse of which fall he dyed shortly after In the Ninth Year of King Edward the Second before Christmas a blazing-Star or Comet Appeared in the North part of the Firmament for the space of a Month together After it followed a woful Famine for Victuals was so scant and dear and other Grain raised to so high a price that the poor people were constrained through Famine to eat the Flesh of Horses Dogs and other wild Beasts and many starved having nothing to feed upon throughout the Land After this Dearth and scarcity of Victuals ensued a great Mortality of people so that what with the War with the Scots and with the Famine and Pestilence the people of England were wonderfully wasted and consumed In the Year 1337 in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Edward III. a Comet or Blazing-Star Appeared with long and terrible Streams passing from it which continued thirty Days Soon after the French burnt South-hampton which they almost wholly consumed to Ashes and did many other mischiefs with their Ships on the Coasts of England In the Year 1351 in the North there Appeared a Comet in the Month of December which being extinct violent Winds followed and a Coelestial Beam was seen to glide along the Heavens the former part of it burning And they write that before the Death of Pope Innocent VI. there was so great a refection of the Sun as the like had not been before seen In the Month of March in the Year of our Lord 1402 and third Year of Henry IV. King of England there Appeared a Blazing-Star first between the Eastern part of the Firmament and the North flashing forth Fire and flames round about and lastly shooting forth Fiery streams towards the North foreshewing as was thought the great effusion of Blood which followed about the parts of Wales and Northumberland In the Year 1438 there was a great Eclipse of the Sun and divers Wars and Dissentions followed A Comet also Appeared and there followed a slaughter of Men in Liege In the Three and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of Henry VI. King of England during the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York a Comet Appeared in the Month of June the Beams whereof extended it self into the South of which King Henry and his Son felt the sad effects In the Year 1456 a Comet was seen in the East in the month of June in the Fifteenth degree of Cancer a very great Earthquake followed on the 5th Day of December at Eleven a Clock at Night And another on the Thirtieth Day of the same Month such as in the memory of Man there had not any where been seen the like for vehemency especially in Apulia Naples Beneventum and many other Cities and Towns round about many Temples and Pallaces and other Houses were overwhelmed with the Destruction of many Men and Cattel The like hapned at Cajeta Capua Aversa and the rest of the Cities of old Campania In the Year 1457. another followed which they called a black Comet in the Month of June in the 20 degree of Pisces which was seen for the space of a month and did variously affect the minds of Men. A great Comet Appeared throughout the month of January in the beginning of the Year 1472 in a Fiery colour with long and black hairs bending towards the West whose body was about the entrance of Libra afterwards it bended it self onely in the North that it might be judged that it went out without the Zodiack and it continued Fourscore days But this Comet being scarce dissolved another Appeared of a fiery hair which seemed to be seated in the Sign of Aries and its Tayl stretched out it self towards the East A grievous Drought followed and a Pestilence and most cruel and bloody Wars in many places There were Two Comets seen before the Battel of Crescy in France where though the English got a great Victory over the French by the Sword so it seemeth as our Chronicles do relate that the Sword of the Destroying Angel slew a multitude of the English at home Phillip the first King of Spain and Father to the Emperour Charles V. being at Tudele of Duero there Appeared a strange Comet in the Firmament foreshewing as they said afterward the Approaching Death of King Phillip which happened soon after in the City of Burgos to the general grief of all his Subjects the Comet still Appearing whereunto he did Attribute his Death saying often in his pains and agonies Ha Cometa ha Cometa He dyed in the Year of our Lord 1506 haveing Reigned one Year and Ten Months His Body was laid many Years after by his Son Charles in the Royal Chappel of Granado having remained in divers places In Queen Maries Reign in the Year of our Lord 1556 a Blazing-Star was seen at all times of the Night on the Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth and Tenth of March a little before the Burning of Thomas Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The Horrid Massacre of the Protestants in France being Acted August 24 c. 1572 a Grave Writer relates That about a quarter of a Year after Viz. November 17. there Appeared a Star in the Constellation of Cassiopea Mirae magnitudinis perspicua luce praefulgida of Wonderful bigness and very resplendent with a perspicuous light He saith That many Men passed their Judgments upon it Eruditorumque hac dere jactati versus Beza hath divers Verses upon it I take it the last was this Tuvero Herodes Sangui notente cave And thou bloody Herod beware Pointing I suppose to the French King Charles the IX and others Authors of and Actors in that Barbarous and Bloody Tragedy He addeth Illa totos novem menses in coeto Emicait That Star shined clearly for the space of nine whole Months in the Heaven The King himself Dyed May 30. 1574. about one