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A25498 An Answer of a letter from a friend in the country to a friend in the city, or, Some remarks on the late comet being a relation of many universal accidents that will come to pass in the year 1682 according to the prognostications of the celestial bodies, which will happen beyond the seas : with a sober caution to all by speedy repentance to avert the judgments that are impendent. 1681 (1681) Wing A3282; ESTC R28296 4,197 8

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many places and these have fulfilled the Scriptures with truth and the Scriptures hath credited them in speaking of them and making mention of them before they came And although I am a Lover of Art I would not lay too great a stress upon Astronomy or any thing belonging to it and would have all that are searchers into these things first to be well acquainted with the Scriptures and they will make good work of it and shew the mind of God by his Works in the Heavens For the Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Earth his handy Work Now a little to shew what is meant by a Comet or Blazing-Star and I shall be brief for my intent is to speak of its effects These Comets are no more than a dry Exhalation viscous and slymy exhalted by the Sun and power of the Stars by degrees into the upper Region of the Air by how much the dryer or the moister the Vapours are they are compounded of the higher they are drawn up to and it hath been the Judgment of the Antients that these never appear but with the signal hand of God neither do I believe less for I believe they carry Divinity in them and they are the Messengers from the Almighty to declare his Will and pleasure And I must tell you that which was last is the most remarkable of all others both in largeness of its Streams reaching all most to the Zenith or Mid-Heaven and its effects will be as great it was a bright lively colour mounting up with its rays the most light of any that appeared and the most like that which appeared in the time of Caesar Augustus in whose Reign Christ was born And you shall find in that History that one of the Sibels Sibilla Tibertina told Caesar that the Star signified a Man-child born that should be greater than Caesar and advised Caesar to worship him and adore him And without doubt this Star declares to the World that Christ is at hand to accomplish great works in routing Kingdoms and great Empires and to establish them in Righteousness it signifieth War to break forth and Plagues and the head mounts up there is deliverances a coming helps is at hand God will deliver his People through Fire Sword and from a flood of Enemies according to that Scripture When the Enemy shall come in like a Flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard now the nature of this is signified by the Signs it appeared in and passed through which are Scorpio ♏ Sagitary ♐ and Pisces ♓ and fear Aries ♈ too for it was very near it Under the Signs are France and part of Flanders Slavony Hungary Portugal Gallabria Siletia Valentia and the Planets are Mars and Jupiter which signifieth War Fire and putrefaction of Blood and these Kingdoms will God lay his hands on without repentance and this is that which ushers in that famous Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 the mirrour of the world there hath not been the like in the memory of Man nor Chronology for no less than three times is this Conjunction celebrated in ten moneths of Saturn and Jupiter and without doubt when the effects of this Conjunction and the last Eclipse of the Sun in Aries opperate woo woo to befal the Courts of Princes it is like to pell down the high looks of France for all he thinks he 's above the Stars for this Comet past through his natural Sign or his Nativity and the War in that great Conjunction and the Comets influence is between Saturn and Jupiter Jupiter denotes good men Saturn bad men then down goeth Rome and all the Papistical Government whether it be Kingdoms or Empires and especially in that Kingdom where the Gospel is most powerfully preached there will begin the Sorrow for you know the Ark of God could not stand in the House of Dagon but it brought the Idol upon his Knees Christ and Belial cannot live together it also signifieth the death of some great Prince in Europe the Conjunction falls in a Kingly Sign woo be to men in great places they will be the worst of people signified by Saturn whose God is their Belly who mindeth earthly things but people in the inward Court that waiteth upon God who hath his Mark in their Foreheads and in their right Hand and you may look for the beginning of these things in August 81 and so forwards to the approaching year 82 the finishing of the rest in the mean time let just and honest men unite in the Faith of Christ and stand by him that hath laid his Life down for us setting aside all difference in Religion professing the Truth as it is in Jesus Then let France and Rome do its worst For the Lord Jehovah will be on our side and the Spirit of Truth shall uphold us My Friend I am thine so far as thou art Christs FINIS