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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>Remarkable OBSERVATIONS On the <HI>COMET,</HI> in the Year 1680.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">As al&s;o on the <HI>Blazing-Star,</HI> now &s;een, this pre&s;ent Month of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1682.</HEAD>
<P>I Shall not trouble my <HI>Self,</HI> nor <HI>Reader,</HI> with the many Opinions of the Ancients, concerning the Matter and Generation of <HI>Comets,</HI> but let him under&s;tand, that on <HI>Monday</HI> Night la&s;t, being <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 14. there was a <HI>Comet</HI> &s;een about Nine a Clock at Night, about North and by We&s;t from <HI>London:</HI> Its Head was very large, much about the bigne&s;s of <HI>Venus</HI> in her Elongation. When it came to the North part of the Meri|dian, it had not above 18 degrees of Altitude. As to its Place, it was not far from the Right Paw of the <HI>Great Bear;</HI> and for its Longitude in the Ecliptick, it was near 25 degrees in <HI>Cancer,</HI> having of or near 30 degrees of North Latitude, by which means it will not Set. It hath al&s;o been &s;een on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> Night, and <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> Night, by a great many; it hath al&s;o been &s;een on <HI>Saturday</HI> Night, <HI>Sunday</HI> Night, and <HI>Monday</HI> Night; at which time it hath got into the middle of <HI>Virgo,</HI> as near as I could judg by my Eye, for <HI>I</HI> had not In&s;truments about me to ob&s;erve it; it is &s;wift in Motion, and direct, and decrea&s;es in Declination; and its Tail points to the South-Ea&s;t, but is not above ten degrees in length. The <HI>Comet</HI> is increa&s;ing, and therefore may be &s;een, if the Weather prove fair, all Night long, by rea&s;on of its not &s;etting. I advi&s;e all tho&s;e that have conveni|ent In&s;truments, to make good Ob&s;ervation of it, for I believe it hath but &s;mall Parallex.</P>
<P>As to the A&s;trological Judgment of it, we mu&s;t con&s;ider its Place and Colour; Its being in <HI>Cancer,</HI> doth declare <HI>Wars</HI> and <HI>Deva&s;tations</HI> in the World, with abundance of Unhappine&s;s towards Mankind, and more than Common Evils to befal them; either the Heir of &s;ome Kingdom, or Chief Governor thereof, &s;hall re&s;ign to Death. It al&s;o doth declare great Inundation to befal tho&s;e Places under <HI>Cancer:</HI> As for example, in the Year 1530, there was a <HI>Comet</HI> appeared in <HI>Cancer;</HI> in that Year, in the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> there were no le&s;s than 404 Pari&s;hes drowned, with all their People and Cattle; al&s;o the <HI>Turks</HI> invaded <HI>Hungary.</HI> Therefore let <HI>Holland</HI> look to it, and &s;ecure their Banks again&s;t the &s;trong South-We&s;t Winds, of which we &s;hall have plenty the beginning of this Winter, and tho&s;e very boi&s;terous. This <HI>Comet</HI> comes to bring forward the Effect of the la&s;t, that did appear in the Year 1680. That <HI>Comet</HI> came for a Warning to <HI>Europe</HI> in general. Let tho&s;e Countries which lie Ea&s;t, and South-Ea&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> beware, e&s;pecially the Ea&s;t part of <HI>Germany,</HI> for they are threatned with a very great Inva&s;ion, and that from a mixt &s;ort of People, <HI>(viz.) Turks</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> which &s;hall over-run mo&s;t part of <HI>Germany.</HI> Then Wo to all tho&s;e of the <HI>Shaven</HI>-Order.</P>
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<P><HI>France,</HI> Thou art like to feel the &s;mart of War; thou ha&s;t cau&s;ed thy Neighbouring Nations to feel thy heavy Hand for the&s;e ten Years la&s;t pa&s;t; Now thy Time is almo&s;t at an end, and God has ordained thy King|dom to be a Prey to a Forreign People, as afore-&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>Holland,</HI> look to thy &s;elf, God is angry with thee; thou mu&s;t &s;uffer by another Inundation. Be&s;ides, I fear &s;ome other Calamity to befal thee, thou mu&s;t have thy Laws changed.</P>
<P>I pray God ble&s;s <HI>Scotland</HI> from Calamity, I fear there will come Bad News from thence in a &s;hort Time; but in what Nature let Time declare.</P>
<P>The Land of <HI>Aries</HI> cannot be free from the Influence, both of this <HI>Comet,</HI> and the La&s;t, neither of them as yet begin to operate. I pray God ble&s;s the City <HI>Gemini</HI> from another great Plague, which I fear will afflict it in the Year 1683. In which Year 'tis thought, the <HI>Mole</HI> will fall in the Coffin, ond the young <HI>Mole,</HI> and the old <HI>Lion,</HI> will contend for a Crown; but after two Battels, there will come a &s;ort of People out of the Wood, and will pull a dead Man out of his Grave, which &s;hall Head the&s;e People that came out of the Wood, and they, with the dead Man, &s;hall end the Strife between the <HI>Mole</HI> and the <HI>Lion;</HI> and then there will be long Peace in the Land of <HI>Aries,</HI> and neither the <HI>Mole</HI> nor the <HI>Lion</HI> &s;hall ever attain the Crown; they &s;hall fight for it, but &s;hall both die in the Action.</P>
<P><HI>Spain,</HI> great hath been thy Cruelty to the poor <HI>Indians</HI> in <HI>America;</HI> God will pour down his Vials of Wrath upon thee, and thou &s;halt be|come a Prey to a great many Nations, and e're 1699, thou &s;halt be driven out of all the <HI>We&s;t-Indies,</HI> and thy People &s;hall become very poor.</P>
<P><HI>Italy,</HI> when I con&s;ider what Evils &s;hall befal thee, it makes me to weep; for the Plague &s;hall de&s;troy a great many of thy People: But that's not all, for the <HI>Turk</HI> &s;hall come even to the Gates of <HI>Rome,</HI> and &s;hall de&s;troy thy Country with Fire and Sword, and that before 1699.</P>
<P>Neither will that famous City of <HI>Venice</HI> e&s;cape the Hands of the <HI>Turks,</HI> but &s;hall by them be laid wa&s;te, to the Grief of all Chri&s;tendom.</P>
<P><HI>Rome</HI> mu&s;t have a Time of de&s;truction by Fire as well as <HI>London,</HI> but will never come to be &s;o well rebuilded; for the <HI>Triple Crown mu&s;t fall</HI> in or near the Year 1699, and &s;oon after &s;hall the World have a general Peace, and the <HI>Turk</HI> turn <HI>Chri&s;tian.</HI></P>
<P>Many things more might be &s;aid from both the&s;e la&s;t <HI>Comets;</HI> but by rea&s;on I have not a Warrant to write them, I &s;hall forbear, but &s;hall give you &s;uch Rules, in a &s;mall piece, (almo&s;t ready for the Pre&s;s, and will &s;hortly be made publick) which I intend to intitle, <HI>Cata&s;trophae Mundi;</HI> wherein &s;hall be &s;hewed, how to judg of the Conjunction of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and other <HI>Comets;</HI> the like as yet hath not been made publick to the World.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>E. Smith.</HI></P>
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