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<P>Mr. <HI>Lillies</HI> New PROPHECY OF THE WHITE-EASTER And its Effects.</P>
<P>With an Account of the New <HI>BLAZING-STA<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Being a full Account of a Strange Co|met lately &s;een in the Heavens, its &s;hape, place in the Zodiack, Motion, their time of Continuance and Probable Portents or Matters thereby Signified to Happen in the World.</P>
<Q><L>Comets, the Blazing Beacons of the Sky,</L>
<L>Forewarn the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> World of Mi&s;ery;</L>
<L>When Heave<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with &s;uch dreadful Torches burn,</L>
<L>It lights &s;ome <HI>State</HI> or Kingom to its &V;r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
<L>&mdash;Et Terris mutantem Regna Cometen.</L></Q>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Phillip Brooksby,</HI> next <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>We&s;t-Smith-field,</HI> neer the <HI>Ho&s;pit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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<HEAD>THE NEW Blazing Star, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>VArious and Strangely different have been, and &s;till are, the conceits of the mo&s;t Learned Naturali&s;ts, concerning the Matter &amp; Generation of Comets, and &s;o fond is each man of his own Darling Opi|nion, and eager in defending it, that we may as Rationally imagine to Unite the Two Poles of Heaven, or Conclude a Peace between the Wind and the Waves, as hope to Recon|cile all their jarring Sentiments.</P>
<P><HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> (heretofore e&s;teemed the Phylo&s;ophers Pope, who&s;e <HI>Ip&s;o Dixit</HI> dur&s;t <HI>Vye</HI> credit in the Schools with a De|mon&s;tration) Affirms the Matterial Cau&s;e of Comets to be, <HI>An Exhalation Hot and Dry, yet Participating of a certain &V;nctious Moi&s;ture that renders it fat and clammy, drawn up from Moi&s;t and Hot places of the Earth, into the Highe&s;t part of the Air, and &s;ometimes into the Starry Region, where by rea&s;on of continual &s;upplies from below, as long as there is a working power to attract, it becomes a great Ma&s;&s;e or L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mp clo&s;ely compact to|gether: And in Convenient time, by the Exce&s;&s;ive Heat, is there &s;et on fire, and continues Blazing a Longer or Shorter time, ac|cording to the Scarcity or Plenty of the Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ter whereof it is Compo&s;ed.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Paracel&s;us</HI> (the Glory of <HI>Germany,</HI> and Wonder of his Age for My&s;terious Learning) confidently a&s;&s;erts Comets not to be produced by any Phy&s;ical Generation, and that therefore we &s;earch for them in vain among&s;t Cau&s;es purely Natural, but &s;ays; <HI>They are,</HI> Cre&s;centia Singularia, <HI>Ex|traordinanily formed and compo&s;ed by Spirits or Angels, to Pre|moni&s;h Mankind of &s;ome Grand Events, Good or Evil, impending and ready to break forth into Act.</HI></P>
<P>For the&s;e Courteous Intelligences di&s;covering the Dire Cata&s;trophes that are to come to pa&s;s, whil&s;t yet they are but in the bo&s;ome of their Cau&s;es, out of a kindne&s;s they have for Humanity, and Charitable good will towards their Fellow Creatures, of which we cannot &s;uppo&s;e the&s;e Ble&s;&s;ed E&s;&s;ences to be de&s;titute, do thereupon form or or|dain a Comet or Blazing-Star (as we vulgarly call it) and give it &s;uch figure or &s;hape as they plea&s;e, and then hurry and attract more &s;wift or &s;lowly, lower or higher, through the Air; that Mortals beholding it, may the more remark|ably be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with its Portents and Significations, and by Repentance and Amendment of Life prevent, or the better prepare them&s;elves to &s;uffer the Judgements threatned.</P>
<P>But what ever the Matterial Cau&s;e of Comets may be, this we are more then confident of: That their final Cau&s;e, or the end whereunto they are Created or made, is to fore|warn the Inhabitants of the World of &s;ome Eminent Cala|mities; as Wars, Plagues, Famines, Death of Rulers, over|throw of long e&s;tabli&s;ht Governments, &amp;c. Upon, or a|mong&s;t &s;ome People or Nations, for their Sins and Rebelli|ons again&s;t God, who does, we may perceive, make u&s;e of the&s;e Blazing-Stars, (though po&s;&s;ibly in them&s;elves meer Natural Means) to the Terror and Amendment of &s;ome Mortals; Even as he u&s;es the Rainbow, to &s;ignifie the Co|venant heretofore made betwixt Him&s;elf and Mankind.</P>
<P>Of Comets the Learned have reckoned up about One Hundred and Sixty, to have appeared &s;ince <HI>Noahs Flood,</HI> whereof &s;ome have been very Terrible and A&s;toni&s;hing:
<PB N="5" REF="3"> but all the Me&s;&s;engers of &s;ome Con&s;iderable&punc; Mutations or De&s;truction; not that they are Cau&s;es of &s;uch Effects, but onely the Antecedents or Forerunners of them, the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r Office being, like Beacons, to give warning to the Sin-be|&s;otted World, of approaching dangers: and are certain &s;igns (but not Cau&s;es) of very eminent Cata&s;trophes.</P>
<P>We now Approach to &Sun; entrance into &Aries; and tho&s;e A&s;tro|logical Judgements, deducible from thence, it imports the A&s;&s;emblys of many worthy per&s;ons in Europe, wholy indea|vouring to &s;alve up the la&s;t years Breaches, the Weather in|clines to hard Fro&s;t, mi&s;ty Foggy deluges, and inundations follow, mo&s;t uncomfortable weather for the Fea&s;t.</P>
<P>Not a few there are yet alive, that can well remember the prodigious Comet in 1618. The Harbinger of the <HI>German</HI> De&s;olation, and mo&s;t unhappy Wars &s;oon after in our own Countrey.</P>
<Q><L>Its Streaming Blaze did fix our blood-&s;hot Eyes,</L>
<L>With Wonder and Amazement to the Skies;</L>
<L>The &s;ight was dreadful, but much more tho&s;e things</L>
<L>It did Denote, to Nations and to Kings.</L></Q>
<P>In 1652. Another Comet appeared, who&s;e &s;ignifications were not Compleated, nor its Errand Di&s;patcht, before three more Cele&s;tial Heralds (we mean the Comets in 1664, and 1665.) are &s;ent to proclaim War, and denounce Vengeance again&s;t contumatious &s;inners.</P>
<P>What Superlative Actions have been &s;ince the&s;e years on the Mundane Stage, and what Vials of Divine Wrath poured forth on &s;everal parts of this Inhabitable Globe, we &s;uppo&s;e unknown to few, and may with grief of heart be long remem|bred by many.</P>
<P>The Judicious M. <HI>Lilly</HI> (to who&s;e Studies our Nation hath been &s;o eminently Oblig'd for the Re&s;toration of A&s;trology) among&s;t other his now Verified Predictions on that Comet in 1652. Acquainted the Inhabitants of <HI>Europe,</HI> that about the year 1672. they might again expect to behold a New Star or Comet appear.</P>
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<P>Nor was this Famous Man (though in &s;o dubious a mat|ter, and Predicted almo&s;t twenty years beforehand) mi&s;ta|ken; For behold, towards the beginning of this pre&s;ent year, 1672. A Comet did accordingly manife&s;t it &s;elf, and for ma|ny Nights together was vi&s;ible in our Horizon.</P>
<P>That this is no framed &s;tory rai&s;ed by Malecontents to varni&s;h any De&s;ign, nor Ignorant mi&s;take of a Paper-kite, <HI>Ignis Fatuus,</HI> or fal&s;e <HI>Phoenominon,</HI> but a true and real Comet, is evident from the Te&s;timony and Ob&s;ervations of divers Worthy per&s;ons, more then ordinary skilful, and curiou&s;ly acquainted with &s;uch matters.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Moun&s;ier <HI>Hevilius,</HI> A per&s;on &s;ufficiently known to the Learned World, atte&s;ts it in a Letter from <HI>Dantzick,</HI> to that Illu&s;trious Society here in <HI>England,</HI> de&s;ervedly Intituled Royal, from who&s;e curious Re&s;earches into the My&s;teris of Nature, Philo&s;ophy may in &s;hort time promi&s;e it &s;elf more Improvement, and greater certainty then ever it could hope for from the empty Terms, and Barren Ver|bo&s;ity of the Schools: To this Learned a&s;&s;embly, thus Writes <HI>Hevilius.</HI></P>
<P><Q REND="margQuotes">There has been &s;een here a new Comet, from the Second of <HI>March (Stilo Novo)</HI> 1672. (which an&s;wers to our 21. of <HI>February</HI>) 'Tis vi&s;ible both Mornings and Evenings, and &s;eems but little, having at pre&s;ent a Train or Tail not a|bove a Degree and a half long, but it would doubtle&s;s appear much bigger, if it were not for the Troy-light, and Neighbourhood of the Moon: It is now about the Stars in the right Arm of <HI>Adromeda,</HI> tending with a direct Diurnal motion of about two Degrees in its Cour&s;e. <HI>March</HI> the 6th. 40 Minutes after 7. it was in 7. Deg. of <HI>Aries,</HI> with 25. Deg. of <HI>North Latitude,</HI> &amp;c.</Q></P>
<P>The &s;ame was affirmed in Letters al&s;o from <HI>Paris.</HI></P>
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<P>And at <HI>Fle&s;hche</HI> it was &s;een from the 16th. day, to the 26th. Inclu&s;ively, and the rea&s;on it was &s;o rarely ob&s;erved, was be|cau&s;e for a good while it was neer the Sun, and afterwards ob&s;cured by the Moon.</P>
<P><HI>March</HI> the 7th. 1671/2. about 8. a Clock at Night, it was ob&s;erved by an Ingenious, Gentleman in <HI>Hamp&s;hire,</HI> who Communicated his Ob&s;ervations to Mr. <HI>Lilly,</HI> it was then about the bigne&s;s of a Star of the third Magnitude, Solid but of a <HI>Saturnine</HI> Complexion, or Leaden colour: Its Tayl very Con&s;picuous, tending <HI>Ea&s;twards.</HI> Its fir&s;t appearance about the middle of <HI>Aries,</HI> whence by &s;everal ob&s;ervations he traced it through <HI>Taurus,</HI> till on the 21. it drew neer the be|ginning of <HI>Gemini,</HI> but then &s;eemed very &s;mall; Its motion more &s;low then formerly, and the Moon increa&s;ing, it &s;oon after di&s;appear'd.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> likewi&s;e him&s;elf, for &s;everal Nights together ob&s;erved this Comet, to whom it &s;eemed greater then a Star of the &s;econd Magnitude, and of Complexion <HI>Saturnine</HI> and <HI>Mercurial.</HI></P>
<P>The Type or Figure of this new Comet, and its motion, you may &s;ee in Mr. <HI>Lillies</HI> Almanack for the approaching Year 1673. From which profound and able Arti&s;t, we &s;hall pre&s;ume to Tran&s;cribe part of what he there Writes of the Portents, or &s;ignification of this late Comet.</P>
<P><HI>Since Mankind</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>would not take &s;ufficient warning, either by that Comet-in</HI> 1652. <HI>or tho&s;e in</HI> 1664. <HI>behold Provi|dence manife&s;ts another, beginning in the fir&s;t Sign of the Zodi|ack, and moving direct according to the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of the Signs, &s;ometimes &s;wifter, &s;ometimes &s;lower, as if now the great God of Nature were angry, and intended &s;uddenly to proceed to Judge|ment again&s;t tho&s;e People and Nations which have &s;o &s;lighted and contemned his former Admonitions: let</HI> Europe <HI>be a&s;&s;ured the Por|tents now &s;ignified will be heavy, and of long continuance: The Actions tending thereunto, or the fir&s;t Cau&s;es of them, Sudden,
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Violent, &V;nexpected, and Surprizing. It Manife&s;ts the beginning of more Wars and their &s;orrowful Effects;</HI> Viz. <HI>The flight of ma|ny from their proper Habitations, Poverty, Sudden Alarms, and A&s;toni&s;hments, Piracies, Scarcity of Corn, Slaughters of Man|kind, Deva&s;tation, and Burning of Cities, and Depopulations of Countries, and all this when and where lea&s;t &s;u&s;pected; The Countries &s;eeming mo&s;t obnoxious to the&s;e Dire Effect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are</HI> Ger|many, Poland, Holland, Con&s;tantinople, <HI>&s;everal I&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ands in the</HI> Ea&s;t <HI>and</HI> W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t Indies, <HI>and &s;ome other Countries neerer home,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Thus Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> in his <HI>Anglicus,</HI> 1673. Where you may read much more very &s;oberly delivered on this Subject, and the Nature of Comets in general. 'Tis certain, <HI>Nunquam impune &s;pectatum e&s;&s;e Cometen.</HI> The Noble and Ingenious French-man <HI>Du-Bartas</HI> has excellently de&s;cribed their Com|mon &s;ignifications; With which, as Tran&s;lated by our Coun|try-man, <HI>Silvi&s;ter,</HI> we conclude:</P>
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<Q><L>&mdash;The&s;e Blazing-Stars,</L>
<L>Threaten the World, with Famine, Plague, and Wars;</L>
<L>To Princes death, to Kingdoms many cro&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>To all E&s;tates Inevitable Lo&s;&s;es:</L>
<L>To Herd&s;men, Rot; To Plowmen, haple&s;s &s;ea&s;ons;</L>
<L>To Saylors, Storms; To Cities, Civil Trea&s;ons.</L></Q>
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