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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

year of his Reign there was a great Eclipse of the Sun and the Moon seemee to be turned into Blood and there was a great Earthquake and a burning Torch like a Bow fell from Heaven with great noise there suddenly followed a great Famine and a little after a great Pestilence raged almost all the World over but chiefly in Italy so that the dead were accounted more than the living And in Lorrain there was a Fountain turned into Blood Henry the Third came to the Empire Anno 1040 and in his time there was seen a Fiery Beam of wonderful greatness between the South and the East running upon the Sun which at the Sun setting fell upon the Earth In the Reign of Herold King of England a fearful Comet appeared which lasted seven days the English being now ready for a War In the time of King William the Conqueror a Blazing Star appeared upon Palm Sunday being the 16th of April 1076. about six of the Clock when the Air was fair and clear About the same time was a general Earthquake in England and in the Winter following a Frost that continued from the first of November until the middle of April In the time of Baldwin the Second King of Jerusalem an unusual Star appeared the first week in Lent in the Evening in the South West and shined at one and the same hour for Twenty Five dayes After this were seen two Moons a little before day one in the East and the other in the West and not long after a Comet putting forth long and flaming Hairs appeared which Elmerus the Monk beholding said did threaten the destruction of that Countrey In the year 1094 in the Reign of William Refus King of England many hideous sights were seen in England as Hosts of Men fighting in the Air flashes of Fire Comets and falling Stars and such like Prodigies And the same year both England and Normandy were sore vexed with Mortality both of Men and Beasts insomuch that Tillage of the Ground was laid aside in divers places by reason whereof there followed great Dearth and Famine About the year of our Lord 1100. Fiery Swords appeared in Heaven which being dispersed through the whole Heaven were seen the greatest part of the Night and very many Stars seemed to fall from Heaven upon the Earth And the smoak went out with an hissing as by Waters poured upon it A most sharp Winter followed and a great Famine followed it and a Mortality of Men and murrain of Beasts both Wild and Tame and Birds fighting together in great Numbers destroyed one another Moreover a great Earthquake in Italy lasted the space of Forty days so that divers Towns and Villages were overthrown And the Moon being in an Eclipse was turned into a bloody colour And a Woman brought forth a Monster having a double Body having also before the Face of a Man and behind the Face of a Dog About this time died Johannes de Temporibus who had been an Esquire to the Emperour Charles the Great having lived 361 Years In the Seventh year of Henry the First King of England upon a Friday night in the first week in Lent there was seen a strange Star between the South and the West which appeared every Night at an hour and so continued for the space of Twenty Five dayes and over against that Star out of the East appeared a great and bright Beam which stretched it self toward the said Star And not long after were seen two Moons one in the East the other in the West In the Thirteenth year of the same Kings Reign at Shrewsbury was a great Earthquake and at Nottingham from Morning until Evening The River of Trent was so dryed up that men went over on foot dry Thereupon followed an hard VVinter great Mortality of People and scarcity of Victuals by reason of the great murrain of Beasts A Comet or Blazing Star appeared in a strange form for rising in the East when once it came aloft in the Firmament it kept not its course forward but seemed to go backward as if it had been retrograde About the year 1157 three Suns appeared together in the West after two hours the other sailing that which was in the middle did also set After the same manner in the next year three Moons appeared and in the middle of one the sign of the Cross These signs were interpreted by some to be a token of the grievous discord of the Cardinals in the Election of the Pope and of the Princes in the Election of the Emperour Earthquakes about this time where almost every where and did shake some Provinces many years especially Syria and Silicia in which many Cities did long shake and some of them were overwhelmed with great destruction of People In the third year of John King of England there were seen in Yorkshire five Moons one in the East the second in the VVest the third in the North the fourth in the South and the fifth as it were set in the midst of the other having many Blazing Stars about it and went five or six times encompassing the other as it were the space of one hour and shortly after vanished away The following VVinter was extreamly cold more than the natural course had been aforetime and in the Spring time there fell such abundance of Rain as caused the Rivers to swell with higher floods then they had been accustomed which caused great inundations This Kings Reign was full of troubles Pope Innocent III. Excommunicated and deposed him and put England in interdict bestowed it upon Philip August King of France upon condition of Conquering it and afterwards takes off the Interdict receives homage from King John and makes England a fee of the Roman See and that King his Vassal In the year of our Lord 1256 in the Reign of King Henry III. many wonders hapned A Comet appeared the Sea rose with most high Tides Rivers were so filled with abundance of water by reason of the great and continued Rain that wonderful Flouds followed therethereupon and many high Buildings were beaten down by the force of Tempests In the same Kings Reign there appeared a Comet very dreadful to behold for the space of 30 days together Moreover on the Coast of England there was a great Battel among the Fishes of the Sea so that there were eleven Whales cast on Land beside other huge and monstrous Fishes which appeared to be dead of some hurts received And one of those mighty Fishes coming into the Thames alive was pursued by the Fisher men and it could scarce pass through the Arches of London-Bridge At length with Darts and other such Weapons they slew him before the Kings Mannor at Mortlack whither they followed him There was also a great sound heard the same Year in sundry parts of England at one and the same time as if it had been the noise of some mighty Mountain that had fallen into the Sea A Comet of notable magnitude

to be made to the end therewith to have deceived his Enemy In the dayes of Sigebert Chitperic and Gunthran Kings of France certain Comets and prodigious signs were seen in the Heavens A fire falling from Heaven consumed the City of Orleans whereof and the Territory about it Gunthran was King and the City of Bourdeaux together with the fruits of the Earth There followed atmost throughout all France a malignant Cough and bloody Flux which destroyed multitudes of men and Women by which means that evil Woman Austigildis Wife of King Gunthran perished The said King Gunthran died within a year following After the death of Theodoricus who had made himself Lord of all Italy there appeared many signs in Heaven In the North the Heaven seemed fiery and certain shining Spears were seen and the Moon was much obscured And a Comet appeared at Tholouse Terrible signs were seen by Night in Italy in the year of our Lord 570. For fiery swords appeared in the Heavens and blood distilled from the Clouds which signified the effusion of much blood which hapned afterwards and many great storms continuing many dayes The River Tiber was increased with so great a force of waters that many people that lived in low places were drowned Two Animals appeared in the form of a Man and Woman from the Morning till Nine of the Clock with long hair hanging down to the Loynes The Water covered their other parts And they write That a Mountain in France with a great Noise was cleft asunder In the time of the Emperour Justinian the first as Procopius writeth for the greatest part of one whole year the Sun gave so little Light that it was but equal to or little more then the Light of the Moon the Sky being clear and without Clouds or any other thing to shadow the same And so without any apparent occasion it was obscured all that time which as it was afterward conjectured was the Prognostick of the Famine and want of grain which generally ensued throughout all the World and of the Wars and effusion of Blood which followed in Italy and of the taking burning and destruction of Rome by Totila In the time of the Emperour Heraclius who took upon him the Government of the Empire in the year of our Lord 611. at Constantinople Fire fell from Heaven and there appeared a great Bow in the Heavens so that Men thought that the end of the World was at hand by reason of the great Thundrings and Lightnings There followed a most grievous Pestilence which consumed many in the Summer Months And many Prodigies and dreadful things appeared at this time in Greece which seemed to portend the future Calamities under Mahomet And in one and the same year a very bright Comet was seen at Constantinople and a Child was born with four Feet And in the Isle Delon two very great Monsters were seen having altogether humane shape And many other things here and there like unto this did appear In the Reign of the Emperour Constantine IV. an hairy Comet appeared three Months which was the forerunner of great Slaughters And there happened so many and so great Tempests and alterations in the air as it seemed that the four Elements had conspired against Mankind for the Winds were so furious and violent as that they overthrew many buildings and rent up many Trees by the roots and the rain likewise was so great and tempestuous as it destroyed all their Tillage as well for Bread-Corn as all other kinds of Herbs and Seeds And therewith fell an infinite number of Thunderbolts and Fires from Heave which slew a great number of Men and Cattel especially on this side of the Alps. And after a great Eclipse of the Sun and Moon the City of Papia was almost utterly destroyed by a raging Pestilence so that the People which survived fled to the Mountains and grass grew in the City About the time of King Luitprand King of the Lombards two Comets appeared in the Month of January and the Sun was darkned and lost his light for fifteen dayes whereof one went before the Sun the other followed it in the Evening About the Death of Pope Leo tho third who crowned and declared Charles the Great King of France to be Emperour a Comet appeared and the Sun lost his light for Fifteen dayes This Pope died Anno 816. In the second year of Lotharius Son of the Emperour Ludovicus Pius and Grandson to Charles the great there appeared a Comet Hail of great bigness fell in France which slew many men and much Cattel There was also seen in those Hail-stones Corn of a wonderful Length and of an hard substance An Earthquake also shook Italy and in certain places divers Mountains were overwhelmed and divers Cities perished Lotharius warred against his brethren Lewes and Charles and a great Battel being fought the Flower of the French Nobility was slain and in number more men died than in any other Battel had hapned in France ever since the Battel which was fought between Ecius and Attila King of the Hunnes in the Fields of Catalonia About this time an innumerable Company of Locusts having six Wings and two Teeth harder than stones covered the Earth in France like Snow At length being cast into the Sea and upon Land by the Shore there followed great putrefaction which infecting the Air caused a general destruction of men In the beginning of the Reign of the Emperour Lewes the Second for three dayes it rained Blood at the City of Brescia in Lombardy so fresh and so perfect as if it had been of a Bull or of some other Beast lately killed In the time of Edward the Son of Edgar King of England appeared a Comet after which followed a great Dearth and Mortality to men and murrain upon Beasts and there arose a great contention between the Priests and Monks In the days of Pope Leo VII the Sun seemed to reign blood as Masseus writeth and after it followed a great Pestilence among men In the first year of Pope Martin III. a great Blazing Star appeared in Italy after which followed an extream Famine And again the Sun appeared very dreadful Martin died Anno 947. A little before the death of the Emperour Otho the Second many Prodigies appeared in Italy for a Stone of wonderful bigness fell from Heaven in the midst of a great storm and tempest And the sign of the Cross appeared on the Garments of many and some of them were of a bloody colour which many did interpret to portend great Slaughters and the Calamity of the Church In Italy a Comet of wonderful bigness appeared presaging the Famine which followed In the time of Pope John XVI appeared a Comet after which followed both Famine and Pestilence with terrible Earthquakes which shook both Benevent and Capua John died Anno 985. In the third year of the Emperour Henry the Second a Comet appeared dreadful to behold dispersing his Flames hither and thither And in the seventh

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