Comets as Signs of Calamities

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chuckd

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I can't find Increase Mather's Kometographia online. Has anyone read it? This blog peaked my interest (author appears to not be a Christian).

On 30 January 1681 (New Style) Mather preached a sermon on the comet to his parishioners to the effect “that prodigious awful sights and signs in Heaven, are oftentimes, the presages of great Calamity coming upon the World.” Mather quotes Josephus, Joel, and Luke for examples of heavenly signs foreshadowing calamity on earth, notably the destruction of Jerusalem.

A few years later, Mather published Kometographia, which purported to list every comet noticed by men since the creation of the world—415 of them—and then the calamities in world history that followed their appearance

A quote from the book,
The Great God, when he made the World, placed the stars in Heaven, to be for Signs as to Events that in the ordinary Course of Nature should come to pass. That is, comets do not cause events on earth, but instead are signs of events that have been preordained by God.
 
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