A dissertation on comets, extracted from the writings of the most eminent modern astronomers and philosophers. In a letter to a reverend professor. To which is prefixed the theory of a comet / by [according to the sentiments of] Sir Isaac Newton [and other ... astronomers].
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- [between 1700 and 1799]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on comets, extracted from the writings of the most eminent modern astronomers and philosophers. In a letter to a reverend professor. To which is prefixed the theory of a comet / by [according to the sentiments of] Sir Isaac Newton [and other ... astronomers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ways, no body, but the Jews only, under- Hood what it was to appeafe the true God, when he appeared angry. All that they knew to do, in this Conifernation, was to fall down before their Idols, offer them Victims, confuit the Demons, and a6t, by their Advice, what was moft difagreeable to God. So that to light up Comets in the Heavens, was no¬ thing elfe, properly fpeaking, than to re¬ double the A6ts of Idolatry; and this was, in Reality, all that God could promife him- felf Horn them. I do not deny but there have been Perfons of good Senfe among the Heathens, who ac¬ knowledged that the true Means of pleafing the Divinity, was not to offer furnptuous Hecatombs in his Honour, but to live juftly* and that this was the only Sacrifice which could appeafe an incenfed Heaven. ‘The Pagan But, whatever they might own, it was not Expiations t]-ps they had Recourfe, when they ^proZkTthet0 would difarm the Vengeance of God. They true God1 did not immediately renounce their Pride, and the Hatred they bore their Enemies : * They did not pardon the Injuries they had received ; mortify their Avarice ; break with their Miftreiies ; humbl themfelves inwardly bef re God, with real Grief for their Want of Virtue : They did not promife a Conver- lion of the Heart, a general Reformation of their Thoughts, their Words, and their Ac¬ tions. Thefe were hard Conditions, and Money would not pur chafe them. They chofe rather, therefore, to pay for the Build- * ing of Chapels, to fill the Temples of the Diviniti es with Gifts and Oblations, and con¬](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30507029_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
