Now, then, if the Lord discharge his murdering pieces from on high, and men be found in their sins unfit for death, their blood shall be upon them." And again, in an agony of supplication, he cries out: "Do we see the sword blazing over us?
Let it put us upon crying to God, that the judgment be diverted and not return upon us again so speedily....

Doth God threaten our very heavens?
O pray unto him, that he would not take away stars and send comets to succeed them."(112) (112) For Danforth, see his Astronomical Descritption of the Late Comet or Blazing Star, Together with a Brief Theological Application Thereof, 1664.

For Morton, see his Memorial, pp.

251, 252,; also 309, 310.

Texts cited by Mather were Rev., viii, 10, and xi, 14.
Two years later, in August, 1682, he followed this with another sermon on "The Latter Sign," "wherein is showed that the voice of God in signal providences, especially when repeated and iterated, ought to be hearkened unto." Here, too, of course, the comet comes in for a large share of attention.