(4o) 
It will cut the Eclipticl^about the end of fuly^ new Style, a lit-* 
tie more Ea(lppards than the Eye of Taurm : at which time there 
will be no Iceing of it^ except it be with a Telefcope. 
Ic will be towards the of Aprils new ftyle. twice as far 
diftant as it was in its Ferigee, thrice as far, May the fourthjfour 
times, May the eighteenth^ and five times, June the firft, 
He would not have Men furprifed, that there have been two 
within fofliort atime 5 (eeing, /^i/A 6^, there were four, 
atleaftjthree, in the Year i^i8. and in other Years there have 
been two and more at the fame time. What he adds about 
their fignification, we leave to Afirologers to difpute it with him. 
He concludeth with asking pardon^ii he have committed mif- 
takes, which he hopeth he fliali obtain the fooner, becaufe of 
the fmal! time he hath had for thefe calculations ; and he wifhes 
that he could have made all theObfervations himfelf^fceing that 
it is eafie to failj when one muft truft to the Obfervations of o- 
thers, whereof we know not the exadlnefs; where he inftan- 
ceth, that, according to his Obfervations^ the way of the Co- 
met ihould go neerer the Ecliptick than he hath marked it, even 
without having any great regard to the R»frad:ions : but fincc 
he would (nbjedl himfelf to others, he hath made it pafs a little 
higher, which, he faith, was aimoft infenfibly fo, in thofe few 
days that he was obferving and writing, but that this may per- 
haps become fenfible hereafter; which if it be fo^he affirms that 
it will cut the Ecliptick^ and Equator fooncr, than he hath mar- 
ked it, ^c. However, he thinks it convenient, to have given a- 
forchand a common Notion of what will become of a C^met^ to 
prepare men for all the Changes that may fall out concerning 
it : which he affirms he hath endeavoured to do 5 the reft being 
eafie to correclt, as foon as any good Obfervations, fomewhat 
diftant, have been obtained, confidering, that there need but 
two very exad: ones, a little diftant when the Star is not fwift, to 
trace its Way j although there muft be at leaft three, to find out 
all the reft. But, then would he have it confidered, that al- 
though his Method fhould be very exad:, if there be not at hand 
Inftruments big enough, and Globes good enough to truft to, 
nothing can be done pcrfeiiHy in thefe kind of Predictions . 
4 
A J^elation 
