Lilly, in his preface, says: "If there be any of so prevaricate a judgment as to think that the apparition of these three Suns doth intimate no Novelle thing to happen in our own Climate, where they were manifestly visible, I shall lament their indisposition, and conceive their brains to be shallow, and voyde of understanding humanity, or notice of common History." Having thus forgiven his few doubting readers, who were by no means in the majority in his day, he takes up in review the records of the various appearances of three suns as they have occurred during the Christian era, showing how such phenomena have governed certain human events in a very definite manner.

Some of these are worth recording.
"Anno 66.

A comet was seen, and also three Suns: In which yeer, Florus President of the Jews was by them slain.

Paul writes to Timothy.

The Christians are warned by a divine Oracle, and depart out of Jerusalem.
Boadice a British Queen, killeth seventy thousand Romans.