An alarm unto a secure generation, or A short historical relation of some of the most strange and remarkable appearances of comets, fiery methods, bloody signs, ships of war, armies of foot, and horsemen fighting, &c. that have been seen (as the tokens or forerunners both of promised mercies and threatned judgements) through different ages, particularly, those lately osberved in the parishes of Finwick, Egelsham and Kilmarnock [electronic resource] : With some arguments and observations upon the whole, in way of application unto our present circumstances. In a letter from John Howie to William Young student in the University of Glasgow.