A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

Turning the Cities into ashes.] I come to the manner of their destruction, which •as by fire: wherein consider four circumstances. The strangeness, the sharpness, the suddenness, the destructiveness.

Turning the Cities into ashes.] I come to the manner of their destruction, which •as by fire: wherein consider foure circumstances. The strangenesse, the sharpe•esse, the suddennesse, the destructivenesse.

1 The strangeness; it was a miraculous rain; brimstone mingled with the ••re, as a fit matter to disperse it: and, it is very likely, salt too:^a It shall burn with brimstone and salt. Yea, and that water was poured down also, from which was •athered the dead sea remaining to this day. This Rain came from Heaven, the upper region of the air, the place for fiery meteors. And haply the nature of the •oile being full of pitch, slime, and other combustible matter, did much increase •he burning.^b The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits, and the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there. This was strange indeed, that fire and brimstone, the materials •f hell, should come down from heaven: or that floods of water should grapple with streams of fire: and that all, as water does set lime a burning, should help ra•her to inflame.^c Upon the wicked shall the Lord rain fire and brimstone, and stormy empest. That brimstone, a mineral of the earth, should be found in the air, drawn up by an extraordinary exhalation, to be sent down after an unexampled confusion! But this was the Lords doing, and it is marvellous to our thoughts.