Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…

The Original hath it, [The Indignation of Fire.] But Indignation is in, and from the Heart of an intelligent Person provoked, which is God, as the Text shows. Grotius therefore interprets it, The Anger of God, but adds, putting forth it self by Fire: I suppose he means by corporeal Fire, as its Instrument. But why not rather The Anger of God Himself, Devouring his Adversaries, as Fire; and so to relate to the manner of his Anger its working, as represented under the Similitude of Fire, seeing God Himself is, in this Epistle, styled a Consuming Fire? which interprets this.

The Original hath it, [The Indignation of Fire.] But Indignation is in, and from the Heart of an intelligent Person provoked, which is God, as the Text shews. Grotius therefore interprets it, The Anger of God, but adds, putting forth it self by Fire: I suppose he means by corporeal Fire, as its Instrument. But why not rather The Anger of God Himself, Devouring his Adversaries, as Fire; and so to relate to the manner of his Anger its working, as represented under the Similitude of Fire, seeing God Himself is, in this Epistle, stiled a Consuming Fire? which interprets this.

And in this Expression of [fiery Indignation which Devoureth,] He hath particular reference unto those, of all other, the most extraordinary Judgments upon Nadah and Abihu, Lev. 10. 2. ⟨p. 39⟩There came out [Fire] from the Lord, and [devoured] them. They are in terminis, the very Words of the Apostle here: And ¹we may take in also (that so we may have two Witnesses too, to confirm this our Interpretation of the Apostles Allusion) That two hundred and fifty Princes perished by Fire from the Lord, in the Rebellion of Corah, Numb. 16. 30. This as for what examples is referred unto.