1. Fire is a terrible and most amazing Element, especially when it breaks forth like a masterless Enemy, and none can stop it: So is the Wrath of God very terrible, when he poureth it forth in his greatest fury. O what a frightful Cry doth a dreadful Fire that breaks out in a Town or City cause! what wringing of hands! Men tremble, Women miscarry oft-times, Children screech out, it frightens the very Fowls of the Air, and Beasts of the Earth, and turns all Faces into Paleness! how amazing was the flames of Sodom, and how terrible is the burning of Mount Aetna! the Wrath of God when it furiously breaketh forth upon a People and Nation, or particular Person, causeth dreadful horror, it maketh the stoutest heart to quake, and the strongest hands feeble: At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation: His fury 1is poured out like fire, and the Mountains are thrown down before him: Can thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong, in the day when I contend 2with thee? Who can stand before his indignation? O how will the wicked fly into holes, quiver like a leaf, and cry to the Rocks and Mountains to fall upon them, and hide them from the face 3of him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
1. Fire is a terrible and most amazing Element, especially when it breaks forth like a masterless Enemy, and none can stop it: So is the Wrath of God very terrible, when he poureth it forth in his greatest fury. O what a frightful Cry doth a dreadful Fire that breaks out in a Town or City cause! what wringing of hands! Men tremble, Women miscarry oft-times, Children screech out, it frightens the very Fowls of the Air, and Beasts of the Earth, and turns all Faces into Paleness! how amazing was the flames of Sodom, and how terrible is the burning of Monnt Aetna! the Wrath of God when it furiously breaketh forth upon a People and Nation, or particular Person, causeth dreadful horror, it maketh the stoutest heart to quake, and the strongest hands feeble: At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation: His fury 1is poured out like fire, and the Mountains are thrown down before him: Can thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong, in the day when I contend 2with thee? Who can stand before his indignation? O how will the wicked fly into holes, quiver like a leaf, and cry to the Rocks and Mountains to fall upon them, and hide them from the face 3of him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
- 1Jer. 10. 10.
- 2Nah. 1. 6.
- 3Rev. 6. 16.
