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Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…
Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly, II. Concerning the burning of Æetna, or Mount Gibel more lately, III. Concerning the burning of the wicked eternally, with fire and brimstone / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IV. Concerning the Eruption it self of Fire and Brimstone from Mount Aetna.
After warning given by the voice of the Mountain, and the shaking of the Earth unto people to fly from that place of danger and threat•d ruin; on Monday the 11th. of March, there were three great eruptions on the side of the Mountain, besides the smoke and flames which issued forth of the mouth at the top thereof: the breaches and clefts of the Earth were a half of a mile in compass (as afterwards g•sed) out of which an horrible burning flood […] come forth, ⟨p. 60⟩and more fiercely than any floods of Water could do, ran down the sides of the Mount. It was the fire contained before within the bowels of the Mountain too big and great to vent it self at the top, that forced it's way through the sides, and making doors for it self, brake forth with such noise and rage as was terrible to hear and behold.
AFter warning given by the voice of the Mountain, and the shaking of the Earth unto people to fly from that place of danger and threat•d ruine; on Munday the 11th. of March, there were three great eruptions on the side of the Mountain, besides the smoke and flames which issued forth of the mouth at the top thereof: the breaches and clefts of the Earth were a half of a mile in compasse (as afterwards g•sed) out of which an horrible burning flood 〈…〉 come forth, ⟨p. 60⟩and more fiercely than any floods of Water could do, ran down the sides of the Mount. It was the fire contained before within the bowels of the Mountain too big and great to vent it self at the top, that forced it's way thorow the sides, and making doors for it self, brak forth with such noise and rage as was terrible to hear and behold.