Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…

The Lord is known by the judgements which He executeth, whereby he giveth Sinners to understand even in this World, that, as he is patient and longsuffering, merciful and gracious, and ready to be reconciled: so that he is Holy and jealous, just and righteous, and that he can be angry, and express his anger in furious rebukes, when by sin he is exceedingly provoked hereunto. And as the anger of the Lord, in the height and fierceness of it, is compared unto Fire, unto a flaming Fire, which devoureth round about, Lam. 2. 3. So his ⟨p. 2⟩most dreadful judgements, the expressions of his anger are by Fire, especially by Fire mingled with Brimstone. Such showers of Fire and Brimstone God doth threaten to rain upon the wicked in the Text: Upon the wicked he shall rain Snares, Fire, and Brimstone and an horrible Tempest, this shall be the portion of their Cup.

THe Lord is known by the judgements which He executeth, whereby he giveth Sinners to understand even in this World, that, as he is patient and longsuffering, merciful and gracious, and ready to be reconciled: so that he is Holy and jealous, just and righteous, and that he can be angry, and expresse his anger in furious rebukes, when by sin he is exceedingly provoked hereunto. And as the anger of the Lord, in the height and feirenesse of it, is compared unto Fire, unto a flaming Fire, which devoureth round about, Lam. 2. 3. So his ⟨p. 2⟩most dreadful judgements, the expressions of his anger are by Fire, especially by Fire mingled with Brimstone. Such showers of Fire and Brimstone God doth threaten to rain upon the wicked in the Text: Upon the wicked he shall rain Snares, Fire, and Brimstone and an horrible Tempest, this shall be the portion of their Cup.

In this Psalm is set forth first (the •hatred and indignation of the wicked towards the righteous, which is expressed both in their scoffing at them, and their preparing the bow, and arrow to shoot and destroy them. Ver. 1. 2. 2. the hatred and indignation of God towards the wicked, which is expressed in his threatening to rain Snares, Fire, and mstone, and an horrible Tempest upon them to devour them. Ver. 5. 6. Upon the wicked,) that is, upon all the wicked who go on still in their trespasses, especially such as are haters and persecutors of the righteous. He shall rain Snares, that is, God will entangle and hold them so fast, even like Birds under the snares and nets of the Fowler, that they shall not be able to fie from and escape the destruction which he will bring upon them. Fire and Brimstone, and an horrible Tempest. No Tempest is more horrible, than a tempest of Fire and Brimstone, which God will rain on the wicked; this hath an allusion unto the real Fire and Brimstone, miraculously Created by God, and rained down from Heaven upon the wicked Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah: something like unto this God threateneth in his destructions of other places.