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

Great was the dread and terror, which now did possess the hearts of the people; Our Saviour foretells, Luke 21. 25, 26. That on Earth there should be distress of Nations with perplexity, the Sea and the Waves roaring, and men• hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things, which are coming upon the Earth. Such was the distress and perplexity of these people. It is said in the Relation, That people ran with cries and lamentations about the City and Country, expecting nothing but to be swallowed up, or consumed by the Fire, having no other apprehensions bu• ⟨p. 66⟩of death, and a general Conflagration.

Great was the dread and terrour, which now did possess the hearts of the people; Our Saviour foretells, Luke 21. 25, 26. That on Earth there should be distresse of Nations with perplexity, the Sea and the Waves roaring, and men• hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things, which are coming upon the Earth. Such was the distresse and perplexity of these people. It is said in the Relation, That people ran with cryes and lamentations about the City and Countrey, expecting nothing but to be swallowed up, or consumed by the Fire, having no other apprehensions bu• ⟨p. 66⟩of death, and a general Conflagration.

Had the Christian religion taken place there in the purity and power thereof, it might have born up the spirits of the sincere, and established Christians against overwhelming fear and amazement in all those storms and danger; If of the virtuous Man much more may it be said of the truly Religions. Si fracitus illabatur orbis impavidum ferient ruinae, though the frame of the Earth and World should crack and be dissolved, yet such a one would be undaunted under it's ruins; such, when the Mountain was dissolved and did melt with fervent heat into Floods of burning Fire, might look upon Death, (the utmost the fire could bring upon them) with an unappalled countenance; yea, with great confidence and comfort, because of their well-grounded hopes of rest and happiness in Heaven, whose habitation prepared for them there is beyond the reach of any Earthly Fire to consume.