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

CHAP. X. Concerning the burning of the World.

2 BY the burning of Mount Aetna, we may be minded also of the burning of the World, I mean the last general conflagration of the World at the end thereof: whether Aetna's burning be a Prognostic of Rome's burning is not so certain; but that it is a Prognostic of the Worlds burning and dissolution by Fire, may be proved from Scripture, as Luke 21. 11. Where our Saviour foretelling his Disciples what the signs should be of his coming, and the end of the World, amongst Wars, Pestilences Earth-quakes, doth reckon up fearful sights, as one Fore-runner, and I verily think there hath not been a more fearful sight, since the days of our Saviour, then this of the Eruption of Fir• and ⟨p. 82⟩Brimstone from this flaming Mountain; the Inhabitant▪ of the place expected a general conflagration then, but we may well say, that this fearful sight is a Fore-runner of it foretold by Christ, and therefore should put us in mind of it.

2 BY the burning of Mount Aetna, we may be minded also of the burning of the World, I mean the last general conslagration of the World at the end thereof: whether Aetna's burning be a Prognostick of Rome's burning is not so certain; but that it is a Prognostic of the Worlds burning and dissolution by Fire, may be proved from Scripture, as Luke 21. 11. Where our Saviour foretelling his Disciples what the signs should be of his coming, and the end of the World, amongst Wars, Pestilences Earth-quakes, doth reckon up fearful sights, as one Fore-runner, and I verily think there hath not been a more fearful sight, since the days of our Saviour, then this of the Eruption of Fir• and ⟨p. 82⟩