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

In Abraham's return with the spoils of these great Kings, the King of Sodom, who had escaped in the battle, cometh forth to meet him, who maketh proffer unto him of all the goods which he had recovered, the persons only excepted; but Abraham, what ever he had deserved, yet would not accept of so much as the worth of a thread or shoelatchet, of what had before belonged unto so wicked a people as the Sodomites were; fearing possibly that such goods mingled with his own might prove like a Moth unto them; however, he would not give the King occasion to say, or any to think that Sodom's goods had made Abraham rich.

In Abraham's return with the spoils of these great Kings, the King of Sodom, who had escaped in the battel, cometh forth to meet him, who maketh proffer unto him of all the goods which he had recovered, the persons only excepted; but Abraham, what ever he had deserved, yet would not accept of so much as the worth of a thred or shoelatchet, of what had before belonged unto so wicked a people as the Sodomits were; fearing possibly that such goods mingled with his own might prove like a Moth unto them; however, he would not give the King occasion to say, or any to think that Sodom's goods had made Abraham rich.

This bringing back of the Sodomites from captivity and reinstalling the King of Sodom beyond what he could have looked for, by such unlikely means, was a wonderful work of God, and laid a great obligation upon the Sodomites, not only to respect Lot, upon whose account Abraham had thus ventured ⟨p. 8⟩himself, but […] of •heir sins against God, who […] Abraham for this work, and delivere• […] • their enemies into his hands, as […] King of Salem, and Priest of the High God, who came forth to meet Abraham, acknowledgeth with praise and thanksgiving: how little the Sodomites did answer their obligation either unto God or Man, will appear in the 19th. Chapter of Genesis; where their sin and punishment is set forth.