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

This Rain probably was not in small drops, like that which falling upon the tender Grass, causeth it to spring forth and flourish; but in great flakes of of scalding Sulphurous matter enkindled by the breath of God: great sheets of Fire, it is likely, came down from Heaven, like the Flying Roll spoken of Zach. 5. 2, 3, 4. the length whereof was twenty Cubits, and the breadth thereof ten Cubits, which entered into the House of the Thief and False swearer, and consumed the Timber thereof, and the stones thereof. So did these sheets and rolls of fire fly about the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and entered into the houses of the unjust and profane, the filthy and unclean, smiting and consuming Inhabitants with their Habitations. This storm of Fire and Brimstone, coming down with a commission from God, to destroy the whole Place, doth arm it self with unexpressible rage and fury, and first smiting the heads and tops of all the houses in the ⟨p. 25⟩City, setteth them on fire together, which mounting a great flame upward, and that mingling with the sulphurous fire which came downward was exceedingly the more enraged, and we may conceive that from thence came such horrid blazes to the eye, and such dreadful roarings to the ear, as awakened all the wicked Inhabitants of the City out of their sleep and security, and filled them with unconceivable horror and perplexity, when they saw inevitable ruin so near unto them.

This Rain probably was not in small drops, like that which falling upon the tender Grass, causeth it to spring forth and flourish; but in great flakes of of scalding Sulphurious matter enkindled by the breath of God: great sheets of Fire, it is likely, came down from Heaven, like the Flying Roll spoken of Zach. 5. 2, 3, 4. the length whereof was twenty Cubits, and the bredth thereof ten Cubits, which entered into the House of the Thief and Falseswearer, and consumed the Timber thereof, and the stones thereof. So did these sheets and rolls of fire fly about the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and entered into the houses of the unjust and profane, the filthy and unclean, smiting and consuming Inhabitants with their Habitations. This storm of Fire and Brimstone, coming down with a commission from God, to destroy the whole Place, doth arm it self with unexpressible rage and fury, and first smiting the heads and tops of all the houses in the