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Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…
Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly, II. Concerning the burning of Æetna, or Mount Gibel more lately, III. Concerning the burning of the wicked eternally, with fire and brimstone / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. V. Concerning the Persons that were consumed and how they were affected.
3 Concerning the Persons on which this judgement was inflicted, and how they were affected. The persons were all the wicked Inhabitants of the Cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, Great was the horror (hinted ⟨p. 32⟩before) which we may imagine these persons were in when the Fire and Brimstone came down from Heaven upon them, and there was no way for them to escape.
3 COncerning the Persons on which this judgement was inflicted, and how they were affected. The persons were all the wicked Inhabitants of the Cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, Great was the horrour (hinted ⟨p. 32⟩before) which we may imagine these persons were in when the Fire and Brimstone came down from Heaven upon them, and there was no way for them to escape.
The noise and scorching heat of this dreadful Fire, we may conclude did quickly awaken some out of their sleep of Intemperance, and all out of their sleep of security. What tongue can utter the horrible perplexity of the Sodomites on this day! when they opened their doors and windows in the morning, and looking up to Heaven saw them open, and fire coming down thence to devour them; when the Tempest of Fire and Brimstone beat upon them so sorely, and suddenly, when there was such a dreadful burning heat by the Fire, and such a stinking noisome suffocating smoke by the Brimstone; when there was a little kind of Hell in that place both for torment and Sin. O the dread of the Sodomites! O the confusion they were in! when such an unthought of, such an unheard of and such an unavoidable ruin was come upon them; how were they amazed! how were they distressed! some it may be cursed the day of their birth, wishing that they had been abortive issues, that they had never lived to see the light of the Sun, that so they might not have lived to see and feel the fire of this day: others it may be cursed themselves and the Sinners of the place, who had provoked God to send this dreadful judgement upon them; others it may be cursed God, because of the Fire and great heat, like those,