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law at first out of the midst of the fire, Exod. 

 xix. 18. And * He shall appear from Heaven 

 again in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them 

 that obey it not, saith the Apostle. Now, as 

 the Prophet Amos argues, from another cir- 

 cumstance of terror wherewith the Law was 

 given, the sound of the trumpet, the first trumpet 

 certainly we ever read of in any record in the 

 world, as the last trumpet (the Apostle tells us) 

 f shall be that of the Arch-angel to summon us to 

 account for it, J ' Shall a trumpet be blown (and 

 so, say I, shall a fire be kindled) in the city (nay, 

 a whole city become but one great fire) and the 

 people not be afraid ; we not reflect upon our 

 own guiltiness before God, who came at first with 

 a § fiery Law in his right hand to teach us our 

 duty, and shall come again at last with || fiery 

 Indignation at his left, to devour all those that 

 perform it not.' Again, fire and water are the 

 two great instruments of God's double vengeance 

 upon the world of the ungodly: the one long 

 since past recorded for our instruction ; the other 

 yet to come, the matter (it ought to be, I am sure,) 

 of our continual terror. ^ The world that then 

 was, perished by water, (saith St. Peter,) and the 

 world that is now, is reserved unto fire : in the 

 mean time, fire and water, things of commonest 

 use with us, are also the standing metaphors 

 almost in every verse of Scripture, to express 



* 2 Thess. i. 8. f 1 Cor. xv. 52. X Amos iii. 6. 



§ Deut. xxxiii. 2. || Heb. x. 27. % 2 Pet. iii. 6, 7. 



