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Chap. 18. fln Expofrion upon the Book of f o B. Verf. 15. 107 Gomorrah ; that is, according to the Text, fcatter brimftone on upon _your habitations. Secondly ,The fèatteringof brimfone is conceived by others, to note that fpeciall judgement, Barrennes, -his beautifull habi- tation, ( fo the word lignifies ) or ( as we may extend it ) all his poffeffions, his fuitfull feilds and panures, his goodly hills and mountaines, all thefe beautifull things, (hall be as if t rim- t , , lone had been fcattered upon them ; that is, they foall be bar- ti, "' . e á,., ren, God (hall ¡hike them with barrennes, and they (hall bring ;,, s s. forth co fruit at all. ( Deut. 29. 23. ) Brimnone and barrennes goe together ; The whole land thereof isbrirufone.andfalt,and bur- ning, it is not forven, nor bearcth, nor any graffe iroweth therein; fo the fcatteringof brimaone is of the fame fignification as Toying .4a ;, withfait, Judg. 9.45. For no fooner had he fpoken of brini fah c,x it flone and fait but prefently addes it is not /omen, nor raJfegrow- ne;n terns f¡,'. eth therein : as if he had laid, it (hall be defolate and uninhabi- ted. The Land of Sodom and Gomorrah (gen. t d.) was like- Eden, the Garden of God; but as Toone as God had fcattered brimfione upon it, it was like a defolate wilderneffe, or fruit- leffe defert. The apples ofSodom are a proverb, to this day, for fruitlefle fruit, or a (hew onely of fruit. .No fruit (fay fotne ) growes there to ripenefs or per&.dion..Oc if brim(ione fpeake not barrennes in general!, yet ( as others reftr.aine it,) birren- nes as to him and his, who was thus can out of his poffeffion. The land of a wicked man may beare fruit, and yet be as fruit- lette to him, and his, as if it were fowed with brimftone rondad, ofcorne ; he (hall never have the crop, or harveil, or revenue o>` it, he (hall never eat of the fruit of it though others doe , and though poffibly it continue as fertile, and be improved as much as ever.. A land flourifhing with milke and honey to others, may be to former owners as a land whofe ftreames are turned intopitch, and thedaft thereofinto brimftone, as the Prophet fpeake (Jfa34.9.) Thirdly, Others conjeture, that this fcatteringof brimftone implyes onely thathis houle fbould never be inhabited any more, becaufe brimitone is of fach an ill favour, that it drives away both man and beaft. Fourthly , That it is a defcription of that mourning or of thofe terrible cryesatid lamentations which (hould be made for Pa him

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