Judgment, and Perdition of Ungodly, or Atheistical Men._ This Testimony of S. _Peter_ being full, direct, and explicit, will give Light and Strength to several other Passages of Scripture, where the same Thing is exprest obscurely, or by Allusion. As when S. _Paul_ says, _The Fire shall try every Man’s Work in that Day_, 1 Cor. iii. 12, 13. And our Saviour says, _The Tares shall be burnt in the Fire, at the End of the World_, Matth. xiii. 40, 41, 42. Accordingly it is said, both by the Apostles and Prophets, that _God_ will come to Judgment _in Fire_. St. _Paul_ to the _Thessalonians_, 2 _Thess._ ii. 7, 8. promiseth the persecuted Righteous Rest and Ease, _When the Lord shall be revealed from Heaven, with his mighty Angels, in flaming Fire; taking Vengeance on them that know not God_, &c. And so to the _Hebrews_, St. _Paul_ says, _ch._ x. 27. that for wilful Apostates, there remaineth no more Sacrifice for Sin, _but a certain fearful looking for of Judgment, and fiery Indignation, which shall devour the Adversaries_, or Enemies of God. And in _ch._ xii. _ver._ 26, 27, 28, 29. he alludes to the same Thing, when, after he had spoken of _shaking the Heavens_, and the _Earth_ once more, he exhorteth, as St. _Peter_ does upon the same Occasion, to _Reverence and godly Fear; for our God is a consuming Fire_. In like manner the Prophets, when they speak of destroying the Wicked, and the Enemies of God and Christ, at the End of the World, represent it as a Destruction _by Fire_. Psal. xi. 6. _Upon the Wicked the Lord shall rain Coals, Fire, and Brimstone, and a burning Tempest: This shall be the Portion of their Cup._ And Psal. l. 3. _Our God shall come, and will not be slow: A Fire shall devour before him_, and it _shall be very tempestuous round about him_. And in the Beginning of those two triumphal Psalms, the lxviiith, and xcviith, we see plain Allusions to this coming of the Lord in Fire. The other Prophets speak in the same Style, of a fiery Indignation against the Wicked, in the Day of the Lord: As in _Isaiah_ lxvi. 15. _For behold the Lord will come with Fire, and with his Chariots like a Whirlwind, to render his Anger with Fury, and his Rebuke with Flames of Fire_ (and _ch._ xxxiv. 8, 9, 10) And in _Daniel_, _c._ vii. 9, 10. The Ancient of Days is placed upon his Seat of Judgment, covered in Flames. _I beheld till the Thrones were set, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose Garment was white as Snow, and the Hair of his Head like the pure Wool: His Throne was like the fiery Flame, his Wheels as burning Fire. A fiery Stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministred unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: The Judgment was set, and the Books were opened._ The Prophet _Malachi_, c. iv. 1. describes the Day of the Lord to the same Effect, and in like Colours; _Behold the Day cometh, that shall burn as an Oven: and all the Proud, yea, and all that do