ABSTRACT
God found the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah full of unnatural lusts, and he rained upon them brimstone and fire out of heaven, and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of those cities, and that which grew upon the ground, and set them ‘forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. A memorable instance of the Divine severity is recorded in the second Book of Samuel. God only reserved eight human creatures, and of beasts and birds two and two, the male and the female, ‘to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth’. The Jews having for a series of years been governed by judges, they at length desired to have a king to go before them like the other nations. And Saul was made their king accordingly. And God commissioned Saul to destroy the Amalekites.
