John Trapp on 2 Peter 3:12

Verſe 12. Looking for] As Siſera's mother looked out at a window, and expecting the return of her ſonne, ſaid, Why are his charriots ſo long a coming? So ſhould we look up and long for Chriſts coming in the clouds, thoſe charriots that carried him up, and ſhall bring him back again.

The heavens being on fire. &c.] A far greater fire then that at Conſtantinople, Blnnts voiage. where 7000 houſes are ſaid to have been on fire at once, an. Dom. 1633.

And the elements ſhall melt,] And fall like ſcalding lead, or burning bell-metall on the heads of the wicked, who ſhall give a terrible account with the world all on fire about their ears. Whether this ſhall fall out in the year 1657. (as ſome conjecture, becauſe in the year of the world, 1657.Alſted. Chr[illegible: 2 letters]oi. the old world drowned, and becauſe the numerall letters in MƲnDI ConfLagratiIo, Make up the ſame number) I have nothing to affirm. Sure it is, the Saints ſhall take no hurt at all by this laſt fire, but a great deal of benefit. Methodius writeth that Pyragnus (a certain plant ſo called) grows green, and flouriſhes in the midſt of the flames of burning Olympus, as much as if it grew by the banks of a pleaſant river. And of this he ſaith, that himſelf was an eye-witneſſe. Praeclarum ſanè noviſſimi diei indicium & documentum.