John Trapp on 2 Thessalonians 1:8

Verſe 8. In ſlaming fire] Naturall fire, 2 Pet. 36, 7. whereby the elements ſhall melt like ſcalding lead upon the wicked, whiles they give account with all the world on a ſlaming fire about their ears. Of this laſt dreadfull fire the very Heathen had ſome blinde notions. Eſſe quo que , in fatis meminit, &c. Ovid Metam lib. 1. Denat deer. Luncretius and Tully ſay ſomewhat to it, but little to the purpoſe.

And that obey not the Gospel] This is the grand ſin of this age, Joh. 3.19. No ſin will gripe ſo in hell as this. This will be a bodkin at the heart one day, I might have been delivered, but I have wilfully cut the throat of my poor ſoul by refuſing thoſe rich offers of mercy made me in the Goſpel.