John Trapp on Nahum 1:5

Ver. 5. The mountaines quake at him, and the hills melt] Though vallies and low places are alſo liable to earthquakes: as Antioch often, Ferrara in Italy An. Dom. 1514. and 1573. yet hill-countreys much more; becauſe there are more holes and cavernes,Alſ[illegible: 1 letter]ed. Chronol. See Pſal. 29.6. and 144.4. Zach. 14.4, 5. In the yeere 1618. Aug. 25. Pleurs a town in Rhetia was overwhelmed by a hill, which, with a moſt ſwift motion oppreſt 1500. men. So that village aforementioned in the country of Bern, that was over-covered by a hill in an earthquake: to the deſtruction of 50.Polan: ſynt. families. All this and that which followeth is alledged here, to ſhew how eaſily God can overturn the Aſſyrian greatneſſe.

and the earth is burnt at his preſence] Viz. by his fire from heaven, as Sodom, and by other his land-deſolating judgments, ſuch as Judea (that once fertile, now barren country) Greece, Aſia (once ſo flouriſhing) Germany, Ireland &c. do at this day grone under. God turneth a fruitful land into barrenneſſe, for the wickedneſſe of them that dwell therein. Pſal. 107.34.

yea the world and all that dwell therein] Quae quidem ſunt mira, ſed tamen vera divinae potentiae effecta. Wicked men, beſides what they here ſuffer,Tarnou. ſhall one day give an account of what they have done in the body, with the world all on a light fire about their eares: The triall of their workes ſhall be by fire 1 Cor. 3.13. the tribunall of fire Ezek. 1.27. the Judge a conſuming fire Heb. 12.29. His attendants Seraphins flaming creatures Iſai. 6.2. his pleading with ſinners in flames of fire 2 Theſſ. 1.7. the place of puniſhment, a lake of fire fed with tormenting temper Iſai. 30.33. Sodoms fire and brimſtone was but a toy to it. And ſhall the Ninivites think to mott up themſelves againſt this formidable fire: which the moſt ſolid parts of the world cannot avoid or abide?