...of our greatest theologian against sin? Read but a paragraph from the sermons of Jonathan Edwards : The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing you the least regard or favour, that, instead of that, he will only tread you underfoot....

...of our greatest theologian against sin? Read but a paragraph from the sermons of Jonathan Edwards: The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing you the least regard or favour, that, instead of that, he will only tread you underfoot....

...those things that they depended on for peace and safety were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. , The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; his wrath towards you burns like fire ; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast...

...nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.... If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing you the least regard or favour, that instead of that, he will only tread you under foot....

...nothing but thin air and empty shadows. The God who holds you over the pit of Hell much in the same way as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire. He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into...

...or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. . . . The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like a fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast...

...you go, you would immediately sink, and sinfully descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf. . . . The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. ... He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the bottomless gulf."1 3 Listeners...

...manifests our pride. Jonathan Edwards, the famous New England Calvinist, reminded his flock that God "holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire . . . you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes as the most hateful venomous serpent is...

...didn't have to commit a crime to be a sinner — all it took was for your faith to be lazy or weak. THE GOD THAT HOLDS YOU over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast...

...assured is the natural man's future damnation and torment, not his present security and enjoyment: "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked." This was brought directly home to his hearers: God is a great deal more angry . . . with many that...