 The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much 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...  The Century: 1888-89 - Page 601889Full view - About this book
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1904 - 274 pages
...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 as one holds...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. . . . If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1904 - 272 pages
...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 as one holds...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. . . . If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1904 - 232 pages
...provoked, his wrath burns like fire, you are lothsome and hatefull in his eyes & and worthy to be burnt — he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the tire you are ten thous. times more loathsome in his eyes than the most noisome insect in the eyes of... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - Religion - 2001 - 228 pages
...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 as one holds...dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like a fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes... | |
 | Nicholas E. Tawa - History - 2001 - 494 pages
...you would immediately sink, and sinfully descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf. . . . The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...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... | |
 | Gus DiZerega - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - History - 2003 - 148 pages
...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 as one holds...have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes as the most venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely... | |
 | William Stacy Johnson, John H. Leith - Religion - 2002 - 436 pages
...things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him... | |
 | Stuart Christie - Anarchism - 2002 - 266 pages
...and the pit hath opened her mouth under them. 'The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much an one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the...have you in His sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful and venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...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 as one holds...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... | |
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