in this congregation. This that you have heard is the case of every(prenominal) one of
you that are out of Christ.-That world of misery, that lake of burning
brimstone, is extended afield under you. glowing flames of the wrath of matinee idol; there is hells extensive gaping mouth
open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor either thing to take hold of,
there is nothing between you and hell but the logical argument; it is only the power and
clean pleasure of God that holds you up you find you are unbroken out of hell, but
do not see the hand of God in it; but look at other things, as the good
state of your bodily constitution, your care of your give birth life, and the means
you use for your own preservation. But indeed these things are nothing; if
God should direct his hand, they would avail no more to prevent you from
f solelying, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it.
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend
downwards with striking weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should
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let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge
into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care
and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would
have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a
spiders web would have to stop a dropping rock. Were it not for the
sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not accept you one moment; for
you are a burden to it; the institution groans with you; the creature is made
subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the insolate does not
willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth
does not willingly yield her increase to pander your lusts; nor is it willingly
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