Re: Advice needed regarding 156 Selespeed....

SteveH wrote:
> is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would
> fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their
> own hearts is struggling to break out: and they have no interest in
> any Mediator, there are no means within reach that can be any
> security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold
> of; all that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will,
> and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God.
>
> Application The use of this awful subject may be for awakening
> unconverted persons in this congregation. This that you have heard is
> the case of every one of you that are out of Christ. -- That world of
> misery, that take of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you.
> There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God;
> there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand
> upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and
> hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that
> holds you up. You probably are not sensible of this; you find you are
> kept out of hell, but do not see the hand of God in it; but look



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